SHAKESPEARE UNCOVERED

KING LEAR WITH CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER SATURDAY, JANUARY 31 @ 10:00PM King Lear is universally acknowledged as one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragic roles. Plummer has played the role under the direction of Sir Jonathan Miller (who, we discover, has directed it six times). Lear was, in fact, a real English king, who lived 800 years before Christ. Shakespeare’s premise of Lear dividing his kingdom...

SHAKESPEARE UNCOVERED

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM WITH HUGH BONNEVILLE SATURDAY, JANUARY 31 @ 8:00PM Hugh Bonneville started his career at the Open Air Theatre in Regent’s Park, understudying Ralph Fiennes as Lysander, one of the four lovers in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He and Fiennes meet up again to try to untangle the extraordinary plot of one of Shakespeare’s most enduringly popular plays, a great comedy...

SECRETS OF THE DEAD

BEN FRANKLIN’S BONES FRIDAY, JANUARY 26 @ 10:00PM In December 1997, 36 Craven Street was undergoing extensive renovation to transform it into the Benjamin Franklin Museum. While digging in the basement, a builder turned up a grisly discovery – a pit filled with human bones, including those of several infants – which prompted a call to the police. “I would say in my 30 years in the...

NATURE

PENGUIN POST OFFICE WEDNESDAY, MAY 6 @ 6:00PM & 10:00PM Antarctica’s most popular tourist destination is a unique British post office located in the heart of the Antarctic Peninsula at Port Lockroy, about 700 miles south of Argentina and Chile. Enthusiastic cruise ship passengers from around the world come ashore throughout the Antarctic summer to see the colony of 3,000 gentoo penguins...

GENEALOGY ROADSHOW

PHILADELPHIA – FRANKLIN INSTITUTE TUESDAY, JANUARY 27 @ 9:00PM At Philadelphia’s Franklin Institute, a team of genealogists uncovers fascinating family histories. A man learns that the event that drove his family to the City of Brotherly Love changed the course of history; a man may be a Viking descendant; another’s family could have part of one of history’s biggest scams; a young...