HOW SMART ARE ANIMALS?

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9 @ 6:00PM & 9:00PM

Would you care to match wits with a dog, an octopus, a dolphin, or a parrot? You may think twice after watching the segments in this NOVA scienceNOW episode. While we may not be ready to send pets to Harvard, the remarkable footage and findings presented here demonstrate that many animal species are much smarter than we assume and in ways we had never imagined.

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LOCAL KIDS’ TV

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 10 @ 7:00PM & 10:00PM

They sprang up in places all over the United States — Kansas City, Nashville, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.— and sounded a siren that pricked the ears of a generation of youngsters. In television’s early days, nearly every town with a station launched its own local kids’ program. In time, these local programs would give way to the more sophisticated children’s television programming we know today.
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REAGAN

LIFEGUARD

TUESDAY, AUGUST 4 @ 6:00PM & 10:00PM

“Lifeguard” follows Reagan from his youth in the American heartland to the triumph of his “revolution” in 1981. The program traces the origins of Reagan’s difficulty forming attachments to his itinerant childhood and a painful episode with his drunken father. The young boy turned to his mother and the teachings of her Fundamentalist church, The Disciples of Christ, which gave him a belief in predestination and a strong sense of good and evil.

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THE ROLE OF A LIFETIME

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 12 @ 8:00PM & 11:00PM

The documentary explores the life of a first lady whose power and influence were often underestimated. Friends, family, historians, members of Ronald Reagan’s political inner circle and the former first lady herself tell the story of Nancy Reagan, from childhood to Hollywood, from Sacramento to Washington, and back to California, where she is still an advocate for issues that are important to her.

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MAKING STUFF CLEANER

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28 @ 10:00PM

Can innovations in materials science help clean up our world? In “Making Stuff: Cleaner,” David Pogue explores the rapidly developing science and business of clean energy and examines alternative ways to generate it, store it, and distribute it. Is hydrogen the way to go? What about lithium batteries? Does this solve an energy problem or create a new dependency? Pogue investigates the latest developments in bio-based fuels and in harnessing solar energy for our cars, homes, and industry in a program full of the stuff of a sustainable future.

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CRIME DRAMAS

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 5 @ 6:00PM

Pioneering television crime dramas established new rules for viewers, amping up the violence and the flash-quick dialogue; and delivering reluctant, but likeable, heroes who solve complex crimes in an hour of delicious television. Today, the genre has never been more popular, but it owes much of its winning formula to industry innovations developed in the 1950s and 1960s.

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AN AMERICAN NARRATIVE

MONDAY, JANUARY 30 @ 8:00PM & 11:00PM

The Chautauqua Institution is a rich community of ideas, where the arts, education, and religion all blend together to enrich the mind and the spirit. For nine weeks every summer, the Chautauqua Institution is a place where thought and culture converge in an open public platform for discussion and debate. There is no other place quite like it in America.

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