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  • Monday, Oct. 10, 2022 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS Video App. Follow four high school students at a prep school in Louisiana that sends 100% of its grads to college, rocked by scandal as an article exposes the controversial methods of its dynamic founder – and the fiction of higher education's promise.
  • Premieres Monday, Oct. 10, 2022 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV + Wednesday, Oct. 12 at 7 p.m. on KPBS 2 / PBS Video App. Travel to desert oasis Palm Springs and learn which finds are now heating up, like a Louis Comfort Tiffany necklace, a Louis Armstrong archive, ca. 1950, and a Joseph Stella oil & original frame. One has an appraisal update of $550,000!
  • Premieres Sunday, Oct. 9, 2022 at 8 p.m. and Wednesday, Oct. 12 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV + Thursday, Oct. 13 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2 / PBS Video App. Discover one of the most significant British archaeological finds of the century in the Althorp estate, house to the late Diana, Princess of Wales. What treasures and history will this extensive excavation reveal?
  • Saturday, April 5, 2025 at 3 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app. The man who literally wrote the book on Mexican bread, Irving Quiroz, brings Pati into his workshop in Monterrey to teach her how to make traditional campechanas and rich conos de crema. Then we meet one of Irving's students, Chuy Elizondo, who is using bread as a vehicle to make his brunch place one of the hottest in town.
  • Saturday, April 15, 2023 at 7 p.m. and Sunday, April 16 at 6 p.m. on KPBS 2 + April 15 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport! Lace up your dancing shoes and celebrate the band's return to the stage. In honor of the 45th anniversary of Waiting for Columbus, they'll be replicating the legendary live album at every stop, joined by some very special guests.
  • Saturday, Oct. 8, 2022 at 2 p.m. and Friday, Oct. 14 at 2 p.m. on KPBS TV / On demand. Test cook Dan Souza and host Julia Collin Davison make Pupusas with Curtido. Equipment expert Adam Ried shares with host Bridget Lancaster his top picks for soda makers. Test cook Elle Simone Scott makes Bridget Fried Yuca.
  • Saturday, July 1, 2023 at 1:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport + YouTube. We take a trip to Morocco to learn about a traditional, all-purpose flatbread, Khobz. Milk Street Cook Josh Mamaclay makes easy, yet deeply rich and flavorful Moroccan Harissa-Garlic Shrimp. Milk Street Cook Sam Fore prepares Salmon with Matbucha, a North African cooked "salad" made with olive oil, garlic, tomatoes, sweet peppers and spicy chilies.
  • Thursday, Oct, 6, 2022 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV + Friday, Oct. 7 at 10 a.m. on KPBS 2 / On demand now with the PBS Video App. With the resignation of Boris Johnson and the death of Queen Elizabeth, the UK just got new prime minister and a new monarch. Tony Blair tells Ian Bremmer that to overcome today’s challenges, its new leaders must return to centrist policies.
  • Encore Thursday, June 8, 2023 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS App or YouTube. PBS NEWSHOUR examines the nationwide trauma caused by mass shootings, suicide and community gun violence.
  • Wednesday, April 12, 2023 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with PBS App. The film explores the global water crisis, using California as a microcosm. It shows how water politics that led to the draining of the Owens Valley by Los Angeles, made famous by the film "Chinatown," continue to this day in ongoing efforts to take ever more water from Northern California's San Francisco Bay estuary.

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