Sunday 2/17/2013

10:00 pm EST

KETKY

Digital Renaissance: Imaging the Iliad

Classicists from Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies, along with conservators, computer scientists, and photographers attempt to photograph and scan the world's oldest surviving manuscript of the Homeric Iliad.

11:00

KET

Frontline

#3105 "Cliffhanger" [TV-PG]

The inside history of how Washington has failed to solve the country's problems of debt and deficit. The film explores the ideological divide inside the Republican Party and the struggle between House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and House Speaker John Boehner as they take on President Obama and the Democrats. [High-Definition]

KET2

This Is America & The World

#1620 "President's Day Rebroadcast Amb. Gudmundur Arni Stefansson (Iceland)" [TV-G]

Dennis Wholey speaks with the Ambassador of Iceland, Gudmundur Arni Stefansson.

KETKY

Bluegrass and Backroads

#909

Enjoy a nice glass of wine at Elk Creek Vineyard in Owenton; visit The American Printing House for the Blind, founded in 1858 in Louisville, is the oldest organization of its kind in the United States; meet furniture make Craig Bayens and see the beauty in old wood; and visit Whitaker Farm - one of the finalists in Kentucky Farm Bureau's Outstanding Young Farm Family contest. [High-Definition]

11:30

KET2

bookclub@ket

#610 "Dancing on the Edge of the Roof"

Host Bill Goodman and a panel of guests discuss Sheila Williams' debut novel, Dancing on the Edge of the Roof, which follows a "pre-menopausal African American woman with three grown, deadbeat children" as she starts her life anew in Montana. A 2004 KET production. Watch Online

KETKY

Kentucky Time Capsule

#111 "Knee High to a Sculpture"

In the early 1970s—before she became a playwright and won both a Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award—Marsha Norman worked in her hometown of Louisville as a social worker, teacher, and freelance writer. In this film, young Marsha makes Louisville's statues "talk" for a group of schoolchildren. Watch Online

Midnight

KET

Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly

#1624 [TV-RE]

[High-Definition]

KET2

Masterpiece Classic

#4307 "Downton Abbey, Season 3 - Part 7" [TV-PG]

The Crawleys head to a Scottish hunting lodge, while the downstairs staff stays behind at Downton Abbey. New romances flare up, and a crisis unfolds. [High-Definition]

KETKY

Kentucky Muse

#302 "Harry Pickens: In the Garden of Music"

Louisville pianist Harry Pickens performs a variety of selections of jazz and original pieces and shares his ideas on music and its ability to bring people together. A 2010 KET production. [High-Definition] Watch Online

12:30 am Monday, February 18

KET

One to One with Bill Goodman

#807 "Dave Adkisson"

Dave Adkisson, president and CEO of the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce, discusses the 2013 legislative session. A 2013 KET production. [High-Definition] Watch Online

KETKY

Kentucky Muse

#303 "Joe Molinaro: Hands in Clay"

Follow Kentucky ceramics artist Joe Molinaro as he works in his pottery studio, teaches students at Eastern Kentucky University, and studies indigenous pottery in South America. A 2010 KET production. [High-Definition] Watch Online

1:00

KET

European Journal

#3107 "Russian Orphanages On Trial" [TV-G]

KETKY

News Quiz

#2819 [TV-G]

[High-Definition] Watch Online

1:15

KETKY

Telling Tales

#110 "Anansi's Rescue from the River"

A story about Anansi, the trickster hero of Ashanti Land on the west coast of Africa, told by Mama Yaa (Louisville storyteller Gloria Bivens).

1:30

KET

Scully/The World Show

#1543 [TV-G]

KETKY

From the Ground Up

#101 "Kentucky Communities"

How different Kentucky communities developed. A 1991 KET production. Watch Online

2:00

KET

Theater Talk

#609 [TV-G]

Acclaimed actor Ed Asner discusses his television career and his new Broadway play Grace.

KET2

Live from Lincoln Center

#3801 "Ring Them Bells! A Kander & Ebb Celebration" [TV-PG]

"All That Jazz," "Mister Cellophane," "Wilkommen," "A Quiet Thing," "New York, New York," and other songs written by John Kander and Fred Ebb are performed by Broadway stars Marin Mazzie, Jason Danieley, Chita Rivera, and Joel Grey. [High-Definition]

KETKY

My Kentucky Home

#103 "Greenville (Part 1)"

Historian Tom Brizendine, Dorothy Martin, Becky Keith, and Jamie Wells discuss the history and exciting changes going on in Greenville.

2:30

KET

How Hollywood Does It

#106 "Documentary"

Different styles of documentary filmmaking from the birth of cinema to the present day are explored. [High-Definition]

3:00

KET

American Masters

#2109 "Glass: A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts" [TV-PG]

An eventful year in the career and personal life of distinguished composer Philip Glass. [High-Definition]

KET2

John D. Rockefeller: American Experience

For decades, the Rockefeller name was despised in America associated with John D. Rockefeller Sr.'s feared monopoly, Standard Oil. By the end of his life, Rockefeller had given away half his fortune but even his vast philanthropy could not erase the memory of his predatory business practices. [High-Definition]

KETKY

My Kentucky Home

#104 "Greenville (Part 2)"

Historian Tom Brizendine, Dorothy Martin, Becky Keith, and Jamie Wells discuss the history and exciting changes going on in Greenville.

4:00

KETKY

Recollections: Governors' Roundtable

Eight former Kentucky governors—Edward T. (Ned) Breathitt, Louie B. Nunn, Wendell H. Ford, Julian M. Carroll, John Y. Brown Jr., Martha Layne Collins, Wallace Wilkinson, and Brereton C. Jones—share perspectives on their years in office, including some of the lighter moments. Veteran broadcast journalist Ferrell Wellman hosts. A 2000 KET production.

2/17/2013, Evening

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