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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 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]
    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
  • The Weekly Crumb #11 - What a Pleasing, Stimulating, Thrilling Kind of Torment! [S5 Lead Speculation]
    Mar 23 2026

    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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    15 mins
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