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November 16, 2009HAPPY BIRTHDAY SESAME STREET!
November 10, 2009Today – November 10th 2009 SESAME STREET celebrates its 40th Birthday!! Many of us grew up with Sesame Street and now have children or grandchildren doing the same.
Sesame Street is an important part of WVPT’s programming efforts on PBS KIDS.
“Beatlemania” in the Soviet Union – The Untold Story. . .
November 8, 2009“HOW THE BEATLES ROCKED THE KREMLIN” is the extraordinary and untold story of how the Beatles punctured the Iron Curtain. In August 1962, award-winning director Leslie Woodhead made a two-minute film, in Liverpool’s Cavern Club, with a raw and unrecorded group of unknown rockers — the Beatles. Twenty-five years later, while making a series of [...]
On The Next NOVA: Part 2 of “Becoming Human”
November 8, 2009In “Birth of Humanity,” the second part of the three-part series “Becoming Human” NOVA investigates the first skeleton that really looks like us–”Turkana Boy”–an astonishingly complete specimen of Homo erectus found by the famous Leakey team in Kenya. These early humans are thought to have developed key innovations that helped them thrive, including hunting large [...]
All You Want To Know About . . . LIZARDS!
October 19, 2009They look like dragons and inspire visions of fire-spitting monsters. But Monitor Lizards with their long claws, razor-sharp teeth, and muscular, whip-like tails are actually monitors, the largest lizards now walking the planet. With their acute intelligence, these lizards—including the largest of all, the Komodo dragon—are a very different kind of reptile, blurring the line between reptiles [...]
Latin Music USA
October 19, 2009Watch Part Two of “Latin Music USA” and see the stories of Mexican-Americans in CA, TX and across the Southwest who have created their own distinct musical voices during the second half of the 20th century. Their music would play an important role in the struggle for Chicano civil rights and ultimately propel them from [...]
Season 5 of “Art in the 21st Century” Premieres October 7th
October 5, 2009Art:21–Art in the Twenty-First Century is the only series on television to focus exclusively on contemporary visual art and artists in the United States, and it uses the medium of television to provide an experience of the visual arts that goes far beyond a gallery visit. Fascinating and intimate footage allows the viewer to observe the [...]
On The Next NOVA: “Darwin’s Darkest Hour”
October 5, 2009With this new program, NOVA takes a different approach in it’s “delivery” of content, in this two-hour scripted drama which tells the remarkable story behind the unveiling of the most influential scientific theory of all time, Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. The program is a special presentation from NOVA and National Geographic [...]
Do You Believe In Ghosts? On the Next NOVA, an Interesting Twist!
September 20, 2009Scientists have long puzzled over the different fates of identical twins: both have the same genes, yet only one may develop a serious disease like cancer or autism. What’s going on? Does something else besides genes determine who we are? NOVA explores this startling possibility in this program.
The “something else” turns out to be a [...]
Next Time on NATURE: “Violent Hawaii”
September 20, 2009Hawaii’s breathtaking beauty was forged in fire, created by the awesome power of volcanoes on land and in the sea, by earthquakes and tsunamis, natural wonders that continue to shape the islands today. Shot in high definition by a team of award-winning filmmakers who live on the islands, this spectacular film features volcanic eruptions, rivers [...]
