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 this Portuguese sailor comes forward.

And by now, they're offering a reward for anyone who can name the language or country that she's from.

And so he's like... Right, okay.

And he has this conversation with her in a language.

And she responds to him.

And there's a back and forth that goes on for a few minutes.

And both seem to understand each other.

And then he turns around to the magistrate and his wife and says, okay, she's from an East Indian island.

I've been out in the East Indies for a long time.

I'm not sure quite which island because she's speaking a strange mixture of dialects.

But, and this is where, again, it becomes laughable, but everyone buys into it.

He says, she's a princess from one of the islands.

She's been kidnapped by pirates and

She's been stowed aboard a ship and she's made it all the way to Bristol Port before escaping and running off into the countryside.

Well, Kate.

Yeah, so everyone watching, their perception of this scene is that he has spoken to her and she has explained this to them.

What has actually happened is that he has spoken gibberish to her.

She has spoken gibberish back to him.

This is, no one is speaking the real language here.

So he is a random person off the street.

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