Tom Holland
speaker
37,094 appearances
150 recordings
9 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 6d ago
Tom Holland’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And it always involved
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Abyssinia is Ethiopia, and Ethiopia famously is the country in Africa that was never colonized.
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Yeah,
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But interesting that the British
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Do they know it's Christmas?
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Yeah.
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Both of these powers are Muslim, and Ethiopia obviously is Christian.
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So that's adding a further
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Well, um we did an episode on the Ark of the Covenant, uh which Ethiopia claims to have, and the Ethiopian royal family claimed descent from Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.
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So they have you know, they have very, very deep links to the kind of the mythology of the Bible in a way that no one
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So he is Teodros the second, isn't he?
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And I was thinking, well, who was Teodros the first?
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So I I did some detailed research in the Bodlin Library.
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Did you
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Yeah, he's kind of King Arthur figure who reigned around the same time that Henry V was winning the Battle of Agincourt for about nine months.
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Um and James Bruce, an explorer in the nineteenth century, said there must have been something very brilliant that happened under this prince, but no one can remember what it is.
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Can I ask, the
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So on top of that, Britain is a Christian power, Ethiopia is a Christian power.
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Is there any sense that therefore they are natural allies?
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