Mark Blankenship returns to discuss TWO eminently English scandals from the middle of the last century. Mark brought Amazon's three-part take on the Jeremy Thorpe "business," A Very English Scandal, up for discussion, and we contemplated -- as Toby and I did last week -- how outlawing human behavior turns a whole bunch of humans into criminals, and creates more problems than it solves. We also wondered what English class-division issues we might have missed as Yanks, talked about the gorgeously subtle performances in the series, and giggled at the nicknames of the posh set ("Boofy"!).
Later, we talked about a documentary show from 1989 that covered not just the Profumo affair but the 1989 film about it, Scandal, that created a couple scandals of its own. What exactly was the crime there? Because we have a feeling it's more how people talked about Christine Keeler than any kind of felonious infidelity or Cold-War honey-trapping. It's a veddy veddy veddy good day to play croquet in four-inch pumps on The Blotter Presents, Episode 084.
SHOW NOTES
Special Guest: Mark Blankenship.
Closing Statements
155: Most Wanted and While The City Sleeps
154: Surviving Jeffrey Epstein and The Con
Wondery Presents Even The Rich: The House of Versace
153: Ann Rule's Sleeping With Danger and The Last Narc
152: Fear City: New York vs. The Mafia and The Perfect Murder S05E09
151: The Business Of Drugs and Summer Of Sam
150: Athlete A and American Greed S13.E06
149: I'll Be Gone In The Dark and Murder Made Me Famous
148: Miracle Fishing and Exhibit A
147: Belly Of The Beast, Coded Bias, and the Yasmin Neal interview
146: Dirty John: The Betty Broderick Story and Woman On Trial: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story
145: Quiz and No Stone Unturned
Blotter Brief 43: Reed Redmond on Mobbed Up
144: Fake Heiress and Unsolved Mysteries S03.E10
143: A Confession and Let Him Have It
142: Stolen Babies and The Phoebe Judge Interview
141: Bad Education and Frontline's "Terror In Little Saigon"
140: True History Of The Kelly Gang and Catch & Kill
138: A Thread Of Deceit: The Hart Family Tragedy and American Animals
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