Thursday 1/3/2013

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Midnight EST

KET: Workplace Essential Skills; #105 "Interviewing" [TV-G]; How to prepare for the job interview. Watch Online

KET2: Tavis Smiley; #2808 [TV-RE]; [High-Definition]

KETKY: Studio 89; #606 "Barnaby Bright"; Indie folk rock duo Barnaby Bright perform songs from their latest album, Gravity. [High-Definition]

12:30 am Thursday, January 3

KET: Downton Abbey Revisited; [TV-G]; Using clips, interviews, and behind-the-scenes footage, this program features moments from the first two seasons of the series and tantalizing previews of season three. [High-Definition]

KET2: Tavis Smiley; #2807 [TV-RE]; [High-Definition]

1:00

KET: Charlie Rose; #19008 [TV-RE]; [High-Definition]

KET2: Nature; #2809 "Broken Tail: A Tiger's Last Journey" [TV-PG]; The story of the life and death of a charismatic tiger cub reveals the fate of tigers in India. [High-Definition]

KETKY: The Appalachians; #101 [TV-G]; When the first European settlers arrive in the Allegheny, Cumberland, and Blue Ridge mountains in the 17th century, they trade and intermarry with the Shawnee, Choctaw, Creek, and Cherokee who have lived there for centuries. But by the mid-18th century, the swelling pioneer population leads to decades of combat on the Appalachian frontier that eventually forces the natives out. As the Scotch-Irish and other immigrants settle in, the isolation of the mountains helps preserve the cultural traditions they have brought with them. The men of Appalachia fight bravely in the American Revolution, but then rail at taxes and regulations imposed by the new American government. Evangelical revivals sweep the region in the 18th and early 19th centuries, and traditional music mingles with the rhythms used by African slaves to form a glorious new gospel music.

2:00

KET: A Place of Our Own; #6073 "Rough and Tumble Play" [TV-G]; Rough and tumble play develops social & emotional self-regulation skills. Be sure to monitor play carefully. [High-Definition]

KET2: Nova; #4001 "Doomsday Volcanoes" [TV-PG]; Scientists explore the devastating global consequences of another Icelandic volcano eruption. [High-Definition]

KETKY: The Appalachians; #102 [TV-G]; In the 1830s, the growing nation sets its sights on land still owned by Indians, and President Andrew Jackson orders the removal of the Cherokee to Oklahoma. Slavery and other social and economic differences widen the gap between the North and South, and the Appalachian region is caught in between, with many families divided between the Union and the Confederacy. The violence and chaos leave scars on mountain life for years to come. After the Civil War, railroads are built, forests are cut, and outside owners buy up the land. A conflict between two timbering families, the Hatfields and the McCoys, becomes a legendary "blood feud," and outsiders create the damaging stereotype of a stupid, violent hillbilly. Timbering and coal mining bring jobs, but the workers find their lives controlled by the companies. The United Mine Workers' union organizing attempts are resisted by the owners, often with violence, and resentments explode in a series of devastating strikes known as the "great coal wars."

2:30

KET: A Place of Our Own; #6057 "Teachable Moments" [TV-G]; When a child displays an action or behavior that can be used as a learning tool, parents and providers should capitalize on the moment. [High-Definition]

3:00

KET: Secrets of the Manor House; [TV-PG]; Explores the world of the British Manor House at its height. The program covers the background of the British titled class in Edwardian times, the realities for servants working in their estates, the concept of the entail that passed estates to the next generation, the growing influence of American wealth in British aristocracy at the beginning of the 20th Century, and the impact of the first world war on the social class system. [High-Definition]

KET2: Life On Fire; #101 "Icelandic Volcanoes" [TV-G]; Aerial footage of Iceland sheds light on the possible consequences of a major volcanic eruption. [High-Definition]

KETKY: The Appalachians; #103 [TV-G]; As the 20th century begins, the phonograph and the radio expose the mountain people to new influences and take mountain music across America. But times are hard, and Appalachia falls into an economic depression even before the rest of the country. President Roosevelt's New Deal brings electricity, WPA and CCC jobs, and new infrastructure, and FDR becomes a hero in Appalachia. Then World War II begins taking many young people away from the mountains, and postwar mechanization replaces coal miners and sends more people to Northern cities in search of jobs. For those who try to stay home, it becomes harder to hold onto land as state and federal governments claim property for dams and family farmsteads are flooded. The 1960s War on Poverty again sends federal aid into Appalachia, but television and magazines show painful images of hunger and poverty, reinforcing the stereotype of the poor hillbilly.

4:00

KET: At Home with the Georgians; #101 "A Man's Place" [TV-PG]; Historian Amanda Vickery explores how the British obsession with homes began 300 years ago. Using the diaries and letters of men and women of the Georgian era, she discovers how a residence became crucial to the success or failure of a marriage, and uncovers surprising truths about the lives of spinsters and bachelors. [High-Definition]

KET2: Independent Lens; #1210 "Men Who Swim" [TV-PG]; A look at a group of middle-aged men who have found unlikely success as members of Sweden's all-male synchronized swimming team. What begins as a weekly escape from the daily grind of work and family responsibilities gradually evolves into a more serious commitment. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Renfro Valley: Kentucky's Country Music Capital; A look at the history of the renowned music barn through archival footage and interviews. A KET Fund for Independent Production. Watch Online

5:00

KET: Local Traveler; #105 "Gastineau Studio/Museum of Appalachia/Kentucky Down Under"; Amy visits Berea's Tourism Welcome Center learns to make cooper cuff jewelry at Gastineau Studio; enjoy the folk art collection at the Museum of Appalachia in Clinton, Tennessee; and the meet the unique animals at Kentucky Down Under outside Bowling Green, Kentucky. [High-Definition]

KET2: Antiques Roadshow; #1206 "Orlando (Part 3)" [TV-G]; A circa 1975 aerial photograph of Disney's Florida property before EPCOT was built, a set of heirloom glass goblets by acclaimed 20th-century Austrian designer Otto Prutscher, and a haunting collection of original photographs of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Great Conversations:; #1404 "Erik Larson and Robert Siegel"; Robert Siegel, senior host of NPR's All Things Considered, talks with Erik Larson, author of the book In the Garden of Beasts, the saga of William Dodd, chosen by Roosevelt to be America's first ambassador to Nazi Germany, and his daughter, who in July 1933 suddenly found themselves transported to the heart of Hitler's Berlin. [High-Definition] Watch Online

5:30

KET: Classical Stretch: The Esmonde Technique; #902 "Pain Relief: Foot Pain Workout" [TV-G]; [High-Definition]

6:00

KET: Wai Lana Yoga; #510 "Banish Lower Back Pain" [TV-G]

KET2: Clifford the Big Red Dog; #118 "Mac's Secret Dog Club/The Dog Park" [TV-Y]; Mac's new club is a little too exclusive, and Mr. Bleakman's efforts to make the park off-limits to dogs backfire when he realizes that he misses the noise they make. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Headwaters: Real Stories from Rural America; #209 "Stranger with a Camera" [TV-G]; In 1967, Canadian filmmaker Hugh O'Connor visited the mountains of central Appalachia to document poverty. A local landlord who resented the presence of filmmakers on his property shot and killed O'Connor, in part because of his anger over the media images of Appalachia that had become icons in the nation's War on Poverty. Filmmaker Elizabeth Barret, a native of Appalachia, uses O'Connor's death as a lens to explore the complex relationship between those who make films to promote social change and the people whose lives are represented in such media productions.