Television

Wednesday, July 15 at 8 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Hearts of Glass tells the story of a state-of-the-art hydroponic greenhouse that provides meaningful employment for people with disabilities. It weaves together the story of the farm's first tumultuous 15 months of operation with the personal journeys of several employees. Plants and people grow together in Hearts of Glass, an intimate portrait of one community's attempt to address timely and pressing issues around local food production, inclusion, and opportunity.

Tuesday, March 26 at 9 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. Heather Booth is the most influential person you never heard of. The newest film by critically acclaimed filmmaker Lilly Rivlin, Heather Booth; Changing the World launches during a time when many are wondering how to make their voices heard, when civil and women's rights are under attack, this empowering documentary is an inspiring look at how social change happens.

Friday, May 14 at 9 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. Hemingway, yearning for adventure, volunteers for the Red Cross during World War I. He marries Hadley Richardson and moves to Paris, publishes The Sun Also Rises, and finds critical and commercial success with his second novel, A Farewell to Arms.

Friday, September 16 at 9 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. Her Voice Carries shares the stories of five quietly heroic women, told through their own words and the street art of international mural artist Sarah Rutherford. The film chronicles Sarah's unique creative idea: to identify ordinary-yet-extraordinary women whose voices are inspiring and uplifting, and create large-scale murals representing each woman and her experiences. The intent is to celebrate different women from diverse communities and to paint their portraits in neighborhoods outside the ones they call home. By some measures, these women are from one of the hardest hit areas in the nation: Rochester, New York, a city facing serious challenges related to concentrated poverty. What the statistics don't reveal is the often-unknown work of women in these communities to create safe and stable spaces inside the chaos. This film captures how these community builders – in the time of #MeToo – are using their voices to empower and call attention to social issues impacting the women in their communities, including sexual harassment and domestic violence, gender identity, race relations, and immigration.

Monday, May 6 at 9 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. Chris Tarrant explores the darkest chapter of rail history in Hitler’s Holocaust Railways. As Tarrant examines the Nazi's scheme to build the world's most powerful railway leading up to World War II, he meets with Holocaust survivors to hear their stories.

 

 

 

Monday, February 10 at 8 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Nicknamed "Architect to the Stars," African American architect Paul R. Williams had a life story that could have been dreamed up by a Hollywood screenwriter. From the early 1920s until his retirement 50 years later, Williams was one of the most successful architects in the country. His list of residential clients included Frank Sinatra, Cary Grant, Barbara Stanwyck, William Holden, Lucille Ball, and Desi Arnaz. His name is associated with architectural icons like the Beverly Hills Hotel, the original MCA Headquarters Building, and LAX Airport. But at the height of his career Paul Williams wasn't always welcome in the restaurants and hotels he designed or the neighborhoods where he built homes because of his race. Hollywood's Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story explains how he used talent, determination, and even charm to defy the odds and create a body of work that can be found from coast to coast. Narrated by Emmy award-winning actor Courtney B. Vance.

Wednesday, February 5 at 7 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. A passionate misunderstanding, a surprise visit, and a stolen umbrella set into motion a series of events that unexpectedly intertwine the lives of the Schlegels, the Wilcoxes, and the Basts.

When winter rains fall, life that was dormant underground begins to make its appearance. Mushrooms pop up all over our region – from the forest floor to your own backyard! In this story, we followed a group of Sonoma State University students and community naturalists as they identified and collected fungi during a guided mushroom blitz at Osborn Preserve in Penngrove, Sonoma County. The blitz was led by Dr. Melina Kozanitas, a postdoctoral researcher who studies fire, plant pathogens, and mycology. Explore the fascinating world of fungi on Bay Area Bountiful.

 

Produced by Chelsea Wood and Isabel Fischer

 

Special Thanks to

Dr. Melina Kozanitas

Osborn Preserve & Center for Environmental Inquiry

Kerry Wininger

Makayla Freed

Raquel Guevara-Bolaños

Jesica Rodriguez

Sage Harmon

Roxane Grechman

Adrienne Grechman

Nikki Zecerri

Ellyse Cappellano

Victoria Brunal

Emily Ledford

Hale Garcia-Dean

Jess Schmieg

Tiffany Ko

John Skanscomiz

 

Photos of hyphae by

Laurel Fan / Wikimedia Commons

André-Ph. D. Picard / Wikimedia Commons

The death cap is California’s most notable poisonous mushroom. While it’s safe to touch and smell, the death cap causes severe poisonings each year, some deadly, when people misidentify and then eat them. Learning how to positively identify mushrooms, especially poisonous ones, can prevent potential poisonings. We learned from Dr. Melina Kozanitas, a postdoctoral researcher who studies fire, plant pathogens, and mycology, how to pick out the characteristics of Amanita phalloides—the death cap. 

 

Produced by Chelsea Wood and Isabel Fischer

Special Thanks to

Dr. Melina Kozanitas

Osborn Preserve & Center for Environmental Inquiry

Kerry Wininger 

Makayla Freed 

Raquel Guevara-Bolaños 

Jesica Rodriguez 

Sage Harmon 

Roxane Grechman 

Adrienne Grechman 

Nikki Zecerri 

Ellyse Cappellano 

Victoria Brunal 

Emily Ledford 

Hale Garcia-Dean 

Jess Schmieg 

Tiffany Ko 

John Skanscomiz

Northern California Public Media will carry live coverage of the US Senate Impeachment Trial. Watch on KRCB TV in the North Bay, or watch and listen online.

On KRCB TV in the North Bay, the coverage will be anchored by managing editor Judy Woodruff and will include contributions from NewsHour correspondents including Capitol Hill correspondent Lisa Desjardins, White House correspondent Yamiche Alcindor, and Foreign Affairs and Defense correspondent Nick Schifrin, among others. 

Woodruff will be joined by Michael Allen, Managing Director at Beacon Global Strategies, LLC and Mieke Eoyang, Vice President at Third Way. Allen served as the Majority Staff Director of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence under Republican leadership from 2011-2013. Allen also served in George W. Bush’s White House for seven years in various national security policy and legislative roles, including as Senior Director for Counter-proliferation Strategy at the National Security Council, Special Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs, and in the Bureau of Legislative Affairs at the Department of State. Eoyang was the Subcommittee Staff Director on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence under Democratic leadership from 2007-2010, and a Professional Staff Member on the House Armed Services Committee, as well as Chief of Staff to Representative Anna Eshoo (D-Ca.) and Defense Policy Advisor to Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.)

“Covering impeachment hearings is how the PBS NewsHour got its start, with Robert MacNeil and Jim Lehrer during the Watergate hearings,” said Sara Just, PBS NewsHour Executive Producer and WETA Senior Vice President. “It is as important now as it was then that we provide the audience with access to these historic developments and insight for understanding their significance.”

Monday, March 15 at 8 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. The compelling story of Nobel Laureate John Hume’s successful pursuit of peace in Northern Ireland through his co-operation with senior politicians in the United States.

Friday, April 24 at 9 pm on KRCB in the North Bay. Hear the poignant stories of people grappling with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and other psychiatric conditions. Psychiatrist Kenneth Rosenberg visits ERs, jails, and homeless camps to examine the national health crisis of mental illness.

Friday, November 1 at 9 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. See how a group of Native and non-Native leaders in Maine came together to acknowledge and address the abuses suffered by Native children in the hands of the child welfare system, illuminating the ongoing crisis of indigenous child removal.

Friday, October 2 at 8 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. Meet the indomitable Dolores Huerta who tirelessly led the fight for racial and labor justice alongside Cesar Chavez, becoming one of the most defiant – and unheralded – feminist activists of the 20th century.

Friday, December 14 at 9 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. East of Salinas is a story about immigration, childhood, and circumstance. With little support at home, Salinas, California third grader Jose Ansaldo often turns to his teacher, Oscar Ramos, once a migrant farm kid himself. Oscar helps Jose imagine a future beyond the lettuce fields where his parents work. But Jose was born in Mexico and he's on the cusp of understanding the implications of that. As we watch this play out, we begin to understand the cruelty of circumstance, for Jose and many millions of migrant kids like him. East of Salinas asks: What is lost when kids like Jose are denied opportunities?

Friday, May 24 at 9 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. Spend an agricultural year in Napa Valley and meet some of the unsung people who play a critical role in making some of the world's most celebrated wines, yet whose stories have largely gone untold.

Friday, December 11 at 9 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. Property Brothers co-host and home-renovation expert Jonathan Scott journeys all across the US to uncover why clean, renewable energy isn’t available to all. While traveling to learn both the obstacles and opportunities for achieving energy freedom, Jonathan talks with conservatives fighting for solar freedom, sits down with farmers struggling to make ends meet, and engages the Navajo Nation who built a utility-scale solar plant.

Friday, June 21 at 9 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. Real Boy is the coming-of-age story of Bennett, a trans teenager with dreams of musical stardom. During the first two years of his gender transition, as Bennett works to repair a strained relationship with his family, he is taken under the wing of his friend and musical hero, celebrated trans folk singer Joe Stevens.

Friday, September 18 at 9 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. Activist Marion Stokes secretly recorded American television 24 hours a day from 1975 to 2012, creating an invaluable comprehensive archive of the media. Her 70,000 VHS tapes reveal how television shaped – and continues to shape – our world.

Friday, November 15 at 9 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. Discover how Native American musicians have transformed American blues, jazz, and rock in this musical celebration featuring Robbie Robertson, Taj Mahal, Slash, Jackson Browne, Taboo, Quincy Jones, Tony Bennett, Iggy Pop, Steven Tyler, and more.

Friday, February 7 at 9 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. In 1969, the Chicago Black Panther Party began to form alliances across lines of race and ethnicity with other community-based movements in the city, including the Latino group the Young Lords Organization and the southern whites of the Young Patriots organization. Banding together in one of the most segregated cities in postwar America to collectively confront issues such as police brutality and substandard housing, they called themselves the Rainbow Coalition. By 1973, the coalition had collapsed under the weight of relentless harassment by local and federal law enforcement. Although short-lived, it had an outsize impact: breaking down barriers between communities, it created a permanent shift in Chicago politics and an organizing model for future activists and politicians across the nation. The First Rainbow Coalition tells the movement's little-known story through rare archival footage and interviews with former coalition members.

Friday, February 8 at 9 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. Forty years after the death of Elvis Presley, acclaimed filmmaker Eugene Jarecki takes the King’s 1963 Rolls-Royce on a musical road trip across America in search of not only Elvis's legacy but the fate of the American Dream and the consequences of "cashing in" to try to achieve it. The King is a cautionary snapshot of America at a critical time in the nation’s history, painting a parallel portrait of the nation’s own heights and depths, from its inspired origins to its perennial struggles with race, class, power, and money.

Friday, May 10 at 9 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. Follow three "country doctors" in rural New Mexico – the site of a physician shortage and an opioid epidemic – who work at clinics that offer care for all, regardless of ability to pay.

Friday, June 19 at 9 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. Meet the frank and funny creator of the groundbreaking Tales of the City and follow his evolution from a conservative son of the Old South to a gay rights pioneer whose work has inspired millions. With Laura Linney, Olympia Dukakis, and Ian McKellen.

Friday, January 4 at 9 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. A Southern grandmother struggles to help her family through the scourge of HIV, but may be unable to save those she loves. AIDS is one of the leading causes of death for black women in the rural south, where living with HIV is a grim reality.   

Friday June 21 at 7 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Rhiannon Giddens' triumphant performance is fiercely loyal to her roots. During this passionately intelligent performance her bare-footed elegance and fearless banjo and fiddle playing are surpassed only by her vocal prowess. For the IHL audience Giddens offer the fervor of a spiritual on "Waterboy", the yips of a field holler on "Duncan and Jimmy" and a Gaelic-style hootenanny on "Mouth Music". Folk duo Birds of Chicago add to the harmony on "Lost on the River" from The New Basement Tapes project. Interview with Giddens.

Sunday, April 5 at 8 pm on KPJK, independent public television. The first episode of this series focuses on the iconic Yeoman Warders, or Beefeaters, following their daily routine and the appointment of a new Chief Beefeater. Plus, take a look at the tower's origins in the reign of William the Conqueror and a new exhibition dedicated to the infamous story of the princess in the tower.

Saturday, August 25 at 7 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay

Based on the international best-selling mystery novels by Mari Jungstedt, the blockbuster German crime series The Inspector and the Sea is set on the idyllic Swedish island of Gotland. (Repeats at 10 pm)

Wednesday, August 5 at 8 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. Learn if Lewis – who needs to prove himself to a new boss – and Hathaway can establish a connection between the remains of a body discovered in a well and the death of a young artist. Hathaway finally gets to know his estranged father.

Wednesday, October 31 at 8 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Manara investigates a local biker club, while Lara covers a traveling circus, after a local glazier is found dead in the cab of his truck.

Wednesday, December 12 at 8 pm on KPJK in the South Bay. The day for Luca and Lara’s long-awaited wedding has finally arrived; friends and family have gathered in the town’s little church and it looks to be a storybook event.

Wednesday, January 2 at 8 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. When an acquaintance of Luca’s is found murdered in her bed, he feels obligated to take the case.

Wednesday, January 23 at 8 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. A shot rings out in the dead of night and a woman falls wounded outside of Ada's bed-and-breakfast.

Wednesday, December 11 at 7 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. This documentary explores the effects of mass incarceration in a rare look at families caught in generational cycles of imprisonment – and those who are determined to break those cycles.

Monday, February 18 at 9 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. From the virtual slavery of sharecropping to the segregated battlefields of World War II, through the Jim Crow and Civil Rights eras to today, Isaac Pope stood at the front of the line and did his part to improve conditions for everyone. Born to sharecroppers in 1917, Pope was an eyewitness to the devastation wrought by both the segregationists in his home of North Carolina and by the Nazis. Through the power of faith and family, he fought and overcame the 20th century’s stiffest challenges. He championed American freedom on the battlefields of Europe and worked tirelessly against institutionalized racism and workers oppression at home.

Sunday, December 16 at 8 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. In 1619, a new governor arrives in Virginia along with women destined to marry the beleaguered men. Among them are courtier Jocelyn Woodbryg, farm girl Alice Kett and streetwise Verity Bridges. All three see prospects of freedom and adventure.

Saturday, March 21 at 9 pm on KPJK, independent public television. After returning from maternity leave, Janet King is assigned to prosecute a case involving police commissioner Steven Blakely who is accused of giving his cancer-stricken wife a fatal dose of morphine.

Saturday, January 23 at 9 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Heading up a Royal Commission into gun crime, Janet King believes solving the murder of Todd Wilson will uncover what's fueling the violence.

Friday, March 8 at 9 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. The latest concert special by the acoustic guitar virtuoso was filmed over the 31 days of his coast-to-coast tour of Canada.

Friday, July 5 at 8 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. In 1942, the Japanese, having conquered Burma, are threatening India. At Mayapore, Hari Kumar comes under suspicion of subversion by Merrick, the District Superintendent of Police.

Sunday, September 9 at 9:30 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. For seven decades foreign correspondent and photojournalist Ruth Gruber didn't just report the news, she made it. Born in 1911 to Russian Jewish immigrants, Ruth Gruber became the youngest Ph.D. in the world before becoming an international journalist at age 24. A fearless trailblazer who defied tradition to become the eyes and conscience of the world, she was the first journalist to enter the Soviet Arctic in 1935, traveled to Alaska as a member of the Roosevelt administration in 1942, escorted Holocaust refugees to America in 1944, covered the Nuremberg trials in 1946, and documented the Palestine-bound Haganah ship Exodus in 1947.

Friday, February 28 at 7 pm on KPJK, independent public television. When Joe Bonamassa took the stage at Royal Albert Hall in May 2009, he fulfilled a dream he'd held since first picking up a guitar as a kid in upstate New York. The sold-out concert – fresh off the release of his #1 album The Ballad of John Henry – marked Bonamassa's headlining debut at arguably the most prestigious concert venue in the world. At the Hall, Bonamassa had the added honor of being joined onstage by the legendary Eric Clapton.

Monday, November 12 at 6 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. A new kind of criminality has hit Western Europe. The business concept is violent company takeovers and kidnappings. The only protection against these ruthless criminals may be a security company. Steadily these companies are becoming more and more important in the fight against crime.

Monday, November 5 at 6 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. When tough Gothenburg cop Johan Falk stumbles across a jewelry store robbery in progress, he springs into action but a civilian is killed and the gunman escapes.

Wednesday, August 28 at 6 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. A brazen assault puts the police station in lockdown and a deadly game of cat-and-mouse ensues.

Wednesday, July 10 at 6 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Sophie recruits Seth Rydell to foil a Bank of Sweden transport heist.

Wednesday, July 17 at 6 pm on KPJK TV in the South Bay. Falk must rescue his stepdaughter from the clutches of Estonian gangsters.

Saturday, March 7 at 7 pm on KRCB, PBS member station. Travel on a musical journey through Fogerty's hit parade with Creedence Clearwater Revival and selections from his iconic songbook. Inspired by the 50th anniversary of Woodstock, the concert recreates the sounds and spirit of 1969.

Sunday, December 29 at 6:30 pm on KRCB TV in the North Bay. Presented by the lead singer of The Lovin’ Spoonful ("Do You Believe In Magic"), this program features a treasure trove of historical footage that has not been seen in more than four decades, plus new performances by artists who are still appearing in concert today.