Cornwall is famous for its stories of smugglers and privateers. In this episode we look at the story of Zephaniah Job, who was known as 'The Smuggler's Banker', chatting to author and historian Jeremy Rowett Johns about the reality behind the smuggling that was going on in the Cornish village of Polperro during the eighteenth century.

You can find the reading list for this series here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/149542206?ref=nav_mybooks

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Here's a link to that self portrait of Lieutenant Gabriel Bray: https://www.rmg.co.uk/collections/objects/rmgc-object-200903

You can find out more about the Polperro Heritage Press and Jeremy's work here: https://www.polperropress.co.uk/

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