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Podcast: PastMaster: Reshaping History
Episode: Pheasants & Phlatulence. The best drama. Period. (ft Kim and Alice from Fetch the Smelling Salts)
Description: Rural Derbyshire, 1813. The Regency social season is in full swing, and Alice Nagle and Kimberly Marsh from Fetch the Smelling Salts podcast have arrived as the pushiest aunts in English literature. Their mission: secure advantageous marriages for their nieces in a world where one wrong curtsy could destroy a family's reputation forever.
Alice and Kim take on the roles of rival matriarchs navigating Regency England's marriage market, where the real power lies not with the young lovers but with the scheming elder generation pulling strings behind the scenes. The question isn't whether love will triumph — it's which au...