May. 16, 2012 at 4:38pmCracking the Koala Code...

Tonight at 7p.m.

You know you love them … those adorable little Australian creatures.

This program doesn’t however spend too much time appreciating their cuddliness. Instead it will bring you face-to-face with their grunts and snorts… bellows and roars and their day to day dramas.

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May. 2, 2012 at 7:05pmFinding Your Roots

Cho, Gupta & Martha!

“Finding Your Roots” is easily one of my favorite shows on KSPS.

This Sunday Sunday, May 6, I’ll be watching with baited breath as they say because all three people’s heritage should be fascinating programming.


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Apr. 24, 2012 at 9:03pmNature: River of No Return

Watch it at your leisure!

A program that’s already aired this week really peaked my interest as I read about it on this week’s schedule.

It’s a regional story about Central Idaho’s Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness which was heretofore unknown to me.

I don’t get out enough, it’s true.

 

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Apr. 24, 2012 at 8:32pmThe Jesse Owens Story

We’ve probably all seen video clips of Jesse Owens at the iconic Olympic Stadium in Berlin in 1936. With the backdrop of impending world war, the 22-year-old Owens won four gold medals in the face of Nazi racism.

 

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Apr. 11, 2012 at 7:23pmThe Real CSI

Frontline Program Premieres Next Week

Are you a fan of the popular CSI TV series? If so you may want to catch this Frontline program on Tuesday, April 17 at 9p.m. on KSPS in Spokane.

"The Real CSI" promises to tell us how reliable, or unreliable, the science behind forensics really is. 

According to Frontline, it finds serious flaws in some of the best-known tools of forensic science and wide inconsistencies in how forensic evidence is presented in the courtrooms of America.

 

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Apr. 11, 2012 at 5:05pmIrena Sendler: In the Name of Their Mothers

She saved lives of more than 2,500 Polish Jews

I love stories about the courageous men and women who resisted the Nazi’s tyranny in WWII and outwitted the enemy. And especially when it tells the story of a group of women like “Irena Sendler: In the Name of Their Mothers” which airs this Sunday evening at 11p.m. in Spokane on KSPS.

What a great story … this group of very young Polish women headed by Irena Sendlerowa (commonly known as Irena Sendler), is credited with saving the lives of more than 2,500 Jews, most were children, in German-occupied Poland in WWII.

 

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Apr. 5, 2012 at 3:19pmFinding Your Roots

Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick

Don’t miss Finding Your Roots on Sunday evening at 7p.m. in Spokane. 

I love Kyra Sedgwick on TNT in the role of Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson on The Closer. So I can’t wait to see what they find out about her roots on this program. Kevin Bacon, her husband in real life, will also be the subject of this week’s program.

 

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Mar. 27, 2012 at 1:00pmSaturday Night Cinema

Westside Story ...the Orginal

This Saturday evening KSPS in Spokane will air the original film Westside Story!

Shakespeare’s classic romantic tragedy, Romeo and Juliette, is the basis for Westside Story … the 1960s classic that won ten Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Supporting Actor Oscar’s for Rita Moreno and George Chakiris.


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Mar. 27, 2012 at 12:52pmNew documentary highlights inspired women

Did you know all the men in Washington State got together to vote for women in November 1910? 

True story. 

Washington State women were the first in the country to have the right to vote. Seems odd that it was only 100 years ago doesn’t it?

There’s a KSPS-produced documentary available right here called “Courage in Corsets: Winning the Vote in Washington State.”


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Mar. 22, 2012 at 12:13pmPrescription for Abuse

Diagnosing Solutions

Given the high profile deaths of Michael Jackson, Heath Ledger, Anna Nicole Smith and most recently Whitney Houston, it’s time we all look more closely at what’s happening in this country with prescription drug use.

When we think of drug addicts we often think of those back-of-the alley, downtrodden, older, perhaps homeless people.

However, that’s not an accurate picture. The face of drug addiction has changed.

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