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April 2010 Quarterly Program Topic Report April 2010 Quarterly Program Topic Report Category: Aging NOLA: SMIT 000000 Series Title: Smitten Length: 30 minutes Airdate: 4/19/2010 1:30:00 AM Service: PBS Format: Other Segment Length: 00:26:46 Meet Rene: at age 85, this unusual art collector continues to search for the work of northern California artists, hoping to make his next great discovery. SMITTEN follows Rene as he opens his private collection to the public, displaying the work without wall labels, so that people are empowered to interact with the art in a direct, personal, and more democratic way. Category: Agriculture NOLA: NOVA 003603 Series Title: NOVA Episode Title: Rat Attack Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 4/4/2010 12:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 00:56:46 Every 48 years, the inhabitants of the remote Indian state of Mizoram suffer a horrendous ordeal known locally as mautam. An indigenous species of bamboo, blanketing 30 percent of Mizoram's 8,100 square miles, blooms once every half-century, spurring an explosion in the rat population which feeds off the bamboo's fruit. The rats run amok, destroying crops and precipitating a crippling famine throughout Mizoram. NOVA follows this gripping tale of nature's capacity to engender human suffering, and investigates the botanical mystery of why the bamboo flowers and why the rats attack with clockwork precision every half-century. Category: Agriculture NOLA: AMDO 002301 Series Title: POV Episode Title: Food, Inc. Length: 120 minutes Airdate: 4/21/2010 8:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 01:56:46 In Food, Inc., filmmaker Robert Kenner lifts the veil on our nation's food industry, exposing the highly mechanized underbelly that's been hidden from the American consumer with the consent of our government's regulatory agencies, USDA and FDA. Our nation's food supply is now controlled by a handful of corporations that often put profit ahead of consumer health, the livelihood of the American farmer, the safety of workers and our own environment. We have bigger-breasted chickens, the perfect pork chop, insecticide-resistant soybean seeds, even tomatoes that won't go bad, but we also have new strains of E. coli--the harmful bacteria that causes illness for an estimated 73,000 Americans annually. We are riddled with widespread obesity, particularly among children, and an epidemic level of diabetes among adults. Category: Agriculture NOLA: MLNH 009718 Series Title: PBS NewsHour Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 4/30/2010 6:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Interview/Discussion/Review Segment Length: 00:00:00 In Arkansas, Incumbent Lincoln 'Catching It From All Sides': Incumbent Blanche Lincoln is campaigning to hold on to her seat in the U.S. Senate in a heated Democratic primary race in Arkansas. Spencer Michels reports on how the state's agriculture industry and discontent with Washington may factor into the race. Category: Alcohol, Drug Abuse/Addiction NOLA: BMJL 001349 Series Title: Bill Moyers Journal Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 4/2/2010 8:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Interview/Discussion/Review Segment Length: 00:00:00 American Inequality: Another study, "The Spirit Level" by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, shows that the U.S. has the greatest income inequality among the major developed countries. Get the stats and read an interview with the authors. Bryan Stevenson and Michelle Alexander: In the months before his death, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had expanded his focus on racial justice to include reducing economic inequality. On this week's 42nd anniversary of King's assassination, Bill Moyers sits down with attorneys Bryan Stevenson and Michelle Alexander to discuss how far we've really come as a country, how poor and working class Americans have been falling behind and what America must do to fulfill Dr. King's vision. Moyers on Inequality: A Bill Moyers essay. Reflections on King's Dreams: Revisit Dr. King's evolving theories of social and economic justice through his speeches. Plus, a Bill Moyers essay. U.S. Prisons and Drug Laws: The U.S. has five percent of the world's population and 25 percent of the world's prisoners -- how did we get here? Category: American History/Biography NOLA: AMEX 002102 Series Title: Polio Crusade: American Experience; The Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 4/12/2010 8:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 00:56:46 AMERICAN EXPERIENCE presents "The Polio Crusade," a one-hour documentary from filmmaker Sarah Colt ("Geronimo," "RFK") that interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader who tirelessly fought on their behalf while scientists raced to eradicate this dreaded disease. Based in part on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book "Polio: An American Story" by David Oshinsky, "The Polio Crusade" features interviews with historians, scientists, polio survivors, and the only surviving scientist from the core research team that developed the Salk vaccine, Julius Youngner. Category: American History/Biography NOLA: AMMS 002301 Series Title: American Masters Episode Title: I.M. Pei: Building China Modern Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 4/1/2010 12:00:00 AM Service: PBS Format: Documentary Segment Length: 00:56:46 Now in his early 90s, I.M. Pei was invited to design a modern museum to house the antiquities of Suzhou. This film follows this personal and architectural journey from west to east, an expansive full-circle, a literal coming home -- a realization of Pei's lifelong dream. But also, his biggest challenge and, seven and a half years in the making, a work that he ultimately defines as "my biography." While Pei's perspective is always in the forefront, local residents, design specialists, Suzhou officials, architects, designers and scholars comment on Pei's life and work. Category: American History/Biography NOLA: APLO 006069 Series Title: Place of Our Own; A Episode Title: Me and My Family: Importance of Family History Length: 30 minutes Airdate: 4/15/2010 6:00:00 AM Service: PBS-PLUS Format: Demonstration/Instructional Segment Length: 00:00:00 English-language companion to the Spanish-language series LOS NINOS EN SU CASA. Both shows are designed for parents or anyone else who takes care of young kids: grandparents, nannies, babysitters and home daycare providers. The shows cover subjects such as: tantrums, literacy, preventing obesity, speech and language delays. These series combine an entertainment format -- the daytime talk/demonstration show -- with solid educational information on how young children learn, and what adults need to know to help kids be prepared for kindergarten and beyond. Category: American History/Biography NOLA: BMJL 001349 Series Title: Bill Moyers Journal Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 4/2/2010 8:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Interview/Discussion/Review Segment Length: 00:00:00 American Inequality: Another study, "The Spirit Level" by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, shows that the U.S. has the greatest income inequality among the major developed countries. Get the stats and read an interview with the authors. Bryan Stevenson and Michelle Alexander: In the months before his death, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. had expanded his focus on racial justice to include reducing economic inequality. On this week's 42nd anniversary of King's assassination, Bill Moyers sits down with attorneys Bryan Stevenson and Michelle Alexander to discuss how far we've really come as a country, how poor and working class Americans have been falling behind and what America must do to fulfill Dr. King's vision. Moyers on Inequality: A Bill Moyers essay. Reflections on King's Dreams: Revisit Dr. King's evolving theories of social and economic justice through his speeches. Plus, a Bill Moyers essay. U.S. Prisons and Drug Laws: The U.S. has five percent of the world's population and 25 percent of the world's prisoners -- how did we get here? Category: American History/Biography NOLA: COSE 016071 Series Title: Charlie Rose Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 4/5/2010 11:00:00 PM Service: PBS-PLUS Format: Interview/Discussion/Review Segment Length: 00:00:00 Charlie interviews David Remnick, author, "The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama." Category: American History/Biography NOLA: HIDE 000707 Series Title: History Detectives Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 4/4/2010 5:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Other Segment Length: 00:56:46 Encore presentations: An instrument that may have been recovered from the Hindenburg; a book that may have been a gift from John Adams to his son; a home in the Bronx that may have been the birthplace of hip hop. Category: American History/Biography NOLA: MLNH 009697 Series Title: PBS NewsHour Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 4/1/2010 6:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Interview/Discussion/Review Segment Length: 00:00:00 A Violent Moment in American Labor History, Captured in Verse: Colorado poet David Mason shares a look at a dramatic moment in American labor history through his poem about a 1913 mine strike that ended in violence. Category: American History/Biography NOLA: TTEA 000105 Series Title: Time Team America Episode Title: Fort James, South Dakota Length: 60 minutes Airdate: 4/4/2010 2:00:00 AM Service: PBS Format: Segment Length: 00:00:00 In South Dakota, the team explores the site of Fort James, a stone fort that was built in 1865 by soldiers who had been sent to protect pioneer settlers from Sioux Indians. Category: American History/Biography NOLA: AMEX 002206 Series Title: My Lai: American Experience Length: 90 minutes Airdate: 4/26/2010 8:00:00 PM Service: PBS Format: Documentary
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