BONUS Episode 7 | TIME TRAVEL 2023

“If you could travel back in time, where would you go and why?”  This is our 2nd TIME TRAVEL Bonus episode. We picked 5 guest responses to our time travel question from the 2nd season of the podcast. Go back in time with:  NAHIR OTAÑO GRACIA, Medievalist and scholar who joined us for a conversation about the Netflix series VIKINGS VALHALLA; PEARL MACKIE who appears in the PBS MASTERPIECE series’s reimagining of British author Henry Fielding’s 18th century comic novel, TOM JONES; JULIAN LEDFORD, a french literature and language professor who shared his thoughts on the film CHEVALIER and the real-life composer Joseph Bologne the Chevalier de Saint George; GAYLE WALD, English professor and biographer of Sister Rosetta Tharpe, one of the rock and roll trailblazers of the 20th century depicted in the biopic ELVIS; and JOHN VALADEZ, a Peabody Award-winning filmmaker whose 2007 documentary THE  HEAD OF JOAQUIN MURIETA just happens to be the same title and topic of the 2023 western drama series on Amazon Prime about the legendary Mexican outlaw Joaquin Murieta. Time Stamps 0:08 Intro 0:49 Time Travel Lightning Round 2:34 Nahir Ortaño Gracia/Middle Ages, A Time of Possibility 6:50 Pearl Mackie/Civil Rights Movement, A Time of Power 9:20 Julien Ledford/18th Century Musicologist 11:24 Gayle Wald/To See the Blues Queens On Stage For Real 13:57 John Valadez/Going Into the Great Unknown 19:03 Audience/Tell Us Where You Would Time Travel 19:38 How to Contact 20:46 Disclaimer TRANSCRIPT AVAILABLE AT THIS LINK - PLEASE NOTE: TRANSCRIPTS ARE GENERATED USING A COMBINATION OF SPEECH RECOGNITION SOFTWARE AND HUMAN TRANSCRIBERS, AND MAY CONTAIN ERRORS. STAY ENGAGED with HISTORICAL DRAMA WITH THE BOSTON SISTERS LISTEN to past podcasts starting with the guests featured in this bonus episode SIGN UP for our mailing list SUBSCRIBE to the podcast on your favorite podcast platform You can SUPPORT this podcast with a monthly donation on Spotify or SHOP THE PODCAST on our affiliate bookstore Thank you for listening!