Every Lady Needs a Hobby

Every Lady Needs a Hobby


Bonus: Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears (Part 1)(!)

September 27, 2020

At long last, we tackle THE MISS FISHER MOVIE. In true Every Lady Needs a Hobby fashion, this episode includes a scene-by-scene recap of the first half of the movie, with exactly the right amount of digression into hastily Googled facts, tangential personal anecdotes, and discussion of how plausible Phryne's madcap adventures are (not very, but we love every second). We're a bit out of practice, but we still manage to fit in multiple Harry Potter and Downton Abbey references, and come up with several spin off ideas (Shirin Abbas: Justice in Palestine, anyone?).


Links to some fun facts we discovered in our research for this episode:



  1. How to dance the Black Bottom (as demonstrated by some folks from Frankie Drake Mysteries which may need to be our next show): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_iA57YoEoI
  2. Obituary of the Maharaja of Alwar (that's right, Phryne's husband IRL): https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/maltribune19370521-1.2.90
  3. Bees in the desert: http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8751000/8751889.stm#:~:text=However%2C%20honeybees%20do%20survive%20in,and%20to%20pollinate%20oasis%20plants.