0. Welcome to The Romance of It All!

Welcome to The Romance of It All! If you’re the type of person who obsesses over the romance in every book, movie, or TV show — no matter whether it’s the A-plot or a tiny, tiny subplot — then this is the podcast for you.

Join us (best friends Sian and Katie!) this week as we chat about the media that made us romance fans. Did you start with fantasy, or perhaps historical fiction? Did you also want to be Evie from The Mummy when you grew up?

As well as this, we dive into our favourite tropes and, of course, what gives us the ick. AKA, rogues make better husbands than billionaires. Are you Team Enemies to Lovers or Team Friends to Lovers? One is CLEARLY sexier than the other…

Future episodes will be a read- or watch-along and deep dive. And we’ve already got so much to look forward to over the coming weeks and months, from cosy movies like Practical Magic 2 to the utterly bizarre Wicker.

We’ll be back next week with One Night Only (2026). If you’ve got a suggestion, please message us @RomanceofItAll on Instagram or email [email protected]. We can’t wait to start raving about romance with you!

You can also find us @Celtic_Sian and @Corsets_and_Castles, and listen to Siân’s Celtic Myths and Legends Podcast.

Books mentioned:

• The Wicker Husband by Ursula Wills-Jones
• A Secret Countess by Eva Ibbotson
• Point Horror
• Escape by June Oldham
• The Lady in the Tower by Marie Louise Jensen
• The Wild Hunt by Elizabeth Chadwick
• The Mabinogion
• The Running Vixen by Elizabeth Chadwick
• The Leopard Unleashed by Elizabeth Chadwick
• Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier
• Flirty Rotten Scoundrels by Alexandra Vasti
• The Proposition by Judith Ivory
• Devil in Winter by Lisa Kleypas
• Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
• The Bloody Chamber and Other Short Stories by Angela Carter
• In Love with Love by Ella Risbridger
• The Other Bennet Sister by Janice Hadlow
• Dearly Beloathed by Brigette Knightley
• These Summer Storms by Sarah MacLean
• The Very Definition of Love by Sophia Benoit
• Wench by Erynne Rivers

Movies mentioned:

• Blade Runner (1982)
• When Harry Met Sally (1989)
• Man Up (2015)
• Wicker (2026)
• A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
• The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
• Me Before You (2016)
• Pretty Woman (1990)
• The Mummy (1999)
• Romancing the Stone (1984)
• The Mask of Zorro (1998)
• Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)
• The Phantom of the Opera (2004)
• Crimson Peak (2015)
• Voicemails for Isabelle (2026)
• A Knight’s Tale (2001)
• Pride and Prejudice (2005)
• Emma. (2020)
• Practical Magic 2 (2026)
• Sense and Sensibility (2026)
• Verity (2026)
• Werwulf (2026)

TV shows mentioned:

• The Tudors (2007-2010)
• The Spanish Princess (2019-2020)
• The White Queen (2013)
• Poldark (2015-2019)
• Outlander (2014-2026)
• Jane Eyre (2006)
• Pride and Prejudice (1995)
• The Other Bennet Sister (2026)
• Blood of My Blood (2025-)
• Pluribus (2025-)

Our theme music is by ELFL, via Epidemic Sound. We record, edit, and host on Alitu.