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. 46 - Costumes That Bring History to Life: A Conversation with Costume Maker Eric Winterling
In Episode 46, we talk with Eric Winterling who realizes the costume designers’s vision for 2 historical dramas set in New York City: THE GILDED AGE and THE MARVELOUS MRS. MAISEL. Eric’s New York City costume studio, Eric Winterling Inc., brings costume designers’s visions and history to life for stage and screen.
Ep. 35 - Pearl Mackie Reimagines Honour in TOM JONES
In Ep. 35 we’re talking with actress Pearl Mackie about the PBS MASTERPIECE mini series TOM JONES. Pearl Mackie plays Honour Newton, the worldly-wise trusted lady’s maid of Sophia Western (Sophie Wilde) in a 4-part reimagining of Henry Fielding’s comic novel, The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling, published in 1749.
Ep. 13- SANDITON Regency Fiction and Racial History
Historical Drama with The Boston Sisters (ep. 3) Susanne Simpson, Executive Producer of the PBS drama series, MASTERPIECE, shares how this 50-year phenom is changing to bring more diversity to the stories, casts, and creative production of historical dramas, fiction adaptations, and mystery series set in the past with UK partners.
Ep. 11 - SANDITON’s Crystal Clarke: Becoming Georgiana Lambe
Historical Drama with The Boston Sisters (ep. 3) Susanne Simpson, Executive Producer of the PBS drama series, MASTERPIECE, shares how this 50-year phenom is changing to bring more diversity to the stories, casts, and creative production of historical dramas, fiction adaptations, and mystery series set in the past with UK partners.
Ep. 6 - Mary Poppins, the Disruptor
Mary Poppins, who flew from the London skies into the lives of the Banks family, was the kind of disruption this family needed. We revisit the 1964 Disney film Mary Poppins with coach and speaker Pete Cohen for a conversation on how disruptors like Mary Poppins can be motivational and help us grow.
Ep. 5 - Moving Beyond WEST SIDE STORY
The release of a new film production of West Side Story (directed by Steven Spielberg) sparked this conversation with Felix Sanchez, founder and co-chair of the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts, about representation of Latinos in film and dramatic series.
Ep. 4 - A Charles Dickens CHRISTMAS CAROL Reinvented
In this episode co-hosts Michon and Taquiena talk about Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, based on the 2019 FX reinterpretation of Dickens’ iconic story. And The Man Who Invented Christmas, which was adapted from Les Standiford’s biographical book of the same title.
Ep. 3 - PBS MASTERPIECE: Conversation with Executive Producer Susanne Simpson
Historical Drama with The Boston Sisters (ep. 3) Susanne Simpson, Executive Producer of the PBS drama series, MASTERPIECE, shares how this 50-year phenom is changing to bring more diversity to the stories, casts, and creative production of historical dramas, fiction adaptations, and mystery series set in the past with UK partners.
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