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JUL | AUG 2021 New take on small-town doctor p. 4 Teaching in Room 9 Summertime p. 6 Celebrate Missouri’s bicentennial p. 32 JUL—AUG Contents Jul–Aug 2021 | Volume 12, Number 4 3 Message from the President 4 Feature 6 Happening Now 10 Beyond Programming 13 From the Archives 16 Program Guide Alicia Keys in L.A. Saturday, August 14, 9:30 pm Follow Our Stories. The global superstar performs a special concert on location in Los Angeles to ring in 2021. › ninepbs.org Team Member Spotlight Nine PBS EDITOR 3655 Olive St. Lynanne Feilen Lizzy Petersen St. Louis, MO 63108 DESIGNER (314) 512-9000 Grants Manager Allie Bronsky Fax (314) 512-9005 At Nine PBS: I started January 21, 2020, [email protected] DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATIONS just two months before the pandemic! 9 am–5 pm Megan Grisolano Monday–Friday What show(s) on Nine PBS are you ADVERTISING SALES Member Services watching or recommending ? 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Subscriptions are available by annual membership contribution of $60 or and working to finish my first book. I also direct an after-school more to Nine PBS. student-run literary magazine called OutsideLitMag.com for high ©2021 St. Louis Regional Public Media Inc. All rights reserved. school students from Saint Louis Public Schools. Reproduction of any portion of Nine PBS Magazine without express written permission from the publisher is prohibited. JUL–AUG 2021 | ninepbs.org 1 JULYSNAPSHOTS Missouri’s Bicentennial August 10, 2021, will mark the 200th anniver- sary of Missouri’s entry as the 24th state. Here 1 we commemorate the state’s rich history and culture with photos of Nine PBS staff taken at various locations. Megan Grisolano, director of 1 communications, poses in 1994 in front of a bear exhibit at the St. Louis Zoo. Sonya Stevenson, project manager, 2 at the Rockwoods Reservation in Wildwood with granddaughter, Gracie Moul. 3 Brooke Butler, producer, and her 3 daughter, Frankie, in front of the Missouri State Capitol, in Jefferson City in May. 2 Paula Vickers, Raymond H. Wittcoff 4 Community Engagement Fellow, at the sunflower field in the Columbia Bottom Conservation Area near Spanish Lake in 2020. Veronica Mohesky (right), digital 5 media associate, hits the Missouri Greenway Trail near Jefferson Barracks Park on May 30 with her grandpa, Vernon Mohesky (left), and dad, Doug Mohesky (center). 4 5 2 Nine PBS Magazine | JUL–AUG 2021 HAPPENING NOWMAY Nine PBS Board of Directors Chair Mark C. Lindgren Vice Chair Cynthia Brinkley Treasurer Mark Krieger Secretary Ashley Kemper Immediate Past Chair David Steward II Members Nicole Adewale Donald Aven Kathy Barney Fred Bendaña Lee Broughton David Conner Jill Falk Christopher Gagliano Harvey A. Harris The Such Sweet Thunder collaborators accept the Arts and Education Council’s Arts Dennis Hummel Collaboration Award at the 2021 St. Louis Arts Awards, from left: Tom Ridgely, producing Robert Koplar artistic director, St. Louis Shakespeare Festival; Erin Prange, executive director, The Big Todd Korte Muddy Dance Company; Amy Shaw, president and CEO, Nine PBS; and Gene Dobbs Mark S. LaVigne Brendan Lind Bradford, president and CEO, Jazz St. Louis. Dennis Lower Thomas C. Melzer Pamela Morris-Thornton Mary Nelson Cynthia Peters James Snowden Chad Stiening Dear Friends, James E. Williams, Jr. As we inch our way out of the New, unique dramas continue to roll Emeritus pandemic and back to all our favorite out, as evidenced by this month’s Dan Burkhardt Maxine Clark activities, it’s a time to be hopeful and feature story on The Indian Doctor, Pepe Prince Finn even a little jubilant. and Masterpiece announced they Juanita Hinshaw will be producing seasons two and Janet M. Holloway There is nothing more jubilant than a Ken Kranzberg three of Sanditon, which I know has kid in summer, and especially when Kim Olson a vocal fan following. I hope you will Jack Schreiber learning and fun mix. The Teaching in Patrick Sly watch! And, if you missed any recent Room 9 Summertime season has been Dr. Donald Suggs broadcasts or local specials, they can Milton P. Wilkins, Jr. going strong since early June. This be viewed at ninepbs.org and on the free, on-air classroom bridges the free PBS Video App. Executive Team gap between in-school and at-home Dick Skalski, Senior Vice learning. Families and caregivers can Your continued support confirms that President, Chief Financial and feel confident that kids are enriched Nine PBS is telling authentic stories Operations Officer this summer with lessons linked to you want to hear—stories that move Angela Carr, Vice President and Chief Impact Officer educational standards and taught by us, stories that inspire and motivate Russ Hitzemann, Vice certified local teachers. us, and stories that bring us together. President and Chief Individual Thank you! Giving Officer We shine a light on what makes Matt Huelskamp, Vice this region unique and the robust President and Chief Marketing art scene is one of them. Our Officer prepandemic art collaboration, Such Chrys Marlow, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Sweet Thunder, in October 2019 with Kate Midgett, Senior Director the St. Louis Shakespeare Festival, Amy Shaw of Organizational Excellence Jazz St. Louis, and The Big Muddy President and CEO Dance Company was honored at the St. Louis Arts Awards in May. JUL–AUG 2021 | ninepbs.org 3 JULYFEATURE Character-Driven Charmer The comedy-drama follows a medical-school graduate, his wife, and mother-in-law (left). Prem (above) finds himself fighting prejudice and incompetence while he tries to win the hearts and minds of the villagers. Nine PBS welcomes diverse cultures, races, and riches and glamour. They find themselves residing ethnicities in media, and starting July 8, we begin in a small Welsh coal-mining village following the broadcasting (and livestreaming) The Indian Doctor. death of the village’s local doctor. Once in Wales, The new comedy-drama on Thursday nights follows they quickly become embroiled in the lives of the a high-flying Delhi medical-school graduate, Dr. villagers. While Prem strikes up new friendships and Prem Sharma (Sanjeev Bhaskar), and his haughty settles into life in the Valleys, Kamini wants them to and disgruntled wife, Kamini (Ayesha Dharker). leave as soon as possible. A reviewer at PasteMagazine.com said you’re dazed The series has won three BAFTA Cymru (British into submission by its pure charm. “Period drama? Academy of Film and Television Arts in Wales) Character-driven cuteness? Subtle (and occasionally Awards, two for best director (fiction) and one for not that subtle) ponderings on love, class, grief, best costume design. The series originally aired race, ethnicity, and culture in a homogeneous, on BBC One, which also produced a documentary isolated, small-town setting? If you are into any of called The Real Indian Doctors. The film revealed these things, The Indian Doctor might be your new how immigrant doctors who arrived in Wales in favorite show,” said Amy Glynn. the 1950s and '60s from the Indian subcontinent helped to change attitudes towards racism and Things don’t go as planned for the couple, who immigration. move to the U.K. after being wooed by dreams of 4 Nine PBS Magazine | JUL–AUG 2021 FEATUREJULY The comedy-drama is set in the 1960s. “One of the many delights in making the series is the soundtrack,” says Bhaskar. "I'm a big fan of the music of the time and as an ardent Elvis admirer, it was great to hear 'Devil in Disguise' playing in the background of episode three.” The original version of “Tainted Love” by Gloria Jones and Screamin' Jay Hawkins' “I Put a Spell on You” can also be heard. In season one, the storyline revolves around the seemingly friendly coal-mine manager, Richard Sharpe, and the dark secret that he has deliberately Dr. Prem Sharma moves to the U.K. after being wooed by dreams ignored safety warnings to further his own career. of riches and glamour, but ends up in a Welsh coal-mining village. Evidence to this effect exists in the previous doctor's diaries, and Prem becomes determined to reveal the truth. Prem faces a new adversary in season two: evangelist preacher Herbert Todd. When an Ways to Watch outbreak of smallpox threatens to bring catastrophe to the village, Prem finds himself fighting prejudice and incompetence while he tries to win the hearts and minds of the villagers over the bull-headed Todd. Also, Prem nervously awaits the arrival of his dreaded mother-in-law, Pushpa. In season three, set three years after Prem and Kamini's arrival, they have become very much a part › Broadcast premiere on July 8, 8 pm, with encores of the Trefelin community.