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September
Through a Dog’s Eyes
Masterpiece Mystery: Inspector Lewis, Series III
All programs are in both SD and HD unless
otherwise noted.
GREAT PERFORMANCES
“Renée Fleming & Dmitri
Hvorostovsky: A Musical
Odyssey in St. Petersburg”
Wednesday, September 1, 8pm
Reigning American soprano Renée
Fleming travels to Russia for a special visit
to St. Petersburg with her friend and
frequent co-star, Russian baritone Dmitri
Hvorostovky. There, in the “Venice of the
North,” they explore and perform in some of
the most spectacular locations of a city
that was born in the remarkable mind and
imagination of the young Czar Peter the
Great – a city that he named not for himself,
but for Saint Peter.
NATURE
“Drakensberg:
Barrier of Spears”
Sunday, September 5, 8pm
The Drakensberg Mountains are southern
Africa’s Alps, rising more than 11,000 feet
into the sky. But beneath their shimmering
beauty lies an incredibly hostile environment
for the surprising number of creatures
that manage to live there. Each spring,
drenching rains destroy the grasslands at
the base of the mountains, and those who
would survive must climb straight up sheer
cliffs of volcanic rock, through gauntlets of
storms and snow, to reach the carpets of grass
on the plateau.
“Cuba: The Accidental Eden”
Sunday, September 26, 8pm
This small island’s varied landscape, its
location in the heart of the Caribbean and
its longstanding place at the center of Cold
War politics have all combined to preserve
some of the richest and most unusual natural
environments of the hemisphere. For
decades, Cuba’s wild landscapes
lay untouched while its Caribbean
neighbors poisoned or paved over their ecological
riches. As tourism increases, what will
happen to Cuba’s stunning biodiversity —
an island filled with amphibians, reptiles and
the most biologically diverse freshwater fish
in the region?
MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!
“Inspector Lewis, Series III”
“Counter Culture Blues”
Sunday, September 5, 9pm
While on a routine disturbance call, Lewis
is shocked to encounter a rock star believed
to have died years ago. Could her sudden
reappearance and attempt at a comeback
album have any connection to the murder
of a young orphan nearby? Joanna Lumley
(“Absolutely Fabulous”) guest stars as the
rocker Lewis once idolized.
RIBBON OF SAND (HD only)
Monday, September 5, 10:30pm
The Outer Banks of North Carolina are a
slim and moving line of sand in the open
Atlantic. Many travelers think they know
these islands, but south of Ocracoke Inlet
there rises a luminous bar of sand 60 miles
in extent, with no roads, no bridges and no
hotels. These are the wild beaches of Cape
Lookout – one of the few remaining natural
barrier islands in the world.
HISTORY DETECTIVES
“Chicago Clock, Universal
Friends, War Dog Letter”
Mondays, September 6-13, 9pm
How could one clock regulate time for an
entire region, and was this that clock? Then,
a document seems connected to an early
controversial religion, the first founded by an
American-born woman. So why is her name
missing from this document? And, in an
encore segment, Tukufu Zuberi investigates
what went wrong during a WWII dogtraining
program on Cat Island.
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