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GrowSmart Maine

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Friday, July 3 at 8:30 pm

Maine Watch with Jennifer Rooks examines one of the state's most influential non-profit agencies, GrowSmart Maine. The organization is at a crossroads with a change in leadership amid financial challenges.  The Maine Watch team looks at the group's accomplishments and where it's headed.

Independence Day Special

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Saturday, July 4 at 8:00 pm

A Capitol Fourth is the biggest and brightest birthday party in the country, featuring, for the first time ever, Barry Manilow, who will perform with the National Symphony Orchestra and the Choral Arts Society of Washington among others.

The Vanishing Lions

Nature: American Unforgettable Elephants on the TV stations of MPBN airs Sunday, December 28 at 8:00 pm.

Sunday, July 5 at 8:00 pm

Nature examines Africa’s declining lion population. Across the continent, the King of Beasts is in trouble, their numbers have dwindled from 100,000 in the early 1990s to no more than 30,000 and as few as 16,000 today.

A Pocketful of Rye

Agatha Christie's Miss Marple on the TV stations of MPBN Thursday, November 27 at 9:00 pm.

Sunday, July 5 at 9:00 pm

Masterpiece Mystery! is an Agatha Christie Miss Marple episode. A string of murders is committed by a killer who’s obsessed with the nursery rhyme Sing a Song of Sixpence.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Part 1 of 3

Antiques Roadshow on the TV stations of MPBN airs Mondays at 8:00 pm.

Monday, July 6 at 8:00 pm

Antiques Roadshow experts look at a rare 18th-century spice cupboard; a 17th-century needlework piece; and an early 20th-century painting by Impressionist George Sotter.

Psycho Phone

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Monday, July 6 at 8:00 pm

History Detectives stare down the barrel of a shotgun for clues that one of Al Capone’s men fired it in a Chicago gang massacre that shocked the nation. The gun came to the contributor’s family after it was handed down through two generations of prominent Chicago families.

Secrets of the Samurai Sword

NOVA on the TV stations of MPBN airs Tuesday, February 24 at 8:00 pm.

Tuesday, July 7 at 8:00 pm

NOVA examines the thousand-year-old art and science behind the making of a Japanese warrior’s signature weapon.

 

Life. Support. Music.

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Tuesday, July 7 at 10:00 pm

P.O.V.tells the story of Jason Crigler. He suffered a near-fatal brain hemorrhage and his family rallied to help him in an astonishing journey of recovery.

A Timely Perspective On The Economy

The Ascent of Money on the TV stations of MPBN airs Tuesday, January 13 at 9:00 pm.

Tuesday, January 13 at 8:00 pm

The Ascent of Money is the title of both a book by renowned historian Niall Ferguson and this two-hour documentary film. Ferguson steps in front of the camera to speak with leading experts about the current global financial crisis in an attempt to understand what precipitated the meltdown.

Heart of Jenin

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Wednesday, July 8 at 10:00 pm

Wide Angle tells the story of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy, who was killed by Israeli soldiers who mistook his toy gun for the real thing. The boys parents took the extraordinary step of donating his organs to Israeli children whose lives were on the line.



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