POV

ARMADILLO TUESDAY, AUGUST 30 @ 8:00PM & 11:00PM In 2009, Janus Metz and cameraman Lars Skree accompanied a platoon of Danish soldiers to Armadillo, a combat operations base in southern Afghanistan. For six months, often while under fire, they captured the lives of the young soldiers fighting the Taliban in a hostile and confusing environment, where official rhetoric about helping civilians...

MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!

INSPECTOR LEWIS DARK MATTER SUNDAY, AUGUST 28 @7:00PM & 11:00PM Oxford professor and amateur stargazer Andrew Crompton emerges from a church confessional, cryptically exclaiming that on Friday at 3:15, he’ll have an “excess of joy.” Later, Crompton is found dead at the foot of the stairs in the Oxford observatory. The investigation draws Detective Inspector Lewis (Kevin...

AMERICAN MASTERS

PETE SEEGER: THE POWER OF SONG FRIDAY, AUGUST 26 7:30PM & 12:30AM Where Have all the Flowers Gone is a singalong memoir written by Pete Seeger. This book is now in its third printing (including revisions and additional material). Stories and anecdotes are supported chronologically with approximately 200 songs (music and lyrics) that Pete wrote or with which he is associated –...

SCHEDULE AUGUST 25-AUGUST 31

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EDEN AT THE END OF THE WORLD

EDEN AT THE END OF THE WORLD THURSDAY, AUGUST 25 @ 7:00PM & 10:00PM It is the last great wilderness of its kind, a rare and precious haven for some of Earth’s most indestructible creatures. Covering more than half-a-million square miles of Chile and Argentina, this wild place is known as Patagonia. At its crown tip is a grand island, Tierra del Fuego, a land as harsh as it is beautiful....