Sir David Frost’s legendary 1977 interview with President Nixon is a landmark in television history — never before, and never again, would Nixon confront the issue of Watergate so directly, revealingly, and emotionally.

THIRTEEN and WLIW21 are proud to bring this historic media event back to public television for the 35th anniversary of former Nixon’s resignation in August 1974. And we have a special treat for you: all-new footage of David Frost, discussing the impact of his classic interview and sharing, for the first time ever, his personal reactions to this famous moment.

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A roundup of all streaming, full-length videos online from PBS and Thirteen programs that aired last week. See the list below for all full episodes and links.

Host Niall Ferguson in a scene from The Ascent of Money.

News and Public Affairs: Nightly Programs:
NewsHour with Jim Lehrer: The reports, segmented by story, per day.
Nightly Business Report: The reports stream online.
NJN News: The reports stream online for one week (see archives M-Tu-W-Th-F).
Worldfocus:The nightly news show streams online for 15 days; signature stories are online forever.

Charlie Rose:
July 20: Time Magazine’s Jeffrey Kluger on the 40th anniversary of the moon landing; U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Christopher Hill.
July 21: Wired Magazine’s Chris Anderson; the publishers and editors of Politico: Jim VandeHei, Ben Smith, John Harris and Robert Allbritton.
July 22: Director, Office of Management and Budget Peter Orszag; President and CEO of Mayo Clinic Denis Cortese.
July 23: Former National Security Adviser Brent Scowcroft; TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington; Director, Office of Management and Budget Peter Orszag (part 2).
July 24: Director of “In The Loop” Armando Iannucci; a conversation about race in America with Floyd Flake, Raina Kelley and David Remnick.

Tavis Smiley:
July 20: Musician Prince (part 1).
July 21: Musician Prince (part 2).
July 22: Guitarist Carlos Santana.
July 23: Actors and musicians Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer.
July 24: Folk singer Joan Baez.

News and Public Affairs: Weekly Programs:
Washington Week: Health care and the Obama presidency; Massachusetts’ universal health care plan; unemployment, deficits and the recovery program.
NOW on PBS: The impact of financial regulatory reform on America.
Bill Moyers Journal: Health care reform; “shock jock” media.
Religion & Ethics Newsweekly:

• Health care costs and the elderly.
• A profile of Father Peter Banks, who a minister in the Watts section of Los Angeles for nearly 40 years.

Consuelo Mack Wealthtrack: An interview with David Swensen, chief investment officer at Yale University on his thoughts of the new investment reality.
New York Now: Rep. Scott Murphy, clean energy and ‘Report From the NanoDesk’. Available for one week only.

News and Public Affairs:
Wide Angle: The Market Maker. The story of Eleni Gabre-Madhin, an Ethiopian economist whose goal is to end hunger in her country by creating Ethiopia’s first commodities exchange.
In The Life: Civil Disobedience. Part II of In The Life’s Summer of Stonewall series commemorating the Stonewall riots from 40 years ago.

Science and Nature:
NOVAscienceNOW: Picky eaters; smart sea lions and talking walruses; biomedical engineer Sangeeta Bhatia; capturing carbon.
Nature: Silence of the Bees. This program examines the recent disappearance of the honeybee and its impact. Originally aired on October 28, 2007.
Time Team America: New Philadelphia, Illinois. The team looks for a schoolhouse where New Philadelphia’s African American children learned in freedom.
The Mysterious Human Heart: The Spark of Life. This episode explains how the heart works through its physiological electrical mechanisms.

History:
Antiques Roadshow: Philadelphia-Hour Three.
History Detectives: Tokyo Rose recording; Crazy Horse photo; World War II diary.
The Ascent of Money: Risky Business. Economist and historian Niall Ferguson explores the origins of the insurance industry in Europe; and Hurricane Katrina and the problems of risk management.

Arts and Culture:
Masterpiece Mystery!: Why Didn’t They Ask Evans? Miss Marple and two amateur sleuths investigate the mysterious death of a man on a cliff. Available for online viewing through August 9, 2009.

D.I.Y.:
Jacques Pepin:More Fast Food My Way: Vegetable Fete. Mini croques-monsieur; ratatouille with penne; seafood stars in shrimp with cabbage and red caviar; peach Melba.

Merce Cunningham, the American choreographer who is credited with reinventing the way we think about dance, has died at the age of 90. Regarded as one of the most influential artists of our time, Cunningham studied under Martha Graham before founding the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in 1953.

SundayArts profiled Merce Cunningham on the eve of his 90th birthday and the world premiere of his work “Nearly Ninety” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in April. Watch the profile below.

Cunningham was also profiled in the American Masters production in “Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance.”

We’re pleased to announce the launch of a new local news series here at thirteen.org. WNET.ORG Special Correspondent Rafael Pi Roman is always on top of the news that matters to New York, whether it’s the swine flu pandemic or the chaos in the New York State legislature. In “What’s Really Going On,” Rafael asks key questions to those in the know to help you sort through the issues of the day.

You can check out Rafael’s latest installment on the power struggle in the New York Senate below. Watch more videos, including coverage of the swine flu breakout in New York, here. Stay tuned there for more news in the coming weeks.

We’re also putting the “public” back into “public television.” If you have an idea or a story that you think Rafael should chase down for his next piece, leave us a comment below.

Near the conclusion of last night’s press conference on health care reform, President Obama fielded a reporter’s question about the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

What do you think? Was Gates’ arrest fair or unfair? Was he the victim of racial profiling? Was President Obama right to call out the Cambridge police department? Give us your comments below, or take our snap poll.
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“Religion & Ethics Newsweekly” has won the 2009 Gabriel award for “Television: Short Feature- National Release” for “Barefoot College in India.” The Gabriels are sponsored by the Catholic Academy for Communication Arts Professionals.

Correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro traveled to the Indian state of Rajasthan for a look at one man’s efforts to bring sustainable development to rural areas of the developing world by teaching hundreds of village women how to install and maintain solar energy. Watch the feature here.

Executive Producer for Religion & Ethics Newsweekly is Arnold Labaton. Host: Bob Abernethy. Religion & Ethics is produced by WNET.ORG.

The animated short film, “Juxtaposed” by Alex Wager, opens with this dedication:

“For those I’ve lost,
for those I’ve found,
and for those I hope to rediscover.”

As the general public, we don’t get exposed to short films from our typical media consumption sources…TV, movie theaters, Hulu, Netflix, DVDs…If you want to watch a short you have to seek it out – at a festival or online. This dedication from Alex reminds me of that search. I often find myself browsing the web looking for sites I know I’ve seen but can’t remember, those I’ve found by accident and those I hope will inspire me.

Reel13 online is one destination you can browse for short films that will inspire you, whether it’s the extraordinary talent of a gifted animator or the way a story can ring so true to your own life.

This week we’re kicking off a partnership with Rooftop Films – one of New York’s most popular and venerable summer event series. For four weeks, Rooftop will curate Reel13’s online shorts competition. The shorts will screen at a Rooftop live event and then stream online at Reel13.org where you can vote for the winner. And as always, each winner will be broadcast on THIRTEEN on Saturday night and win a cash prize. Read More …

Laura Savini, Vice President of Communications and Marketing at sister station WLIW21, taped a conversation with renowned chef Jacques Pepin about what he’s cooking this summer, hanging out with chocolatier Jacques Torres and other famous chefs. Click here to watch the video.

You can see more of Jacques Pepin on THIRTEEN and WLIW21 every Sunday in “Julia and Jacques: Cooking at Home” and on THIRTEEN every Saturday in “Jacques Pepin: More Fast Food My Way.”

UPDATE 12:36 PM 7/21/09 — According to the Associated Press, Cambridge prosecutors have dropped the disorderly conduct charge against Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Noted Harvard professor and frequent THIRTEEN host and editor Henry Louis “Skip” Gates, Jr. was arrested by Cambridge, Massachusetts police at his home on Thursday, July 16 on charges of disorderly conduct. According to the police report, a woman called police to the house after seeing a man “wedging his shoulder in the front door [of Gates' house] as to pry the door open.” Gates had just returned from filming in China for the upcoming THIRTEEN / PBS documentary, “Faces of America.” Gates allegedly confronted the officers at the scene, accusing them of racism and “exhibiting loud and tumultuous behavior,” according to the police report. Professor Gates was subsequently arrested, held at Cambridge police headquarters and released four hours later on his own recognizance. Neither Gates nor the Cambridge police have commented on the incident at this time.

Gates has been the host and editor for numerous productions at THIRTEEN, including African American Lives, African American Lives 2 and Looking for Lincoln.

Gates’ lawyer and Harvard colleague Charles Ogletree has released a statement on behalf of his client:
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A roundup of all streaming, full-length videos online from PBS and Thirteen programs that aired last week. See the list below for all full episodes and links.

A scene from Wide Angle's Birth of a Surgeon.

News and Public Affairs: Nightly Programs:
NewsHour with Jim Lehrer: The reports, segmented by story, per day.
Nightly Business Report: The reports stream online.
NJN News: The reports stream online for one week (see archives M-Tu-W-Th-F).
Worldfocus:The nightly news show streams online for 15 days; signature stories are online forever.

Charlie Rose:
July 13: A discussion on the Sotamayor confirmation hearings with National Public Radio’s Nina Totenberg and Bloomberg News’ Al Hunt; the Bush administration’s intelligence programs with The New York Times’ Scott Shane and The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer; more on the Sotamayor hearings with Walter Dellinger of Duke University and Susan Low Bloch of Georgetown University.
July 14: Neurologist V.S. Ramachandran; attorney and blogger Tom Goldstein on the Sotamayor hearings; playwright Lynn Nottage and director Kate Whoriskey from the play “Ruined.”
July 15: Yale University president Richard Levin.
July 16: The Washington Post’s Bob Woodward; author Bradley Graham.
July 17: An update on Wall St. with The New York Times’ Floyd Norris and The Wall Street Journal’s Dennis Berman; NAACP president and CEO Benjamin Jealous on President Obama’s speech at the organization; Iranian philosopher Mohsen Kadivar.

Tavis Smiley:
July 13: Actor Steve Martin.
July 14: Former baseball star Darryl Strawberry.
July 15: CNN host Larry King.
July 16: TV producer Norman Lear.
July 17: Actress Tracey Ullman.

News and Public Affairs: Weekly Programs:
Washington Week: Sotamayor hearings; heath care bills in Congress; new look at the Bush-era CIA plans to assassinate Al-Qaeda leaders; warnings about Obama’s economic outlook.
NOW on PBS: A look at Israel armed forces and how they cope under the constant threat of war.
Bill Moyers Journal: Environmentalists’ disappointment in Obama’s progress towards climate change; Robert Wright, author of “The Evolution of God”; money and health reform.
Religion & Ethics Newsweekly:

• A report on the U.S. Episcopal Church’s recent decision to allow gays and lesbians are eligible to become bishops or serve in any other ordained ministry of the church.
• Evidence that meditation and spiritual beliefs have an impact on the brain.

Consuelo Mack Wealthtrack: An appreciation of Peter Bernstein, economic consultant of Peter Bernstein Inc., who died in June.
New York Now: An interview with new State Senate Majority Leader Pedro Espada Jr. Available for one week only.
Foreign Exchange: The former vice president of Costa Rica talks about the recent situation in Honduras; a film about a woman’s business model to solve hunger; Al Arabiya’s Washington bureau chief Hisham Melhem discusses politics in the Middle East

News and Public Affairs:
Wide Angle: Birth of a Surgeon.. This film tells the story of Emilia Cumbane, a mid-wife-in-training in Mozambique and the demands and responsibilities she goes through in her surgical education. Birth of a Surgeon was recently nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy Award.
In The Life: Civil Disobedience. Part II of In The Life’s Summer of Stonewall series commemorating the Stonewall riots from 40 years ago.
P.O.V.: The Reckoning: The Battle for the International Criminal Court. A film that takes a look at the ICC, formed in 2002, and its crusade to prosecute those who committed crimes against humanity.

Science and Nature:
NOVA: Secrets of the Parthenon. Explore this ancient Greek architectural wonder as its going through a major restoration.
NOVAscienceNOW: Marathon mouse; dinosaur plague; profile of astronaut Franklin Chang-Diaz; space storms.
Time Team America: Topper, South Carolina. The woodlands near the Savannah River may provide clues to America’s first inhabitants.
The Mysterious Human Heart: Endlessly Beating. The story of the heart is told through three patients with heart problems and how they are coping.

History:
Antiques Roadshow: Philadelphia-Hour Two
History Detectives: Slideshow babies; Lubin photos; Navajo rug.
The Ascent of Money: Bonds of War. Economist and historian Niall Ferguson hosts this program focusing on John Law and his Louisiana territory Ponzi scheme; bond markets and warfare in Europe; and globalization through the economic invasion of the Far East.

Arts and Culture:
Masterpiece Mystery!: Miss Marple Series IV: They Do It With Mirrors. Ruth Van Rydock (Joan Collins) confides her suspicion that her sister is in danger to Miss Marple (Julia McKenzie). Available for online viewing through August 2, 2009.

D.I.Y.:
Jacques Pepin:More Fast Food My Way: Pop Over Anytime. Spanish tomato bread and Serrano ham or prosciutto; chorizo, mushroom and cheese pizza; orecchiette with fennel and tuna; popover with apricot jam.