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Gamut December 2015 WSKG-HD Primetime Expanded Listings 1 Tuesday 8pm Class of the Century On Friday, October 11th, 1946, East Hill in Ithaca once again sprang to life. The fall semester had been delayed by weeks because of a serious housing shortage, created largely by the enormous increase in enrollment. Many of the new freshmen that fall were World War II veterans seizing advantage of the GI Bill. It would be the beginning of a new era at Cornell and in America. "The Class of the Century" is a one-hour documentary that looks at the post-war era in the United States and the lasting impact of the GI Bill through the voices of historians and Cornell's 1950 alumni. 9pm Frontline From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians - Pax Romana/A Light To The Nations FRONTLINE presents the epic story of the rise of Christianity. Drawing upon new and sometimes controversial historical evidence, the series transports the viewer back two thousand years to the time and place where Jesus of Nazareth once lived and preached and challenges familiar assumptions and conventional notions about the origins of Christianity. This episode traces the life of Jesus of Nazareth, exploring the message that helped his ministry grow and the events that led to his crucifixion around 30 C.E. The film then turns to the period that followed Jesus' death, examining the rise of Christianity and concluding with the First Revolt-the bloody and violent siege of Jerusalem and the beginning of a rift between Christianity and Judaism. The broadcast explores new evidence suggesting that Jesus' followers, because of their diversity and the differences in their cultures and languages, looked at and interpreted Jesus and his teachings in many different ways.TVPG DVI : 1 YEAR 11pm Charlie Rose TVRE : 1 YEAR 12am BBC World News TVRE 12:30am Tavis Smiley TVRE : 1 YEAR 2 Wednesday 8pm Nature Pets: Wild at Heart: Playful Creatures In this astonishing program filled with innovative photography and scientific revelation, we investigate how our favorite pets get in touch with their wild side through play. From talkative budgies, marathon-running hamsters, wall-climbing cats and diving dogs, as well as an island where rabbits rule and a city where dogs live a secret double life - discover how our pets' playful games are just a whisker away from the wild.TVG DVI : 1 YEAR 9pm How We Got to Now with Steven Johnson Clean Dirty water has killed more humans than all the wars of history combined, but in the last 150 years, a series of radical ideas, extraordinary innovations and unsung heroes have changed our world. Johnson plunges into a sewer to understand what made a maverick engineer decide to lift the city of Chicago with screw jacks in order to build America's first sewer system. He talks about John Leal, who deliberately "poisoned" the water supply of 200,000 people when, without authorization, he added chlorine, considered lethal in 1908, into Jersey City's water and made it safe to drink. This isn't only about the world becoming a cleaner place - the iPhone, the subway, flat screen TVs and even the bikini are the result of the valiant efforts of the unsung heroes of clean.TVPG : 1 YEAR 10pm How We Got to Now with Steven Johnson Time The world today is obsessed by time. Johnson boards a submarine to discover what a lack of natural light means for a sailor's working day and visits Heathrow, the world's busiest airport, to try to get timings right at air traffic control. The story of getting a grip on time is full of curious garage tinkerers. One of them, railway clerk William F. Allen, was so exasperated by the chaos caused by the 8,000 local times zones in the U.S. that he fought tirelessly to standardize time into four zones. Learn how advancements in navigation, the way we work, technology and travel would have been impossible without the unsung heroes of time.TVPG : 1 YEAR 11pm How We Got to Now with Steven Johnson Glass Johnson considers how the invention of the mirror gave rise to the Renaissance, how glass lenses allow us to reveal worlds within worlds and how, deep beneath the ocean, glass is essential to communication. He learns about the daring exploits of glassmakers who were forced to work under threat of the death penalty, a physics teacher who liked to fire molten glass from a crossbow and a scientist whose tinkering with a glass lens allowed 600 million people to see a man set foot on the moon. The link between the worlds of art, science, astronomy, disease prevention and global communication starts with the little-known maverick innovators of glass.TVPG : 1 YEAR 12am Charlie Rose TVRE : 1 YEAR 3 Thursday 8pm Great Performances Pavarotti: A Voice for the Ages Like Enrico Caruso before him, Luciano Pavarotti extended his presence far beyond the limits of Italian opera. Quickly establishing his trademark rich sound as the greatest male operatic voice of the 20th century, he expanded his reach to stadium concerts and pop collaborations which brought him fame beyond measure. Audiences adored his larger than life personality, childlike charm, generous figure, and happy go lucky style. This program celebrates the 50th anniversary since his career debut in Amsterdam, Vienna, Zurich and finally London where he substituted for the ailing Giuseppe di Stefano as Rodolfo in La Boheme. Even today, it is his powerful sound with its natural grace and brilliant color which still leads many to consider him the world's greatest voice. It is Pavarotti who brought opera to the masses and made football fans worldwide fall in love with "Nessun dorma." This program includes that hit and other beloved arias from La Boheme, Rigoletto and Aida; Neapolitan songs in arrangements by Henry Mancini including "Mamma" and "O Sole Mio"; favorite sacred songs like "Ave Maria" and "O Holy Night"; as well as popular duets with Bono, Sting and Eric Clapton.TVG 9pm The Last Enemy Stephen Ezard returns to England to mourn the death of his brother Michael, an aid worker in Afghani refugee camps who has been killed by a landmine. As Stephen tries to learn more about Michael's death, he falls in love with his brother's widow, Yasim Anwar, becomes a pawn in a government technology surveillance scheme and gets targeted by rogue agent David Russell. Can Stephen take control of his life again and solve the growing mystery around Michael's death?TVPG : 1 YEAR 10:30pm Father Brown The Pride of the Prydes TVPG 11:30pm Charlie Rose TVRE : 1 YEAR 12:30am Tavis Smiley TVRE : 1 YEAR 4 Friday 8pm Washington Week with Gwen Ifill TVRE : 1 YEAR 8:30pm Charlie Rose - The Week TVRE : 1 YEAR 9pm Josh Groban: Stages Live Join the world-renowned performer to explore classic songs from the Broadway songbook. Fans of all ages will want to sing along to famous tunes including "All I Ask of You," "Bring Him Home," "Anthem," "Pure Imagination," "Try to Remember" and more.TVG 10:30pm Mannheim Steamroller 30/40 Live Mannheim Steamroller 30/40 Live is captured in high definition, and recorded in surround sound over two evenings in December 2014 at the Orpheum Theater in Omaha, Nebraska, the hometown of Mannheim Steamroller. The program features songs from their ever- popular Mannheim Steamroller Christmas annual tour: the iconic "Deck the Halls" arrangement by Chip Davis, "God Rest Ye, Merry Gentlemen", "Silent Night", and a special performance of "Greensleeves" featuring Elyse Davis, the daughter of Chip Davis. New performances of composer / producer Chip Davis' early career "Fresh Aire" series include "Toccata" and Four Rows of Jacks".TVG 12am Charlie Rose TVRE : 1 YEAR 5 Saturday 8pm Carpenters: Close to You (My Music Presents) MY MUSIC Presents THE CARPENTERS: CLOSE TO YOU is a music-filled documentary that traces the Carpenters' career through the eyes of Richard Carpenter and the group's friends in the music business, featuring their their top recording hits, including "(They Long to Be) Close to You," "Top of the World," "For All We Know," "Superstar," "Yesterday Once More," "Rainy Days and Mondays" and "We've Only Just Begun." Between 1970 and 1983, the Carpenters were awarded 10 gold singles and 9 gold albums, many of which also achieved multi-platinum status. They won Grammy Awards as Best New Artist and Best Contemporary Vocal group in 1970 and for Album of the Year in 1971. That same year, Karen and Richard hosted the NBC-TV summer series, "Make Your Own Kind of Music" and later starred in a series of specials on ABC-TV into the 1980s. Their soundtrack recording of "Bless the Beasts and Children" was nominated for an Academy Award, and they performed it at the Oscar telecast in 1972. From 1970 to 1981, the Carpenters consistently were represented on the Billboard charts with 17 of their singles in the Pop Top 20, including three #1 songs and six songs at #2 in addition to 17 songs hitting #1 on the Easy Listening chart. The Carpenters became the top American recording act of the 1970s and have sold over 100 million recordings worldwide. THE CARPENTERS: CLOSE TO YOU features interviews with Richard Carpenter in addition to the group's musicians, famous friends and colleagues, particularly those who helped them achieve stardom, including Herb Alpert, Paul Williams, Burt Bacharach and Petula Clark. The program also contains rare footage of Richard and Karen, including never-before-seen promotional films, concert performances, studio recording sessions, archival television appearances and outtakes.TVG 9:30pm The Best of the 60s (My Music Archives) For the past decade the MY MUSIC series has been preserving and archiving the greatest songs of the 1960s.