GPB Next - January 2023

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Is a Loved One Showing Signs of Memory Problems?

TIME TO TALK ABOUT DIAGNOSIS.

It can be tough talking to a loved one about symptoms that might suggest Alzheimer’s Disease or a related dementia. But delaying diagnosis can lead to a host of issues, both for the person and those who care for them.

Georgia Memory Net (GMN) offers a guide that can help you have that difficult conversation in a productive and supportive way. You can find it at https://bit.ly/GMN_ConversationGuide.

If you or a loved one are ready for clarity on the underlying cause of memory symptoms, visit GaMemoryNet.org/referrals to learn how to get a referral to a GMN Memory Assessment Clinic for an accelerated, accurate diagnosis.

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All Creatures Great and Small 6 Season 3 of the popular MASTERPIECE series returns with a wedding and more.

GPB EDUCATION

PBS KIDS WRITERS CONTEST ........... 8

GPB’s annual contest for Georgia Kindergarten – 3rd Grade students launches January 17.

GPB RADIO

GA Today ........................... 12

Get the best of GPB News’ reporting and compelling stories from across the state in this daily podcast hosted by GPB’s Peter Biello.

GPB IN THE COMMUNITY

Love & Stuff 14 Attend a special screening of this film offering insights on end-of-life care for parents..

CEO SPOTLIGHT

NPR’s Books We Love 17 Find the perfect read from NPR’s list of the best books of 2022.

GPB EXTRA

Samantha Brown’s Places

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Love 18

The well-traveled host shares insights and talks about Season 6 premiering this month.

GPB TELEVISION

MASTERPIECE: MISS SCARLET AND THE DUKE SEASON 3 20

Eliza deals with police corruption and growing competition from a rival agency in the new season of this popular series.

American Experience: The Lie Detector 24 Discover how the controversial polygraph device transformed modern justice.

Dear Friends,

Hello and Happy New Year! Welcome to what is hopefully a bountiful 2023. Our plans this year are the same as ever – to continue to provide you with quality, entertaining, educational and just plain good programming across all our platforms. Seems like January is always a time for us to tighten up the notches on our belts and put the indulgence of the holiday season behind us. Well, that’s fine in relation to food, but when it comes to GPB TV the offerings will be plentiful and bountiful!

Let’s start with the cover of this month’s GPB Next. It’s time for the return of the beloved MASTERPIECE drama All Creatures Great and Small. As we enter the third season of this program here in the United States it seems that interest for this show is at a fever pitch! I have so many of you reach out to me and tell me how much you love this program. Well, I assure you that you won’t be disappointed with what you see this season. And, if you just can’t get enough of All Creatures, considering joining us in October for GPB’s exclusive All Creatures Great and Small Tour of England. You can find out more about that at gpb.org/England. Also, on TV you’ll be treated to another season of Samantha Brown’s Places to Love (featuring a very special visit to Savannah), and season three of MASTERPIECE: Miss Scarlet and the Duke. And that’s just the beginning.

Outside of television, thumb through this issue of GPB Next for a write-up on GPB Education’s PBS Kids Writers Contest launching January 17, preview the relaunch of GPB News’ podcast GA Today, now featuring All Things Considered host Peter Biello and a special spotlight on NPR’s Books We Love.

All that and so much more await you this January at GPB. Thanks so much for your continued patronage, and as always thanks for the part you play in making GPB’s programming, news, educational endeavors and vital community resources a success for all of Georgia!

Warmest regards,

Bert Wesley Huffman GPB President and Chief Revenue Officer

All Creatures Great & Small Tour of England

October 23 - 29, 2023

Join us for our All Creatures Great and Small Tour of England, October 23 – 29, 2023 presented by GPB and Transcendent Travel. Don’t miss this special travel experience in London, Cambridge, the Peak District, and the stunning Yorkshire Dales -- as seen in All Creatures Great and Small. The tour also includes Call the Midwife elements, a tour of Chatsworth House as seen in Pride & Prejudice and a visit to the picturesque Grantchester village.

Space is limited on this unforgettable travel experience.

The Adventures of a Yorkshire Country Vet Continue with Season 3

Sundays, January 8 – February 19

Wedding bells chime and animal ailments abound as MASTERPIECE presents the highly anticipated third season of All Creatures Great and Small, based on the bestselling memoirs by veterinarian James Herriot and starring a beloved ensemble cast led by Nicholas Ralph. Season 3 of the acclaimed series airs in seven episodes, Sundays at 9 p.m. January 8 – February 19.

Season 3 begins in spring 1939 as James and Helen prepare to walk down the aisle.

With a new stake in the business, James is trying to expand the veterinary practice by joining a government program to test for tuberculosis in cattle. The initiative pays well, but it is looked upon with suspicion by the local farmers who run the risk of their farms being shut down if a positive case is found.

As James struggles to balance his growing responsibilities at the veterinary practice with his responsibilities as the newly wedded husband to Helen, she faces difficulties letting go of her old life on the family farm with her father and sister and finding her new place within the walls of Skeldale House.

Audiences returning to Herriot’s heartwarming depiction of the fictional town of Darrowby will be treated to more of his life-affirming stories that have seen the series touch the hearts of millions since its launch in 2021.

Themes for Season 3 include new partnerships, ghosts from the past, and doing one’s duty—and of course doing right by the animals. “A lovely series grounded in a great respect for nature and all living things,” enthused the Boston Globe

GPB EDUCATION

PBS KIDS WRITERS CONTEST LAUNCHES JANUARY 17

Spark your child’s imagination and give him or her the opportunity to have a story published on GPB’s website by entering the PBS KIDS Writers Contest for Georgia students in kindergarten through third grade. We’ll give you all the resources you need, including activity sheets and checklists to provide inspiration during the brainstorming process.

The contest launches January 17 and the deadline for submission this year is April 14. Stories can be fact or fiction, poetry or prose and will be judged on originality, creative expression, storytelling and integration of illustrations.

Winners will receive a prize pack and their stories will be featured on gpb.org

To see the winning stories from last year and get more information about the contest, visit gpb.org/writers-contest.

GPB Teams with the Georgia Council on Economic Education and FableVision Studios to Launch Start It Up!

GPB has teamed up with the Georgia Council on Economic Education (GCEE) and FableVision Studios to launch Start It Up!, a new online game aligned to Georgia high school economic standards.

Game play is linked to real-world examples and helps students and young adults understand the complexities of opening a business, including the risks and rewards of entrepreneurship, how to get funding for an idea, why small businesses sometimes fail after a few years, and what decisions help businesses succeed.

In Start It Up!, players begin by selecting the type of business they want to open from a variety of options, including manufacturing, professional services, store fronts, and others. With the help of a mentor, students make choices about funding, hiring, advertising, producing, and other day-to-day decisions faced by real businesses.

Start It Up! is available now at gpb.org/start-it-up and includes teaching materials designed to help high school teachers teach entrepreneurship effectively. This project was made possible with generous support from Truist Foundation.

Everybody

GPB RADIO

GA TODAY DAILY PODCAST DELIVERS THE BEST OF GPB NEWS

The all-new GA Today daily podcast hosted by GPB Radio’s All Things Considered host Peter Biello offers the best of GPB News’ reporting and interviews from across the state in a concise and convenient format made to fit your schedule.

Listen to GA Today at gpb.org/podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

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GPB IN THE COMMUNITY

LOVE & STUFF FILM SCREENING EXAMINES END-OFLIFE CARE FOR AGING PARENTS AND ORGANIZING THE MATERIAL POSSESSIONS THEY LEAVE BEHIND

How do you live without your mother?” Filmmaker Judith Helfand asks this unbearable question twice: once as a daughter caring for her terminally ill mother, and again as an “old new mom” single-parenting her much-longed-for adopted baby girl. With footage from 25 years of first-person filmmaking, shiva babka and 63 boxes of dead parents’ “stuff,” Love & Stuff asks: What do we really need to leave our children?

Love & Stuff is a nonlinear documentary that follows Helfand as she cares for her dying mother and sorts through the emotional and literal “stuff” left behind. The film invites thoughtful examination of parenting and caregiving, end-of-life care, grief and loss, the difficulty of letting go, and the deep and abiding love that goes beyond death.

Filmmaker Judith Helfand pictured with her daughter.

Join us for a free screening in the GPB Studio on Thursday, January 19 at 7:30 PM. Following the film, we’ll be joined by professional organizer and Certified KonMari Consultant Lindsey Hardegree. Decluttering is often times more than sorting objects, it’s about emotions too. Lindsey will provide insight and practical tips on the process of getting organized and what to do with all our “stuff.”

hree Questions with Emory’s Dr. Chad Hales

Dr. Chad Hales is Georgia Memory Net’s Memory Assessment Clinic Core Lead. We asked him about new treatments for Alzheimer’s Disease that may be available in Georgia soon.

Can you tell us about lecanemab?

Lecanemab is a new Alzheimer’s disease infusion that may help slow the rate of cognitive decline based on early results of a large clinical trial. We are expecting the FDA and Medicare to discuss whether the medication should be approved and covered by insurance as we get into 2023. The medication may help patients who have very mild memory symptoms and confirmation of Alzheimer’s disease changes in the brain. Patients who have more significant memory problems as well as other exclusionary criteria (like prior brain bleeding, certain blood thinning medications, other significant medical conditions) will not be eligible.

enrolling, is testing whether or not lecanemab will prevent the onset of symptomatic Alzheimer’s disease. This is an incredible opportunity for those who have specific genetic risk for Alzheimer’s disease because it is using lecanemab, which may slow the rate of cognitive decline.

What should someone who thinks they or a loved one might have Alzheimer’s or a related dementia do next?

The most important next step for Alzheimer’s disease therapeutics is prevention. New therapies like lecanemab may work even better if given before memory symptoms start. The AHEAD 3-45 clinical trial, currently

In order to treat memory problems, you must know precisely why the brain cells are not working so that the correct treatment can be started. This highlights why it is important to speak with your medical provider at the first sign of any memory concerns to see if additional workup or referral to the Georgia Memory Net is a good next step. As new disease modifying therapies for Alzheimer’s disease become available, we suspect that the earlier you start the medicines the more likely the medicines will provide benefit.

Sponsored by the Georgia Department of Human Services. Managed by the Cognitive Neurology Program at Emory.

What new opportunities do you foresee for the treatment of Alzheimer’s in the near future?

CEO SPOTLIGHT

START YOUR YEAR WITH A GREAT READ FROM NPR

by GPB CEO Teya Ryan

If you made a New Year’s resolution to read more books or you’re looking to get your book club off to the right start this year, NPR’s Book Concierge has the list for you.

In August of this past year, we shared NPR’s first-ever summer edition of Books We Love, an interactive reading guide with recommendations for books published between January – June of 2022. At press time for this issue of GPB Next, NPR had just released its list of picks for more than 400 books published in 2022.

Using NPR Books categorization system, you can mix and match tags including “Book Club Ideas,” “Eye-Opening Reads,” and “Kids’ Books” to browse titles hand - picked by NPR hosts, reporters and producers and trusted critics.

If you’re interested in delving into Books We Love recommendations prior to 2022, look no further. You can explore 10 years of recommendations all in one place – that’s more than 3,200 titles! Happy Reading

GPB EXTRA

SEASON SIX OF SAMANTHA BROWN’S PLACES TO LOVE HELPS VIEWERS EXPERIENCE THE SOUL OF SAVANNAH AND MORE DESTINATIONS

By Mandy Wilson

Sitting in her home office in front of her turntable as we conduct a virtual interview, it’s apropos that travel expert Samantha Brown, the Emmy-winning host of Samantha Brown’s Places to Love, describes cities as being like an “A Side” or a “B Side” of a record. The affable host then explains that a “B Side” city might be considered as a smaller town you wouldn’t think of traveling to, but you shouldn’t overlook what it might have to offer.

Over the last 20+ years, Samantha, who got her start on the Travel Channel, has traveled around the world visiting over 250 cities in 62 countries. In 2018, she began hosting and producing Samantha Brown’s Places to Love on PBS, with the key idea of helping viewers discover what a destination has to offer and experiencing the “soul” of a place.

“You have to figure out how to connect with that,” Samantha explains. “Ask yourself who the people are that create that soul.”

One such person Samantha cites from her visit to Savannah is Kay Heritage of Big Bon Bodega, a bagel shop.

“The owner is showing young people the books, such as what it costs for flour and really sharing about entrepreneurship,” Samantha says. “We as travelers can appreciate that, and it makes you want to stop in and shop there.”

Samantha says that one of the greatest ways to find the people who help to make up the soul of a city and connect to it is to take a simple walk.

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“Don’t have an agenda,” Samantha muses. “We as Americans always have to have a plan. Be aware of your surroundings but strike up a conversation.”

What additional advice does she have for those of us trying to find a time to fit adventure into our lives?

“Psychology tells us that planning for a trip has the same good effects as taking one,” Samantha says. “The winter months are a good time to start planning the rest of your year. Think about the spaces when you have time or maybe a celebration after a big project.”

Samantha believes that making time for trips plays an important role in bringing people together.

“The news always makes me think the world is falling apart, but travel makes me know it’s not,” she says. “We can still talk to each other.”

Coming on Season 6 of Samantha Brown’s Places to Love

Premiering Sunday, January 15 at 6:30 PM:

Belfast and Antrim Coast - Northern Ireland

Cruising the Inside Passage of Alaska Madison, Wisconsin

St. Augustine, Florida Big Sky, Montana Savannah, Georgia California Road Trip Chattanooga, Tennessee Limerick and County Clare - Ireland

“The news always makes me think the world is falling apart, but travel makes me know it’s not,” she

can still talk to each other.”

as Eliza

Eliza finds herself in fresh and surprising situations as she struggles to build her detective agency in the new season of this MASTERPIECE mystery. Growing competition from a rival agency creates new problems and all the while she is still juggling her relationship with Inspector William Wellington, the Duke. And she has a new challenge on that front: a beautiful woman from her childhood has caught the Duke’s eye. In the season premiere, a famous magician does the ultimate disappearing act and vanishes into thin air. All of London is talking about the mystery, and Eliza is hired by a newspaper to investigate, despite the fact that the Duke is already on the case.

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Scarlet. / Courtesy of Element 8 Entertainment and MASTERPIECE

Photographer: Sergej Radovic

Host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Courtesy of McGee Media.

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