Stella Duffy
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463 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 5 Jun
Stella Duffy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I too will follow it.
A swan fixation and believe that Justinian walked around the palace with his own head under his arm.
Patron saint of sewing.
Oh, I should have liked that.
Yeah, I think so.
So on the other side of the Bosphorus, so you're allowed to, it's a little bit like, you know how prostitutes in London used to be called Suffolk geese?
Yes.
And it was because you couldn't be a sex worker in the city of London, but you were allowed to be one in Suffolk.
Yes.
So as long as you were over the water.
I mean, it still wasn't approved of, but they let them be a bit more.
Similarly, when Theodora came into power, she built a sanctuary for ex-dancers, ex-prostitutes, women of ill repute.
They had to believe in God, though.
They had to be religious.
And she called it Metanoia, which means redemption in Greek.
And it was on the other side.
So it was on the other side of the Bosphorus.
So the Asian side of what is now Istanbul.
And as far as I know, and I don't know much about Orthodox Christianity, that was the main reason for her becoming a saint.
Obviously, to be a saint these days, you have to have some miracles.
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