Authors Melanie Benjamin and Edward Kelsey Moore talk books, movies, aging, ambition, and everything in between. Each episode features one book or one movie—something to read, something to watch, and plenty to say. It's a podcast about stories, friendship, and figuring it out as you go.Suggestions and comments: melanded@whothehellarewe.comPodcast Substack: melanieanded.substack.comMore: melaniebenjamin.com | edwardkelseymoore.com
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Signup to Generate a PitchAuthors Melanie Benjamin and Edward Kelsey Moore talk books, movies, aging, ambition, and everything in between. Each episode features one book or one movie, something to read, something to watch, and plenty to say. It's a podcast about stories, friendship, and figuring it out as you go.
Recent episodes include "Dear Heart (1964): Geraldine Page and the Romance Nobody Remembers" (19 September 2026, 80 minutes), "It's a Great Feeling: The Movie Warner Bros. Built to Make Doris Day a Star" (6 August 2026, 45 minutes), and "The Abbess of Crewe: Muriel Spark's Watergate in a Convent" (22 May 2026, 46 minutes).
Who The Hell Are We? publishes roughly every few months, with episodes averaging 63 minutes across 175 episodes.
Booking probability for Who The Hell Are We? is 35%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Who The Hell Are We? requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Who The Hell Are We?'s contact route on record: verified email.
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Who The Hell Are We? is an arts podcast with 175 episodes published.
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Who The Hell Are We?
Bosley Crowther called Dear Heart "a stale, dull and humorless pretension." Melanie cried at the end. Ed laughed out loud at a joke the screenplay had set up half an hour earlier. Melanie Benjamin and Edward Kelsey...
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In 1949 Warner Bros. built a movie out of its own stars for one reason: to make Doris Day famous. It worked. Melanie Benjamin and Edward Kelsey Moore watch It's a Great Feeling, directed by David Butler and starring...
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Muriel Spark wrote it in months while Nixon was still in office. Fifty-two years later, Melanie and Ed test whether the joke still lands. Spark's 90-page novella, subtitled "A Modern Morality Tale," relocates Watergate...
Who The Hell Are We?
Muriel Spark wrote it in months while Nixon was still in office. Fifty-two years later, Melanie and Ed test whether the joke still lands. Spark's 90-page novella, subtitled "A Modern Morality Tale," relocates Watergate...
Who The Hell Are We?
Lilies of the Field is a 1963 American comedy-drama film directed and produced by Ralph Nelson. Praised by critics, Lilies of the Field earned five Academy Award nominations, including Best Picture and Best Supporting...
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It's book review week, Melanie and Ed discuss Prodigal Summer (2000) by author Barbara Kingsolver. Also, Melanie explains why it has been her best sports weekend EVER. More at melanieanded.substack.com or email...
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Our hosts seem to have hit the eggnog early as they discuss The Shop Around the Corner, a 1940 American romantic comedy-drama film produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch starring Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank...
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Robert Mitchum's preacher in The Night of the Hunter was inspired by real murders that also shaped Jayne Anne Phillips's novel Quiet Dell. Ed and Melanie trace the link between book and film, exploring how truth becomes...
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Robert Mitchum's sinister preacher, Charles Laughton's only directorial effort, and one of cinema's most haunting thrillers — The Night of the Hunter (1955) went unappreciated in its day. Ed and Melanie explore its...
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It's Book Club week as Ed and Melanie take on Laughing Gas (1936) by P. G. Wodehouse. A book with aristocrats colliding with Hollywood child stars in a screwball farce of body-swapping and mischief. 📧...
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Melanie and Ed discuss Maurice (1987), the Merchant Ivory adaptation of E.M. Forster's novel of forbidden love. They explore the film's emotional tone, literary legacy, and what it meant to tell this story in 1987. 📧...
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A 1931 film about a washed-up boxer and his son turns into one of the most emotional episodes Ed and Melanie have ever recorded. They walk through The Champ scene by scene, with reflections on Frances Marion, child...
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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947), a ghost story with real romantic power. Gene Tierney is luminous, Rex Harrison is "Sexy Rexy," and the ending still breaks our hearts. 📬 Email us: melanded@whothehellarewe.com 📰...
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Melanie and Ed begin a new movie-book rhythm with their first book episode: Rules of Civility by Amor Towles — a novel of restraint, elegance, and quiet ambition in 1930s New York. 📧 melanded@whothehellarewe.com 🔗...
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Melanie and Ed discuss the 1951 sci-fi classic The Day the Earth Stood Still and explore why Klaatu's quiet alien warning still resonates. 📧 melanded@whothehellarewe.com 🔗 melanieanded.substack.com 🌀 Originally...
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A Technicolor convent clings to a cliff in Black Narcissus (1947), where desire, memory, and madness simmer. Ed and Melanie unpack Kathleen Byron's unforgettable performance, Deborah Kerr's quiet power, and colonialist...
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Lena Horne leads a dazzling cast in Stormy Weather (1943), but the film holds back from giving her a real role. Melanie and Ed revisit this musical landmark with admiration and frustration. 📬 Email us...
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Hepburn dazzles, Grant simmers, and Stewart steals a kiss — but we're asking what the movie does to its strongest character. Wit, weddings, and one quietly devastating rewatch. 📬 Email us: melanded@whothehellarewe.com...
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The team watches Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964) —Melanie immediately wants a divorce. Monkey chaos, Cold War weirdness, and a survival story that forgets to care. 📬 Email us: whothehellarewe@gmail.com 📰 Read and...
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REISSUED for Pride Month | The Boys in the Band (1970) A queer dinner party implodes in Mart Crowley's groundbreaking pre-Stonewall drama. Melanie and Ed revisit the 1970 film and reflect on its dated portrayals, raw...
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