The real Mitford Sisters - Letters 6

🔴🐏 Red Sheep vs. Black Shirt ⚫👕& Sisterly Showdowns: The Mitford Letters (1965–1975) 🤼‍♀️

In this sixth and last installment, we follow the sisters as they reflect on their lives, their relations to their mother or their old lovers, write memoirs or have biographies and plays written about them, and how they reunite and overcome even their harshest differences over the deathbed of the first of them to pass away. Expect a lot of controversy again (a rumour that Hitler talked about marrying Unity) as well as the appearance of old political faces (Winston) and new ones we haven't heard in connection with the Mitfords - so far!

As ever, the Mitfords are related to everything happening in the 20th century, including ageing actors turned Presidents and scientists turned Prime Minister!

Chapters: 

0:00:00 Episode Teaser 

0:00:32 Intro & Recap

0:03:18 Decca, Reagan, the Repubs & Co.

0:06:31 “The poor old soul” - unearthing old letters

0:09:23 Nancy’s illness & the other sisters

0:17:08 Decca & Diana meet after 33 years

0:21:50 Unity’s biography & marrying Hitler

0:33:42 A Mitford TV show & the Mitfords on stage 

0:38:10 The sisters, Muv & Luv (Love),  

0:41:49 Decca and the two personas of Muv

0:47:47 The return of the Hamish (Nancy mocking)

0:53:44 “Thank goodness it’s over” (Nancy died)

0:58:35 Diana & Decca on Nancy’s death

1:04:47 The not so agricultural Maggie Thatcher

1:15:10 Wrap & Outlook (Bonus Episodes!!)

For everyone who wants to dive deeper into the letters, you can find out more about “The Book” here “Letters between Six Letters”

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