Anita Arnott
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400 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 27 May
Anita Arnott’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's encrusted in all of the best jewels.
It is replete with the very best gems that the moguls have.
And Marvy talks about these peacocks at the top of the kiosk, at the top of the throne.
And one of its heads is the mountain of light.
But it wasn't, Willie, the diamonds that we put in rings these days, they looked very different then.
Can you sort of describe what it would have looked like in that era?
But when he got his hands on the Koh-i-Noor diamond willy, did it make him happy?
Was he a happy man having claimed this?
God, it's so bad.
So at this point, and there is, as Willie quite rightly says, a huge to-do about which is the true story, the Sikhs insist that Ranjit Singh was awarded the Koh-i-Noor for his help in freeing Shah Shuja, but the Afghans say, no, no, no.
He tortured the son in front of the father and therefore tortured him and got him to give up this diamond that nobody wanted to part with.
Why didn't they want to part with it?
Because of the mythology around it.
So the wife of Shah Shuja, the Wafa Begum, had said, if you throw a rock into the air and you throw one to the left and you throw one to the right and you fill it with all of the gold and jewels, that is what the Koh-i-Noor is worth.
So that, you know, that is the kind of mythology around this diamond.
So it goes to Ranjit Singh.
Now, so far, not so good for anybody who's owned it.
You know, they've died horribly and before their time.
But what happens with Ranjit Singh is he wears it on his arm every day, not in any kind of like kiosk or throne.
He's going to wear it as if he's kind of thumbing his nose.
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