Dr. Maddy Pelling
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671 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 5 May
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And you might think, yes, well, a rural cobbler in Bristol is not necessarily going to have an encyclopedic knowledge of global languages.
But of course, Bristol at the time is one of the biggest port cities in the world.
It's the most busy.
There are people of all nationalities.
Yeah, exactly.
There's Spanish, there's Portuguese, you know, there's all these different languages taking place.
So he's like, okay, I don't, she's not French, she's not Spanish, she's not Portuguese.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
Those are the only options and they're all European.
Beyond that, no idea.
And she's also dressed quite unusually.
And this really piques the attention of everyone in the village.
She has this dirty old dress on and she's carrying a bundle of rags she has in her pocket.
a bar of soap on a little string and a forged coin, which suggests she's maybe a vagrant, that she's living, you know, sort of on the street or in fields or whatever.
But around her head, she has this black shawl that she's tied as a turban.
She has quite dark skin and very dark hair and eyebrows and these really big, beautiful eyes.
And she's so attractive to the people of this village and so mysterious that they call the Overseer of the Poor, who is the person who would usually be responsible for moving vagrants on, essentially, in different locations.
And he's like, well, she could be a beggar, but also...
She could be something else, and I'm not really sure, and I don't want to get rid of her in case she's something else, and I don't want to be in trouble for this.
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