The Many Wrongs of Lord Christian Brighty

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4 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 16 September 2024

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Challenged by Babs to find a single person he’s never wronged, Brighty’s search leads them to Cornwall and to best friend Russ Blackshark. Whilst Brighty and Babs re-run Russ’s stag do, Churlington gets into a spot of bother auditing the family tin mine.

Lord Christian Brighty is the talk of the Regency 'Ton' - a celebrated libertine, a heartthrob and a hero to many. But close-up, he is a spoilt, impetuous, life-ruining bastard… Or at least he was. Because his carefree life of infinite privilege has been upended by an encounter with his new chambermaid - the uneducated but forthright Babigail - who became the first person to tell him the unvarnished truth about his selfish behaviour. Overnight, his lifelong trust that everyone loved him had been replaced with a gnawing fear that Babs was right.

So now, with his narcissism collapsing and a need to prove to Babs he is actually a good person, Lord Brighty is determined to fix all his past wrongs. And by extension all the ills of Regency society. Accompanying him in his quest are Babs (elevated beyond her station to a chambermaid-cum-adviser role), and his butler, Mr Churlington. Although Churley would prefer everything to stay exactly as it used to be (as would all Brighty’s friends, family and the entirety of high society).

Written by Christian Brighty & Amy Greaves

Cast: Lord Christian Brighty ….. Christian Brighty Babs ….. Jessica Knappett Churlington ….. Colin McFarlane Russ Blackshark ….. David Reed Reticent Tom ….. Nimisha Odedra Briny Briony ….. Chiara Goldsmith Gareth Hornpipe ….. Joz Norris

Script Editor ….. David Reed Sound & Recording ….. David Thomas Photographer ….. Will Hearle Production Assistant ….. Katie Sayer Producer ….. Ben Walker

A DLT Entertainment Production for BBC Radio 4

Christian Brighty and Amy Greaves are award-winning comedians. Their viral sketches based on Bridgerton, Poldark and Jane Austen have catapulted them to viral stardom, securing Christian’s place as the internet’s answer to Mr Darcy and amassing 150 million views across TikTok and Instagram (@brightybuoy). Amy and Christian both have a deep love of the work Jane Austen, traditional regency romance (not smut), and historical romance set in the regency (smut).

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0:45.0	Welcome, you degenerates.
0:47.0	It is I, Lord Christian Brighty, the delight of Duchesses, the lover of of lords best-selling author of how to
0:55.4	pleasure your wife using this conveniently shaped book now out in paperback and
0:59.5	waterproof to boot. Oh I was the most badly behaved young and depraved
1:05.0	rake of the urgency. But my life changed forever when I tried to fire my mouthy
1:10.8	moralizing maid, Babigail.
1:12.8	You mean when you try to shoot me out of a cannon?
1:15.4	On that fateful morning, Bab said something that shook me to my very core.
1:19.8	You're not very nice.
1:21.8	So shocked was I by this revelation.
1:24.0	I accidentally set off the cannon
1:26.0	and shot myself in the heart.
1:29.0	I awoke three days later with an owy nipple,
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