Dr. Maddy Pelling
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first heard May 2026
last heard 5 May
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There's food shortages, there's work shortages, you know, all of that.
And on top of all of this,
in 1816 there is the year that's known as the year without summer which listeners might know because of a little tale about Lord Byron in Switzerland which you know ever heard of him you know where he invites Percy Shelley, Mary Shelley and the guy who wrote the vampire novel that everyone forgets the name of.
There we go thank you very much.
Byron was so vile to that guy, but that's a whole other podcast.
That's a different show.
There should be a podcast that's just moaning about Lord Byron.
Continue.
The Summer Without Sun.
This kind of unseasonal darkness is really the backdrop for this story taking place.
And there's a feeling of unease.
Nobody at the time could really know why the summer hadn't occurred.
And I mean, it was really serious.
There was snow falling in July across the Northern Hemisphere, which didn't help the food shortages and the lack of crops growing and all of that.
And if you look at the work of Turner, for example, the whole palette that he's working with that year becomes much darker.
It's a really grim time.
Well, it was in the East Indies, Kate, which is going to be a sort of far off setting for this story as well.
So we have all these elements kind of coming in in terms of context.
We've got the dark summer, we've got Mount Tambora, which is one of the East Indian Island volcanoes.
And it produces something like 10 times as much dust into the atmosphere as Vesuvius did in AD 79.
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