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FEBRUARY PROGRAM GUIDE 8.1 8.2 8.3 2013 Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Godmother of Rock & Roll • American Master - Sister Rosetta Tharpe: • Makers: Women Who Make America Inside: The Godmother of Rock & Roll • NOVA • Slavery By Another Name • Cuba’s Secret Side • A Path to Violence • Underground Railroad: The Williams Still Story • Healthy Minds 316-838-3090 www.kpts.org CUBA’S SECRET SIDE Sunday, February 3 & 10 @ 6PM Cuba’s Secret Side is a journey into the soul of Cuba. For three months, adventure filmmaker and author Karin Muller hitchhiked around Cuba – living with fisherman and farmers, Santeria priestess and country doctors. She was arrested over a dozen times, but in the end she managed to get beyond the propaganda and rhetoric to capture the true character of the Cuban people. Cuba’s Secret Side is an entertaining, insightful, and often humorous look at a side of Cuba that few foreigners get to see. Dr. Borenstein with guests Patrick Kennedy and Galen Staglan Thursdays @ 9:30PM February 7, Moonshot: The Next Frontier - One Mind for Research February 14, Military Mental Wellness, Part One: Service, Resilience and Dedication to Our Warriors February 21, Military Mental Wellness, Part Two: The Invisible Injuries of War and Post Traumatic Stress February 28, Military Mental Wellness, Part Three: Serving Those Who Serve and Their Families Wednesday The Path To Nights Violence Wednesday, February 20 @ 8PM 8PM February 6, Building Pharaoh’s Chariot Ever since the wake-up call that was Columbine, Some historians claim that the Egyptian chariot launched a technological and strategic revolution and was the schools and law enforcement have developed multiple secret weapon behind Egypt’s greatest era of conquest known as the New Kingdom. But was the chariot really a strategies to prevent attacks. Indeed, the horror of revolutionary design? How decisive was its role in the bloody battles of the ancient world? Newtown needs to be seen in a context that’s not defined by defeat. Remarkably, more than 120 school 8PM February 13, Earth From Space assaults have been thwarted in the past ten years. This groundbreaking special reveals a spectacular new space-based vision of Earth. Produced in consultation with But, while security hardware and physical barriers can NASA scientists, “Earth From Space” takes data from earth-observing satellites and transforms them into dazzling play a deterrent role, it’s been psychologists working visual sequences, each one exposing the intricate web of forces that sustain life on earth. hand in hand with law enforcement officers who have come up with the most helpful tools to prevent 8PM February 20, Mind of a Rampage Killer violent attacks. This documentary tells the story of a What makes a person walk into a theater or church or classroom and open fire? What combination of powerfully effective Secret Service program - circumstances compels a human being to commit the most inhuman of crimes? As the nation tries to the Safe School Initiative - that’s helped schools comprehend the tragic events in Newtown, NOVA correspondent Miles O’Brien investigates theories that rampage detect problem behavior in advance. killers are driven most of all by the wish to die, not the urge to kill. Yet, despite the progress made, recent attacks reveal a gaping hole in our safety net. Shooters like 9PM February 27, Japan’s Killer Quake Adam Lanza, Jared Loughner and James Holmes all The March 11, 2011, earthquake in Japan was the world’s fourth-largest earthquake since record keeping began executed their attacks after they’d left their respective in 1900 and the worst ever to shake Japan. The seismic shock wave released more than 4,000 times the energy schools. In such cases, parents may be the first and of the largest nuclear test ever conducted; it shifted the earth’s axis by six inches and shortened the day by a only line of defense, parents who are terrified of their few millionths of a second. The tsunami slammed Japan’s coast with 30-feet-high waves that traveled six miles own children and who receive inadequate help from inland, obliterating entire towns in a matter of minutes. the mental health and legal systems. Friday, February 22 @ 8PM Discover the life, music and influence of African-American gospel singer and guitar virtuoso Sister Rosetta Tharpe (1915-1973). Southern-born, Chicago-raised and New York-made, “She could play the guitar like nobody else … nobody.” During the 1940s-60s, Sister Rosetta introduced the spiritual passion of her gospel music Friday, February 15 into the secular world of rock ’n’ roll, inspiring the male icons of the genre. @ 9PM Sister Rosetta Tharpe recording at Decca Records with bandleader Lucky Millinder (left) and manager Moe Gale (right) in 1941. Extraordinary people risked their lives to help fugitive slaves escape via the clandestine Underground Railroad. Among them was William Still of Philadelphia, a free black man who accepted delivery of transported crates containing human “cargo.” This documentary reveals some of the dramatic, lesser-known stories behind this humanitarian enterprise, and explores key Canadian connections, including the surprising fate of former slaves who crossed the border to “Freedom’s Land.” Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Godmother of Rock & Roll Friday, February 22 @ 9PM A Sundance Film Festival selection for 2012, this new documentary based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Wall Street Journal senior writer Douglas A. Blackmon, explores the little-known story of the post-Emancipation era and the labor practices and laws that effectively created a new form of slavery in the South that persisted well into the 20th century. Blackmon examines the concept of “neoslavery,” which sentenced African-Americans to forced labor for violating an array of laws that criminalized their everyday behavior. Actor Laurence Fishburne (“CSI: Crime Scene Investigation”) narrates. Convicts Tuesday, February 26 @ 7PM Review the story of how women have helped shape America over the last 50 years through one of the most sweeping social revolutions in Leaders of the Women’s Movement pass a torch that was carried by foot from New York to Houston, Texas, for the our country’s history, in pursuit of their rights to a full and fair share National Women’s Convention. Among the marchers, front, of political power, economic opportunity and personal autonomy. from left to right: tennis star Billie Jean King, in blue shirt and tan pants; former U.S. Congresswoman Bella Abzug, wearing The documentary builds on the unprecedented multi-platform video her trademark hat; and feminist writer Betty Friedan, right, in red coat. November 1977. experience from PBS and AOL: MAKERS.com. Primetime Featured on previous page. Go to www.kpts.org for the complete schedule. 8.1 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 Washington Shakespeare Uncovered - Shakespeare Uncovered - Henry Red Green BBC World Friday 1 Need to Know Charlie Rose Week Richard II with Derek Jacobi IV & Henry V with Jeremy Irons Show News Rudy Maxa’s Wichita Wichita Xerox Rochester International Saturday 2 The Lawrence Welk Show Tracks Ahead Austin City Limits - Tim McGraw World Sessions Sessions Jazz Festival - Regina Carter Masterpiece Classic - Downton Masterpiece Classic - Downton Masterpiece Classic - Downton Official Best Sunday 3 Reagan Presidency My Generation Abbey, Season 3, Part 4 Abbey, Season 3, Part 5 Abbey, Season 3, Part 5 of Fest Independent Lens - Red Green BBC World Monday 4 Antiques Roadshow Market Warriors Charlie Rose As Goes Janesville Show News Pioneers of Television - Mysterious Lost Are You Being BBC World Tuesday 5 Silicon Valley: American Experience Charlie Rose Miniseries State of Franklin Served? News Nature - Attenborough’s NOVA - Red Green BBC World Wednesday 6 Life on Fire - Pioneers of the Deep Charlie Rose Life Stories: Our Fragile Planet Building Pharaoh’s Chariot Show News Are You Being BBC World Thursday 7 The Aviators I’ve Got Issues Impact Natural Healing Second Opinion Healthy Minds Charlie Rose Served? News Washington Shakespeare Uncovered - Shakespeare Uncovered - Red Green BBC World Friday 8 Need to Know Charlie Rose Week Hamlet with David Tennant The Tempest with Trevor Nunn Show News Rudy Maxa’s Wichita Wichita Austin City Limits - Edward Xerox Rochester International Saturday 9 The Lawrence Welk Show Tracks Ahead World Sessions Sessions Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeroes Jazz Festival - Kevin Eubanks Masterpiece Classic - Downton Official Best Sunday 10 Masterpiece Classic - Downton Abbey, Season 3, Part 6 Reagan Presidency My Generation Abbey, Season 3, Part 5 of Fest Monday 11 Antiques Roadshow Market Warriors Half the Sky Charlie Rose Are You Being BBC World Tuesday 12 FRONTLINE - Cliffhanger State of the Union Charlie Rose Served? News Nature - Cold Warriors: Red Green BBC World Wednesday 13 NOVA - Earth from Space Charlie Rose Wolves and Buffalo Show News Sunflower Are You Being BBC World Thursday 14 The Aviators Impact Natural Healing Second Opinion Healthy Minds Charlie Rose Journeys Served? News Washington Live From Lincoln Center - Underground Railroad: Red Green BBC World Friday 15 Need to Know Charlie Rose Week Ring Them Bells! The Williams Still Story Show News Rudy Maxa’s Wichita Wichita Austin City Limits - Xerox Rochester International Saturday 16 The Lawrence Welk Show Tracks Ahead World Sessions Sessions Gary Clark Jr./Alabama Shakes Jazz Festival - Elaine Elias 3 Masterpiece Classic - Official Best Sunday 17 Masterpiece Classic - Downton Abbey, Season 3, Part 7