Anita Arnand

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1,099 appearances 7 recordings 2 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 10 Jun

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

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Yes.

I think it's delightful that you've already cast her.

Step forward, the woman formerly known as Penelope Cruz, Manuela Saenz.

So she is going to be very, very important in the rest of the Liberators' story.

She is married.

So, I mean, this is six years.

You have to sort of go back to six years before this plot is happening to get rid of Bolivar.

And it's June 1822.

Bolivar has entered Quito.

He's secured another stunning victory in Ecuador.

And he's being celebrated, you know, and there's cheering in the streets and dancing and music.

And he's introduced to Manuela.

And she is young, 25 years old.

She's got these dark hair, deep brown eyes, born in Quito.

illegitimate daughter of a Spanish merchant and a woman from the upper classes.

But despite this stigma, her father had ensured that she got a very, very good education in one of the city's finest convents.

And you're right, she was married to a Brit, James Thorne, a British merchant about 20 years older than her.

It was though purely a marriage of convenience because it gave her respectability, it gave her financial security.

Voldemort, then, in the making.

This is 1822, so not quite Voldemort at this point.

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