Joanna Boyce Ragland

Joanna Boyce Ragland Hello, fellow APT fans! Come to Gadsden for the Ink & Blood exhibit at the Mary G. Hardin Center for the Cultural Arts. Due to popular demand, it's been extended until the spring. Then get something to eat and visit Noccalula Falls. You'll have a great time!

Thu at 8:11pm · Report
Alabama Public Television

Alabama Public Television The Pentagon estimates that as many as one in five American soldiers are coming home from war zones with traumatic brain injuries, many of which require round-the-clock attention. But lost in the reports of these returning soldiers are the stories of family members who often sacrifice everything to care for them.

Kaylene Peters
Kaylene Peters
That is really sad. I hope that they find ways to revitalize their health.
Thu at 10:42am
Alabama Public Television

Alabama Public Television Last Call to see Dave Koz and Friends Smooth Jazz Christmas live in Mobile. Tickets just $35. Proceeds benefit Alabama Public Television.

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See Dave Koz live in Mobile on Friday, Nov 27.
Alabama Public Television

Alabama Public Television At the height of the protests following Iran's controversial presidential election this summer, a young woman named Neda Soltani was shot and killed on the streets of Tehran. Her death-filmed on a cameraphone, then uploaded to the web-quickly became an international outrage, and Soltani became the face of a powerful movement that threatened the hardline government's hold on power.

Alabama Public Television

Alabama Public Television The investigation of a multi-vehicle road accident unravels the secrets of the complete strangers involved, revealing government cover-ups, smuggling and murder. A remarkable cast, including Phil Davis and Paul McGann, portrays the stories of ten different people who share a single defining moment.

Mariesa Albright Stokes
Mariesa Albright Stokes
I'm so excited about this! The reminder is hanging on our fridge!
November 13 at 9:00am
Tillie McQuaid Jones
Tillie McQuaid Jones
We are very great fans of both Masterpiece Mystery and Masterpiece Contemporary! Thanks, Alabama Public Television, for bringing us so many BBC favorites.
November 13 at 2:07pm
Alabama Public Television
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Three programs tonight focus on veterans. At 7:00, SECRETS OF THE DEAD follows American aviators who were shot down over the Pacific in World War II as they re-visit the island where they crashed.
Pat La Coste Lejsek
November 11 at 2:39pm
Charles Moore
Charles Moore
Thank you for the rebroadcast of Alabama Remembers, one of the best shows in your history. God bless the gentlemen who appeared.
November 12 at 7:29pm
Alabama Public Television

Alabama Public Television Tell us below what Sesame Street character you are most like and be entered to win one of 3 copies of the book: The Wisdom of Big Bird (and the Dark Genius of Oscar the Grouch). Contest ends Nov 15.

Alabama Public Television

Alabama Public Television This is the extraordinary and untold story of how the Beatles punctured the Iron Curtain. In August 1962, award-winning director Leslie Woodhead made a two-minute film, in Liverpool’s Cavern Club, with a raw and unrecorded group of unknown rockers — the Beatles. Twenty-five years later, while making a series of films in Russia, Woodhead learned just how powerful Beatlemania was in the Soviet Union.

Charles Bryan Sellers
Charles Bryan Sellers
I guess the Reaganites should reconsider their assumptions.
Thu at 6:05pm
Alabama Public Television

Alabama Public Television Only one year after a historic election rerouted the course of America's political culture, do the 2009 election results show momentum swinging in the opposite direction?

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Alabama Public Television

Alabama Public Television APT has tickets for David Koz, Trans Siberian Orchestra, Ricky Skaggs, and Celtic Woman. Order yours today to see a great performance, and support public television.

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Not only will you see a great performance, your ticket purchasewill continue to support APT's mission to motivate children to learn, empower students and teachers to succeed, and provide a lifelong path to knowledge.
Dan Gunter
Dan Gunter
Ricky Skaggs... Celtic Woman... you've definitely got my attention!
November 5 at 5:35am
Krystal Mier Kling
Krystal Mier Kling
Mine too! I love them all !
November 5 at 5:51am
Alabama Public Television

Alabama Public Television Happy 40th Anniversary to Sesame Street!

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Sesame Street uses animation, puppets, and live actors to stimulate young children's minds, improve their letter and word recognition, basic arithmetic, geometric forms, classification, simple problem solving and socialization by showing children or people in their everyday lives.
Derek Aulden White
Derek Aulden White
Happy Anniversary!! PSSST! Anybody wanna buy a "J". I love that bit..
November 4 at 6:08am
Jeff Grill
Jeff Grill
I remember well the beginning of Sesame Street…my elder daughter started her education there as an infant. Wow, time flies when you're having kids…and grandkids.
November 4 at 7:03am
Alabama Public Television

Alabama Public Television NOVA presents a comprehensive three-part, three-hour special-investigating explosive new discoveries that are transforming the picture of how we became human.

Stephen Nash
Stephen Nash
I am very interested in things like this, but the new "V" starts tonight. I hope that soon PBS will have all three shows on, on a Sunday afternoon.
November 3 at 11:31am
Tonya Bryant

Tonya Bryant I love all the british comedies and all of the cooking shows especially lydia'sItaly
and I hope to keep seeing these programs

October 30 at 9:12am · Report
Dan Gunter
Dan Gunter
"Yes, Prime Minister" is one of my favorite TV shows. And to be quite honest, that's actually saying a lot -- I may be a filmmaker, but I don't care much for most television networks and programs. But I love P.B.S. and A.P.T.
October 30 at 1:07pm
Alabama Public Television

Alabama Public Television The Dow's up, but why are Main Street Americans still reeling from last year'seeconomic collapse? With Americans still facing rising unemployment, foreclosures, and declining property values, renowned economist James K. Galbraith on whether we've averted another crisis and how to get help for the middle class.

Mark Griffith
Mark Griffith
J.K. Galbraith is an American Keynesian and they are the problem!
October 30 at 7:00am
Jennifer Brown Baker
October 30 at 3:55pm
Alabama Public Television

Alabama Public Television Want to know how Alabama schools are coping with extended budget cuts? Find out tonight at 7pm as Dr. Joe Morton, State Superintendent of Education, joins us to discuss this and other issues surrounding K-12.

Dan Gunter
Dan Gunter
On the "how to" practical side, I wish I had a list of easy to do answers and solutions. Unfortunately, it isn't easy. It took us a long time to get to this point and reversing things doesn't happen overnight either. But I am convinced that if parents would start by spending -- make that "investing" -- maybe 10 minutes every evening actually engaging the kids in conversation centered on things like "Tell me something interesting you discovered or learned to do while you were at school today," the kids would slowly start to sense that there must be some reason they were asked. How many times have we heard our kids say things like "I don't know why we have to learn this crap. It's not like we're ever going to use it." Hmmm... never going to need to know multiplication? So, they're about to go gas up the car for a trip and can't even estimate in their heads that roughly 20 gallans of gas at $2.39 a gallon will cost about $48.00. No, they take a $20 bill and just "See where that takes the gas hand." How will they ever budget wisely for bills and groceries if they can't even figure out in their heads "If I spend $60 on these hot new designer jeans, I'll only have $15 left for gas for all of next week." Yet we wonder why they live in constant financial crises. Hello?

I'll be the first to admit it: I HATED history class as a student. Now, I'm totally fascinated by it and I am producing -- LO AND BEHOLD -- a historic documentary film.

Life has a way of making things turn around and slap us dead in the face. We learn what we are interested in. Plain and simple. So how do we begin getting our kids interested in learning the things they ought to be learning in school? We start by taking more interest in our kids and showing them that we are genuinely, deeply, lovingly interested in what they are learning, why they are learning it, and how it affects their futures.... Read More

10 minutes a day. Show me a parent who can't find 10 minutes a day to invest in their kids' futures and I'll bet I can show you a parent who needs to rethink their priorities and look deeply at how they spend their time. Spend that 10 minutes regularly -- and mean it -- and an amazing thing will happen. Over enough time, it will become a habit (yes, that's how habits begin, including the good ones) that turns into 15 minutes. Then 20. Before long, it just becomes something you do at different times throughout the day. It becomes a part of "who you are" as a parent and what your family life is like.

I issue this challenge to all parents: try setting aside 10 minutes every weekday to talk to your kids about what they are learning. Do it for 30 days. You might see some interesting things start happening with their grades and school activities. But only if you handle that 10 minutes wisely and do it regularly. It's not an "I hate this teacher for giving me a bad grade" session. More like "Why do you think learning this could maybe someday come in handy? How can I help you? Call out a few questions for you from the study guide? What can I do?" It works miracles. It doesn't require having to call for a tax referendum on the next ballot, increasing property and/or sales taxes, or anything of the sort. What it takes is interest and effort. And lots of patience. We so easily say "screw this, it ain't working" when we don't see results in a week. We need to get past the instant gratification foolishness and think and act in the interest of long-term improvement. But that's another epistle altogether, which I'll spare you all having to suffer through at this moment.
October 29 at 7:44am
Dan Gunter
Dan Gunter
Watched the program, which was well done and very informative. It is sad that our schools are in proration, but such are the times. When the going gets tough, the tough get creative and find solutions. They are out there. Overall, I am pleased with what Dr. Morton had to say. Our kids ARE our future. Let us invest wisely (in financial terms and otherwise) in them.
October 30 at 1:05pm