Beyond the Veil: Are Iranian Women Rebelling?
In this program, a female reporter dons the hijab - "modest dress" - and goes undercover to find out how Iranian women feel about the government-enforced dress code and about their diminished role in Iranian society. We ..
Bill Moyers Journal: Mortgage Mess
Focusing on the subprime mortgage crisis, this edition of the Journal travels to Cleveland, Ohio—the heart of the nation’s mortgage meltdown. Correspondent Rick Karr examines the state of Slavic Village, where more t..
Bill T. Jones: Still/Here
What is it like to live with a life-threatening illness? Can fear, anger, and joy be translated into movement? In this program, journalist Bill Moyers and filmmaker David Grubin give viewers a rare glimpse into dancer/ch..
Biotechnology and Your Health
Scientists have come a long, long way since Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin, the wonder drug of the 20th century. This program explains the function of infection-fighting antibiotics; vaccinations and insulin..
Birth and death: the life cycle of language
It is predicted that within a century more than half of the world's languages will become extinct, but as languages are lost, new ones emerge naturally or are constructed. In this program, Noam Chomsky; Esperantist Thoma..
Bones of contention: Native American archaeology
The remains of more than 10,000 Native Americans unearthed at archaeological sites across the U.S. are in the possession of museums such as the Smithsonian. Is the analysis of the bones valid scientific research, or is i..
Born with a wooden spoon: welcome to poverty U.S.A.
The United States continues to be the wealthiest country in the world, yet one in eight Americans - approximately 37 million people - live below the poverty line. This program analytically and sympathetically discusses t..
Boy Interrupted
A few days before his suicide, Evan Perry made a list of six things to live for, then matched it with a list of six things to die for. “We’ll never know what was really in Evan’s head the night he killed himself,�..
Bronislaw Malinowski: Off the Veranda
Bronislaw Malinowski changed the way that field studies were carried out. He worked on a remote group of Pacific islands—the Trobriands—and lived for long periods among the people he was studying. A brilliant linguis..
Budgeting and Financial Decision Making
This program gives students a solid grounding in a variety of real-life money matters: it provides financial decision-making methods, advises on consumer concerns such as buying versus renting, outlines insurance types a..