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EPISODE · Feb 18, 2026 · 33 MIN

The Man Who Would be King Chapter 2

from The Rudyard Kipling Library · host Rudyard Kipling

In which two English adventurers, disguised as a mad priest and his servant, set forth with a caravan towards the mysterious and treacherous lands beyond the border, armed with little more than courage, firearms, and a cunning plan to claim a kingdom. Their journey unfolds in a grim and rugged mountain country, where they win followers and establish a strange new order under thrones forged of gold and ancient rites, all narrated by a weary, haunted survivor recounting their strange and fateful tale.

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