What Would Danbury Do?

As Bridgerton Season Two races towards the finish line, there are still some surprises and scandals left in store for the families Bridgerton, Sharma, and Featherington. But there is also an absolute avalanche of insights, self-awareness, and good old fashioned personal growth. It’s episode 8, and our HEA is at hand.

Featuring:

• Bestie vs bestie

• Classism

• Purpose

• Gamblers and wastrels

• A mother’s love

• Head bumps (metaphoric and otherwise)

• The mother apology tour of 2022

• Scorched earth behaviour

• Sibling voyeurism

Here are is the media we talk about in this episode:

• The Viscount Who Loved Me, a novel by Julia Quinn

• An Offer from a Gentleman, a novel by Julia Quinn

• To Sir Phillip, With Love, a novel by Julia Quinn

• The Bridgertons, a book series by Julia Quinn

• Bridgerton, a Netflix series

• Gossip Girl, a television series

• Romancing Mister Bridgerton, a novel by Julia Quinn

• Miss Scarlet and the Duke, a television series

• Wrecking Ball, a song by Miley Cyrus

• The Smythe-Smiths, a book series by Julia Quinn

• Pride & Prejudice, a book by Jane Austen

This episode’s What Would Danbury Do letter comes from Howie from the 2022 Andrew Ahn directed film, Fire Island. You can find out more about Fire Island here. 

If you would like to send us a What Would Danbury Do, simply record a voice memo on your phone with the letter and send it to us at [email protected]. We would love to hear from you!

Our guest host this episode brings the big baby sister energy. Thanks Meg, for joining us! 

Don’t forget you can find us on twitter and facebook @bridgertonpod and instagram @wwddpod and join the conversation using the hashtag #WWDDpod. You can also leave us a rating or review on your favourite podcast provider. People who leave reviews always understand the assignment. 

This episode was recorded on the traditional and unceded land of the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people.

Our editor is Ben McKenzie of Splendid Chaps Productions. If you need production work completed, you can find them here: splendidchaps.com

What Would Danbury Do is a proud member of Frolic Media. You can find great romance content and other fantastic podcasts by visiting the Frolic site.

After the drama and literal fireworks of episode 6, this episode follows our two still-separate families through the aftermath. 

Lady Bridgerton and Lady Danbury work to move through the scandal with soft diplomacy, public appearances, and a surprise ball…

But it turns out that this brief period of peace is but the eye of the storm and another Bridgerton is about to face the consequences of her own decision.

Oh…and there’s fireworks in this episode too - wink, wink, nudge, nudge.

Featuring:

• A royally pissed-off royal

• Mean Girls, Regency-style

• Lady Featherington gonna Lady Featherington

• The cut direct

• Family dynamics

• Edwina apologists vs Edwina critics

• A family ball

• A meeting of equals

• A cliffhanger

Here are is the media we talk about in this episode:

• The Viscount Who Loved Me, a novel by Julia Quinn

• It’s in His Kiss, a novel by Julia Quinn

• The Bridgertons, a book series by Julia Quinn

• Bridgerton, a Netflix series

• News Corp, a media empire

• Pride and Prejudice, a novel by Jane Austen

This episode’s What Would Danbury Do letter comes from Ravenna, the titular character from Amalie Howard’s Rules for Heiresses. You can find the book and other information here. 

If you would like to send us a What Would Danbury Do, simply record a voice memo on your phone with the letter and send it to us at [email protected]. We would love to hear from you!

Our guest host this episode is the lovely and literary Diem Nguyen. You can hear more from Diem by following her on twitter for all her kpop opinions @diemnhunguyen. 

Don’t forget you can find us on twitter and facebook @bridgertonpod and instagram @wwddpod and join the conversation using the hashtag #WWDDpod. You can also leave us a rating or review on your favourite podcast provider. People who leave reviews have riz. 

This episode was recorded on the traditional and unceded land of the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people.

Our editor is Ben McKenzie of Splendid Chaps Productions. If you need production work completed, you can find them here: splendidchaps.com

What Would Danbury Do is a proud member of Frolic Media. You can find great romance content and other fantastic podcasts by visiting the Frolic site.

With Special Guest Host: Jenna Guillaume

Fireworks, peacocks, flowers, and food - every detail is in place for the wedding of the season…and a trap for Lady Whistledown. 

But Anthony and Edwina are approaching their nuptials from VERY different places and they aren’t the only ones for whom this wedding will be transformative. 

This episode is called the choice and friends, choices WILL be made.

[Please note: this was recorded before the Queen Charlotte miniseries was released, so the timeline is a bit off.]

Featuring:

• Crowns on pigs and other crucial wedding details

• #noregrets

• Revenge and necessity

• One unexpected character

• One very obviously missing character

• The complicated nature of sibling emotions

• The ferocity of sibling conflict

• Epic tantrums and family dynamics

Here are is the media we talk about in this episode:

• The Bridgertons, a book series by Julia Quinn

• Bridgerton, a Netflix series

• The Babysitters Club, a books series by Ann M Martin

• Queen Charlotte, a Netflix miniseries

• The O.C., a television series

• Pride and Prejudice, a book by Jane Austen

• Lockwood & Co, a Netflix series

• Bridgerton Recap: Faith or Fools, an article by Sandi Rankaduwa on Vulture

• Sign of the Times, a song by Harry Styles

• What About Us, a song by P!nk

• Fight Song, a song by Rachel Platten

This episode’s What Would Danbury Do letter comes from Lara Ramsey of Sapna Bhog’s Dare to be a Duchess. You can read more about Lara here. 

If you would like to send us a What Would Danbury Do, simply record a voice memo on your phone with the letter and send it to us at [email protected]. We would love to hear from you!

Our guest host this episode is the clever and effervescent Jenna Guillaume. You can hear more from Jenna by following her on twitter and other socials as @jennaguillaume or on her website www.jennaguillaume.com. Her books are available at all good stores!

Don’t forget you can find us on twitter and facebook @bridgertonpod and instagram @wwddpod and join the conversation using the hashtag #WWDDpod. You can also leave us a rating or review on your favourite podcast provider. People who leave reviews are guaranteed good dreams. 

This episode was recorded on the traditional and unceded land of the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people.

Our editor is Ben McKenzie of Splendid Chaps Productions. If you need production work completed, you can find them here: splendidchaps.com

What Would Danbury Do is a proud member of Frolic Media. You can find great romance content and other fantastic podcasts by visiting the Frolic site. 

In this very special episode, Adele, Kate and special guest host Maxine Beneba Clarke take on the whole Queen Charlotte mini-series in one wide-ranging conversation. There are arrivals and arguments, families and fortunes, a great experiment, dual timelines, blooming gardens, and the all-consuming important task of begetting an heir. The most ambitious Bridgerton-verse series yet, Queen Charlotte dives headfirst into intersectional storytelling. 

Books and other media we discuss:

- Queen Charlotte, the TV show

- Bridgerton, the TV show 

- Colleen Hoover, an author

- Shondaland, the production company

- Hamilton, the musical theatre production

- I will always love you, the song by Dolly Parton

- The West Wing, the TV show

- The Bridgertons, a book series by Julia Quinn

- Violet in Bloom, a short story by Julia Quinn

- Benny Hill, a TV series

- The Notebook, a film

- It’s the Sound of the Thing, a book of poetry for children by Maxine Beneba Clarke

You can find Maxine’s books in all good bookstores, and keep an eye on what she’s up to on twitter @slamup or on instagram @maxinebeneba. 

Don’t forget you can find us on twitter and facebook @bridgertonpod and instagram @wwddpod and join the conversation using the hashtag #WWDDpod. You can also leave us a rating or review on your preferred podcast provider. 

This episode was recorded on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people and edited by Ben McKenzie at Splendid Chaps Productions. You can find Ben here: www.splendidchaps.com

What Would Danbury Do is a proud member of Frolic Media. You can find great romance content and other fantastic podcasts by visiting the Frolic site.

Please note: this episode was recorded in 2022, and some details have since changed and/or been confirmed. For example, we now know that Bridgerton S3 is about Colin and Penelope.

In this bonus episode Adele interviews Elise and Priscilla, two psychologists who look at mental health representation in fiction on their podcast Novel Feelings. The discussion covers realism, escapism, the cycle of hero/anti-hero, charisma, women as consumers, grief, loss, personal growth, and Jonathan Bayley’s face.

Books and other media we discuss:

• Bridgerton, the TV show 

• Outlander, the TV show

• Outlander, the book series

• The Lost City, a film

• The Viscount Who Loved Me, a novel by Julia Quinn

• When He Was Wicked, a novel by Julia Quinn

• Pride and Prejudice, a novel by Jane Austen

• Pride and Prejudice, the 2005 film

• Heartstopper, the TV show

You can find Novel Feelings on twitter @novel_feelings or on their website novelfeelings.com. The Bridgerton content is here: 

• Read: novelfeelings.com/2021/03/28/novel-tropes-1-commitment-issues-ft-bridgerton-rants/

• Read: novelfeelings.com/2022/04/19/grief-trauma-and-patriarchy-the-true-banes-of-anthony-bridgertons-existence/

• Listen: Commitment Issues 

• Listen: Consent and Gender Norms in Bridgerton (with Pop Psychology 101)

Don’t forget you can find us on twitter and facebook @bridgertonpod and instagram @wwddpod and join the conversation using the hashtag #WWDDpod. You can also leave us a rating or review on your preferred podcast provider. 

This episode was recorded on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people and edited by Ben McKenzie at Splendid Chaps Productions. You can find Ben here: www.splendidchaps.com

What Would Danbury Do is a proud member of Frolic Media. You can find great romance content and other fantastic podcasts by visiting the Frolic site.

‘You are the bane of my existence and the object of all my desires’

We all get a little fluttery this episode, but really…can you blame us?

Featuring:

• Substitute nudity

• Women in context

• Privilege just all over the place

• Slumming it in Bloomsbury

• Jealousy, Ambition, and Class

• Lady Featherington fan club

• Bee gate, gun gate, library gate

• Don’t try on the ring. 

• White shirts; wet shirts

• Family mode activated

Here are is the media we talk about in this episode:

• Why Write, Noè’s podcast with writers

• Like Us, Noè’s podcast about living as a person of colour in Australia

• The Bridgertons, a book series by Julia Quinn

• Downton Abbey, the tv series

• Pride and Prejudice, a novel by Jane Austen

• Pride and Prejudice, the 2005 film

• My Best Friend’s Wedding, the 1997 film

• The Family Stone, the 2005 film

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the tv series

• Ted Lasso, the tv series

This episode’s What Would Danbury Do letter comes from Crystal Chen in Amy Lea’s Set On You. You can find more of Amy’s books here. 

If you would like to send us a What Would Danbury Do, simply record a voice memo on your phone with the letter and send it to us at [email protected]. We would love to hear from you!

Our guest host this episode is the wonderful, warm, witty Noè Harsel. You can hear more from Noè by following her on twitter or instagram @noeharsel, on her website www.noeharsel.com where you can read her writing and subscribe to her podcast.

Don’t forget you can find us on twitter and facebook @bridgertonpod and instagram @wwddpod and join the conversation using the hashtag #WWDDpod. You can also leave us a rating or review on your favourite podcast provider. People who leave reviews get a solid 8 hours of sleep every night. 

This episode was recorded on the traditional and unceded land of the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people.

Our editor is Ben McKenzie of Splendid Chaps Productions. If you need production work completed, you can find them here: splendidchaps.com
What Would Danbury Do is a proud member of Frolic Media. You can find great romance content and other fantastic podcasts by visiting the Frolic site.

In this bonus episode Kate interviews Sunny Singh, novelist, Professor of Creative Writing and Inclusion in the Arts at London Metropolitan University, co-creator of the Jhalak Prize, and expert on Hindi Cinema.

Sunny is a lively, knowledgeable, and generous guest, and our interview moves through the long and vibrant history of commercial film in South Asia, the political history and geography of Hindi cinema, and contemporary representation within the Global North.

We also discuss Kate, Edwina, and Mary, and how Bridgerton has been received by both Indian and South-Asian diaspora viewers. 

Books and other media we discuss:

• Bridgerton S1 & S2, the TV show 

• Raja Harishchandra, the 1913 film

• Vie et Passion du Christ (The Life and Passion of Jesus Christ), the 1903 film

• Lor Girl, the first sound film in the Persian language

• Bride and Prejudice, the 2004 film

• Orientalism, the 1978 book by Edward W. Said

• ‘In the time of plastic representation’, 2017 article by Kristen J. Warner

• Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham, the title song to the film of the same name

• Ghalib, a poet

• Bridgerton, the book series by Julia Quinn

• 100 Essential Indian Films, the 2018 book by Sangeeta Datta and Rohit K Dasgupta

• 100 Bollywood Films, the 2006 book by Rachel Dwyer

You can find Sunny on twitter @profsunnysingh.

Don’t forget you can find us on twitter and facebook @bridgertonpod and instagram @wwddpod and join the conversation using the hashtag #WWDDpod. You can also leave us a rating or review on your preferred podcast provider. 

This episode was recorded on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people and edited by Ben McKenzie at Splendid Chaps Productions. You can find Ben here: www.splendidchaps.com

What Would Danbury Do is a proud member of Frolic Media. You can find great romance content and other fantastic podcasts by visiting the Frolic site. 

Tensions at Aubrey Hall are HIGH, friends, and this episode is not going to make things any easier. After a few days of getting to know each other in quieter surrounds, the Bridgertons and Sharmas are about to be joined by the rest of the ton, as everyone takes to the country for Lady Bridgerton’s Heart and Flowers ball. 

There are certainly flowers and hearts, though the latter aren’t always beating in the right direction. We have not one but two surprise proposals leading to what will surely be bright futures - and one relationship that hasn’t quite been left in the past…

Featuring:

• Edwina’s really very questionable, quite unhinged, super nonsensical plan

• Main character energy: who wants it, who has it

• Practicalities: who wants them, who has them

• Privilege: who wants it, who has it

• Forgiveness: who wants it, who has it, who really doesn’t need it

• Attention: who wants it, who has it

• Money: who wants it, who has it

• Ethics: who wants them, who has them

• Control: who wants it, who has it

• Good advice: who gives it, who ignores it

Here are is the media we talk about in this episode:

• The Viscount Who Loved Me, a novel by Julia Quinn

• Bridgerton S1 & 2

• To Sir Phillip, With Love, a novel by Julia Quinn

• Miss Scarlet and the Duke, the TV series

This episode’s What Would Danbury Do letter comes from Ava, from Ana Huang’s Twisted Love. You can find more of Ana’s books here. 

If you would like to send us a What Would Danbury Do, simply record a voice memo on your phone with the letter and send it to us at [email protected]. We would love to hear from you!

Our guest host this episode is the very lovely, very charming, very funny Patrick Lenton. You can hear more from Patrick by following him on Twitter @PatrickLenton or subscribe to his fabulous newsletter here. 

Don’t forget you can find us on twitter and facebook @bridgertonpod and instagram @wwddpod and join the conversation using the hashtag #WWDDpod. You can also leave us a rating or review on your favourite podcast provider. People who leave reviews never sing off-key. 

This episode was recorded on the traditional and unceded land of the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people.

Our editor is Ben McKenzie of Splendid Chaps Productions. If you need production work completed, you can find them here: splendidchaps.com

What Would Danbury Do is a proud member of Frolic Media. You can find great romance content and other fantastic podcasts by visiting the Frolic site.

In this bonus episode Adele interviews Sarina Cevaal-Hewitt, the NEDCA Regional Director of Croquet Victoria. Sarina believes that croquet is a game for life, and is as interested in promoting the social benefits as the competitive ones. She shares her thoughts on the history of the game, the Bridgerton game play, and how croquet is ‘very nice people playing a very vicious game’.

Books and other media we discuss:

• Bridgerton, the TV show 

• Croquet Victoria

• The Viscount who Loved Me, a book by Julia Quinn

You can find Sarina and Croquet Victoria on twitter @croquetvictoria.

Don’t forget you can find us on twitter and facebook @bridgertonpod and instagram @wwddpod and join the conversation using the hashtag #WWDDpod. You can also leave us a rating or review on your preferred podcast provider. Leaving a review gives you a pep in your step!

This episode was recorded on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people and edited by Ben McKenzie at Splendid Chaps Productions.

What Would Danbury Do is a proud member of Frolic Media. You can find great romance content and other fantastic podcasts by visiting the Frolic site.

First, some housekeeping: we’re so very sorry that it’s taken us so long to get back to these episodes. We missed you, and we are so grateful that you’ve stayed with us. We will have a much more regular release schedule from this point forward. Thank you.

Second, unfortunately Rudi has to step back for the minute due to work commitments. For the remainder of this season we will be inviting special guest hosts, but no one can ever replace her, and we look forward to when she is able to join us again!

On with the show!

It’s all about family this episode, as the Sharmas join the Bridgertons at Aubrey Hall for a little get-to-know-you session before the rest of the ton arrive. And there is ripe opportunity to get to know each other. Who ever it was who said, an hour of play reveals more than a year’s conversation *must* have been talking about playing Pall Mall with the Bridgertons. 

Please note: this episode contains mention of traumatic birth, surgical intervention, and maternal death

Featuring:

• Really good dad advice

• Foreshadowing

• The bee

• Marrying for cheese

• Who is a Bridgerton?

• Narrative edging

• Like Anthony, but with a vagina

• Things you can and cannot say to eldest children

• Edwina = divisive

• Spare anxiety

• Breathing

Here are is the media we talk about in this episode:

• Pride and Prejudice, a novel by Jane Austen

• The Bridgerton books, a series by Julia Quinn

• The Viscount Who Loved Me, a novel by Julia Quinn

• Romancing Mr Bridgerton, a novel by Julia Quinn

This episode’s What Would Danbury Do letter comes from Neha, from Suleikha Snyder’s Big Bad Wolf. You can find out more about Suleikha’s books, and about Neha and Joe here. 

If you would like to send us a What Would Danbury Do, simply record a voice memo on your phone with the letter and send it to us at [email protected]. We would love to hear from you!

Don’t forget you can find us on twitter and facebook @bridgertonpod and instagram @wwddpod and join the conversation using the hashtag #WWDDpod. You can also leave us a rating or review on your favourite podcast provider. People who leave reviews receive 23% more sunshine than people who do not.  

This episode was recorded on the traditional and unceded land of the Wurundjeri and Boonwurrung people.

Our editor is Ben McKenzie of Splendid Chaps Productions. You can find them splendidchaps.com
What Would Danbury Do is a proud member of Frolic Media. You can find great romance content and other fantastic podcasts by visiting the Frolic site.