A program guide for members of Prairie Public Broadcasting November 2012
his new two-part documentary Tfrom Ken Burns chronicles the 1930s environmental catastrophe that destroyed the farmlands of the Great Plains, turned prairies into deserts and unleashed a pattern of massive, deadly dust storms that for many seemed to herald the end of the world. It was the worst manmade ecological disaster in American history. Tune in Sunday and Monday, November 18 and 19, at 8:00 p.m. (CT).