Dr. Maddy Pelling
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671 appearances
1 recordings
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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Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Like, it's a win.
So he does things like he starts to note down her language, and this is where things start to get murky.
He gets her to draw a map of the voyage she supposedly took from the East Indies to Bristol, and it exists in the archive still.
And what's interesting, Kate, is that the ink and the handwriting that are used on this map are exactly the same as everything in Dr. Wilkinson's archive, so it's almost like he's the one drawing this and not her.
And, you know, this map has, it's sort of a squiggle across the page and it has this kind of fantastical journey.
And there are sort of, there are places on there that you would recognise on a world map today, but then there are made up places as well.
But is he making up the names of, is she giving him the names?
It's so hard to know.
The other thing that's happening is,
is they're working together in the library in Old House, which is full of reference books to other languages, other places.
We have Captain Cook's voyages.
The accounts of those voyages are in that library.
We've got Fry's Patagonia, which is a story of different languages and things like that.
So
How much of this is actually coming from her, that she's speaking a real language?
How much is just Dr. Wilkinson flicking through some books and writing things down?
But whatever the case is, he rushes to publish in the local press and he's like, I, Dr. Wilkinson, galvanist extraordinaire, have discovered this exotic princess and her language.
And I, you know, a champion for doing this.
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