Dr. Maddy Pelling
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671 appearances
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1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 5 May
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You know, he was being fought in this kind of global arena across the British and French empires.
And what this story that we're going to talk about in a minute does is expose how ignorant people are about that empire.
The people who are living at home who've never boarded a ship, never gone anywhere, they benefit from...
the economics of the empire, from the goods that are being brought in, all of that from the sort of aesthetics that are born from especially the exploration and colonization of the East.
And people have this fantastical idea of what the world is like out there and what they're entitled to of it and how they exoticize it and in some cases sexualize it actually.
And that is going to be at the core of this story.
And yeah, it exposes people's stupidity essentially.
Okay, so we are in a little tiny village outside of Bristol, which today is butted right up against a motorway interchange, but it still exists as a tiny village called Armansbury.
And it has a really great pub, which was there in the 18th century and is part of this story.
I recommend it.
There's a good chip butty and a pint.
And essentially, it's a sleepy backwater.
Nothing ever happens here.
And one day in 1817, in the spring, this young woman walks up the dusty high street and she stumbles into the house of a cobbler whose door is open because...
That's the nature of his business.
He's cobbling.
He's cobbling.
He's trying to get people in off the road whose shoes are broken.
She stumbles in and kind of collapses dramatically in the doorway.
And she isn't speaking English, but nor is she speaking any language that the cobbler recognizes.
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