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  • Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024 at 2:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS App. Christie Morrison makes host Julia Collin Davison Trout Amandine, and Toni Tipton-Martin discusses how Julia Child made French cuisine accessible in the US. Tasting expert Jack Bishop takes a deep dive into freshwater fish, and Equipment expert Adam Ried shares his top picks for bench scrapers. Ashley Moore makes host Bridget Lancaster elegant Lentilles du Puy with Spinach and Creme Fraiche.
  • Saturday, Feb. 3, 2024 at 1:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS App. We show you three baking recipes ideal for a weekend breakfast. Christopher Kimball and Milk Street Cook Bianca Borges make richly flavored Neapolitan Salami–Provolone Buns. Milk Street Cook Matthew Card bakes Banana Hazelnut Bread with a moist and tender crumb. To finish, Milk Street Cook Rose Hattabaugh prepares light and lemony Cinnamon Sugar Yogurt Doughnuts
  • Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS App. Why are there ornamental gates around one San Diego community? Whatever happened to the steamship Orizaba? In what residential neighborhood was one of the biggest auto races in San Diego history held? Where can you find the most amazing car ever to hit the road 60 years ago? Who is the most famous woman in San Diego? So much more!
  • Premieres Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2024 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS App. This one-hour documentary is focused on the formation and impact of the first civil rights movement of the 20th century. The program traces the social and economic conditions of African Americans at the turn of the 20th century, examines the different strategies for racial advancement led by Black leaders of the time, explores the creation of the Niagara Movement, and places the movement's legacy into a contemporary context.
  • Thursday, Feb. 1, 2024 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS App. If Al Gore is remembered for something other than losing an election, it will be his insistence on reminding the world about "inconvenient truths." Ian sits down with the former VP to talk about threats to democracy and the climate crisis.
  • Premieres Monday, Feb. 5, 2024 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App + Encores Thursday, Feb. 8 at 8 a.m., Friday, Feb. 9 at 4 p.m. and Monday, Feb. 12 at 11 a.m. on KPBS 2. The story of the unknown Freedom Fighter who started a Movement that changed the world. Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth was raised in the crucible of segregated Birmingham but he was forged by its attempt to kill him. When the KKK planted a bomb underneath his bed and he emerged unharmed, he was sure he was saved by God to lead a Movement.
  • Wednesday, April 2, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS app. A spectacular fossil graveyard reveals a 43-million-year-old whale that had four legs and could walk. Follow scientists as they search for new clues to how mammals moved from land into the sea to become the largest animals on Earth.
  • Tuesday, May 14, 2024 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with KPBS Passport! Henry Louis Gates, Jr. uncovers the roots of comedians Bob Odenkirk and Iliza Shlesinger two very funny people whose family trees brim with dramatic stories, introducing them to relatives who took great risks to overcame enormous hardships.
  • Premieres Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App / Encore Sunday, Feb. 4, 2024 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2. Gabon's Loango National Park is home to a group of western lowland gorillas that have become accustomed to biologists who have studied them for almost 20 years. This documentary presents an intimate look at a silverback and his family, and features a newborn baby gorilla, brave researchers, forest elephants, buffalos and the last remaining wild coastline in the African tropics.
  • Premieres Monday, Feb. 5, 2024 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App. Following a cancer diagnosis, a wisecracking Catholic nun chooses to live as she's dying. In this touching end-of-life documentary, the self-proclaimed "leader of the misfits" plans her funeral in her last nine months to live.

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