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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And I would like to go and find her island.
And she becomes even more famous and more famous and more famous.
And he sends off samples of her handwriting to various people who should be experts.
He sends some to Oxford and gets a letter back where they're like, babe, no.
This is not a language.
Nobody speaks this.
This is not a thing.
And he sends another letter to Sir Stanford Raffles, who is a sort of career colonist.
And he's the founder of Singapore.
He spent his time in the East Indies.
He is like, I don't recognise this language, but it could be somewhere in the East Indies.
Like, I recognise lettering in this.
I recognise...
some words, some phrases, it might be.
And that is all Dr. Wilkinson needs.
So he heads off to London, puffed up, ready to go to the headquarters of the East India Company to pitch this expedition.
And as that's happening, everything goes to shit back in Bristol, and people are about to come out the woodwork and tell the truth of what is going on.
No.
Absolutely.
And this has gone on now for weeks, if not months, across 1817.
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