Holiday Rerun - Nanny Piggins and the Last Cake of the Romanovs

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Nanny Piggins confesses she ate the last cake of the Romanovs from a museum.

R.A. Spratt introduces the episode by explaining this story's personal significance, as it originated from a tale she told her young daughter years ago. The story begins with Nanny Piggins, Boris, and the children at the Russian embassy, bored while waiting for Boris's passport renewal. The grumpy passport clerk takes a bad photo of Boris, upsetting him. Nanny Piggins is then identified as a wanted criminal from a notice board, leading to a chase where Boris distracts guards by crying, allowing their escape. Back home, Nanny Piggins reveals she ate the last cake of the Romanovs, a priceless chocolate cake from the Hermitage Museum, explaining why she is wanted in Russia. Russian agents surround the house, and Nanny Piggins uses a rocket ejection system to blast through the roof, but she falls back down and lands in a fish pond. The agents arrest her, but it turns out they want her for publishing a photo of the Russian president in his underwear, not for eating the cake. Nanny Piggins deduces her sister Beatrice, a paparazzi, is disguised as the passport clerk. They wrestle, then collaborate to take a compromising photo of Nanny Piggins eating a salad sandwich for a bounty. The story ends with Nanny Piggins justifying the photo as unbelievable to her supporters. Spratt concludes with a call to support the podcast by buying her books.

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A rainy museum visit turns into gloriously silly trouble for Nanny Piggins.

R.A. Spratt revisits chapter seven, Nanny Piggins and the Last Cake of the Romanovs, and sends a rainy day in St. Petersburg toward trouble at the Hermitage Museum.

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Press play for a rainy St Petersburg detour into the Hermitage Museum, where Nanny Piggins ends up with one very bad snack.

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