Stella Duffy

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463 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 5 Jun

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Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · Supersluts of History: Roman Empress Theodora · 5 Jun 2026 podcast

And they're very beautiful.

They've had minarets added.

But the basic church shape was already there, which was the... Oh, the thing about the dome.

I have to tell you this.

The dome of the Hagia Sophia was the first time anyone had built a dome that worked on that scale.

They've done little domes.

There's a little Hagia Sophia.

And it's still there in Istanbul.

But they hadn't done one so big.

I think that's interesting.

There was an earthquake and it fell.

And then they built a less... You know how St.

Paul's dome goes quite high up?

This is much flatter, but it's still rounded.

But the key thing about it is a bunch of Russian envoys came.

I can't remember which emperor it was.

But anyway, they came to see this amazing church and they went back and they said it was the pictures that they drew of the architecture that made the Russians, the Russian emperor at the time, go, we will be Christians too.

Oh, no, that's an impressive building.

It goes, right?

I mean, I don't know if it's just an apocryphal story about the start of the Russian Orthodox Church, but I love the idea that a bit of very good architecture might be enough to make you go, oh, God loves this faith.

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