WORLD (PT)

9:00 am 

Outdoor Idaho  "Birders, Banders & Binoculars"  They can be fierce predators and some of the gentlest of creatures. Some are rare, others are quite common; but they all have the power to bewitch and bedazzle. Birds live in a world that for us is the stuff of dreams and wonder. We take to the field to celebrate birds and the people who study, care for, and watch them.G

9:30 am 

Dialogue  "Conversations from the Sun Valley Writers' Conference: Thomas Cahill"  Host Marcia Franklin talks with the former director of religious publishing at Doubleday. He has authored four books of a seven-volume series entitled The Hinges of History, which recount turning points in Western civilization.G

10:00 am 

Linkasia   NULL

10:30 am 

Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly   Same-Sex Marriage - This past week the Supreme Court heard arguments on the constitutionality of California's Proposition 8 same-sex marriage restrictions and the Defense of Marriage Act. Religious groups filed briefs on both sides of the disputes. Tim O'Brien reports on the arguments and the justices' responses to the lawyers as they presented the cases. D

11:00 am 

American Masters  "Trumbo"  This program is adapted from his son Christopher's 2003 play and based on the remarkable letters Dalton Trumbo wrote during the devastation wrought by the "Red Scare" in the mid-20th century. With credits for Kitty Foyle and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo to his name -- and the anti-war novel Johnny Got His Gun -- the young Trumbo was one of the highest paid Hollywood writers. Refusing to testify before the HUAC in '47, he was part of the group known as the Hollywood Ten; convicted for contempt, he spent 11 months in federal prison and lost all right to ply his craft. D

12:30 pm 

American Masters  "John Muir in the New World"  This Scottish American is remembered nearly a century after his death as the father of the conservation movement and the founder of the Sierra Club. Through tireless advocacy and his writings, Muir almost single-handedly preserved the Yosemite Valley and was the force behind the creation of the National Park Service.G

2:00 pm 

Charlie Rose   NULL

3:00 pm 

BBC World News America   NULL

3:30 pm 

Journal   NULL

4:00 pm 

American Masters  "Trumbo"  This program is adapted from his son Christopher's 2003 play and based on the remarkable letters Dalton Trumbo wrote during the devastation wrought by the "Red Scare" in the mid-20th century. With credits for Kitty Foyle and Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo to his name -- and the anti-war novel Johnny Got His Gun -- the young Trumbo was one of the highest paid Hollywood writers. Refusing to testify before the HUAC in '47, he was part of the group known as the Hollywood Ten; convicted for contempt, he spent 11 months in federal prison and lost all right to ply his craft. D

5:30 pm 

American Masters  "John Muir in the New World"  This Scottish American is remembered nearly a century after his death as the father of the conservation movement and the founder of the Sierra Club. Through tireless advocacy and his writings, Muir almost single-handedly preserved the Yosemite Valley and was the force behind the creation of the National Park Service.G

7:00 pm 

PBS NewsHour   NULL

8:00 pm 

Nightly Business Report   Tonight on Nightly Business Report - the first quarter for the Dow was the best in 15 years. So what happens next? NBR will discuss some of the strategies for investors heading into the second quarter of the year. And the North Korea issue. D

8:30 pm 

Journal   NULL

9:00 pm 

Charlie Rose   NULL

10:00 pm 

Outdoor Idaho  "Birders, Banders & Binoculars"  They can be fierce predators and some of the gentlest of creatures. Some are rare, others are quite common; but they all have the power to bewitch and bedazzle. Birds live in a world that for us is the stuff of dreams and wonder. We take to the field to celebrate birds and the people who study, care for, and watch them.G

10:30 pm 

American Masters  "John Muir in the New World"  This Scottish American is remembered nearly a century after his death as the father of the conservation movement and the founder of the Sierra Club. Through tireless advocacy and his writings, Muir almost single-handedly preserved the Yosemite Valley and was the force behind the creation of the National Park Service.G