It's the first hour of the night, on the 24th of August, 79 AD, and Frank has the watch on the last night anyone ever will.

This is a true story. Every hour of it comes from the historical record: Pliny the Younger's two letters to Tacitus, the only eyewitness account of the eruption; Tacitus on the amphitheater riot of 59; Seneca on the earthquake of 62; and what the excavators found, from the 81 loaves still in the oven to the dog still on duty in the floor.

We take our storytelling liberties in the telling, never in the facts. And remember this through the night: most of Pompeii walked out and lived.

0:00 The Column17:08 The City That Argued29:14 The Year the Ground Moved43:14 The Admiral58:15 The Long Dark1:12:06 Morning, and AfterFrank is a Doberman in a flat cap. The history is real, researched, and written by a human. The visuals are AI-built recreations of a night no camera ever saw.Frank is also on every podcast app: search NightWatch With Frank.Fall asleep whenever you like. That's the job done well.

It's just past nine in the evening, in the spring of 1666, and the bells of London are telling everyone to go home.

Frank has the watch tonight. You don't have to.

One ordinary night in a city of four hundred thousand sleepers: the lantern lit at the ward gate, the bridge breathing through its arches, the taverns emptying, the doors tried at midnight, the bakers waking their ovens, and the gates opening at dawn.

Nothing exciting happens. That's the point. Everything you hear is researched.

Fall asleep whenever you like. That's the job done well.

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