Anybody watch History Detectives on PBS?

[Lady Cop]

the whaling program tonight, post 36 ^
will be discussing this incident:
the whaling ship Essex was sunk by an 85 foot sperm whale, and the story was the basis for the classic 'Moby Dick'.
these men were a tough lot, and away from home for up to 3 years each voyage.
good book

[Lady Cop]

i've been waiting for this!

2 Sundays, April 1 & 8 PBS

preview:

http://www.wgbh.org/programs/Masterpiece...aignId=586

a NEW version
An orphan boy meets an escaped convict, a crazed rich woman, a bewitching girl, and grows up to have great expectations of wealth from a mysterious patron on Great Expectations, Charles Dickens’ remarkable tale of rags to riches to self-knowledge, starring Gillian Anderson ( Bleak House), David Suchet, Ray Winstone, and Douglas Booth.

[Lady Cop]

tonight, ⁴⁄₂₆

Independent Lens

PBS at 8 PM eastern. check your local listings.

The powerful "A Film Unfinished" unreels a never-completed Nazi propaganda film about the Warsaw Ghetto, where half a million Jews were forced to live in dire conditions prior to being shipped to the death camps, which began a few months later.

preview

http://www.wgbh.org/programs/Independent...view-27415

[Maggot]

That looks good.

[Lady Cop]

May 15, tuesday night at 10 eastern, most PBS.


Frontline
The Meth Epidemic

"The Meth Epidemic" is a revealing look at methamphetamine abuse that focuses on Portland, Ore., where use has hit crisis proportions. Included: ways in which drug makers obtain pseudoephedrine (a necessary ingredient); how meth works on the brain.

[Lady Cop]

tonight on most PBS. 8 to 10 eastern

A two-part biography of the British monarch (1819-1901) who reigned over what narrator Donald Sutherland calls "the widest empire in the history of the world."

preview:

http://www.wgbh.org/programs/Queen-Victo...ndia-39127

[Lady Cop]

Written and produced in his distinctive style by Emmy award-winning filmmaker Ric Burns, Nantucket chronicles the vibrancy of Nantucket's history — from its Native American origins as a Wampanoag outpost through the English settlement and early Quaker culture to its international significance as the whaling capital of the world and eventual transformation to summer resort and art colony.

Thursday
7/19/12 9:00 PM on most PBS

[Lady Cop]

beginning tonight, July 31. if it's Ken Burns, it will be great! 9 PM most PBS

The War
A Necessary War: December 1941 - December 1942
Debut: Ken Burns' seven-part series tells the story of World War II through the experiences of ordinary people from four American towns. First up: a summary of the war and its cost (some 50 million lives).

preview

http://www.wgbh.org/programs/The-War-123...1942-24109

[Donovan]

hahaha both my son and I agree on two things: first, that Ken Burns does great films and we'll be watching the first part tonight, and second that that was the worst preview ever.

[Donovan]

Last week I watched a new PBS show called Market Warriors about professional flea market pickers (Mondays 9pm). It was a good premise if a bit "reality tv". One of the guys I hated instantly, he was the typical greedy, grasping, lowballing bastard I used to refuse to do business with when I ran flea markets for cash. But one of the others sent my girlfriend and I into laughing fits: John Bruno, called the professor, was this intellectual, affable type who knew about damn near everything he picked up, and he had this habit of launching into mini lectures to the hapless dealers he ran into telling all about the history of object "a" in his professor voice, saying "Y'know, blablablabla".

And as I was watching this guy pontificate, and watching all the faces of the dealers sorta glaze over and go fully blank, I realized I'd seen those looks before.

In conversation. Then it occurred to me, that professor guy is me in twenty or thirty years. The thought was so funny I fell out laughing and it took me a few minutes to recover enough to tell my g/f, at which point SHE completely lost it laughing.

So now I can't share factoids without one of us saying "Y'know, blablabla" in professor-voice. I'm not sure if I'm supposed to be insulted, but I'm really not.

[Lady Cop]

tonight on History Detectives

wow!

The Case:

The titles on a 78rpm record startled our contributor, Jan Hazel of Tennessee. The A-side reads “The Bright Fiery Cross,” and the B-side reads “The Jolly Old Klansman.”

She came across the collection of 1920s records which came with a Victrola phonograph she bought at an Indiana antique store. The record sleeve is stamped with an Indianapolis address and the name “AMERICAN RECORD SHOP –All K.K.K. Records.” Jan has never heard of K.K.K. Records. She asks History Detectives host Tukufu Zuberi to track down the story behind this record.

click link to read sheet music:
and full episode

http://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives...ery-cross/