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As Japan's population shrinks and ages, the government wants older adults to remain employed. The traditional retirement age is 60. But a few companies are welcoming those who want to keep working.

Encore Monday, May 5, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. This episode features great finds that include a Booker T. Washington archive collected by Washington's former teacher; a 17th-century Chinese transitional wine pot that was mistaken for a teapot; and an Eanger Irving Couse painting featuring an iconic subject for the artist.

Monday, May 26, 2025 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Highlights include a collection of Marilyn Monroe stills from some of her greatest cinematic hits; a British rainbow spatterware pot, ca. 1860, and an 1849 ship's log and register chronicling the journey from Boston to San Francisco during the Gold Rush. Aappraiser Kathleen Bailey travels to The Huntington Museum of Art to discuss antique Ohio Valley glass.

Diablo Canyon's reactors are close to earthquake fault lines. Public concerns are split between the dangers of quake damage and of carbon dioxide gas released by the burning of fossil fuels.

Four decades after he signed the nation's first law giving farmworkers collective bargaining rights, Gov. Jerry Brown will again consider a historic proposal calling for farmworkers to receive the same overtime pay as other hourly workers.

Encore Monday, April 14, 2025 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Appraiser John Buxton visit the Birmingham Museum of Art to look at a rare African wood carving. Highlights include an autographed first edition copy of Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird"; a Titanic photograph and book tracing back to the owner's survivor relatives; and a Rolex military watch with ties to "The Great Escape" book and film.

Encore Monday, April 28, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. Host Mark L. Walberg joins appraiser James Supp at the Pacific Pinball Museum. Highlights include a Lambert magician automaton, ca. 1900, that is still in working condition; a Ray Bradbury archive collected by Bradbury's high school English teacher; and Fred Myrick scrimshaw tooth, ca. 1830, that has a long history of family folklore.

The closure was reportedly ordered by censors last week. According to local media, it comes just as a controversial — and banned — film is being released on Apple's Hong Kong iTunes service.

Saturday, June 7, 2025 at 2:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport + YouTube. We start in Jerusalem, alive with religious tradition and passion — Christian, Muslim, and Jewish. We then visit cosmopolitan Tel Aviv, with its in-love-with-life beaches; ponder the fortress of Masada; and join pilgrims at biblical sights around the Sea of Galilee.

Encore Monday, March 31, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS app. ROADSHOW stops in Birmingham, where host Mark L. Walberg joins appraiser Catherine Williamson at the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute to discuss the Civil Rights Movement of the mid-20th century and to look at materials related to Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.