The Dirty Duchess | Divorcée to Duchess | 1

British Scandal

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Scandal, Alice Levine, Great Britain, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, British, England, History, Matt Forde, Documentary

4.5 • 6.5K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Margaret Sweeney is rich, beautiful, and keeping London's eligible bachelors very, very busy. Cast out of high society after her divorce, she's enjoying an unapologetically active sex life. But when the Duke of Argyll offers to make her his Duchess, she glimpses a delicious revenge: ruling over the very society that rejected her.

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0:00.0	Matt, can you just give me two seconds to finish this? Is that all right?
0:10.1	Yeah, sure. I didn't know. You kept a diary?
0:13.2	It's not a diary, per se.
0:15.4	Okay. What is it then? Because I can see some words written down there.
0:19.9	It seems to be men's names that you're putting scores next to. What's that? Stamina, flexibility, repertoire.
0:27.5	Yeah, it's, um, I guess it's just a bit of a league table.
0:32.5	Hang on, my name's on there.
0:33.9	Yeah, it's comprehensive, yeah.
0:35.4	What's it a league of?
0:37.0	It's all of the men that I've podcasted with.
0:41.7	Oh, okay.
0:43.2	Do other female podcasters do this?
0:45.0	Oh, yeah.
0:46.3	And you all swap notes on us?
0:47.6	Definitely, yes.
0:48.8	Cricky.
0:49.4	I can see some of my scores, actually.
0:50.9	I seem to be scoring zero on nearly all of them.
0:53.2	Honestly, really.
0:55.6	Just don't, don't overthink it.
0:59.0	That's hard not to really. I've scored 10 on something now. What's that?
1:02.5	Yeah, I'd focus on that. Yeah, that one is attendance.
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