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The unlucky man of La Mancha...


A soldier enters the lecture room ahead of the audience—scarred, watchful, and carrying the weight of an empire’s paperwork in his bones. This episode follows Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra from the dangerous hinge of youth in Madrid to the bruised theatres of power in Italy, the furnace of Lepanto, the long captivity in Algiers, and the bureaucratic grind of Spain’s late-sixteenth-century machine.


Along the way, the question keeps sharpening: when a civilisation laughs, whom does it try to judge into silence? Don Quijote arrives as comedy on horseback, yet the laughter turns double-edged—part entertainment, part indictment—until the listener begins to feel the mirror lifting.


Expect a guided walk through rooms and corridors: court antechambers, ship decks, prison air, and the hard moral weather of a world where honour meets receipts, decrees, and hunger. Cervantes emerges as a writer who learned to convert misfortune into a disciplined kind of vision—where dignity survives precisely where ridicule gathers.


If you have ever loved a joke and then felt it accuse you, you already stand close to the heart of this lecture.


Listen, and keep your conscience within reach.


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