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.
