Alexandra Suich Bass
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93 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 3 Sep
Alexandra Suich Bass’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Their English rivals, meanwhile, sport mustaches.
Medieval as the scene is, there's something immediately legible about it.
Michael Lewis is one of the curators behind the new exhibition.
Indeed, this bit is cartoonishly brutal.
The battlefield is strewn with stripped corpses, felled horses, flying arrows, and pointed suffering.
Harold is killed, English troops flee, William is victorious, and then
Uh
We don't know how it ends, do we?
No.
That's because the end of the tapestry is missing.
It's theorized that it once showed William's triumphant coronation, but no one knows for sure.
One expert told me it could have gone on for a few centimeters or even a few meters.
But this air of mystery is part of what makes it so compelling.
As Nick Cullen, the British Museum's director, explained to me, much of the tapestry's creation remains unknown.
Whoever held the needle, their work still has so much to offer.
The richly embroidered linen teams with seven hundred thirty seven animals and six hundred twenty seven people.
There are the Latin phrases, the Aesops fables in the margins, the oddly prominent genitalia.
And then there's all the timestamps it's collected over the centuries.
The little artistic liberties restorers have taken.
An arrow hitting an eye here, a man wrapped in a vine there.
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