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What a Barb! A Polin Podcast

What a Barb! A Polin Podcast

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A fan podcast celebrating all things Penelope, Colin, and Bridgerton, complete with episode deep dives, book rereads, theories and speculation, and plenty of spiraling from a group of friends who anxiously awaited Season 3 and now are braced once more for the Wilderness Weeks.What a Barb! Art
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  • Episode 86 - What a Happy Ever After! [Polin Q&A]

    Episode 86 - What a Happy Ever After! [Polin Q&A]
    May 17 2026
    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. * Veg's Recommendation for Bath Tours: https://www.fredmawertours.co.uk/Need help editing a podcast? We highly recommend this editor.Polin Fanfic RecommendationsRuin by Sea_DragonflyMaking It Up As We Go Along by LazyTuesdayMorningYo Ho Ho, Off to the Sea We Go! by Lady Ticklebothamscraped up off the pavement by missparkerU Up? by Stillpink and DollypopDance Card by Katie_500 & StillpinkThe Trouble with Teatime by ninjamandaA Practical Romance by KatofKanalsone man’s bungled nuptials are another man’s dot dot dot by Requited_Fantasies (WIP/Unfinished)Thus Will Shine the Dawn by bluemountainbayouFill of Love (Series) by logogramRemembering Mrs. Bridgerton by StillpinkIf Not Thousands by logogramturn around, bright eyes by ThreeFundamentalTruths (WIP/Unfinished)Odd Encounter by StarsOverSunraysAuthors Referenced in GeneralSea_DragonflyLazyTuesdayMorningStillpinkKatofKanalsMellieMaybeNon-Polin Fics Referenced Ceramic by quietcactus (Debling/Cressida)Podcasts ReferenceFics and Recs – A Fanfiction Podcast36 Questions – The Podcast MusicalLechi's Songs for PolinPerfect by Ed SheeranThe Only One by James Blunt Feels Like This by Maisie PetersYou & Me by James TW Fall Into Me by Forrest BlakkKiss Me by Dermot Kennedy Obvs’ Songs for PolinFalling Slowly by Steve Kazee, Cristin Milioti and the Once Ensemble I, Carrion (Icarian) by HozierThere is a Light That Never Goes Out by The SmithsAttention by Charlie PuthForever Ago by WoodlockFollow UsPatreonInstagram⁠⁠TikTok⁠YouTube
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    2 hrs and 33 mins
  • Episode 85 - What a Swishy Dress! [S5 Announcement Reaction]

    Episode 85 - What a Swishy Dress! [S5 Announcement Reaction]
    Apr 10 2026

    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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    1 hr and 3 mins
  • Episode 84 - What a Time to Be Alive! [S4 E7 & E8 Reaction]

    Episode 84 - What a Time to Be Alive! [S4 E7 & E8 Reaction]
    Apr 4 2026

    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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    1 hr and 34 mins
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