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PBS Program Club
They’re simple, easy and fun. PBS Program Clubs work like book clubs, but for TV. Each month, you just watch a show, get together with friends and discuss. PBS provides the shows. You provide the people.
WTIU has information on how to start a club and would love to help those interested in participating. Just e-mail us at or visit the PBS Program Club site .
Instead of reading books, participants watch thought-provoking programs on WTIU and get together to discuss them. People form their own clubs and meet in living rooms, lunchrooms and coffee shops around the country. Some even meet in cyberspace.
Each month, two new programs will be offered along with discussion questions. The Program Club web site even has electronic cards to remind club members of meetings.
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P.O.V. Life. Support. Music.
Tuesday, July 7 at 10pm; Thursday, July 9 at 3am
In 2004, Jason Crigler's life was taking off. He was one of New York's hottest young guitarists, his new CD was due for release and his wife, Monica, was pregnant with their first child. Then, at a gig in Manhattan, Jason suffered a near-fatal brain hemorrhage. His doctors doubted he could ever emerge from his near-vegetative state. The astonishing journey that followed, documented by filmmaker and friend Eric Daniel Metzgar, is a stirring family saga and a portrait of creative struggle in the face of overwhelming tragedy.
Time Team America: Fort Raleigh, North Carolina
Wednesday, July 8 at 8pm; Sunday, July 12 at 1pm; Monday, July 13 at 5am
Time Team America goes in search of our nation's mysterious roots at Roanoke Island. In 1586 the English sent the first group of hardy, hopeful colonists to make a go of it in the New World. But when English ships returned with supplies just three years later, they found the settlement empty and colonists gone. The colonists had left behind only one clue: the word Croatoan carved in the gatepost of their fort. It took 20 years for the stunned English to establish another settlement in America. The fate of the Roanoke colonists remains one of the most chilling and maddening questions of American history. Time Team America spends three days at Fort Raleigh in hot pursuit of archaeological evidence that will put the ghost of Roanoke to rest and establish where the first colony in America was actually located. Watch an online preview of the full episode of Time Team America "Fort Raleigh, North Carolina" now on the new PBS video portal at pbs.org/video.
Soundstage: Death Cab for Cutie
Thursday, July 9 at 10pm
Indie rock favorite turned major label sensation Death Cab for Cutie presents an impeccable set on this episode of SOUNDSTAGE. Lead vocalist Ben Gibbard's cozy voice has an engaging quality that ropes the listener in on songs from the new EP, The Open Door , the 2008 studio album Narrow Stairs and highlights from the band's prolific catalog. Their renditions of "I Will Possess Your Heart," "The Sound of Settling," "Cath" and many others are not to be missed.
Bill Moyers Journal
Friday, July 10 at 9pm; Saturday, July 11 at 2am; Sunday, July 12 at 5am
Veteran journalist Bill Moyers brings to PBS a weekly public affairs series entitled BILL MOYERS JOURNAL -- the name of his first important series on public television 35 years ago. Moyers re-invents the broadcast for the 21st century, with interviews and news analysis on a wide range of subjects, including politics, arts and culture, the media, the economy and issues facing democracy.
Inside: Rolling Stones in Rio
Sunday, July 12 at 11pm
It was one of the biggest concerts in history with one of the most groundbreaking bands in music ... and INSIDE had a backstage pass. The Rolling Stones staged a free concert on Rio de Janeiro's Copacabana Beach -- for an estimated 1.5 million people in 2007. INSIDE deconstructs the extreme challenges crew members face as they transported more than 200 tons of equipment, created posh dressing rooms for the band members and kept more than a million screaming fans under control.
History Detectives
Monday, July 13 at 9pm; Tuesday, July 14 at 1am; Wednesday, July 15 at 3am; Sunday, July 19 at 5pm
At auction, a contributor bought a rug whose woven designs intrigued him. A Southwest American history buff, he's fascinated by the rug's central figure of a man with a feathered head holding lightning bolts. He believes the figure was never meant to be captured by a loom. Did the weaver violate a taboo? Who wove the rug? HISTORY DETECTIVES guest host Eduardo Pagán meets with a Navajo medicine man and a traditional Navajo weaver and travels to Crownpoint, New Mexico, long considered the center of Navajo weaving. Finally, HISTORY DETECTIVES visits a textile historian to find out who may have been behind this controversial design.