What a Barb! A Polin Podcast

Pritt Sticks at the ready, dear listeners. It's the morning after the night before and we've got a lot on our breakfast plates. In the last of our book reread episodes, we'll be sneaking an extremely dishevelled Penelope back to Mayfair, hastily moving up the dates of a small but magical wedding and taking a quick trip to some oddly brown Highlands. And as our beloved newly-weds find t...

Get up, dear listeners. We're taking you to church. In our third reread episode, we'll be chasing hired hacks down Fleet Street, contemplating the logistics of carriage-based activities and indelicately faceplanting onto the streets of Mayfair. We'll also be turning up bright and early to the Tuesday Featherington family meeting, fetching watercolours with Felicity and staring out of r...

Pack your bandages and earplugs – curtain’s up on the most melodious event of the season. Mozart, stand down. Lou Bega’s got this one under control.  In the second of our read-along episodes, we’ll be making puddles with Colin, taking First Aid lessons from Penelope and dipping our thermometers in half-hour old bath water.   Ahead of the weekend, we’ll be spending an unremarkable day sampling lemo...

Up, up, up and away, dearest listeners! It’s time to soar into the S3 trailer heavens at long last. As our ship docks back in London, we’re trading sea for air as we float above Mayfair alongside an extraordinary balloon, a winged god and a sleepy-but-sturdy Bridgerton. We’ll be enjoying splendid weather with Lord Wilding, laughing in the library with Blue Pen and attempting a little archaeologica...

Hold onto your hats, dance cards and wallflowers, dearest listeners. It's time to discuss the Season 3 promo that has wrought such chaos into our lives that even Book Colin would blush. We'll be taking a trip to Hyde Park for a startling encounter on a blanket, having our dance cards filled by a hands-on Vegetarian and swooning over the long-awaited appearance of Enchanted Pen. And if you&...

She fell in love first. He fell into a mud puddle harder. Join us for the first of our read-along episodes as we celebrate the 200th anniversary of Book Polin’s love story! We’ll be taking a fatefully muddy ride through Hyde Park, uniting in the glee of matchmaking mamas everywhere and putting up the wet floor signs to mop up a rather concerning blob of Chantilly cream. And as those April showers...

Just put your hand on the glass, dear listeners. It’s time to reflect on the latest Polin mirror-cle.  We’re starting with the gentleman in the mirror as he finally gets around to crossing off his two-hundred-year-old to-do list, before catching up with his good friend Pen and a most hardworking pair of fingerless gloves.  Meanwhile, Necklace Truthers arrive from across the fandom to ask the most...

Pop the kettle on, the Brits are coming round for a cuppa. We’ll be nibbling on a plate of Season 3 crumbs, including the current whereabouts of Colin’s emotional support curl, Penelope’s secret garden and the passing of some very special torches. We’ll also be swinging by the drawing rooms of Grosvenor Square to squint at more blurry leaks and brew up a few loose leaf tea-ories about our favourit...

Honk, honk. It’s clown time! But this time, let’s make it seasonal. Join us as we live react to Next on Netflix’s trailer-that-wasn’t and head to the Danbury Ball for a sneak peek of Season 3. We’ll be clinging to the corners of the ballroom with a very sad wallflower, throwing back cocktails with the Lord Squad and twirling around the dance floor with a loved-up Viscountess. And as we sip on our...

Pasta lovers, pack your bags. We're off to Milan. But forget the Duomo and gelato, we're here to visit the Number 1 tourist attraction: Loved Up Polin in an Italian department store. As the Necklace Truthers hold an emergency meeting over the joining of two very special hands, the rest of us attempt to become experts in graphology to decipher the mind of one charming, funny and sincere pir...

Splish splash, it’s time to take a Bath! Lather up the bars of soap and pack your excavation trowels because we’re travelling back to January and February 2023 for our penultimate Season 3 crumbs expedition. We’ll be throwing a welcome home party for a (temporarily) triumphant wallflower, chasing a hackney carriage through the frosty streets of Mayfair and carrying out a most sacred task: checking...

Still upset over how El took that Whistledown news, Pen? Well, fear not. The worst is yet to come. As a state of crisis befalls the fandom, we're joined by Byron, a former lovesick puppy and a particularly sensitive pirate as we hold an emergency council over the latest ever-so-slightly ominous Season 3 crumbs. We'll be offering unsolicited love advice to our dearest wallflower, popping to...

Crumbs, glorious crumbs! This week, the clowns are dining on a feast of promo morsels, munching on the latest interviews and chewing over our ever-spiralling Season 3 theories. We’ll be visiting Stowell House to check in on Chignon Pen and her herbivore suitor*, examining the panelled walls of the Bridgerton games room and dreaming up a Polin dance that might just save a pirate’s relationship. Uh,...

Beloved Polinators, shall we compare thee to a promo day? Thou art more clowning and more chaotic. We'll scream until the Coming Weeks of May. Okay. Shakespeare, we are not. But delighted, we most certainly are. Join our still-fluttering Polin hearts as we share our first reactions to the Season 3 love stream and the sweet treats gifted to us by the Bridgerton cherubs. We'll be opening a c...

Stop the press! We have a new Pen sighting on our hands. Well, on our t-shirts at least. In these special late night crumbs, we'll be reporting to you live from Mayfair Fashion Week 1815 where one former wallflower is making blurs on runways and ring-spun cotton fibres alike. Our Fashion Correspondents will also be on standby to catch up with the ton's next top models: Anthony Bridgerton,...

Well, Polinators. Seeing as though THAT little warm up game is out the way, it’s time to take our front row seats for the real Superbowl: the Season 3 virtual event. In this special Q&A episode, we’ll be stretching on the training grounds of Mayfair, fumbling around such important topics as waving executioners, epilogue births and blood libations to the promo gods. Out on the field, the pre-ga...

Dearest listeners, grab your tickets and front row seats for our encore performance of ‘Four Clowns Lose Their Minds Over 32 Seconds of Footage.’ In this special bonus episode, we can’t see the forest for the trees, but we’ll be placing our newest theories under the spotlight as we tackle the ever-growing mystery of the Season 3 timeline.   We’ll be reading Whistledown with a grumpy Unicolin, drin...

Oh my, dear Polin fans. Let’s down our glasses of lemonade in celebration of a most remarkable day. Join us for a fever dream of an episode as we finally make it to the long awaited Polin utopia: the first clips of Season 3. Pen and Colin actually moving and speaking? Together?! Astonishing. We’ll be gulping with Colin in the Bridgerton drawing room, pondering the meaning of a lilac neck tie and p...

Raise a prawn cocktail to the happy couple, it’s time for the wedding of the season! Uh, well…one of them. This week, we’re pitching up our excavation tent at the mystical sites & sights of November and December 2022 where we’ll be sipping tea with Fran at the market, preparing the pyre for a witch trial and handing out mysterious leaflets with the Queen’s footmen. We’ll also be mulling over r...

Extra, extra! Read all about it! Join Obvs and Beans for the first ever issue of The Weekly Crumb, where we speculate and spiral over the breaking crumbs of the week. In the newsroom this week, we’ll be discussing a trailer door, a surprising plate of cupcakes and some very intriguing golden-yellow furnishings. We’ll also be pondering whether a cast photo can reveal the secrets of a Danbury-Bridge...

Pop the champagne and grab the streamers, dearest listeners. It is finally the Year of Polin! In our slightly belated festive episode (you can thank the Christmas Day shenanigans for that), we share our thoughts on recent Season 3 news including the mid-season split, the updated plot synopsis and Colin’s bravado. We’ll be fawning over Colin and his Pen, fretting over promises of betrayal and honou...

Deck the halls with boughs of Polin! What a very merry Christmas it’s turned out to be. In our latest emergency episode, we’ll be unwrapping the splendid pile of gifts left for us under the Season 3 tree by the Bridgerton elves themselves. We'll be munching our way through leftover turkey sandwiches, brooding with Unicolin in the Bridgerton drawing room and bringing out the measuring tape to f...

Put down the tinsel and mistletoe, Polin fans. We have urgent crumbs to attend to. Join us as we spiral over the latest Season 3 news including THAT Peneloise reunion, Colin and Penelope’s power and a promised upheaval for the Featheringtons. We’ll also be curling up by the cosy friends-to-lovers fire as we catch up with old, dear acquaintances such as Kanthony, Colin’s swagger and the much-loved...

Clown noses and trowels at the ready, Polin excavators! This week, we’re visiting the ancient sites of filming leaks past to try and uncover sacred crumbs for episodes 3 and 4 of Season 3. We’ll be venturing into the dusty tombs of September and October 2022, encountering such mysterious monuments as giant waterfowl, tiny carriages, and the most remarkable treasure of all: glowed-up Pen in Bridger...

Gather round, dear clowns. This is not a drill. Join us for an emergency episode as we live react to the most coveted and mystical breaking crumb of all: the Season 3 release date. Or, should we say release dates. *Internal screaming* We'll be sharing our initial thoughts and general bewilderment as we desperately try to get our heads around another chaotic day in the Polin Nation. Bravery, my...