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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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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Ep. 34 - THE HEAD OF JOAQUÍN MURRIETA — How The West Was Lost

Documentary filmmaker JOHN VALADEZ joins us for a conversation about THE HEAD OF JOAQUÍN MURRIETA, the Amazon Prime Western series that shares the same title as Valadez’s 2017 PBS documentary. In his film Valadez believes he has the actual head of Joaquín Murrieta, the legendary Mexican outlaw who blazed a trail of revenge across California until he was caught and decapitated in 1853.

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Ep. 20 - Chosen Family in A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN

A League of Their Own, co-created by Abbi Jacobson (who plays Carson Shaw in the Amazon Prime series), and Will Graham, is inspired by the 1992 film directed by Penny Marshall, and the untold stories of Black women baseball players, and Latina and queer women who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) in the 1940s. We talk with author and poet Toni Asante Lightfoot about the character Max Chapman (Chanté Adams), an African American player from Rockford (home of the Rockford Peaches), who is turned away from the AAGPBL tryouts because of her race. With the support of her family including her trans uncle Bertie, best friend Clance, and the African American community, Max must forge her own way to play the game she loves in a segregated world.

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