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Free Thinking: Queen Charlotte, fashion and music

Queen Charlotte, fashion and music

BBC Radio 4 - Free Thinking, Queen Charlotte, fashion and music

Shahidha Bari and guests on a Royal Collection exhibition and the new Bridgerton spin-off.

Soprano Elizabeth Linley was a Georgian singing star, and Queen Charlotte played the harpsichord and keenly followed musical fashion. Shahidha Bari hears about new research.

Music making, fashion and behaviour at court in the Georgian period are the focus of new research by Sophie Coulombeau, Mary-Jannet Leith and Lizzy Buckle. As Bridgerton launches a spin-off series about Queen Charlotte and an exhibition opens at the Queen's Gallery at Buckingham Palace called Style and Society, Shahidha Bari hosts a discussion about soirées, soprano stardom and sexual scandals. 

Producer: Julian Siddle 

A Georgian inspired episode of Radio 3's weekly curation of Words and Music is available on BBC Sounds until May 25th 2023

You can find other conversations about Georgian history on BBC Sounds and Free Thinking and available as the Arts and Ideas podcast  
Bridgerton and Georgian Entertainment heard from Brianna Robertson-Kirkland, Sophie Coulombeau, Ian Kelly and Hannah Greig https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0015v3c 

Harlots and 18th-century working women https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000rdfz

Samuel Johnson's Circle https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000vq3w

The Value of Gossip https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000fwfb

18th-century crime and punishment https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b040hysp

Style & Society: Dressing the Georgians runs at the Queen's Gallery until October 8th 

Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story launches on May 4th on Netflix

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