1940S
HouseSaturday, 6:00 p.m.
(begins 9th)
Three generations of the Hymers family & Lyn (center) and Michael (right), their daughter Kirstie (left) and her sons, Thomas (left front) and Ben (right front) take on the challenge of domestic life on Britain’s home front in 1940s HOUSE, a re-creation of a World War II household.
Bloodlines:
Technology Hits HomeFriday, 9:00 p.m., 29th
Offering hope to infertile couples. Curing disease by mixing human and animal cells. Assessing risk with genetic testing. Over the past few decades, the public has become increasingly comfortable with a growing menu of medical procedures, as interventions that were once science fiction become commonplace. But as reproductive and genetic technologies move out of the laboratory and into medical practice—as they are combined into complex applications and applied in unforeseen ways—they are forcing us to ask the question: are we creating a world that we won't want to inhabit?
A baby with five "parents" and none of them recognized by law. A patent application for a creature that would be genetically part human and part chimpanzee. A corporation secretly doing genetic tests on its workers. These scenarios are not only real, they are challenging our most fundamental beliefs and establishing legal precedents that govern our future. BLOODLINES: Technology Hits Home, reveals how new life technologies are raising ethical, legal and social dilemmas as cutting-edge science intersects with the law. Fueled by the human desire to do everything medically possible, given momentum by multi-billion-dollar investment in scientific research, and encouraged by a lack of regulation, these technologies are forcing us to ask: are we creating a world that we won’t want to live in?
Bloodlines tells viewers what is at stake when public policy trails behind medical science and human dramas set the precedent for an uncertain future.
Cincinnati
Symphony Orchestra: Paavo Jarvi Inaugural ConcertFriday, 9:00 p.m., 15th
Praised throughout the world as a gifted, innovative conductor and extraordinary musician, Paavo Jarvi leads the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in his inaugural concert as music director. In CINCINNATI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: PAAVO JARVI INAUGURAL CONCERT, recorded in 2001 at historic Music Hall, Maestro Jarvi brings his inspired music-making to Tchaikovsky’s lush and lyrical Symphony No. 5.
Defiant
RequiemFriday, 10:30 p.m., 8th
At the world premiere of the DEFIANT REQUIEM, 2,000 people listened to the Oregon Symphony and Portland Opera Chorus re-create the circumstances of the performance of Verdi’s Requiem as it was sung by prisoners in the Nazi concentration camp at Terezin. Pictured: Conductor Murry Sidlin, with soprano Lisa Willson and mezzo Eleni Matos, center stage.
God
and the Inner City
Friday, 10:00 p.m., 22nd
As a young man, Gene Rivers attended Harvard, but he dropped out
of college to live with and help the poor. His mission is to reach the
tough young men others
have written off.
A charismatic minister who can speak the language of the streets, Rivers has
also convinced other ministers to do this work and to collaborate with the police.
The result has been a substantial drop in crime, dubbed “the Boston miracle,” putting
Rivers on the cover of Newsweek. Though Gene Rivers is a Pentecostal minister,
he rarely mentions God and never preaches at kids. His emphasis is different:
At the end of the day, this all comes down to the failure of the fathers fail
the kids, and now the sins of the fathers are being visited upon the second or
third generation.
God and the Inner City tells the story of Rivers and two other groups. Actress
Phylicia Rashad narrates.
Another type of program, the Amachi program in Philadelphia, helps children of
prisoners—the most “at risk” group in the nation. It’s
a mentor program based in local churches, but run by Big Brothers/Big Sisters.
God and the Inner City follows one mentor and the angry 10-year-old boy he tries
to help.
Finally, a third type of program designed to help at-risk young people is called
Teen Challenge. A Christian drug rehab program, its goal is spiritual transformation—replacing
drugs with faith. These faith-=based organizations recently have been the beneficiaries
of presidential action and proposed legislation. The documentary reviews the
controversy of government support, especially the issue of church/state separation.
Into
the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the KindertransportFriday, 10:00 p.m., 1st
For nine months prior to World War II, in an act of mercy unequalled anywhere else before the war, Britain conducted an extraordinary rescue mission, opening its doors to over 10,000 Jewish and other children from Germany, Austria, and Czechoslovakia. These children, or Kinder, as they came to be known, were taken into foster homes and hotels in Britain, expecting eventually to be reunited with their parents. The majority of them never saw their families again.
In honor of Holocaust Remembrance month, Oscar winner Dame Judi Dench narrates Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport, a compelling two-hour documentary that chronicles the remarkable rescue operation and its devastating impact on the lives of the children who were saved. Told in the words of the child survivors, rescuers, parents, and foster parents, these are stories of those who survived with the help of others; stories of courage and hope; stories about the strength and resolve of children; and stories rarely heard about the Holocaust.
Let’s
Talk
Tuesday, 7:00 p.m. (begins 26th)
Child education specialist Dr. Gail Gross hosts LET’S TALK,
a series of topical conversations with guests such as Quincy Jones, Goldie
Hawn, William Bennett and Alma Powell. The programs focus on “news
you can use” with a bent toward family issues.
Peter
and Paul and the Christian RevolutionTuesday, 10:00 p.m., 5th & 12th
Two millennia ago, in the Roman province of Judea, Jesus was crucified by imperial troops. Thousands before him had suffered the same fate. But unlike his predecessors on the cross, Jesus did not drop from history. Instead, his memory was kept alive by a small band of Jews -- men and women who held fast to their conviction that Jesus was the Messiah… that Jesus had been anointed by God to announce His kingdom on earth. Against the odds, in the face of hostility, indifference, and dissent, these impoverished subjects of Rome managed to carry the news of Jesus out of Judea and around the Roman Empire. They managed to plant a movement that would one day conquer Rome itself. There were Barnabas and Priscilla; James, Stephen, Titus. And most famously of all, there were Peter and Paul. If one was "The Rock" upon which the church was founded, the other was a river, flooding its banks to reach all regions and peoples. Combining the actual words of Paul, Luke, and other ancient writers with period dramatizations and location footage from around the Mediterranean, Peter and Paul and the Christian Revolution is the story of a revolution that changed the world.
1940S
HouseSaturday, 6:00 p.m. (begins 9th)
Three generations of the Hymers family & Lyn (center) and Michael (right), their daughter Kirstie (left) and her sons, Thomas (left front) and Ben (right front) take on the challenge of domestic life on Britain’s home front in 1940s HOUSE, a re-creation of a World War II household.