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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.

Episode 46 commemorates the 50th anniversary of THE STING, winner of 7 Academy Awards including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay. Paul Newman and Robert Redford play two con men who team up to pull off the ultimate big con to swindle a ruthless crime boss. Our guest is veteran casino operator and author Geno Munari who shares behind-the-scenes stories of cons and scams in THE STING and real life.

JULIA, based on the life of the "French Chef" star and cookbook author Julia Child, is back for a 2nd season on Max. Also back on the podcast is wine expert and restaurant strategist Janet Cam, co-founder of Washington, DC's storied Le Pavillon restaurant, the first nouvelle cuisine restaurant of its kind in the U.S. We talk about the challenges for Julia Child to recreate classic French dishes in the U.S., women in the culinary industry, and Julia and Janet's journeys and adventures through wine and food in the domestically and abroad.

Carla L. Peterson is back! The author of the 2011 book “Black Gotham” that inspired the Scott family in HBO’s THE GILDED AGE joins us for a conversation on “taste” as a value reflected in the lives of 19th century Black middle class communities in Manhattan and Brooklyn. We also talk about the separate and elite lives of 19th century New York “old money,” “new money,” and the Black elite and how they’re interpreted for the 2nd season of THE GILDED AGE.

Episode 42 features THE GREAT “by request” by podcast subscriber MARSHA WEINER and a conversation with SAM DIXON, food stylist for THE GREAT’s 2nd and 3rd seasons for a behind-the-scenes look at food in the satirical comic series about the rise of Catherine the Great.

Episode 19 is devoted to fashion – past and present – inspired by the film MRS. HARRIS GOES TO PARIS. Guest Shazia Saleem, fashion designer, sustainable fashion expert and founder of Pop London talks about luxury fashion and couture as a global phenomenon influenced by contemporary concerns about sustainability of people and planet; also how clothes help us recall special memories and can represent life changing adventures.

In season 8, of the PBS MASTERPIECE Mystery! series ENDEAVOUR, the year is 1971. We see the impact of events from season 7 where Endeavour Morse suffered a major loss that sets off a grieving process triggering self-doubt, alcohol abuse, and a cynic’s perspective that puts him at odds with his mentor, Fred Thursday. Preacher, teacher, counselor and activist Rev. Dr. Rob Hardies joins us for a conversation about the challenges of becoming an adult through Endeavour Morse's experiences. ENDEAVOUR is the prequel to the INSPECTOR MORSE television series inspired by characters in Colin Dexter’s detective novels.

It’s been said that murder mysteries satisfy our need to feel that there is justice in the world and a moral order, which is expressed in the character of Agatha Christie’s genius detective Hercule Poirot. But does solving the murder really close the case especially for Poirot’s conscience? In episode 16 The Boston Sisters talk about three film/tv movie adaptations of Agatha Christie’s 1934 novel MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS.

Shondaland's Bridgerton (Netflix) presents a Regency Britain where people of diverse colors, races, and cultural backgrounds meet and mate through choreographed matchmaking in grand ballrooms and frollicking country estates of "the ton." Part 2 of our 2-part podcast about season 2 of Bridgerton and the entrance of the Sharma family from Bombay continues with special guest Durba Ghosh, professor of history at Cornell University and author of Sex and Family in Colonial India: The Making of Empire.

Shondaland's Bridgerton (Netflix) presents a Regency Britain where people of diverse colors, races, and cultural backgrounds meet and mate through choreographed matchmaking in grand ballrooms and frollicking country estates of "the ton." Part 1 of our 2-part podcast about season 2 of Bridgerton and the entrance of the Sharma family from Bombay with special guest Durba Ghosh, professor of history at Cornell University and author of Sex and Family in Colonial India: The Making of Empire.

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.

HBO Max's JULIA is inspired by Julia Child's extraordinary life and her long running public television series, The French Chef, which pioneered the modern cooking show. In this podcast, The Boston Sisters riff on impressions of the HBO Max series and Julia Child's impact on American cooks, public television, and our own palates with restaurant consultant and wine expert, Janet Cam, who was the co-owner of America’s first nouvelle cuisine restaurant, Le Pavillon.

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.

It was 50 years ago in March 1972 whenThe Godfather had its world premiere in New York City. We talk with Dan Moldea, an investigative journalist who specializes in organized crime about his work and the cultural impact of The Godfather film on real life and crime movies. And, inspired by one of the film’s most quoted lines, we’ve added a Special Edition: a conversation with Eater DC’s senior associate editor Tierney Plumb on where to find the best cannolis.

The Boston Sisters talk Jeannie Barbour, the Chickasaw Nation Productions Content Producer, about Chickasaw films focus on First American stories, historical films, and the Chickasaw Nation Productions feature films Te Ata and Montford: Chickasaw Rancher on Netflix.

The artistic journey of Chadwick Boseman, best known for the iconic role T’Challah/Black Panther in the Marvel Universe films. The Boston Sisters talk with professor Vera J. Katz and classmate, director/playwright Psalmayene 24 about Boseman’s formation as a directing student at Howard University, his work creating hip hop theater with Howard classmates, and finally how his performance as Levee Green in the film adaptation of the August Wilson play Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom brings Chadwick Boseman’s artistic journey full circle.

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.

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.

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.