{"podcast":{"title":"Director's Club","slug":"director-s-club-1054745","podcast_index_feed_id":1054745,"rss_url":"https://feeds.captivate.fm/directorsclubpodcast/","website_url":"https://jimlaczkowski.net","image_url":"https://artwork.captivate.fm/e67f75ef-abf0-40d4-b635-6c231fcba380/dc.png","author":"Jim Laczkowski","episode_count":348,"summary":"A monthly show that reviews one film director per episode with the occasional bonus episode. Episodes 123-172 were hosted by Brad & Al. As of 2022, new episodes will be hosted by Jim and/or Bill. The spin-off show, B-Side Me, is also here (for now) which is all about music/bands!","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/director-s-club-1054745"},"episode":{"title":"Dial P for Podcast #2: Easy Virtue, Champagne, Blackmail, Murder!","slug":"dial-p-for-podcast-2-easy-virtue-champagne-blackmail-murder","published_at":"2026-02-28T04:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/director-s-club-1054745/dial-p-for-podcast-2-easy-virtue-champagne-blackmail-murder","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/director-s-club-1054745","url":"https://jimlaczkowski.net","audio_url":"https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/566b9609-3fd7-4f77-a7f1-36edb46afcab.mp3","summary":"Good evening. Welcome back to Dial P for Podcast, Patrick Ripoll's year-long chronological voyage through the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Every month Patrick will be watching four Hitchcock features and talking about them here, from The Pleasure Garden to Family Plot, all across the year of 2026, examining the life and work of England's most famous cinema pervert. For episode 2 we see Hitchcock break free of his silent era and break ground by producing the first* British sound film. In Easy Virtue (1928) a fallen woman finds new love (and hate) among an upperclass family, in Champagne (1928) a playgirl heiress loses everything and is forced to work a regular job, in Blackmail (1929) a woman kills her rapist and gets blackmailed for it and finally in Murder! (1930) a famous actor turns amateur sleuth to unpack a whodunnit murder mystery. This is the era where Hitchcock goes from British film wunderkind to bonafide national celebrity, with even royalty visiting his sets to see how sound films are made. And his ascent isn't even close to done! Exciting! 0:00 - 0:40 - Intro music 0:41 - 26:52 - Easy Virtue (1928) 26:53 - 57:02 - Champagne (1928) 57:03 - 1:50:22 - Blackmail (1929) 1:50:23 - 2:11:19 - Murder! (1930) 2:11:20 - 2:12:10 - Outro music","meta_description":"Good evening. Welcome back to Dial P for Podcast, Patrick Ripoll's year-long chronological voyage through the films of Alfred Hitchcock. Every month Patri…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":7930,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/director-s-club-1054745/episodes/dial-p-for-podcast-2-easy-virtue-champagne-blackmail-murder/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/director-s-club-1054745/dial-p-for-podcast-2-easy-virtue-champagne-blackmail-murder.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}