Dr. Maddy Pelling
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671 appearances
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1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 5 May
Dr. Maddy Pelling’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Nobody's questioning this.
And so for the whole summer of 1817, people, the great and good of Bath and Bristol, and of course, you know, think about Bath in the age of Jane Austen, it's this fashionable city where the sick are going to get healed, but it's also, you know, a sort of riotous marriage market, it's full of scandal.
It's exactly, it's a party city.
And so people are now nipping across to Knoll Park, where this grand house is, to see this young woman.
And she becomes a spectacle.
She becomes something, part of a sort of fashionable itinerary.
You do your morning promenade and bath.
You go and pay your calls.
And then, oh, in the afternoon, you go and see Princess Caribou.
And her life in these weeks becomes incredibly performative.
She's sort of put to work by the magistrate and his wife, by the Worrells.
She does things like she'll hunt in the deer park with a bow and arrow, and people will watch her doing that.
She will pray on the roof of the building.
People will climb up to the roof to watch her.
It's so weird.
It's so weird.
And she... Again, the question is, how much is she leaning into this?
And we will get to who exactly she is and why she goes along with this in a little bit.
But on the surface, she seems...
to embody this character she's performing for them she even does things and this makes me so uncomfortable and angry she does things like she will strip half naked and swim in the lake and people will sort of you know get their chairs and sit on the side of the lake and watch her and she becomes this kind of exotic sexualized object for people that she represents the fantasy of the east that she's this you know sort of incredibly petite beautiful woman with this dark hair and this sort of gorgeous body and she's
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