Sunday 4/7/2013

EARLY | MORNING | AFTERNOON | EVENING | NOW PLAYING

6:00 am EDT

KET: Sesame Street; #4321 "Lifting Snuffy" [TV-Y]; Zoe choreographs a special dance, "The Dance of the Six Swans," for her friends to perform. She asks everyone to pair up for the 'lift' part of the dance, but they're missing one person, so they ask Alan to join the dancers. [High-Definition]

KET2: Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly; #1631 [TV-RE]; [High-Definition]

KETKY: Kentucky Collectibles; #105; A look back at some of the best moments from the first season of Kentucky Collectibles. [High-Definition] Watch Online

6:30

KET2: bookclub@ket; #304 "Affrilachia"; Host Bill Goodman and a panel of readers discuss Affrilachia, a collection of poems by Frank X Walker. A 2001 KET production. Watch Online

KETKY: Tim Farmer's Country Kitchen; #101; Join Tim as he visits a local hog farm. Learn about grinding sausage, salt curing hams, and cold smoking bacon. [High-Definition]

7:00

KET: Curious George; #121 "Surprise Quints/Muddy Monkey" [TV-Y]; Mr. Quint returns from his fishing trip before his surprise birthday party is ready, so George is assigned the job of keeping him busy until the appointed time. George loses his favorite bath toy, Sproingy the Frog, and refuses to take a bath. [High-Definition]

KET2: European Journal; #3114 [TV-G]

KETKY: Kentucky Afield; #2927 [TV-G]; A KET/Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources co-presentation hosted by Tim Farmer. [High-Definition]

7:30

KET: The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!; #120 "Finola's Farm/Pick Your Friends" [TV-Y]; Nick and Sally are sitting down to breakfast but have run out of milk. The Cat arrives to take them to Finola's Farm to have breakfast with Finola. First they learn how to milk a cow, then they discover that cows' milk can be made into butter and cheese and best of all--ice cream! It's Valentine's Day and Nick and Sally disagree hotly on how to decorate the card they're making for the Cat. Does this mean they aren't really best friends? The Cat takes them to meet Sheldon, a tortoise who knows all about friendship. [High-Definition]

KET2: Classical Stretch: The Esmonde Technique; #913 "Weight Loss: Strengthen Spine & Improve Posture" [TV-G]; [High-Definition]

KETKY: Bluegrass and Backroads; #1003; Meet woodcarver Tim Hall, matt sculptor Craig Kaviar, and a finalist in the Kentucky Farm Bureau Outstanding Young Farm Family contest. Also, a tour of WKU's School of Broadcasting is featured. [High-Definition]

8:00

KET: Super Why!; #211 "The Adventures of Math-A-Million" [TV-Y]; The super readers accompany a math superhero as he confronts a series of arithmetic emergencies. [High-Definition]

KET2: Wai Lana Yoga; #519 "Special: Pregnancy (Part 2)" [TV-G]

KETKY: Louisville Life; #713 "River City Drum Corp/Nord's Bakery/U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth/Trent Altman"; Founded in 1990, the River City Drum Corps is a youth organization that molds traditional African drumming, percussive music training, performance and cultural education; Nord's Bakery, formerly Klein's, has been in Louisville's Germantown neighborhood for 70 years; an interview with U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth (KY-3); and meet artist Trent Altman who was diagnosed with autism as a child. [High-Definition] Watch Online

8:30

KET: Dinosaur Train; #104 "I'm a T. Rex!/Ned the Quadruped" [TV-Y]; Buddy travels to Rexville on the dinosaur train and meets Delores Tyrannosaurus and her daughter Annie. When he sees that he shares all the same features, Buddy learns that he is a Tyrannosaurus Rex! Buddy and Tiny tour the dinosaur train and earn their junior conductor hats while their friend Ned, a four-legged, long-necked Brachiosaurus and regular train rider, tags along. [High-Definition]

KET2: GED Connection; #113 "Fiction" [TV-G]; Explores elements of fiction in short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, Flannery O'Connor, and James Baldwin and the contemporary novel Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat, who reads an excerpt from the book.

KETKY: Comment on Kentucky; #3923; Journalists from around the state discuss news of the day with host Ferrell Wellman. Guests: Kenny Colston, Frankfort bureau chief, Kentucky Public Radio; Phil Pendleton, reporter, WKYT-TV in Lexington; and Mike Wynn, Frankfort bureau reporter, Louisville Courier-Journal. A KET production. [High-Definition] Watch Online

9:00

KET: Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood; #105 "Prince Wednesday Finds A Way To Play/Finding A Way To Play On Backwards Day" [TV-Y]; Daniel and Katerina Kittycat find a way to play together with Prince Wednesday at school. Daniel and O the Owl learn to compromise when Miss Elaina plans a backwards play date at her house. [High-Definition]

KET2: GED Connection; #114 "Poetry" [TV-G]; Poet Sonia Sanchez reads from her work and shows how to analyze a poem, U.S. Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky introduces the "Favorite Poem Project," and people talk about how poetry can be a powerful means of expression.

KETKY: Connections with Renee Shaw; #825 "Byron Hurt"; Acclaimed filmmaker Byron Hurt talks about his latest film, Soul Food Junkies, the history and hazards of the high-fat cuisine and the love it inspires. [High-Definition] Watch Online

9:30

KET: Sid the Science Kid; #217 "Get Up and Move!" [TV-Y]; Sid is super excited, because teacher Susie announced that today is full of surprises - healthy surprises! [High-Definition]

KET2: GED Connection; #115 "Drama" [TV-G]; Explores the elements of drama through a play written by an adult learner and goes behind the scenes to see how the written word is translated to the stage.

KETKY: One to One with Bill Goodman; #811 "Gene Wilhoit"; Bill's guest is Gene Wilhoit, the new director of the University of Kentucky National Center for Innovation in Education. Wilhoit is a former Kentucky Department of Education commissioner and has been director of the Council of Chief State School Officers in Washington for the last six years. [High-Definition] Watch Online

10:00

KET: To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe; #2204 [TV-RE]; [High-Definition]

KET2: SciGirls; #201 "Aquabots" [TV-G]; Akina and friends dive into underwater robotics at the U.S. Naval Academy, building a "Sea Perch" ROV to investigate artificial oyster reefs in the Chesapeake Bay. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Great Conversations; #112 "Johnny Apple and Tom Brokaw" [TV-G]; Johnny Apple, former associate editor of the New York Times, discusses his book Apple's America and shares his robust enthusiasm for the history, architecture, business, and culture of 40 great urban centers of America - including Louisville. He is interviewed by Tom Brokaw, NBC news correspondent and former anchor. A 2005 KET production.

10:30

KET: Inside Washington; #2451 [TV-G]

KET2: Cyberchase; #202 "Totally Rad" [TV-Y]; Hacker takes over the Radopolis cybersite, declaring himself king. To dethrone him, the kids challenge his hired hands to an Olympic-like skateboard competition. But there's a catch: High-scoring tricks need as much area as possible, and the configuration of the field's perimeter mysteriously keeps changing. Can the kids match their performance to the shifting arena? [High-Definition]

11:00

KET: Moyers & Company; #213 "Mlk's Dream of Economic Justice" [TV-RE]; [High-Definition]

KET2: Changing Seas; #202 "Sentinels of the Seas" [TV-G]; An in-depth look at the health status of Florida's wild bottlenose dolphins. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Kentucky Life; #1813 "John Cohen/Today's Special-Weaver's Hot Dogs/Shepherdsville Train Crash/The Double Dans"; Meet photographer John Cohen, who came to eastern Kentucky in the late 1950s and captured the region's landscape, people, and music; in Laurel County, Dave enjoys Today's Special at the longtime London landmark, Weaver's Hot Dogs; the Shepherdsville train crash of 1917 is still regarded as the worst in Kentucky's history; and meet Australian horse trainers The Double Dans, who have made Nicholasville their second home. [High-Definition] Watch Online

11:30

KET2: Equitrekking Adventures; #603 "Costa Rica" [TV-G]; Discover Pacific Coast beaches, fertile farmland, and lush forests of the San Carlos Valley in Costa Rica. Mixing horseback riding with tree climbing and hot air ballooning, this program captures the true spirit of adventure in Costa Rica. [High-Definition]

KETKY: Kentucky Time Capsule; #116 "In the Name of Progress"; During the 1950s and '60s, Louisville lost much of its unique architectural heritage when old buildings and entire neighborhoods were torn down for high-rises, expressways, and "urban renewal." The reaction that emerged in the '70s was led by such critics as former mayor Charles Farnsley. Watch Online

Noon

KET: The McLaughlin Group; #3115 [TV-RE]

KET2: Louisville Life; #713 "River City Drum Corp/Nord's Bakery/U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth/Trent Altman"; Founded in 1990, the River City Drum Corps is a youth organization that molds traditional African drumming, percussive music training, performance and cultural education; Nord's Bakery, formerly Klein's, has been in Louisville's Germantown neighborhood for 70 years; an interview with U.S. Rep. John Yarmuth (KY-3); and meet artist Trent Altman who was diagnosed with autism as a child. [High-Definition] Watch Online

KETKY: James Still's River of Earth; [TV-G]; A portrait of one of Kentucky's most distinguished and honored writers, an Alabama native who lived and worked in Knott County from 1931 until his death in the spring of 2001. Regarded as the dean of Appalachian literature, Still wrote the novel River of Earth as well as short stories, children's books, collections of mountain lore and sayings, and poetry. A 1997 KET production.