Women's History Month
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Celebrates Women’s History Month Program and Resource Guide March 2013 Saturday 2 EVENING 9pm World Apache 8 tells the compelling 10:30am World To the Contrary with Bonnie story of an all-women wild land Erbe | R (World) 3/3 1:30pm firefighter crew from the White AFTERNOON Mountain Apache tribe. | D 3pm World Makers: Women Who Make 10pm World Annie Oakley: American America Meryl Streep narrates Experience tells the story of the compelling story of the a five-foot-tall sharpshooter advancement of women in who became a world-renowned America in the past 50 years. symbol of the Wild West. | D | D | R (World) 3/3 9pm 11pm World A Girl’s Life explores what it means to be a girl in America Sunday 3 today; based on Rachel Public 5:30pm KQED + Cherish the Ladies: An Irish Simmons’ book Odd Girl Out. Homecoming | H | s | | R (Life) 3/29 10pm The critically acclaimed Irish Television American group headlines Sunday 10 an unforgettable night of 7pm World Miller Center Forums Janny entertainment at In March, KQED proudly celebrates the diversity of Scott — A Singular Woman: Bucknell University. our community with a special programming lineup The Untold Story. Scott on KQED 9 and KQED Plus (+) . provides a look into the life of Tuesday 5 the woman who most shaped Barack Obama’s life, his mother. KQED 9 is available over the air on DT9.1, 54.2 EARLY and 25.1; via most cable systems on Channel 9; 12:30am KQED + This is Us | q | Locals in Space 9pm World America Reframed | H | on XFINITY cable Channel 709; and via satellite includes profiles of local Beyond Belief. Susan Retik and Patti Quigley are two ordinary on DirecTV (local and HD Channel 9) and DISH astronomers Natalie Batalha and Sandra Faber. soccer moms living in the network (local Channel 8226 in SD only). affluent suburbs of Boston until Wednesday 6 tragedy strikes. Rather than KQED Plus is available over the air on Channel 54, turning inwards, grief compels 1pm World Global Voices | H | Motherland these women to focus on the DT54.1, 9.2 and 25.2. It is on XFINITY cable Afghanistan. One in seven country where the terrorists who Channel 10 and in HD on 710; and on DirecTV Afghan women currently dies took their husbands’ lives were (Channel 54, SD and HD) and DISH (Channel 54 in childbirth. This program trained: Afghanistan. or 8234) satellite systems. introduces the women behind these devastating statistics. | R Monday 11 This guide also lists programs airing on KQED Life (World) 3/6 1pm, 3/8 8am 11am World American Masters Harper (XFINITY 189, Channel 54.3) and KQED World Lee: Hey, Boo explores the (XFINITY 190, Channel 9.3). Some programs Thursday 7 phenomenon behind To Kill repeat additional times on these two channels. 8am World Barbara Morgan: No Limits a Mockingbird and the Visit kqed.org/dtv for the complete digital tells the story of an elementary mysterious life of its author. program schedule. school teacher who overcame | R (9) 3/13 9pm, 3/14 3am, often tragic challenges to 3/16 5pm; (Life) 3/13 9pm, become a full-fledged astronaut. 3/16 5pm, 3/18 9:30pm proGrammING SYmbols AFTERNOON q This program is a KQED production, Friday 8 12:30pm World Storied Life of Millie Benson co-production or presentation. 11pm KQED 9 Live from the Artists Den recounts the inspiring life of H This program (or episode) is airing on Adele. The British sensation the author and adventurer who KQED 9 or KQED + for the first time. Adele performs at the Santa wrote the first Nancy Drew Monica Bay Woman’s Club. mysteries. s This broadcast will be interrupted by | R (9) 3/9 5am 1pm World American Masters fundraising intermissions. Margaret Mitchell: American R This program will be repeated on the Saturday 9 Rebel profiles the Pulitzer date/s noted. Prize–winning author behind EARLY D Descriptive video information for the the best-selling novel Gone With 5am KQED 9 Live from the Artists Den the Wind. | R (Life) 3/18 8:30pm; sight-impaired is available on televisions Adele. (World) 3/13 8am with stereo capability. 10:30am World To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe | R (World) 3/10 1:30pm Tuesday 12 Programs are subject to change after AFTERNOON 7:30pm KQED 9 Unleash the Power of press deadlines. For the latest program 4:30pm World No Going Back: Women and the Female Brain with information, visit kqed.org/tvchanges or call the War | H | looks at how the Dr. Amen | s | Best-selling our automated program information line at lives of women and their roles author and brain expert Dr. 415.354.8000. If you are recording, allow five in society changed during and Daniel Amen offers insight on minutes for early starts and late finishes. after the Civil War. the unique characteristics and 5pm World History Detectives needs of the female brain along Cover photo: Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Doc Holliday’s Watch/Civil War with a practical, prescriptive into Opportunity for Women Worldwide. Female Soldiers/Japanese program targeted specifically for America Ferrera plays with children at the Internment Camp Artwork. women to help them thrive. | R New Light Crèche in Kolkata, India, includes a segment about the (9) 3/13 1:30am; (+) 3/14 9pm, courtesy David Smoler. contributions of women during 3/15 3am 2 the Civil War. KQED Public Television Wednesday 13 EVENING EVENING 10pm World 7:30pm KQED 9 | q | Erika Chong Shuch, EARLY In Search of Myths and Spark Heroes The Queen of Sheba Jesus Aguilar, Kathy Aoki, M 1:30am KQED 9 Unleash the Power of the Historian Michael Wood looks dot Strange. Go on a creative Female Brain with Dr. Amen for the Queen of Sheba, one journey with choreographer and s | | R (+) 3/14 9pm, 3/15 3am of the world’s most fascinating dancer Erika Chong Shuch and AFTERNOON heroines. | D challenge gender stereotypes 1pm World Frontline The Education of 11pm World POV The Light in Her Eyes. with printmaker Kathy Aoki. | R Michelle Rhee follows Rhee Houda al-Habash challenges (9) 3/20 1:30am, 3/22 11:30pm, during her tumultuous three- the women of her Syrian 3/23 5:30am; (Life) 3/23 KQED Public Radio year tenure as the chancellor community to live according 5:30pm, 3/24 6:30pm of Washington, D.C., public to Islam. 11pm KQED 9 Uniform Betrayal: Rape in schools as she attempts to the Military | H | The issue of fix a broken system. | R (World) sexual assault and rape in the 3/13 1pm Sunday 17 military is explored through the 9pm World America Reframed | H | EVENING eyes of survivors. | R (9) 3/20 Flying: Confessions of a Free 5am; (Life) 3/22 10pm 9pm KQED 9 American Masters Harper Woman, Part 1. In this two-part Lee: Hey, Boo. | R (9) 3/14 3am, documentary, master storyteller 3/16 5pm; (Life) 3/16 5pm, 3/18 Jennifer Fox lays bare her own Wednesday 20 9:30pm turbulent life to penetrate what EARLY 11pm KQED 9 Audrey Hepburn it means to be a free woman 1:30am KQED 9 Spark | q | Erika Chong Shuch, Resources Remembered Hear from the today. Jesus Aguilar, Kathy Aoki, M dot star herself about her career Strange. | R (9) 3/22 11:30pm, and the family and friendships Monday 18 3/23 5:30am; (Life) 3/23 that were her priority. | R (9) 5:30pm, 3/24 6:30pm 3/14 5am 12:30pm World American Masters Joan Baez: How Sweet the 5am KQED 9 Uniform Betrayal: Rape in Sound. Performance clips the Military | R (Life) 3/22 Thursday 14 highlight the story of the pacifist 10pm EARLY and folk singer as told from her 11am World Shipping Out: The Story of 3am KQED 9 American Masters Harper perspective. | R (Life) 3/24 8pm America’s Seafaring Women Lee: Hey, Boo. | R (9) 3/16 5pm; EVENING celebrates the modern day women who work in commercial (Life) 3/16 5pm, 3/18 9:30pm 7pm Life American Masters Louisa shipping. | R (World) 3/22 8am 5am KQED 9 Audrey Hepburn May Alcott: The Woman Behind Remembered Little Women This look at the noon World No Job for a Woman | H | EVENING author of Little Women reveals The Women Who Fought to Report World War II. Before 9pm KQED + she was a free thinker with a Unleash the Power of the World War II, war reporting literary double life. Female Brain with Dr. Amen was considered “no job for a | s | (+) 3/15 3am 10pm KQED + Half the Sky: Turning R woman.” But when the U.S. Oppression into Opportunity entered the war, American for Women Worldwide #101 women reporters didn’t want to Friday 15 follows six actress-advocates miss covering the biggest story EARLY as they travel to six countries of the century so they fought for 3am KQED + Unleash the Power of the and meet inspiring, courageous and won access. But there was Female Brain with Dr. Amen individuals who are Get the guide online: kqed.org/heritage a catch. | R (World) 3/25 8am | s | confronting oppression and developing real, meaningful Saturday 16 solutions through health care, Friday 22 education and economic 9pm KQED 9 Tina Fey: The Mark Twain 10:30am World To the Contrary with Bonnie empowerment for women Prize Steve Carell, Jimmy Erbe | R (World) 3/17 1:30pm and girls. | D | R (+) 3/19 4am Fallon, Jon Hamm, Steve Martin AFTERNOON 11pm KQED 9 PBS Arts from Cleveland: and others pay tribute to the 3pm World Elizabeth Winthrop: All the Women Who Rock showcases humor of Tina Fey.