Maddy Pelling
speaker
6,969 appearances
23 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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We famously know that flowers in the nineteenth century have their own language.
You can make bouquets and gift them.
It's part of a courtship ritual that people do.
you know, and these different flowers have different meanings, different ideas that they symbolize
And the newspapers every single day clamour to see what flowers she's brought in and try and decode them.
It's sort of quite Taylor Swift-esque, minus the murderer, of course, but that thing of hiding messages and giving something to your public to decode and that they'll become obsessed with.
And interestingly
The newspapers every day report completely different flowers.
So obviously a lot of these newspaper men have no idea what they're looking at and are just making it up, you know.
one man's white rose will be another man's peony, like they don't have a clue.
But she does that and she also wears these really ornate brooches at her throat to draw attention up to her face.
whilst wearing entirely black mourning clothes.
And this is a year on from the deaths of her family.
This is someone who either has an unbelievable instinct
a PR and how to play it, or she is being coached really well by the team around her defence.
Her reputation is largely destroyed because of the way that she gives evidence in court, because of the way that her private life is laid bare.
She's seen as a bit of a pariah, really, and interestingly, she doesn't leave the city, she doesn't leave Fall River.
Her and her sister
actually sell up the house where the murders happened, which, you know, you can understand.
And they buy, with all the money they've inherited from their father, a big house on the hill, the hill being the desirable part, the most desirable part of the city where the wealthiest live.
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