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It's a very special holiday Poodle episode! This week, for Valentine's Day, Brodie is joined by Monica Heisey, author of Really Good, Actually and the brains behind the new romantic comedy series Smothered (on Binge in Australia!) to discuss the iconic chain-smoking spinster, Bridget Jones and her titular Diary.

Together they discuss Hugh Grant's aversion to being a heartthrob and his tendency to be HACKED OFF, how getting a leatherbound diary is a rite of passage for women writers, Helen Fielding as the UK's Candace Bushnell, getting sprogged up (yuck), Mark Darcy's "work wife", when would Daniel ever have told Lara Bridget was thin?, getting a job in telly, aspiring to be a cigarette smoking woman with an apartment, we have so much to thank Richard Curtis for, and does the rom-com need a rebrand or do we just need to show them some goddamned respect.

See Also:

An Oral History of Bridget Jones's Diary

The long drunken profile of Hugh Grant

Laura Snapes on BJD in the Guardian

"A Character Actress Trapped in an Ingenue's Body"

Also Alsos:

Monica recommends: Bread and Butter Chardonnay + The Rachel Incident by Caroline O'Donohue

Brodie recommends: Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld + the Netflix doco series on Robbie Williams

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