Tom Holland

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37,275 appearances 151 recordings 9 series first heard Nov 2024 last heard 4d ago

Tom Holland’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The Rest Is History · 706. Queen Victoria’s Revenge: Storming the Citadel (Part 2) · 16 Sep 2026 podcast

A commotion at the doorway brought me back to life, trying to start up and failing thanks to the weight of those infernal clanking manacles. voice-verified

As the door crashed shut again, I was aware of a swaying figure in the middle of the room, bare to the waist. voice-verified

How are you? voice-verified

How are you, my dear friend? voice-verified

My best of friends, cries this apparition, whooping with laughter. voice-verified

Thank God I am well. voice-verified

Are you well? voice-verified

Ah, my good friend, my heart rejoices to see you, for the friendship I have entertained for you has not diminished. voice-verified

Be of good cheer, for though you are bound with fetters of Samson and Zedekiah were bound even with fetters of brass, yet, yet, his voice trailed away, muttering, and who else? voice-verified

Yes, Joachim also was bound, and Manasseh. voice-verified

They were bound by the power of God, and so was Joseph, who was sold for a servant, whose feet they hurt with fetters, and he was laid in iron. voice-verified

And then he gave another crazy laugh and almost fell over. voice-verified

But have no fear, for the hour of your deliverance is at hand. voice-verified

My eyes had recovered from the lamp glare. voice-verified

But I could hardly believe them, for the newcomer was Theodore, king of Abyssinia, and he was staggeringly drunk. voice-verified

That was the great Victorian hero Sir Harry Flashman, remembering his first meeting with the Emperor Theodorus II in his memoir, Flashman on the March. voice-verified

It is, to reiterate, a novel, not a work of history, but it is very, very deeply rooted in all the historical records. voice-verified

And in the book, Flashman has been sent on a secret mission to recruit allies against the Abyssinian emperor, Theodorus II, as part of a British expedition to rescue several dozen European hostages. voice-verified

And even though Flashman's part of it, as we've said, is invented, voice-verified

All the most jaw-dropping parts of the story in the novel, Theodorus, his mountain lair, the British expedition, are absolutely true. voice-verified

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