A very British scantful focuses on the tumultuous marriage and bitter divorce of the Duke and

Duchess of Arnghial.

The Amazon Prime mini-series chronicles the couple's courtship, marriage, and their

eventual split, which was called the divorce of the century, marked as it was by accusations

of adultery, drug use, forgery, theft, bribery, and assault.

Paul Bettany plays the drunken abusive Duke, and Claire Foy plays Margaret, a woman determined

to hold onto her station in life even as she gets pillory by a misogynistic British press

and legal system.

I'm Glenn Weldon, and today we're talking about a very British scandal on pop culture

happy hour from NPR.

Joining us today is Margaret Willison, one half of the two bossy, dames newsletter and

one third of the appointment television podcast Welcome Back Margaret.

Hi Glenn.

A also with this is Christina Tucker, co-host of the podcast Wait Is This A Date?

Welcome back Christina.

Hello hello.

This is a dream team panel for this particular show and for many other shows but for this

show in particular.

A very British scandal is the second in what is becoming an anthology series about British

people behaving perfectly beastly to each other.

You might remember a very English scandal starring Hugh Grant and Ben Wiesha from 2018.

So very English scandal 2018, very British scandal 2022.

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