Gene: An Intimate History TUESDAYS, APRIL 7 & 14 7PM 4 p. 2 APRIL 2020 WATCH US ON YOUTUBE TV! 4 BACK COVER H20: The Molecule that Made Us WEDNESDAYS AT 8PM BEGINS APRIL 22 4 P. 3 MT MADE BY MONTANAPBS MontanaPBS Guide APRIL 2020 · VOL. 33 · NO. 10 COPYRIGHT © 2020 MONTANAPBS, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED MEMBERSHIP 1-866-832-0829 KUSM-TV SHOP 1-800-406-6383 P.O. Box 173340 • Montana State University EMAIL [email protected] Bozeman, MT 59717–3340 WEBSITE www.montanapbs.org OFFICE (406) 994-3437 ONLINE VIDEO PLAYER watch.montanapbs.org FAX (406) 994-6545 The Guide to MontanaPBS is printed monthly by the E-MAIL [email protected] Bozeman Daily Chronicle for MontanaPBS and the Bozeman Staff Friends of MontanaPBS, Inc., a nonprofit corporation General Manager Aaron Pruitt (501(c)3) P.O Box 173340, Bozeman, MT 59717-3340. Director of Content/Chief Operator Paul Heitt-Rennie The publication is sent to contributors to MontanaPBS. Director of Development Kristina Martin Basic annual membership is $35. 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Director of Production Scott Sterling Officers Broadcast Operations Manager Keith Jacoby Chair Dax Schieffer, Bozeman Digital Content & Marketing Manager Laura Dick KEN BURNS PRESENTS Vice Chair Peggy Kuhr, Missoula Guide Production MSU Creative Services The Gene: Secretary Katie Kotynski, Great Falls Treasurer Bill Beecher, Great Falls KUFM-TV An Intimate History Members PARTV 180 • The University of Montana Powerful personal stories and stunning Missoula, MT 59812 Bozeman Aaron Pruitt • Big Sky Charlie Callander • OFFICE (406) 243-4101 breakthroughs reveal the historical search Billings Margaret MacDonald • Great Falls Katie for the human genome and the promise FAX (406) 243-3299 Kotynski • Helena Pat Doyle, Kirk J. Miller, Bruce E-MAIL [email protected] of modern research. Based on Dr. Siddhar- Whittenberg • Kalispell Tony Brockman • Missoula tha Mukherjee’s best-seller on how genes Ray Ekness, Sue Malek • Poplar Rich Peterson • MISSOULA STAFF impact heredity, disease and behavior. Red Lodge Diane Young, Kent Young • Whitefish General Manager Ray Ekness Joaquenia Heinrich • UM Missoula Bobbie Evans • Program Assistant Sue Ginn MSU Bozeman Terry Leist Senior Producer John Twiggs Episode 1 Producer Anna Rau, Breanna McCabe TUESDAY, APRIL 7 7PM Also 4/17 3am Technical Director Saxon Holbrook WORLD 4/10 6pm, 11pm; 4/11 7am, 1pm A fascinating history of the human A service of genome weaves together science and personal stories. Patients with rare genetic diseases and their doctors seek to discover cures, often in a race against time. Receiving MontanaPBS Episode 2 MontanaPBS broadcast services are available throughout the State on a number of independently-operated over- TUESDAY, APRIL 14 7PM Also 4/24 3am the-air translators, as well as through various cable and satellite subscription services. 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Paradise & Shields River Valleys MontanaPBS—HD 16.1 9.1 21.1 10.1 46.1 11.1 17 Cover image: Francis Collins was the head of the 20 Belgrade & Springhill Community MontanaPBS Kids 16.2 9.2 21.2 10.2 46.2 11.2 20 Billings Human Genome Project—a publicly-funded, interna- MontanaPBS Create 16.3 9.3 21.3 10.3 46.3 11.3 27 Emigrant & Chico Hot Springs tional effort to sequence all three billion letters of the MontanaPBS World 16.4 9.4 21.4 10.4 46.4 11.4 40 Sweet Grass Hills; Liberty, human genome. MPAN (Mont. Public 16.5 9.5 21.5 10.5 46.5 11.5 Toole & Hill Counties COURTESY OF GETTY IMAGES Affairs Network) 49 Helena 63 Bridger, Fromberg and Belfry Find your PBS channel listings on p. 2 or www.montanapbs.org/about/broadcast_area. 3 ABOVE AND COVER IMAGES COURTESY OF H2O: THE MOLECULE THAT MADE US H20: The Molecule that Made Us WEDNESDAYS AT 8PM BEGINS APRIL 22 H20: The Molecule that Made Us is a landmark, three-part series that tells the human story through our relationship to water. We find out how our success is intimately connected to our control of the molecule, but that the growth of our civilizations has also created a dangerous dependence on a precious resource. One that may be about to run out. Flow Civilizations WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22 8PM WEDNESDAY, APRIL 29 8PM WORLD 4/23 6pm, 11pm; 4/24 7am, 1pm WORLD 4/30 6pm, 11pm Pulse opens on the distant rock and ice of Greenland, where Civilizations turns our ‘water lens’ on human history. In the Geologist Stephen Mojzsis reveals a new theory on how water jungle of the Congo in Africa, we see a hint of one provocative first arrived on Planet Earth. We see a dragonfly’s incredible theory of evolution—did we learn to walk in water? Starting in journey from India to Africa—the world’s longest insect migration. Ancient Egypt, it charts the critical role water plays in history, We meet the Munoz family, ‘bloom chasers’, who use cutting and around the world we see the birth of civilizations on the edge time-lapse photo rigs to show the rare spectacle of deserts banks of the great rivers: Nile, Tigris and Euphrates, Indus and around the world exploding from barren wastelands into rich Yellow. The question is raised, can we guarantee water sup- carpets of flowers. But the pulse of water is under threat. plies that are needed for future existence? The last episode of this series, Crisis, will air 8pm Wednesday, May 6. 4 Locally produced programs Return to Foretop’s Father Follow Narrated by Joseph Campanella. Produced by Magic Yellowstone: Historic 1920s 78-year-old Crow tribal elder, storyteller and John Wheeler, Silvertip Productions. Funded Motion Picture of Yellowstone This is pipe lighter, Grant Bulltail, as he travels from by the Montana Dept. State Lands/ Office the restored half hour black & white moving Crow Agency in Montana to Heart Mountain of Surface Mining Wash. D. C. Distributed by picture of Yellowstone filmed by official Park in Wyoming. Through his journey and the MontanaPBS. Airs Sunday, 4/12 at 10am photographer Jack Ellis Haynes to promote stories he learned from his grandfather, He tourism for the Northern Pacific Railroad in Comes Up Red, Grant reveals a dark past of Fish Between the Falls Ten thousand the 1920s. Accompanied by an original score genocide, ethnocide, and the destruction of years ago Kootenai people painted pictures of period piano and organ music. Re-edited nature. Grant’s mission is to bring awareness of white sturgeon on the rocks above the for television. Airs Sunday, 4/26 at 3:30pm to the disconnect between people and na- lake where they lived. These fish were an ture, cumulating in the universal impacts of important part of the tribe’s diet and the Remembering the Columbia Gardens climate change. Airs Thursday, 4/2 at 7pm; Sunday, inspiration for their elegant sturgeon-nosed This program celebrates the now-vanished 4/5 at 10am; Monday, 4/6 at 2am canoes. Now, dikes and dams have changed Columbia Gardens, in business from 1899- the river system so much that sturgeon 1973, in home movies, pictures, and first- Bring Them Home / Iniskim These two no longer successfully reproduce. But the hand accounts of people who remember the short films were shot simultaneously on the people whose culture is bound up with rollercoaster, the carousel, the biplanes and 2016 fall Blackfeet buffalo drive. Bring Them these fish and the people who control the the cowboy swings. Airs Sunday, 4/26 at 10am Home is a documentary about the only indig- river today are working together to restore enous tribal-led buffalo drive in North America. the Kootenai River white sturgeon to their Keepers of the Land: Three Montana It follows members of the Blackfeet Nation as ancestral home. Airs Thursday, 4/16 at 4am Families & Their Homestead Legacies they experience the power of the American The Homestead Act of 1862 remains one of bison while driving their herd through rough Celebrate America Across Montana: the most significant and enduring events terrain and hostile weather to their winter pas- Tim Janis with State School Choirs in the westward expansion of the United ture. Iniskim features original music by Pearl (2020) Montana school choirs perform with States. The chance for free land and oppor- Jam’s Mike McCready and a script co-written Tim Janis. School buses brought hundreds tunity proved irresistible to many, and in the by Daniel Glick, Craig Falcon, Lauren Monroe, of students from Montana school music following decades, 151,600 homesteads had and Sarah Clarke.