David Ellison
speaker
414 appearances
6 recordings
5 series
first heard Nov 2018
last heard 16 Jun
David Ellison’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They need to find a way to rebuild themselves.
He's close to death.
He's experienced the Peninsular War in all of its horror.
It's 1809.
This is not a good time to be, certainly to be in Spain or to be in Portugal.
And something has happened.
We don't know what yet, but we know that it has left him completely diminished, completely ruined.
And it falls to, in the first instance, his housekeeper, Nell, to begin the process of reassembling him.
It's a source of pleasure and it's not articulate.
Because he's deprived of the ability to describe what's happened to him, he searches for something else, something that provides some meaning.
And he has a long-standing fascination with Hebridean folk songs, so he's a kind of precursor to an ethnomusicologist.
And when he does finally begin to get back up on his feet, he is prompted to leave the house
for reasons to do with a soldier, a fellow officer arriving and saying, we need you back.
The situation on the peninsula had not at all improved.
They were losing men at a tremendous clip.
So he feels that kind of pull and realizes that that's simply an intolerable idea.
He cannot return.
He's not capable of returning.
So he decides instead to flee north.
He grabs
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