KQED Celebrates Women’S History Month
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KQED Celebrates Women’s History Month March 2008 KQED Public Television proudly celebrates the diversity of our community with a special lineup in February. Many of these programs are available on KQED’s premier service, analog channel 9, as indicated. Other programs, as indicated, are available on KQED’s five digital channels, available to viewers with a digital receiver or via Comcast digital cable. Visit kqed.org/dtv for more information. The digital channels are KQED HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709), KQED Encore (9.2, Comcast 189), KQED World (9.3, Comcast 190), Marie Antoinette Photo: Bridgeman. KQED Life (9.4, Comcast 191) and KQED Kids (9.5, Comcast 192). Saturday 1 EVENING Programs are subject to 9:00pm KQED World | Marie Antoinette examines 10:30am KQED World | To the Contrary #1651. change. For the latest information, the life of a one of the most controversial Syndicated columnist Bonnie Erbe hosts a monarchs, from her childhood to her final call 415.553.2215 or view our lively discussion of news and national affairs hours. listings at kqed.org. For a list of with a panel of nationally known female changes only, visit kqed.org/ experts. | R 3/2 1:30pm (KQED World) 11:00pm KQED World | Frontline The Last Abortion tvchanges. If you are recording a Clinic investigates the steady decline in 3:00pm KQED World | Five Phenomenal Women the number of doctors and clinics perform- program, please allow five minutes | H | profiles five African American women ing abortions and focuses on local political for early starts and late finishes. educators living and working in Clayton battles in states like Mississippi, where only County, Georgia. PROGRAmmiNG SYMBolS a single clinic performs the procedure. 3:30pm KQED World | Grab Hold of the Reins: q A KQED production or Women and Cancer profiles three long- presentation. term breast and ovarian cancer survivors, Tuesday 4 focusing on how they reclaimed their identity, H This program is airing on KQED for 2:00pm KQED HD | Path to Nuclear Fission: The the first time. sexuality and femininity after the assault of Story of Lise Meitner is a portrait of two cancer. P This broadcast will be interrupted people who revolutionized the history of by pledge intermissions. 4:00pm KQED World | Bold Visions: Women in science and the role of women in physics. R This program will be repeated on Science and Technology | H | Helene the date noted. Lerner’s latest documentary looks into the Thursday 6 RR This program is a repeat. See lives of a research scientist hunting for the noted date and time of original genetic causes of diseases, an astronaut 1:00pm KQED HD | Destination America Breaking broadcast for program description. applying her engineering expertise in space Free: A Woman’s Journey features a Guate- and a technologist responsible for numerous malan victim of spousal abuse who’s seeking patents. Also includes interviews with actors political asylum, an Italian woman who fled Cover: Madams of the Barbary Coast, Marcia Gay Harden and Melina Kanakaredes. a brutal husband in 1887 and an Iranian airs Wednesday, March 19, at 9:08 p.m. | R 3/30 1:30pm (KQED HD) woman and her two daughters, whose story Photo: courtesy San Francisco History of why and how they left Iran is a chilling tale Center, San Francisco Public Library. Sunday 2 of what it takes to break free. EARLY Friday 7 7:00am KQED 9 & HD | Reading Rainbow The Patchwork Quilt. Using scraps cut from the 10:00am KQED Kids | Reading Rainbow Show Way. family’s old clothing, a young girl learns the The women in one family began creating secret ingredient in her Grandma’s special quilts with secret maps to freedom during quilt of memories. the years of slavery. | R 3/16 7am (KQED 9 & HD) Saturday 8 5:00pm KQED World | Independent Lens Sunset 11:00pm KQED HD | Erma Bombeck: Legacy of Story. Eighty-one-year-old Irja and her 95- Laughter Phil Donahue narrates this ex- 1:00pm KQED World | Heartbeat to Heartbeat: year-old best friend Lucille are the only lucid ploration of the extraordinary life and career offers useful Women and Heart Disease residents at a senior citizens’ home for politi- of the beloved humorist. | R 3/26 7:30pm information on risk factors, symptoms and cal progressives. Learn how these women (KQED HD) the prevention of heart disease. | R 3/29 salvage support and community in their old 3pm (KQED HD) age. Tuesday 18 3:00pm KQED World | Government Girls of World War II tells the story of the young women 12:30pm KQED HD | Grannies on Safari Istanbul who flocked to Washington, D.C., to help in Sunday 16 —Ancient Crossroads visits underground the mobilization for the second World War. EARLY cistern ruins and the treasures of the Topkapi Palace. EVENING 7:00am KQED 9 & HD | Reading Rainbow Show Way. | RR 3/7 10am (KQED Kids) 1:00pm KQED HD | History Detectives 3-D Cuban 7:00pm KQED Life-Encore | Innerviews with Ernie Missile Crisis/Amos ‘n’ Andy Record/ Manouse | H | Gloria Steinem. EVENING Women’s Suffrage Painting. 10:00pm KQED World | Frontline Death of a Princess. 9:00pm KQED World | Independent Lens Sisters in EVENING Frontline re-issues the controversial 1980 Law looks at a small courthouse in docudrama recounting the public execution Cameroon where two women help others 11:00pm KQED 9 | Independent Lens | H | Iron of a young Saudi Arabian princess and her fight against cases of abuse. Ladies of Liberia. Go behind the scenes with lover for adultery. Africa’s first freely elected female head 11:00pm KQED World | Mother Road Lauren Cardillo of state, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. | 3/19 and her 80-year-old mother take a roadtrip R 10pm (KQED Life-Encore) Sunday 9 on Route 66 from Chicago to Los Angeles. 11:00pm KQED HD | Picturing Mary explores EARLY achievements in painting, architecture, 7:00am KQED 9 & HD | Reading Rainbow Ruth Law Monday 17 poetry and music inspired by the Virgin Mary. Thrills a Nation. Learn the history of flight in 1:00pm KQED HD | History Detectives Secrets | R 3/23 6pm (KQED Life-Encore) America and meet a teenage African Ameri- of the Tap/Mountain Mail Bag/Banned Birth can pilot. Control Box includes a case that just may change the way we think about the history of Wednesday 19 EVENING family planning in America. 12:30pm KQED HD | Grannies on Safari Japan—The 9:00pm KQED World | Helen of Troy Bettany Contemporary and the Ancient. Experience 2:00pm KQED HD | Evelyn Cameron: Pictures Hughes travels across the eastern the sights and sounds of the most stimulat- from a Worthy Life This artist’s legacy of Mediterranean to sort the truth from the ing and exotic haunts of Tokyo and Kyoto. photographs and diary writings provides an myths of Helen. intimate portrait of pioneer life. EVENING EVENING 9:08pm KQED 9 & HD | Madams of the Barbary Tuesday 11 Coast | H | This award-winning documentary 7:30pm KQED 9 & HD |The Josh Kornbluth Show 12:30pm KQED HD | Grannies on Safari South tells the captivating and sometimes scandal- | q | Annie Leibovitz. Leibovitz’s career ret- ous stories of the madams, prostitutes and Africa—A Country of Cultural Mosaics. Join rospective A Photographer’s Life 1990-2005 other “women of questionable virtue” who the grannies as they visit Cape Town, Durban reveals some of her most intimate portraits helped bring culture, beauty and compassion and Johannesburg, walk through museums of all, those of her children, family and clos- to the Gold Rush era of San Francisco. | R and meet local artists and musicians. est friend, the late Susan Sontag. | R 3/19 3/20 8:08 (KQED Life-Encore), 3/22 4:06am 11:31pm (KQED 9), 3/20 10:31pm (KQED (KQED 9), 3/23 11pm (KQED World), 3/24 Life-Encore), 3/21 2:30am & 3/23 6am Wednesday 12 1am (KQED 9) (KQED 9 & HD) 12:30pm KQED HD | Grannies on Safari South Africa—on Safari! includes sightings of the Big Five: lion, leopard, elephant, rhino and buffalo. Thursday 13 ilmore. 12:30pm KQED HD | Grannies on Safari Discovering G the Wonders of Morocco. Pat and Regina trek through this scenic country, bounded by the Atlantic Ocean, Sahara Desert and Atlas Photo: Paul Mountains. Saturday 15 1:00pm KQED World | Living Courageously: The Spirit of Women profiles women whose lives have been transformed by challenging and devastating circumstances. | R 3/29 3:30pm (KQED HD) American Masters: Annie Leibovitz 10:04pm KQED 9 | American Masters Annie Leibovitz: Life Through a Lens. America’s most influential woman photographer bares her artistic process and personal journey. | R 3/20 9:04pm (Life-Encore), 3/21 3am (KQED 9) 11:31pm KQED 9 | The Josh Kornbluth Show | q | Annie Leibovitz. | RR 3/17 7:30pm | R 3/20 10:31pm (Life-Encore), 3/21 2:30am & 3/23 6am (KQED 9 & HD) Thursday 20 12:30pm KQED HD | Grannies on Safari Korea—Off the Beaten Path highlights the world-class museums and galleries that make the country come alive. 1:00pm KQED HD | History Detectives Home for Unwed Mothers/Long Expedition Encamp- ment/Evelyn Nesbit Portrait. 2:00pm KQED HD | My Girlfriends Quilt This inspirational program pays tribute to friend- ship and the healing power of women. Friday 21 Masterpiece The Complete Jane Austen: Emma Photo: ©ITV plc (Granada International) for Masterpiece™. EARLY 3:00pm KQED World | Shipping Out: The Story of 1:00pm KQED 9 | Story of Lady Bird Johnson 2:30am KQED 9 & HD | The Josh Kornbluth Show America’s Seafaring Women This unusual | H | First lady from 1963 to 1968, Lady Bird | q | Annie Leibovitz.