Tom Mitford

Today's episode profiles a very bad bisexual: the lawyer, soldier and society favourite, Tom Mitford. But the idea of featuring Tom is partly a ruse. This will be not just a profile of Tom himself, but of his whole family, and especially his six siblings, the famed Mitford Sisters, whose intense, often conflicting relationships have become something of an obsession for English culture - and not always a very healthy one. They embody so much about the English elite: eccentric, vicious, often listless and desperately sad. We also promise to you, as has become a theme of the podcast, some DBNs - Disturbingly British Names. And an indescribable cover of Right Said Fred by Jessica Mitford and Dr. Maya Angelou, on both voice and kazoo.

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SOURCES:

Lovell, Mary S. The Mitford Girls: The Biography of an Extraordinary Family. New edition. Abacus, 2002.

 

Mitford, Jessica. Hons and Rebels. New York Review Books Classics. New York: New York Review Books, 2004.

 

Mitford, Nancy. The Pursuit of Love. First Edition. New York: Vintage, 2010.

 

Mitford, Nancy. Love in a Cold Climate. 1st edition. Vintage, 2010.

 

Mosley, Charlotte, ed. The Mitfords: Letters between Six Sisters. UK ed. edition. Fourth Estate, 2012.

 

Thompson, Laura. The Six: The Lives of the Mitford Sisters. St. Martin’s Press, 2016.

 

Our intro music is Arpeggia Colorix by Yann Terrien. Our outro music is by DJ Michaeloswell Graphicdesigner.