Sunday 9/30/2012

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KET: Bluegrass Underground; #204 "Jim Lauderdale" [TV-PG]; Two-time Grammy-winning singer/songwriter/guitarist Jim Lauderdale's talents dance across the worlds of country, rock, Americana, and bluegrass. [High-Definition]

KET2: Nova; #3804 "Making Stuff Cleaner" [TV-PG]; Host David Pogue is on a quest to clean up, using new green materials to build and power the devices of the future. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Settlement Schools of Appalachia; In the late 19th century, college-educated young women of the Bluegrass, influenced by the progressive movement, established several community schools in isolated areas of Eastern Kentucky. This 1995 KET production looks at the early history, growth, and contemporary roles of these Appalachian community institutions.

KET: Official Best of Fest; #204 "Love III" [TV-G]; Go south for love in Australia's Turn, where two drivers find each other stuck in a side alley while trying to turn on to an impenetrable motorway. They then return to the USA for Cold Tea, where a young man discovers the woman of his dreams. [High-Definition]

KET: POV; #2509 "El Velador (The Night Watchman)" [TV-PG]; Follow a guard as he watches over the extravagant mausoleums of Mexico's most notorious drug lords. [High-Definition]

KET2: Nova; #3805 "Making Stuff Smarter" [TV-PG]; Host David Pogue looks into the growing number of smart materials that can respond, change, and even learn. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Jubilee; #1603 "Curtis Burch Band"; Bluegrass icon Curtis Burch, a founding member of New Grass Revival in the 1970s, performs with his band at the 3rd annual International Newgrass Festival. A 2012 KET production. [High-Definition] Watch Online

KET: American Masters; #2505 "The Day Carl Sandburg Died" [TV-PG]; For much of the 20th century, Carl Sandburg's name was synonymous with the American experience. This program captures the burgeoning resurgence of interest in the Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, journalist, and poet. [High-Definition]

KET2: Frontline; #3020 "Dropout Nation" [TV-RE]; Witness a high-stakes experiment to rescue students prepared to quit high school without a diploma at Houston's Sharpstown High, once a notorious "dropout factory." [High-Definition]

KETKY: WoodSongs; #1009 "Judy Collins" [TV-G]; Grammy Award-winning folksinger and songwriter Judy Collins performs traditional folksongs and selections from her latest CD, Bohemian. She also discusses her new book, Sweet Judy Blue Eyes: My Life in Music.

KET2: POV; #2509 "El Velador (The Night Watchman)" [TV-PG]; Follow a guard as he watches over the extravagant mausoleums of Mexico's most notorious drug lords. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Walden: The Ballad of Thoreau; The play is a conversation between Thoreau and Emerson set during the final two days Thoreau spent at his cabin before leaving Walden Pond.

KET: In the Footsteps of Marco Polo; [TV-G]; Captures the remarkable, two-year, 25,000-mile attempt to retrace Marco Polo's legendary trek from Venice, Italy to China. This illuminating epic follows two friends from Queens, N.Y. — one photographer and one visual artist and ex-Marine — as they complete the journey by land and by sea, a feat in which all others have fallen short.

KET2: POV; #2509 "El Velador (The Night Watchman)" [TV-PG]; Follow a guard as he watches over the extravagant mausoleums of Mexico's most notorious drug lords. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Uncommon Vision: The Life and Times of John Howard Griffin; [TV-G]; John Howard Griffin is best known as the white man who in 1959 disguised himself as a black man and then traveled anonymously through the heart of Dixie. From his experiences he wrote Black Like Me. This film focuses on Griffin's social activism and examines how a spiritual commitment led him from a segregated childhood in Fort Worth to fighting with the French Underground, sustained him during ten years of blindness incurred by war injuries, and inspired him during a prolific creative life as a writer/photographer. A Morgan Atkinson production. [High-Definition]

KET: Raggs; #205 "Sound and Noise" [TV-Y]; Raggs is excited to try out his new super-duper mega amplifier because it makes his guitar sound very loud, but the other dogs discover that his loud guitar tunes out all other sounds. Trilby loves the great present she got from Noisy Neville - a Noisy Noisemaker. The dogs start to hear lions, trains, and elephants inside the house until they learn that Trilby is playing a trick on them. [High-Definition]

KETKY: The Wonder Team; Documentary about the Centre College football team (circa 1917) that became one of the most dominant programs in all of college football. Their rise to power culminated in the defeat of the mighty Harvard University in 1921, a game many experts agree is one of the greatest upsets in the history of college sports.

KET: Barney & Friends; #1110 "For the Fun of It/Starlight, Star Bright" [TV-Y]; After BJ sees Terry play basketball, he wants to learn the teenager's fancy moves. On a campout, Barney and the others have fun imagining cloud and star pictures in the sky. [High-Definition]

KET: Sesame Street; #4305 "Me Am What Me Am" [TV-Y]; A very hungry Cookie Monster is waiting for Chris to finish baking cookies, but it's hard for him to wait! Chris offers Cookie Monster carrots to eat in the meantime, and he gobbles them all up. [High-Definition]

KET2: Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly; #1604 [TV-RE]; [High-Definition]

KETKY: Kentucky Music; #107 "Jamie and Jesse Wells"; Jamie Wells is recognized as one of the finest Kentucky fiddlers today as well as one of the few that learned old-time fiddling from the last generation of great Kentucky fiddlers. He performs with special guest Jesse Wells. [High-Definition]