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  • Premieres Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021 at 3 p.m. on KPBS 2 + Sunday, Dec. 26 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / On Demand. Enjoy a holiday performance from the famed bass-baritone in Wales' Brecon Cathedral featuring Welsh traditional folk group Calan. The program includes festive favorites, Lerner and Loewe's "Little Prince" and more.
  • Premieres Friday, Dec. 3, 2021 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On Demand. Ilmar and Aldo are virtuoso Cuban-born brothers living on opposite sides of a geopolitical chasm a half century wide. Tracking their parallel lives, poignant reunion, and momentous first performances together, the film offers a nuanced, often startling view of estranged nations through the lens of music and family.
  • Friday, Dec. 3, 2021 at 10:30 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On Demand. Revel in a range of country music performances hosted by Leslie Jordan, featuring Jake Blount, Claybourne Elder, Nic Gareiss, Travis Howard, Senora May with Luke Frazier and The American Pops Orchestra.
  • Premieres Friday, Dec. 31, 2021 at 10:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / On Demand. Celebrate the new year with Met stars Angel Blue, Pretty Yende, Javier Camarena and Matthew Polenzani performing arias, duets and ensembles and more from the Parktheater in Augsburg, Germany.
  • Ahead of the Season 14 CALL THE MIDWIFE Holiday Special broadcast premiere on Dec. 25, 2024, there is catch-up streaming for the previous four holiday specials with KPBS Passport beginning on Nov. 25, 2024. Free Video On Demand streaming for these previous holiday specials is available for 30 days beginning on Dec. 25, 2024. Christmas 1966 promises to be memorable one. The Nonnatus House team are faced with their busiest Christmas Day ever as the Maternity Home is filled with expectant moms and challenging cases. Luckily Mother Mildred is on hand to support the team.
  • Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2023 on KPBS 2 / Stream now with KPBS Passport! From 1907 until his death more than 50 years later, ethnologist John Peabody Harrington crisscrossed the U.S., chasing the voices of the last speakers of Native America's dying languages. This film chronicles Harrington's work and traces the impact of his exhaustive research.
  • Premieres Friday, Nov. 26, 2021 at 9 p.m. and Sunday, Nov. 28 at 2 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On Demand. Enjoy this contemporary reboot of the 1870 classical ballet favorite. Blending live action ballet with CGI, the film features ballet stars Michaela DePrince and Daniel Camargo.
  • Premieres Friday, Nov. 26, 2021 at 8:30 p.m. on KPBS 2 / On Demand. Singer-songwriter Valerie June has been knocked down but never out by heartbreak, illness, and hardship. Now in his early 60s, choreographer and dancer Stephen Petronio has built a life and a body of work by deciding whose rules he was prepared to follow.
  • Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2023 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV + Thursday, Jan. 12 at 8 p.m. on KJPBS 2 / On demand now with KPBS Passport! Father Marius Zerafa, director of museums in Malta, risks his life to recover a Caravaggio masterpiece stolen from a cathedral in 1984.
  • Saturday, July 23, 2022 at 1:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / On demand. Christopher Kimball visits Cheryl Day at Back in the Day Bakery in Savannah, Georgia, to learn treasured recipes from her repertoire of southern baking. Recipes include Sweet Potato Cupcakes with Cream Cheese-Caramel Frosting, a Glazed Sour Cream and Brown Sugar Bundt Cake, and a grand, show-stopping Chocolate-on-Chocolate Three-Layer Cake.

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