Masterpiece Classic

Persuasion Sunday, February 21 @ 7:00pm & 11:00pm Unhappily unmarried at age 27, and dealing with family financial peril, hope is fading from Anne Elliot’s (Sally Hawkins, Little Britain) life. Circumstances bring Captain Frederick Wentworth (Rupert Penry-Jones, Casanova), a dashing naval officer she once deeply loved, back into her life eight years after Anne was persuaded by her...

CRAFT IN AMERICA

PROCESS FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26 @ 8:00PM & 11:00PM Looking forward while keeping one foot firmly planted in the past characterizes the North Bennet Street School. Founded in 1885, its original mission was to train people for employment in the crafts. Under Pauline Agassiz Shaw, the idea was to enable Boston’s immigrants to adjust to a new country through the skills needed to obtain...

Schedule February 18 – February 24

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SOUNDSTAGE

Lynyrd Skynyrd SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20 @ 8:00PM With a backbone of Southern rock and country, passionate VanZant vocals, and trademark layered guitars, Lynyrd Skynyrd deliver renditions of their iconic classics “Sweet Home Alabama,” “Gimme Three Steps,” “That Smell” and “Simple Man” that will blow you away. This episode is littered with hits,...

FACES OF AMERICA

KNOW THYSELF FRIDAY, JULY 16 @ 7:30PM & 10:30PM What made America? What makes us? These two questions are at the heart of the new PBS series Faces of America with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Harvard scholar turns to the latest tools of genealogy and genetics to explore the family histories of 12 renowned Americans” professor and poet Elizabeth Alexander, chef Mario Batali, comedian...