Keeping Up Appearances: The Luxury Podcast

Welcome to Keeping Up Appearances: The Luxury Podcast, the podcast all about Keeping Up Appearances and the world of Hyacinth Bucket. Join William Hanson and Jonathan Vernon-Smith in this teaser episode as they take you through the 10 things they love - and they think you'll love - about the sitcom's leading light, Hyacinth Bucket.

William Hanson and Jonathan Vernon-Smith guide you through the very first episode of the hit BBC sitcom Keeping Up Appearances. They discuss the introduction to Hyacinth Bucket (pronounced bouquet), the accident's their own father's have been involved in and they analyse the downfall of the humble landline telephone. To watch-along with William and Jonathan, make sure you watch the first episode of the first series of Keeping Up Appearances before listening to this podcast.

Hyacinth Bucket, William Hanson and Jonathan Vernon-Smith welcome the new vicar for tea and light refreshments in the second episode of the sitcom and podcast.  Jonathan’s vicar is quite different from Hyacinth’s by the sound of it and William’s caught between horror and hysterics at Jonathan’s childhood anecdotes about peep-toe sling-backs. To watch-along with William and Jonathan, make sure you watch the second episode of the first series of Keeping Up Appearances before listening.

Hyacinth and Richard visit a stately home - or, as co-host William Hanson insists ‘an historic house’.  The third episode of the show has the lady of the house try to rub shoulders with the aristocracy, but - as ever - coming unstuck.  During our presenter’s discussion of the third episode, Jonathan Vernon-Smith learns the crucial difference between a GIF and a meme.  To watch-along with us, make sure you watch the third episode of the first series of Keeping Up Appearances before listening.

It’s Hyacinth and Elizabeth’s day in the charity shop for the fourth episode of the first series of Keeping Up Appearances.  But while Hyacinth is trying to tackle Councillor Mrs Nugent (and a garden wall) Elizabeth seems distracted about sex. William Hanson and Jonathan Vernon-Smith discuss a tender moment between Hyacinth and husband Richard and they share their own charity shop adventures. To watch-along with William Hanson and Jonathan Vernon-Smith, make sure you watch the fourth episode of the first series of Keeping Up Appearances before listening.

Hyacinth’s sister Daisy decides bagging Angelina Jolie’s first husband may just get her Onslow’s attention - but does it work?  William Hanson and Jonathan Vernon-Smith lament for Hyacinth at the poor treatment she faces by her peers and question the plot of an episode that doesn't always seem to make a whole lick of sense.  To join in with the fun listen to this podcast after watching the corresponding episode of the first series of Keeping Up Appearances.

In the final episode of the first series of Keeping Up Appearances, Hyacinth and Richard attend the baptism of Daisy and Onslow’s granddaughter while emerging from a hippy caravanette.  William inadvertently reveals his parents’ household security measures and Jonathan explains the fascinating ins and outs of how cash cards once worked.  To watch-along with William and Jonathan, make sure you watch the sixth episode of the first series of Keeping Up Appearances before listening to this podcast.

The Luxury Podcast returns for Series 2 of Keeping Up Appearances, as William Hanson and Jonathan Vernon-Smith continue their journey through the hit 90s BBC sitcom. In the words of JVS, the second spell of episodes is when this series really starts 'cooking on gas', and it's no different for the podcast. Hyacinth Bucket is shocked to find a strange man outside Elizabeth's door which begins a journey of discovery for the true identity of this mystery male. And it's Jonathan who has his own tales of shocking neighbours, stories that if Hyacinth were to hear them would really send her into a tizz!

Hyacinth and Richard prepare to chauffeur the sister of someone who married a Baronet, prompting William Hanson to ask if anyone knows what a Baronet is and Jonathan Vernon-Smith to ask if anyone cares. Well, Hyacinth cares. She and her long-suffering husband spring into action and fire up the Rover 216 to collect the elderly Mrs Fortescue, but - as ever - things don't quite go to plan.