The Anastasia Myth Christmas Special

Sentimental Garbage

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🗓️ 21 December 2023

⏱️ 100 minutes

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Summary

It's been the Roman Empire for all tween girls for over 100 years, so for this year we investigate: what is it about the Anastasia myth that we just can't let go of? Caroline and Ella attempt to examine the real story versus the many false ones that grew around it, touching on Anna Anderson, the Romanovs, the emergence of new media in 1918 vs now, the 1956 movie starring Ingrid Bergman and the 1997 Don Bluth cartoon.

This is not a history podcast and we don't use a script so please bear in mind that we play fast and loose with dates and places. If you want a more thorough and historically accurate enquiry into this story, we recommend:

The C Word on Anna Anderson https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/anna-anderson-aka-anastasia-romanov/id1567724444?i=1000580210342

You're Wrong About on Anastasia https://podcasts.apple.com/be/podcast/anastasia/id1380008439?i=1000476500473

...or if you just want a detailed love-in about the cartoon, Caroline has done one on the Juvenalia podcast! https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast/104-anastasia-with-caroline-odonoghue/id1096401730?i=1000483680225

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0:00.0	Attention at all passengers. You can now book your train tickets on Uber and get 10% back in Uber credits to spend on your next train journey.
0:11.0	So no excuses not to visit your in-laws this Christmas.
0:16.5	Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply check the Uber app. Hello and I'm Caroline, and I gave her a hya ya!
0:29.0	Hello and welcome to the sentimental garbage Christmas Spectacular.
0:32.0	My name is Caroline and I gave her a
0:33.6	haya and a haya and I kick her sir and it could be worth a fortune if it belonged
0:38.8	to her it's Ella Ris Bridger.
0:41.6	Hi Caroline. Now I've just given a very jolly intro that implies it's going to be an uniformly
0:47.0	jolly podcast but it might not be. I think we have to consider the possibility
0:52.4	that this may be a tricky Christmas special
0:54.8	a fun and historical and...
0:57.8	But not completely historical?
0:59.8	No historical and a historical?
1:01.4	Yes.
1:02.4	But also potentially distressing Christmas special, which is fun, a fun energy for Christmas.
1:07.0	A fun energy.
1:08.0	So if you're kind of a new-ish listener to the podcast, every year Ella comes on for the Christmas special and we've covered a host of
1:16.7	sort of things that now we started with um
1:19.1	midfords was first then kids, then little women at one point.
1:25.0	We've done another one.
1:27.0	Oh, the Ephron universe.
1:28.0	Oh, the whole Ephron universe.
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