Anita Anand

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5,690 appearances 31 recordings 3 series first heard May 2026 last heard 3d ago

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

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Empire: World History · 387. The Vikings Invade Britain (Ep 5) · 16 Aug 2026 podcast

You know, they didn't have any way of of keeping these guys out, and therefore they could just come voice-verified

And why you know, sort of rush voice-verified

can I just say that the in the pub by the river, Eleanor owned you. voice-verified

Sorry, the tran the translation of that, can I just translate it? voice-verified

Shut up, Willy. voice-verified

Shut voice-verified

So just with these raids, if you said that, you know, they raided twice before, were they always bloody and were they 'cause there's sixty eight monks killed, sort of hangs in the air, as if it was something quite new, novel and grotesque. voice-verified

But only each time they came, I don't suppose they brought flowers. voice-verified

I mean, what was it like? voice-verified

Um, I think when w we were in the pub we were talking about um the m my old professor, uh a lovely man called John Porter, who did the translation of Beowulf. voice-verified

And I remember him reading Old English and then Old Norse poetry and the cadences are the same. voice-verified

So they may, you know, genetically very similar, some words different, but they're, you know, they they they really were very, very voice-verified

Oh I wow, love that I love that. voice-verified

No, so I mean, m what we're talking about then is, you know, the the raiders arriving on the horizon with no warning and absolutely very little c capability for people to repel them. voice-verified

It do we have a a an account from the people who lived through it? voice-verified

I mean, what did they describe? voice-verified

Because it's an attack on their god. voice-verified

It's a it's attack on, you know, the person that they kneel before, and a defeat in many ways in their eyes, I suppose, of their gods and their emissaries on earth. voice-verified

So what do they think about it? voice-verified

What do they say? voice-verified

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