Anita Anand
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5,804 appearances
32 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 3d ago
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And I'm Anita Arnon.
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And in today's episode, we're going to be exploring the Picts, the mysterious painted people who ruled parts of eastern Scotland for 500 years.
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And with us today, we have somebody who's done more than anybody in recent years to recover the Pictish world.
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from complete obscurity.
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He's Professor of Archaeology at the University of Aberdeen.
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He's Director of the Northern Picts Project and co-author of The King in the North, The Pictish Realms.
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Gordon Noble, welcome to Empire.
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I never knew that.
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In school here in Britain, I think many people who are my age will remember the first thing you do in history is you colour in sort of a paint-by-colour Pictish person, you know, and there's sort of the winding tattoos on their bodies.
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But why didn't they tell us about the matrilineals?
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So, I mean, almost every other political system, as everybody knows who's listened to this podcast, and particularly in the British Isles, ran through the male line.
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Why did the Picts do something so very different?
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It's not categorically that it was matrilineal.
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It's just sometimes when they felt like it, it might have been.
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Is that what you're saying?
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Gordon, you mentioned bead twice as if we're all mates.
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You're talking about a man that we at school learn as the venerable bead, one of Britain's earliest historians.
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By the way, Willie, you'll love this.
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I got into so much trouble once, first essay, I wrote the venereal bead and they thought I was taking it.
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No, I couldn't spell.
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