The first relief shipments arrived in Myanmar Thursday after resistance from the country’s reclusive military government to foreign aid. NewsHour talks to UNICEF’s Richard Bridle about the aid response for the tens of thousands left homeless by the cyclone on NewsHour.
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Jane Pauley will host a discussion on depression on 5/21 at 10:30 p.m. on Thirteen. Get her memoir, Skywriting: A Life Out of the Blue as a thank you gift for your donation or renewal.
Thirteen is excited to announce Reel 13 Shorts, an interactive on-line film competition that celebrates the best in independent short films.
This Mother’s Day, give her a gift from Thirteen!
New releases from Great Performances, Nature, more.
See video from the 2008 Teaching & Learning Celebration: Keynote talks given by Jane Goodall, “A Reason For Hope“, and Jean-Michel Cousteau,
“The Great Ocean Adventure“.
Violinist Nicola Benedetti
Watch a profile of young British violinist Benedetti. At age 20, she already has a 6-record deal, her own Stradivarius and a long and bright future ahead.
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Vote for your favorite episode and tune in to Thirteen on Friday, May 2nd at 4pm to see which show won!
Max Morath’s early ’60s series, The Ragtime Era, helped shape the look of public television. We just unearthed this 1960 episode about Tin Pan Alley.
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May 9th, 2008 at 10:38 am
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In 2005, P.O.V. aired Jessica Yu’s In the Realms of the Unreal, about outsider artist Henry Darger. A new exhibit of artists inspired by Darger’s work is up through September. P.O.V. talks to the exhibit’s curator. |
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May 9th, 2008 at 10:32 am
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From the moment he is born, a red deer calf faces a life-long struggle to survive in his new home — the mountain wilderness of the Austrian Alps. Nature reveals a breathtaking view into the world of a red deer calf as he struggles to survive in “Prince of the Alps,” premiering May 11. |
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May 9th, 2008 at 10:30 am
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This week, the short films that competed for your vote all thwart expectations in their own ways. So which film won? |
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May 8th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
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It’s Yom Ha’atzmaut–in honor, we’ve linked to a number of Israel stories from the last few years: the ecosystem of the River Jordan, Israeli Sesame Street, Punk Rock and Poetry in Israel, the U.S. Presidential candidates’ positions on Israel issues, and many more. See all stories here. |
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May 8th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
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A grim new statistic: One in every hundred Americans is now locked behind bars. On Friday, May 9 at 8:30 p.m., NOW on PBS investigates the government’s trend to outsource prisons and prisoners to the private sector. |
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May 8th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
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Founded in 1936, the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra — known at that time as the Palestine Orchestra — was established to save Jewish musicians in Europe from the imminent Holocaust. Watch some of the 70th anniversary concert online. |
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