{"podcast":{"title":"Crushed by Margaret Cabourn-Smith","slug":"crushed-by-margaret-cabourn-smith-5248482","podcast_index_feed_id":5248482,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/AUDD5119698848","website_url":"https://crushedbymcs.substack.com/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/b300dd14-14ec-11ee-a65b-939d0e8a5d8c/image/Draft_covers-3.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Crushed by Margaret Cabourn-Smith","episode_count":114,"summary":"Celebrating crushes and unrequited loves in all their intense and embarrassing glory. Margaret Cabourn-Smith chats to funny people like Sindhu Vee, Sarah Millican and Sue Perkins about the crushes they can't forget.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-03T14:20:42.989396+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crushed-by-margaret-cabourn-smith-5248482"},"episode":{"title":"100. Dolly Interviews MCS","slug":"100-dolly-interviews-mcs","published_at":"2026-01-30T06:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crushed-by-margaret-cabourn-smith-5248482/100-dolly-interviews-mcs","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crushed-by-margaret-cabourn-smith-5248482","url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/AUDD4084445767.mp3?updated=1769625476","audio_url":"https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/AUDD4084445767.mp3?updated=1769625476","summary":"Welcome to the 100th BLOODY EPISODE of Crushed by Margaret Cabourn-Smith; the number one* podcast about unrequited love. Today's episode features the glorious Crushed first guest, legendary writer and reformed podcaster DOLLY ALDERTON interviewing me about crushes. It was a dream come true. Thanks for downloading and supporting us. You're my people. I hope you'll allow me to feel pretty chuffed that we've got this far without breaking. Come and find us... On ⁠⁠email⁠⁠, where you can send us anecdotes, adoration and arguments. Please send us favourite moments from the podcast as well as your celebrity crushes. Drop us a 5 star review on the podcast app... On ⁠⁠Substack⁠⁠ where if you subscribe, you’ll have access to the podcast ad-free and exclusive blogs as well as a lot of gushy love from me. On ⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠ which is a hotchpotch of personal and work related content but the place I'm most at home on the socials these days. And if you want to do nothing but simply chuck me £4 to buy myself some sellotape and a copy of the Radio Times to make a collage, head for ko-fi.com/crushedbymcs As ever thank you to my producer Laura who is both fun and reliable which is an awesome combo. And here is the brilliant Joni Mitchell quote I mentioned about the beauty of long-term relationships: I recently read an article in Esquire magazine called ‘The End of Sex,’ that said something that struck me as very true. It said: “If you want endless repetition, see a lot of different people. If you want infinite variety, stay with one.” What happens when you date is you run all your best moves and tell all your best stories — and in a way, that routine is a method for falling in love with yourself over and over. You can’t do that with a longtime mate because he knows all that old material. W…","meta_description":"Welcome to the 100th BLOODY EPISODE of Crushed by Margaret Cabourn-Smith; the number one* podcast about unrequited love. Today's episode features the glor…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":4512,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/crushed-by-margaret-cabourn-smith-5248482/episodes/100-dolly-interviews-mcs/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/crushed-by-margaret-cabourn-smith-5248482/100-dolly-interviews-mcs.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}