Dust Bowl
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- KQED Interviews Ken Burns
Ken Burns and producer Dayton Duncan chronicle the Dust Bowl in all its complexities and profound human drama. It is both an oral history, using interviews of 30 survivors, and an historical accounting of what happened and why during the 1930s on the southern Plains, using first person accounts, narration, comments by historians, and restored photographs, footage and music from the period.
Dust Bowl Previous Broadcasts
Reaping The Whirlwind (Episode #102#)
KQED 9: Tue, Apr 30, 2013 -- 8:00 PM
In the second episode, experience the gradual relief as the families of the plains seek new lives in California and government conservation efforts - and a break in the drought in 1939 - eventually stabilize the soil and bring the farms back to life, but with dangers of another Dust Bowl facing future generations.
The Great Plow Up (Episode #101H)
KQED 9: Tue, Apr 23, 2013 -- 8:00 PM
In the first episode, feel the full force of the worst manmade environmental disaster in America's history as survivors recall the terror of the dust storms, the desperation of hungry families and how they managed to find hope even as the earth and heavens seemed to turn against them.
Repeat Broadcasts:
- KQED World: Sun, Apr 28, 2013 -- 12:00 AM
- KQED World: Sat, Apr 27, 2013 -- 4:00 PM
- KQED Life: Thu, Apr 25, 2013 -- 1:00 AM
- KQED Life: Wed, Apr 24, 2013 -- 7:00 PM
- KQED 9: Wed, Apr 24, 2013 -- 2:00 AM