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Festival launches online for films every week in October

Sundays, July 31 and Aug. 7, 2022 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV + Tuesdays, Aug. 2 and 9 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 (not available on demand). Lucy Worsley's book and series investigates the way that British people have enjoyed – yes, enjoyed – murder. From the start of the 19th century, a new form of entertainment developed that was based on the British obsession with death. Ballads, china ornaments, melodrama, detective fiction and films are all covered here, along with some gruesome and sometimes strangely amusing crimes.

Astroworld Festival calls to mind other rare but traumatic incidents at concerts and festivals throughout the last half-century. Here's a timeline of those tragedies.

Sunday, Dec. 19, 2021 at 5:30 p.m. on KPBS TV + 7:30 p.m. on KPBS Kids. Feeling down about the commercialism of Christmas, Charlie Brown becomes the director of the gang's holiday play. Can he overcome his friends' preference for dancing over acting, find the "perfect" tree, and discover the true meaning of Christmas?

The ultraviolent scenario is made up, but there are economic themes in the hit Netflix survival drama that are all too real in South Korea.

NPR's Scott Simon contemplates the growing dining options for astronauts aboard the space station, including tacos, chile and even lobster.

At the international AIDS conference last week — held virtually — concerns were shared about the impact of the novel coronavirus on efforts to fight AIDS.

A new album from Høurs, The Symphony performs Sibelius, Rachmaninoff and Texu Kim, and Nick Roth's installation, closes at SDMA.

Tuesday, March 21, 2023 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / Watch now with PBS Passport. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the family secrets of journalist Gayle King, film director Jordan Peele, and comedian Issa Rae, introducing them to ancestors who raise profound questions about the shape and meaning of their family trees.

Monday, Nov. 8, 2021 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / On Demand. Hear more striking accounts behind standout treasures that illuminate Americans' varied experiences including a Navajo collection, a WWI peach can label letter, and James McNeill Whistler artwork in Part 2 of this special episode.