Fetch the Smelling Salts
Discussing period dramas from every time period and around the world.
Fetch the Smelling Salts
The Favourite (2018 Movie)
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Season 1
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Episode 33
Move over Elizabeth and Victoria, there’s a new Queen in town. This week Kim and Alice tackle ‘The Favourite’, the darkly comic / just plain dark Queen Anne biopic. Why aren’t more period dramas set in the Stuart period? Who won the duck race? And where can we hire a naked Tory for our next party?
Sound Engineer: Keith Nagle
Editor: Helen Hamilton / Keith Nagle
Producer: Helen Hamilton
Sources
- Podcast: Vulgar History; 'Anne, Queen of Great Britain'
- Article: Wilder Davies; 'The True Story Behind the Favourite'; Time Magazine, Dec 2018
- Article: James Anderson Wynn; 'Your Guide to Queen Anne, Last of the Stuart Monarchs'; History Extra, July 2020
- Article: Dr Hannah Grieg; 'Queen Anne's Feuding Favourites'; History Extra, Feb 2019
- Article: Alice Newbold; 'Sandy Powell On Taking a Rock and Roll Approach to Period Dress in The Favourite'; Vogue, Jan 2019