Radio & TV Program Guide | Mar12 Noteworthy in March n Pledge Madness! Tournament-quality Specials March 3-18! n Family Literacy Event – Meet Clifford! n “Finding Your Roots” Premieres n John Grisham Novel on “The Radio Reader” College of Communication Arts and Sciences Mar12 What’s Your Story? Volunteer This Month We’re always looking for stories to Be a Key Player in about how WKAR Radio or TV On Our Cover Pledge Madness has made an impact on your life. Pledge Madness comes to You’ll note a lot of “Pledge Madness” Did you make a lifelong friend WKAR, March 3-18. Look for going on around WKAR this month, during a volunteer stint? Did a terrific specials on WKAR-TV, as we bring you a number of terrific certain program provide you WKAR Create and WKAR World – shows and specials. with the information you needed and please give generously! We are recruiting volunteers to answer at just the right time? Perhaps CREDITS phones during this event. If you are you just love certain programs Editor interested in volunteering, give mem- or personalities. Please tell us! Jeanie Croope bership a call at (517) 432-3120, Ext. 374 College of Communication or email [email protected]. We Send an email to [email protected] Arts & Sciences Dean Pamela Whitten will need phone operators evenings (be sure to put “My WKAR Story” WKAR Acting Director and weekends from Saturday, March 3 in the subject line). Gary Reid through Sunday, March 18. Radio Station Manager Curt Gilleo Content & Community Engagement Manager Susi Elkins Radio News Director “The more that you read, the Kevin Lavery Radio Reading Service more things you will know.” Brad Walker Volunteer Coordinator – Dr. Seuss Mary Wright QUESTIONS? WKAR is a division of the Volunteers answer phones during WKAR’s pledge drive. College of Communication Arts & Sciences at Michigan State University. If you have questions about WKAR call (517) 432-9527, ext. 365 weekdays (8 a.m. to 5 p.m.) or contact Carol Karber at [email protected]. WKAR COMMUNITY ADVISORY BOARD Michael Rhodes WKAR will host two Raising Readers Lansing Workshop Chairperson Family Fun Workshops this month. Richard Weingartner Targeted to families and children ages Gier Park Elementary School Vice Chairperson 4-6, the workshop shows parents how Jessica Wortley Adler Thursday, March 15 T. J. Bucholz to have fun with their child while learn- Registration/Pizza: 5:30-6 p.m. April Clobes ing new ways to build reading skills. Program: 6-7 p.m. John Dobbs Each child receives a book and learning Nancy Elwood To register, call (517) 755-1360. Meredith Grimm activities to take home. A light supper Carrie Rathbun Hawks is provided. David Hollister Holt Workshop Derrick Jones Mary Black Junttonen Sycamore Elementary School Michael Levine Karen Phillips Thursday, March 22 Joseph Ross Registration/Pizza: 6-6:30 p.m. Patrick Spyke Donna Ullrich Program: 6:30-7:30 p.m. Robert Ulrich To register, call (517) 699-7811 Jane White Maria Wygnal or email [email protected] by March 20. WKAR’S MISSION We connect people to power- ful ideas that inspire personal For more about WKAR’s fun growth, exploration of our family and children’s activities world, and positive change. and programs, see our new Kids’ Corner on page 12. MSU is an Affirmative-Action/ WKAR’s Family Fun Workshops are made possible by grants from Jackson National Life Insurance Company, Equal-Opportunity Employer. Macy’s and Target. 2 StayTuned Moyers & Company Sundays at 2 p.m. Bill Moyers has returned to public broadcasting with Moyers & Company, a weekly hour of compelling conversation about life and the state of American de- mocracy. Scholars, artists, activ- Pledge Madness! ists, scientists, philosophers and Who needs March madness newsmakers bring context, in- when we have Pledge Madness sight and meaning to important going on right here at WKAR? topics. Moyers also offers his own From March 3-18, look for timely and penetrating essays on Itzhak Perlman helps the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra celebrate 100 years. specials with Joe Bonamassa, society and government. Hugh Laurie, Peter, Paul and Mary, Idina Menzel, Celtic BackStage Pass Woman, Tony Bennett and Thursdays at 10 p.m. (Repeated Satur- Create Marathons Phantom of the Opera. days at 8 p.m. on WKAR World and at All day, every Saturday! See pages 4-5 for more on 11 p.m. on WKAR-TV.) WKAR Create is seen on Channel 23.3 Pledge Madness at WKAR! WKAR’s “music made in Michigan” and on many cable systems. PLEASE series BackStage Pass is nothing NOTE: Some programming during if not versatile. This month we’ll Create Marathons on March 3, 10 Branford and 17 will be pre-empted so you Marsalis feature the MSU Chamber Music will be one faculty performing classical offer- can support that station during of the stars our Pledge Madness campaign. featured on ings and blues from guitar master Finding Larry McCray from Flint. Your Roots. 03/03 | Soup-er Saturday Nothing warms better than a hearty bowl of soup. Get recipes Finding Your Roots from Julia and Jacques, Jeff Sundays at 8 p.m., beginning March 25 Nathan, Tommy Tang and more! Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., returns with another series that delves 03/10 | Ladies of Leisure into the genealogy and genetics Get tips on entertaining, sewing, of famous Americans. Finding cooking, gardening, or crafting Your Roots combines history Joe Wood at Fenway Park, circa 1913. with Katie Brown, Lidia Bastian- and science in an exploration ich, Nancy Zieman and more! of race, family and identity in Fenway Park at 100 America. Those discovering Monday, March 26, 8 p.m. 03/17 | The Emerald Isle surprises in their family trees Fenway Park at 100 celebrates Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with the centennial of the oldest (and include Kevin Bacon, Robert Rudy Maxa, Rick Steves, Burt Downey, Jr., Branford Marsalis, smallest) ballpark in America. The John Legend, Martha Stewart film tells the story of Fenway’s Wolf and Tommy Makem. and Barbara Walters. long history as a venue for sports and as a public space: masses for WWI soldiers, a 1922 Irish Repub- lican rally, FDR’s last presidential Charlie Rose’s interview campaign speech, concerts by series comes Bruce Springsteen and others. to WKAR-TV. Great Performances Friday, March 30, 9 p.m. Rick Steves The San Francisco Symphony Charlie Rose Orchestra celebrates 100 years Most Weeknights at 11 p.m. with a gala concert featuring ac- 03/24 | Destination: Asia Charlie Rose is arguably one of claimed writer and San Francisco Tour the jewels of Asia with the the most astute and engaging native Amy Tan, music director Grannies, Rudy Maxa, Art Wolfe, interviewers on television. Now Michael Tilson Thomas, Itzhak Rick Steves and Burt Wolf. his popular series will also be Perlman and Lang Lang perform- seen on WKAR-TV on Monday ing works by Copland, Mendels- 03/31 | Mexican Table through Thursday nights. Whether sohn and Britten. Concert footage Rick Bayless and Pati Jinich he’s speaking to a popular film is interwoven with short video bring you the best dishes of star, an author or a figure in busi- stories highlighting unique mo- Mexico from tacos to mole. ness or politics, count on reveal- ments in the symphony’s history, ing nighttime conversation. as well as performer interviews. StayTuned | March 2012 3 The Sweet Sixteen | Big Band Vocalists (3/3) Great Performances: Tony Bennett – Duets 2 (3/4, 3/6, 3/18)) Great Performances: Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival (3/4) TransSiberian Orchestra: The Birth of Rock (3/6) A Community Sings: 10th Anniversary (3/10, 3/13) Celtic Woman (3/17) Downton Abbey: Behind the Drama (3/11) ‘60s Pop, Rock & Soul (3/14) College of Communication Arts and Sciences Support tournament quality, fan favorites and awesomeThe match-upsSweet on WKA SixteenR-TV March 3-18! | Les Miserables In Concert (3/7) Oscar Hammerstein II: Out of My Dreams (3/11) Idina Menzel Live: Barefoot at the Symphony (3/11) Great Performances: Phantom of the Opera at Royal Albert Hall (3/4) Great Performances: Hugh Laurie: Let them Talk (3/11, 3/12) Jon Bonamassa: Live at the Beacon Theatre (3/12, 3/16) Il Volo Takes Flight (3/17) Beneath the Pines (3/4, 3/11, 3/18) GIVE NOW! WKAR TV Weeknight News The PBS NewsHour airs Monday-Friday at 7 p.m., preceded by BBC World News America at 6 p.m. and Nightly Business Report at 6:30 p.m. Judy Woodruff 01 | Thursday 8:00 Michigan Out of Doors 8:30 The Red Green Show 9:00 This Old House Hour 10:00 P.O.V. Racing Dreams 11:30 MSU Today 02 | Friday Tony Bennett sings duets with Lady Gaga and others on Great Perforamnces. (March 4, 6, 18) 8:00 Washington Week 9:00 Big Band Years 05 | Monday 8:30 Off the Record Peter Marshall hosts this 8:00 Dr. Wayne Dyer 9:00 American Masters tribute to the great music Wishes Fulfilled of the big bands. Cab Calloway – Sketches The noted speaker returns A look at the life and legacy 11:00 Allen Toussaint with more inspiring words of Calloway, one of the icons The Soul of New Orleans on working toward making of jazz. your dreams come true. 10:00 In Performance 04 | Sunday 11:00 Antiques Roadshow at the White House 10:00 A.D.D. and Loving It?! Honolulu, HI A Broadway Celebration Strategies on dealing with at- Celebrate Broadway with tention deficit disorder 06 | Tuesday dancers from “West Side Story,” 11:30 Rick Steves’ 8:00 TransSiberian Orchestra Audra McDonald, Idina Menzel, European Insights Elaine Stritch, Marvin Hamlisch The Birth of Rock and more.