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British Scandal

Wondery

Scandal, Alice Levine, Great Britain, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, British, England, History, Matt Forde, Documentary

4.5 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2024

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Lyndsy Spence became obsessed with the aristocracy as a teenager. Now a historian and Mitford sister expert, she sits down with Matt and Alice to dissect the six extraordinary and eccentric siblings. From Diana, the beautiful child who dreamed of being kidnapped, to Nancy, who once hoped her parents had been onboard the Titanic - Lyndsy explains the sisters’ shared love of shocking others and ponders the question she’d most like to ask Diana.

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0:00.0	From Wundery I'm Alice Levine.
0:15.0	And I'm Matt Ford.
0:16.0	And this is British scandal. Well, we've survived the story of Diana Mosley. This was a passionate few episodes.
0:32.1	Very passionate.
0:33.2	We had the three things that you need in life,
0:35.5	politics, treachery and love.
0:38.2	And some other terrible stuff too.
0:41.1	And I'm going to put it out there,
0:42.4	some of the best names I think we've ever had in a British scandal series.
0:45.8	This actually sounds like a new Pixar film, Baba Bobo, Decker and Honts.
0:49.6	What do you think of Diana Mosley now?
0:53.4	Obviously not a fan of her politics or her failure to announce it.
0:56.8	But you can't help but be fascinated by people who are totally seduced by stuff like that.
1:02.4	See the horrors of it, and don't reach
1:05.0	the rational conclusion that the rest of us would.
1:07.3	Absolutely, and we're not the only ones to be fascinated by that.
1:10.6	We have a guest today to help us get our heads around the
1:14.4	enigma that is Diana Mosley.
1:16.7	Our guest is a historian specializing in aristocratic women.
1:20.4	She's an expert on the Mitford sisters and author of Mrs. Guinness, the rise and fall of
1:25.8	Diana Mitford.
1:27.3	Lindsay Spence joins us next. Some stories were never meant to be heard.
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