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Bridgerton: The Official Podcast

The Power of the Pen: Lady Whistledown and Scandal

Bridgerton: The Official Podcast

Netflix & Shondaland Audio

Tv & Film, After Shows

4.3595 Ratings

🗓️ 15 April 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Guest-host Annabelle Hood and actress Nicola Coughlan (Penelope Featherington) highlight the episode easter eggs you may have missed, while historian Dr. Hannah Greig's fascination with Regency gossip gives us a unique look into the scandal sheets of old. Plus, executive producer Shonda Rhimes and novel series author Julia Quinn share the fanfare around Julie Andrews. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://www.iheartpodcastnetwork.comSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0

This is an IHeart podcast.

0:04.2

So now we've got rollers to put me in cost.

0:06.9

Look at this.

0:08.3

They actually used an old school printing press, Annabelle, to make the whistledown.

0:13.9

It was not printed out of a printer.

0:15.9

Did they?

0:16.5

Yeah.

0:17.0

Did they build this machine for this show?

0:19.2

I don't know.

0:19.9

But that looks legit. That doesn't surprise me. We were just talking about attention to detail.

0:29.6

Welcome to Bridgetton, the official podcast. I'm Gabby Collins. And I'm Annabel Hood. So let me just set the scene.

0:38.1

We're just sitting down over Zoom, of course, watching some behind the scenes footage.

0:43.4

And we stumble across.

0:47.8

And this would have to be done each time we take a print. So in reality, you could probably

0:53.0

only print about 250 sheets an hour.

0:56.7

This props master is walking us through a miniature village on the set of Bridgeton, in which

1:03.4

the whistledown is being created. He's got a roller, a huge machine behind him that looks like

1:10.0

it's straight out of the 1800s. And as we're

1:12.1

watching it, he's taking pieces of paper and rolling over it with this black ink. And voila,

1:18.5

we've got the Whistledown. And lo and behold. So that's Lady Whistledown Society paper,

1:27.3

and then directly under it is the date.

1:29.1

So you have the issue and the date that it comes out.

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