Thursday 1/10/2013

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KET: Workplace Essential Skills; #107 "Workplace Safety" [TV-G]; Developing safety-conscious attitudes and skills. Watch Online

KETKY: Studio 89; #607 "Matraca Berg"; Nashville Hall of Fame songwriter and Grammy nominee Matraca Berg performs songs from her new album, The Dreaming Fields. [High-Definition]

KET: Workplace Essential Skills; #107 "Workplace Safety" [TV-G]; Developing safety-conscious attitudes and skills. Watch Online

KET: Sousa on the Rez: Marching to the Beat of a Different Drum; [TV-G]; Traces the origins of multi-generational, community-based Native American bands that continue to play John Phillip Sousa music. [High-Definition]

KET2: Nature; #2711 "Cuba: The Accidental Eden" [TV-G]; Cuba's varied landscape, its location in the heart of the Caribbean, and its longstanding place at the center of Cold War politics have all combined to preserve some of the richest and most unusual natural environments of the hemisphere. What will happen to Cuba's stunning biodiversity once the U.S. trade embargo ends? [High-Definition]

KETKY: The Civil War in Kentucky; Chronicles Kentucky's role in the Civil War from 1861 until the Confederate retreat from the state in October 1862. Watch Online

KET: Guiding Children Successfully; #101 "Effective Motivation" [TV-G]; How parents, educators, and child care providers can help children develop self-motivation through authoritative guidance and the roles of knowledge, support, and compassion in the process.

KET2: Nova; #4002 "Decoding Neanderthals" [TV-PG]; Geneticists explore what happened when the first humans encountered Neanderthals 60,000 years ago. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Call to War; Kentucky actor Matt Long introduces the contrasting true stories of two young Kentuckians in the Civil War. William Horsfall left his Newport home and went on to become the youngest Congressional Medal of Honor winner in history at the age of 14. But 15-year-old Asa Lewis from Barren County left the army to go home and harvest crops to feed his starving family, only to be court-martialed upon his return and then executed. Produced by Dorian Walker of Bowling Green with support from the KET Fund for Independent Production.

KET: Diamond Queen; #101 [TV-G]; Andrew Marr tells the childhood story of the young girl who never expected to reign. He looks closely at the influence of her grandfather, father and mother and the impact of the abdication, and examines exactly what the Queen's role as head of state actually entails. [High-Definition]

KET2: Life On Fire; #102 "Volcano Doctors" [TV-PG]; Whether the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Colombia, Chile, Italy or Iceland, each of these countries is home to active volcanoes and a threat to the population settled at their base. Volcanologists use their tools and knowledge to try to protect those who live beneath the Earth's fire. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Tom Owen's Louisville; #102 "Portland"; Discover the Portland neighborhood, once an independent town below the Falls of the Ohio, through restored historic properties.

KET: At Home with the Georgians; #102 "A Woman's Touch" [TV-PG]; Amanda reveals how "taste" became the buzzword of the age 300 years ago and allowed women a new outlet for their creativity. Their status in the home was raised as a consequence, but new anxieties about getting it right also developed. [High-Definition]

KET2: The Abolitionists: American Experience; #101 "The Abolitionists, Part One" [TV-PG]; Shared beliefs about slavery bring together Angelina Grimke, Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and John Brown. The abolitionist movement, however, is in disarray and increasing violence raises doubts about the efficacy of its pacifist tactics. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Composer at Work: Lorne Dechtenberg; Composer Lorne Dechtenberg, a music student at the University of Kentucky, shares his insight and passion for music as he completes his work, Honeymoon Symphony. This film follows Dechtenberg's creative process from writing to rehearsal to performance. [High-Definition] Watch Online

KET: Local Traveler; #101 "Shaker Village"; Learn the history of America's largest and best-known communal society and experience their way of life. Also, see why Harvest Fest is the best way to kick off the fall season! [High-Definition]

KET2: History Detectives; #1009 [TV-PG]; Stories from our nation's beginning involve an early American bill of sale for a 17-year old "negro girl," a powder horn from the American Revolution, a handwritten score and the "Star Spangled Banner," and a 1775 almanac. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Great Conversations:; #1405 "Ahmed Rashid and Clarissa Ward"; Ahmed Rashid is the author of Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of America, Pakistan and Afghanistan. He is interviewed by CBS News Foreign Correspondent Clarissa Ward. The leading journalist in Pakistan, Rashid draws on his keen knowledge of the region to deftly explain what the future may hold. A 2012 KET production. [High-Definition] Watch Online

KET: Classical Stretch: The Esmonde Technique; #903 "Weight Loss: Hips & Legs" [TV-G]; [High-Definition]

KET2: Clifford the Big Red Dog; #123 "T-Bone, Dog About Town/Clifford's Big Heart" [TV-Y]; T-Bone gets a crush on a cute little poodle who's visiting the island and sets out to impress her. Clifford tries to make Emily Elizabeth a perfect valentine. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Headwaters: Real Stories from Rural America; #102 "American Originals—Minnie Black's Gourd Band" [TV-G]; "Minnie Black's Gourd Band," a 90-year-old woman made art from the gourds she grew and performed in a senior citizens' band. "Catfish: Man of the Woods," a fifth generation herb doctor, living near Glenwood, WV.