49. Confident

What Would Danbury Do?

It’s a high-stakes game of charades as Penelope Featherington’s double life teeters on the edge of disaster as her engagement to Colin clashes with her secret identity as Lady Whistledown. With Cressida standing in the wings, will Penelope choose safety at the expense of losing her legacy?

It’s a scandal, but somehow Lady Whistledown doesn’t seem too eager to expose it…

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Featuring:

• What’s in a title?

• Coping mechanisms

• Mean girls

• Unaddressed emails

• Gaslighting

• Charisma

• A GF guy

• Power dynamics

• A+ gaydar

Here are is the media we talk about in this episode:

• Bridgerton, Season One

• Bridgerton, Season Two

• The Bridgerton books, a series by Julia Quinn

• Romancing Mr Bridgerton, a novel by Julia Quinn

• Lord of the Rings, a trilogy of films by Peter Jackson

• Star Wars: the sequel trilogy, a trilogy of films by JJ Abrams and Rian Johnson

• ‘Thunder’, a song by Imagine Dragon

• Dangerous Liaisons, a film by Stephen Frears

• Pride and Prejudice, a novel by Jane Austen

• Notting Hill, a film by Richard Curtis

• Queen Charlotte, a Bridgerton spin-off

• An Offer from a Gentleman, a novel by Julia Quinn

• Glen Powell, an actor

• Dr Who, a television series

• Gone with the Wind, a film by Victor Fleming

• Confident, a song by Demi Lovato

• Frankenstein, a novel by Mary Shelley

We were joined for this episode by the wonderful Cressida-stan CS Pacat. You can hear more from Cat by finding her on instagram, visiting her website and reading her books.

CS Pacat recommends you read Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan (Kate seconds this rec – she loved it too). Buy a copy from your favourite independent bookstore.

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This episode was recorded on the traditional and unceded land of the Wurundjeri, and Boonwurrung people.

Our editor is Ben McKenzie of Splendid Chaps Productions. If you need production work completed, you can find them here: splendidchaps.com

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