Joan Juliet Buck interviews Howard Korder, co-writer and co-producer of “Franklin”, the 8-part marvel from the team that brought you "The Sopranos".

Produced and edited by Matty Rosenberg, co-produced by Jennifer Hammoud, and Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org

Joan Juliet Buck explains two terrific, upsetting, unconventional, genre-defying new series , one from the brilliant Lulu Wang and set in Hong Kong, the other a satire written by and starring the provocative Benny Safdie and the cringe-master Nathan Fielder, who directed and also plays Emma Stone's husband

Produced and edited by Matty Rosenberg, co-produced by Jennifer Hammoud, and Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org

The inside story of how, back in 1997, George Dawes Green founded The Moth, the storytelling entity that gave you-- and you and you-- permission to get up on stage and tell your story. The author of bestselling, award-winning thrillers (The Juror, Ravens, The Kingdoms of Savannah), George Green is candid, charming, and full of stories.

Produced and edited by Matty Rosenberg, co-produced by Jennifer Hammoud, and Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org

This winter John Patrick Shanley had three plays running simultaneously in New York; the newest, Brooklyn Laundry, is a wrenching and ecstatic 80 minute ride through attraction, grief, love, giddiness, reality check, responsibility, to adulthood. He talks to Joan Juliet Buck about life, death, the meaning of both, and invokes the possibilities of a blonde wig.

Produced and edited by Matty Rosenberg and Joan Juliet Buck, co-produced by Jennifer Hammoud @ radiofreerhinecliff.org

Words that hurt: It's 1975 and Truman Capote , one of the most famous writers in the world, publishes an extract of his unfinished novel in Esquire. It's the dirty secrets his beloved rich lady friends have been telling him for years. Shit ensues.

Produced and edited by Matty Rosenberg, co-produced by Jennifer Hammoud, and Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org

If truth, emotion and love counted with the academy, this film would be nominated for best actor, (Andrew Scott) best supporting actor (Paul Mescal) , best adapted screenplay, best director, (Andrew Haigh) and best film.

Produced and edited by Matty Rosenberg, co-produced by Jennifer Hammoud, and Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org

Afraid of losing your story? The great screenwriter Joan Tewkesbury, who wrote Altman's game-changing masterpiece 'Nashville', is also a director who has been teaching at Robert Redford's Sundance Institute Labs since 1992.

Produced and edited by Matty Rosenberg, co-produced by Jennifer Hammoud, and Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org

Here’s why Maestro, Bradley, Cooper’s second movie set in the world of ShowBusiness, is both deeply affecting and insufficient

Produced and edited by Matty Rosenberg, co-produced by Jennifer Hammoud, and Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org

Why is Martin Scorsese's masterful epic so deliberately lacking in color , so uninflected?

Produced and edited by Matty Rosenberg, co-produced by Jennifer Hammoud, and Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org

Peter Morgan's series The CROWN , now in its 6th and final season, gives us a Lady Di we can relate to in escapist surroundings that turn to hell.

Produced and edited by Matty Rosenberg, co-produced by Jennifer Hammoud, and Joan Juliet Buck @ radiofreerhinecliff.org