PLUS (PT)

12:00 pm 

Space Age: Nasa's Story  "To The Moon"  NASA's team masters previously unimagined tasks, and powers ahead to the most incredible climax in the history of human endeavor. When Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the moon and return safely to Earth, the whole planet throws them a party. Part 2 of 4G

1:00 pm 

Need to Know   Big-city mayors across the United States are under growing pressure to balance their budgets and still provide necessary services, as foreclosures soar and federal and state aid and property tax revenues decline. Typical is the story of two-term Democratic mayor Tom Barrett of Milwaukee. His city has a 10 per cent unemployment rate and a nearly 30 per cent poverty rate. D

1:30 pm 

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2:00 pm 

Biz Kid$  "Introducing Entrepreneurs"  You'll discover an entrepreneur is someone who sees a financial opportunity and acts upon it. Learn the stories behind the Frisbee, the Slinky, and blue jeans. Meet an entrepreneur who started a lemonade stand to raise money for playground equipment, then grew so successful she was able to make over an entire park. D

2:30 pm 

Oregon Field Guide  "Elk at Mt. St. Helens/Snowkiting/Lighthouse Photo Essay"  Elk populations are booming at Mount St. Helens, but there is concern about some of the steps designed to help them that include building giant structures in the middle of the Toutle River. Then on the backside of Mount Ashland, a snowkite group is kite skiing up the slopes.G

3:00 pm 

Cook's Country from America's Test Kitchen  "Retro Desserts"  Bridget uncovers the secrets to perfect Banana Pudding. Then, Adam reveals his top picks for finemesh strainers. And finally, Erin updates a lost recipe and shows Chris how to make the ultimate Chiffon Cake. D

3:30 pm 

Rick Steves' Europe  "The Best of Sicily"  Rick fishes for anchovies off Cefalu, lands in Palermo, marvels at skeletons in a appuccin crypt and airy mosaics of Monreale.G

4:00 pm 

Nova  "Pluto Files"  This light-hearted look at the solar system's best-loved non-planet with Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of American Museum of Natural History's Hayden Planetarium, crosses the country to learn about Pluto and why people relate to it so. Tracing its known history, talking with scientists and visiting with students horrified it might not be a planet, the program is based on Tyson's book of the same name. Other guests who offer opinions include Stephen Colbert, Jon Stewart, Diane Sawyer and Brian Williams.G

5:00 pm 

Vietnam War Stories   Three million Americans served in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Most veterans are reluctant to speak of war experiences, but Vietnam veterans have been even more reluctant because of the controversy surrounding their war and the often hostile reception on their return. They put away their uniforms and tried to put away their memories, but these are memories that cannot be put away. D

6:00 pm 

Tragedy of Bataan   The program chronicles the fall of the Philippines and the Bataan Death March in the early months of World War II. The program contains first-account interviews with over twenty former survivors of the conflict. This poignant story is also told by several unpublished diaries, rare photos and drawings and never before seen Japanese propaganda film footage. D

6:30 pm 

Architect Robert A.M. Stern: Presence of the Past   Head of a successful New York architectural firm with worldwide commissions, dean of architecture at Yale University and a prolific author, Stern bridges the divide in modern architecture - between the modernists and the traditionalists. The film explores Stern's work in the context of architects who reject the past, those who embrace it, and those who pick and choose as the context requires.G

7:00 pm 

Note By Note (The Making of Steinway L1037)   This film follows the creation of a Steinway concert grand piano, #L1037, from forest floor to concert hall. The process spans 12 months, 12,000 parts, 450 craftsmen and many hours of fine-tuned labor. The film also explores the relationship between musician and instrument. Interspersed are interviews and impromptu performances when world-class artists come to shop and test drive pianos at the Steinway showroom in New York City.G

8:00 pm 

Forgotten Ellis Island   Actor Elliott Gould narrates this story of the 22 abandoned brick buildings that once housed Ellis Island Hospital when it was part of the largest port of entry in the United States. Original archival research and interviews with former patients and medical personnel bring the story of the immigrant hospital to life.G

9:00 pm 

Antiques Roadshow  "Madison, WI - Hour Three"  Appraisers spy a turn-of-the-century Japanese bamboo sculpture and a massive oil painting by 19th-century California painter Thomas Hill, purchased at a church rummage sale for $25, now valued up to $80,000. Part 3 of 3G

10:00 pm 

Vietnam War Stories   Three million Americans served in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War. Most veterans are reluctant to speak of war experiences, but Vietnam veterans have been even more reluctant because of the controversy surrounding their war and the often hostile reception on their return. They put away their uniforms and tried to put away their memories, but these are memories that cannot be put away. D

11:00 pm 

Tragedy of Bataan   The program chronicles the fall of the Philippines and the Bataan Death March in the early months of World War II. The program contains first-account interviews with over twenty former survivors of the conflict. This poignant story is also told by several unpublished diaries, rare photos and drawings and never before seen Japanese propaganda film footage. D

11:30 pm 

Architect Robert A.M. Stern: Presence of the Past   Head of a successful New York architectural firm with worldwide commissions, dean of architecture at Yale University and a prolific author, Stern bridges the divide in modern architecture - between the modernists and the traditionalists. The film explores Stern's work in the context of architects who reject the past, those who embrace it, and those who pick and choose as the context requires.G