Podcast host Rico Gagliano (The Wall Street Journal, The Dinner Party Download) has been an audio creator for almost two decades. A graduate of the American Film Institute, he reported around the world for the popular public radio business program "Marketplace," before co-creating, co-hosting, and co-producing "The Dinner Party Download"— an arts-and-culture podcast and radio show that was broadcast on nearly 200 public radio stations and downloaded over 30 million times. His award-winning interviews for the show included conversations with legendary filmmakers from D.A. Pennebaker to Jordan Peele. He went on to host, produce, write and story edit top 10 podcasts for Wondery, Pushkin Industries, Crooked Media, and Focus Features. Rico writes frequently about travel for The Wall Street Journal. 

Simran Hans is a writer, film critic and broadcaster in London. Her writing on film and culture has been published in The Guardian, The New York Times, The Financial Times, New Statesman and Sight & Sound among many other places. She is the co-writer and co-host of Twenty Twenty, a podcast about pop culture from the year 2000. Simran was also a film critic for The Observer for five years and is a member of the London Critics Circle.