Episode 29 - To Play The King

Apr 5, 2021

In this installment, I welcome Kit back to the show, to continue our deep dive on the BBC House of Cards series, with the middle part of the trilogy To Play The King (1993, BBC).

 

Also featuring chat about Trump, The Justice League... and, if you stick around til after the credits... some UK politics. Who are we kidding... politics throughout.

 

SPOILERS for House Of Cards and To Play The King. We make minor veiled references to The Final Cut, but spoiler-free we hope, as we'll be back for that. If you like this, I'd definitely recommend you check out Episode 21, where we both talk about House of Cards (1990) the first part of the trilogy, in equal depth. In fact, probably listen to that first, really.

 

0.00 Preamble and chat

0.34 The British Monarchy and us/To Play The King in general

1.02 Sarah/Elizabeth/Stamper

1.45 Mycroft/Chloe/The King/wrap-up

2.47 Epilogue

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Kit Power lives in Milton Keynes and writes horror and dark crime fiction, with occasional forays into dystopian science fiction. His fiction work includes a novel, ‘GodBomb!’, and a novella collection ‘Breaking Point’, two short story collections (‘A Warning About Your Future Enslavement That You Will Dismiss As A Collection Of Short Fiction And Essays By Kit Power’ and ‘Voices’) and novellas ‘The Finite’ and ‘A Song For The End’. He also writes non-fiction (https://www.gingernutsofhorror.com/my-life-in-horror.html with Volume 1 also available in book format) and has a limited hardback available on the subject of Ken Russell’s movie Tommy. In his increasingly inaccurately labelled spare time, he podcasts - on his own show, Watching Robocop With Kit Power, What The Hell Is Wrong With Us? with George Lea, and a Patreon exclusive show on the Sherlock Holmes canon with the legendary Jack Graham. For weekly early access to his fiction, non-fiction, and podcasting work, visit www.patreon.com/kitpower.

All original intro, outro and other incidental music recorded and made available by kind permission of Richard Gilbert.

NOTES

If you want a bit more Richardson reading Machiavelli (and who wouldn't?), here's the YouTube excerpt we made use of - you can probably get the whole audiobook somewhere online. Oh, and last episode, we highlighted the Grey Poupon mustard ad from the 90s... there's also this.