Anna Tijinsky

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6,124 appearances 27 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 3d ago

Anna Tijinsky’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 27 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 9.

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No Such Thing As A Fish · No Such Thing As Musical Toads · 10 Sep 2026 podcast

And I believe it was, and people here will know this, but I believe it was founded to sort of Swedish-ify the area because there was a lot of those dastardly Danes. voice-verified

Any dastardly Danes in the audience? voice-verified

I just want to restart the war. voice-verified

Yeah, so this area was kind of owned by Denmark, and then Sweden took it over, and they thought, well, one way to make sure it's definitely Swedish is to start a university here. voice-verified

Right. voice-verified

And it was someone called Hedvig Ilanora, who was the queen dowager, I think, at the time, who signed the founding documents. voice-verified

And she's famous. voice-verified

You guys here, do you guys know about the Gotthorp Fury? voice-verified

No, maybe not. voice-verified

Okay, so Charles XII of Sweden, he became king when he was 16 years old. voice-verified

And like anyone who becomes king when they're 16 years old, probably, just went on a massive drunken rampage around the whole country, and especially in Stockholm. voice-verified

He did loads of crazy stuff. voice-verified

I think some of the stories, maybe not true, like they were exaggerated later. voice-verified

But one of the stories is that somehow he got really, really drunk and a bear fell out of a window. voice-verified

And we're not sure how the bear got up there in the first voice-verified

exactly what happened that the bear fell out of the window. voice-verified

But everyone was so astonished that he'd done this and got really drunk that his mother, who was Hedwig, kind of went over to him and she just looked at him. voice-verified

just looked at him in the eye, and he felt so ashamed that he never drank again for the rest of his life. voice-verified

Really? voice-verified

Wow. voice-verified

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