WKAR On-Air Membership Campaign
February 28-March 16
on WKAR-23, WKAR Life and WKAR World
WKAR Kicks off March Pledge Drive
WKAR kicks off its annual March membership campaign, featuring a variety of new and encore programming. The campaign continues through March 16.
Programs airing this week are listed below. If the program is an encore, no description is given. New programs are highlighted in more detail.
Alone in the Wilderness
Thursday, February 28, at 8 p.m.
John Denver: A Song’s Best Friend
Thursday, February 28, at 9:30 p.m.
Suze Orman: Women and Money
Friday, February 29, at 8 p.m.; Saturday, March1, at 5 p.m.
Bill Moyers: Buying the War
Friday, February 29, at 10 p.m.
Rick Steves’ Insiders Europe
Saturday, March 1, Noon
In a fun 2-hour travel special, public television’s travel guru Rick Steves shares a sneak peak at his upcoming series, pre-releasing a never-before-seen episode on Burgundy. In the land of France’s finest vineyards, we’ll glide with Rick idyllically on a luxurious canal barge, drop in on a thriving monastic happening, explore a mom and pop chateau, and slurp scrumptious escargot fresh from the market. Then (to celebrate a hundred episodes produced since 1990) Rick takes us behind the camera during his Milano shoot to reveal how he and his crew make the show. The finale: that same Milano episode from Leonardo and La Scala to romantic Lago di Como all polished up and ready for prime time.
Dr. Wayne Dyer: Change Your Thoughts, Change Your Life
Saturday, March 1, at 2 p.m.; Sunday, March 2, at 9 a.m.
Lawrence Welk: Precious Memories
Monday, March 1, at 7 p.m.
Life Lessons from Onslow: A “Keeping Up Appearances” Special
Monday, March 1, at 9 p.m.
Fans of “Keeping Up Appearances” know Onslow as the hilarious polar opposite of his sister-in-law, Hyacinth Bucket (Patricia Routledge), on the classic British comedy. In Life Lessons from Onslow: A “Keeping Up Appearances” Special, Onslow is given a new job that gives him — and lucky public television viewers — the opportunity to look back at some of his most memorable moments.
In the program, Onslow (played by Geoffrey Hughes) has been green-lighted to teach a credit course at Open University and has selected “successful relationships” as his subject matter. The special covers the introductory lecture in which he addresses the underpinnings of healthy human interactions. But, as long-time series viewers know all too well, successful relationships are not a hallmark of the series. Viewers will enjoy moments when Onslow speaks earnestly about the traits of successful human interactions, only to have clips from the series discount his “expertise.”
The Clash Live: Revolution Rock
Saturday, March 1, at 10:30 p.m.
The Clash Live: Revolution Rock is an electrifying new performance documentary film, compiling an extraordinary range of peak live concert and live studio performances and more from the Clash, the groundbreaking British band that defined and expanded the power of punk rock in the 1970s, 1980s and beyond.
The program follows the transformation of the band, incorporating footage from all phases of the Clash’s meteoric career, beginning with live-in-the-studio clips from 1979, crescendoing with triumphant concerts from clubland (London’s The Music Machine, 1978) and theatres (the Lyceum, 1978, 1980) and climaxing with a transcendent blow-out performance at New York’s Shea Stadium in 1982.
Formed in London during the first wave of punk-rock in 1976, the Clash, known by fans at the time as “The Only Band That Matters,” became the most progressive and visionary rock band of its era, releasing five albums in six years, each a brave step into uncharted territory. Joe Strummer (guitar, vocals), Mick Jones (guitar, vocals), Paul Simonon (bass) and Topper Headon (drums) embraced the energy and confrontational attitude of punk. Refusing the limitations of any musical genre, the Clash incorporated elements of reggae, funk, dub, rap, hard rock and roots rockabilly into a continually evolving and challenging sound. Taking its name from the headlines of the day, the Clash wrote songs addressing the issues of class and race confronting the UK in the 1970s.
The Clash was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in January 2003, a month after the untimely passing of Joe Strummer, age 50, in December 2002.
Dr. Christiane Northrup: Women and Menopause
Sunday, March 2, at 2 p.m.
My Music: The British Beat
Sunday, March 2, at 5 p.m.
American Soundtrack: This Land Is Your Land
Sunday, March 2, at 7 p.m.
My Music, My Generation: The ‘60s
Sunday, March 2, at 9 p.m.
The My Music series returns to PBS with an exiting retrospective that focuses on hip, hit-making artists from the second half of the 1960s. My Generation: The ‘60s is a treasure-trove of essential folk-rock, rhythm-and-blues and pop classics that continue to resonate with baby-boomers.
Leading off the celebration of the peace and protest decade are the New Rascals, who perform their chart-topping pair of blue-eyed soul smashes “People Got to Be Free” (1968) and “Groovin’” (1966). The dynamic Dennis Tufano of the Buckinghams brings back another number-one rocker, “Kind of a Drag,” and Ohio’s state song singer, Rick Derrenger, returns to the stage to perform his frat-rock anthem “Hang On, Sloopy,” which features extended lyrics edited from the songs original 1965 release.
We Five of the folk music craze in the mid 60s reunite to sing “You Were on My Mind,” while Roger McGuinn of the Byrds reprises his legendary folk-rock group’s rendition of Bob Dylan’s “Mr. Tambourine Man,” one of 1965’s biggest hits.
From the softer side of the 60s, the Association reunites with two million-selling standards, “Cherish” and “Never My Love.” Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr. of the original Fifth Dimension offer their top-of-the-chart take on the late Laura Nyro’s “Wedding Bell Blues.”
For the first time on television, Jackie DeShannon revisits her era-defining masterpiece, the Burt Bacharach-Hal David ballad “What the World Needs Now Is Love.” The 60s “psychedelic sounds” are represented by Vanilla Fudge’s “You Keep Me Hangin’ On” and the infamous “In-a-Gadda-Da-Vidda” by metal pioneers Iron Butterfly. In a lighter vein, Ron Dante, voice of the Archies, closes with the bubblegum monster “Sugar, Sugar,” 1969’s top hit.
Great Performances: James Taylor—One Man Band
Monday, March 3, at 8 p.m.
He may have Carolina in his mind, but it’s his hometown, Pittsfield, Massachusetts, to which the five-time Grammy winner returns for James Taylor: One Man Band. An intimate evening of anecdote and song — plus the damnedest drum machine you ever saw — the Great Performances telecast marks the singer-songwriter’s return to an earlier, simpler style of performance, particularly in such favorites as “Fire and Rain,” “Carolina in My Mind” and “You’ve Got a Friend.”
“That’s how I started out — just the guitar and a handful of songs,” the beloved balladeer says. “It’s great playing in a big band, but from time to time it’s good to go back to the well. It’s good to get back to basics and present the songs in their original form.”
And what songs they are. From 1965’s “Something in the Way She Moves” (“It wasn’t the first song I wrote, but it’s the first presentable one. The ones before that were pretty awful.”), which inspired George Harrison’s “Something,” to “Mean Old Man” and “My Traveling Star” from the recent October Road, they are 14-carat reminders of the artistry and skill that continue to influence both composers and music lovers of all generations.
Wearing his familiar open-collared blue shirt and khaki pants onstage at Pittsfield’s historic Colonial Theatre, he shares recollections of each song’s genesis and provides illustrations via home movies and personal photos.
“Songwriting is my joy and a source of frustration,” he says. “Often, it takes a long time before I understand what a song is about. I didn’t realize it at the time — 20, 30 years ago — but I wrote ‘Something in the Way She Moves’ for my wife, Kim,” he jokes, as the camera pans to a smiling Kim Taylor, seated in the audience with their two young sons, Henry and Rufus.
Pioneers of Television: Sitcoms
Monday, March 3, at 10 p.m.
published: February 26, 2008
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