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Stephen Fry's Victorian Secrets
- By: Stephen Fry, John Woolf, Nick Baker
- Audible Original Podcast
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Oct 18 201844 mins
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Oct 18 201837 mins
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- Noelle
- 09-09-21
So enjoyable
And informative. A must listen for Victorian Era history buffs!!
Start at the first episode and just let it play..
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- A. Watman
- 12-16-20
This is fascinating and fun!
I love this podcast! It’s really interesting, and something different from most of the history related podcasts. We have this view of the Victorians as being these stuffy, sexually repressed people, but the stories here make me wonder how that perspective came about.
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- Jenny
- 03-05-21
Fun, enlightening, and well narrated
I was excited to see Stephen Fry narrating something new because I’ve liked everything he has read aloud. The pacing of this series was engaging, making each episode seem to quickly go by. The added theatrics (music, additional voice actors, sound effects) were fun, and they were used in the right quantities to spice up the podcast without being annoying. The information was interesting and well delivered. I often shared the details I’d learned from the podcast with friends and family, and they were entertained and interested in the bits of new knowledge about the era. Overall, this was fun, entertaining, engaging, and quick.
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- Callandra
- 10-14-21
excellent, as to be expected from Fry
As per usual, Stephen Fry's offerings were entertaining and informative. Looking forward to listening to the follow-up Edwardian series.
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- B. Wolfe
- 08-27-21
Stephen Fry is as wonderful as always
I have mixed feelings about this series. It’s maybe 1/3 entertainingly told social history and 2/3 more doubtfully motivated playing into the kind of prurient gutter and freakshow interests it’s partly describing. That might’ve been exactly the intention — some of the best British humour mixes the high and the low in this way — so maybe it’s not exactly a criticism. Just know what you’re getting.
Amid worthwhile historical details and observations, expect to spend a lot of time with public hangings. changing sexual mores and practices. female serial killers and bodily functions. It’s all decently interesting and well presented, it just edges into being tabloid-y in its taste and emphasis — a contrast to Fry’s exquisite English.
I found the “Edwardian Secrets” series that follows more successful and balanced, with a greater depth of social history, humanity and compassion woven into still-somewhat-similar sorts of stories.
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- AE
- 10-24-21
love it
excellent story and well narrated. truly enjoyable, highly recommend. please note: not for children.
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- Barbara Lunz
- 11-09-20
Entertaining and Intriguing
This 12 episode podcast showed the decadence, secretive, intriguing, and interesting world during the Victorian age. Stephen Fry was very entertaining in his narration of this series. I loved it!
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- D.J. Hall
- 04-15-22
Absolutely brilliant
A well written and performed dabbling look into the Victorian age of scandalous happenings and hedonism.
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- osness
- 05-17-22
Great informative podcast.
This was a very enjoyable podcast with fun historical tidbits. The narrator has a lovely voice.
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- M. Brusa
- 09-06-22
Well researched And masterfully narrated
Once you obviate the music and its distracting volume (hint to producers) this is a fantastic listen.
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