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  • Saturday, July 8, 2023 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport + Encore Sunday, July 9 at 6:30 p.m. on KPBS 2. Join the beloved balladeer for a heartwarming concert from the T.F. Royal Theatre in Ireland. O’Donnell, one of Ireland’s most popular folk singers, offers an Irish-country rendering of easy-listening tunes and inspirational favorites.
  • Encore Wednesday, April 16, 2025 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app. We get to dine at a restaurant in the Valle de Guadalupe, where you can watch a polo game while eating, not to mention the flash flame dessert. Next, we get to peak behind the scenes of wildlife rescue.
  • Encore Saturdays, Aug. 12 - Sept. 2, 2023 at 10 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with KPBS Passport! When D.I. Rachita Ray, a British-Asian policewoman new to homicide is assigned to investigate the suspected honor killing of a young Muslim man, she quickly realizes the suspects can’t be guilty. In this four-part drama, D.I. Ray goes on a journey that sees her uncover a complex web of deceit within organized crime, while laying bare the wounds deep within herself that she’s spent a lifetime ignoring. Wounds that are born from a desperate desire to fit in, despite not looking the part.
  • Thursday, July 6, 2023 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS App. After more than a year of grueling warfare, GZERO World takes a look at Putin's goals heading into the Ukrainian counteroffensive. Is there any hope for resolution in a war the Kremlin sees as an existential battle with NATO for the future of Russia? Guest: Dmitri Trenin, former director, Carnegie Moscow Center.
  • Saturday, July 1, 2023 at 2 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS App. Test cook Dan Souza bakes host Bridget Lancaster classic Choux au Craquelin. Gadget critic Lisa McManus reviews piping sets. Hosts Bridget and Julia Collin Davison make savory Gnocchi à la Parisienne with Arugula, Tomatoes, and Olives.
  • Thursday, July 4, 2024 at 11 p.m. on KPBS 2 + Encore Friday, July 5 at 4 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with KPBS Passport! This episode surveys the evolving meaning the Statue of Liberty has for a “nation of immigrants” and how it embodies our values and our conflicts, from abolition and women’s suffrage to the treatment of refugees.
  • Monday, July 3, 2023 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS App. Best-selling author Michael Lewis looks back at the characters of his most successful stories. He shares what draws him to people, how he writes them into stories and how openness and vulnerability are key elements to finding a strong character. Michael highlights the importance of embracing life’s uncertainty and talks about coping with the loss of his daughter Dixie Lewis.
  • Saturday, July 1, 2023 at 5 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS App. Georgia Senator and Atlanta pastor Raphael Warnock joins Killer Mike for a conversation about his first two years in the U.S. Senate and plans for the future.
  • Premieres Wednesdays, July 5 - Aug. 9, 2023 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App. In an episode that hits close to home, Shane explores the history and science of cotton. A prehistoric coastline from North Carolina to Texas laid the foundation for a crop that re-shaped our history, our culture, and even our DNA.
  • Monday, July 3, 2023 at 10:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App. As Chief Environmental Officer for St. Helena’s troubled airport project, Annina van Neel learns about an unmarked mass burial ground of an estimated 9,000 formerly enslaved Africans. Haunted by this historical injustice, she and African American preservationist Peggy King Jorde fight for the proper memorialization of these forgotten victims, exposing the UK’s disturbing colonial past and present.

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