Madeline Gray
speaker
549 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 11 Sep
Madeline Gray’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They act as the tension, but they aren't actually the majority of the plot.
I was going to say that the phrase magical children or magic children, as she says, is such a beautiful one.
And it's quite Celtic as well.
Like the idea of fairies and child swapping and kind of kids being more knowledgeable about the spiritual world than adults are.
They have some kind of access to another realm.
Yeah, exactly.
Although, you know, my brother had imaginary friends for years.
And so Sunny is kind of like, in a way, you know, she's young, she's three, but she is able to access a connection to land and to spirituality that her parents have lost as they are fighting to survive in precarious economic conditions.
Because Lena has, she did have
Years ago, she was a musician and there's a whole backstory there about how she was working with this terrible music dude who screwed her over.
And then she starts working in a Georgian house museum, I think doing some kind of... She doesn't really explicitly say, but basically when she has Sonny, she has to give that up because childcare is so expensive and it costs more for her to...
go to work and then to pay for childcare, then it's actually more cost effective if she quits her job and just... Relies on Oren's income.
Relies on Oren's income.
And he, like, vaguely works in tech.
And...
So it's really, you know, her identity has now become totally like subsumed in her maternal role as well.
So it's quite crippling.
It's quite claustrophobic.
Like a mini celebrity, you know.
You know, people who were like famous in 2008 in one place, you know.
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