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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It's wild.
It's a lot of dust.
And that basically causes the world to go dark for the entire year.
So there's a lot of, yeah, a lot of darkness, both sort of spiritual and literal and environmental.
And it's not the sort of polite, pastel-y coloured Austin world that we know.
You know, the world order has been upended now.
The rules have been rewritten.
And there's a real fear in Britain throughout the 1790s and going into this sort of regency period that there are foreign spies everywhere, that the French are infiltrating with their politics and their revolutionary ideas.
There's real panic that Britain is going to have its own revolution and chop the head off George III or indeed the Prince Regent.
There's a real sense that authority and hierarchy is breaking down.
And of course, into this mix, you then get a hoax that does all of this and really...
humiliates the people in charge, it embarrasses them, and it exposes people's ignorance.
Because the other thing I suppose in this moment is that Britain is on a global stage.
We fought Napoleon.
We, like I was there.
I wouldn't have been fighting Napoleon.
I'd be like, you have great style, my friend.
I'm on your side.
Like, it's fine.
Never mind the dictatorship, like, love the art.
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