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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, July 26, 2025 at 3 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the 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. -
Encore Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2023 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App. Explore the culture war that erupted over the rise of disco music. Originating in underground Black and gay clubs, disco unseated rock as America’s most popular music by the late 1970s. But many diehard rock fans viewed disco as shallow and superficial. The hostility came to a head on July 12, 1979, when a riot broke out at “Disco Demolition Night” at a baseball game in Chicago. -
Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023 at 11:30 p.m. on KPBS TV / Stream now with the PBS App. Israel is America's closest ally in the Middle East, but its ongoing war with Gaza is testing the limits of that relationship. On the show this week, the view from Capitol Hill: a Democratic senator and a Republican congressman join the show.
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Streaming through Aug. 31 on the PBS app. Enjoy an evening of dance from Madrid's Teatro Real, beginning with George Balanchine's "Serenade" and "Square Dance," followed by "The Times Are Racing" by current NYCB resident choreographer Justin Peck set to an electronic score.
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