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Done & Dunne

279. Noel Coward

Done & Dunne

Hemlock Creatives

True Crime, History

4.7628 Ratings

🗓️ 22 December 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This week we take a little time to bring Dominick Dunne’s First Noël, Noël Coward to the main feed! Noël Coward, a legend in so many ways, was an enormous influence for Dominick Dunne, and well, the rest of the high society and theatre world too, as Alicia detailed back in August 2022. Tune in for a ride of long ago ghosts and so many spiderwebs! Continue your investigation with ad-free and bonus episodes on Patreon! To advertise on Done & Dunne, please reach out to info@amplitudemediapartners.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Dun & Dunn. I'm Alicia, your hostess on this podcast journey, All Things Dominic Dunn.

0:07.5

Thank you for joining me today as we are headed into the holiday weeks, skidding into the end of 2025.

0:15.6

Today, here in the main feed, we are going to take a journey with one of Dominic Dunn's ghosts of Christmas past. There was a

0:24.4

first Noel, and that guy for our man Nick was Noel Coward. We talk a lot about Noel

0:31.6

Coward around this podcast, and today we're going to bring a few threads to the main feed about him.

0:38.2

Oh, no, coward, English playwright, composer, director, actor, singer, raconteur literally all

0:44.8

over the place in his time.

0:47.3

He is a literal human spider weaving his own web.

0:51.6

In the next few weeks, I am going to be going back into the vault to find a few

0:55.7

influential ghosts that lingered around Dominic Dunn. This one is from August 2022, where I was not

1:03.6

done yet, talking about the first Noel Coward, his influence, his Blythe Spirit, and his cigarette

1:10.3

cases too. Let's investigate.

1:35.9

Hey investigators, it's Alicia, and I am not done yet with so many spider webs.

1:38.5

This is going to be another one of those fun.

1:43.3

What happens in the sticky threads of Alicia's brain? But y'all have to know about this story.

1:47.2

So every week, right, I'm doing the writing and doing the research, and it's all very good.

1:51.8

And then sometimes the spider webs just come through in ways that you can't even anticipate.

1:59.2

The episode coming after this is going to be a follow-up about Swifty Lazar and his

2:06.0

infamous Oscar party. I have a lot of dishy, dishy stuff in there coming with the spiderwebs.

2:11.7

But Dominic Dunn writes an article way back in the day for Vanity Fair about Swiftie's legendary Oscar party.

2:21.4

This particular piece is entitled, I've been to a marvelous party.

2:27.3

So, me, your fearless researcher, do do do do do go, I pull up that article and I'm working on the

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