It's A Royal Knockout (Part 3)
4/21/202636 min
Episode 3:
Welcome back to part 3 of the story of the PR disaster that was ‘It’s a Royal Knockout’....
Coming up in this episode - we discuss the fall-out of the event one reviewer called;
“the single most damaging attack on the royal family since Cromwell…”
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First 90 secondsJosh Widdicombe· Host0:00
[marching band music] Welcome back to part three of the story of the PR disaster that was It's a Royal Knockout. Coming up in this episode, we discuss the fallout of the event one reviewer called, "The single most damaging attack on the royal family since Cromwell." [marching band music] You've got the dead-eyed look of someone who's just watched, uh, It's a- The thousand-yard stare [laughs] ... the thousand-yard stare. You've either, since the last episode, watched It's a Royal Knockout or been to Vietnam in 1967.
Matthew Crosby· Host0:37
[laughs] I watched It's a Knockout, and then I had to watch all four episodes of Adolescence back to back- [laughs] ... just to calm myself down. [laughs] Just to bring my mood back up.
Josh Widdicombe· Host0:48
[laughs] Um, what I think is interesting about it is it's the eternal battle that the royal family have been under maybe in the last, since television, as to how much of themselves to give.
Matthew Crosby· Host1:04
Yes.
Josh Widdicombe· Host1:05
And so there's that. There's the whole William and Harry, and there's the Princess Diana and Charles interviews, and this all started really with this... So 1969, there was a documentary which we've kind of briefly discussed that Prince Edward was five in.
Matthew Crosby· Host1:21
Yes.
Josh Widdicombe· Host1:22
It was shown on BBC and ITV. It's the cla- you know, when there's... a bit like a big England game at the World Cup.
Matthew Crosby· Host1:27
It's the only thing that can, can unite the channels.
Josh Widdicombe· Host1:29
The