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Cinema for your ears. Performed by Hollywood’s best. Step inside the studio where Hollywood’s top actors bring award-winning screenplays to life... complete with a full cinematic score, immersive sound design, and the energy of a live performance. Each episode is a front-row seat to a one-of-a-kind production: 20-plus working actors, world-class scripts from acclaimed writers, and film-quality sound crafted by Emmy-winning producers. It’s not just a podcast... it’s a movie you hear. Recent guests include Mark Hamill, Rosario Dawson, Ty Burrell, Joe Mantegna, Fred Armisen, and more. Produced by Jack Levy, Shaan Sharma, and Mark Knell Manifest Media. #1 Fiction Podcast | 2025 Webby, Shorty, and Signal Winner | Cinema for your ears. 👉 TableReadPodcast.com

  1. Caravaggio - Act 3

    15H AGO

    Caravaggio - Act 3

    The cage breaks open. Caravaggio breaks with it. Chained in a torture chamber beneath the fortress, Caravaggio faces the Grand Master one last time. Faith against flesh. Obedience against desire. What follows is an escape down a fortress wall, a boat in the dark, and a fugitive painter running not toward freedom but toward the only thing he has left. Act Three is the fall. Brutal. Beautiful. Inevitable. Sicily. Caravaggio paints like a man on fire. In Syracuse, a burial. In Messina, a nativity. Each canvas more desperate than the last. Each one a confession he cannot say out loud. The genius is still there. The man holding the brush is disappearing. Back in Rome, the news arrives. Lena. The woman whose face launched his greatest work. Gone. Caravaggio learns what it costs to leave someone behind in a city that devours the unprotected. Cardinal Del Monte makes his final play. A pardon. A real one. Signed by the Pope himself. But the pardon needs a delivery and Caravaggio needs to stay alive long enough to receive it. Naples. A prison cell. Malaria. Chains. The Grand Master finds him one last time. Two men who could never say what they meant finally say it. It is too late for both of them. Then a swamp. Bandits. A boiling sun. A beach. A boy. Two nuns. And the Tyrrhenian coast, where the greatest painter of his generation reaches for the light one final time. The pardon arrives. The man does not. Act Three is reckoning. Loss. Grace. The moment the fuse runs out. What you see in the art, you will find in the artist. What you see in the artist, you will find in the man. Cast Dennis Kleinman · Narrator Craig Parker · Caravaggio Dan Lauria · Cardinal Del Monte Bruce Davison · Alof de Wignacourt Shaan Sharma · Stefano della Croce Catherine Lidstone · Lena Sarah Elmaleh · Maria Brendan Bradley · Annibale Carracci Noah James · Ranuccio Tomassoni Josh Sterling · Ottavio Tomassoni Zeke Alton · Giovan Tomassoni Nick Monteleone · Mancini Matt Curtin · Toppa Bjorn Johnson · Pope Paul V Ray Abruzzo · Pope Clement VIII Written by Richard Vetere Executive Produced by Jack Levy, Shaan Sharma, and Mark Knell Table Read is a Manifest Media production. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    49 min
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    15H AGO · BONUS

    You Might Also Like: On Purpose with Jay Shetty

    Introducing Jessie Inchauspé: 90% of Pregnant People Are Missing THIS Nutrient (Follow THIS Simple Diet To Reduce Glucose Spikes & Protect Your Baby’s Brain & Metabolism) from On Purpose with Jay Shetty. Follow the show: On Purpose with Jay Shetty Pregnancy only lasts nine months, but what you eat during that time can shape your child for life. Jay Shetty welcomes back biochemist, bestselling author, and “Glucose Goddess” Jessie Inchauspé for a conversation that goes even deeper into the impact she’s had on millions of lives. This time, they focus on something few people truly understand: pregnancy isn’t just a waiting period, it’s a critical window that can shape a child’s physical, mental, and metabolic health for life. Jay and Jessie unpack why so many parents feel under-informed, how outdated myths like “eat for two” still dominate the conversation, and what the science actually reveals about the nine months that truly count forever. Jessie breaks down complex biology into simple, actionable insights. She explains how key factors: blood sugar balance, protein, choline, and omega-3s play a critical role in brain development, metabolism, and long-term disease risk for your child. Jay guides the conversation with curiosity and care, highlighting how small, intentional shifts during pregnancy can create lifelong resilience, while also acknowledging the systemic failures that leave parents without clear guidance or support. In this interview, you'll learn: How to Support Your Baby’s Brain With Just Four Key Nutrients How to Reduce Blood Sugar Spikes That Affect Your Baby How to Build Your Baby’s Brain Before They’re Born How to Lower Your Child’s Lifetime Risk of Diabetes How to Use Protein to Stabilize Energy and Nausea How to Care for Your Mental Health After Miscarriage How to Make Small Food Choices That Create Lifelong Impact Life doesn’t come with a manual, we’re all doing the best we can with the information we have. When we learn more, we can make better choices, not just for ourselves, but for the people whose futures depend on ours. Jessie’s latest book, 9 Months That Count Forever: How Your Pregnancy Diet Shapes Your Baby's Future, is available for pre-order now. Visit https://www.amazon.com/Months-That-Count-Forever-Pregnancy/dp/1668219123  With Love and Gratitude, Jay Shetty JAY’S DAILY WISDOM DELIVERED STRAIGHT TO YOUR INBOX Join 900,000+ readers discovering how small daily shifts create big life change with my free newsletter. Subscribe here.  Check out our Apple subscription to unlock bonus content of On Purpose! https://lnk.to/JayShettyPodcast  What We Discuss: 00:00 Intro 01:54 Debunking the Biggest Pregnancy Myths 04:50 The Four Nutrients That Shape Your Baby’s Future 07:26 How Gestational Diabetes Impacts a Child for Life 11:58 How Much Protein Do You Really Need During Pregnancy? 14:22 What an Ideal Pregnancy Diet Actually Looks Like 19:08 Are You Actually “Eating for Two?”  21:41 You’re Born With the Brain Cells You’ll Keep for Life 24:29 When Food and Supplements Work Best Together 27:02 Avoid These Foods During Pregnancy! 31:28 How High Sugar Intake Affects Pregnancy 36:07 The Modern Food System Is Failing Families 39:03 What Can Contribute to Miscarriage 41:15 Understanding Silent Miscarriage 46:21 Processing the Grief of Pregnancy Loss 49:02 The Most Common Causes of Miscarriage 51:42 What Happens When You Eat Sugar on an Empty Stomach 54:24 The Importance of Movement During Pregnancy  57:09 How to Reduce Bloating During Pregnancy 57:44 Does a Father’s Diet Affect Conception? 59:01 Using Food to Set Your Child Up for Life 01:01:20 What the UK Sugar Ration Taught Us About Health 01:04:33 This or That: Pregnancy Edition   Episode Resources: Website | https://www.glucosegoddess.com/  Instagram | https://www.instagram.com/glucosegoddess  X | https://x.com/glucosegoddesss  TikTok | https://www.tiktok.com/@glucosegoddess_  YouTube | https://www.youtube.com/@GlucoseRevolution  Facebook | https://www.facebook.com/glucosegoddesss/ See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. DISCLAIMER: Please note, this is an independent podcast episode not affiliated with, endorsed by, or produced in conjunction with the host podcast feed or any of its media entities. The views and opinions expressed in this episode are solely those of the creators and guests. For any concerns, please reach out to team@podroll.fm.

  3. Caravaggio - Act 2

    FEB 17

    Caravaggio - Act 2

    Malta. A fortress carved from rock, surrounded by sea, ruled by warrior monks who pray at dawn and kill by noon. Caravaggio arrives to paint a portrait. He stays because he has no choice. The Grand Master offers sanctuary, admiration, and something neither man is prepared to name. The Captain at Arms offers suspicion, jealousy, and a locked door every night. Act Two is the cage. Beautiful. Suffocating. Holy. Caravaggio paints the Grand Master's portrait and captures more than armor and scars. He captures a man's loneliness. The Knights throw a feast in his honor. He dances on tables. He is knighted with a gold sword. He is watched from every window. Back in Rome, Cardinal Del Monte fights for a papal pardon while the Tomassoni brothers hire bounty hunters. The Pope dies. A new Pope rises. The Church still cannot decide what Caravaggio is worth. On the beach, the Turks attack. Knights are nailed to crosses and set on fire, floated into the harbor at dawn. Caravaggio picks up a sword for the first time. He gives water to a dying boy. The boy is killed in front of him. Flashbacks pull him back to Rome. To Lena. To the night Ranuccio came for him with a blade. To the moment that changed everything. He paints The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist on a chapel wall and signs his name in the blood flowing from the saint's neck. The only painting he ever signed. Then he paints a Cupid so grotesque it seals his fate. Act Two is devotion. Desire. Betrayal. The moment a man realizes that the sanctuary he was promised is just a prison with better art on the walls. The fuse is burning. Cast Dennis Kleinman · Narrator Craig Parker · Caravaggio Dan Lauria · Cardinal Del Monte Bruce Davison · Alof de Wignacourt Shaan Sharma · Stefano della Croce Catherine Lidstone · Lena Sarah Elmaleh · Maria Brendan Bradley · Annibale Carracci Noah James · Ranuccio Tomassoni Josh Sterling · Ottavio Tomassoni Zeke Alton · Giovan Tomassoni Nick Monteleone · Mancini Matt Curtin · Toppa Bjorn Johnson · Pope Paul V Ray Abruzzo · Pope Clement VIII Written by Richard Vetere Executive Produced by Jack Levy, Shaan Sharma, and Mark Knell Table Read is a Manifest Media production. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    1h 5m
  4. Caravaggio - Act 1

    FEB 10

    Caravaggio - Act 1

    Caravaggio, the brilliant outlaw painter whose genius made him famous and whose violence made him a fugitive. Rome, 1610. The city is loud, corrupt, holy, and dangerous. Caravaggio thrives in it. Act One drops you straight into the night everything breaks. Inside a dark Roman chapel, Caravaggio confronts his greatest rival and exposes a truth the Church is not ready to control. God does not live in perfection. God lives in flesh, shadow, and brutal light. Outside the church, Rome answers back. Wine turns into provocation. Desire turns into rivalry. Old grudges sharpen. A debt comes due. What begins as swagger spirals into violence, and by dawn Caravaggio’s life in Rome is over. Wanted. Hunted. Unforgivable. A carriage slips through the gates. A boat cuts across black water. Behind him, the city that crowned him now wants him dead. Ahead lies Malta, a fortified island ruled by warrior monks, where faith is enforced with steel and survival demands obedience. Act One is ignition. Art as rebellion. Faith as power. Genius as liability. This is where the fuse gets lit. Cast Dennis Kleinman · Narrator Craig Parker · Caravaggio Dan Lauria · Cardinal Del Monte Bruce Davison · Alof de Wignacourt Shaan Sharma · Stefano della Croce Catherine Lidstone · Lena Sarah Elmaleh · Maria Brendan Bradley · Annibale Carracci Noah James · Ranuccio Tomassoni Josh Sterling · Ottavio Tomassoni Zeke Alton · Giovan Tomassoni Nick Monteleone · Mancini Matt Curtin · Toppa Bjorn Johnson · Pope Paul V Ray Abruzzo · Pope Clement VIII Written by Richard Vetere Executive Produced by Jack Levy, Shaan Sharma, and Mark Knell Table Read is a Manifest Media production. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    41 min
  5. Caravaggio - Trailer

    EPISODE 45

    Caravaggio - Trailer

    Rome. 1610. A painter who sees God in the faces of prostitutes and killers is on the run for murder. His name is Caravaggio. He drinks too much. He loves recklessly. Men, women, it doesn't matter. He picks fights with swordsmen and screams at the heavens in candlelit chapels. He paints the way other men pray, except his prayers are in defiance. And the Catholic Church can't decide whether to pardon him or let the bounty hunters finish the job. This screenplay by Richard Vetere, a Pulitzer nominee and Golden Palm winner whose work has been produced by Francis Ford Coppola, follows Caravaggio from the brothels of Rome to a besieged fortress on Malta where a scarred Grand Master offers him sanctuary and something that looks a lot like love. But sanctuary has a price. And Caravaggio has never paid what he owes without bleeding for it. There are popes making deals in candlelight. Brothers hunting him across the Mediterranean for killing their own. A muse he left behind in Rome who can't wait much longer. A rival painter who despises his work and can't stop staring at it. Knights nailed to crosses and set on fire floating into the harbor at dawn. A prison cell carved into rock like a grave. And an escape across open sea in a fishing boat guided by a boy too afraid to speak. This is not a quiet period piece. This is Game of Thrones in Renaissance Italy with paintbrushes and rapiers. Craig Parker, who played Haldir in Lord of the Rings, plays Caravaggio. Academy Award nominee and Golden Globe winner Bruce Davison plays the Grand Master. Dan Lauria, America's dad from The Wonder Years, plays the Cardinal pulling every string in Rome. Ray Abruzzo, Little Carmine from The Sopranos, plays the Pope. The cast includes Broadway veterans, stars of The Chosen, the voices behind the biggest video games on the planet, and a former Navy test pilot born in Italy playing an Italian swordsman. Fourteen actors. One genius who painted like God was guiding his hand and lived like the devil was chasing him. Turns out both were true. This is Caravaggio. This is Table Read. Listen now wherever you get your podcasts. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    2 min
  6. BONUS: Partner Trailer – HARD DRIVE (Voyage Media)

    EPISODE 45

    BONUS: Partner Trailer – HARD DRIVE (Voyage Media)

    BONUS PARTNER TRAILER Today we’re sharing a sci-fi audio drama trailer from our friends at Voyage Media, creators of multiple #1 fiction podcasts. HARD DRIVE stars Priah Ferguson (STRANGER THINGS) as a young woman who inherits a hard drive containing her late grandfather’s memories. As she explores them, she uncovers instructions he left behind and discovers she may be the key to stopping a global population-control conspiracy. Created by the Neese Twins (UMBRELLA ACADEMY) and produced by Voyage Media (SANCTUARY, ELUCIDITY), HARD DRIVE blends mystery, thriller, and sci-fi with an eight-episode first season available now. Search HARD DRIVE from Voyage Media wherever you listen to podcasts. Listen now: https://www.voyagemedia.fm/show/hard-drive/ See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    3 min
  7. ROOMS OF EXPERIENCE - Act 3

    JAN 27

    ROOMS OF EXPERIENCE - Act 3

    Rooms of Experience, Act 3 By Steffany Sommers Starring Patty McCormack as Ada Wells and Dan Lauria as DA Harvey Davis Everything converges. The courtroom becomes the center of gravity. Every choice Dana made now has a witness. Alexis puts Ada on the stand. And for the first time, the story is told without protection. No strategy. No framing. Just truth. Ada speaks about the years. The fear. The promises she made when no one else would. About loving someone the world was never built for. The room changes. Disability rights advocates clash with prosecutors. Expert testimony collides with lived experience. The line between justice and cruelty grows thinner by the minute. Harvey pushes for a conviction. The system demands closure. The media waits for a headline. Dana is forced to decide who she is when the rules stop helping. Not as a prosecutor. As a human being. The verdict comes down. And nothing about it feels simple. In the end, there is no victory. Only consequence. Only reckoning. Act Three asks the final question. What do we owe each other when love is the only thing left? Starring Academy Award nominee Patty McCormack (The Bad Seed) as Ada Wells with Dan Lauria (The Wonder Years) as DA Harvey Davis Craig Parker (The Lord of the Rings) as Detective Curtis Nicholas Gonzalez (The Good Doctor) as Carter Nora Zehetner (Heroes, Everwood) as Rebecca Alyshia Ochse as Dana Jeffries Candice Coke as Alexis Martinez Eileen Grubba as Gina Gordon Alain Uy as Ethan and narrated by Sarah Elmaleh Table Read is executive produced by Jack Levy, Mark Knell, and Sean Sharma. A Manifest Media production. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    46 min
  8. ROOMS OF EXPERIENCE - Act 2

    JAN 20

    ROOMS OF EXPERIENCE - Act 2

    Rooms of Experience, Act 2 By Steffany Sommers Starring Patty McCormack as Ada Wells and Dan Lauria as DA Harvey Davis The cracks start to spread. Dana tries to outrun the case. Literally. But every answer leads to worse questions. She digs into Teddy’s past. Talks to doctors. Families. People who trusted institutions and paid for it. What she finds isn’t comforting. Facilities where the vulnerable disappear. Bruises explained away. Medication used as control. Silence treated like consent. Ada’s fear wasn’t paranoia. It was experience. Meanwhile, the pressure builds. Disability rights groups mobilize. The media sharpens its narrative. And DA Harvey Davis makes it clear. This case is about optics, not nuance. “No deal,” he reminds her. Win at all costs. Alexis keeps pushing for mercy. Gina watches Ada waste away. Funeral grief turns into physical collapse. The woman who survived everything may not survive this. Dana stands in the middle. Her career on one side. Her conscience on the other. She starts to see herself in Alexis. In Ada. In the choices women make just to survive systems designed without them. By the end of Act Two, Dana knows. This trial isn’t about guilt. It’s about who she becomes when the whole world is watching. And there’s no clean way out. _______________________________ Starring Academy Award nominee Patty McCormack (The Bad Seed) as Ada Wells with Dan Lauria (The Wonder Years) as DA Harvey Davis Craig Parker (The Lord of the Rings) as Detective Curtis Nicholas Gonzalez (The Good Doctor) as Carter Nora Zehetner (Heroes, Everwood) as Rebecca Alyshia Ochse as Dana Jeffries Candice Coke as Alexis Martinez Eileen Grubba as Gina Gordon Alain Uy as Ethan and narrated by Sarah Elmaleh Table Read is executive produced by Jack Levy, Mark Knell, and Sean Sharma. A Manifest Media production. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

    57 min
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Cinema for your ears. Performed by Hollywood’s best. Step inside the studio where Hollywood’s top actors bring award-winning screenplays to life... complete with a full cinematic score, immersive sound design, and the energy of a live performance. Each episode is a front-row seat to a one-of-a-kind production: 20-plus working actors, world-class scripts from acclaimed writers, and film-quality sound crafted by Emmy-winning producers. It’s not just a podcast... it’s a movie you hear. Recent guests include Mark Hamill, Rosario Dawson, Ty Burrell, Joe Mantegna, Fred Armisen, and more. Produced by Jack Levy, Shaan Sharma, and Mark Knell Manifest Media. #1 Fiction Podcast | 2025 Webby, Shorty, and Signal Winner | Cinema for your ears. 👉 TableReadPodcast.com

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