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Expanded GUIDE-WORLD July 2020 1 non-profits dedicated to raising the of the Earth to the emergence of next generation of female leaders, the world we know today. With help the program investigates where from high-energy host and scientist political ambition begins and why Richard Smith, we meet titanic society should encourage more dinosaurs and giant kangaroos, sea women to lead. Interviewees monsters and prehistoric include Anne Moses, founder of crustaceans, disappearing IGNITE; Senator Lisa Murkowski, mountains and deadly asteroids. WSKG-DT4 Republican of Alaska; Tiffany Dufu, This is the untold story of the Land former president of the White Down Under, the one island July 2020 House Project; Melissa Deckman, continent that has got it all. Host expanded listings professor of public affairs at Richard Smith comes face-to-face Washington College; Susannah W. with the previously unknown Shakow, founder of Running Start; reptilian rulers of prehistoric 1 Wednesday Emiliana Simon-Thomas, cognitive, Australia. NOVA resurrects the 8pm POV affective and behavioral giants that stalked the land and And She Could Be Next, Part 1: neuroscientist at UC Berkeley; and discovers that some of them were Building The Movement Amanda Adkins, GOP state chair, among the largest ever to have And She Could Be Next" tells the Kansas; among others. walked the Earth. Others were story of a defiant movement of 2 Thursday some of the most dangerous. In the women of color, transforming 8pm Prehistoric Road Trip dry desert heart, scientists unearth politics from the ground up by Tiny Teeth, Fearsome Beasts an ancient inland ocean, full of sea fighting for a truly reflective As she drives closer to the present monsters. But reptiles didn't have democracy. day, Emily discovers surprising the world all to themselves. 10pm PBS NewsHour truths written in the fossil record. Mammals like the enigmatic 11pm Dw The Day Meantime, scientists studying our platypus lived alongside them, 11:30pm BBC World News planet's past are revealing clues ready for their day in the sun. And 12am Raising Ms. President about its future. 65 million years ago, that day Women make up more than half of 9pm Breakthrough: The Ideas arrived. the American population and That Changed The World 3 Friday workforce. Yet, the United States The Car 8pm Paving The Way: The only ranks 97th out of 190 countries Go for a ride through the National Park-To-Park Highway when it comes to the number of 9,000-year history of the car, from See America First women in elected office. According its roots in dogsleds to Henry At a time when train travel to the to research conducted by Jennifer Ford's affordable and assembly National Parks was only for the Lawless, director of the Women & line-built Model T, and meet the wealthy, this program follows the Politics Institute, and Richard Fox, scientists working on the next convergence of U.S. Land being political science department chair generation of self-driving set aside for all people, the at Loyola Marymount University, automobiles. development of the "autos for the women are less likely than men to 10pm PBS NewsHour everyman" and the need to escape run for office, and often consider 11pm Dw The Day the drone of WWI and the 1918 flu themselves under-qualified to 11:30pm BBC World News pandemic. With this need for serve, despite their success in 12am Nova release, 12 intrepid motorists business and education. In the Australia's First 4 Billion Years: embark upon the 1920 inaugural documentary RAISING MS. Monsters tour of the National Park-to-Park PRESIDENT, filmmaker Kiley Lane Of all the continents on Earth, none Highway. Traveling 5, 000 miles explores why more women don't preserves a more spectacular story over 76 days to promote the need run for office. Through interviews of its origins than Australia. NOVA's for good roads, these individuals with elected officials, scholars, high mini-series takes viewers on a also explore the idea of what it school students and leaders of two rollicking adventure from the birth means to 'See America First' while Page 2 of 14 – July 2020 WORLD expanded guide touring in the western United vital democratic spaces, where represents to all Americans. States, instead of visiting their citizens from all walks of life could Narrated by David McCullough, the ancestry in war torn Europe. converge and feel restored. Prior to film traces the development of the 9pm Paving The Way: The officially committing to landscape monument--from its conception, to National Park-To-Park Highway architecture, Olmsted worked as a its complicated and often Welcome Home New York Times correspondent to controversial construction, to its Continue the journey of the 1920 the Confederate states, the final dedication--and offers inaugural tour of the National manager of a California gold mine interviews with a wide range of Park-to-Park Highway. Tour and General Secretary of the Americans to explore the meaning members are faced with the United States Sanitary Commission of the Statue of Liberty. decision to turn back or journey on during the Civil War. Olmsted, a 10pm America ReFramed as they are without their leader. workaholic by today's standards, Vision Portraits With some of the most magnificent devoted the latter half of his life to Acclaimed director Rodney Evans vistas still ahead, they learn what it creating green spaces for (Brother to Brother and The Happy really means to be road weary, but overworked city dwellers. Told in Sad) takes viewers on a personal at the same time find the pure joy large part through Olmsted's own journey as he ponders how the of a true American experience -The words (voiced by Oscar winning deterioration of his vision will Road Trip. actor Kevin Kline), this film weaves impact his life and work as a 10pm PBS NewsHour together his poignant personal filmmaker. Interviewing blind and 11pm Dw The Day story and pioneering vision with low vision artists - a photographer, 11:30pm BBC World News contemporary footage of the lasting a dancer and a writer - Evans 12am Olmsted and America's masterpieces he left behind. embarks on a quest to learn how Urban Parks 4 Saturday other artists have continued to One-hundred and fifty-one years 8pm Anthem create art and how their journeys after Frederick Law Olmsted ANTHEM tells the story behind might serve as inspiration for his (1822-1903) designed New York Francis Scott Key's "The own. City's Central Park with Calvert Star-Spangled Banner," the song 11:30pm Reel South Vaux, it remains an undisputed famously penned after the Driven Blind haven of tranquility amid one of the relentless bombardment by the Produced and Directed by: Scott E. largest, tallest and most unnatural British of Fort McHenry during The Schimmel. Dan Parker, a world places in the world. OLMSTED War of 1812. Historians and music champion drag racer, struggles to AND AMERICA'S URBAN PARKS, experts discuss the Colonial-era adjust to his new reality after he is narrated by actress Kerry songs and events that influenced blinded in a fiery racing accident. Washington, examines the Key to write what would become Though visually impaired, Dan has visionary urban planner and the U.S. national anthem. ANTHEM not given up his love of working landscape architect's impact on the also reveals interesting facts about with his hands, or his love of racing. development of America's first Key's upbringing and religious Driven Blind follows Dan's great city parks in the late 19th leanings while tracing the origins of single-minded quest to find century. With incredible foresight, the song. During the program, the meaningful work and to get back Olmsted brought nourishing green U.S. Naval Academy Glee Club behind the wheel. spaces to New York, Boston, and St. John's College Chorus give 12am Anthem Chicago, San Francisco, Atlanta, voice to this stirring and elegant ANTHEM tells the story behind Louisville and dozens of other U.S. song, including a performance of its Francis Scott Key's "The cities. Throughout his working life, first draft. Star-Spangled Banner," the song Olmsted and his firm carried out 9pm Statue of Liberty famously penned after the more than 500 commissions, This 1985 Ken Burns film relentless bombardment by the including nearly 100 public parks. chronicles the creation and history British of Fort McHenry during The He believed parks should serve as of the Statue of Liberty and what it War of 1812. Historians and music Page 3 of 14 – July 2020 WORLD expanded guide experts discuss the Colonial-era and birds. prison. House of Blessing provides songs and events that influenced 6 Monday education, childcare and continued Key to write what would become 8pm The Good Road vocational programs for those the U.S. national anthem. ANTHEM Bangkok, Thailand: The Big prisoners and ex-prisoners who also reveals interesting facts about House.... of Blessing most need it. Viewers will hear the Key's upbringing and religious The Good Road returns to Craig redemptive stories of ex-convicts leanings while tracing the origins of and Earl's hometown of Bangkok often ignored or rejected in Thai the song. During the program, the and end up in the 2nd largest society because of their criminal U.S. Naval Academy Glee Club maximum-security prison in all of past. This episode explores the and St. John's College Chorus give Thailand. Luckily, it's by invitation. benefits of a unique partnership voice to this stirring and elegant They receive a rare tour of the between the primarily Buddhist song, including a performance of its grounds as well as the cells before bureaucrats of the Thai government first draft.
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