The Other Boleyn Girl with Ella Risbridger
Sentimental Garbage
Justice for Dumb Women
4.8 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 4 July 2019
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
If you want to read about the Tudors, you want to read about the SEXY Tudors, and The Other Boleyn Girl is the sexiest of all. Returning guest and author of Midnight Chicken Ella Risbridger comes by to talk about masque balls, women in history, sexual awakenings, sisters and why historical fiction is so much better when the details of that history are left niiiiiiice and loose. Music by Harry Harris, artwork by Gavin Day. Recorded at Acast studios, produced by Caroline O'Donoghue and mixed by Hannah Varrall
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another episode of Sentimental Garbage, the podcast where we talk about the chicklet that made us who we are. |
| 0:10.0 | My name is Karen Adunahue and I'm an author, a journalist and the strong healthy |
| 0:14.0 | bastard son of the king. Joining me is author returning guest and |
| 0:18.4 | upwardly mobile courtier Ella Risbridger. |
| 0:21.6 | Hello. |
| 0:23.0 | Today we're going to talk about a great book and the cornerstone of our friendship, |
| 0:28.0 | Philippa Gregory's the other Bolin girl. |
| 0:30.0 | Really truly it is the cornerstone of our friendship. |
| 0:32.8 | I think it's like the first thing we ever truly bonded about was this book. |
| 0:36.4 | I'm going to do a quick plot summary. |
| 0:38.2 | I will sit quietly and listen. |
| 0:39.7 | Sure. |
| 0:40.7 | It's England in 1521. |
| 0:42.3 | Oh, set the scene? |
| 0:44.0 | And the 13 year old Mary Berlin has just been chosen by her uncle and father to be the new |
| 0:50.2 | mistress of King Henry VIII. |
| 0:52.0 | As a member of both the powerful |
| 0:53.2 | Bolin and Howard family, Mary is used as a pawn to escalate her |
| 0:56.4 | family's social and political status. Mary dutifully obeys, |
| 0:59.8 | and nulling her marriage and bearing the king two children until she is later put aside for her sister |
| 1:05.4 | Queen Anne Berlin. Oh! Pew! Pew! Pew! |
| 1:09.4 | Didn't see that coming, did you? Because this is the other Berlin girl. The other one. |
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