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 on the chaise for our favourite redhead and a green-eyed imposter.

After a spot of tea with Book Polin, we’ll be grabbing our devilishly yellow headcoverings and taking a promenade through Polin’s past, from the very first Vauxhall jig through to a final retirement sway. Once we’ve picked Penelope up from the pavement and the 408 dance off the cutting room floor, we’ll also find time to reminisce over crumbs, blurs and our very own histories of connection.

Raise your glasses of lemonade, old friends. We have a happily ever after on our hands and a love story for the ages.

Is life supposed to be this wonderful? We think so. We really do.

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Polin Fanfic Recommendations
Ruin by Sea_Dragonfly
Making It Up As We Go Along by LazyTuesdayMorning
Yo Ho Ho, Off to the Sea We Go! by Lady Ticklebotham
scraped up off the pavement by missparker
U Up? by Stillpink and Dollypop
Dance Card by Katie_500 & Stillpink
The Trouble with Teatime by ninjamanda
A Practical Romance by KatofKanals
one man’s bungled nuptials are another man’s dot dot dot by Requited_Fantasies (WIP/Unfinished)
Thus Will Shine the Dawn by bluemountainbayou
Fill of Love (Series) by logogram
Remembering Mrs. Bridgerton by Stillpink
If Not Thousands by logogram
turn around, bright eyes by ThreeFundamentalTruths (WIP/Unfinished)

Authors Referenced in General
Sea_Dragonfly
LazyTuesdayMorning
Stillpink
KatofKanals
MellieMaybe

Non-Polin Fics Referenced
Ceramic by quietcactus (Debling/Cressida)

Podcasts Reference
Fics and Recs – A Fanfiction Podcast
36 Questions – The Podcast Musical

Lechi's Songs for Polin
Perfect by Ed Sheeran
The Only One by James Blunt
Feels Like This by Maisie Peters
You & Me by James TW
Fall Into Me by Forrest Blakk
Kiss Me by Dermot Kennedy

Obvs’ Songs for Polin
Falling Slowly by Steve Kazee, Cristin Milioti and the Once Ensemble
I, Carrion (Icarian) by Hozier
There is a Light That Never Goes Out by The Smiths
Attention by Charlie Puth
Forever Ago by Woodlock

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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 jump.

On the way back from our Scottish sojourn, we’ll be visiting Benophie at Their Cottage before heading to Featherington House in hopes of finding Colin Bridgerton fully in frame and ready to matchmake.

And after we’ve muddied our hands planting seeds for a future love match, we’ll be searching the greenhouse for a missing botanist and checking the fifth Bridgerton for inky fingers.

Flowers may take a while to grow but the Good Ship Franchaela is ready to go.

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Show Notes
Shondaland: Francesca and Michaela Season 5 Announcement
Tudum: 3 New Cast Members Join Bridgerton Season 5

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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, we’ll be helping a thief in the night pack her bags for an escape to the Americas. If only we could find that pesky necklace…

But with a jail break in hand and a maid running free, we’ll be gathering at the grandest night of the year to spin a fantastical tale about the love match of the season: Miss Sophie Gun and the brother to the Duke of Hastings.

It’s been one hell of a year, dearest listeners. Let us all have a biscuit, shall we? (Not you, Colin.)

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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 tree with Philoise? Will Fran's missing puzzle piece ever find her way back to the ton? Will the winds of change blow the seasons out of order yet again?

One thing is for certain: we need to KNOW.

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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 Penwood.

Elsewhere, we’ll be raising ducklings with Daphne, bumbling to the bar with Colin and wrestling the last puzzle piece off of Michaela.

But with Hyacinth’s recital planning driving us mad and a parliament of Aylesbury owls giving us a headache, we hope you’ll forgive us for taking a little nap.

Rest assured, we’ll be revived in time for dinner. Uh, right John? John?!

Better bring us that brandy, Barnes.

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