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With the help of its professor, Armand M. Nicholi II, the subject of the popular house seminar Leverett 74, “The Worldviews of Sigmund Freud and C. S. Lewis,” has been made into a PBS documentary, scheduled to air in September...
...black Americans from all walks of life for a four-part BBC/PBS documentary series called “America Beyond the Color Line.” Gates wrote and hosted the series, which was broadcast in honor of Black Awareness Month on February 3 and 4 on the local PBS affiliate, WGBH...
They resolved the question later, as both went on to become documentary filmmakers, with Tranchin working for PBS in Texas and Moore in Maryland. In 1999, they received a project proposal from another former classmate, Rob D. Eustis ’78. They were to direct a film about the painter with the enormous palette from the third floor of the Carpenter Center, whom Tranchin had admired but who was only vaguely familiar to Moore...
...week for Alzheimer's disease, and not just because PBS aired The Forgetting, a first-rate documentary about Alzheimer's worth catching in reruns if you missed it the first time. There was also a flurry of scientific news that offered hope to the families already struggling with Alzheimer's, as well as to the baby-boom generation that's up next. Unless something dramatic happens, the number of Americans living with this terrifying brain disease could triple, to about 16 million, over the next 50 years. There's still no cure in sight, but there is progress on several...
...typical of the way Wood's mind works that Boohbah, whose premiere is scheduled for Jan. 19 on PBS (check local listings), was inspired by fish eggs. "It occurred to us that we had never before made a program for children who were movers," says Wood. "So we came up with the idea of a program that would be full of infectious movement." With that in mind, Wood was flipping through a book of photographs when inspiration struck. "One of the pictures was of a tiny fish egg under the water with beautiful phosphorescence, and these two little fish-eggy...