TV Highlights Masterpiece Classic: Any Human Heart airs Sundays, February 13, 20 and 27 at 9 p.m. on WETA TV 26 & WETA HD asterpiece presents the epic story of a writer-hero and his colorful life in novelist William Boyd’s television adaptation of his own best-selling 2002 novel, Any Human Heart. Matthew Macfadyen, Oscar-winner Jim Broadbent, Gillian Anderson, Hayley Atwell, Kim Cattrall and Tom Hollander star. The three-part drama is led by Macfadyen (of Pride and Prejudice and Little Dorrit), Broadbent and newcomer Sam Clafin (above, together), who all take on the role of footloose literary everyman Logan Gonzago Mountstuart at different stages of his ordinary and yet extraordinary life, which spans every decade of the 20th century. Boyd’s adaptation of his novel covers a life lived to the fullest — as a writer, lover, prisoner of war and spy — and a myriad of historical events seen through the eyes of one man. From the idealism, vitality and naivety of Mountstuart’s student years at Oxford, Paris in the ’20s, love and heartache, the birth of his first child, scandal in the New York art scene in the ’50s and ’60s, to the horrors of war, London in the ’70s and ’80s, the abject shame of poverty, unlikely heroism and old age in ’90s rural France, Mountstuart’s life and loves intertwine with an array of historical events and figures, including the Duke and Duchess of Windsor (portrayed by Tom Hollander and Gillian Anderson), Ernest Hemingway and Ian Fleming. The women in the protagonist’s life are many and varied; newcomer Emerald Fennell plays the young writer’s wife, Lottie; Hayley Atwell (at left) plays Freya, the love of Logan’s life; Natasha Little plays third wife Alannah; and Kim Cattrall takes on the role of the older Mountstuart’s glamorous lover Gloria. Funding for Masterpiece is provided by public television viewers with additional support from contributors to the Masterpiece Trust.
Black History Month Programs on WETA TV 26 Simulcasts on WETA HD are in blue
Independent Lens: Adjust Your Color: The Truth of Petey Greene Sat 2/19, 12:10am When I Rise Sat 2/12, 12m Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson Sun 2/27, 3:30pm–7:30pm The WETA Movie: The Color Purple Sat 2/19, 9:33pm
GARY PHILLIPS COLLECTION
African American Lives 2 Sun 2/6, 1:30pm–5:30pm America Beyond the Color Line with Henry Louis Gates Jr. Sun 2/13, 1:30pm–5:30pm American Masters: Marvin Gaye: What’s Going On Sun 2/20, 5:30pm Sam Cooke: Crossing Over Sun 2/20, 4:30pm An Evening with Quincy Jones Sun 2/20, 2:30pm An Evening with Smokey Robinson Sun 2/20, 3:30pm; Repeating Wed 2/23, 5pm; Thur 2/24, 1pm
2 FEBRUARY 2011
Marking Black History Month, WETA TV 26 & WETA HD present programming that includes an acclaimed Ken Burns biography of heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson; profiles of opera singer Barbara Smith Conrad and performing artists Sam Cooke and Marvin Gaye; interviews with Smokey Robinson and Quincy Jones by Gwen Ifill; and a series with scholar Henry Louis Gates Jr. exploring celebrities’ family histories.
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