BEEF with Bridget Todd

In our latest piece of bonus content, host Bridget Todd talks with fashion historian Dr. Valerie Steele about the importance of Parisian couture, the delicious drama that surrounded it in the 1960 and 70s, and what the clothes we wear say about our culture.

Dr. Valerie Steele is the director and chief curator of The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, where she has personally organized more than 25 exhibitions at the Museum, including “The Corset: Fashioning the Body,” “Gothic: Dark Glamour, A Queer History of Fashion,” and “Paris, Capital of Fashion.” Dr. Steele is also founder and editor in chief of “Fashion Theory: The Journal of Dress, Body & Culture,” the first peer-reviewed, scholarly journal in Fashion Studies. She is author or co-author of more than two dozen books, including “Paris Fashion: A Cultural History, Women of Fashion,” “Fetish: Fashion, Sex and Power,” and “Fashion Designers A-Z: The Collection of The Museum at FIT.” She gives lectures frequently and has appeared on many television programs, including The Oprah Winfrey Show and the PBS special, “The Way We Wear.” And The Washington Post described her as one of "fashion's brainiest women."

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This week on Beef, iconic designers Karl Lagerfeld and Yves Saint Laurent fight for love and luxury in the sex, drugs and drama-fueled Paris fashion world.

Come see Dr. Valerie Steele's work at the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology!

Hosted by Bridget Todd

Written by Adrián Duston-Muñoz

Showrunning, Editing & Sound Design by Pete Musto

Produced by James "Sam" Levine & Benjamin Austin-Docampo

Created by Executive Producer Jeremiah Tittle

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Directed by Art Manke and designed by Lindsay Jones, Amy Freed’s translation of “The Taming of the Shrew” pits the two smartest people in the room against each other in a match of wits to tame the society that surrounds them.  Set in Renaissance Italy with a cast of seasoned pros including Allen Gilmore, Susannah Rogers, Danny Scheie, Annie Abrams, Mike McShane, Rob Nagle, Tessa Auberjonois, Kasey Mahaffy, Kyle Hester, Tom Patterson and J.Paul Boehmer. When the wealthy Baptista announces that he will not marry off his beautiful young daughter, Bianca, until he finds a husband for his temperamental eldest daughter, Katherina, Bianca’s suitors welcome the arrival of the overly confident Petruchio, who has come to Padua to find himself a wife with money.

The PLAY ON PODCAST SERIES, “THE TAMING OF THE SHREW”, was written by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE and translated into modern English verse by AMY FREED. All episodes were directed by ART MANKE. Radio play by AMY FREED and LEANNA KEYES.

The cast is as follows:

SUSANNAH ROGERS              as        KATHERINA    

ALLEN GILMORE                     as        PETRUCHIO    

ANNIE ABRAMS                        as        BIANCA               

MIKE McSHANE                       as        BAPTISTA

TOM PATTERSON                    as        LUCENTIO

KYLE T. HESTER                       as        TRANIO               

DANNY SCHEIE                        as        GREMIO and CURTIS

J. PAUL BOEHMER                 as        HORTENSIO and PEDANT      

ROB NAGLE                                  as        GRUMIO and VINCENTIO

KASEY MAHAFFY                        as        BIONDELLO and TAILOR

TESSA AUBERJONOIS            as        WIDOW and HABERDASHER

Casting by THE TELSEY OFFICE: KARYN CASL, CSA.

Voice and Text Coach: JULIE FOH

Original music composition, Mix and Sound Design by LINDSAY JONES. Sound engineering by SADAHARU YAGI. Mix Engineer and Dialogue Editor: LARRY WALSH. Podcast Mastering by GREG CORTEZ at New Monkey Studio. Coordinating Producer: TRANSCEND STREAMING (KYRA BOWIE and LEANNA KEYES). Executive Producer: MICHAEL GOODFRIEND.

The Play On Podcast Series “THE TAMING OF THE SHREW” is produced by NEXT CHAPTER PODCASTS and is made possible by the generous support of THE HITZ FOUNDATION. Visit NEXT CHAPTER PODCASTS DOT COM for more about the Play On Podcast Series. Visit PLAY ON SHAKESPEARE DOT ORG for more about Play On Shakespeare.

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In our latest piece of bonus content, writer Max Wolfson talks with wine writer Rod Phillips about the history of alcohol, the moralizing that surrounds it and the customs that celebrate our need for inebriation.

Rod Phillips is a wine writer, wine historian, and wine judge based in Ottawa, Canada. He's also a professor of history at Carleton University where he teaches courses on European (especially French) history and the history of alcohol and food. Additionally, he's written several books on the subject, incuding Alcohol: A History, 9000 Years of Wine, and Wine: A Social and Cultural History of the Drink that Changed our Lives and is an occasional contributer to The World of Fine Wine (U.K.) and GuildSomm.com, the Guild of Sommeliers’ web site in the U.S.

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This week on Beef, brewers and booze-hounds of every social strata go head to head in 18th century England over what’s better: beer or gin.

Pick up a copy of Stuart Walton's book "Out of It: A Cultural History of Intoxication"

Learn more about Rod Phillips' wine writing on his website!

Hosted by Bridget Todd

Written by Max Wolfson

Showrunning, Editing & Sound Design by Pete Musto

Produced by James "Sam" Levine & Benjamin Austin-Docampo

Created by Executive Producer Jeremiah Tittle

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In our latest piece of bonus content, showrunner Pete Musto talks with Professor Felipe Fernández-Armesto about the spirit of adventure, the human cost of exploration and the mythmaking that happens around people who seek the forbidden and the unknown.

Felipe Fernández-Armesto is a professor of Ancient, Early Modern, Medieval, and Modern History at the University of Notre-Dame. Professor Fernández-Armesto earned his doctorate at the University of Oxford, and has also taught at Tufts University and the University of London. He is author of dozens of books on history, “Oxford History of the World” several focusing specifically on famous explorers, including “Straits: Beyond the Myth of Magellan,” “Amerigo: The Man Who Gave His Name to America,” and “Pathfinders: A Global History of Exploration,” for which he won the 2007 World History Association Book Prize.

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This week on Beef, fearless explorers Sir Richard Burton and Captain John Hanning Speke face unimaginable dangers, and their own divisiveness, while searching for the source of the Nile River.

Check out Felipe Fernández-Armesto's latest book The Oxford History of the World.

Learn more about Robin Hanbury-Tenison's adventures in South America!

Hosted by Bridget Todd

Writing, Editing & Sound Design by Showrunner Pete Musto

Produced by James Levine & Benjamin Austin-Docampo

Created by Executive Producer Jeremiah Tittle

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In our latest piece of bonus content, host Bridget Todd talks with journalist and author J. Randy Taraborrelli about the complexities of the Bouvier family, the weight of international fame, and what our fascination with celebrities says about our culture.

J. Randy Taraborrelli is a frequent contributing entertainment reporter for Entertainment Tonight, Good Morning America, Today and CBS This Morning. And he’s written multiple New York Times best-selling biographies of some of the world's biggest celebrities, including Michael Jackson, Madonna and Diana Ross, and several covering the lives of the Bouviers and Kennedys, including his most recent book "Jackie - Public, Private, Secret.”

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This week on Beef, Former First-Lady Jackie Kennedy and her sister Princess Lee Radziwill play tug-of-war with the public’s affection and adoration.

Grab a copy of J. Randy Taraborrelli's latest book about the Bouviers - Jackie: Public, Private, Secret.

Hosted by Bridget Todd

Writing, Editing & Sound Design by Showrunner Pete Musto

Produced by James Levine & Benjamin Austin-Docampo

Created by Executive Producer Jeremiah Tittle

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In our latest piece of bonus content, writer Adrián Duston-Muñoz talks with professor of Hispanic Studies Dr. Stephanie Kirk about Mexico's Baroque period, the gender politics of knowledge during that time, and the connections between Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and modern day feminism.

Dr. Stephanie Kirk is the Director of the Center for the Humanities and a Professor of Spanish, Comparative Literature, and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Washington University in St. Louis. She is the author of two books: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the Gender Politics of Knowledge in Colonial Mexico (Routledge, 2016) and Convent Life in Colonial Mexico: A Tale of Two Communities (Florida UP, 2007). She has also published numerous articles and essays on gender and religious culture in colonial Mexico, and on the life and work of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. She has edited two collected volumes: Religious Transformations in the Early Modern Americas (Penn Press, 2014) and Estudios coloniales en el siglo XXI: Nuevos itinerarios (IILI, 2011). She is currently preparing a translation and critical edition of Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora’s convent chronicle Paraíso occidental. Stephanie Kirk is the editor of the Revista de Estudios Hispánicos.

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