On Tue, 6 Sep 2016 10:22:51 -0000 (UTC)
Jethro_uk wrote:

On Mon, 05 Sep 2016 11:48:07 +0100, Davey wrote:

On Sat, 3 Sep 2016 17:27:50 +0100 Nightjar
wrote:

On 03-Sep-16 4:47 PM, harry wrote:
Fairly new TV channel...

New to you, perhaps. However, PBS has been around since 1970 and
PBS America has been available in the UK since 2011.


When we lived in the US, it was the channel that provided a better
view of the news than the major networks, and also showed some old
familiar UK programming. It was indeed very good for documentaries.
As a channel, it did at a minimum accept that there was a world
outside of America.

A&E Channel and Discovery showed similar documentaries.

I enjoyed "History Detectives" and the long-series documentaries
(Italian Americans and Prohibition).

The Prohibition one (5 1-hour programmes) is well worth watching as
it did paint a much more nuanced picture of the events leading up to
it. It's also quite strangely contemporary, in that it's only in the
past 10,20 years that the US has really recovered from the
hammer-blow of prohibition and has started to rediscover a real
brewing heritage. The recent swell of "craft beers" may be of
interest to beer fans of the 21st century, but would have been very
familiar to the beer fans of the 19th century.

Plus ca change etc

I saw the 'History Detectives', and indeed enjoyed that series. I never
saw the other two you mention, but there was the Ken Burns series on
The Civil War. He did others, but that was the one I liked best. We
were living near Atlanta at the time, so there were several relevant
places within reach.

--
Davey.