May
2008
KQED Public Television proudly celebrates the diversity of our community with
a special lineup in May. All programs are on KQED Channel 9 unless otherwise
noted. KQED also broadcasts five digital channels, available to viewers with
a digital receiver and in many areas to viewers with Comcast digital cable.
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Weekdays in May
7:00am KQED Kids (9.5, Comcast 192) | Sagwa, the Chinese Siamese Cat This children's series, set in historic China, follows the adventures of a spirited, adventurous young cat named Sagwa as she explores her widening world. Also airs Monday through Friday at 6:30pm on KQED Kids.
3pm KQED Life-Encore (9.2, Comcast 189) | Simply Ming Chef Ming Tsai provides a repertoire of recipes with short ingredient lists that viewers can parlay into a universe of easy-to-make dishes.
3:30pm KQED Life-Encore (9.2, Comcast 189) | Martin Yan In Martin Yan's China, chef Yan travels through China and explores the country's four schools of cuisine. And in Martin Yan's Chinatowns, Yan visits Chinatowns around the world.
Thursday 1
9:30am KQED Life-Encore (9.2, Comcast 189) | Smart Travels: Pacific Rim with Rudy Maxa Queensland, Australia. | R 5/22 6am (KQED HD)
noon KQED Kids (9.5, Comcast 192) | Wishbone Barking at Buddha.
4pm KQED HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Smart Travels: Pacific Rim with Rudy Maxa New Zealand's North Island. | R 5/5 9:30am (KQED Life-Encore); 5/27 6am (KQED HD)
5pm KQED HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | How to Cook Everything: Bittman Takes On America's Chefs Suvir Saran. Mark Bittman's sauteed okra with shrimp competes with a lamb partha from this self-taught Bombay chef. | R 5/23 6:30am (KQED HD)
5:30pm KQED HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Desert Speaks Saving Australia's Wild West. Some 800,000 acres of a former cattle ranch have become an ecological jewel.
Friday 2
9:30am KQED Life-Encore (9.2, Comcast 189) | Smart Travels: Pacific Rim with Rudy Maxa New Zealand's South Island. | R 5/6 6am (KQED HD)
10:00am KQED Life-Encore (9.2, Comcast 189) | Sketching the Silk Road Painters trace an ancient trade route through the desert to China's most famous Buddhist cave art. | R 7pm (KQED Life-Encore)
5:30pm KQED HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Desert Speaks Outpost of the Outback. Alice Springs Desert Park is Australia's one-of-a-kind conservation site and tourist mecca.
EVENING
11:30pm KQED 9 | Spark | Q | Think Globally. Meet artists who take creative cues from tradition, history and cultural intersections. | R 5/3 2pm (Life-Encore); 5/4 6:30am, 5/5 3am, 5/6 2:30am (KQED 9)
Saturday 3
10:00am KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Martin Yan's China The Naxi People.
6pm KQED 9 | Global Voices | debut ?| Circus School. This story of competition and survival follows a group of children training to be acrobats in China.
EVENING
9pm KQED Life-Encore (9.2, Comcast 189) | Black Grace: From Cannon's Creek to Jacob's Pillow This troupe of Maori and Pacific Islander men rose to the pinnacle of the international dance world.
Sunday 4
EARLY
12:10am KQED 9 | Shangri-La The dynamic Hunan Dance Company features more than 50 native dancers from diverse areas of China.
7:00am KQED 9 | Reading Rainbow Liang and the Magic Paintbrush. Taken from an old Chinese legend, a poor boy who longs to paint is given a magic paintbrush that brings everything he paints to life.
noon KQED HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Great Performances at the Met The First Emperor. Chinese composer Tan Dun's epic opera features legendary tenor Placido Domingo as Emperor Qin. | R 5pm (KQED Life-Encore)
1:30pm KQED 9 | Little Manila: Filipinos in California's Heartland | debut ?| Little Manila was once a bustling area in downtown Stockton and home to a large number of Filipino immigrants coming to the United States. | R 5/5 8:30am (KQED HD)
2pm KQED 9 | Bolinao 52 | debut ?| Following the end of the Vietnam War, hundreds of thousands of refugees took a perilous escape route across the South China Sea. This documentary tells their story. | R 5/7 9am & noon (KQED World)
4:30pm KQED HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Great Decisions | debut | Out of Balance: U.S.-China Trade. Former U.S. trade representative Carla Hills, professor David Lampton and economist Nicolas Lardy.
6pm KQED 9 | Dreaming of Tibet follows the arduous journeys of refugees from Tibet into exile over a 19,000-foot Himalayan pass. | R 5/7 8am & 11am (KQED World); 5/9 4am, 5/12 2am (KQED 9)
EVENING
8pm KQED Life-Encore (9.2, Comcast 189) | debut ?| Shall We Sing? highlights the lives of 50 Japanese businessmen who comprise the New York Men's Choir.
10pm KQED Life-Encore (9.2, Comcast 189) | Global Voices Shaolin Ulysses: Kung Fu Monks in America chronicles the adventures of a group of fighting monks as they visit New York and Las Vegas.
5:30pm KQED HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Desert Speaks Mending Australia's Ancient Forest. Locals in southwestern Australia are trying to piece together the remains of the area's fractured habitats that were destroyed right after World War II.
EVENING
7:30pm KQED 9 | The Josh Kornbluth Show | Q | Amy Tan. The acclaimed writer talks about the mischievous spirits and exotic locations in her best-seller Saving Fish from Drowning. | R 5/9 2:30am, 5/11 6am (KQED 9)
7:30pm KQED HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Transformation: Building the Rubin Museum of Art chronicles the creation of a New York City museum dedicated to the art of the Himalayas. | R 5/7 7pm (KQED HD); 5/8 10:30pm (KQED Life-Encore)
11pm KQED 9 | P.O.V. No More Tears Sister. Set during the violent ethnic conflict that has enveloped Sri Lanka, this story of love, revolution and betrayal explores the price of truth in times of war. | R 5/6 2am & 8pm (KQED Life-Encore); 5/8 8am & 11am (KQED World)
8pm KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Nova Secrets of the Samurai Sword travels deep into Japan's ancient foundries to reveal the art and science of making the perfect sword. | R 5/6 11pm (KQED Life-Encore); 5/8 2pm & 9pm (KQED HD); 5/9 3am (KQED 9 & HD); 5/10 10pm (KQED HD & World)
11:30pm KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Independent Lens | debut | Na Kamalei: The Men of Hula. The only all-male hula school in Hawaii prepares to compete at the world's largest hula festival. | R 5/10 6pm (KQED 9); 5/11 8pm (KQED Life-Encore)
Wednesday 7
EARLY
6:30am KQED HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | How to Cook Everything: Bittman Takes On America's Chefs Charles Phan. Mark Bittman competes against the chef of San Francisco's most popular Vietnamese restaurant. | R 5/8 4:30pm (KQED HD)
EVENING
7:30pm KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Spark
| Q | debut ?| Salimpour, Syjuco and Yi. Tag along with comedian Margaret Cho as she takes belly dancing lessons from legendary teacher and performer Suhaila Salimpour. | R 5/9 11:30pm (KQED 9 & HD); 5/10 2pm (KQED Life-Encore); 5/11 6:30am, 5/12 3am, 5/13 2:30am (KQED 9 & HD)
11pm KQED 9 | Kung Fu Journey to the East | debut ?| The world of martial arts in China is explored through the eyes of two American kung fu students. | R 5/8 2am & 1pm (KQED Life-Encore); 5/9 8am & 11am (KQED World)
Thursday 8
EARLY
4:30am KQED HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Immigrant Voices--American Stories Immigrants from diverse backgrounds share their personal experiences of civic participation. | R 7:30pm (KQED HD)
8pm KQED HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Smart Travels: Pacific Rim with Rudy Maxa Oahu and Kauai.
10pm KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Nature Violent Hawaii features volcanic eruptions, rivers of molten lava, monster waves, humpback whales and snow. | R 5/9 1am, noon & 9pm (KQED Life-Encore); 5/10 11pm (KQED HD)
11pm KQED 9 | Global Voices Sumo East and West. This fascinating look at the past, present and future of sumo illustrates an intersection of cultures. | R 5/9 2am, 1pm & 10pm (KQED Life-Encore)
Friday 9
EARLY
2:30am KQED 9 | The Josh Kornbluth Show | Q | Amy Tan. | RR 5/5 7:30pm | R 5/11 6am
3:00am KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Nova Secrets of the Samurai Sword. | RR 5/6 8pm
4:00am KQED 9 | Dreaming of Tibet | RR 5/4 6pm | R 5/12 2am (KQED 9)
1:30pm KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | F.A.Q. | Q | Asian Pacific American Heritage looks at Asian American and Pacific Islander women who suffer from depression. | R 5/11 1am (KQED HD); 5/21 11:30pm (KQED 9 & HD); 5/22 2:30am, 1:30pm & 10:30pm (KQED Life-Encore); 5/23 2:30am, 5/25 6am (KQED 9)
10:00am KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Martin Yan's China Along the Yangtze.
3pm KQED World (9.3, Comcast 190) | Out of the Poison Tree
| debut ?| An American survivor of the Cambodian genocide returns to solve her father's disappearance in 1975.
4pm KQED World (9.3, Comcast 190) | Oh, Saigon | debut ?| After decades of exile, filmmaker Doan Hoang returns to Vietnam to uncover her family's story.
5pm KQED World (9.3, Comcast 190) | First Battle reveals the small network of men in Hawaii who kept people out of internment camps during World War II.
6pm KQED 9 | Independent Lens Na Kamalei: The Men of Hula. | RR 5/6 11:30pm
11pm KQED Life-Encore (9.2, Comcast 189) | video i | debut ?| Immigration. Two powerful documentaries--Stateless and Pokdong--highlight the plight of Asian immigrants to the United States.
Sunday 11
EARLY
6:00am KQED 9 | The Josh Kornbluth Show | Q | Amy Tan. | RR 5/5 7:30pm
7:00am KQED 9 | Reading Rainbow The Paper Crane. A generous restaurant owner receives a wonderful, magical gift from a stranger.
1pm KQED HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Dances of Life This performance documentary reveals the cultural history and diversity of the Pacific Islands. R 5/13 9pm (KQED HD); 5/24 6pm (KQED 9); 5/25 10pm (KQED Life-Encore)
2:30pm KQED 9 | My Name Is Belle is a snapshot of the immigrant experience through the eyes of a 7-year-old child from Taiwan.
5:30pm KQED Life-Encore (9.2, Comcast 189) | Indique: Untold Stories of Contemporary India | debut ?| Indian Style. When it comes to couture, Milan has nothing on Mumbai's fashionistas.
6pm KQED 9 | Truly CA: Our State, Our Stories | Q | Mighty Warriors of Comedy. Hailed as one of the most devastatingly funny comedy troupes of the past decade, the 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors is an audacious Asian American sketch comedy group from San Francisco. | R 5/15 11pm (KQED 9); 5/16 2am, 1pm & 10pm (KQED Life-Encore); 5/18 2am (KQED 9)
6pm KQED Life-Encore (9.2, Comcast 189) | Indique: Untold Stories of Contemporary India | debut ?| Bollywood Calling. Learn how to "scrum" in the mud with the Indian National Rugby Team and movie sensation Rahul Bose.
6:30pm KQED Life-Encore (9.2, Comcast 189) | Indique: Untold Stories of Contemporary India | debut ?| Hollywood Meets Bollywood. A talented group of American and Indian filmmakers collaborate to make an East meets West production.
EVENING
7pm KQED Life-Encore (9.2, Comcast 189) | Monkey Dance Three Cambodian American teenagers come of age in a world shadowed by their parents' nightmares of the Khmer Rouge.
9pm KQED World (9.3, Comcast 190) | 1421: The Year China Discovered America? introduces the controversial theory of British author Gavin Menzies, who has devoted nine years to proving that Zheng He and his Ming fleet of more than 100 ships reached America before Columbus. | R 5/14 8am & 11 am (KQED World)
9pm KQED Life-Encore (9.2, Comcast 189) | Global Voices Anatomy of a Springroll. A man searches for an ingredient to blend his traditional culture with his adopted American life.
7:30pm KQED 9 | The Josh Kornbluth Show | Q | Joan Chen. After becoming one of China's biggest movie stars, Joan Chen had to start her acting career over again when she emigrated to the United States. | R 5/16 2:30am, 5/18 6am (KQED 9)
8:30pm KQED Kids (9.5, Comcast 192) | Postcards from Buster Mykala, Pono and Buster's Big Hawaii Show (Hawaii). | R 5/17 8:30pm (KQED Kids)
2:30pm KQED 9 | California's Gold Little Tokyo.
EVENING
9pm KQED 9 | Mystery of the Taj Mahal | debut ?| The location, design and calligraphy of this beautiful tomb are analyzed to find deeper messages. | R 5/14 mid, 11am & 8pm (KQED Life-Encore); 5/15 10pm, 5/16 3am (KQED 9); 5/17 3pm & 11pm (KQED World)
Wednesday 14
2:30pm KQED 9 | California's Gold | Angel Island.
EVENING
7:30pm KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Spark | Q | debut ?| Yoshi's, Hijos del Sol and Diamano Coura includes a visit to Yoshi's new venue in San Francisco's Fillmore district. | R 5/16 11:30pm (KQED 9 & HD); 5/17 2pm (KQED Life-Encore); 5/18 6:30am, 5/19 3am, 5/20 2:30am (KQED 9 & HD)
Thursday 15
2:30pm KQED 9 | California's Gold | Japanese Tea Garden.
EVENING
8pm KQED HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Smart Travels: Pacific Rim with Rudy Maxa Hong Kong. | R 5/20 6am (KQED HD)
10pm KQED 9 | Mystery of the Taj Mahal | RR 5/13 9pm | R 5/16 3am (KQED 9); 5/17 3pm & 11pm (KQED World)
2:30am KQED 9 | The Josh Kornbluth Show | Q | Joan Chen. | RR 5/12 7:30pm | R 5/18 6am (KQED 9)
3:00am KQED 9 | Mystery of the Taj Mahal | RR 5/13
9pm | R 5/17 3pm & 11pm (KQED World)
EVENING
8:30pm KQED Kids (9.5, Comcast 192) | Postcards from Buster Philadelphia Masala (Pennsylvania).
11:30pm KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Spark | Q | Yoshi's, Hijos del Sol and Diamano Coura. | RR 5/14 7:30pm | R 5/17 2pm (KQED Life-Encore); 5/18 6:30am, 5/19 3am, 5/20 2:30am (KQED 9
& HD)
Saturday 17
10:00am KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Martin Yan's China Beijing Contrasts.
6pm KQED 9 | Slanted Screen | Q | examines portrayals of Asian men in film and television and how filmmakers are now redefining stereotypes. | R 5/18 10pm (KQED Life-Encore)
EVENING
11:30pm KQED 9 | Tie a Yellow Ribbon | debut ?| is a journey into the world of young Asian American women, told through the eyes of a Korean adoptee.
6:00am KQED 9 | The Josh Kornbluth Show | Q | Joan Chen. | RR 5/12 7:30pm
6:30am KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Spark | Q | Yoshi's, Hijos del Sol and Diamano Coura. | RR 5/14 7:30pm | R 5/19 3am, 5/20 2:30am (KQED 9 & HD)
7:00am KQED 9 | Reading Rainbow The Lotus Seed. The kids learn about the lotus seed and see how it develops from a flower.
noon KQED 9 | Great Performances | debut ?| The New York Philharmonic: Live from North Korea. This historic concert features performances of the national anthems of North Korea and the United States. ABC's Bob Woodruff reports. | R 5/18 8pm (KQED Life-Encore)
2pm KQED 9 | Wide Angle 1-800-INDIA. This dramatic and personal film explores the experience of young Indian men and women who have been recruited into white-collar "outsourcing" jobs requiring 80-hour work weeks and a Westernized mindset.
6pm KQED 9 | Women of Tibet: A Quiet Revolution | debut ?| Elder women and the Dalai Lama discuss the 1959 Tibetan women's uprising against China's occupation. | R 5/21 9am & noon (KQED World)
EVENING
9pm KQED World (9.3, Comcast 190) | China from the Inside | Q | Power and the People examines how China is dealing with corruption, rural unrest and ideological by-products of capitalism.
10pm KQED World (9.3, Comcast 190) | China from the Inside | Q | Women of the Country looks at the pace of change and opportunities for women in the cities and women in rural China.
Monday 19
EARLY
3:00am KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Spark | Q | Yoshi's, Hijos del Sol and Diamano Coura. | RR 5/14 7:30pm | R 5/20 2:30am (KQED 9 & HD)
6:00am KQED HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Smart Travels: Pacific Rim with Rudy Maxa Shanghai.
1pm KQED HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | History Detectives Monopoly/Japanese Internment Camp Artwork/The Lewis and Clark Cane.
2:30pm KQED 9 | California's Gold | Little Manila.
EVENING
7:30pm KQED 9 | Sikhs in America | debut ?| explores the family, spiritual, economic and work lives of Northern California's Sikh community.
Tuesday 20
EARLY
2:30am KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Spark | Q | Yoshi's, Hijos del Sol and Diamano Coura. | RR 5/14 7:30pm
1pm KQED HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | History Detectives Orphan Film Reel/Chinese Opium Scale/Hermann Goering's Shotgun.
2:30pm KQED 9 | California's Gold | Guadalupe.
EVENING
11:30pm KQED 9 | Independent Lens | debut ?| A Dream in Doubt. In the aftermath of 9/11, a wave of hate crimes terrorized the Sikh American community in Phoenix.
| R 5/21 2am, 1pm & 10pm (KQED Life-Encore)
Wednesday 21
8:30am KQED Life-Encore (9.2, Comcast 189) | Burt Wolf: Travels and Traditions | Q | The New Hong Kong. Explore, shop and eat in this fascinating city of contrasts.
1pm KQED HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | History Detectives Ventriloquist Dummy/Witch's House/Poems includes the investigation of poems carved into the walls of the Angel Island detention center by Chinese immigrants. | R 5/25 5am (KQED HD)
7:30pm KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Spark | Q | Playwright Philip Kan Gotanda and Other Stories. Explore the relationship between jazz and the Japanese American internment with playwright Philip Kan Gotanda and A.C.T. | R 5/23 11:30pm (KQED 9 & HD); 5/24 2pm (KQED Life-Encore); 5/25 6:30am, 5/26 3am (KQED 9 & HD)
8pm KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Krakatoa The 1883 eruption that devastated the island is brought to life using dramatic re-creations and CGI. | R 11pm (KQED Life-Encore); 5/23 2:30am & 10pm (KQED HD); 5/25 12:30am (KQED 9 & HD); 5/27 8am (KQED World)
11:30pm KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | F.A.Q. | Q | Asian Pacific American Heritage. | RR 5/9 1:30pm | R 5/22 2:30am, 1:30pm & 10:30pm (KQED Life-Encore); 5/23 2:30am, 5/25 6am (KQED 9)
Thursday 22
1pm KQED HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | History Detectives John Brown's Letters/Japanese Teahouse/Poems.
2:30pm KQED 9 | California's Golden Parks China Camp. Located right on San Francisco Bay, this state park is the last remaining example of the numerous Chinese fishing villages that once dotted the shoreline.
EVENING
7:30pm KQED 9 | Becoming American: The Chinese Experience Gold Mountain Dreams. Bill Moyers and a team of filmmakers collaborate to tell the dramatic story of the Chinese experience in America. In this episode: Chinese immigrants came to California looking for a new livelihood, but they faced a wave of discrimination. | R 5/23 9:30am & 6:30pm (KQED Life-Encore)
8pm KQED HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Smart Travels: Pacific Rim with Rudy Maxa Maui and Hawaii's Big Island.
8:30pm KQED HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Travels to the Edge with Art Wolfe India: Allahabad and Varanasi. Visit India's holiest river towns and home of the world's largest religious gathering. | R 5/25 10:30am (KQED 9); 5/30 4pm (KQED HD)
9pm KQED 9 | Becoming American: The Chinese Experience Between Two Worlds. The 1882 Exclusion Act prohibited Chinese laborers from entering the country and becoming citizens. | R 5/23 12:30am, 11am & 8pm (KQED Life-Encore)
10:30pm KQED 9 | Becoming American: The Chinese Experience No Turning Back. America's political establishment suddenly embraced Chinese Americans during World War II. | R 5/23 2am, 12:30pm & 9:30pm (KQED Life-Encore)
Friday 23
EARLY
2:30am KQED 9 | F.A.Q. | Q | Asian Pacific American Heritage. | RR 5/9 1:30pm | R 5/25 6am (KQED 9)
9:00am KQED Kids (9.5, Comcast 192) | Postcards from Buster Buster's Lucky Year (San Francisco, Calif.)
EVENING
11:30pm KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Spark | Q | Playwright Philip Kan Gotanda and Other Stories. | RR 5/21 7:30pm | R 5/24 2pm (KQED Life-Encore); 5/25 6:30am, 5/26 3am (KQED 9 & HD)
Saturday 24
10:00am KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Martin Yan's China Shanxi Treasures.
3:30pm KQED Life-Encore (9.2, Comcast 189) | Travelscope The Colors of Malaysia.
5pm KQED World (9.3, Comcast 190) | Dabbawallas Each day 4,000 Dabbawallas (box persons) reliably deliver 100,000 lunches in Mumbai, India, without the aid of technology.
6pm KQED 9 | Dances of Life | D | RR 5/11 1pm | R 5/25 10pm (KQED Life-Encore)
EVENING
8pm KQED 9 | The Last Emperor (1987) | debut ?| This Academy Award|winning biography recalls the life and struggles of Pu Yi, China's last emperor. Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and starring Joan Chen and John Lone.
10:34pm KQED 9 | 12 Girls Band: Live from Shanghai During the 13th century, the Chinese emperor was usually entertained by a band of made up of 12 girls playing a variety of string instruments. Those same instruments are used today by China's foremost world music ensemble as they perform in Shanghai. | R 5/25 8pm (KQED Life-Encore)
11:30pm KQED 9 | Spirit of Taiko A new genre of taiko drumming, which took hold in the United States in the 1960s, is now evolving into a dynamic "new" performance art. | R 5/25 9pm (KQED Life-Encore)
Sunday 25
EARLY
12:30am KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Krakatoa | RR 5/21 8pm
6:00am KQED 9 | F.A.Q. | Q | Asian Pacific American Heritage. | RR 5/9 1:30pm
6:30am KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Spark | Q | Playwright Philip Kan Gotanda and Other Stories. | RR 5/21 7:30pm | R 5/26 3am (KQED 9 & HD)
10:30am KQED 9 | Travels to the Edge with Art Wolfe India: Allahabad and Varanasi. | RR 5/22 8:30pm
noon KQED 9 | Most Honorable Son Nebraska farmer Ben Kuroki became the first Japanese American war hero and spoke out against racism.
noon KQED HD | Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire The Way of the Samurai/The Will of the Shogun/The Return of the Barbarians. Filmed on location with riveting reenactments, this program brings to life the fascinating story of a mysterious kingdom concealed from the Western world for more than two centuries.
1pm KQED 9 | The War: Nisei Soldiers illuminates the bravery and struggles of Japanese American veterans from the South Bay and Central Coast who fought valiantly despite the U.S. government's internment of their families.
7pm KQED World (9.3, Comcast 190) | Globe Trekker | debut ?| Pakistan
visits the bustling metropolis of Karachi and the ancient valley civilization of the Multan.
EVENING
9pm KQED World (9.3, Comcast 190) | China from the Inside | Q | Shifting Nature explores the countries plan to reroute the Yellow River.
10pm KQED World (9.3, Comcast 190) | China from the Inside | Q | Freedom and Justice is an exploration of the interlocking conflict between individual personal freedom and governance.
Monday 26
EARLY
3:00am KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | Spark | Q | Playwright Philip Kan Gotanda. | RR 5/21 7:30pm
EVENING
7:30pm KQED 9 & HD (high definition, 9.1, Comcast 709) | The Josh Kornbluth Show | Q | Philip Kan Gotanda. Bay Area playwright and filmmaker Philip Kan Gotanda reveals the inspiration for the world premiere of his play After the War at A.C.T.
Friday 30
EVENING
8:30pm KQED Kids (9.5, Comcast 192) | Postcards from Buster Among the Hmong (Madison, Wisc.).
Saturday 31
EVENING
11pm KQED World (9.3, Comcast 190) | Independent Lens | debut ?| New Year Baby follows a woman's quest to uncover the secrets of how her family survived the Khmer Rouge genocide.
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