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

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.

In Episode 47 we talk about the biopic RUSTIN with Robert Raben, founder of the March On Washington Film Festival and The Raben Group, a national public affairs and strategic communications firm in Washington, DC. Featuring Academy Award™ nominated actor Colman Domingo as Bayard Rustin, the film RUSTIN shines a long overdue spotlight on the extraordinary man who, alongside giants like the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Adam Clayton Powell Jr., and Ella Baker, dared to imagine a different world, and inspired a movement for freedom.

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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.

Another exciting new season for PBS MASTERPIECE!  Executive producer SUSANNE SIMPSON returns to the podcast to talk about the 2nd season of the World War II drama WORLD ON FIRE and other historical dramas new and continuing in 2023-24 on the award-winning PBS drama series.

In episode 40 we’re talking with Robert Hofler, author of The Way They Were: How Epic Battles and Bruised Egos Brought a Classic Hollywood Love Story to the Screen. Coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the release of THE WAY WE WERE, Hofler’s book is the definitive account of how THE WAY WE WERE changed the rules of moviemaking and redefined the Hollywood romance genre.

In episode 39, we talk with Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and journalist Kai Bird about the Christopher Nolan film OPPENHEIMER, based on the 2005 book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer co-authored by Kai Bird and the late Martin J. Sherwin.

The Sanditon Sisterhood #SaveSanditon campaign helped renew SANDITON for 2 additional seasons after it was canceled in its 1st season by ITV in the UK before its U.S. premiere on PBS MASTERPIECE in 2020. The How did they do it? We talk with Juliet Creese and Moni Sengupta, part of the Sanditon Sisterhood Strategy Group about their experiences, the friendships that came out of the fandom campaign, and if fans got the Jane Austen ending they were hoping for?

The Boston Sisters talk about five books they’re reading that have been adapted from page to screen, including dramatic film, musicals, and series. The book list includes fiction and nonfiction film and series premieres scheduled this fall, during the holidays, and anticipated dates in 2024, along with titles available for streaming now.

Professor of French and French Studies Julian Ledford brings to life the historical Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-George who is dramatized in the film CHEVALIER with Kelvin Harrison Junior in the title role.

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.

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.

The Boston Sisters welcome back SHARON D. JOHNSON, script and story consultant for MASTERPIECE and SANDITON. In part 2 of a 2-part conversation, we focus on Georgiana Lambe, her search for her mother, and the relationships she’s made in Sanditon to protect her inheritance, reputation and find true love. SANDITON is based on Jane Austen’s unfinished novel.

The Boston Sisters welcome back SHARON D. JOHNSON, script and story consultant for MASTERPIECE and SANDITON. In part 1 of a 2-part conversation, we focus on the themes of Marriage, Love, and Friendship between new and familiar characters over the past 3 seasons of SANDITON series based on Jane Austen’s unfinished novel.

A “watchers guide” to Viking dramas starting with VIKINGS: VALHALLA now in its second season on Netflix. Alex Chisnall, host of the popular business podcast “Screw It Just Do It” is our guest and guide. Alex, who is close to Viking history in the UK and shares our enthusiasm for history. He not only got us curious about VIKINGS: VALHALLA, and other Viking-themed dramas but also helped launch “Historical Drama with The Boston Sisters” podcast.