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White is not the only TIME correspondent on television this month. On Oct. 24, William McWhirter, who was Caribbean bureau chief until his move to Bonn in July, will be the focus of a one-hour PBS documentary on the difficulties encountered by journalists who covered the U.S. invasion of Grenada one year ago. Says McWhirter: "The issue of the press's role was second only to that of the controversy surrounding the invasion itself...
...Annenberg/CPB Project are making their debuts this fall. The two most ambitious are The Constitution: That Delicate Balance, which returned last month for 13 episodes, following four pilot segments aired last year; and The Brain, which premiered last Wednesday (each can be seen on more than 260 PBS stations). The others: Congress: We the People, a 26-part examination of the nation's legislative process; The New Literacy: An Introduction to Computers; and The Write Bourse, which teaches basic writing skills. Another new PBS series, Heritage: Civilization and the Jews, an impressively mounted survey of Jewish history with Abba...
...Public Broadcasting System (PBS) production features Professors of Law Charles R. Nesson '60 and Arthur R Miller moderating roundtable discussions with noted politicians, lawyers, judges, journalists and professors on controversial topics in constitutional law, according to a spokesman for WGBH, the Boston PBS affiliate...
Miller, who hosts the weekly PBS series "Miller's Court" and serves as the on-air legal expert for "Good Morning America," moderated three hour long segments. His shows included debate over the right to die, school prayer, and gun control...
...also ensured artistic success by relying on the talents of Jeremy Irons, best known as Charles Ryder in the PBS production of Brideshead Revisited. Playing a neurotic isn't easy, but playing him in another language is a real test of skill. To be sure, in the version released in France, Irons' voice was dubbed in, but the American version displays Irons speaking a remarkably fluent French. His accent only adds to Swann's vaguely foreign origins...