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The Crown: The Official Podcast

Episode 8: Dangling Man

The Crown: The Official Podcast

Netflix

After Shows, Tv & Film, Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 12 December 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The Queen visits the dying Duke of Windsor, who asks her forgiveness for choosing love over his duty, and urges her to help Prince Charles find a wife he loves before becoming King. Meanwhile, Prince Charles starts to fall for Camilla Shand, and the situation becomes complicated when Princess Anne plays the field with Camilla’s ex Andrew Parker Bowles. In this episode, Edith Bowman talks with director Sam Donovan, costume designer Amy Roberts, and the actor behind Princess Anne, Erin Doherty. The Crown: The Official Podcast is produced by Netflix and Somethin’ Else, in association with Left Bank Pictures. Episode Eight of Season Three of The Crown, Dangling Man, was written by David Hancock and Peter Morgan.

Transcript

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0:00.0

What is it Martin?

0:02.0

A reminder that the BBC interview with the Duke of Windsor is coming up soon.

0:06.0

Now, we understand the Duke is no longer in the best of health.

0:09.0

Might be worth visiting when you go to Paris?

0:13.0

Certainly not.

0:14.0

Go on, Martin.

0:15.0

It's just a slight concern that if the BBC interview were to go down well following the successful visit of Emperor

0:21.0

Hirohito, the question might be asked. If the Japanese make the effort to visit him,

0:26.4

why will his own family not? Because he didn't cause them offense. He didn't abdicate the Japanese throne or kill the Emperor's father.

0:35.0

For the last time, no.

0:40.0

That man is shame.

0:46.0

Like the stench of livestock. Sir?

0:48.0

It seeps into the woodwork and never goes away.

0:52.0

Welcome to the Crown, the official podcast.

0:56.2

I'm Edith Bowman and this is the official podcast for the third season of the Netflix

1:01.3

original series The Crown,

1:03.0

taking you behind the scenes,

1:05.0

speaking with many of the talented people involved

1:07.0

and diving deep into the stories.

1:10.0

Today we're talking about episode 8 titled Dangling Man, written by David Hancock and Peter Morgan.

1:20.0

In his 1944 book Dangling Man, American author Saul Bello describes a man who is

1:26.3

waiting to be drafted into the army. Whilst he faces death in World War II, he believes that this is the only way to give meaning to his life.

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