GREAT PERFORMANCES

Dance in America: San Francisco Ballet’s Nutcracker MONDAY, DECEMBER 21 @ 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM San Francisco Ballet makes the beloved Nutcracker its own, resetting it during the 1915 Panama Pacific International Exhibition and introducing Dance in America viewers to the dazzling Maria Kochetkova and Davit Karapetyan. Recorded in December 2007 by KQED Public Television to help commemorate...

Christmas at Luther

Night of Glory, Dawn of Peace Saturday, December 19 @ 3:00pm Breathtaking music, glowing candlelight and the robed choristers of Luther College capture the wonder and joy of the holiday season in a new special. For the past 27 years, Luther College has been sharing the gift of music with audiences far and near through televised performances. This year’s special features performances by...

NOW ON PBS

Africa: House Calls and Health Care FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18 @ 6:30PM Can a breakthrough health care innovation in Rwanda work in the U.S.? In rural Rwanda, the simple and time-tested idea of medical house calls is not only improving the health of the community, but stimulating its economy as well. This week, NOW travels to the village of Rwinkwavu to meet the Rwandan doctors, nurses and villagers...

The Story of India

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 17 @ 8:00PM & 11:00PM Episode 6: Freedom This last episode tells how a foreign multinational (the East India Company) thousands of miles away gradually and almost by chance took power over great swathes of the Indian subcontinent; how after the horrendous shock of the 1857 “Mutiny” the British state took over and turned this supremacy into the Raj, the...

Schedule December 17 – 23

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