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Stephen Fry's Edwardian Secrets

By: Stephen Fry, John Woolf, Nick Baker
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Powered flight. Votes for women. Human sexuality. Mass migration. The psychology of dreams. The magic of the movies. Spies and detectives. Welcome to Stephen Fry’s Edwardian Secrets.

Perhaps thanks to TV period dramas, the popular imagination may picture the Edwardian era as an idyllic window between the wars, a time of manners and tea on the lawn. But below the surface lies a frenetic and often bizarre age where scientific leaps forward went hand in hand with belief in fairies, and secrets of sex, lies and murder simmered.

Across 12 episodes, in this sequel to his Victorian Secrets, Stephen Fry uncovers some of the startling and unexpected hidden histories of the Edwardians.

This original podcast is 8 episodes in total, please begin with “Ep 1: A Hard Act to Follow”.

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  • Ep 1: A Hard Act to Follow

    Ep 1: A Hard Act to Follow
    Aug 11 2021

    The Queen is dead, long live the King. On the occasion of Edward Vll’s coronation, we look back at his life as spoilt child, curious adolescent and womanizing princely glutton. There’s a bizarre secret behind those early motion pictures of a new and rotund monarch.
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    31 mins
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  • Ep 2: Big Helpings

    Ep 2: Big Helpings
    Aug 11 2021

    This was to be an age of excess for some, and plenty for others. An age when the ruling classes enjoyed a secret life of large-scale adultery. Plus, the story of a female celebrity cook whose quail puddings were loved by the King. But was there more to their relationship?
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    36 mins
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  • Ep 3: Small Worlds

    Ep 3: Small Worlds
    Aug 11 2021

    The bumpy story of early British flight; some secret mysteries about the Titanic, plus the secrets of a famous pair of murderers who were tracked down thanks to new technology. Ships, Telegraphy and the popular press were shrinking the world, with some unforeseen results.
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    37 mins
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This is entertaining; funny; educational: easy to listen one at a time or just let it roll and listen to them all ~one after another
To listen to anyone else narrate I don't know if it would have been any of the above. I WANT MORE!!

The whole enchilada

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Engaging , throughly researched reach back into a period that was a tipping point in the world's social-political evolution. Well produced, as well. This one, you'll want to share.

A Fascinating re-visit of history.

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once again Stephen Fry does a great job at dramatizing the past. yeah yeah yeah

A follow-up to the Victorian secrets

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Entertainingly well presented Edwardian history that if you pay close attention, may seem familiar to current headlines.
Stephen Fry's performance drew in my 21, 16, and 9-year-olds as well, giving us something new to discuss and opening up the youngest to the idea that history need not be boring.

Beautifully done!

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I found this much more interesting than Victorian Secrets. Great performances and interesting topics. Highly recommend.

Another Solid Stephen Fry Performance.

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Love Stephen Fry, and loved the content of this podcast series. Informative about historical issues that are not taught or spoken about much…like racism, sexism, privilege and police brutality….
And there are those who say these issues are not institutional…

Learned interesting facts

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Stephen Fry is quickly becoming my favorite source for infotainment which skews heavily on the side of real info and research.

Fry does it again

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This makes history fun. Now its not for all ages as some content is definitely not something I would let my daughters listen to at 13. However there are certain episodes that are fine for them and having played one even they agreed that the history was fun tho perhaps I really need to make them sit down and watch James Bond to have a greater appreciation. the ties and twists is fascinating and honestly I couldn’t stop relating some of the stories to my supposedly history fascinated husband and to my kids. Thank you this is a part of history that is so often overlooked for Victorian times and it covers so many topics.

Wonderfully entertaining and great history lesson

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absolutely unnecessary to have the gunshot/bomb etc in very beginning. extremely disruptive to listener. you don’t know where we are listening to these podcasts. driving. etc. no reason to startle people for melodrama

stupid opening sound effects

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I love anything Stephen fry does! His voice is soothing. This was a fun listen! Very informative funny and intriguing

Brilliant

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