Facts behind your favorite fiction
We humans have always been intrigued by crime and murder stories, but when did those obsessions claim their place in entertainment?
Kay Koch discusses Michelle Eileen McNamara’s book: I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer.
Juliana Valente goes back in time to discuss Thomas De Quincey and Edgar Allan Poe’s influence on the genre, and three early American woman writers who helped define the crime/true crime genre as we know it today.
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What happens when we turn out the lights and tell ghost stories? That’s exactly what we did for this episode, where Kay and Juliana each tell stories of historic hauntings. An unexplained arrival in a North Carolinian coastal village. A murder in a red barn. Stay to the end to hear more history behind the stories.
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In this bonus episode, Juliana Valente and Kay Koch interview friends of the show Gina Sarno and Nick Pascarella, the actors in this summer’s upcoming off-Broadway run of David Harrower’s BLACKBIRD. How do actors handle these complex experiences of sexual abuse that are seen from multiple points of view? Through the darkness of this conversation, we are forced into uneasy emotions.
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Kay and Juliana share some strange background on the beloved “Little House on the Prairie” series by Laura Ingalls Wilder.
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In this Episode Juliana Valente & Kay Koch discuss Fairy Tale and Fable adaptations from book to film. Beauty and the Beast, The Pardoner’s Tale, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, No Country for Old Men.
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In this week’s episode Kay and Juliana share the career moves of some of our most important and beloved 20th century actors: Jerry Orbach, Shelley WInters, Paul Newman, and Bea Arthur.
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Interview with Kay Koch and Juliana Valente about some of the best-loved jukebox musicals (Jersey Boys, Beautiful, Mama Mia), revues (Ain’t Misbehavin, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story), rock operas (The Who’s Tommy, Green Day’s American Idiot and Jesus Christ Superstar). We even get into The Beatles’ Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band!
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An intimate look into the lives of your Strange HOSTS. Kay and Juliana get into the stories behind how their favorite childhood books were written.
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Interview with Kay Koch and Juliana Valente about Jane Austen’s early life, theater in the early 19th century, and modern adaptations of Jane Austen’s work.
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Focusing on E.L. Doctorow’s “Ragtime” and the Stephen Sondheim musical “Assassins”.
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