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The Crown: The Official Podcast

Episode 5: Coup

The Crown: The Official Podcast

Netflix

After Shows, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2019

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Upon the devaluation of the pound, recently ousted Chief of Defence Staff Mountbatten is approached to lead a military coup against Wilson’s government. Meanwhile, Elizabeth visits international horse breeders and gets a glimpse of the life she could have led, where she’s free to pursue her passions. In this episode, Edith Bowman catches up with director Christian Schwochow, head of research Annie Sulzberger, and BAFTA award-winning actor Jason Watkins, who plays the role of former prime minister Harold Wilson. The Crown: The Official Podcast is produced by Netflix and Somethin’ Else, in association with Left Bank Pictures.

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This is how I'd like to spend all my time.

0:06.0

Owning horses, breeding horses, racing horses.

0:10.0

It's what makes me truly happy.

0:17.3

And I actually think it's what I was born to do until the other thing came along, that someone else was born to do, that they elected not to do

0:23.4

which meant that first my father and then I had to do a job we were never meant to do.

0:28.4

Welcome to the crime, the official podcast.

0:31.8

I'm Edith Bowman and this show will follow the third season

0:34.8

of the Netflix original series The Crown episode by episode taking you behind the

0:40.2

scenes speaking with many of the talented people involved and diving deep into the stories.

0:46.0

Today we're talking about episode 5 called Koo.

0:50.0

Upon the devaluation of the pound, recently ousted Chief of Defence Staff Mount Baton,

0:55.6

is approached to lead a military coup against Wilson's government.

0:59.6

Meanwhile Elizabeth visits international horse breeders where she gets a glimpse of the life she could have led,

1:05.8

where she's free to pursue her passions.

1:09.2

We'll cover specific events and scenes that feature in this episode so if you haven't watched episode five

1:13.8

yet please do so now or very soon. Coming up later we'll hear from actor Jason

1:19.7

Watkins who plays Prime Minister Harold Wilson.

1:23.0

Jason speaks of Wilson's unexpected bond with the Queen,

1:27.0

as well as his embarrassment over the economic downturn during his time in office.

1:33.0

As a rather brilliant economist, it hurt him doubly that he was unable to prop up the pound.

1:40.0

So it was a crisis of economics and a personal crisis and he says that in the scene,

1:45.8

you know me personally. We'll also hear from head of research Annie Salzberger who

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