Ep 13 - Regency Buck

We’re back! After a year-long lockdown hiatus, we’re here to talk about Regency Buck...

High-handed Lord Worth meets headstrong Judith and sparks fly. Young Peregrine comes perilously close to death on multiple occasions, but eventually just discovers a love of yachts.

Along the way we meet lecherous royals, boxers and Beau Brummell himself. And then we find ourselves wishing Heyer hadn’t gone into quite such graphic detail on cock-fighting.

It’s good to be back.

‘It is the only thing I know of to his advantage,’ Judith said. ‘I will admit him to be an excellent whip. But for the rest I find him a mere fop, a creature of affectations, tricked out in modish clothes, thinking snuff to be of more moment than events of real importance.

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