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  • Stream now with the PBS App. Celebrate Halloween with three dramatic readings courtesy of Southern Tier Actors Read all filmed at the Phelps Mansion Museum in Binghamton! From Edgar Allan Poe to ghosts in your bedroom, these three stories will surely keep you up at night! Featuring Chris Nickerson, Bill Gorman, Jane Elliott, James Michalec, Dori May Ganisin and Eric Bill. Hosted by Adara Alston.
  • Premieres Monday, Nov.6, 2023 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App. Three Muslim chaplains in the U.S. military face resistance and uncertainty as they uphold the First Amendment and practice their faith. They work to rise to the highest ranks while calling for religious equality.
  • Premieres Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2023 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App + Encores Sunday, Nov. 12 at 2 p.m. on KPBS TV and 9 p.m. on KPBS 2. In just a few decades, China has transformed into a science and technology superpower. See inside leading Chinese tech companies and labs to discover how they innovate, what drives their rise, and what it means for the future of the global economy.
  • Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS App. India-Canada relations have been rocked by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s stunning allegations of an India-directed plot to assassinate Sikh separatist Hardeep Singh Nijjar on Canadian soil. Samir Saran, the president of a Delhi-based think tank, joins the show. Then, the brother of a 9-year-old held hostage by Hamas speaks out.
  • Premieres Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App + Encore Thursday, Nov. 16 at 8 p.m. on KPBS 2. Uncover what happens when archaeologists study a skeleton found with an iron nail through its heel bone, suggesting the person was the victim of crucifixion in Roman-occupied Britain. Only one other skeleton with evidence of crucifixion has ever been found in the world. Who was he? What was life in Roman Britain like? And why did he receive such a gruesome punishment?
  • Saturday, March 23, 2024 at 3 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App. Pati returns to Merida to meet sisters, Delia and Maria Elide, who love to cook and laugh and are famous for recados - pastes of spices and aromatic herbs that season Yucatecan foods. In Uxmal, she learns about ingredients only found in Yucatán that make recados unique, touring citrus, habanero, and chaya fields at an hacienda. Then traditional cook Rosa makes a Relleno Negro using a recado negro.
  • Premieres Monday, Oct. 30, 2023 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App + Encore Sunday, Nov. 5 at 4 p.m. on KPBS 2. Watch ROADSHOW's thrilling and chilling appraisals, including a MAD Issue 8 complete "Frank N. Stein" story, a German wax-head doll, and a Georgian & Victorian mourning jewelry collection. Dare to guess the top $80,000 to $120,000 find!
  • Premieres Saturday, Oct. 28, 2023 at 5 p.m. on KPBS 2 / Stream now with the PBS App. Former Chairman and CEO of IBM Ginni Rometty talks to Kelly Corrigan about education and incremental change in service of building a more equitable and inclusive society. She also shares her thoughts on leadership, corporate responsibility, and recalls personal stories that have informed her life and work.
  • Premieres Tuesday, Oct. 31, 2023 at 10 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App + Encore Thursday, Nov. 2 at 9 p.m. on KPBS 2. How Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell helped transform the Supreme Court and U.S. politics. Amid scrutiny of the high court, and a power struggle in the GOP, McConnell's rise and role pushing the judiciary to the right, and America's polarized democracy.
  • Monday, Oct. 30, 2023 at 11 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App. Wearing snapback caps and Air Jordans, the Reality Poets aren’t typical nursing home residents. In "Fire Through Dry Grass," these young, Black and brown disabled artists document their lives on lockdown during Covid, their rhymes underscoring the danger and imprisonment they feel. In the face of institutional neglect, they refuse to be abused, confined, and erased.

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