Episode 5: The Way Ahead

The Crown: The Official Podcast

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🗓️ 18 November 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Newly separated, Prince Charles has a new lease of life and really starts to prove himself worthy of the title King-in-waiting. However, when a recording of an intimate phone call between him and Camilla is leaked to the press, his reputation lies in tatters. But far from destroying him, it further motivates him to distance himself from the traditionalists of his mother's court and plough his own path as a modern, future King. He takes part in a controversial interview with Jonathan Dimbleby and sets up his own 'rival' court in St James's Palace leaving the rest of the royals with no choice but to sit up and take heed. In this episode, Edith Bowman welcomes back Writer Peter Morgan, Director, May el-Toukhy, Head of Research, Annie Sulzberger, meets the actor portraying Prince Charles, Dominic West. The Crown: The Official Podcast is produced by Netflix and Somethin’ Else, in association with Left Bank Pictures.

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0:00.0	Before we get started with this episode of The Crown, the official podcast,
0:06.4	please note that we have recorded this podcast series over the past year,
0:10.8	alongside the production of season 5 of the Crown.
0:15.0	So some of what you will hear was recorded before the passing of Her Majesty the Queen,
0:20.0	and the accession of His majesty King Charles III.
0:23.0	How does one describe being Prince of Wales?
0:35.0	It's hardly a job,
0:41.0	it's hardly a job, it's still less a vacation, it's simply a predicament
0:45.0	a previous princes of Wales have been happy to
0:48.0	previous princes of Wales have been happy to miss spend their lives
0:52.0	in title dissipation but my problem is I can't bear idles or dissipation.
0:58.0	Every day I meet people from all walks of life, ministers, scientists, entrepreneurs, men and women my age who've gone out into the world and made their mark.
1:17.0	As precise as it as in, that I'm Edith Bowman and this is the
1:29.0	podcast that follows the fifth season of the Netflix series The Crown episode by episode taking
1:35.5	you behind the scenes speaking with many of the talented people involved and
1:39.9	diving deep into the stories. Today we'll be delving into episode 5 of season 5, titled The Way Ahead.
1:48.0	In the wake of Anna's Horribless, the Palace forms The Way Ahead Group
1:52.0	to ensure the Royal Family's position in the future.
1:55.6	Prince Charles hopes this will be an opportunity to forward his own agenda and make
2:00.0	radical changes to the monarchy but his hopes are dashed as a recording of a
2:05.1	private phone conversation with Camilla creates humiliating headlines around the
2:09.9	world. But will this crush him or will this steal his resolve to propel himself forward ever
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