Celebrates Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Program and Resource Guide May 2012 World Newsline The daily EVENING international newscast from 10pm KQED 9 Secrets of the Dead public broadcaster NHK, Japanese Supersub Japan, airs Monday–Thursday investigates Japan’s creation of at 2pm and 6:30pm. a submarine that could blow up the Panama Canal and reach the United States. | D | R (9) 5/4 4am, 5/6 7pm, 5/7 1am; (Life) Tuesday 1 5/4 9pm; (World) 5/5 5pm EVENING 11pm KQED + Independent Lens Beetle Friday 4 Queen Conquers Tokyo. This documentary explores the EARLY history of Japan’s love affair 4am KQED 9 Secrets of the Dead Public with bugs. | R (+) 5/2 5am Japanese Supersub. | D | R (9) 5/6 7pm, 5/7 1am; (Life) Television Wednesday 2 5/4 9pm; (World) 5/5 5pm EARLY 9am World History Detectives Red Hang 5am KQED + Independent Lens Beetle Flag/Seth Eastman Painting/ Queen Conquers Tokyo. In May, KQED proudly celebrates the diversity of Isleton Tong. A wooden building EVENING our community with a special programming lineup in Isleton, CA, may once have 7pm KQED + This is Us | q | Performing Arts housed a Chinese Tong. on KQED 9 and KQED Plus (+) . includes a profile of PJ and Roy EVENING Hirabayashi, founders of San 9pm KQED 9 In the Footsteps of Marco KQED 9 is available over the air on DT9.1, 54.2 Jose Taiko. | R (+) 5/3 1am, 5/5 Polo A photographer and a and 25.1; via most cable systems on Channel 9; 2:30pm former Marine retrace Polo’s on Comcast cable Channel 709; and via satellite 11pm KQED 9 Global Voices China Blue. 25,000-mile path from Venice on DirecTV (local and HD Channel 9) and DISH Teenage workers struggle in to China and back. | R (9) 5/5 network (local Channel 8226 in SD only). harsh working conditions in a 3am; (World) 5/13 10:30pm courtesy A Moment in Time. blue jeans factory in southern China. | R (9) 5/3 5am; (Life) 5/3 KQED Plus is available over the air on Channel 54, 10pm Saturday 5 DT54.1, 9.2 or 25.2. It is on Comcast cable EARLY Channel 10 in most areas and on DirecTV Thursday 3 3am KQED 9 In the Footsteps of Marco (Channel 54, SD & HD) and DISH (Channel 54 or Polo | R (World) 5/13 10:30pm 8234) satellite systems. EARLY 10am KQED 9 Simply Ming | H | Mom and 1am KQED + This is Us | q | Performing Dad Tsai and Pressure Cookers. Arts. | R (+) 5/5 2:30pm This guide also lists programs airing on KQED Life AFTERNOON (Comcast 189, Channel 54.3); and KQED World 5am KQED 9 Global Voices China Blue. | R (Life) 5/3 10pm 2pm KQED 9 Gourmet’s Adventures with (Comcast 190, Channel 9.3). Some programs Ruth The Tamarind School, AFTERNOON repeat additional times on these two channels. Laos. 1pm KQED + Barney and Friends Barney Visit kqed.org/dtv for the complete digital program 2:30 KQED + This is Us | q | takes Rusty on an adventure to schedule. Performing Arts. China to learn more about his new adopted sister’s heritage. 3pm World Independent Lens Bhutto PROGRAMMING SYMBOLS | D chronicles the life and untimely death of former Pakistani Prime q This program is a KQED production, Minister Benazir Bhutto. | D co-production or presentation. 6pm KQED 9 A Moment in Time | H | This H This program (or episode) is airing on documentary by Oscar-winner KQED 9 or KQED + for the first time. Ruby Yang tells a history of moviegoing in San Francisco R This program will be repeated on the and in other American date/s noted. Chinatowns. | R (Life) 5/7 10pm D Descriptive video information for the sight-impaired is available on televisions with stereo capability. Programs are subject to change after press deadlines. For the latest program of an old Cantonese opera film, for a screening Star Theatre Great Senior citizens wait outside San Francisco’s information, visit kqed.org/tvchanges or call our automated program information line at Photo: 415.354.8000. If you are recording, allow five minutes for early starts and late finishes. Cover photo: Bassist Mark Izu is one of the musicians profiled in the new documentary Don’t Lose Your Soul, airing Sunday, May 13, at 11pm on KQED 9. Photo courtesy Center for Asian American Media. 2 KQED Public Television Sunday 6 AFTERNOON noon KQED 9 Great Performances at the Met | H | Satyagraha. Richard Croft portrays Mahatma Gandhi in Philip Glass’ unforgettable opera. | R (Life) 5/7 7pm 6:30 KQED + You Don’t Know Jack Soo profiles Jack Soo, the first Asian American to be cast in KQED Public Radio the lead role in a television series. EVENING 7pm KQED 9 Secrets of the Dead Japanese Supersub. | D | R (9) 5/7 1am 8pm KQED 9 Finding Your Roots | H | Sanjay Gupta, Margaret Cho 10pm KQED + Richard Bangs’ Adventures 11pm KQED 9 Global Voices Sumo East and and Martha Stewart. These with Purpose Assam India: West. This fascinating look at three guests are all children Quest for the One-Horned the past, present and future of of first- or second-generation Rhinoceros. | R (9) 5/27 6pm; sumo illustrates an intersection Resources immigrants and share the (+) 5/8 4am of cultures. | R (9) 5/10 5am; peculiar burdens of that (Life) 5/10 10pm heritage. | R (9) 5/7 2am Tuesday 8 8pm Life American Masters I.M. EARLY Thursday 10 Pei: Building China Modern EARLY explores the creative genius of 2am KQED + The Story of India Beginnings. 1am KQED + This is Us | q | Asian Heritage. architect I.M. Pei. | D | R (+) 5/12 2:30pm 10pm Life Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One 3am KQED + The Story of India The Power 5am KQED 9 Global Voices Sumo East and Tsai Chin. Actress Tsai Chin of Ideas. | D West. | R (Life) 5/10 10pm talks about her latest television 4am KQED + Richard Bangs’ Adventures role and the portrayal of Asian with Purpose Assam India: women in film. Quest for the One-Horned Friday 11 Rhinoceros. | R (9) 5/27 6pm 10:30 Life Maria Hinojosa: One-on- EVENING EVENING One Ming Tsai. Emmy Award– 9pm KQED 9 Lost Treasures of the winning chef and restaurateur 7:30pm KQED 9 Spark | q | Amy X Neuburg, Ancient World Ancient India. Ming Tsai is known for his Shuji Ikeda , Stanlee Gatti. | R The story of India is one of innovative East-West approach. (9) 5/9 1:30am, 5/11 11:30pm, fabulous dynasties and kings, 11pm KQED 9 Global Voices Shaolin 5/12 5:30am timeless belief systems, and Ulysses: Kungfu Monks in 11pm KQED + Pacific Heartbeat | H | There golden ages of culture. | R (9) America chronicles the Once Was an Island — Te Henua 5/12 3am adventures of a group of E Nnoho. A Pacific Island 10pm KQED 9 One Voice | H | The story of the fighting monks. | R (9) 5/7 5am community fights to preserve Kamehameha Schools Song Get the guide online: kqed.org/heritage World Global Voices Paper Words/ what really matters in the face Contest is told through the Point of Entry. A young Chinese of rising tides. | R (+) 5/9 5am student song directors. | R (9) girl living in a small Midwestern 5/12 4am; (Life) 5/13 8pm, 5/14 town uses her imagination to Wednesday 9 9:30pm keep her company. | D q EARLY 11:30 KQED 9 Spark | | Amy X Neuburg, Shuji Ikeda , Stanlee Gatti. 1:30am KQED 9 Spark | q | Amy X Neuburg, | R (9) 5/12 5:30am Monday 7 Shuji Ikeda, Stanlee Gatti. | R EARLY (9) 5/11 11:30pm, 5/12 5:30am 1am KQED 9 Secrets of the Dead 5am KQED + Pacific Heartbeat There Once Saturday 12 Japanese Supersub. | D Was an Island — Te Henua E EARLY courtesy One Voice. 2am KQED 9 Finding Your Roots Sanjay Nnoho. 3am KQED 9 Lost Treasures of the Gupta, Margaret Cho and 8:30 Life Burt Wolf: Travels and Ancient World Ancient India. Martha Stewart. Traditions In Taiwan: A Sense 4am KQED 9 One Voice | R (Life) 5/13 8pm, 5am KQED 9 Global Voices Shaolin of Place, Part 1. 5/14 9:30pm Ulysses: Kungfu Monks in 9:30 Life Rudy Maxa’s World Delhi and 5:30 KQED 9 Spark | q | Amy X Neuburg, A group of juniors, A group America. Agra, India. Shuji Ikeda , Stanlee Gatti. EVENING 10am Life California’s Gold Little Manila. 10am KQED 9 Simply Ming | H | Jody Adams Photo: 8pm KQED + The Story of India Beginnings. Huell travels to Little Manila in and Pan Roasting. Stockton to learn about its rich Archaeological discoveries, AFTERNOON DNA, climate science and oral Filipino heritage. 2pm KQED 9 Gourmet’s Adventures with tales cast light on India’s deep EVENING KQED.org Ruth The Yangshuo School, past. | D | R (+) 5/8 2am 7pm KQED + This is Us | q | Asian Heritage China. 9pm KQED + The Story of India profiles Norman Mineta, 2:30 KQED + This is Us | q | Asian Heritage. The Power of Ideas. Explore Dr. Masako Miura, and PJ and the revolutionary years after Roy Hirabayashi. | R (+) 5/10 500 B.C. — the Age of 1am, 5/12 2:30pm Buddha — using archaeology and legend. | D | R (+) 5/8 3am 3 4pm World Bittersweet Roots: The 11pm KQED 9 Don’t Lose Your Soul | H | is Wednesday 16 Chinese in California’s a portrait of bassist Mark Izu EARLY Heartland uses archival and drummer Anthony Brown, imagery, actor-portrayed two founders of the Asian 5am KQED 9 Bonsai People — The Vision re-creations and personal American Jazz Movement.