Laurene Powell Jobs Joins Season 4 of ‘Rebel Girls’ Podcast
November 25, 2023 3 min read
Laurene Powell Jobs and Freida Pinto are two of the celebrity narrators for Season 4 of the award-winning podcast, “Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls,” which launched on Tuesday.
The new season is based on the book “Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: 100 Immigrant Women Who Changed the World,” which will be released on October 13.
According to Rebel Girls, each episode “delves further into the lives of women from the book, encouraging young listeners to ask questions and explore their interests.” The episodes are narrated by real-life women “who are pioneers in their own right” and each episode has a secondary interview with “actionable items for young listeners.”
Jobs narrated the story of Tereza Lee, who is credited as being the inspiration behind the DREAM Act. Jobs told TheWrap “To paraphrase Tereza Lee, telling real people’s stories can inspire others to take action and help root out injustice. And I hope listeners will be inspired by Tereza’s own story — and the courage she has demonstrated throughout her life — to follow her remarkable example and help make this country more equal and more just.”
Other subject/narrator pairings this season include: Alice Guy-Blaché and Brenda Chapman, Samantha Power and Cecile Richards, Carmen Miranda and Storm Large, Arianna Huffington and Tanja Babich, and Noor Inayat Khan and Freida Pinto.
The “Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls” podcast won the 2020 People Choice Webby Award for Best Kids & Family Podcast, the Gold for Podcast in Education at the New York Festivals Awards, and was number one in Education for the 2019’s People’s Choice Podcast Awards.
10 TV Shows Based on Podcasts Ranked, From ‘Homecoming’ to ‘2 Dope Girls’ (Photos)
“Homecoming” is back and “Dirty John” will be returning for its second season on June 2. Here are other TV shows based on successful podcasts, with their Metacritic ranking (as of May 24, 2020).
“Up and Vanished” (2018 – )
Metacritic score: n/a
Payne Lindsey’s true-crime podcast first became a successful two-part special on Oxygen, exploring the disappearance of Georgia schoolteacher Tara Grinstead. And then it became a series, with Payne and his team exploring a new cold case in each episode.
Oxygen
“Alex Inc.” – based on “StartUp” (2018)
Metacritic score: 49
Zach Braff played a journalist who quits his job to start his own podcast business — in a short-lived ABC sitcom very loosely based on Alex Blumberg’s “StartUp” podcast about the founding of his own Gimlet Media podcast network.
ABC
“StarTalk” (2015 – )
Metacritic score: 55
Astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson adapted his hit podcast into a long-running talk show on NatGeo, with a wide variety of guests beyond the science (and even sci-fi) field.
National Geographic
“Dirty John” (2018 – )
Metacritic score: 58
Connie Britton and Eric Bana starred in the first season of this true-crime anthology series based on the Wondery podcast about love gone wrong. The second season starred an ill-fated coupled played by Amanda Peet and Christian Slater.
USA
“Lore” (2017-18)
Metacritic score: 60
Aaron Mahnke’s podcast exploring the true histories behind horror legends like werewolves and vampires inspired an anthology series that blended dramatic scenes, animation and narration and ran for two seasons on Amazon.
Amazon Prime
“Limetown” (2019)
Metacritic score: 62
Jessica Biel starred in this Facebook Watch series that told the fictional story of the disappearance of 300 people at a Tennessee neuroscience facility. But the show failed to capture the creepy immersiveness of the original podcast and lasted only one season.
Facebook
“The Ricky Gervais Show” (2010-12)
Metacritic score: 62
The creator of “The Office” adapted his radio show (with Stephen Merchant and Karl Pilkington) into a podcast, and then into an animated HBO series that made its potty-humor jokes literal.
HBO
“Comedy Bang! Bang!” (2012-16)
Metacritic score: 67
Scott Aukerman adapted his comedy podcast into a parody talk show that ran for five seasons on IFC.
IFC
“Homecoming” (2018 – )
Metacritic score: 76
Julia Roberts starred in the first season of this show, based on Gimlet’s fictional podcast about a secret government program to transition U.S. war veterans back to civilian life. Janelle Monaé took center stage in Season 2.
Amazon Prime
“2 Dope Queens” (2018 – )
Metacritic score: 87
“Daily Show” alum Jessica Williams and Phoebe Robinson adapted their hit comedy podcast into an HBO series that hits a broad range of topics.
HBO
A growing number of TV shows have been inspired by audio hits
“Homecoming” is back and “Dirty John” will be returning for its second season on June 2. Here are other TV shows based on successful podcasts, with their Metacritic ranking (as of May 24, 2020).
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