Below Stairs

Downton Abbey: The Official Podcast

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4.8 • 668 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The Downton Abbey service team are as critical a reason to the success of the show as they would be to the running to the actual estate. However, as the world modernises around them and social mobility is a realistic prospect, how will they respond? And what developments might have ensued since we last met them that could be paving the way for a new future? Anita Rani dives deep into the lives of the characters Below Stairs to find out how they take on the upcoming global and personal changes that are soon to befall them.

Anita is joined by Production Designer Donal Woods, who shares the secrets of creating the Downton world.

Music by John Lunn

Don’t miss the new film Downton Abbey: A New Era. The motion picture event returns this Spring.

This episode of Downton Abbey: The Official Podcast is produced by Somethin’ Else in association with Focus Features, Universal Pictures International and Carnival Films.

Episode Contributors

· Alastair Bruce

· Kevin Doyle

· Julian Fellowes

· Michael Fox

· Lesley Nicol

· Donal Woods

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello, it's me, Anita Rani, and welcome back to another episode of Downton Abbey, the official podcast.
0:13.0	From the tiaras to the tailcoats, the scandals to the silver, this podcast is here to luxuriate in all things Downton in celebration of the latest movie.
0:23.6	And what better way to celebrate than by meeting the inhabitants of the castle that keep the wheels turning?
0:29.7	That's right, it's time for the cast below stairs to shine.
0:34.1	First up, it's our favourite head cook, Mrs Patmore.
0:38.0	Mrs Patmore has been with the Downton service team since episode one.
0:42.3	She's undergone love, loss, eye surgery, and all the while, we've watched her relationship, Bloom with the Brilliant Daisy, her assistant cook.
0:52.2	Leslie Neckle, Mrs. Patmore, the boss.
0:55.2	Yeah.
0:56.1	You are.
0:57.2	Come on.
0:57.9	Let's like just put it out there.
0:59.4	Who runs Downson?
1:00.7	It's true.
1:01.3	I'll tell you what, at the very beginning when we started doing this show when it was TV,
1:05.6	we were told like who was the most important downstairs.
1:08.8	And it was very, you know, it was accurate.
1:11.1	Apparently, the butler, the housekeeper, the cook.
1:14.9	But in the kitchen, nobody is above Mrs. Patmore.
1:19.4	I mean, she's, yeah, your boss.
1:21.2	And it has ever been the same since that day.
1:24.5	And it will always be that way.
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