Episode 74

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23rd Apr 2024

Murphy Brown with Lauren Milberger

Go get your house painter who never finishes the job and join us for this wonderful episode about "Murphy Brown", the classic 80s-90s sitcom. Our guest is Lauren Milberger, actor, writer, and host of FYI: The Murphy Brown Podcast, where she and her co-host Jesi Mullins walk listeners through every Murphy Brown episode. On THIS episode of Fine Beats, we and Lauren talk how this show is both an emblem of its time while also seeming current. This is a great episode and we hope you like it.

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Lauren Milberger is an actor/writer/playwright/podcaster in New York and a graduate of the Actors Studio MFA program and The Second City NY Conservatory Program. She is a Writer's Lab, Eugene O'Neill Semifinalist, and a published essayist on funny people such as Burns and Allen, Carrie Fisher, & Lenny Bruce. Lauren has previously co-hosted The Fordcast: A Harrison Ford Podcast and is currently co-hosting FYI: The Murphy Brown Podcast, a podcast decided to the series Murphy Brown, 90's pop culture, and women in media, where she has interviewed guests from Emmy to Tony winners. You can currently catch Lauren's acting in her scripted podcast "The Raconteurs: A Story of George Burns & Gracie Allen" as Gracie Allen, and various voiceovers, film, and theater.

You can find her on Twitter and Instagram @LaurenMilberger, and also at http://www.laurenmilberger.com .

https://www.murphybrownpod.com/

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Fine Beats & Cheeses
with Leslie & Lynne
Fine Beats & Cheeses with Leslie & Lynne celebrates cheesy pop culture.

About your hosts

Leslie Gray Streeter

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Leslie Gray Streeter is an author, veteran journalist, and speaker whose memoir “Black Widow” was published in March 2020 by Little, Brown, and Company. She is the lifestyle columnist for the Baltimore Banner, formerly the longtime entertainment and lifestyle columnist and writer for the Palm Beach Post. A native of Baltimore, Md, and a University of Maryland graduate, she and her work have been featured in The Miami Herald, the Washington Post, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, the Atlantic, the Today show, SiriusXM, O, The Oprah Magazine, and more. She lives with her son Brooks in her hometown of Baltimore. She’s a slow runner, an amateur vegan cook, and a true crime and “Law and Order” enthusiast.

Lynne Streeter Childress

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Lynne Streeter Childress is an actor, director, teaching artist, and playwright. She is the founding artistic director of Building Better People Productions, a theater for young audiences company in Annapolis, MD. Her 28-year career in professional theater includes performing at the Kennedy Center, Arena Stage, and Adventure Theatre and teaching for institutions like the Folger Shakespeare Library and Baltimore School For the Arts, where she is currently a member of the theater faculty.  Lynne has seen firsthand how theater can communicate the most important things in the clearest and most interesting of ways, especially to young people. She lives in Annapolis, MD, with her husband and son.