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Credit: Courtesy of McGee Media/Ark Media Photo Caption: Host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. with writer George R. R. Martin while taping Finding Your Roots.

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Finding Your Roots, Season 5

Grandparents and Other Strangers: Host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. helps actor Andy Samberg and author George R. R. Martin answer some family mysteries with DNA detective work.

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Nicole Lacroix

Nicole Lacroix is the weekday afternoon host on Classical WETA 90.9 FM. Lacroix spent fifteen years at the former WGMS in Washington, with stints at VOA, KDFC San Francisco and at Baltimore's WJHU and WBJC.

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Molly of Denali

The daily adventures of 10-year-old Alaska native Molly Mabray, her family, her dog Suki and her friends Tooey and Trini.

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Park Street Station, underground (1897) | Courtesy of City of Boston Archives

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The Race Underground

Learn how America's first subway, in Boston, overcame a litany of engineering, social and economic challenges.

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Kids Caught in the Crackdown

In an investigation with the Associated Press into the widespread consequences — and business — of the mass confinement of migrant children, Frontline exposes the traumatic stories of migrant children detained under President Trump’s immigration policies.

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Doctor Blake Mysteries

Australian Second World War veteran Doctor Lucien Blake returns home to Ballarat after 30 years to take over the local medical practice and solve crimes.

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Impeachment Hearings: WETA TV 26/HD will be airing live coverage of the House of Representatives' public impeachment hearings from PBS NewsHour starting at 10:00am on Wednesday, November 13, and 9:00am on Friday, November 15, and re-airing on both Wednesday (8:00pm) and Friday (8:30pm). Learn more →

Credit: Courtesy of Waad al-Kateab/FRONTLINE Photo Caption Waad al-Kateab filming the ruins of a building destroyed by bombing in besieged east Aleppo in October 2016.

For Sama

Tues, Nov. 19, at 10:00pm on TV 26/HD, or stream with the free PBS Video App

Credit: Courtesy of Mammoth Screen for BBC and MASTERPIECE Photo Caption: Aidan Turner as Ross Poldark and Eleanor Tomlinson as Demelza

Poldark, Season 5

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Sergei Rachmaninoff

Symphony #3 in A Minor, Op. 44

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Antonio Vivaldi

Ottone in villa: Act I

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Conductor and Composer Raymond Leppard - A Champion Of The Old And The New - Has Died

October 22, 2019

The British conductor, harpsichordist and scholar helped reignite interest in works by composers like Monteverdi — but he also championed new works and wrote notable film scores of his own.

Not My Job: We Quiz Opera Star Renée Fleming On 'Baby Shark'

October 19, 2019

How much do (do do do do do) you think the soprano knows about the hit children's song Baby Shark? We'll find out.

Happy 100th birthday, theremin!

October 16, 2019

Léon Theremin was a cellist and a physicist and found out that you can create a sound by moving your hand in electromagnetic fields.

After Nearly Losing His Voice To Cancer, Anthony Roth Costanzo Takes On 'Akhnaten'

October 7, 2019

Ten years ago, Costanzo had surgery that threatened to destroy his singing voice. Now the countertenor is starring as a gender-fluid Egyptian pharaoh in a new production by the Metropolitan Opera.

Composer Hildur Guðnadóttir Finds The Humanity In 'Joker'

October 3, 2019

Joker is a psychological character study of a disturbed man who turns violent. To give the comic book villain human depth, composer Hildur Guðnadóttir had to dig deep and empathize with the character.

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WETA Arts: November 2019

Take a tour of the REACH, the new extension at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts; learn about the monumental seven-year renovation taking place at the National Air and Space Museum, and more!

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