Maddy Pelling

speaker

6,688 appearances 22 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 2d ago

Maddy Pelling’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

Trend

recordings per month · last 12 months

Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 22 in all, peaking in Sep 2026 with 7.

Appearances

newest first · ▶ plays the moment

After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal · The Bloodiest Anglo Saxon Royal Murders · 24 Sep 2026 podcast

No, but I suppose the idea if you disfigure or maim someone who is throne worthy in this period, you're not going to be accused of killing them. voice-verified

You're just removing them from the line of succession, right? voice-verified

So you want this to go well because you want him to be blinded, but you don't want the inevitable outcome here to voice-verified

Aren't they often called she-wolves and things? voice-verified

There's a very gendered thing going on here, isn't there, of these manipulative women who are pulling strings behind the scenes and kind of causing the men to... Very Lady Macbeth-esque things. voice-verified

mean, voice-verified

It's really good that that attitude didn't fix itself to human beings and that we're totally rid of that now, isn't it? voice-verified

Anyway, voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

So, OK, so this idea. voice-verified

But in this period, is this is this idea at the height of its power? voice-verified

This idea of these manipulative women is Emma seen as someone who is potentially Machiavellian in her last anachronistic. voice-verified

But, you know. voice-verified

later voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

So Matt, we reached the end of the Anglo-Saxon period in 1066, which is famously a really relaxing non-violent year after all these centuries of bloodshed. voice-verified

How do you see the end of that? voice-verified

I mean, obviously, the way we define historical periods is quite arbitrary sometimes and it's open to debate and it's very much with hindsight, but is there a shift in terms of the violent culture of the Anglo-Saxons voice-verified

in terms of being able to just kill people off, pay some compensation, etc. voice-verified

Showing 201–220 of 6,688 · page 11 of 335