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October 2015
Plight Of The Grassland Birds Premieres
Taking The Long View
From the fields of New England and Canada to the vast plains of Montana to the deserts of Mexico, grassland birds are losing their habitats at an alarming rate. In Plight of the Grassland Birds, our fifth in a series of specials about New England’s migratory birds, Will Lange follows the path of grassland birds across the Americas. Along with experts in each region, he explores how agriculture, reforestation and land development have depleted the nesting habitats for grassland birds such as bobolinks kestrals, Eastern meadow larks, upland sand pipers, and vesper sparrows. He talks with the people who are trying to preserve the habitats of these birds and reverse the trend of destruction.
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Thursday, October 8 • 9 PM on NHPTV PRIME
The Adventures Continue During Season 11 Of Windows To The Wild Our avante-gard outdoor adventurer and Emmy Awardwinning host Will Lange returns for 10 new episodes in this season of Windows to the Wild. Join Will as he hikes, paddles, and explores New England and meets people who share his love for the outdoors. This month he goes ocean paddling with the “Kayaking Grandma” and joins a group of visually disabled people to see and hear how they enjoy birding.
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Birding By Ear Many birders use hearing as their initial way to “see” birds. For the visually disabled, it’s their only way. Will joins Massachusetts Audubon’s Birding by Ear program on Plum Island.
October 7 • 7:30 PM on NHPTV PRIME
Kayaking Grandma With A Goal Deb Walters is a scientist, grandmother and long-distance kayaker. She began a journey from northern Maine to Guatemala to raise awareness and money for children who live in Guatemala City garbage dumps. Her goal is to pay for kids to attend school. Will paddles with her on the ocean near New Castle to learn more.
October 21 • 7:30 PM on NHPTV PRIME
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Program Top Picks I’ll Have What Phil’s Having
The Great British Baking Show
Join Phil Rosenthal, creator of the TV hit “Everybody Loves Raymond,” as he visits food meccas and hidden gems across the world. He feasts on a home-cooked meal in Italy, then it’s off to the “City of Sweets” with footballsized croissants and vanilla bombes. Phil visits kitchens on and off the well-worn gastronomic path, learning about community traditions and how new ones are created.
Join the remaining bakers as they compete for the title of the best in Britain. What’s cooking this month? First, they must create traybakes, classic tuiles and biscuit towers of epic proportions, then they work with sweet dough, making tea loaves and European buns. The competition heats up with religieuses and puffed pastries. And the quarterfinals begin with a showstopper like no other.
Mondays • 10 PM on NHPTV PRIME
Sundays • 7 PM on NHPTV PRIME
Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration
The C Word
She “turned the world on with her smile” on The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Mary Tyler Moore Show and other shows. Explore the life of a comedic legend through dozens of classic TV and movie clips, along with comments from Moore’s co-stars and Moore herself. Oprah Winfrey recounts Moore’s critical role in inspiring her— and millions of others—as TV’s first independent career woman.
Love, laughter, loneliness— the struggle against cancer stirs the emotions in this poignant drama based on a true story. Lisa Lynch was 28 when she was diagnosed with a malignant tumor. Recently married and planning her future, she never imagined that the disease would come to dominate her life. Her only release is to write. What starts off as a blog seen by a few steadily becomes an inspiration to many.
POV: Ai Weiwei
Live From Lincoln Center
Tuesday, October 13 • 8 PM on NHPTV PRIME
Ai Weiwei has a serious problem with authority: The Chinese government not only kidnapped and imprisoned the world-renowned artist for protesting its repressive policies, but after his release it conducted a show trial on baseless charges of tax evasion and pornography. This film dissects his persecution and shows how he became a voice for human rights around the globe.
Friday, October 2 • 10 PM on NHPTV PRIME
Thursday, October 8 • 10 PM on NHPTV PRIME
Composer and performer Danny Elfman joins conductor John Mauceri for a colorful assortment of Tim Burton’s film scores. Capture the excitement of cultural invasion climaxing in wildly entertaining performances of Elfman’s most beloved collaborations for Tim Burton’s iconic films, such as Batman, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas — just in time for Halloween!
Friday, October 30 • 9 PM on NHPTV PRIME
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New Animal Tales From Nature
Indian Summers
The British are at their summer headquarters in northern India for a season of parties, romance and trouble — including attempted murder. Tensions between the British elite and the Indian locals begin to come to a head, complicating summer romances and family alliances. This engrossing 9-part drama concludes in November, but you won’t want it to end!
Sundays • 9 PM on NHPTV PRIME
Wednesdays • 8 PM on NHPTV PRIME
Big Birds Don’t Fly
They say a bird is three things—feathers, flight and song. But what happens when you’re a bird who can’t fly, who can’t sing and whose feathers are closer to fluff?
October 7 at 8 PM
Home Fires
The Soul Of An Elephant
Samantha Bond (Downton Abbey) and Francesca Annis head an extraordinary cast in a moving drama about women in an English village during World War II. Bond plays forwardthinking Frances Barden, a born leader with a stubborn streak, while Annis is her antagonist, Joyce Cameron, obsessed with class and tradition. The two are bitter rivals for control of the local Women’s Institute, a nationwide service organization. With war looming, their chapter faces its moment of truth. Will the largely social group close shop, or will it reinvent itself to help the nation in its hour of need?
Sundays • 8 PM on NHPTV PRIME
This month brings three new Nature programs that explore the worlds of big birds, elephants and our dear pets. From small to large, domesticated to wild, the animal kingdom is a wonder to behold.
Take an intimate look at elephants through the lens of natural history. Start with the remains of two bull elephants and, through a series of key flashbacks, look at the lives they would have led, the dramas they may have seen, their great migrations for water with their families, and their encounters with lions and hyenas.
October 14 • 8 PM
Pets: Wild At Heart Our pets may seem familiar but they exist alongside us in a secret world of wild behavior and natural abilities that we hardly recognize. This two-part series explores the parallel existence of domesticated animals.
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