Welcome to the worst bestsellers, where we read about the crimes of adultery, buggery, and witchcraft so you don't have to.

I'm Kate.

And I'm Renata.

And for this episode, we read The Other Balin Girl by Philippa Gregory.

Joining us to discuss this prequel to six is Anne Foster, a librarian, podcaster, and

Anne Boleyn Truther.

Hello, Anne.

Hello, hello.

I'm so happy to be here. I'm happy I've manifested this. What a

treat. Excellent. We're so happy to have you here with your historic expertise, because if you don't know,

Anne, she hosts vulgar history, which is a feminist women's history podcast that's, you know, it's fun and it's,

and it's educational.

If you can be both, but this book is not both, but vulgar history is.

Yes.

I do want to mention, yeah, I have not talked about Anne Boleyn or the other Boleyn girl, Mary

Berlin, on my podcast. So I'm coming in

with some facts and information, but, you know, not as much as if I had spent 12 hours

talking about them on my podcast. Which is fair. You know more than us because most of what I

know is from the Broadway musical six, which didn't mention hardly any of this stuff.

I was like, yeah, she grew up in the French court.

Wee, we, bonjour.

I know this part.

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