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August 2017 6 Royal we: Three devotees
of the late Diana, Princess of Wales explain why she captivated them as a PBS documentary sheds new light on her life.
8 Starring the sun: NOVA gives
insight into the first solar eclipse in a generation. Where can you see it?
10 A university is born: FGCU
celebrates the 20th anniversary of its first classes this month, and a documentary by WGCU goes back to the beginning. First president Roy McTarnaghan recalls the preamble.
12 The wild Irish coast: Renowned
cameraman Colin StaffordJohnson turns his lens to the creatures and cliffs of Ireland’s western coast.
14 Inside WGCU: Reporters bring
home honors; Invitation to a screening; WGCU is true to our school.
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Watch WGCU HDTV Endeavour, Season 4, Part 1 Sunday, Aug. 20 @ 9 pm
Left: It’s a new season for Constable Morse and Endeavour. On the cover: Diana in 1992. Photo courtesy of Paisly, Scotland
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DIANA Watch WGCU HGTV Diana Tuesday, Aug. 22 @ 8 pm
Southwest Floridian remembers princess who was the queen of hearts By Sunny Lubner, photo courtesy of PBS
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in South Africa where we were part of the British Empire. While many people rejected the royal family, I was an ardent monarchist and loved everything about the House of Windsor. I collected “swaps,” which were like trading cards of the royal family. To this day, I admire the dedication and selflessness of the royals, especially Queen Elizabeth and the late Queen Mum. Flash forward to us living in the United States, a democratic republic with bad memories of the British crown. When Diana Spencer came along, she added muchneeded youth, beauty and modernity to a stodgy institution, and I was as entranced with her as the rest of the world. The royal wedding was an alarm-clock appointment for me! Diana grew into her role as future queen from a fashion icon to a champion of the needy and often unrepresented. Her charity work continues to inspire me, especially her hands-on work with AIDS and leprosy patients. It took courage and showed that she was so much more than a pretty face. She advocated for animal protection and went to Mozambique, which had more unexploded bombs than anywhere in the world. Many of her charities continue to this day and it’s her name that keeps the money rolling in. When she and Charles divorced, I was disappointed that the fairy-tale romance was over but it was never really that. The
passage of time has led me to see that his mother shouldn’t have forbidden him to marry the woman he loved. As a child, I used to wish I could be a princess but the insistence of duty above self has taught me to cherish my privacy. Diana was never that kind of mum! She didn’t delegate the care of her children to nurses and governesses; she got on the ground with them and delighted in their play. She tried to protect those little boys and to give them a more normal life – certainly one with more warmth and laughter than was customary in a royal house. I was watching Saturday Night Live when the network broke in with the news that Diana, Princess of Wales, was dead. I’d hoped it was a tasteless joke but it became apparent that she had, indeed, been killed in a car accident in Paris, escaping the inescapable paparazzi. I remember thinking of a book I’d read as a teenager with the tagline, “Live fast, die young and have a good-looking corpse.” Diana remains eternally beautiful, frozen in time as a stylish, gracious icon of sophistication. Her funeral was heartbreaking. The image of her two little boys, Wills and Harry, being as brave as their station demanded, is indelible, and Elton John’s Candle in the Wind is associated more with Diana than Marilyn Monroe. She represented an ideal Camelot in the same way JFK represented ours. DIANA see page 26
Legacy of inspiration The night Princess Diana died in a car crash in Paris, Marc Collins was visiting his brother in Nashville. It was late in the evening of Saturday, Aug. 31, 1997, and Collins couldn’t pry himself from the television. “I stayed up all night,” Collins said. His brother was amazed that he was still following the story, and even more amazed to hear that he had been crying. “And he said, ‘That’s the most ridiculous thing ever.’” But it certainly wasn’t to Collins. Or to his grandmother, whom he visited next in Cleveland, Tenn. “On my way from Nashville, I stopped and bought this big poster of her and we put it on an easel,” Collins said. “I didn’t work for the next four days. My grandmother sat on one sofa and I sat on another and we watched everything.” Collins thinks he was so fond of her because “she was so hopeful and young.” He admired her work with AIDS patients and the outlawing of land mines – “things that aren’t the most popular, that require you to get your hands dirty. Everything she did was about others and that’s kind of my philosophy.” Collins, 45, lives in Fort Myers and owns an interior design firm. He has been a volunteer and supporter of numerous Southwest Florida charities. Zachari VanDyne was only 14 years old when the princess died but vividly remembers “an overwhelming feeling of sadness.” He believes that his generation looked on her as that fantasy princess idea come to life. “And she looked happy. And as I got older and I learned about all the work she was doing. … and being a humanitarian myself, it was inspiring,” said VanDyne, who operates CasaShanti, an alternative and holistic health space in Fort Myers. “She seemed to go a little bit out of the norm, there was a little bit of a rebellious streak. All of those things together, and her fashion sense, too. “I think she still inspires people.” n wgcu.org
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By Dayna Harpster
ormally, “high and dry” doesn’t sound like a good place to be. But if you’re hot on the trail of the solar eclipse in August, it is.
On Monday, Aug. 21, the first total solar eclipse visible from the continental United States in 38 years happens. And that’s when you want to be high and dry – at some elevation and where it isn’t likely to be cloudy or raining. For eclipse hunters, the other 8 Expressions Aug. 2017
word to focus on is totality. That’s when the Earth, the moon and the sun are in complete alignment and the moon completely covers the sun from the watcher’s perspective. That’s when the real excitement is, according to Dr. Derek Buzasi of FGCU’s astronomy department.
Totality brings darkness. Animals will react as if it’s nighttime for that period. “Birds will get quiet and even bats may come out,” he said. Totality is the only time the eclipse is truly a spectacle – when the moon completely blocks out the sun, leaving only its corona visible
and allowing you to see stars in the daytime. The temperature may drop 10 to 15 degrees as well. But it won’t last long. Astronomy magazine’s online primer to the eclipse says that totality won’t be the same everywhere. The longest totality will be 2 minutes and 40.2 seconds, which will occur for those gathered slightly south of Carbondale, Ill. Apparently there’s a watching event in Giant City State Park. Eclipse watchers in Government, Ore., will be the first to see it, at 10:15:56.5 a.m. But being first comes with a price: Totality there will be shorter: 1 minute, 58.5 seconds. The only big city that will have a great view is Nashville, which will experience more than two minutes of totality. Details on views from other cities are available at astronomy.com. Buzasi will be in Jackson Hole, Wyo. He and former colleagues from the Space Sciences Lab at the University of California, Berkeley made reservations 28 years ago. “I totally forgot about it until I got an email from the resort in Jackson Hole about our upcoming stay,” he said, smiling. He expects the group to number about 40, to include colleagues’ families. The eclipse will be visible without a telescope, although some companies are peddling special sunglasses for the event. According to Buzasi, the only concern for your eyes will be right after totality, when it becomes very bright again after being dark. n
Watch in WGCU HDTV Nova – Eclipse in America Wednesday, Aug. 23 @ 8 pm, followed by Farthest Voyager in Space Wednesday, Aug. 23 @ 9 pm. Click here for a preview
Telescope time-sharing pact helps FGCU scientists
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telescopes will be required for the eclipse. But the bulk of astronomical observation is done through telescopes, including the one at FGCU’s Egan Observatory. But at just .4 meters in diameter – about 1.3 feet – the telescope at FGCU’s Egan Observatory isn’t quite big enough for the research being conducted by the members of the university’s astronomy department. An arrangement in January solved the problem. Along with 13 other universities in the Southeastern Association for Research in Astronomy, FGCU astronomers now have access to three telescopes that each are 1 meter in diameter. These telescopes are retired from universities and have been replaced but are not obsolete, said Dr. Derek Buzasi, Whitaker Eminent Scholar. Universities in the consortium take turns on the telescopes, which are in Arizona, Chile and the Canary Islands. Technology enables the viewer to operate each telescope from wherever it is located. Astronomers work on their own projects and also collaborate with others. Buzasi is researching the optical variability of stars like our sun. He’s looking for changes in size and location of starspots (like sunspots on our sun), and how those changes relate to a star’s age, speed of rotation, and other factors. He’s also looking at stars that are enough like our sun to have planets that could be similar to Earth. Dr. Michael Fauerbach, an astronomy professor at FGCU, has been studying asteroids at the observatory for 15 years. “I also spend part of my allocated nights taking ‘pretty’ pictures (see above) for use in my astronomy classes,” Fauerbach said. “Students usually prefer these pictures over generic textbook images, and they also will get a chance to play with the raw images and to process them.” Dr. Ken Watanabe, an associate professor, is continuing his work on gamma ray astrophysics. n wgcu.org
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FGCU’s first president recalls its ancestral days Watch WGCU HDTV FGCU at 20: The Beginning Thursday, Aug. 24 @ 8 pm
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By Dayna Harpster
irst president of Florida Gulf Coast University talks about the school like a parent would. Along with legislators, state officials, community leaders, bankers, educators and environmentalists – with whom the site selection for the institution was contentious – Roy McTarnaghan labored for many years to give birth to Florida’s 10th university. As FGCU celebrates its 20th anniversary, rewinding its history back to when the first student walked through its doors, McTarnaghan and others recall the years of anticipation and planning. “There had to be a lot of enthusiasm, a lot of pain and a lot of discussion in order to get that birth certificate.” Gov. Lawton Chiles signed that birth certificate before an audience of 300 in Fort Myers on May 3, 1991, after sponsor Rep. Keith Arnold’s bill had passed the Florida House and Senate days before. On May 4, a golf tournament at Bonita Bay Creekside golf course raised $19,000, representing the proceeds of the first university fundraiser. Although the legislature had appropriated $1.2 million in 1991 to get the university off the ground, a foundation was soon needed, too, because state money does not pay for dormitories or athletics, among other staples of a modern university. “By the time we had our first student, we had raised $38 million,” said McTarnaghan, who was one of the foundation’s first officers and president of the university from 1993 to 1999. “It took a lot of people and a lot of energy.” Universities mark their anniversary celebrations in different ways. Some focus on the date legislation was signed – and in fact, the FGCU seal carries the year 1991in recognition of that. Other universities
recognize the day or year their legislation passed. Still others note the year a site was finalized. But McTarnaghan might even unspool the tape of FGCU’s history to 1974, when the University of South Florida began offering college courses in a school in downtown Fort Myers. There had been a recognition of need at that point, he said. Eventually, four buildings housed the USF branch campus in Fort Myers. “There were many years of people promoting the idea that the folks in Southwest Florida didn’t have the same opportunities as young people in other parts of the state,” McTarnaghan said. The common refrain at the time seemed to be that students from Southwest Florida could just go to Tampa or even Gainesville or Tallahassee to a university. But not everybody can do that, McTarnaghan stressed. And besides, “There’s an interaction with the community that happens when there’s a university,” he said. “It brings new industries, new business.” McTarnaghan looks back today on FGCU’s history as if a parent, as well, maintaining that the university is really 26 years old. “When you ask people how old they are, they tell you when they were born and not when their first day of school was.” Regardless, he’s proud of the young institution and quick to credit others for the way it has progressed. “A lot of wonderful things have happened,” he said. “We expect any child that grows up to be different 20 years after they start school than when they went to kindergarten. “More good things will happen in the future. And we are all parents of this baby.” n For more about FGCU's 20th anniversary and theWGCU documentary, go to www.wgcu.org/fgcuat20/
Clockwise from top left: FGCU’s first president, Roy McTarnaghan, and founding vice president for administrative services, Curtis Bullock (in the hard hat), look over plans at the campus site; Gov. Lawton Chiles signs into law the legislation that authorized Florida’s 10th state university on May 3, 1991, in Fort Myers; McTarnaghan and Bullock; one of the FGCU Foundation organizers, Tommy Howard, left, with Gov. Lawton Chiles. Center: The FGCU official seal, dated 1991. Photos courtesy of the Howard Family and the FGCU Archives
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IRELAND By Dayna Harpster
Left to right: Grey seal underwater; Little Skellig; humpback whale tail fluke. Below: Seal colony on Blasket Island. Watch WGCU HDTV Ireland’s Wild Coast Wednesday, Aug. 2 @ 8 pm Click here to watch a clip
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onely Planet defines Ireland’s “Wild Atlantic Way” as the coastal area from West Cork to Donegal. It’s not clear from press materials what exact points mark “Ireland’s Wild Coast” according to PBS this month. What is clear is that areas of this coastline have caused great writers to verbally swoon. Playwright George Bernard Shaw called County Kerry’s Skellig Islands, with its stone huts dating to monks of the 6th century and abundant puffins, “part of our dream world.” Poet Seamus Heaney described the Cliff Coast (highlighted by the Cliffs of Moher and home to 20 varieties of sea birds) as a place that can “catch the heart off guard and blow it open.” This area imprinted itself on Emmywinning wildlife cameraman Colin Stafford-Johnson, who has written and photographed what for viewers is a twohour journey. Presumably, viewers will see why after 30 years filming some of the most exciting places on the planet, Stafford-Johnson chose Ireland’s “Wild Coast” as his home.
With the cameraman as a guide, we’re promised encounters with wildlife including breaching humpback whales off the Skellig Islands’ southern shores. He shows us golden eagles fighting the gales of the northern highlands, and the majestic salmon returning from the
“... areas of this coastline have caused great writers to verbally swoon.” Arctic to face upriver into some of the purest freshwaters in Europe. He also helps us explore the clash of Ireland’s last surviving red deer stags echoing through the area’s highest mountains. Never conquered by the Romans, Ireland was for millennia the edge of the known world for Europeans and the last
stop for countless animals – the last scrap of rock before the void of the Atlantic Ocean. In modern times, the wild Irish coast has yielded dramatic settings for feature films. A mountaintop on Skellig Michael, an island about seven miles off the coast, appears in a scene from the StarWars movie The Force Awakens. It is here that Luke Skywalker hides out and meditates; in the seventh Star Wars film, it is the location of one of the first Jedi temples. The island, which is actually the top of a 400-million-yearold sandstone mountain, was dedicated sometime before 1044 to Saint Michael the Archangel. The Cliffs of Moher play a role in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Harry and Dumbledore stand on a rock that moves in the direction of a cave in a cliff. The rock was filmed about 90 miles south in another location, but the view is all Cliffs of Moher. With dramatic cliffs, exotic creatures and an ace cameraman, Ireland should be quite a sight. n
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Inside WGCU notewor thy by Rick Johnson
We’ve watched each other grow This month, Florida Gulf Coast
University is celebrating its 20th
year of service to Southwest Florida. You may have read or heard us
announce that WGCU Public Media is a “member- supported service of Florida Gulf Coast University” and
wondered what, exactly, that meant.
Well, like 55 of our sister TV stations and 166 of
our sister radio stations around the country, we are
owned and operated by an institution of higher learning -- which in our case is FGCU. The FGCU Board of
Trustees is licensed by the Federal Communications
Commission to operate both WGCU-TV and WGCU-FM
WGCU Public Media invites you to the Southwest Florida premiere of
FGCU at 20: The Beginning Thursday, Aug. 17 @ 5:30 pm Myra Janco Daniels Public Media Center, FGCU
as noncommercial educational broadcast services.
What were the challenges of creating a new university
reports to the office of the Provost and Vice President for
growing states in the country? As the first university built
doors, WGCU-TV/FM served Southwest Florida as WSFP-
laws were enacted, FGCU’s backstory goes well beyond
operated by the University of South Florida in Tampa.
Premieres on WGCU HDTV Thursday, August 24 @ 8 pm
WGCU operates as a department within FGCU and
on the cusp of a new millennium in one of the fastest
Academic Affairs Dr. Ron Toll. Prior to FGCU opening its
in the Sunshine State since environmental permitting
TV/FM – a satellite service of the PBS and NPR stations
the signing of its authorizing legislation in 1991.
Those broadcast licenses were transferred to FGCU and the TV and radio operations were brought under one roof in the first occupied building on the new FGCU campus in 1997.
This August marks WGCU’s and FGCU’s 20th year of
a successful partnership that has seen WGCU grow from
• This event is free and open to the public.
• Reservations are required @wgcu.org/events or call 239.590.2510.
• Light refreshments will be served.
one television and one radio programming service to five 24-hour television and three 24-hour radio channels that
provide a broad range of programming services targeted to the many geographic and demographic communities of Southwest Florida.
WGCU is fortunate to be licensed to such a
supportive institution and to serve such a supportive community. Happy 20th, FGCU! n
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Support for FGCU at 20: The Beginning: Florida Gulf Coast University Foundation Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney Jason’s Deli
Just a click away: Expressions online Wish you had kept that recipe for Chocolate and Ginger Cheesecake that we featured in the June 2017 edition of Expressions? Trying to remember the names of the dancers from Southwest Florida who performed with the Miami City Ballet company? We featured them in a story about Great Performances in the February 2017 issue.You can access the past two years of Expressions at wgcu.org/expressions.
Winning words WGCU’s Jessica Meszaros, center, receives a Regional Edward R Murrow award for excellence in writing at the recent Radio Television Digital News Directors event. WGCU Station Manager and News Director Amy Tardif was on hand for the celebration. Terence Shepherd, WLRN News Director and RTDNA regional director, presented the award.
You can flip through the pages of our digital version of Expressions, watch a few videos for some of your favorite programs, link to the great companies and organizations that advertise in our magazine, and re-read some of your favorite articles. Trying to win an argument with your neighbor about when the dishwasher was invented? Check out page 7 of our May 2017 issue. What’s the story on our new radio host of Gulf Coast Live? Find out in the January 2017 issue. As a member of WGCU, we are happy to mail a copy of Expressions to you each month. If you would prefer to read it online instead of receiving a printed copy, just go to wgcu. org/expressions and you can opt out of the printed version. Whether with the printed copy or online, you can access the great stories and information featured in each issue of Expressions. It’s another way that WGCU demonstrates the power of public media. n
Radio and TV honors From left, Matthew Smith, Amy Tardif, Jessica Meszaros and Quincy Walters celebrate their honors at the recent Public Radio News Directors Inc. event. Meszaros won second place for writing; the station won second place for the documentary Mullet: A Tale of Two Fish, written and produced by Jim Goin (not pictured); and Quincy Walters took home a first place award in the student division for a segment he reported while an intern at WUSF. Walters is now on staff at WGCU. wgcu.org
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AU G U ST T V H I G H L I G H T S 1 TUESDAY
9 pm HD Rare – Creatures of the Photo Ark Part 3 Travel with photographer Joel Sartore to Budapest, Prague and New Zealand to document bizarre rare insects. 10 pm HD Frontline The Vaccine War An examination of the autism vaccine controversy and more.
10 pm E Rare - Creatures of the Photo Ark Part 3 See Aug. 1 for show description.
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9 pm HD The Great British Baking Show Season 4, Patisserie Join the four remaining bakers in the semifinal and learn which three will compete in the final.
8 pm HD Ireland’s Wild Coast Join Emmy-winning wildlife cameraman Colin StaffordJohnson on an authored journey along Ireland’s Atlantic coast.
10 pm HD The Great British Baking Show Season 4, The Finale Find out who will be crowned the winner after the finalists wrestle with meringues and undertake a British classic.
9 pm E American Masters Loretta Lynn From her Appalachian roots to the Oscar-winning biopic Coal Miner’s Daughter, Loretta Lynn struggled to balance family and her music career and is still going strong over 50 years later.
10:30 pm E Bee Gees: One Night Only The group’s 1997 concert at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas is one of the few Bee Gees performances filmed, and it showcases many of their greatest disco and pop hits.
11 pm E American Masters The Highwaymen Discover the story behind the pioneering outlaw country music supergroup that featured Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson.
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8 pm E Rare - Creatures of the Photo Ark Part 1 Join Joel Sartore as he travels to Madagascar and the Florida Keys on his mission to photograph endangered animals for the Photo Ark. 9 pm E Rare - Creatures of the Photo Ark Part 2 Journey with Joel Sartore in Spain, where he photographs the alluring Iberian lynx, and to China to film the Yangtze giant softshell turtle. In Cameroon, he hopes to glimpse the Cross River gorilla, the world’s rarest.
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7:30 pm HD Ethan Bortnick Generations of Music The young singer, musician and songwriter performs. 9 pm HD Folk Legends: Isn’t This a Time! Treasure this last and historic gathering of the artists who defined folk music, including Peter, Paul and Mary, Arlo Guthrie, Pete Seeger and The Weavers. The 2003 Carnegie Hall concert features performances the artists considered among their best. 10:30 pm HD Emmylou Harris at the Ryman Celebrate 125 years of live entertainment at the Ryman with Harris and her acoustic band the Nash Ramblers in a re-creation of their mesmerizing 1991 concert.
Tuesday, Aug. 1 @ 8 pm HD American Experience The Boys of ’36 Explore the thrilling story of the American rowing team’s triumph at the Olympics in Nazi Germany.
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7 pm HD Wuthering Heights The fiery romance of Heathcliff and Cathy reignites in this recent adaptation of Emily Bronte’s classic love story. 10 pm HD Il Volo Notte Magica Join the international superstar trio and special guest Placido Domingo for a magical night of music beneath the stars in Florence, Italy’s beautiful Santa Croce Square. 11:30 pm E PBS Previews: The Vietnam War Sample Ken Burns’ upcoming documentary, due in September.
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8 pm HD The Texas Tenors: Rise From America’s Got Talent to PBS, the trio performs with sophisticated vocals and cowboy charm.
9 pm W Life on the Line San Bernardino Strong Julie never thought she would be where she is now: healing from two gunshot wounds after her co-worker and his wife opened fire at an employee meeting in one of the deadliest terrorist attacks. In the midst of this tragedy, hope lives on. 9:30 pm HD ’70s Soul Superstars (My Music) Join Patti LaBelle for an allstar reunion of the legends of 1970s Motown, R&B and soul, including the Commodores, original lead Eugene Record reuniting with the Chi-Lites, and more.
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Frontline The Vaccine War
ENCORE Antiques Roadshow Vintage Seattle
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8 pm W America Reframed By The River of Babylon An elegy for South Louisiana looks at the disappearing culture and environment: its marshlands and man’s calamitous engineering mistakes, and the unique habitat that gave rise to the Cajun and Creole music, culture and people left in its wake. 9:30 pm W Reel South Can’t Stop the Water A film by Rebecca Ferris tells the story of Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana, and the Native American community fighting to save its culture as its land washes away. 10 pm E Ken Burns: America’s Storyteller American Sampler Explore the depth and breadth of Burns’ work with a special emphasis on films about Thomas Jefferson, Susan B. Anthony, Mark Twain, Jackie Robinson and others.
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8:30 pm W POV Iris Meet Iris Apfel, the quick-witted, flamboyantly dressed 93-yearold style maven who’s had an outsized presence on the New York fashion scene for decades. Albert Maysles’ film shows a woman with an inspirational enthusiasm for fashion, art and people. 9 pm E Il Volo Notte Magica See Aug. 6 for show description.
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8 pm E Paul Simon: Concert In Hyde Park (@ 7 pm) Performances range from The Sound of Silence and The Boxer to 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover and Late in the Evening.
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9 pm E This Land Is Your Land (My Music) Take a musical journey through the evolution of modern American folk music, from its roots in bluegrass to San Francisco coffee houses to clubs in Greenwich Village. 10 pm HD Close to You: Remembering the Carpenters Trace the Carpenters’ career through the eyes of Richard Carpenter and the group’s friends in the music business.
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8 pm E ‘60s Pop, Rock & Soul (My Music) Hosted by icons Peter Noone of Herman’s Hermits and Davy Jones of The Monkees. 9 pm W The Mystery of Matter: Search for the Elements Out of Thin Air (1754-1806) See how the discovery of oxygen by one of science’s great odd couples — Joseph Priestley and Antoine Lavoisier — triggers a worldwide search for new elements. 10:30 pm HD Joe Bonamassa: Live at Carnegie Hall – An Acoustic Evening The guitar great performs at the storied venue.
12 SATURDAY
8 pm W Earth A New Wild Forests Journey deep into the great forests of Earth for a new way of looking at these wild places and the animals that live there. 9 pm W Earth A New Wild Oceans Dr. M. Sanjayan draws on his own ocean experiences to reveal a vibrant community of scientists, engineers and fishermen who are providing solutions that can help restore the oceans in astonishing ways.
Wednesday, Aug. 9 @ 8 pm HD Sgt. Pepper’s Musical Revolution Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, the groundbreaking album that ranks No. 1 on Rolling Stone’s 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
9:30 pm E Rhythm and Blues 40: A Soul Spectacular Celebrate legendary artists of the 1960s and ’70s brought together in concert.
13 SUNDAY
8 pm HD Endeavour Season 3, Part 4, Coda Recruited by a college mentor to monitor the movements of his estranged younger wife, Endeavour finds himself drawn to the woman he is investigating. 8:30 pm E Great Performances Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy Why has the Broadway musical proven to be such fertile territory for Jewish artists of all kinds? 11:30 pm HD You Are the Universe with Deepak Chopra MD According to Chopra, each of us is a co-creator of reality extending to the vastest reaches of time and space.
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8 pm HD Magic Moments: The Best of ’50s Pop Recording artists of the 1950s reunite and perform; they include The McGuire Sisters, Debbie Reynolds and Rosemary Clooney. 9:30 pm W On Story From The Golden Age to the Platinum Age: A Conversation with Ed Begley Jr. With hundreds of film and television credits to his name, including Better Call Saul, A Mighty Wind, and Six Feet Under, second generation actor Ed Begley Jr. talks about what he looks for when choosing new projects, finding the pain in a character, and working with Christopher Guest and other comedy legends. 10 pm HD The Bee Gees: One Night Only See Aug. 4 for show description.
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8 pm W America Reframed Kivalina At the edge of the world, the Inupiaq people are fighting for survival. Learn about life on this namesake island that teeters on the edge of the North Pacific. 9:30 pm W Reel South Red Wolf Revival Three decades ago, the nearly extinct red wolf was reintroduced in North Carolina. While this flagship conservation effort paved the way for reintroducing several other species across the country, today fewer than 100 wild red wolves remain. 11 pm E Emmylou Harris at the Ryman See Aug. 5 for show description.
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8 pm HD JFK: The Lost Inaugural Gala Enjoy performances from Frank Sinatra, Ethel Merman, Harry Belafonte, Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Gene Kelly and more in this presidential gala event taped in 1961 but until recently not broadcast on television. 9:30 pm HD Rocktopia: A Classical Revolution Immerse yourself in this revolutionary performance that fuses classical music with classic rock in a concert filmed live at the Hungarian State Opera House in Budapest. 10:30 pm E Simon & Garfunkel: Concert in Central Park Join the iconic duo and the more 500,000 fans who came out for this once-in-a-lifetime 1981 benefit for the world’s most famous urban park. The concert features the pairs’ greatest hits.
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8 pm E WGCU Pledge Favorites Tune in for the best of WGCU. 9 pm W City in the Sky Departure Learn what it takes to get a million people off the ground — from building the world’s biggest passenger plane to controlling the flow of passengers through the busiest airport on the planet. 10 pm W PBS NewsHour The hour-long news broadcast, hosted by Judy Woodruff, offers news updates, analysis, live studio interviews, discussions and foreign correspondents.
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8 pm W How We Got to Now with Steven Johnson Light See how a French scientist accidentally discovered how to create neon light, leading to a revolution in advertising. Dispelling the myth of the individual “eureka” moment, Johnson reveals that teamwork and collaboration led the way to the most transformative ideas. 11 pm W Nightly Business Report The long-running financial news program delivers the latest from Wall Street and other major markets from across the world.
Sunday, Aug. 20 @ 10 pm W Nature’s Great Race Caribou Join 100,000 caribou as they face hungry bears and wolves, deadly frozen rivers and rugged mountains as they undertake the world’s longest land migration: 3,000 miles through the frozen Arctic wilderness of Canada and Alaska. 10 pm W America Reframed Kivalina See Aug. 15 for show description.
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9 pm HD Endeavour Season 4, Part 1 Follow Endeavour, who while struggling with Joan Thursday’s sudden departure, is consumed by a nightmarish hunt for a serial killer. He must race against time to find the connection between a chessplaying “thinking” machine and a baffling drowning.
9 pm W Operation Maneater Crocodile Mark Evans travels to Namibia’s Chobe River, a place that’s known as the croc attack capital of the world.
11 pm W Nature’s Great Race Zebra Witness the perilous journey of thousands zebra as they face lions, hunting dogs, drought and starvation as they brave a brutal Botswana wilderness to undertake Africa’s longest land migration.
11:30 pm W Asia Insight See an in-depth portrait of Asia today.
8 pm HD WGCU Favorites See what’s hot on public television.
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9 pm HD NOVA Eclipse Over America Join scientists and citizens as they observe the first total solar eclipse to traverse the United States mainland in more than a generation. Discover the history of eclipse science and follow cutting-edge research into the solar corona. 10 pm HD To Catch a Comet Follow orbiter Rosetta as it attempts to land on the surface of a comet. 11 pm E In Their Own Words Queen Elizabeth II Follow Queen Elizabeth II’s remarkable life, from her youth to her uncle’s abdication, her father’s coronation as King George VI, her experience during World War II, her sudden ascension to the throne and her eventful reign of more than 60 years.
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8 pm HD Diana Twenty years after Princess Diana’s death, this new film reveals her story in her own words. What emerges is the narrative of a shy young girl who stepped onto the world stage in 1980 and departed in 1997 as its most famous woman. 9 pm HD Secrets of Althorp – The Spencers Take a tour of Althorp, childhood home and final resting place of Princess Diana, with her brother Charles. 11 pm E Nazi Games – Berlin 1936 See how the Nazis and the IOC turned a relatively small, elitist sports event into an epic global and mass media spectacle.
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8 pm HD NOVA Eclipse Over America See Aug. 21 for show description. 9 pm HD Farthest Voyager in Space In 2012, Voyager 1 left our solar system and ushered us into the interstellar age. 10 pm E Princes of the Palace Witness the lives of three generations of British royal princes, from 95-year-old family patriarch Prince Philip to his great-grandson Prince George.
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8 pm HD FGCU at 20: The Beginning What were the challenges of creating a new university on the cusp of a new millennium in one of the fastest growing states in the country? FGCU’s backstory goes beyond the signing of its authorizing legislation in 1991.
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10 pm E NOVA Chasing Pluto Join NOVA for New Horizons’ historic flyby of Pluto, the culmination of the spacecraft’s nine-year, 3-billion-mile journey to reveal the first detailed images of this strange, icy world at the edge of our solar system. 11 pm E Humanity from Space From the perspective of space, trace humankind’s journey from hunter-gatherer to dominant global species. With data and CGI, the program shows how we’ve transformed our planet and produced a world of extraordinary complexity.
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9 pm HD Great Performances Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2017 Enjoy the Vienna Philharmonic’s concert led by Christoph Eschenbach with Renee Fleming as soloist. 10:30 pm HD FGCU at 20: The Beginning See Aug. 24 for show description.
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10 pm W America Reframed A Will for the Woods Musician, folk dancer, and psychiatrist Clark Wang prepares for his own green burial, determined that his final resting place will benefit the Earth. 11 pm W Highpointers Two college-age women attempting to climb the highest peaks in 50 states meet their match in Wyoming.
Friday, Aug. 25 @ 8 pm E Remember Me Part 1 Learn what happens after Tom (Michael Palin) enters assisted living and a social worker falls to her death. Traumatized, Tom is taken to hospital. Inexplicably, the folk song Scarborough Fair angers and agitates him. A ghost haunts Hannah’s dreams. (Followed by parts 2 and 3.)
11:30 pm E The Royal Paintbox The Prince of Wales makes a journey through history to celebrate the artistic gene in his family and reveals an extraordinary treasure trove of work by royal hands past and present, many of whom were accomplished artists.
27 SUNDAY
8 pm E Great Performances at the Met Idomeneo See Mozart’s early masterpiece of love and vengeance in the aftermath of the Trojan War. 9 pm HD Endeavour Season 1, Part 2 Canticle When morality advocate Joy Pettybon receives a death threat, Endeavour must protect her at all costs. But the arrival of a rebellious band, The Wildwood, quickly drags Endeavour into a bloody war of social attitudes that just had its first fatality. 10 pm W Humanity from Space See Aug. 24 for show description.
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8 pm E Roosevelts: An Intimate History Part 1, Get Action (1858-1901) A frail, asthmatic young Theodore Roosevelt transforms himself into a vigorous champion of the strenuous life, loses one great love and finds another, leads men into battle and then becomes the youngest president in history at 42. 9 pm W Life on the Line The Lasting Impact Wilber “Wil” Alexander has sat at the bedside of the sick and the dying for the past 40 years, inviting the wounded to tell their stories. 10 pm E Roosevelts: An Intimate History Part 2, In The Arena (1901-1910) Murder brings Theodore Roosevelt to the presidency, but in the seven years that follow, he transforms the office and makes himself perhaps the best-loved of all the men who ever lived in the White House.
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8 pm E Roosevelts: An Intimate History Part 3, The Fire of Life (1910-1919) Theodore Roosevelt leads a Progressive crusade that splits his own party, undertakes a deadly expedition into the South American jungle, campaigns for American entry into World War I — and pays a terrible personal price. 9 pm W Not Without Us Follow seven grassroots activists from around the world to the 21st U.N. Climate Talks in Paris. 10 pm E Roosevelts: An Intimate History Part 4, The Storm (1920-1933) Franklin Roosevelt runs for vice president in 1920 and seems assured of a still brighter future until polio devastates him the following summer.
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9 pm HD NOVA Zeppelin Terror Attack In the early days of World War I, Germany, determined to bring its British enemies to their knees, launched a new kind of terror campaign: bombing civilians from the sky. 11:30 pm W Focus on Europe The weekly magazine provides audiences an inside perspective on the diversity of people, places, conflicts and coexistence that define Europe.
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8 pm W Wild Weather See how weather works with brave, ambitious (even unlikely) experiments that show how nature transforms simple ingredients like wind, water and temperature into something spectacular and powerful.
Wednesday, Aug. 30 @ 8 pm HD Earth’s Natural Wonders Extreme Wonders, Part 1 Visit extreme locales, including Mount Everest’s Khumbu Icefall and its dangers to sherpas; the Grand Canyon, where conservationists try to ensure a condor chick’s survival; and the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, where farmers battle with elephants. 9 pm W City in the Sky Arrival What goes up must come down — and getting passengers safely back to earth depends on complex global networks and some astonishing technology. Learn what’s involved.
11 pm E History Detectives Special Investigations The Disappearance of Glenn Miller One of the most beloved entertainers of the wartime era takes off from England, heading to France to entertain troops. His plane vanishes.
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Exciting news for space cadets While adults are focused this month on PBS shows about the solar eclipse and the 40th anniversary of the Voyager project, kids can space out, too, as a new adventure debuts for the Propulsion family on Ready, Jet, Go! Young Jet Propulsion’s friends Sean and Sydney get to travel along with the family when they return to their home planet, Bortron 7. As ever, the animated kids learn about friendship
and teamwork as they explore the solar system and the effects it has on Earth. Dr. Amy Mainzer of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory is the real (human) science curriculum consultant for the show, which debuted last year on PBS. A new Jet game also launches this month. Find it at pbskids.org/apps Check online at wgcu.org/tv/schedules for dates and times.
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Sunday mornings are for Japanese journeys As Journeys in Japan starts its third season, English-speaking visitors continue to travel the length of the country exploring the culture, meeting local people, visiting historic sites and offering travel hints rarely found in guidebooks. The series provides an eyeopening look at the many unique places to visit in Japan. In this month’s episodes, printmaker David Bull visits Kinosaki Onsen, one of the most famous hot spring resorts in western Japan, to soak in the hot spring baths. While there he also dines on the winter-time delicacy of fresh crab, visits a retro game arcade, and gets to know some of the local people over drinks and karaoke. Malaysian model Deborah Ten visits Nara City, the former capital of Japan, known for its historic temples and artwork dating back to the eighth century. Many of the shrines boast beautiful gardens, and during her travels, Ten follows The Yamanobe Road (the oldest recorded road in Japan), to discover vistas of wild flowers. Irish poet and Professor Peter MacMillan travels to Akiu (known for its scenic beauty), where he hikes in the hills, meets local artists, and immerses himself in the same hot springs that were a favorite of 16th century warrior and leader Date Masamune. Tune in to the Create channel at 9:30 a.m. on Sundays, Aug. 6, 13 and 20.
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I certainly admire Diana’s elegance but the love she earned, during her life and since, is more complicated. In the glare of a still-fascinated Marc Collins world and unable to offer her side, we’ve learned of her demons: a deep insecurity, depression, bulimia and suicidal thoughts. The public loves her not in spite Zachari VanDyne of these all-toohuman failings, but because of them. After the divorce and despite losing her title, she said, “I’d like to be the queen of the people’s hearts.” That she was and always will be: Diana, the People’s Princess. n Sunny Lubner was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, and has been active in theater since childhood. She graduated from Trinity College of London, teaching drama while also acting in repertory. She and her husband, Clive, immigrated to the USA in 1978 with their two children, Claudia and Daniel. Her family owns Clive Daniel Home in Naples and are ardent supporters of public radio and TV.
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Examine the power of fasting – a spiritual discipline practiced in many world religions to foster gratitude for the food we’re given and to encourage an understanding of people who suffer from hunger. Theologian/activist Jim Wallis, soup kitchen founder Cathe McKenna, and philanthropy scholar Paul Schervish explore the motivations – and challenges – of helping those in need. Aug. 13 Renewables / The Green Economy
Although climate change poses a daunting global threat, Tufts policy expert Bill Moomaw is encouraged by recent rapid progress in renewable energy, which is being adopted on a very large scale in nations from Germany to China. Van Jones, the inspiring founder of Oakland’s Green for All, offers his vision of a “green collar economy” that would help to rescue not only our battered financial system but also the environment. Aug. 20 Maintaining Concentration / Building Libraries
George Mumford teaches top athletes the “superpowers” of mindfulness, concentration, insight, right effort and trust as techniques to strengthen performance and avoid the trap of spiritual demise. A successful Microsoft executive tells how he switched to nonprofit work promoting literacy in the developing world and founded Room to Read, after witnessing impoverished conditions while trekking in Nepal at age 35. Aug. 27 The Story of Alcoholics Anonymous
Alcoholics Anonymous, which was founded in the Depression, began when one hopelessly addicted drunk realized that connecting with a fellow sufferer would create a safe zone in which both could stop their downward spiral. We examine the AA recovery principles that have promoted sobriety for millions of recovering alcoholics and have created a template to help people worldwide who struggle with many forms of addiction. n wgcu.org
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2 opportunities to learn from the master of Italian cooking 11 am @ Mediterra Club House in Naples • Meet Lidia and learn how to celebrate life Italian style • Dine on an exclusive Italian meal prepared by Mediterra Club House • Receive a copy of Lidia’s Celebrate Like an Italian (2017) $400 per couple
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