NHPTV Connections Wild Affairs
July 2014
Beyond Our Broadcast
July is full of stories of wild affairs within the animal kingdom! On My Wild Affair, there are extraordinary stories of the bonds between humans and their animal companions, including an orphaned baby elephant, an orangutan raised as a human child, a rhinoceros raised in suburbia, and a harbor seal in the human world but remained wild at heart. The Elephant Who Found a Mom tells the heartbreaking story of Aisha, the baby elephant orphan, and Daphne Sheldrick, the woman who became her human foster parent. Their intense bond reaches a crisis point when Daphne leaves Aisha with a babysitter for a few days. Daphne uses the lessons learned from Aisha’s short life to help save other orphaned elephants. On The Ape Who Went to College, delve into the story of an orangutan raised as a human child on an American university campus. And join the search for clues to the fate of an orphaned rhinoceros brought up in a wildlife vet’s home on The Rhino Who Joined the Family.
Is there an American who doesn’t enjoy celebrating the Fourth of July? The fireworks set a great optimistic note, a reminder that our country once beat enormous odds to gain its independence. July also is the start of NHPTV’s new fiscal year. Since we became an independent public television station, largely supported by individual contributors, we appreciate more than ever your help in ensuring that quality television is available in New Hampshire. In June we had the privilege of hosting 50 NHPTV members for our 2nd “State of the Station” event. They saw previews of PBS programs, heard about our new documentaries on grassland birds and the Cog Railway, and had a chance to play a round of Granite State Challenge. They also heard about NHPTV’s reach beyond broadcast: from technology to watch NHPTV anywhere to our educational resources for educators and families. Would you like to join us at the next event? E-mail us at themailbox@nhptv.org and we’ll invite you. Peter Frid, NHPTV President & CEO
Sex in the Wild is a four-part series, presented by anatomist Joy Reidenberg and veterinarian Mark Evans, in which they examine the reproductive behaviors and biology of four species — elephants, orangutans, kangaroos and dolphins — and take an in-depth look at how these animals find and woo the opposite sex. It also explores how they mate, give birth and raise their young in extreme environments. They travel to Africa to explore the unique reproduction challenges of the largest animal on land — the elephant. Find out how females select the strongest mates, why elephants have the longest pregnancy in the animal kingdom and how they safely deliver a 220-pound baby, and witness the remarkable first steps of a newborn calf.
Craft beer connoisseurs and food lovers alike anticipate the annual PASSPORT Craft Beer & Food Pairing Tour at Strawbery Banke Museum in Portsmouth. This year’s event will be held Saturday, September 13th, and will offer guests a savory range of over 20 craft beers deliciously paired with appetizers from area restaurants and food purveyors. The event is a benefit for New Hampshire Public Television and Strawbery Banke Museum. Stroll the museum’s grounds, sampling and learning about leading craft beer styles and the cuisines they complement. Tickets sell out early, so be sure you don’t miss out!
Wednesdays, July 16, 23, 30 • 8 PM on NHPTV PRIME
Wednesdays, July 16, 23, 30 • 10 PM on NHPTV PRIME
Get Your Passport
to a Craft Beer & Food Tour in Portsmouth
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Program Top Picks Last Tango In Halifax This touching comedydrama about romance and second chances features septuagenarian childhood sweethearts Alan and Celia. But their first day as husband and wife is filled with tension. A new arrival surprises everyone, most of all Gillian. Caroline finds a way to buy John out of the house, but will Kate’s desire to have a baby threaten their relationship? Secrets and revelations keep tumbling out from everyone, and Gillian’s troubles keep building.
Sundays • 8 PM on NHPTV PRIME
UNIQUELY BRITISH
Vicious
Partners Freddie (Ian McKellen) and Stuart (Derek Jacobi) have lived together in a small London flat for nearly 50 years. Constantly picking each other apart and holding on to petty slights, Freddie and Stuart are always cracking snide remarks aimed at the other’s age, appearance and flaws. However, underneath their vicious, co-dependent fighting, they have a deep love for one another. They are joined by feisty best friend Violet (Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) and Ash (Game of Thrones), their young, upstairs neighbor.
Sundays • 10:30 PM & Saturdays • 9:30 PM on NHPTV PRIME
A Capitol Fourth America’s national Independence Day celebration honors our country’s 238th birthday with an all-star salute led by TV personality (and former Granite State Challenge host!) Tom Bergeron (Dancing With the Stars). Broadcast live on PBS from the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol, the event will feature Frankie Valli, the Muppets, Patti LaBelle, Jordin Sparks, Michael McDonald, Sara Evans, Kendall Schmidt, Kelli O’Hara and the National Symphony Orchestra. In celebration of the 200th anniversary of our national anthem, composer John Williams will debut a special arrangement for orchestra and chorus of the “Star Spangled Banner.”
Friday, July 4 • 8 PM on NHPTV PRIME
Time Scanners
Uncover the secrets of the ancient world with the Time Scanner team. Engineers and archeologists use cutting-edge technology to “read” buildings, ruins and landscapes from distant times to help build a conception of history, allowing you to reach out and touch the past. The team travels to Egypt to scan the pyramids — the tombs of the mighty pharaohs — to find out how the necropolis evolved. Also featured this month: St. Paul’s Cathedral, and Petra.
July 1, 8, 15 • 8 PM on NHPTV PRIME
History Detectives
MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!
The team brings cutting edge tools to some of our biggest historical mysteries. Each new hour-long episode asks probing questions behind a single iconic mystery from America’s past. They reveal new perspectives on stories we thought we knew. Coming up this month: investigating Civil War sabotage on the SS Sultana, the disappearance of Glenn Miller, the 1885 Texas Servant Girl Murders, and a probe into who killed Jimmy Hoffa!
Shaun Evans returns as the young rookie, DC Endeavour Morse, before he acquired his signature red Jaguar but with his deductive powers already running in high gear. Four months after Morse’s brush with death, he returns to duty with Oxford City Police and is reunited with DI Fred Thursday. Case by case, Morse and Thursday band together and find their investigations are leading them to confront corruption on the police force and misconduct extending to the upper echelons of Oxford society.
SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS
July 1, 8, 15, 22 • 9 PM on NHPTV PRIME
Endeavour
Sundays • 9 PM on NHPTV PRIME
For complete listings, previews and more go to nhptv.org
NHPTV Is On-Air • Online • In Your Community Building Thursdays
Hand of Brick tells the history of the Densmore Brick Company of Lebanon, NH, by the men who worked there until it closed in 1974. Densmore bricks were the building blocks of both the local architecture and the economy. Baker Library at Dartmouth College was made from Densmore bricks, as were the Hopkins Center and Memorial Field. ColbySawyer College was built from Densmore bricks. Ditto Lebanon City Hall and the Woodstock Inn. The company, founded in 1800, turned out some 13 million bricks annually, distributed in New England.
Hand of Brick • 7/7 at 7:30 PM on NHPTV PRIME
As urban space shrinks, we build higher and faster than ever before, creating a new generation of skyscrapers. Super skyscrapers are pushing the limits of engineering, technology and design to become greener, stronger, smarter and more luxurious than their predecessors.
Join Ken Burns For A Screening Of His Upcoming Film, The Roosevelts Get action. Do things. Be sane. Don’t fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody...Theodore Roosevelt
Ken Burns will present part 5 of his documentary The Roosevelts: An Intimate History at the Hopkins Center for the Arts in Hanover on July 12th at 7 p.m. Afterward, he’ll discuss the film and host a Q & A session. Info & tickets: nhptv.org/events
He made public parks an essential part of American life. Frederick Law Olmsted, known as the father of American landscape architecture, was the planner of Boston’s “Emerald Necklace” of green space, co-designer of Central Park, head of the first Yosemite commission, and designer of the U.S. Capitol Grounds and many other park systems.
The seven-part, 14-hour film, which premieres on NHPTV in September, follows the Roosevelts for more than a century, from Theodore’s birth in 1858 to Eleanor’s death in 1962. Over the course of those years, Theodore would become the 26th President of the United States and his beloved niece, Eleanor, would marry his fifth cousin, Franklin, who became our 32nd president. Together, these three individuals not only redefined the relationship Americans had with their government and with each other, but also redefined the role of the U.S. within the world. The series encompasses the history the Roosevelts helped to shape: the creation of National Parks, the digging of the Panama Canal, the passage of innovative New Deal programs, the defeat of Hitler, and the postwar struggles for civil rights at home and human rights abroad. It is also an intimate human story about love, betrayal, family loyalty, personal courage and the conquest of fear.
Frederick Law Olmstead: Designing America • 7/17 at 8 p.m.
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History premieres 9/14
Super Skyscrapers • 7/10, 17 at 9 & 10 PM on NHPTV PRIME
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Ken Burns & Screening of “The Roosevelts” July 12, Hopkins Center, Hanover Day Out with Thomas the Tank Engine July 11-13 & 18-20, North Conway Passport Craft Beer & Food Pairing Event September 13, Portsmouth
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Saturday, September 13 Strawbery Banke Museum Portsmouth, NH
Over 20 Special Craft Beers & Spectacular Food Pairings! Tickets are limited & PASSPORT sells out!
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A Capitol Fourth • July 4 at 8 PM • NHPTV PRIME