Quarterly Program Topic Report July 1-15, 2012 Category ... - WYES

O.B. Date: 9/20/2012
Service:
Format:
PBS
Documentary
Segment Length: 00:00:00
In 2005, Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme set out to document the
devastation wreaked by Hurricane Katrina and the rebuilding of New Orleans’ Lower Ninth
Ward. When he met Carolyn Parker, what began as a historical documentary morphed into a
vibrant character study of the courage and resiliency of this fearless matriarch and civil rights
activist. This is Demme’s intimate account of Parker’s five-year crusade to rebuild her beloved
neon-green house, her church, her community — and her life.
Category:
Environment/Nature/Natural Disasters
NOLA: NAAT 002810
Series Title:
Nature
Episode Title: Outback Pelicans
Length:
Airdate:
60 minutes
9/19/2012 7:00:00 PM
O.B. Date: 3/27/2011
Service:
Format:
PBS
Documentary
Segment Length: 00:56:46
The Australian outback is the driest place on the driest inhabited continent on the planet. It is a
place you might expect to see kangaroos but certainly not waterbirds. Yet once every ten years,
rains flood into dried-up river beds and head inland to create the largest lake in Australia, and
100,000 pelicans -- a third of all the pelicans in Australia -- arrive for the event. Leaving their
homes on coasts and harbors, they come to feed on fish washed in on the floods and on billions
of brine shrimp and other crustaceans which hatch and grow to adulthood in a few days in water
twice as salty as the Dead Sea. The pelicans have come home to court and raise as many
families as possible before the water and the food disappear once more.