Episode 70 goes behind the scenes of CALL THE MIDWIFE with Jenny Agutter who portrays Sister Julienne in the series. Jenny Agutter has been with CALL THE MIDWIFE since the series premiere in 2012. Created and written by Heidi Thomas, CALL THE MIDWIFE is based on the trilogy of memoirs by Jennifer Worth about her experiences as a midwife nurse in London’s East End during the 1950s (Season 14 is set in 1970).

In episode 69 we spotlight the PBS Masterpiece series WOLF HALL: THE MIRROR AND THE LIGHT, and a visit to the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC for an exhibition, “How to Be a Power Player: Tudor Edition” curated by our podcast guest, Dr. Heather Wolfe Curator of Manuscripts for the Folger.

The 2024 film BLITZ, directed by Steve McQueen, which follows a nine-year-old biracial boy named George during World War II. The film explores George's journey in London and his encounters with racial hostilities. Guest Tré Ventour-Griffiths, a historian, discusses the portrayal of Black histories in the UK, particularly before, during and after World War II.

The Boston Sisters have selected BOYCOTT from their historical drama watchlist for a conversation about the film, the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and the nuts and bolts that built a local movement that ended segregation on public transportation in Montgomery and nationwide.

In episode 66, The Boston Sisters (Michon and Taquiena) dive into the Tyler Perry film THE SIX TRIPLE EIGHT with Brenda L. Moore, associate professor of sociology at the University at Buffalo and author of “To Serve My Country, To Serve My Race: The Story of the Only African American WACS Stationed Overseas During World War II.” Both the book and film tell the story of the only Women’s Army Corps unit of color to serve overseas in World War Two and their extraordinary mission.

Part 2 of The Boston Sisters’s (Michon and Taquiena) conversation with award-winning poet, literary activist, and author E. Ethelbert Miller about A COMPLETE UNKNOWN, the Academy Award-nominated biopic about musician/songwriter Bob Dylan featuring Timothée Chalamet.

In episode 64, The Boston Sisters (Michon and Taquiena) are talking with award-winning poet, literary activist, and author E. Ethelbert Miller about A COMPLETE UNKNOWN, the biopic about musician/songwriter Bob Dylan featuring Timothée Chalamet, inspired by the book “Dylan Goes Electric!: Newport, Seeger, Dylan, and the Night That Split the Sixties” by Elijah Wald. 

In Episode 63, filmmaker Billy Luther (Navajo, Hopi and Laguna Pueblo) takes us inside the writers room for the AMC series DARK WINDS. Billy is story editor, writer and director for the series based on the Leaphorn and Chee detective novels by Tony Hillerman set on the Navajo reservation.

Episode 62 features a conversation with Constanza Romero, widow of American playwright August Wilson and executive producer for THE PIANO LESSON based on Wilson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play directed by Malcolm Washington and featuring John David Washington, Danielle Deadwyler, and Samuel L. Jackson.

Episode 61 features a conversation with Native American filmmaker Billy Luther about his 2023 feature film FRYBREAD FACE AND ME, a coming-of-age story. Two young cousins bond during a summer in 1990 with their Diné-speaking grandmother at her ranch on the Navajo reservation in Arizona.

Podcast SEASON 4 PREMIERE - Episode 58 brings you a conversation with Viet Thanh Nguyen, about the adaptation of his Pulitzer Prize-winning espionage, thriller, cross-cultural satire The Sympathizer into an HBO miniseries. THE SYMPATHIZER is directed by Park Chan-wook featuring a Vietnamese cast -- Hoa Xuande, Fred Nguyen Khan, Duy Nguyen; also featured are Robert Downey Jr., (in 4 roles) and Sandra Oh.

Episode 57 features a conversation with actor Rishi Nair who portrays Alphy Kottaram the new vicar in the PBS MASTERPIECE MYSTERY! GRANTCHESTER.

Episode 56 features a conversation with actor Ruth Gemmell, best known as Lady Violet Bridgerton in the BRIDGERTON series and its prequel QUEEN CHARLOTTE: A BRIDGERTON STORY from Shonda Rhimes’s Shondaland based on the Regency romance novels by Julia Quinn.

Episode 55 features a conversation with Damianne Scott “Dami,” creator of Black Girl Loves Jane about the Regency-era Shondaland series BRIDGERTON now in its 3rd season on Netflix. What would Jane Austen think about the people of the ton? Are we seeing a surge in new historical drama fans as a result of “The Bridgerton Effect”?