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Podcasts
Podcasts are available from Jamestown Settlement and the Yorktown Victory Center, two living-history museums in Williamsburg, Virginia.
What is a Podcast?
Podcasts are like listening to a radio or TV program with the convenience of hearing it when and how you want. You can listen to one episode at a time or subscribe to the entire series and receive new shows automatically as they are released.
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Each episode can be saved and played on your computer, your MP3 player or directly online.
Listen to one of our most recent episodes.
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August 8, 2008
 Virginia played an important role in the 17th-century world economy. The colony became the main supplier of tobacco to England and Europe and imported manufactured goods made in many parts of the world.
Episode #1 - 1:04 - 16 MB - .mp4
Episode Options: Play | Subscribe in iTunes
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August 4, 2008
 Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement in Virginia in 1607. Within a few years, though, the colony began to stretch its boundaries both in population and territory.
Episode #2 - 2:00 - 2.82 MB - .mp3
Episode Options: Play | Subscribe in iTunes
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August 4, 2008
 One of the most famous love stories in history is that of Pocahontas and John Smith. There’s only one little problem with that romantic tale: It never happened. She was married to John Rolfe.
Episode #3 - 2:02 - 2.86 MB - .mp3
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August 4, 2008
 In late April 1607 after 6,000 miles and more than four months at sea, a little flotilla bearing 104 settlers and the hopes of anxious investors rounded Cape Henry beginning the grand adventure that became Virginia.
Episode #4 - 2:02 - 2.88 MB - .mp3
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August 4, 2008
 For nearly two decades the Virginia Company of London tried to exploit its monopoly in the New World. Despite its efforts and innovations, its money and influence, the company could not make the colony pay.
Episode #5 - 2:02 - 2.86 MB - .mp3
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August 4, 2008
 Tobacco cultivation in early Virginia could be lucrative if one had land and labor. Land was there for the taking, labor was another matter.
Episode #6 - 2:02 - 2.86 MB - .mp3
Episode Options: Play | Subscribe in iTunes
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Administered by the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, an agency of the Commonwealth of
Virginia that is accredited by the American Association of Museums.
©Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, P.O. Box 1607, Williamsburg,
Virginia 23187-1607 (757) 253-4838 or toll-free (888)593-4682; fax (757)253-5299
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