Matt Lewis

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1,908 appearances 31 recordings 3 series first heard Mar 2026 last heard yesterday

Matt Lewis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Recordings per month over the last 12 months — 31 in all, peaking in Aug 2026 with 11.

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continuing story. matched

Ethelred is having endless problems with Danes, with the Vikings still invading. matched

He becomes, his cognome, Unreddy, comes from the Anglo-Saxon Unred, which means poorly advised. matched

So Ethelred means well advised. matched

So I think they're trying to be funny. matched

basically. matched

Well advised, the unadvised, poorly advised. matched

Yeah, I'm not sure it works. matched

Would matched

Yeah. matched

So he's constantly paying the Vikings off. matched

Every time they come, he gives them a bucket load of treasure to turn around and go away again. matched

They do turn around and go away again, but as soon as that treasure runs out, they just come back and say, matched

some more, please? matched

And he keeps giving them money. matched

So he doesn't have a particularly powerful position. matched

He's really struggling. matched

He's becoming increasingly unpopular because he's given all the kingdom's money away to people who just knock on the door and ask for it. matched

And so he comes up with this idea because of his own fear and his growing paranoia. matched

He coordinates on St. matched

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