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MASTERPIECE Studio is your backstage pass to the PBS series—from Sherlock to Poldark. After the show, turn off the TV and tune in to MASTERPIECE Studio for the scoop with host Jace Lacob. Listen for exclusive interviews with the cast and crew of your favorite shows. Get the history lowdown behind the people and places you see on screen, and hear revealing stories from the set. MASTERPIECE Studio is made possible by Viking Cruises and Raymond James. Sponsors for MASTERPIECE on PBS are Viking Cruises, Raymond James, and The MASTERPIECE Trust.
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Jan 22, 2018 • 29min
Daisy Goodwin Melds Fact And Fiction In Victoria’s Second Season
*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Two of Season Two of *Victoria.
Daisy Goodwin may be the creator and head writer of Victoria, but she can’t help but sound like an ardent fan when she talks about the resurgent popularity of her version of Lord Melbourne. “Obviously, I would like Lord M to be in every single episode,” Goodwin said. She explains how and where she looks for historical storylines for her Queen Victoria, and what we all should look forward to in this second season of her series.
Jan 15, 2018 • 23min
Jenna Coleman Returns To Her Queenly Duties
*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode One of Season Two of *Victoria.
Queen Victoria is a proud new mother — but so far, she’s anything but pleased. As Prince Albert manages the daily stresses of the royal boxes, Victoria finds herself longing for both marital clarity and professional order. Actor Jenna Coleman warns — this is just the rocky beginning of a particularly dramatic new season of Victoria. Coleman, and Victoria creator Daisy Goodwin, explore the season still to come.
Nov 22, 2017 • 16min
Bonus: Keeley Hawes Reflects On A Season Of Magical 'Durrells' Moments
*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Six of Season Two of *The Durrells in Corfu.
Louisa Durrell let another love interest pass her by at the end of The Durrells In Corfu’s season two. Along the way, however, she might have been reminded where her true loyalty lies: with her family. Actor Keely Hawes says “the Durrells are very good at change,” and she looks ahead to the upcoming third season in a special bonus episode of the podcast.
Nov 20, 2017 • 23min
Eleanor Tomlinson Thinks Demelza Deserves A Good Time
*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Nine of Season Three of *Poldark
Demelza Poldark ended her third season of Poldark with a stunning act of defiance. Actor Eleanor Tomlinson doesn’t feel like she could have made the same choices, but she has been pleasantly surprised by the way fans have supported her character’s heartbreaking decision. “If Ross is going to go and do what he wants to do, why shouldn’t she go and have some fun?,” she tells us.
Nov 13, 2017 • 31min
Daniel Lapaine Really Wants To Be A Durrell
*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Five of Season Two of *The Durrells in Corfu.
Actor Daniel Lapaine has made a career playing rakishly charming characters — He’s ‘a Smiling Devil,’ as one
director told him. Lapaine’s role as Hugh on this season of The Durrells in Corfu is more of the same, but he explains how the allure of the Durrell family is all too real for this Australian actor. Will Louisa head back to England with Hugh? Lapaine isn’t saying.
Nov 6, 2017 • 34min
Just Like Aunt Agatha, Caroline Blakiston Knows Everybody’s Business
*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Six of Season Three of *Poldark
Caroline Blakiston’s Aunt Agatha Poldark has been a secret triumph throughout these three seasons of Poldark, lurking by the Trenwith fire while reading her tarot cards and peering into the Cornish future. After a particularly dramatic episode, Blakiston joins us to talk costumes, character development and how Harrison Ford helped calm her nerves in her famous *Star Wars *performance.
Oct 30, 2017 • 33min
Ellise Chappell Reveals: There's Still Hope For Morwenna
*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode Five of Season Three of *Poldark
After just missing her chance at true romantic happiness this week, the young Morwenna Chenoweth seems to be trapped in a loveless, lifeless marriage. But Ellise Chappell, the young Poldark actor who plays Morwenna, isn’t worried. “We’ve got to keep hoping,” for the troubled Morwenna, she tells us — and offers stories of frogs, friendships and more from the Poldark set.
Oct 16, 2017 • 24min
Louisa Durrell Is A Dream Made Real For Keeley Hawes
*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episode One of Season Two of *The Durrells in Corfu.
As a child, Keeley Hawes adored reading about the Durrell family’s fantastic Greek adventures on the island of Corfu. Years later, she finds herself as the fictional head of the Durrell clan, playing the role of matriarch Louisa Durrell in the ongoing series, The Durrells in Corfu. In conversation with MASTERPIECE Studio, Keeley anticipates the furry and funny upcoming season of the show.
Oct 2, 2017 • 27min
Poldark’s Gabriella Wilde Prepares For A Season Of Big Surprises
*Warning: This episode contains spoilers for Episodes One and Two of Season Three of *Poldark.
Poldark’s Caroline Penvenen, the beautiful heiress with a generous heart, has secrets in store in the upcoming third season of the series. Actor Gabriella Wilde offers hints of the stories yet to come for her character, and reveals what it was like to film with her newborn child on set — as well as which of the dogs playing Horace the Pug she prefers..
Sep 30, 2017 • 10min
Bonus: What Little Women Means To You
With the upcoming 2018 adaptation of Little Women on MASTERPIECE rapidly approaching, we wanted to look back 149 years to the original 1868 publication of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel of the same name. More specifically, we wanted to hear from our listeners and viewers why that novel is an important part of their lives. On International Podcast Day 2017, you told us.
