The Secrets of Gay London | Ep.109 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast
03/16/25 • 56 min
Not everyone enjoyed Phil’s parody of Meghan Markle’s new Netflix show last week. Are we all being too cruel about her?
Mok O’Keeffe thinks we might be. This week he joins Phil in another co-hosted episode and talks about his feelings for Meghan, Harry and the deep divisions at the heart of the royal family.
Then Mok’s friend Peter Parker comes onto the show to discuss his two part history of gay life in Britain during the 20th Century, focussing on the years where gay love was illegal but a debate was growing about rights, fairness and legalisation.
Peter shares some of the extraordinary stories he has unearthed - some shocking, some funny, some terribly sad - and many clearly scandalous!
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Not everyone enjoyed Phil’s parody of Meghan Markle’s new Netflix show last week. Are we all being too cruel about her?
Mok O’Keeffe thinks we might be. This week he joins Phil in another co-hosted episode and talks about his feelings for Meghan, Harry and the deep divisions at the heart of the royal family.
Then Mok’s friend Peter Parker comes onto the show to discuss his two part history of gay life in Britain during the 20th Century, focussing on the years where gay love was illegal but a debate was growing about rights, fairness and legalisation.
Peter shares some of the extraordinary stories he has unearthed - some shocking, some funny, some terribly sad - and many clearly scandalous!
You can buy Peter's book here, along with thousands of others, in our own bookshop...
https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/some-men-in-london-queer-life-1945-1959-peter-parker/7598364?aid=12054&ean=9780241370605&
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The Real Ruth Ellis Story | Ep.108 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast
What's this? Meghan Markle in Phil's Australian Bar?
Then Carol Ann Lee joins Phil to discuss her incredible book on Ruth Ellis, on which the new international TV drama is based and in which Ruth is played impeccably by the British-American Actress Lucy Boynton.
A CRUEL LOVE: The Ruth Ellis Story
(Official ITV Trailer)...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijla27WmAA0
As the last women to be executed in British history - for a crime many then and now believe had extenuating circumstances - Ellis has long been portrayed as a ‘woman scorned’. Carol’s book reveals the full picture of a remarkable life, and is packed with fresh details about her background, her relationships and the real reason she shot her abusive partner David Blakely.
You can buy Carol's book here...
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Imperial Revelations - with Sathnam Sanghera | Ep.110 | The Scandal Mongers Podcast
Phil has been thinking a lot about the British Empire recently, and it is a major theme of his upcoming new book about 1945. And so he was delighted to speak with best-selling writer Sathnam Sanghera.
Sathnam has written extensively on how the empire shaped modern Britain - and much of the ret of the world too, upending the conventional view of imperial history. For example, he tells Phil that the story of the humble rubber tyre is also the story of the British in Malaya - and Kew Gardens!
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And you can pre order Phil’s new book here ...
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