{"podcast":{"title":"Little Known Facts with Ilana Levine","slug":"little-known-facts-with-ilana-levine-218599","podcast_index_feed_id":218599,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/ALM3701330109","website_url":"http://www.LittleKnownFactsPodcast.com","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/eed12a4a-c61c-11e6-808f-07b60c989991/image/IMG_6644.jpg?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Hosted by actress Ilana Levine","episode_count":527,"summary":"With her unique style of hosting, Ilana Levine gives her listeners up close and personal access to today's biggest stars from Broadway, Film and Television. Her intimate and revealing conversations with Tony Award, Academy Award, Grammy Award and Emmy Award winners gives listeners the feeling they are part of a conversation between old friends. Guests include Julianne Moore, Matthew Broderick, Isabelle Huppert, Sarah Jessica Parker, Ben Platt, Uma Thurman, Matt Bomer, Aasif Mandvi, Octavia Spencer, Edie Falco, Allison Janney, Beanie Feldstein, John Slattery, Judith Light, Molly Ringwald, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Chenoweth, Anthony Rapp, Jason Alexander, Tony Shalhoub, Griffin Dunne, Kaskade, Laura Linney and many more. New episodes are released on Mondays.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/little-known-facts-with-ilana-levine-218599"},"episode":{"title":"Episode 504 - Rafael Monserrate","slug":"episode-504-rafael-monserrate","published_at":"2026-04-20T05:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/little-known-facts-with-ilana-levine-218599/episode-504-rafael-monserrate","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/little-known-facts-with-ilana-levine-218599","url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ADL6443347166.mp3?updated=1776529686","audio_url":"https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ADL6443347166.mp3?updated=1776529686","summary":"Rafael Monserrate is an accomplished Producer and Director with more than two decades of experience creating acclaimed unscripted and narrative content. He has executive produced and directed over a dozen television series, including History Channel’s Alone, the award-winning survival series hailed by The New Yorker as “the best reality show on television,” now in its 13th critically acclaimed season and streaming on Netflix. A two-time feature film director, his credits include Peel (Sony Pictures), starring Emile Hirsch and Amy Brenneman. His work spans large-scale competition formats, intimate documentaries, and character driven narrative films, unified by a cinematic sensibility and a commitment to emotional truth. Most recently, he directed, executive produced, and completed production on Teenhood, a four-part docuseries of unprecedented access to four American teens over 50 transformative days. He is currently developing The Colony, a feature film exploring the formative years and ideological awakening of Malcolm X. Across formats, Rafael crafts stories that are intimate yet expansive, grounded in lived experience, and designed to resonate long after the screen goes dark. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices","meta_description":"Rafael Monserrate is an accomplished Producer and Director with more than two decades of experience creating acclaimed unscripted and narrative content. H…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3030,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/little-known-facts-with-ilana-levine-218599/episodes/episode-504-rafael-monserrate/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/little-known-facts-with-ilana-levine-218599/episode-504-rafael-monserrate.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}