Anita Anand

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5,804 appearances 32 recordings 3 series first heard May 2026 last heard yesterday

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

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 32 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 10.

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

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

so much up. voice-verified

Do you know what he's doing? voice-verified

He's starting some kind of British Isles warfare because he's so thrilled that the Scots might have originated the Book of Cows. voice-verified

Just in case you were wondering, Eleanor, what you've walked in on. voice-verified

That's what this is. voice-verified

Okay. voice-verified

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