-
"It must be lovely to be beautiful, but that's a really difficult thing to lose," says Smith, now 81. Best known in the U.S. for her role in Downton Abbey, she's now starring in The Lady in the Van.
-
The sixth season of the PBS Masterpiece series premieres on Sunday. We speak with a fan who will attend a party in Savannah, Georgia.
-
Little Julia stars in the digital storybook called "We're Amazing, 1,2,3."
-
Sonia Manzano has spent 44 years as one of the lucky residents of Sesame Street. In her memoir she describes how she sought comfort in TV during her own difficult childhood in the South Bronx.
-
On the 70th anniversary of the books that spawned Thomas The Tank Engine, NPR's Elizabeth Blair considers the economic model of Thomas's home island of Sodor, and its elaborate railway system.
-
Was the Firestone Tire company complicit in the brutal war crimes of Charles Taylor?Details of the relationship between the American icon and the African…
-
The PBS program Daniel Tiger's Neighborhoodis bringing the legacy of Fred Rogers to a new generation of children.
-
The Roosevelt clan is explored in a new film series by documentary filmmaker Ken Burns.The influential family's accolades were both political as well as…
-
As the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria continues to control large parts of Iraq, the recognized government of the Iraqi state continues to be divided…
-
For years studies have been pointing to the trend of diminishing diversity in public education. The word resegregation gets thrown around to describe the…