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The Revolutionary Optimists features the work of Amlan Ganguly in empowering India’s poorest children to become activists and educators. Ganguly’s earlier work encouraged children in Calcutta’s slums to cut their neighborhoods’ malaria and diarrhea rates in half, and turn former garbage dumps into playing fields. Now he is attempting the same success in the brickfields outside Calcutta where children make and carry bricks using methods unchanged for centuries. Proposing a workable solution to intractable problems associated with poverty, Ganguly’s story suggests that education and child empowerment are crucial keys to lifting entire societies out of hopelessness. The program airs at 9 pm Monday, June 17.
Final season for Inspector Lewis Kevin Whately returns as Inspector Lewis with Laurence Fox as Detective Sargent Hathaway in the sixth and final season of Masterpiece Mystery! Inspector Lewis (8 pm Sundays, June 16-30). In the season premiere, Lewis and Hathaway discover that a psychic found murdered is actually an Oxford psychology research fellow. Soon, the truth behind the psychic’s double life unravels, revealing numerous suspects.
In the June 30 program, Lewis and Hathaway are called in to examine the brutal death of a chemistry professor that might be connected to a murdered Oxford student reported lost for 15 years. PATTERNS • JUNE 2013 17
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The following week, with Hathaway on holiday, Lewis is assigned a new partner to investigate the discovery of an elderly man’s body in a field. After finding that the man had already been embalmed, the inquiry leads to a funeral home.