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WGCU Invites You to Explore the World A Trip of a Lifetime for Fans of PBS British Dramas
Caribbean Yachting and WGCU’s Birding Adventure
With Dr. Jerry Jackson, ornithologist and host of With the Wild Things
See England like you’ve never seen it before. 15 Days & 9 Filming Locations Including: London; York; Portwenn; Bath; Cotswolds; Cambridge; Cornwall; and Stonehenge.
May 19 – June 3, 2018 Hotel accomodations at Millennium Bailey’s Hotel, Principal York Hotel, Royal Crescent Hotel Bath, Greenbank Hotel Falmouth, Foxhills Club. $8,650 Per person, double occupancy, plus airfare (Final payment due Dec. 15, 2017)
Dozens of Attractions Including
Highclere Castle • St. Michael’s Mount • Cornish Mine •
Enjoy ocean view accommodations, gourmet meals, wine with lunch and dinner, and open bar with premium brands. Includes exclusive birding expeditions in Guadeloupe and St. Barts.
March 3 – 10, 2018 Bridgetown, Barbados to Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas Exclusive WGCU Fares $3,591 - $4,491 per person, double occupancy (Final payment due Dec. 3, 2017)
Ports of Call March 3
Bridgetown, Barbados
Lost Gardens of Heligan • Lancaster House • Stonehenge
March 4
Mayreau, St. Vincent & the Grenadines
Madingley US Cemetery • Bronte Parsonage Museum •
March 5
Port Elizabeth, Bequia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines
York Minister Cathedral • Castle Howard • Chavenage House •
March 6
Le Marin, Martinique, F. W. I.
March 7
Deshaies, Guadeloupe, F. W. I.
Windsor Castle • Chatham Dockyards • Churchill War Rooms • North Yorkshire Moors Railroad • Harewood House • Southwark Cathedral • Hatfield House
March 8 & 9 Gustavia, St. Barts, F. W. I. March 10
Charlotte Amalie, St. Thomas, U.S.V.I.
Join us Thursday, Nov. 16 @ 3:30 - 5 pm at WGCU to learn more more about WGCU’s Birding Adventure with Dr. Jerry Jackson. Then at 5:30 pm, stay to learn about the 2018 Brit Masterpieces tour. RSVP at wgcu.org/events. (A portion of the proceeds benefit WGCU Public Media)
To learn more, contact Debra Lee Nashed
Debonair Concierge Travel Services, LLC
[email protected] | 239.228.7554 or 508.942.6322
More Opportunities to Travel with WGCU Sept. 6-20, 2018
Safari on the Plains of Africa $7,859
(Per person, double occupancy. Includes airfare, hotels, attractions and 33 meals.)
Explore the scenic vistas and magnificent wildlife of Kenya with numerous safari game drives bringing you in search of lions, elephants, buffalo, leopards and rhinoceros. Your stay inside the beautiful Masai Mara Game Reserve features a traditional bush dinner and full-day game drive. Learn more at a travel seminar Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2018 12 - 2 pm at Stewart Travel of Naples.
Go to wgcu.org or call 239-590-2361 for more information.
Award-winning PBS host and best-selling cookbook author Lidia Bastianich is coming to Southwest Florida Join WGCU as we welcome Lidia Bastianich, host of PBS hits Lidia’s Kitchen, Lidia’s Italy in America and Lidia’s Italy.
Saturday, Feb 3, 2018
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 a Lidia-inspired Italian meal and wines prepared by Mediterra Club House • Receive a copy of Lidia’s Celebrate like an Italian (2017) • Sponsored by The Naples Trust Company and Quarles & Brady LLP • Hosted by Linda and Tom McGinnis $400 per couple 4 pm @ Naples Hilton • Laugh and learn with this icon of Italian living and cooking • Receive a copy of Lidia’s Celebrate like an Italian (2017) $100 per person $130 per person includes a meet & greet with Lidia @ 5:30 pm
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November 2017 6 Watching a hawk: As Nature
debuts a story of novelist Helen Macdonald’s second go-round with training a goshawk, local ornithologist Jerry Jackson prefers to watch the hawks around here.
8 Letterman’s legacy:
Southwest Floridians recall being in the audience for Dave’s show, as the iconic host receives the Mark Twain Prize for Humor at the Kennedy Center.
10 WGCU, when Irma came to call: What was it like
to report on the storm? WGCU staff members talk about recent time spent as part of Florida Public Radio Emergency Network.
12 After the war: Ric Burns’
documentary The VA: The Human Cost of War gives a national view of the Department of Veterans Affairs. We add the local 411.
14 Inside WGCU: Concerts and
events; Goodbye, Amy; Save the date for Giving Tuesday.
16 TV schedules 27 Radio schedules Watch WGCU HDTV The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years Saturday, Nov. 5 @ 8 pm Click here to watch a preview
On the cover: 10 years after she trained her first goshawk, writer Helen Macdonald trains another in H is for Hawk. Here, the new bird perches on her gloved hand.
Photo courtesy of Mike Birkhead Associates
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URBAN HAWK
By Jerome A. Jackson
... some are permanent, some are ‘snowbirds’
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WHEN
we think of hawks, we often think of wide-open spaces, wild areas – not of city streets and backyards.Yet the most common and commonly seen hawk in south Florida – the red-shouldered hawk – lives in our midst. It lives in habitats we’ve created. It accepts us as neighbors, tolerating our presence with apparent inquisitiveness. This association with humans occurs throughout its range in eastern North America and in California, but nowhere do these hawks seem more abundant or people-friendly than in south Florida. A red-shouldered hawk often remains perched as we walk toward it to get a better view or to take a photo, seeming as interested in us as we are in it. Red-shouldered hawks are intimately associated with forested areas and forest edges – especially near wetlands – hence their absence from the arid west. Indeed, I tell my students that they can easily identify a red-shouldered hawk by the rust on its shoulders at the bend of its wings, jokingly suggesting that it gets that rust from being in the swamp so much. My lame humor helps them link the bird with its habitat. Rust color at each shoulder and broad black bands alternating with narrow white bands on a redshouldered hawk’s tail make this hawk easily identifiable. An adult red-shouldered hawk has an almost waffle-like pattern of orange red bars on the breast and pale rust bars on the belly and the feathers of its legs.Young red-shouldered hawks show less rust than adults, the white bars of their tails are more gray than white, and they have breasts heavily marked with vertical streaks formed of nearly linked teardrop spots of brown. Red-shouldered hawks are with us year-round, but some northern red-shouldered hawks migrate to Florida for the winter. Northern birds typically have darker heads than the residents. The red-shouldered hawk often perches on a tree branch, fence post or utility pole, and typically hunts from a perch. But it also soars, riding the wind on wings that span 3 to 4 feet. Females are larger than males, thus better capable of defending a nest and young – even against a hungry mate. A good view of a soaring red-shouldered hawk can reveal why it was given the
scientific name lineatus – meaning lined. The black and white lines on its spread wings and the broad black bars separated by narrow white bars on its tail are boldly conspicuous and help people identify it. The perfect view of those lines would be if you were lucky enough to see a red-shouldered hawk sunning. To sun, birds spread their wings and tail while on the ground in full sun. Ultraviolet light of the sun is believed to kill feather parasites and when sunning a bird almost seems to be in a trance. I photographed one in a forest opening at Corkscrew Sanctuary as it remained sunning for at least 20 minutes before returning to its perch to hunt. As hunters red-shouldered hawks perch patiently for long periods, watching for potential prey. They’re generalists, eating a diversity of insects, frogs, lizards, small snakes, small mammals, fish stranded as pools dry up, and only occasionally a small bird. The blue jay seems to recognize the potential danger posed by a red-shouldered hawk and bedevils a hawk, keeping the neighborhood aware of its presence by mimicking its characteristic loud “kee-ahr” – a call the hawk gives mostly before and during nesting season, but that the blue jays voice year-round. The blue jay’s imitation also may divert the attention of other birds from their nests, providing opportunity for a jay to feed on chicks or eggs of other songbirds. After all, a hawk in the neighborhood isn’t the only predator in town. n Jerome A. Jackson is a professor emeritus at Florida Gulf Coast University and a wellknown ornithologist.
Above: A red-shouldered hawk often remains perched as we walk toward it, seeming as interested in us as we are in it. Opposite: Red-shouldered hawks are associated with forested areas and forest edges – especially near wetlands. This image was captured at Corkscrew Swamp. Below: Young red-shouldered hawks show less rust color than adults, the white bars of their tails are more gray than white, and they have breasts heavily marked with vertical streaks formed of nearly linked teardrop spots of brown. Photos by Jerome A. Jackson
Watch WGCU HDTV H is for Hawk: A New Chapter Wednesday, Nov. 1 @ 8 pm Listen WGCU FM With the Wild Things Weekdays @ 7:20 am
WGCU Birding Adventure with Dr. Jerry Jackson See page 2 or visit wgcu.org/events for information about this travel opportunity.
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Watch WGCU HDTV David Letterman: The Mark Twain Prize Monday, Nov. 20 @ 8 pm Click here to watch a clip
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So many Late Nights By Dayna Harpster
L
ots of local people were in the audience for a David Letterman show. That’s probably not surprising since he reigned over late-night television for 33 years. Late Night with David Letterman started in February 1982 on NBC. He switched over to CBS in 1993 for the Late Show with David Letterman, which ended in May 2015. Bill Murray was a guest on Letterman’s first and last shows. And between those years, Letterman hosted another 6,026 shows and a late-night legend was made. As the comedian and writer receives the Mark Twain Prize for Humor at the Kennedy Center in a program airing this month on PBS, we hereby adapt his signature feature:
TOP 10
Things Southwest Floridians Observed as Audience Members at a David Letterman Show
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It was freezing in the theater. Three people who attended tapings in different years said the studio was an icehouse.
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You’d get a good seat if you looked like a celebrity. According to Mark Loren, “They grabbed us off the street because my wife looked exactly like Sandra Bullock ... then they put us in the front row!”
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Popular songs of the day played in the theater before the show started. The set looked much smaller in person than it did on TV. Because it was taped in New York, anything could happen to slow you down when you were trying to get to the theater. Here’s what Mike Braun recalled about his experience in 2000: “My wife and I … were walking down Broadway and were passing by the Ed Sullivan Theater when, all of a sudden, a man comes running out of the front door and up to us, and asks me if I know the name of Dave Letterman’s sidekick. I blurted out ‘Biff Henderson.’ He gave us two passes to that night’s show, being taped just an hour or so later. Cool. We were excited. “We did a little shopping nearby, buying a bunch of things, oddly enough including a package of porcupine quills to use as decoration back home. During our shopping spree we got locked into the store because presidential candidate Al Gore was in the neighborhood and Secret Service was checking everything. “We finally got unlocked and made a dash for the studio because it was time for the taping. When we get there we find the only guest that night is, Al Gore! We have to submit to Secret Service questioning and, even though they look at our package of porcupine quills, they let us in. LETTERMAN see page 26
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Watch WGCU HGTV NOVA Killer Hurricanes Wednesday, Nov. 1 @ 9 pm Click here to watch a preview Left to right: John Davis, Jessica Meszaros, Kevin Trueblood, Rachel Iacovone, Michael Stepp, Quincy Walters, Julie Glenn, Richard Chin Quee
OBSERVATIONS WGCU staff shares what it’s like to hold down the public media fort in a hurricane
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a member of Florida Public Radio Emergency Network, WGCU is one of 13 public radio stations that reach 99 percent of Florida residents during statewide emergencies. As with everyone who calls Southwest Florida home, the devastating wrath of Irma put WGCU radio staff to the test. After all, it’s the job of the WGCU radio reporters to keep you informed and the job of WGCU’s broadcast engineers to keep the station on the air. To accomplish this goal meant living at the WGCU studios – in many cases with family and pets included. Here are a few of their experiences. Some are serious, others light, and the latter is in no way meant to minimize the pain Irma caused many people.
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Photo by Bob Kline
It was quite a production for the Chin Quee family
From the GM: What hath Irma taught
Social media coordinator worked up a storm
WGCU Production Manager Richard Chin Quee is accustomed to filling multiple roles around the studio, and during Irma he added a few more. Of course, the most important thing was ensuring top-of-the-hour oneminute weather updates, then 10-minute updates, from FPREN reporters and local journalists Jessica Meszaros and Quincy Walters, who were stationed at the Collier and Lee Emergency Operations Centers. Once the storm was here, Chin Quee also supervised the 24-hour, “wall-to-wall” coverage – “which means we start talking and don’t stop until the storm is gone,” he said. Meanwhile his wife, Kristina, and daughter, Zoey, 5, made themselves at home in the broadcast building. Zoey wrote all over the whiteboards in the conference rooms and chased John Davis’ dog, Finn, Chin Quee said. Chin Quee’s roles expanded to include de facto chef, he said, as well as musician. He brought his guitar and Walters brought his trumpet, and they played together in the evenings for the next several days as they waited for power at their homes. “We became like a little pop-up family,” Chin Quee said.
• It’s really convenient to sleep in your office for a week. Wake up, roll out of bed and you’re at your desk. • (Visiting) Washington Post video and print reporters, NPR reporters and producers were Harvey veterans suffering bad hurricane fatigue. (When the power went out in the hotel rooms where the Post reporters were staying, they sought refuge at WGCU.) • Watching the WGCU news team coalesce, mature and gain three years of experience in three days was rewarding. So proud of their teamwork and dedication. • WGCU Engineering team was amazing. WGCU-TV, WGCU-FM, WMKO-FM remained on the air throughout the storm. • I’m very thankful WGCU studios were built to withstand a Category 3 storm – and wish all buildings were. • On a lighter note: Beware of suddenlyfriendly dogs. They only want your fried chicken. Editor’s note:The human associated with that dog, John Davis, confirmed this. Finn is a 3-year-old male Chihuahua mix.“He has had fried chicken before,” Davis said.“He knew exactly what he was doing. I heard Rick yell out his name from my office and then Finn ran in with the chicken in his mouth and hid under my desk to eat it.”
WGCU Social Media Coordinator Tara Calligan started her storm experience at home in south Fort Myers, but moved from her apartment to a friend’s house in Fort Myers’ Botanica Lakes, where there was more room for family and pets. And it was not in a flood zone. She worked posting social media updates via phone about 15 hours a day Thursday through Sunday. “It was something inside me that I had to get this information out to people, regardless of what my plans were,” Calligan said. Earlier her boyfriend, Tom Sparkes, had realized he had to step up and make some plans for the two of them and their cat, Luna, because Calligan continued to be single-minded. “My alerts from Florida Storms Facebook and app were going off at 11 pm, 1 am and 5 am,” Calligan said. “He finally said to me, ‘You need to turn that off and get some sleep.’” “At 6:30 pm on Sunday it started to get really nasty outside and I contacted the news team and said ‘I’m out. I can’t upload anymore,’” she added. At that point, Calligan and Sparkes pulled the blender out of the freezer and poured themselves strawberry pina coladas.
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The Lee County VA Healthcare Center in Cape Coral. Photo by Michael Donlan
Watch WGCU HDTV The VA and the Human Cost of War Monday, Nov. 6 @ 9 pm
The VA:
MORE THAN HOSPITALS By Dayna Harpster
IN 1636
the settlers at Plymouth Colony were at war with the Pequot Indians. To help their fellow colonists – soldiers disabled in the war – the Pilgrims passed a law pledging the colony’s support for the injured. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs traces its history to that time. But in TheVA:The Human Cost of War, airing this month on WGCU HGTV, filmmaker Ric Burns asserts that the starting point for the VA was the Veterans Bureau in the 1920s. Burns’ work is an hour-long documentary, and surely a century of history is enough to tackle. In publicity materials, producing studio Steeplechase Films calls the VA a “beleaguered American institution.” The film explores “how and why it has changed over time, how it has come to be broken in critical ways in recent generations and how it may be reformed going forward.” Another documentary airing this month in two parts on the World channel delves into what happened in that 17th century Pilgrim-Pequot war. Mystic Voices:The Story of the PequotWar airs Nov. 18. Narrated by Academy Award-winner Roy Scheider, the documentary covers “a pivotal event in early American history that set the stage for the ultimate domination of all Native Americans by Europeans,” according to the distributor, American Public Television. An inauspicious beginning, if so, by the contemporary view that looks askance at Columbus’ “discovery” of America and the notion of manifest destiny. Regardless, few would argue against the need for a governmental entity that organizes and oversees the wellbeing of America’s veterans. That entity began assisting veterans with medical needs only, then expanded to include specific facilities for that care, adding programs for widows and dependents, vocational programs and others. As life – and wars – became more complicated, so did the methods and facilities required to treat them and the programs needed to ensure quality of life, like home loans and the GI bill. n
So what does the VA do today? Earlier this year, President Donald Trump appointed Dr. David J. Shulkin as secretary of the VA. The Senate confirmed the appointment in February. Shulkin is a medical doctor with a background in health care administration. He previously was the undersecretary of the department. The VA secretary is a member of the Cabinet. The VA system comprises 1,700 sites of health care involving 9 million veterans. Among them is the Lee County VA Healthcare Center in Cape Coral. It handles issues and problems from mental health and substance abuse to women’s health, dental and eye health, surgery, orthopedics, nutrition, diagnostics, physical therapy and more. The Cape Coral center opened in December 2012. It replaced the VA Outpatient Clinic that was located in Fort Myers. There are also VA Centers all over the country, including 26 in Florida, that offer counseling for veterans of war zones and their loved ones. Nationally, the VA employs about 378,000 people. Its program costs ran $273 billion for the fiscal year ended in September 2016. In addition to health care, the VA oversees disability benefits, vocational training, education assistance, home loans, life insurance and burial and memorial benefits to eligible veterans and family members. wgcu.org
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Inside WGCU notewor thy by Rick Johnson
Your port in the storm You may have heard us talk
Now hear this! Three upcoming chances to enjoy a concert and support WGCU:
A Salute to Vienna Tuesday, Jan. 2 Barbara B Mann Performing Arts Hall Tickets are $200 per pair
Celtic Women Tuesday, Mar. 6
about the Florida Public Radio
Barbara B Mann Performing Arts Hall
FPREN, once or twice in the past
and $250 general admission
Emergency Network or its acronym,
Tickets are $330 meet & greet
couple of months. Hurricane Irma
provided us plenty of opportunity to sing FPREN’s praises. Until a few years ago, Florida’s public radio stations
Texas Tenors
were a loose confederacy, in times of emergency sharing
Thursday, March 8
limited interconnectivity and the lack of a comprehensive
Tickets are $150 per pair
information as best they could within the constraints of
Barbara B Mann Performing Arts Hall
plan. Thanks to the vision of our colleagues at WUFT at
the University of Florida in Gainesville that is no longer the case.
Spearheaded by WUFT Executive Director Randy
For information, go to wgcu.org/events or call 239-590-2361
Wright and meteorologist Jeff Huffman, in cooperation with stations across the state and our statewide
association, Florida Public Broadcasting Service – FPREN – was created. Consisting of 13 public radio stations linked by state-of-the-art equipment and informed by the latest
meteorological technology, custom forecasts and shared reporting, it ensures that stations like WGCU across the state can keep you informed and up to date.
Before and after the power went out, WGCU was
there for you with calm, concise and correct information and instruction. Aided by FPREN’s free mobile app,
Florida Storms, those in Irma’s way and wake could track
evacuation routes, locate shelters and find relief resources while on the road or sitting tight at home.
Thanks to the support of the Southwest Florida
legislative delegation, WGCU and our sister stations across
the state are able to provide lifesaving, timely and accurate information.
WGCU and FPREN… when trouble strikes, we’ve got
you covered. n
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#GivingTuesday 2017 is November 28: Save the date WGCU is proud to be a part of the global celebration of giving. For more than 30 years, parents have trusted WGCU to provide a safe place for children to learn with the belief that media should spark children’s curiosity and expand their possibilities. That’s why on this #GivingTuesday, we’re asking you to help WGCU raise $10,000 to support WGCU’s 24/7 PBS Kids Channel. Follow WGCU Public Media on social media to learn more.
Amy Tardif receives a photo signed by the WGCU staff from General Manager Rick Johnson. Photo by Dayna Harpster
Tardif heads north with StoryCorps We recently bid farewell to longtime WGCU colleague Amy Tardif, our FM news director and station manager. Fortunately she’s staying in the NPR family, having moved to Chicago to direct the StoryCorps production facility there. It would be impossible to list all of Tardif’s impacts and accomplishments here. Among the highlights: Her program Lucia’s Letter on human trafficking received a prestigious Peabody Award, an Edward R. Murrow Award, a gold medal from the New York Festivals and first place for Best Documentary from the Public Radio News Directors Inc. She was the first woman in radio to chair the Radio, Television and Digital News Association She was twice selected to serve as a managing editor for NPR’s Next Generation Radio Project and held positions on a number of industry boards of directors. Closer to home, Tardif was the producer and host of Gulf Coast Live Arts Edition for eight years and spent 14 years as WGCU’s local host of NPR’s Morning Edition. Amy spent five years as producer and managing editor of WGCU-TV’s former monthly environmental documentary programs In Focus on the Environment and Earth Edition. She was instrumental in the planning and growth of Florida Gulf Coast University’s journalism department. “Amy’s 25-year career at WGCU was stellar,” said General Manager Rick Johnson. “Her rise from reporter to Morning Edition host to News Director to FM Station Manager was fueled by her dedication to journalistic excellence. She leaves behind a talented, committed staff and a continuing legacy of that same journalistic excellence. We will miss her but all of us at WGCU wish her the best in her new career with StoryCorps.”
Hear something new On Fridays at 1 pm on WGCU 90.1|91.7 FM, we’re bringing you expanded state coverage featuring journalists and newsmakers discussing the biggest stories of the week. The Florida Roundup is a callin program hosted by Melissa Ross and Tom Hudson with reporting and analysis from Florida public radio journalists, including reporters from WGCU. Let us know what you think of this new radio news programming. Comment on Facebook, or join the conversation by calling (800) 743-9576. Stream the show online at wgcu.org or download WGCU’s free mobile app at wgcu.org/app/
Pitch in and lend your voice to Radio Reading WGCU’s Radio Reading Service presents printed materials via a special radio broadcast to persons who are blind, physically impaired or print handicapped. Each weekday morning, dedicated volunteers read local newspapers including the shopping ads. The newspapers presented as part of this special radio broadcast include The News-Press, the Naples Daily News, the Sarasota Herald Tribune and many independent weekly newspapers. We invite you to become a part of the Radio Reading team by volunteering to read for an hour or two a week. Learn all about this meaningful volunteer opportunity by calling 239.590.2530 or email
[email protected].
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N OV E M B E R T V H I G H L I G H T S 1 WEDNESDAY
8 pm HD Nature H is for Hawk: A New Chapter Helen Macdonald’s best-selling book H Is for Hawk told the saga of a grieving daughter who found healing in training a goshawk. 9 pm HD Nova Killer Hurricanes Follow a team of experts investigating the Great Hurricane of 1780 that killed more people than any other Caribbean hurricane.
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8 pm W Secrets of the Dead Teotihuacan’s Lost Kings Follow a team of scientists exploring tombs beneath the ancient city of Teotihuacan. 9 pm W Secrets of the Dead Leonardo, The Man Who Saved Science Leonardo da Vinci is well known for his inventions as well as his art. But new evidence shows that many of his ideas were realized long before he sketched them out in his notebooks — some even 1,700 years before. 10 pm E Nature Snow Monkeys In the frigid valleys of Japan’s Shiga Highlands, a troop of snow monkeys make their way and raise their families in a society of rank and privilege.
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8:30 pm W Nobody Dies: A Film About a Musician, Her Mom and Vietnam Indie singer-songwriter Thao Nguyen journeys to Vietnam for the first time and brings her mother, who hasn’t been back since the fall of Saigon.
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9 pm HD Great Performances Noel Coward’s “Present Laughter” Enjoy legendary Tony Award winner Kevin Kline in Noel Coward’s backstage comedy about a self-obsessed actor in a midlife crisis amidst fawning ingenues and crazed playwrights. 11 pm E Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries Ruddy Gore At a gala performance of Gilbert and Sullivan’s Ruddigore, Phryne Fisher meets the gorgeous Lin Chung who has rescued the theater’s leading man from some thugs in a dark alley in Chinatown.
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8 pm HD Antiques Roadshow Our 50 States, Part 1 Celebrate America’s hidden treasures from all 50 states in part one of this two-hour special, with finds such as a Thomas Hart Benton oil on tin, a Kentucky sugar chest, and a 1960 inscribed To Kill a Mockingbird. 9:30 pm W Plainspirits Based upon Beth Cooper’s book, Ghosts of Kansas, this show features the first-hand paranormal experiences of dozens of Kansans. 10 pm W America Reframed Vegas Baby Some think an in-vitro fertilization contest sounds bizarre, but countless Americans desperate to start a family believe this social media experiment is their only hope.
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8 pm HD The Durrells in Corfu Season 2, Part 4 Larry is back home recovering from the mumps. Aunt Hermione arrives with a spiritualist friend who promises to get in touch with Louisa’s dead husband.
Wednesday, Nov. 1 @ 10 pm HD Frontline Putin’s Revenge, Part 2 See how the U.S. struggled to confront Putin over Russian meddling in the 2016 election. 9 pm HD Poldark Season 3, Part 6 Rev. Whitworth puts Morwenna through the tortures of the damned. Agatha and George cross swords in a deadly match. Demelza has an admirer who owes his life to Ross.
10 pm HD The VA and the Human Cost of War Explore the history of the Department of Veterans Affairs, from the troubled beginnings of the Veterans Bureau of 1920s to the modern VA system.
10 pm HD The Collection on Masterpiece, Part 5 On a weekend at his partner’s chateau, Paul expels unwelcome guests. Charlotte makes her move. Nina shames Billy. Claude chastens Caesar. Back in Paris, Victor meets Dominique and tragedy ensues.
8 pm HD Finding Your Roots Season 4, Black Like Me Bryant Gumbel, Tonya Lewis-Lee and Suzanne Malveaux discover a tapestry of the unexpected in their ancestry, revealing slaves and free people of color, Civil War legacies and forgotten European origins.
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9 pm W Debt of Honor: Disabled Veterans in American History Take an unflinching look at the reality of warfare and disability in this history of disabled veterans.
9:30 pm W Stories from the Stage Oops! Surprise! Kemp Harris describes a life-changing moment at a stop sign; Jannelle Codianni must confess that magic is not always real.
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8 pm HD Nature The Cheetah Children For nearly two years in the forested hills of Zimbabwe, wildlife cameraman Kim Wolhuter shadowed a wild cheetah family on foot. 9 pm HD Nova Killer Floods Uncover geologic fingerprints of colossal floods that violently reshaped the ancient world. 10:30 pm E American Experience Death and the Civil War With the coming of the Civil War and the staggering casualties it ushered in, death entered the experience of the American people as it never had before.
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8 pm W On Home Ground: Life After Service An intimate look into the lives of three veterans who returned home to the Adirondacks in New York after deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan. 9 pm W Long Road Home See compelling stories of Pittsburgh-area military veterans of Vietnam, Korea and World War II still coming to terms with the emotional wounds of war. 10:30 pm E The Address At the Greenwood School in Putney, Vermont, students grappling with an array of challenges use the Gettysburg Address as a tool for success.
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9 pm HD Great Performances In the Heights: Chasing Broadway Dreams Follow a group of talented young creators led by composer-lyricist Lin-Manuel Miranda as they produce an original musical.
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10 pm HD Landmarks Live in Concert Foo Fighters Rock with the great American stadium rock band, captured in peak performance at the iconic ancient amphitheater at Athens’ Acropolis, hosted by Chad Smith, Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer. 11:30 pm E Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries Murder In Montparnasse As a young woman in Paris after the war, Phryne posed for the famous artist Pierre Sarcelle. Ten years later, Sarcelle’s widow arrives in Melbourne asking for her late husband’s paintings — and then suddenly disappears.
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7 pm W War Journal: The Incredible WWII Escape of Major Rocky Gause American airman Damon “Rocky” Gause escaped a prison camp on the Bataan Peninsula in 1942, swam to nearby Corregidor Island, and then sailed with U.S. serviceman William Lloyd Osborne in a leaky 20-foot fishing boat from the Philippines to Australia. 8:30 pm W Ice Warriors – USA Sled Hockey This film portrays the US Sled Hockey team preparing for and competing in the 2014 Sochi Paralympic Games. 10 pm W America Reframed On a Knife Edge This is the coming-of-age story of George Dull Knife, a Lakota teenager growing up on South Dakota’s Pine Ridge Reservation.
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8 pm HD The Durrells in Corfu Season 2, Part 5 Vasilia makes the least-romantic proposal in history. Spiro and Hugh organize a “friendly” cricket match between Greeks and English.
Sunday, Nov. 12 @ 11:30 pm HD Independent Lens Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary Explore the life and music of jazz great John Coltrane from his childhood in the South to his years with Miles Davis to his tenure as leader of one of jazz’s most revered quartets. Featuring Denzel Washington speaking the words of Coltrane.
9 pm HD Poldark Season 3, Part 7 Morwenna gives birth and plunges into despair. George triumphs, as the ground collapses under his relationship with Elizabeth.
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8 pm HD Antiques Roadshow Junk in the Trunk 7 Discover never-before-aired appraisals from all of season six’s 21 cities, including an American Folk Art cane, a 1927 Yankees team-signed baseball, and a Vairocana Buddha, ca. 1410. 9:30 pm W Stories from the Stage Hell or High Water Ana Hebra Flaster describes her last night at home before leaving Cuba forever; Julie Baker’s international love affair gets tested during “cabin fever.” 10 pm HD POV Almost Sunrise In an attempt to put combat experiences behind them, two friends embark on a 2,700-mile trek on foot across America.
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8 pm HD Finding Your Roots Season 4, Children of the Revolution Lupita Nyong’o, Carmelo Anthony and Ana Navarro investigate the political choices of their fathers, discovering sometimes unexpected heritage as they trace their ancestry further back. 9 pm E Al Capone: Icon More than 80 years after the height of his power, Capone is the subject of this program exploring his enduring impact on American culture. 10 pm E American Experience The Perfect Crime Re-examine the shocking story of Leopold and Loeb, two wealthy college students who murdered a 14-year-old boy in 1924 to prove they were smart enough to get away with it.
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9 pm HD Great Performances Indecent See Paula Vogel’s Tony Award winner inspired by the true story of the controversial 1923 Broadway debut of Sholem Asch’s God of Vengeance.
10 pm HD The Farthest — Voyager in Space Voyager 1, which left our solar system and ushered humanity into the interstellar age in 2012, is the farthest-flung object humans have created. Find out about the people and events that created the 40-year-old mission of the two Voyagers.
9:30 pm E Prime Suspect: Tennison on Masterpiece Part 2 Tennison and Bradfield continue to work on the murder case of a girl, but a breach of police protocol complicates matters.
8 pm HD A Year in Space Follow astronaut Scott Kelly’s 12-month mission on the International Space Station as NASA charts the effects of longduration spaceflight.
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9 pm W Red Power Energy From a historically passive role in mineral extraction that frequently left resource-rich reservations either leased out for pennies on the dollar or contaminated, Native Americans are in the midst of a resurgence. 10 pm E Forces of Nature Motion Although we can’t immediately feel the motion of Earth’s fundamental forces, we witness the consequences, such as tidal bores surging through the Amazon rainforest and the ruinous power of hurricanes.
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8 pm W Mystic Voices: The Story of the Pequot War Part 1 A balanced view of events, underlying causes, consequences and legacy of the first declared war in American history – a pivotal event that set the stage for the ultimate domination of all Native Americans by Europeans. 9 pm W Mystic Voices: The Story of the Pequot War Part 2 Although the conflict was small by today’s standards, the rhetoric of the English Puritans made their victory over the “heathens” a significant event in the history of the United States.
11 pm E Wild Weather Nature takes simple ingredients like wind, water and temperature and transforms them into something spectacular and powerful.
9:30 pm E POV Swim Team Parents of teens on the autism spectrum form a competitive swim team, training them with high expectations. Follow the rise of three athletes as the film captures a moving quest for inclusion, independence and a life that feels like winning.
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8 pm E Prime Suspect: Tennison on Masterpiece Part 1 Jane Tennison soon starts to learn the cold facts of police work. She turns the head of her boss, DI Bradfield, but also impresses him with her instincts.
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8 pm HD The Durrells in Corfu Season 2, Part 6 (finale) With two women in labor plus a stabbing victim, Dr. Petrides has his hands full.
Wednesday, Nov. 15 @ 9 pm HD Beyond A Year in Space Picking up where the first film left off — Scott Kelly’s last day in space and return to Earth — the final installment introduces viewers to the next generation of astronauts training to travel into deep space.
9 pm HD Poldark Season 3, Part 8 (finale) Elizabeth turns the tables on George. Rev. Whitworth is checkmated. Demelza and Lt. Armitage reveal their true feelings. Poldark makes a vow.
11 pm E Landmarks Live In Concert Alicia Keys Grammy-winner Alicia Keys performs in notable locations all around New York, including the world-famous Circle Line, the Unisphere and Harlem’s Apollo.
10 pm HD The Collection (finale) Nina is torn between Claude, Billy and the baby she gave up for adoption. Charlotte’s new business venture hits the rocks.
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8 pm E Victorian Slum House The 1860s Follow participants as they move into an tenement made up of sparse rooms, a shared water pump and outdoor privies. 9 pm HD The Mark Twain Prize David Letterman In 33 years on late-night television, Letterman hosted 6,028 episodes of Late Night (NBC) and The Late Show (CBS), surpassing his mentor, Johnny Carson, for the longest-running late-night broadcaster in American history.
8 pm HD Finding Your Roots Season 4, Relatives We Never Knew We Had Actresses Tea Leoni’s and Gaby Hoffmann’s lives have been shaped by family mysteries. 10 pm E Call The Midwife Holiday Special 2016 Follow the Nonnatus House family to South Africa after they receive an SOS call from a mission hospital that’s understaffed, underfunded and threatened with closure. 11:30 pm E Georgia O’Keeffe: A Woman On Paper In the fall of 1915 and the spring of 1916, O’Keeffe found her voice with a series of innovative abstract charcoal drawings.
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HDTV Washington Week Charlie Rose – Great Performances Indecent The Week Vietnam War Part 8, WORLD They Were Our Fathers PBS NewsHour The History of the World (@ 7 pm) FRI ENCORE Prime Suspect: Tennison On Masterpiece Part 1 Prime Suspect: Tennison On Masterpiece Part 2
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More Manners of Downton Abbey
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8 pm HD Nature Nature’s Miniature Miracles Uncover nature’s biggest little secrets from mini nocturnal monkeys to puffer fish. 9 pm HD NOVA Extreme Animal Weapons Explore the secrets that underlie nature’s battleground. Every animal has some kind of weapon, whether claws or horns, fangs or stings. 10 pm HD Frontline Poor Kids This film revisits three families hit hard by the recession, exploring what poverty means to children and to the country.
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8 pm HD Anne of Green Gables: The Good Stars Join Anne Shirley as she turns 13 and faces complex situations with friends, adults and Gilbert. 10 pm HD Texas Tenors: Rise Experience a concert filmed at the beautiful Grand 1894 Opera House in Galveston. 11 pm HD Eat Fat Get Thin with Dr. Mark Hyman A growing body of research is debunking our fat-phobia, revealing the weight-loss benefits of a higher fat diet rich in eggs, nuts, and healthy oils.
24 FRIDAY
7 pm E Carpenters: Close to You & Christmas Memories A music-filled documentary traces the Carpenters’ career. 9 pm HD Salute to Vienna One of the most lavish song and dance gala concert specials ever produced for PBS was taped live at the historic Konzerthaus in Vienna, Austria.
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11 pm HD 2 Cellos Live at the Sydney Opera House Luka Sulic and Stjepan Hauser, accompanied by the prestigious Sydney Symphony, perform favorite Oscar-winning themes from James Horner’s score for Titanic and Gladiator.
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8 pm HD The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years Based on the first part of The Beatles’ career (1962-1966), the film chronicles the period in which they toured and captured the world’s acclaim. 10:30 pm HD Sgt. Pepper’s Musical Revolution This film looks at the months the band spent creating Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band, a groundbreaking masterwork that became popular music’s most universally acclaimed album. 11:30 pm E Eric Clapton: Slowhand at 70 – Live at the Royal Albert Hall Enjoy a momentous night for one of the world’s greatest rock guitarists, celebrating his 50 years at the top of the music business and more than 200 performances at the iconic London venue.
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7 pm E The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years See Nov. 25 for show description. 9:30 pm HD Great Performances The Moody Blues – Days of Future Passed Live The concert captures the historic group in performance in Toronto during their 2017 world tour, where they played the Days of Future Passed album in its entirety.
Monday, Nov. 27 @ 8 pm HD Celtic Woman — Homecoming: Ireland The band performs such classic songs as Walk Beside Me, Dulaman, Amazing Grace, You Raise Me Up, and many more.
11:30 pm HD How Not to Die with Michael Greger M.D. This program will take you through the top 10 common causes of premature death and how you can better your chances of avoiding and surviving them with a plantbased diet.
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10 pm HD The ’80s (My Music) Join host Martha Quinn for a celebration of original video music. 11:30 pm E Dr. David Perlmutter’s Whole Life Plan This show introduces exciting new information about the advantages of eating more fat and fiber, consuming fewer carbs and protein, evicting gluten forever, and catering to your intestinal flora.
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8 pm W America Reframed Class of ‘27 Filmed in the hollows of Appalachia, on native lands of the Upper Midwest and in West Coast migrant camps, Class of ’27 presents distinct yet complementary personal stories from places too often ignored in America. 10 pm W PBS NewsHour Correspondents report on timely news of the day. 11 pm W Nightly Business Report The long-running business news show, which premiered in 1979, provides In-depth coverage of business and economic news as well as market analysis.
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HDTV Washington Week Charlie Rose – The Week WORLD Vietnam War Part 9, A Disrespectful Loyalty (@ 7 pm) FRI ENCORE Carpenters: Close to You & Christmas Memories (@ 7 pm)
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Just a click away: Expressions online Thursday, Nov. 30 @ 8 pm HD The Big Band Years Peter Marshall hosts this celebration of big bands of the 1930s and ‘40s.
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10 pm HD Memory Rescue with Daniel Amen M.D. Neuroscientist Daniel Amen teaches you how to strengthen your memory and even rescue it if you think it’s headed for trouble. 10:30 pm E Joe Bonamassa: Muddy Wolf at Red Rocks Beginning just before sundown, the concert highlights the natural beauty of the amphitheater and focuses primarily on the catalogs of Howlin’ Wolf and Muddy Waters.
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.
Word on the ‘Street’: Christmas is around the corner
KiDS THE TITLE: Once Upon a Sesame Street Christmas THE SETTING: Christmas Eve on Sesame Street. THE PLOT: After putting out cookies for Santa, Elmo’s dad tells him a bedtime story about his great-great-grandmonster Elmo and how Sesame Street was once an unfriendly street. Everyone was grouchy and there was no holiday spirit. With the help of Grandmonster Elmo’s new friends, they try to find a way to bring back the holiday spirit in hopes that Santa would come to visit. The lesson: They learn that all you need is kindness. The takeaway: There’s nothing like a holiday story set on Sesame Street to take you back years and years, no matter how old you are. Tune in to WGCU HDTV @ 11 am on Wednesday, Nov. 22, Thursday, Nov. 23 and Friday Nov. 24 for an hour of nostalgic Christmas cheer.
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“To boot, we get seated in the second row, stage center right. The show was great, with Warren Zevon as the musical guest, one of his last such performances before he died of cancer. Gore was pretty good, and as the show ended and he made to leave, he bounded over to the end of the stage and started shaking hands” (including Braun’s).
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Trivia questions were sometimes involved (see above). Kari Koehler-Cordisco adds this: “Before we even arrived in New York City, we had requested show tickets and a staff member called to quiz us on our Letterman knowledge. It was a fairly simple multiple choice quiz about some show basics, such as ‘What is the name of the list Dave does during every show?’”
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To a fan, it was a little like entering the Twilight Zone. Mark Bickel said this: “The feeling was surreal. I had been a huge fan since college days so being there in person felt like I was in another dimension. … I remember how clean the stage looked. It glistened.”
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It could be a disappointment. Kara Hado Minoui was in the audience in August 1994. While it was fun to watch Bruce Willis ride through a studio aisle on horseback, she was underwhelmed with his performance as the musical guest. “He performed as his musical alter ego, Bruno. There was lots of harmonica. To be honest, I felt a little gypped – I was hoping for something more along the lines of R.E.M.,” she said.
Step out in Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi Three-time Emmy Award-winning host and producer Mickela Mallozzi takes on the world one step at a time. On Create this month are a series of her travel shows featuring a unique approach – through the destination’s dances. A professional dancer and trained musician, Mallozzi set out to see the world, taking her camera and a need to dance. She re-discovered her family’s heritage in southern Italy and danced the tango in Buenos Aires. On episodes airing from 6 am to noon on Saturday, Nov. 4, see what happens when Mallozzi stays a little closer to home. The Stamford, Conn., native explores New York through its various cultural groups and their traditional dances. She visits Chinatown, experiences a gypsy festival in Manhattan and a Serbian Soul Party in Brooklyn. With the Mexican community, she learns traditional folk dance and joins an all-female mariachi band. She visits Little Ukraine in the East Village for Pierogi Day and takes drum lessons in the streets of Flatbush with a Haitian community.
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For Dave, it was good – and bad – to be king. “Clearly, this is Dave’s theater and Dave’s show, and we had been granted an opportunity to witness him at work,” was Koehler-Cordisco’s overriding impression. When she was in the audience with her husband, Todd, in 2013, “The one thing that really struck us during one of the breaks was that Dave seemed to be very upset about something. We mean very! … He was presented with some papers at his desk and we could see him scribbling on them and gesturing wildly. At one point during all of this, he takes off his suit jacket – clearly in disgust by what is happening. But then, as soon as we are told we are about to go back to taping, he dons his jacket again and is back to smiling, showing that gap-toothed grin and ready to greet his next guest!” n
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Taylor is the executive vice president at the U.S. Institute of Peace. Earlier, he was the special coordinator for Middle East Transitions in the U.S. State Department. He oversaw assistance and support to Egypt, Tunisia, Libya and Syria. He served as the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine from 2006 to 2009. Nov. 19 Karen Jacobsen on Global Migration
Director of the Refugees and Forced Migration Program at the Fletcher School, Henry J. Leir Professor of Global Migration at the Fletcher School and the Friedman School of Nutrition, and director of the Refugees and Forced Migration Program at the Feinstein International Center. Professor Karen Jacobsen is currently researching urban displacement and global migration systems, with a focus on the livelihoods and financial resilience of migrants and refugees. Climate One
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From Katrina and Sandy to Harvey and Irma: How is climate change fueling these increasingly destructive hurricanes? Greg Dalton and his guests delve into the politics, costs and human causes of the megastorms pummeling our planet.
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Intelligence Squared Nov. 26 Face-Off with China: Foreign Policy in the Trump Era
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