Lauren chats with Cynthia Bemis-Abrams of the Advanced TV Herstory podcast. They talk about memoirs, inspiring women, and what it’s like to view television history with a feminist lens. In the Last Chapter they discuss good book-to-TV adaptations.

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Books

Eleanor Roosevelt on Screen: The First Lady’s Appearances in Film & Television, 1932-1962 by Angela S. Beauchamp

Connie: A Memoir by Connie Chung

The Younger Girl by Georgia Jeffries

When Women Invented Television by Jennifer Keishin Armstrong

Not Your China Doll by Katie Gee Salisbury

I Said Yes to Everything: A Memoir by Lee Grant

My Thirty Years Backstairs at the White House by Lillian Rogers Parks

Media

The Diplomat (TV series, 2023 - )

Madam Secretary (TV series, 2014 – 2019)

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