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The Scarlet Pimpernel

Baroness Emmuska Orczy

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The Rest Is History

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The Rest Is History

They compared the conspirators' actions to the adventurous style of the classic novel, calling it "something from the Scarlet Pimpernel."

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Thomas Ottey says in his book, it's like something from the Scarlet Pimpernel.

— Episode: 466. The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The...

Episode: 466. The Murder of Franz Ferdinand: The Conspiracy...

They compared the conspirators' actions to the adventurous style of the classic novel, calling it "something from the Scarlet Pimpernel."

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Thomas Ottey says in his book, it's like something from the Scarlet Pimpernel.

Episode: 130. Superheroes

The discussion highlighted the early 1905 novel The Scarlet Pimpernel as a precursor to modern superhero dual identities.

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the Scarlet Pimpernel set in the French Revolution he rescues French aristocrats from the guillotine but the interesting thing there and what makes him clearly an antecedent of later characters is that he has a dual identity

The Moth

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The Moth

Errol recounted that he had saved the title for his nineteenth birthday and read it straight through after his father's death, finding it both comforting and deeply moving. He described finishing it and crying himself to sleep while holding the book to his chest. The episode highlighted the novel as a meaningful personal memory rather than a formal recommendation.

Episode: On the Couch with a Good Book: Kashyap Raja and Er...

This was the final book the narrator saved from his father's pre-paid library fund, reading it straight through after realizing there was no gift box on his nineteenth birthday.

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I held on to one for the day of my nineteenth birthday, The Scarlet Pimpernel.

Episode: The Moth Radio Hour: Defining Moments

Errol described reading this novel straight through on his 19th birthday, a moment that brought him both comfort and tears after his father's passing.

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I held on to one for the day of my 19th birthday, the Scarlet Pimpernel. I came downstairs. There were the gifts. There was the cake. ... I read it straight through. ... When I finished it, I cried myself to sleep, holding it to my chest.

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

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Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

One of Henry's college friends attended a high school in Texas with an over-the-top theater program budget, and was in a production of The Scarlet Pimpernel.

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like pictures of her and the Scarlet Pimpernel with like a floor length gown

— Episode: "Die Zauberflöte (He Makes Us Sing)" (w/...

Episode: "Die Zauberflöte (He Makes Us Sing)" (w/ Henry Kop...

One of Henry's college friends attended a high school in Texas with an over-the-top theater program budget, and was in a production of The Scarlet Pimpernel.

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like pictures of her and the Scarlet Pimpernel with like a floor length gown

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