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August Program Guide 2014 AUGUST PROGRAM GUIDE 2014 316-838-3090 320 West 21st Street North Wichita, KS 67203 • Straight No Chaser - Songs of the Decade • Return to Downton Abbey • Joe Bonamassa: Tour De Force - Live in London • The Fab Four: The Ultimate Beatles Tribute • Hit Men Live at Mohegan Sun • Time Team America Special Presentations • Masterpiece Mystery! - Poirot Season 12, Breathless Part 1 & 2 • American Masters - August 9 - 17 Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Ligthning Tickets Available Look for this Indicates tickets are symbol indicating available for upcoming programs for which performances with the you can pledge. pledge of membership. Monday, August 11 @ 7PM August 9 - 17 The perfect mix of ten incredible vocalists combined with an appropriate dash of humor create both a captivating and entertaining evening for all. Songs of the Decades was filmed live at Harrahs Resort in Atlantic City, NJ during the historic run of 50-shows in the Summer 2011. It is a follow up to Straight No Chaser’s hit “Live In New York” that premiered on PBS in 2009. RETURN TO Tuesday, August 12 @ 7PM Savor a mix of fond memories from the past four Susan Sarandon seasons of Downton Abbey and get a taste of the upcoming fifth season. Academy Award-winning actress Susan Sarandon hosts the program, which includes behind-the-scenes footage, fondly remembered moments from the first four seasons, and interviews with Julian Fellowes and Gareth Neame, providing an overview and context for the series and what to expect next. Wednesday, August 13 @ 7PM Tour De Force - Live In London chronicles Bonamassa’s atmospheric rise from the intimate club environment of The Borderline, to the prestigious Royal Albert Hall. Each individual evening was marked by a unique theme with different setlists, arrangements and ensembles providing the viewer with four unique performances. P N RE I O SENTAT Ardy Sarrafas Paul McCartney, Gavin Pringas George Harrison, Erik Fidel as Ringo Starr, Tyson Kelly as John Lennon. Live At Featuring Former Stars of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons Friday, August 15 @ 7PM The 60’s, 70’s and 80’s were a golden era for songwriting and during Thursday, August 14 @ 7PM that period acts like Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons, Tommy James If you want to experience the best Beatles tribute ever, you and The Shondells, and other big name chart-busting groups created won’t want to miss The Fab Four-The Ultimate Tribute. beloved hits that have been heard for generations and are woven The Fab Four is elevated far above every other Beatles Tribute into America’s consciousness. due to their precise attention to detail. With uncanny, note-for- Now, after decades behind the scenes, some of the greatest artists who note live renditions of Beatles’ classics such as “Can’t Buy Me were instrumental in the success of these fabulous songs have reunited Love,” “Yesterday,” “A Day In The Life,” “Twist And Shout,” to form The Hit Men. “Here Comes The Sun,” and “Hey Jude”, the Fab Four will Gerry Polci (Four Seasons and lead vocalist on “Oh What a Night!), Larry Gates (Bon Jovi, Carole King, make you think you are watching the real thing. Phoebe Snow), Russ Velazquez (The Ramones, LL Cool J, Chicago), Lee Shapiro (Four Seasons, Barry Manilow, Shondells), Jimmy Ryan (Carly Simon, Elton John, Jim Croce, Paul McCartney) Jack Davenport (Pirates of the Caribbean, “Smash”) stars as a brilliant London surgeon in 1961, when doctors were treated like gods and acted the part. Sundays @ 8PM David Suchet August 3 POIROT SEASON 12: DEAD MAN’S FOLLY A wealthy financier and his wife stage a Breathless grand party at their new summer home. Poirot (David Suchet) is a reluctant guest, August 24 & 31 urged to attend by his old friend Ariadne Otto, a surgeon married to Elizabeth, has eyes for new nurse Angela. Angela’s Oliver (Zoë Wanamaker), who suspects the sister, Jean, is engaged to Otto’s colleague Richard. Inspector Mulligan snoops “murder hunt” game she is preparing may around. Jean and Richard’s marriage gets off to a rocky start. Otto makes a turn out to be a real murder. breakthrough with Angela. Mulligan gives Elizabeth a menacing message. Tuesday, August 19 Tuesday, August 26 The Search for Josiah Henson… Lost Civil War Prison The Man Behind the Story of @ 7PM Camp Lawton, near Milan, Georgia, housed 10,000 Uncle Tom’s Cabin Union prisoners at the end of the Civil War. The remains @ 7PM of the camp have long been lost to history. Can TIME Tucked between upscale homes in suburban Maryland TEAM AMERICA find the original site of the camp? What just outside Washington, DC, are the remains of an 1830’s artifacts are buried beneath the ground and what do they plantation — once home to Josiah Henson, the slave who tell us of the hellish experiences of the prisoners once inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe’s famous novel Uncle Tom’s held captive here? Cabin. What remains here of his life and legacy? The Lost Pueblo Village The Bones of Badger Hole @ 8PM @ 8PM The site of what is believed to have been a 1,200-year- In western Oklahoma, the bones of massive 10,000-year-old old village is located near Mesa Verde, Colorado, P N bison mingle with the remnants of early man-made weapons. where ancient peoples built one of the first permanent R I O What strategies did hunters use against these mammoth settlements in North America. What did this settlement ES T beasts before the advent of bows and arrows? What can these look like and how did life here shape human history? ENTA bison bones teach us about our ancient past? Migrant Mother Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning Friday, August 29 @ 8PM Explore, through Lange’s granddaughter’s eyes, the life story of the influential “Migrant Mother” photographer. Never-before-seen photos and film footage, family memories and new interviews reveal the artist who challenged America to know itself. Dorothea Lange Primetime Featured on previous page. Go to www.kpts.org for the complete August schedule. 8.1 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:00 11:30 Washington Moyers & Great Performances - Dudamel The Verdi Requiem Red Green BBC World Charlie Rose Friday 1 Week Company at the Hollywood Bowl Show News Doc Martin - Of All the Harbors Vicious Austin City Limits - Xerox Rochester International Jazz Saturday 2 The Lawrence Welk Show Doctor Who in All the Towns Episode 5 Jim James/The Black Angels Festival - Louis Armstrong Society Jazz Band Last Tango in Halifax - Masterpiece Mystery! - Poirot Season 12, Vicious Austin City Limits - Doc Martin - Of All the Harbors Sunday 3 Season 2, Episode 6 Dead Man’s Folly Episode 6 Jim James/The Black Angels in All the Towns Antiques Roadshow - Antiques Roadshow - Red Green BBC World POV - 15 to Life: Kenneth’s Story Charlie Rose Monday 4 Vintage Rochester Vintage Hartford Show News Red Green BBC World Mark Twain - Part Two FRONTLINE - Generation Like Charlie Rose Tuesday 5 Show News My Wild Affair - The Seal NOVA - Australia’s First Red Green BBC World Wednesday 6 Sex in the Wild - Dolphins Charlie Rose Who Came Home 4 Billion Years: Strange Creatures Show News Sunflower Healthy Body Red Green BBC World The Aviators I’ve Got Issues In Good Shape Healing Quest Charlie Rose Thursday 7 Journeys Healthy Mind Show News Washington Moyers & Great Performances - BBC World Dick Cavett’s Watergate Charlie Rose Friday 8 Week Company Sting: The Last Ship News Jammin at Xerox Rochester International Jazz Saturday 9 Jimmy Van Heusen: Swingin’ with Frank & Bing 50s & 60s Rock Rewind (My Music) Hippie Jacks Festival - Gretchen Parlato Woody’s Children 45th Rasi Dari Tari Return to Downton Abbey PBS Previews: The Roosevelts Breakfast Special Sunday 10 Anniversary Concert The Soul of Dance BBC World Celtic Woman: Emerald Charlie Rose Monday 11 Straight No Chaser - Songs of the Decade News BBC World Return to Downton Abbey PBS Previews: The Roosevelts Red Rock Serenade Charlie Rose Tuesday 12 News BBC World Wednesday 13 50s & 60s Rock Rewind (My Music) Charlie Rose Joe Bonamassa: Tour De Force - Live in London News Red Green BBC World Yanni: World Without Borders Charlie Rose Thursday 14 The Fab Four: The Ultimate Beatles Tribute Show News Friday 15 Hit Men Live at Mohegan Sun Moments to Remember: My Music Charlie Rose Jammin at Xerox Rochester International Jazz Saturday 16 Big Band Years Jimmy Van Heusen: Swingin’ with Frank & Bing Hippie Jacks Festival - Ravi Coltrane Quartet Sunday 17 Straight No Chaser - Songs of the Decade Return to Downton Abbey PBS Previews: The Roosevelts Secrets of Althorp - The Spencers Antiques Roadshow - Antiques Roadshow - BBC World POV - A World Not Ours Charlie Rose Monday 18 Junk in the Trunk Tasty Treasures News The Search for Josiah Henson... The Bones of Badger Hole, A FRONTLINE - Red Green BBC World Charlie Rose Tuesday 19 The Man Behind The Story of Uncle Time Team America Presentation The Retirement Gamble Show News NOVA - Finding Life Beyond Secrets of the Dead - Red Green BBC World Nature - Raccoon Nation Charlie Rose Wednesday 20 Earth - Moons and Beyond Lost Ships of Rome Show News Sunflower Healthy Body Red Green BBC World The Aviators Wild Turkeys In Good Shape Healing Quest Charlie Rose Thursday 21 Journeys Healthy Mind Show News Washington Moyers & Great Performances - Vienna Philharmonic PBS Previews: Red Green BBC World Charlie Rose Friday 22 Week Company Summer Night Concert 2014 The Roosevelts Show News Vicious Austin City Limits - Xerox Rochester International The Lawrence Welk Show Doc Martin - Haemophobia Doctor Who Saturday 23 Episode 6 Jason Isbell/Neko Case Jazz Festival - Dr.
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