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Airs Sunday, March 23, 2014 at 7 p.m. on KPBS TV

Painter's daughter Esther Freud weaves her own experiences into the story of a lonely little boy in a British seacoast town, who befriends the great Art Nouveau designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh.

The Cornetto Trilogy Comes To A Close

On Thursday, three men were found guilty in the eye-popping theft of cash and jewelry worth millions. Four others had pleaded guilty previously in the complex, physically demanding heist.

The last deep pit coal mine in northern England closes next month, marking the death of an industry that has fueled area towns for decades. Miners are angry the government didn't do more to help them.

It's beer week and if you have a hard time choosing which brewhouse will satisfy your taste buds — help may be on the way.

Airs Thursday, Feb. 13, 2020 at 9:30 p.m. on KPBS TV + Monday, Feb. 17 at 9:30 p.m. on KPBS TV

In her third outing as crime novelist Robert Galbraith, J.K. Rowling hits her stride with a fluid, complex mystery. Reviewer Annalisa Quinn says she excels at depicting evil, ordinary or otherwise.

Surfrider wants to get restaurants to cut back on using containers made of polystyrene, plastic bags and disposable cups and utensils, which frequently get washed down storm drains to area beaches and coastal waters.

Think binge drinking, and college students downing cheap beer from red cups come into mind. But healthy affluent adults over 50 are more likely to drink dangerously than their peers.