Showing posts with label tv. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tv. Show all posts

Saturday, October 15, 2011

"How can you not love this story?"

Wrangler, horse a hit on Letterman show
By RICH LANDERS Spokesman-Review

Erin Bolster and her horse, Tonk
, receive warm applause after being introduced by Late Show host David Letterman.
Montana wrangler who saved boy from grizzly appears on David Letterman

Fans of heroes, horses, wranglers and grizzly bears got it all in one package Tuesday night on "The Late Show with David Letterman."

Monday, June 6, 2011

Watching programs on recent nonfiction books and their authors

It's easy to spend the weekend watching Book TV on C-Span2. If you don't have that channel, there are several full-length programs on current nonfiction books and their authors on booktv.org.

Some highlights:

Government's Place in the Market
Eliot Spitzer
Next air time: Saturday, June 11th, at 7pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 2 min.

[Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation ]
Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation
Andrea Wulf
Next air time: Saturday, June 11th, at 8pm (ET)
Approx. 48 min.

Reckless Endangerment: How Outsized Ambition, Greed, and Corruption Led to Economic Armageddon
Gretchen Morgenson; Joshua Rosner
Next air time: Saturday, June 11th, at 9pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.

After Words: Henry Kissinger, "On China," hosted by Monica Crowley
Next air time: Saturday, June 11th, at 10pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr.

The Constitution of Liberty: The Definitive Edition
Bruce Caldwell; Richard Epstein; George Soros
Next air time: Saturday, June 11th, at 11pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 25 min.

Mastermind: The Many Faces of the 9/11 Architect, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed
Richard Miniter
Next air time: Sunday, June 12th, at 7:30pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 5 min.
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Book Expo America: Interview with Jorge Castaneda, "Manana Forever?: Mexico and the Mexicans"
Jorge Castaneda
Next air time: Sunday, June 12th, at 8:30pm (ET)
Approx. 18 min.

Idea Man: A Memoir by the Co-Founder of Microsoft
Paul Allen
Next air time: Sunday, June 12th, at 10pm (ET)
Approx. 1 hr. 3 min.