Anita Anand

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5,118 appearances 28 recordings 3 series first heard May 2026 last heard 9 Sep

Anita Anand’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Empire: World History · 385. Saint Patrick: Slave, Rebel, & Ireland’s Patron Saint (Ep 3) · 9 Aug 2026 podcast

You know this, the Chicago River is dyed green. voice-verified

Tourists flock to Dublin from all over the world. voice-verified

But what is the history of the real Patrick? voice-verified

Hello and welcome to Empire with me, Anita Arnland. voice-verified

Yeah, and also, you know, you missed out one of his major accolades is he's a very good friend of Jane Ormeyer, who is a superstar on this podcast, and regular listeners will know how much we rate her. voice-verified

Can you first of all just paint us a picture, Darby, please, about, you know, the kind of island that Patrick walked into? voice-verified

Um because I suppose many of our listeners won't have encountered early Irish culture or society. voice-verified

So you just describe it for us. voice-verified

Yeah, 'cause I mean I I've always had this idea of, you know, sort of um, you know, these high priests or priestesses, even better, you know, with with lyrical poetry holding forth in front of, you know, great numbers of people. voice-verified

Is that what it was like? voice-verified

Right, okay, because you know, I I'm I'm a Yates girl and you know, his his sort of idea of this great Irish tradition that, you know, hand to hand to hand the bards reach over time and you know they're he he suggests and I have always thought that there was a great bardic tradition. voice-verified

Uh also, I mean, the sun god, do we have a name for the sun god of the Irish? voice-verified

Because I'm fascinated with sun gods. voice-verified

Right, okay. voice-verified

I mean, I mean I'm just fascinated 'cause the sun unites, you know, Hindu mythology, Egyptian mythology. voice-verified

But back to the Bardic tradition. voice-verified

So I'm you're saying that's okay, that's true. voice-verified

What what is extraordinary? voice-verified

I mean, we we should say, because I think we do say it and we will say it again, uh, that there is something very peculiar about the lack of oxygen in a bog, which means that these bodies are preserved, you know, to an anthropologist's wildest expectations. voice-verified

You know, they're uh it's it's an anaerobic environment. voice-verified

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