wgbh.org WGBH News US Senate Primary Debate | 16 Frontline/Amazon Empire | 16 American Masters/Miles Davis | 18 ON AIR, ONLINE, ON THE GO MEMBER GUIDE | FEBRUARY 2020 WGBH 2 WGBH KIDS now on ADVERTISEMENT We’re making noise at the library CheckCheck out our llivive bbrrooadcasts,adcasts, culture fafascinatingcinating talks,talks ddiscussionsiscussions and trivia nights. Right here. current events sciencsccience music art 700 Boylston Street, Boston, MA town halls trivia #WGBHxBPLGBHxBPL wwggbh.orgbh.org//BBBPLStudioPLStS udioo wgbh celebrates L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L L Black History Month afropop: the ultimate cultural exchange independent lens Daddy and the Warlord Cooked—Survival by Zip Code A daughter yearns to understand why her father A heat wave overtook Chicago in July 1995, killing collaborated with corrupt leaders in Liberia and war 739 residents. What unsettling issues did it reveal? criminal Charles Taylor. 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Tue, 2/25 at 9pm on WGBH 2 Where to Tune in From the President TV When the Past Reflects our Future Digital broadcast FiOS RCN Cox Charter TV YouTube Comcast oday, the Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else in the world, and WGBH 2 2.3 2 2 2 2 2 * T Antarctica alone has enough ice to raise sea levels by a terrifying 200 feet WGBH 2 HD 2.1 802 502 602 1002 782 n/a if it were to melt. WGBX 44 44.2 16 44 14 804 21 n/a In Nova’s Polar Extremes (page 10), renowned paleontologist Kirk Johnson (Making North America) takes us on a dramatic adventure, uncover- WGBX 44 HD 44.1 801 544 n/a n/a n/a n/a ing the extraordinary story of the Earth’s poles and their changing climates. World 2.2 956 473 94 807 181 n/a Kirk, also Sant Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural Create 44.3 959 474 95 805 182 n/a History, shares his knowledge in a two-hour journey that reveals astonishing WGBH Kids 44.4 958 472 93 n/a 180 * secrets about our planet. Boston Kids & n/a 22 n/a 3 n/a n/a n/a “This is a truly eye-opening trip through time because fossils reveal that, Family (Boston only) for much of the last 500 million years, the poles were much warmer without Channel numbers and availability may vary by community. Contact your provider for any ice at all,” says Nova Co-Executive Producer Julia Cort. “Now, with human more information. activity causing the poles to warm again, this film gives us an incredible Comcast subscribers can access selected WGBH programs on WGBH On Demand. opportunity to find potential parallels to our present—and future—climate Go to Comcast 1, choose Get Local, then Local Networks. For more programs, story.” go to Comcast 1 and choose History & Nature, then PBS-WGBH. Hosts Arlo Pérez (left) *WGBH 2 and WGBH Kids are broadcast simultaneously on YouTube TV. and Caitlin Saks traveled to Antarctica to investigate what it’s like to live and work on Earth’s coldest continent. 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Huntington Theatre Celebrity Series of Boston Boston Philharmonic Company Presents Sweat Presents Academy of Orchestra: Kodaly, Liszt and St. Martin in the Fields Dvorak Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, one of Boston the finest chamber orchestras in the world, Philharmonic returns to the Celebrity Series of Boston for Orchestra’s the 11th time— third concert in the third under the its exhilarating direction of Joshua 2020 season The Pulitzer Prize-winning and Tony- Bell. Leading the takes listeners to the Bohemian countryside nomi-nated Best Play by Lynn Nottage conductorless and its environs. Kodaly’s popular Galanta (Ruined) comes alive in a moving new pro- ensemble from the Dances, inspired by the music of his home- duction directed by Kimberly Senior (The first chair for two town in Hungary, displays the brilliant play- Niceties). This urgently relevant tale of pieces, Bell takes ing of principal clarinetist Rane Moore. friends staying afloat plays Fri, 1/31 through center stage as violin soloist for Paganini’s Performances are on Thu, 2/20 at 7pm, Sat, Sun, 2/23 at the Huntington Avenue Theatre, bravura Violin Concerto No. 1. The perfor- 2/22 at 8pm, and Sun, 2/23 at 3pm. WGBH 264 Huntington Ave., Boston. WGBH mance is on Sun, 2/23 at 3pm. WGBH PerksConnect members get 50% off by PerksConnect members get $10 off with PerksConnect members get 10% off by using code WGBH-DIS. Info: bostonphil. promo code WGBH20. Info: 617-266- using code WGBH20. Info: celebrity- org/concerts/2019-2020. 0800, huntingtontheatre.org. series.org. 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