February 28-March 14
GRANITE STATE CHALLENGE
Airs Saturdays from 6-6:30 p.m. on NHPTV PRIME Additional Airdates >>
Congratulations to Merrimack High School! They won their first Granite State Challenge match last week against Kingswood Regional High School and will be moving on to the quarter-finals. This week, Concord High School takes on John Stark Regional High School.
54 New Hampshire high school teams competed to make the final roster of 16 teams by gathering at Plymouth State University in the fall and taking a written test as a team. The top 14 teams secured a spot, and two qualifying games were played between Goffstown High and Mascoma High and Kennett High and Stevens High at NHPTV on January 8 for the last two spots.The final winning team on Granite State Challenge will be traveling to WGBH in Boston to take on the Massachusetts winner of WGBH's Quiz Show in the interstate Governor's Cup game.
GRANITE STATE CHALLENGE FIRST ROUND
Winner in bold.
2/7 - Bishop Guertin vs Goffstown High - Watch Online
2/14 - Bow High vs Portsmouth Christian - Watch Online
2/21 - Kingswood Regional vs Merrimack High - Watch Online
2/28 - Concord High vs John Stark Regional High
3/7 - Kennett High vs Pinkerton Academy
3/14 - Nashua South vs The Academy for Science and Design (Nashua)
3/21 - Hanover High vs Plymouth Regional
3/28 - Dover High vs Manchester Central
WHO RULES?
NATURE 
3/1 Owl Power
Airs from 8-9 p.m. on WORLD Additional Airdates >>
For centuries, owls have been featured in children's books and folk tales capturing imaginations the world over. With their haunting calls and charismatic faces, these birds remain popular but mysterious because it's rare to catch more than a glimpse of one in the wild. Unlike their cousins, the hawks, eagles and falcons, owls are the only bird of prey able to also hunt effectively at night when they have the skies to themselves. This has helped them become one of the most successful birds on earth, but the chief reason is due to their extraordinary super powers.
To examine these special skills, filmmakers enlisted the help of veteran bird handlers, experts and technology to demonstrate and test the owl's amazing abilities. The program follows the lives of two barn owl chicks from the moment they hatch to show their development into super-powered owls.
TO THINE OWN SELF BE TRUE
SHAKESPEARE UNCOVERED
3/8 Hamlet With David Tennant
Airs from 11 p.m. - 12 a.m. on WORLD Additional Airdates >>
To be, or not to be: that is the question. David Tennant meets fellow actors who've taken on Hamlet and compares notes on how to play a character that's been played, probably, a million different ways.
An acclaimed Hamlet in a recent Royal Shakespeare Company production, Tennant looks into the text about the doomed Danish Prince alongside the actors Jude Law, Simon Russell Beale and Ben Whishaw. This is a play made of historical sources and religious wars, existential questions, the meaning of life and death, and the idea that ghosts are real and speak.
Tennant also finds that many actors who've played Hamlet share a common experience: deeply and profoundly personal, life changing.
COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG ELECTRONIC FIELDTRIPS
WORKING CHILDREN
Airs Live on March 12, 2015 at 10 a.m. on NHPTV EXPLORE
In 1775, a young apprentice boy dreams of a better life while working in a Philadelphia print shop. A Mexican-American migrant girl in 1960's California struggles to harvest garlic all day and keep up with her studies. These and other working children help illuminate the evolution of child labor in America from colonial times to today.
Bring the Past Alive in your Classroom
Teach American history with the new Electronic Field Trip season. These live, interactive lessons explore the Bill of Rights, the three branches of government, 18th-century trades and the Continental Army, the complicated relationships between slaves and their masters, Civil War ironclads, and the War of 1812. Fieldtrips air monthly at 10 a.m. on NHPTV EXPLORE 2014-15 Schedule >>
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AMERICAN MASTERS
2/28 Troubadours: Carole King/James Taylor & The Rise Of The Singer-Songwriter
In the wake of the turbulent 1960s, a new style of song and songwriter came to the fore -- a style marked by vulnerable introspection, raw, naked emotion and young singer/songwriters who shared their most intimate thoughts. Airs from 6:30-8:30 p.m. on NHPTV EXPLORE Additional Airdates >>
3/2 Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth
Most famous for her seminal novel "The Color Purple," writer / activist Alice Walker celebrates her 70th birthday. Airs from 7-8:30 p.m. on WORLD Additional Airdates >>
AUSTIN CITY LIMITS
3/1 Norah Jones/Kat Edmonson
Airs from 12-1 a.m. on NHPTV EXPLORE Additional Airdates >>
3/8 fun./Dawes
Airs from 12-1 a.m. on NHPTV EXPLORE Additional Airdates >>
GREAT PERFORMANCES
2/28 La Dolce Vita: The Music Of Italian Cinema
Dawning in the dark aftermath of World War II, the fertile mid-century decades of Italian cinema delighted international movie audiences with an eclectic mix of movie classics from groundbreaking directors including Frederico Fellini, Franco Zeffirelli, Sergio Leone and others. Airs from 2-3:30 a.m. on NHPTV EXPLORE Additional Airdates >> |
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SHAKESPEARE UNCOVERED
3/1 Antony & Cleopatra With Kim Cattrall
Kim Cattrall has played the role of Cleopatra twice and meets others who have, as well - like Janet Suzman, who is renowned for her performance with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Airs from 9-10 p.m. on WORLD Additional Airdates >>
3/1 Henry IV & Henry V With Jeremy Irons
Jeremy Irons researches Shakespeare's history plays as well as the differences between the real history and the father-son drama that Shakespeare creates. Airs from 11 p.m.-12 a.m. on WORLD Additional Airdates >>
3/8 Romeo & Juliet With Joseph Fiennes
Joseph Fiennes examines Royal Ballet productions, musicals such as West Side Story and Baz Luhrmann's cinematic re-imagination of Romeo & Juliet to understand why the love story remains the most adapted and performed of all of Shakespeare's works. Airs from 9-10 p.m. on WORLD Additional Airdates >>
3/8 Hamlet With David Tennant
David Tennant meets fellow actors who've taken on Hamlet and compares notes on how to play a character that's been played, probably, a million different ways. Airs from 11 p.m. - 12 a.m. on WORLD Additional Airdates >> |
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AMERICA BY THE NUMBERS WITH MARIA HINOJOSA
3/1 Politics Of The New South
This episode visits Clarkston, Georgia, home to over 40 different nationalities, to document its November 2013 city council and mayoral election - in which three former refugees were on the ballot. Airs from 10-10:30 a.m. on NHPTV EXPLORE Additional Airdates >>
3/4 Pass Or Fail In Cambodia Town
Asian Americans are the best-educated and highest-income ethnic group in the United States. Airs from 5-5:30 a.m. on WORLD Additional Airdates >>
3/5 Surviving Year One
The U.S. spends more on healthcare than any other nation, and the biggest portion goes towards pregnancy and childbirth. Airs from 9-9:30 p.m. on WORLD Additional Airdates >>
3/12 The New Mad Men
With a collective purchasing power of $3 trillion, people of color are quickly becoming the nation's most sought-after consumers. Airs from 9-9:30 p.m. on WORLD Additional Airdates >>
AMERICA REFRAMED
2/28 A Will For The Woods
Musician, folk dancer, and psychiatrist Clark Wang prepares for his own green burial, determined that his final resting place will benefit the earth. Airs from 10-11:05 p.m. on WORLD Additional Airdates >>
3/3 Out In The Silence
The announcement of filmmaker Joe Wilson's wedding to another man ignites a firestorm of controversy in his small Pennsylvania hometown. Airs from 8-9 p.m. on WORLD Additional Airdates >>
3/10 Looks Like Laury, Sounds Like Laury
At the age of 45 Laury Sacks, an ebullient actress and the doting mother of two small children, had a reputation as the quickest wit in the room. At the age of 46, she began forgetting words. Soon she could barely speak. Airs from 8-10 p.m. on WORLD Additional Airdates >>
FRONTLINE
3/4 Outlawed In Pakistan
When Pakistani teenager Kainat Soomro accused four men of gang rape, the courageous young woman did not put her suffering behind her. Airs from 6-7 p.m. on WORLD Additional Airdates >>
3/11 A Death In St. Augustine
On the night she broke up with her boyfriend, a Florida deputy sheriff, Michelle O'Connell was found dead from a gunshot in the mouth. Next to her was her boyfriend's semi-automatic service pistol. The sheriff's office called it suicide, but was it? Airs from 6-7 p.m. on WORLD Additional Airdates >>
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GLOBAL VOICES
3/15 I Was Worth 50 Sheep
Following a long practiced tradition in Afghanistan, 10-year-old Sabere was sold to a man in his fifties. Airs from 10-11 p.m. on WORLD Additional Airdates >>
INDEPENDENT LENS
3/1 American Denial
Gunnar Myrdal's 1944 investigation of Jim Crow racism is a springboard to explore the power of unconscious biases and how the ideals of liberty, equality and justice still affect notions of race and class today. Airs from 4-5 a.m. on NHPTV EXPLORE Additional Airdates >>
3/3 The Revolutionary Optimists
Children in the slums of Calcutta are starting a revolution. Airs from 2-3 a.m. on NHPTV EXPLORE Additional Airdates >>
3/11 Seeking Asian Female
Two strangers -- an elderly American man and a young Chinese woman -- pursue a marriage brokered by the internet, but they get more than they bargained for when she moves across the Pacific to start a new life with him in America. Airs from 4-5 a.m. on NHPTV EXPLORE Additional Airdates >>
3/11 Las Marthas
The annual debutante ball in Laredo, Texas is unlike any other in the country -- its 94 percent Latino debutantes and their attendants all dress as Martha Washington or other patriotic figures from America's colonial period. Airs from 8-9 p.m. on WORLD Additional Airdates >>
THE ITALIAN AMERICANS
2/28 Loyal Americans (1930-1945)
A second generation of Italian Americans begins to enter the labor movement, politics, sports and entertainment. Airs from 8-9 a.m. on WORLD Additional Airdates >>
2/28 The American Dream (1945-present day)
In post-war America, Italian Americans enter the middle class. Airs from 9-10 a.m. on WORLD Additional Airdates >>
SECRETS OF THE DEAD
2/28 Bugging Hitler's Soldiers
Spied upon by MI19 in a bugging operation of unprecedented scale and cunning, 4,000 German POW's revealed their inner thoughts about the Third Reich and let slip military secrets that helped the Allies win WWII. Airs from 8-9 p.m. on WORLD Additional Airdates >>
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EARTH A NEW WILD
2/28 Water
Sanjayan explores humankind's relationship with the Earth's most important resource: water. Airs from1-2 a.m. on NHPTV PRIME Additional Airdates >>
NATURE
2/28 The Last Orangutan Eden
Ecologist Chris Morgan travels to the jungles of Northern Sumatra to document the work being done to save its population of wild orangutans. Airs from 2-3 a.m. on NHPTV PRIME Additional Airdates >>
3/1 Owl Power
For centuries, owls have been fascinating hallmarks of children's stories and folk tales the world over. Airs from 8-9 p.m. on WORLD Additional Airdates >>
3/5 Attenborough's Life Stories: Life On Camera
In honor of Sir David Attenborough's 60th anniversary on television, this is the first in a three-part miniseries focusing on three fields that Attenborough feels have been transformed most profoundly: filmmaking, science and the environment. Airs from 1-2 a.m. on NHPTV EXPLORE Additional Airdates >>
3/12 Attenborough's Life Stories: Understanding The Natural World
Airs from 1-2 a.m. on NHPTV EXPLORE Additional Airdates >>
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NOVA
2/28 Building Wonders: Hagia Sophia - Istanbul's Ancient Mystery
Istanbul's magnificent Hagia Sophia has survived on one of the world's most active seismic faults, which has inflicted a dozen devastating earthquakes since Hagia Sophia was built in 537 AD. Airs from 3-4 a.m. on NHPTV PRIME Additional Airdates >>
3/5 Deadliest Volcanoes
Millions of people around the world live in the shadow of active volcanoes. Airs from 2-3 a.m. on NHPTV EXPLORE Additional Airdates >>
3/12 Deadliest Tornadoes
In April 2011, the worst tornado outbreak in decades left a trail of destruction across the U.S., killing more than 340 people. Why was there such an extreme outbreak? How do such outbreaks form? Airs from 2-3 a.m. on NHPTV EXPLORE Additional Airdates >> |
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NHPTV-PBS KIDS WRITERS CONTEST
Get out you pencils, crayons and markers! The NHPTV -PBS KIDS WRITERS CONTEST officially began on January 1, 2015. The contest is open to kids in grades K-3. All they need to do is write and illustrate an original story and submit it to NHPTV by March 31, 2015! More >>
OH, SAY CAN YOU SEE
In this lesson plan, students explore what nationalism means and learn the story of Francis Scott Key and create their own anthems. Perfect for National Anthem Day on March 3! More >>
New Hampshire PBS has partnered with Red River Theatres in Concord and Franklin Pierce University in Rindge to present a series of free screenings featuring films from the Emmy Award-winning PBS series INDEPENDENT LENS. Community Cinema has over 65 participants nationwide in its groundbreaking public education and civic engagement initiative. It brings together organizations, community members and public television stations to learn, discuss and get involved in today's critical social issues.
Credit hour certificates of participation are available to educators. Register and see full 2014-15 schedule>>
COMMUNITY CINEMA: THE HOMESTRETCH
March 10 at 6:30 p.m.
Red River Theatres, Concord, NH
Three homeless teens brave Chicago winters, high school pressures, and life on the streets to build a brighter future. Against all odds, they recover from a life of abandonment to create new, surprising definitions of home.
DOCUMENTARY FILMS IN THE CLASSROOM
Engaging educators and students through film, Community Classroom provides free lesson plans and film modules from award - winning documentaries and interactive features from Independent Lens. Topics covered include: immigration, civil rights, women's rights, religion, and the environment. Community Classroom
WHAT'S UP THIS WEEK
2/28 International Sword Swallowers Day
1940 - First college basketball game is televised
1991 - First Gulf War ends
Birthdays
1901 - Chemist Linus Pauling
3/1 Peace Corps Day
1642 - York, Maine becomes the first incorporated city in the U.S.
1781 - The Continental Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation
1790 - U.S. Congress authorizes first U.S. Census
1872 - Yellowstone is established as the first national park
1961 - President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps
1990 - Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant receives federal permission to go online after years of protests and legal battles
1995 - Yahoo! is incorporated
2005 - U.S. Supreme Court bans death penalty for juvenile offenders
Birthdays
1810 - Frederic Chopin
1848 - Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens
1904 - Bandleader Glenn Miller
1914 - Author Ralph Ellison
1917 - Poet Robert Lowell
1954 - Actor/Director Ron Howard
1994 - Justin Beiber
 3/2 Dr. Seuss Day
1933 - King Kong opens at Radio City Music Hall
1962 - Wilt Chamberlin sets a single game NBA record by scoring 100 points
1970 - Rhodesia breaks from the United Kingdom and declares itself a republic
Birthdays
1900 - German Composer Kurt Weill
1904 - Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)
1942 - Author John Irving
1942 - Musician Lou Reed
1962 - Musician Jon Bon Jovi
3/3 National Anthem Day/Princess Day
1820 - Congress passes the Missouri Compromise
1923 - Time Magazine debuts
1931- U.S. adopts Star-Spangled Banner as National Anthem
1951 - Jackie Brenston records "Rocket 88" considered by many as the first "Rock and Roll" record, at Sun Studios in Memphis.
Birthdays
1847 - Alexander Graham Bell
1923 - Bluegrass musician Doc Watson
3/4 National Grammar Day
1789 - First Congress of the U.S. meets in N.Y. and U.S. Constitution goes into effect
1791 - Vermont becomes the 14th state
1794 - 11th amendment is passed
1917 - Jeannette Rankin of Montana become first female member of the U.S. House
1933 - Frances Perkins becomes Secretary of Labor and the first female cabinet member
Birthdays
1394 - Prince Henry the Navigator
1602 - Japanese painter Kano Tan'yu
1678 - Italian composer Antonio Vivaldi
1888 - Football coach Knute Rockne
1966 - Author Dav Pilkey
3/5 World Book Day
1770 - Boston Massacre
1963 - Country music star Patsy Cline dies in a plane crash
1970 - Nuclear non-proliferation treaty goes into effect
1982 - Comedian John Belushi dies of a drug overdose
2004 - Martha Stewart is convicted for obstruction justice and lying to the government
Birthdays
1512 - Flemish cartographer Gerardus Mercator
1853 - American author and illustrator Howard Pyle
1946 - Australian writer Mem Fox
 3/6 Oreo Cookie Day/Day of The Dude
1836 - Alamo falls to Mexican forces after 13-day siege
1857 - Supreme Court rules in the Dred Scott case
1912 - Oreo cookie is introduced by Nabisco
1951 - Trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins
1981 - Walter Cronkite signs off as anchor for the CBS Evening News
Birthdays
1475 - Italian artist and sculptor Michelangelo
1806 - British poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning
1917 - American illustrator and cartoonist Will Eisner
3/7 Cereal Day/Sock Puppet Day
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell granted a patent for telephone
1965 - Civil Rights March broken up by state troopers and a sheriff's posse in Selma, Alabama
2004 - V. Gene Robinson invested in Concord, N.H. as Episcopal Church's first openly gay bishop
2010 - Kathryn Bigelow became first woman to win an Academy Award for best director for "The Hurt Locker."
Birthdays
1792 - English mathematician and astronomer John Herschel
1837 - American physician and astronomer Henry Draper
1872 - Dutch painter Piet Mondriaan
1875 - French composer Maurice Ravel
1885 - American artist Milton Avery
 3/8 International Women's Day/National Proofreading Day
1618 - Johannes Kepler discovers 3rd law of planetary motion
1817 - New York Stock Exchange founded
1910 - Raymonde de Laroche becomes first woman to receive pilot's license
1978 - First radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is transmitted on BBC Radio 4
1979 - Philips demonstrates Compact Disc publicly for first time
1983 - President Reagan calls the Soviet Union an "evil empire."
Birthdays
1702 - Pirate Anne Bonny
1841 - Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes
1922 - Dancer/actress Cyd Charisse
1947 - Composer Carole Bayer Sager
1953 - Red Sox left fielder Jim Rice
3/9 Barbie Day/Napping Day 
1862 - Battle of Hampton Roads between ironclad warships USS Monitor and CSS Virginia
1954 - Edward R. Murrow reports on Senator Joseph McCarthy on the CBS show See It Now
1959 - Barbie doll makes debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York
Birthdays
1454 - Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci
1934 - Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin
1943 - Chess player Bobby Fischer
3/10 International Day of Awesomeness/International Bagpipe Day
1629 - England's Charles I dissolves Parliament
1848 -Senate ratifies Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, ending the Mexican-American War
1864 - Ulysses S. Grant becomes commander of the Union armies
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell makes first successful telephone call
1977 - Astronomers discover rings around Uranus
Birthdays
1867 - Social reformer Lillian Wald
1903 - Politician, writer and diplomat Clare Boothe Luce
1903 - Jazz musician Bix Beiderbecke
 3/11 Johnny Appleseed Day
1888 - Great Blizzard of 1888 begins
1941 - FDR signs Lend-Lease Act
1985 - Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
1993 - Janet Reno becomes first female Attorney General of the US
2011 - 9.0 Earthquake strikes near Sendai, Japan and triggers a tsunami
Birthdays
1916 – Author Ezra Jack Keats
1926 – Civil rights leader Ralph Abernathy
1936 – Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
1952 – Author Douglas Adams
3/12 Girl Scout Birthday Day/Digital Learning Day
1912 - Girl Scouts founded in the US
1930 - Mahatma Gandhi leads 200-mile march to protest British monopoly on salt
1933 - FDR delivers first "fireside chat"
1993 - Blizzard of 1993 in the eastern US
Birthdays
1806 - First Lady Jane Pierce
1890 - Russian dancer and choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky
1922 - Beat writer Jack Kerouac
1928 - Playwright Edward Albee
1947 - Mitt Romney
 3/13 Donald Duck Day/National Open An Umbrella Indoors Day
1781 - William Herschel discovers Uranus
1868 - Impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson begins
Birthdays
1855 - Astronomer Percival Lowell
 3/14 Pi Day/Potato Chip Day/Ides of March
1794 - Eli Whitney granted patent for cotton gin
1900 - Gold Standard Act ratified
Birthdays
1879 - Physicist Albert Einstein
1920 - Cartoonist Hank Ketcham
1923 - Photographer Diane Arbus
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