Historical Drama with The Boston Sisters
— a podcast where we talk about historical drama series and films. Biopics, Adaptations, and Costume Dramas—stories that give us a window to the past, and a mirror of the present. Makers, writers and other guests join us in the conversation about what’s new in historical drama and what’s worth watching. Hosted by real-life sisters Michon and Taquiena Boston who binge on historical drama.
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Michon is a writer (New York Times, Washington Post Magazine, Washington CityPaper) and media impact producer who works with documentary and narrative films to raise awareness and inspire action on the critical concerns of our times. She is also a cultural historian, and walking tour guide who brings the history of DC’s jazz age and literary history to life. Michon is the author of “Iola’s Letter: The Memphis Crusade of Ida B. Wells,” a play about the anti-lynching newspaper woman and activist, Ida B. Wells. She is writing a play inspired by “The Three Musketeers” author Alexandre Dumas’s food writings. While a student at Oberlin College she received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to research the history of Black women who attended Oberlin in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Meet The Boston Sisters
Michon and Taquiena Boston are real-life sisters who grew up surrounded by history in Washington, DC, where their parents introduced them to movies and took them to museums as entertainment.
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Taquiena Boston, a culture change strategist and coach, has earned theater degrees from Howard University and the University of Michigan. In addition to streaming and binge watching historical drama, Taquiena enjoys travel -- especially by train -- museums, fashion, reading food history and cookbooks, and cooking. Her interests and adventures are influenced by watching films about history and historical dramas, including a train ride she made from Paris to Venice on the refurbished Orient Express. She saved for the trip as a special birthday gift after seeing the film, “Murder on the Orient Express.”
Ep. 49 - Unpacking PACHINKO: A Mother-Daughter Conversation
Episode 49 we talk about PACHINKO, the 2022 Apple TV+ series based on Min Jin Lee’s epic novel about 4 generations of Koreans from the early 1900s to the 1980s. Korean-adoptee and everything Korean blogger Kat Turner, and writer, artist, entrepreneur Taylor Turner for a mother-daughter conversation about PACHINKO
Ep. 48 - Charles H. Red Corn’s Novel Elevates Osage Culture in KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON
Episode 48 features a conversation about the Martin Scorsese film KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON with Dr. Moira RedCorn and brother Yancey Red Corn, members of the Osage Nation. Yancey Red Corn appears in the Martin Scorsese film as Osage Chief Arthur Bonnicastle and Moira Red Corn was an extra in the film. Yancy and Moira’s father, the late Charles H. Red Corn authored the novel, A Pipe for February, released by the University of Oklahoma Press over 10 years before David Grann’s book Killers of the Flower Moon. Both books were optioned for the film which has received 10 Academy Award™ nominations.
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