Maddy Pelling

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6,688 appearances 22 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard yesterday

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

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

And I always think that's a really interesting moment. voice-verified

And I'm sure historians of this specific time would probably say that is, you know, that's like calling the medieval period the Dark Ages voice-verified

something. voice-verified

But just in terms of how sort of strange and ghostly that landscape must have been when the Romans removed themselves. voice-verified

And we know that, for example, the Anglo-Saxons built their towns often next to Roman ruined cities or towns, not inside. voice-verified

And they didn't make use of the Roman buildings and they just sort of were allowed to crumble away. voice-verified

And I just think there's something kind of quite uncanny about that time. voice-verified

I mean, I'm sure that's maybe a little bit of a sort of 18th century romantic voice-verified

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But think of the mosaics and the underfloor heating. voice-verified

Wouldn't you be like, I want to live here? voice-verified

That's part of the reason they get voice-verified

Do you know why I didn't know? voice-verified

That's so fascinating that they're harking back to that. voice-verified

I'm always interested in this across history when people at various points in history hark back to earlier periods. voice-verified

Yeah, sorry, I made that much longer than it needed to be. voice-verified

You mentioned, Matt, under the Romans, Britannia is this... voice-verified

unified in inverted commas, I mean, but it's in terms of on the map and in terms of the Roman imagination, it's a unified space. voice-verified

Obviously with the Anglo-Saxons that utterly disintegrates and then you get these different kingdoms building up. voice-verified

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