The Way They Were

The Way They Were


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25: Lou Conran: Fern Britton & Phil Vickery
June 09, 2022

This week's couple provided a rather cryptic conundrum for our Chantal, which is no surprise, given that these guys were once the golden couple of British daytime TV, but even if, like Chantal...

24: Holly Burn: Elizabeth Taylor & Richard Burton
June 02, 2022

They couldn't live together, yet they couldn't live apart, which sounds absolutely exhausting, but Chantal and Grainne are cock-a-hoop to be able to delve into the on again, off again, on again, off a

23: Taylor Glenn: Uma Thurman & Ethan Hawke
May 26, 2022

This week's lost love lament comes from a lady who is no stranger to a podcast, it's one third of Drunk Women Solving Crime and screenwriter, Taylor Glenn, who still isn't over a 90s romance which com

22: Stephen Leng: Madonna & Guy Richie
May 19, 2022

This episode she's a couple SO iconic that Chantal guessed their identity so fast, it was practically telepathy.... or the fact that Grainne's opening clue contained 'material girl and lock, stock'...

21: Jackie Adedeji: Billie Piper & Chris Evans
May 12, 2022

Although a series of technical hiccoughs and a car accident lead the team to refer to this as the 'cursed' episode, this is absolutely NO reflection on our amazing guest and the epic couple they picke

20: Ayesha Hazarika: Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie
May 05, 2022

There's no other way to describe this week's couple AND guest but ICONIC! Comedian and political commentator Ayesha Hazarika immerses herself and hosts Grainne and Chantal in the early noughties...

19: Ed Byrne: Prince & Sheila E.
April 28, 2022

Joining Grainne and Chantal for this week's look at celebrity lost loves is comedian Ed Byrne, who has much to say about 80s music power couple Sheila E. and Prince!

18: Ria Lina: Cleopatra & Julius Ceasar
April 21, 2022

This week we're talking civil wars, complex love triangles, winged eyeliner and weird welcome gifts. We're travelling back in time, further than we ever have on this podcast, as this week's couple got

17: Pippa Evans: Kenneth Branagh & Emma Thompson
April 14, 2022

This week Grinne and Chantal immerse themselves in the life and romances of the luvvies who dominated the world of film in the 1990s, traversing from one EM Forster adaptation to another, and King an

16: Sam Preston: Lisa Marie Presley & Nicholas Cage
April 07, 2022

Although this week's amazing guest, singer, songwriter Sam Preston has brought with him an epic celebrity past couple to analyze in the form of Lisa Marie Presley & Nicholas Cage...