Dr. Maddy Pelling
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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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charitable institution in this era.
It's a tour of the very highest, the very lowest of society, the absolute luxury you could live with.
And what's so fascinating is that really it's a story about empire and the fantasy of empire, but nobody in this story is ever leaving the shores of Britain.
Mary Wilcox is from Devon and has made it as far as London and back again.
That is it.
Wow.
It's crazy.
She was homeless and she got someone to look after her.
She had someone to care for her.
And in the book, the other stories that I look at, there are those manipulative, very dark people in there.
And we have other instances of really kind of scary individuals who know how to manipulate people in their darkest, most vulnerable moments.
But she is not that.
And she...
I think in this story, the liars are the people around her.
Yeah, definitely.
Yeah.
Well, you'd be glad to know that, like I say, in the case of the magistrate, his bank collapses, his reputation is ruined.
He's sort of socially pushed to the side in Bath and Bristol and eventually they leave Knoll House and sort of disappear off into the countryside in obscurity.
And Dr. Wilkinson has his career ruined.
He doesn't publish any more work for another 15, 20 years, something like that.
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