What a Barb! A Polin Podcast

Dearest gentle Polin, we have been apart for far two long. As we celebrate the second anniversary of the imperfect season of our hearts, it’s time to head back home to the drawing-room window with a view of the house across the street. In our special Polin Q&A, we’ll be looking back over two years of blow-away balloons, cheek strokes and the best first kiss Veg has ever seen before making room...

Och aye, the newest love story has arrived. We interrupt your regularly scheduled Polin Week to swish our way into Season 5 and celebrate the burgeoning romance between the quietest Bridgerton and her auld acquaintance, Michaela Stirling. We’ll be swapping our mourning veils for kilts and heading up to the Highlands for a wee bit of puzzling, a big bit of yearning and a good old fashioned time jum...

Get into the stag, everyone. Join us as we commit Season 4 Part 2 to its final resting place and mark the passing of another year in the ton. With our black veils on, we’ll be dancing in honour of a beloved Scotsman, mourning the loss of a not-so-beloved Featherington and weeping at the graveside of our Vicus hope and dreams. And with our class-crossed lovers facing (mostly) insurmountable odds, w...

Dearest listeners, Are you turning over in your mind the events of a mere season, desperately wondering which sibling might next grace our screens? Have you looked at all the evidence only to find you're still not sure? Join us for a brief but puzzled conversation where we try and decide which Bridgerton’s love story we think is written in the stars (and seeds). Could we bark-ing up the wrong...

A slice of Taleggio, anyone? Join us at Featherington House as we nibble on the finest cheeses and share our first (belated) reactions to Season 4 Part 2. As we wait for Sophie to decide whether we need to pack our bags for Our Cottage, we’ll be busy feather shopping with El, ruining lives with a former gossip writer and topping up the pink champagne to mark the un-bow-lievable return of one Lady...

He’s back. He’s bearded. He’s grumpier than ever. That’s right, dear listeners: our beloved Viscount is home at last. Join us as we pour ourselves a whiskey in honour of the Season 4 Part 2 trailer and make our final wagers for the passing winter and beyond. As we dodge Anthony’s ire at the doodled ledgers, we’ll be climbing trees with Matchmaker Colin, slicing stilton with Mr Finch and throwing a...

Warm your biscuits, dear listeners. We are the tea you’re having tonight. Now that we’ve finished polishing a hundred pairs of Araminta’s shoes, it’s time to peek through the doorway of our Season 4 Part 1 reaction. No need to pack a bag – just grab a couple of counterfeit shoe clips and a feverish artist for a sublime day in the country. Once we’ve dried ourselves off from a dip in the lake, we’l...

Host Alison Hammond sits down with new leads Luke Thompson (Benedict Bridgerton) and Yerin Ha (Sophie Baek) to discuss everything from a burgeoning romance at the Cottage to their steamy staircase session. Then, Bridgerton showrunner Jess Brownell joins to catch us up on the latest with the Bridgerton family and the exciting new love stories and themes this season. Go to Tudum.com for news, update...

It has been quite a journey we have taken together, dear listeners. At long last, it is time to fluff our ostrich feathers and step into the light for the final part of our S3E8 rewatch. As Whistledown's final plan falls into place, we'll be delivering letters to Violet, opening up our floorboards to fund a Featherington fiesta and standing by Penelope's side as the scribe herself reve...

Beware shallow waters, dear listeners. Spoilers are ahead. With only a week to go until our carriage arrives back in Mayfair, we’re wading out a little deeper as we share our first reactions to S4E1 The Waltz. As the Bridgerton servants prepare our scones, we’ll be polishing up Benedict’s rock collection, searching the ton for Fran’s pinnacle and making sure no one spills tea on the heir to the Fe...

Uh…shall we pop the kettle on, Colin? As we awake from a fitful night on the sofa, we’re fluffing our pillows and pouring ourselves a cup of trage-tea for Part 1 of our S3E8 rewatch. With newlywedded bliss nowhere in sight, we’ll be taking the carriage alone to visit Pen’s mother and Walter Dundas Esq. before swinging by Bridgerton House to console a grumpy husband with an unfortunately timed hero...

Rakes of the ton, beware – Violet Bridgerton is on the warpath. Join us as we raise our kites in honour of the Benophie New Year and celebrate the long-awaited arrival of the Season 4 Part 1 trailer. With our maid pinafores freshly starched for the year ahead, we’ll be taking a trip downstairs where we'll find Sophie a good costume for one glorious night and grab the mop and bucket to clean up...

Happy Wedding Eve, one and all. Yep, we’re swapping boughs of holly for bouquets of larkspur as Penelope and Colin finally nod their way down the aisle in Part 2 of our S3E7 rewatch. Following a late night of secret dealings, marriage counselling and a little horsing around, we’ll be wiping the dust from our eyes and taking our seats next to a gaggle of redheads for the nuptials of the season. Onc...

The worst reaction out of everyone in the ton? Well, he is a sensitive boy. With a secret out in the open and an engagement up in the air, we have our social calendar full this week as we begin our rewatch of S3E7 Joining of Hands. As we plan the most elaborate wedding breakfast of the season, we’ll be checking the diaries of the Smythe-Smith quintet, finding a hair tie for a heartbroken ponytail...

Hell is empty and the she-devil is here, dearest listeners. As Colin puts a ring on a very inky finger, we'll be joined by an impending sense of doom for our S3E6 rewatch of Deceiving - uh, we mean Romancing - Mister Bridgerton. We'll be chaperoning with Portia, matchmaking with widows and making an announcement of an announcement with a newly-betrothed Frohn. Elsewhere, Minster Hughes wil...

Cinch your wrists, dearest listeners. The Season 4 crumbs are dropping faster than an unbuttoned glove on the Featherington tiles. Join us as we take a trip down the staircase to brush fingers with an enigmatic Lady in Silver, catch the eye of an enamoured Man in Mask and clutch our pearls at the sight of a scandalously bedazzled ankle. After spending the day redecorating with Colin, we’ll be grab...

Thank Goodness! A leak has sprung at Bridgerton House and we couldn’t be happier. To celebrate the unmasking of the Season 4 release dates, we’ll be tipping our gloves to the Dutch, hiking with the ducks and grabbing our baskets for a good old fashioned Easter egg hunt.* After drinking that brown liquor with a Bridgerton father figure, we’ll also be stopping by Romney Hall to scatter a few seeds w...

Care for a game of charades, dearest listeners? Bridgerton rules, everyone. After a couple more rounds on the chaise, we’re taking the carriage across the park to finish up our S3E5 Part 2 rewatch before the clock runs out. Um. The clock of life, of course. With the Queen back on her fruitless hunt, we’ll be snacking on biscuits with a hungry Pen, shirking Colin’s gaze all evening and chasing a su...

No furtive looks necessary, dearest listener. Our S3E5 Part 1 rewatch is not a thunderbolt from the sky. With a newly engaged Polin busy announcing their happy news, it seems we have much to catch up on indeed. We’re in high spirits, despite the one Bridgerton sibling who’s even less thrilled about it than Eloise. As word of the betrothal spreads through the ton, we’ll be shouting for all of Mayfa...

Happy anniversary, dearest listeners! Join us as we raise a catch and toast to Bridgerton Season 3 Part 1 and reminisce over twelve splendid months of flyaway balloons, scandalous journals and the most remarkable shade of blue. We’ll be taking a celebratory carriage ride to the library to meet with a Regency king, a rugged pair of boots and a very tingly Lady Whistledown. And as Portia teaches a l...

Grab your Very Important Props and crunchiest snacks, dearest listeners! Join us as we step into the studio to meet the man behind the sound, Mitchell Kohen, to discuss his work as the ton’s finest Foley Artist. We’ll be learning how Mitchell made a splash in the industry, from his time curating airplane playlists, to working shifts at the Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital and bowing before the Queen o...

Wait! Let us in, dearest listeners. We’ve reached the climax of our S3E4 rewatch and it is everything we have been wanting to say to you for weeks. As Pen’s disastrous evening comes to a close, we’ll be waving down her carriage, slipping down our sleeves and proofreading Colin’s list of reasons as to why Lord Alfred Debling is just not right for his Pen. And while Colin lends his bestie a helping...

Dance cards at the ready, dear listener. This little love play is about to begin. As Colin arrives fashionably late to the Queen’s Ball, we’ll be chasséing our way past the Lord Squad and lurking behind broken columns for the next part of our S3E4 rewatch. After a danceus interruptus sends Debling’s proposal plans waltzing out the window, we’ll be battling it out with Eros and Psyche, not drinking...

Clear your bottle-weary heads and step away from the windowsill, dearest listeners – we are in pursuit of some revelry. Join us as we embark on the first part of our S3E4 rewatch, where we’ll be pulling out our Fuller Library cards to read up on the tragedy of a spinster, the fabled Northwest Passage and dropsy of a Featherington’s pancreas. As Pen finds herself called upon by a very fine bird and...

Ships Ahoy, dearest listener! We’re setting sail on the Season of Love. As we dip our toes into the cloudy waters of 1816, we’ll be pulling down our balloons, hoisting up our kites and grabbing our tins of yellow paint to redecorate for the season ahead. Once we’ve dropped our anchors at Grosvenor Square, we’ll be slipping down the staircase with Benedict, sneaking into the maids’ quarters with Hy...