Episode 2: Margaretology

The Crown: The Official Podcast

Netflix

After Shows, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.6 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2019

⏱️ 31 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

At a low point for the ‘Special Relationship’, the Queen is forced to ask unpredictable Princess Margaret to charm American President Lyndon B. Johnson into saving Great Britain from financial ruin. Helena Bonham Carter shines as the dazzling Princess Margaret in episode two of the third season of the Netflix Original Series, The Crown, entitled 'Margaretology'. Host Edith Bowman speaks with creator Peter Morgan about his portrayal of the Queen’s ‘number two’, talks to lead director and executive producer Ben Caron about his career with The Crown and Head of Research Annie Sulzberger gives us an insight into what the 36th President of the United States really thought about British Prime Minister Harold Wilson. The Crown: The Official Podcast is produced by Netflix and Somethin’ Else, in association with Left Bank Pictures.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hail the conquering
0:05.4	conquering heroin?
0:06.7	Ah yes, let the abuse begin.
0:10.7	Now you must know by now. Any tr triumph from this family is bet with a healthy
0:14.4	doses. Envy? Despite good-natured teasing to keep one's feet on the ground.
0:19.1	Everyone's very grateful. The Prime Minister said he was going to write to your personally.
0:24.0	Better than that, you met me at the airport.
0:27.0	Ah.
0:29.0	Welcome to the Crime, the Official Podcast.
0:32.0	I'm Edith Bowman, and on this show we'll follow the third
0:35.1	season of the Netflix original series The Crown episode by episode. Taking you behind
0:41.1	the scenes, speaking with many of the talented people involved and diving deep into the stories.
0:48.0	Today we're talking about episode 2 titled Margaretology.y. In 1965, Princess Margaret embarked on a tour of America
0:57.3	with her husband Tony. The tour gained Margaret a legion of fans with the most dedicated calling themselves Margaretologists hence the episode title
1:08.0	we'll be discussing the incredible performance of Helena Bonham Carter as Princess Margaret and events brought up in
1:16.2	the episode. So if you haven't watched episode 2 yet, I suggest you do it now or very soon.
1:22.4	Coming up later we hear from lead direct... you do it now or very soon.
1:28.0	Coming up later we hear from lead director and executive producer for season 3, Ben Karen. I think all film directors should go on an acting course because I think they should appreciate what you're asking
1:36.0	actors to do when they're in front of a camera and it's so easy to be judged when you're
1:40.3	on set as actors.
1:42.3	We'll also hear from head of research Annie Salzberger who give us a historical
1:46.9	insight into the events we see in Margaretology. So he was brash and macho and so lewd that we actually felt if we used more of his real comments
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Netflix, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Netflix and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.