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It’s Hard Work Being a Wombat
It’s a sweaty, surprising and energizing job to be a wombat for a day. Just ask GBH-ers Ali Fernandes, Rebecca Ferullo and Rori Miller, who volunteered to dress up as one during the debut week of Work It Out Wombats!, GBH’s new children’s program. In early March, the three—all part of GBH’s Creative team—took turns taking on the city dressed as Zeke, the youngest marsupial brother of Malik and Zadie, grandchild of Super and the keeper of Snout the stuffed animal. -
Celebrating 10 GBH Women in National Programming
Ten dynamic women lead all of GBH’s national programs. Women’s History Month is the perfect time to sample some of their latest episodes and films, which capture the experiences, successes and ongoing challenges of women around the world. -
Dramatic Showdown Between Protesters and Nixon
As the massive and much publicized anti-Vietnam War protests were gaining momentum across the U.S. in 1969, a secret game of brinksmanship was playing out in the inner chambers of the White House. -
Classical Radio Host with a Hidden Talent
Greg Ferrisi, the newest host at CRB Classical 99.5, discovered his love of music as a teenager riding in the back of his mom’s station wagon as he listened to 80s soft rock. -
Fairness, Toughness and Transparency: Forty Years of Investigative Journalism
Four decades ago, the internet was born but most people had never heard of it. That same year FRONTLINE debuted with 'The Unauthorized History of the NFL', the first of nearly 800 investigations that would hold powerful people, companies, institutions and systems to account. -
An Intimate Look into Mardi Gras Indian Culture
When Jonathan Isaac Jackson set out to make the film Big Chief, Black Hawk, he wanted to break out of the “box” of typical documentaries about New Orleans. He took a deep dive into the world of Mardi Gras Masking Indians, whose culture struggles to survive amid gentrification and changing demographics. The film premieres on February 16 at 8pm on GBH WORLD. -
The American Archive of Public Broadcasting Will Double in Size with $16 Million Grant
The American Archive for Public Broadcasting (AAPB), a collaboration between GBH Archives and the Library of Congress, has received a four-year, $16 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to significantly enhance its collection of historic public media resources and make it more broadly available for scholars, researchers, educators and the public. -
Creating Inclusive STEM Media for Kids
There’s no place quite like the Treeborhood, a massive treehouse with secret passageways, gondolas and rope swings. The residents—wombats, snakes, moose, kangaroos, iguanas, fish and eagles—bring that fantastical world to life in the new GBH Kids series Work It Out Wombats!, which premieres this month on GBH 2, on pbskids.org and PBS nationwide. -
FRONTLINE Goes Inside the Attack on Mariupol
The image of a wounded pregnant woman rushed out of a Mariupol hospital bombed by Russia showed the world the horror and brutality of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The March 2022 photo instantly became a defining photograph of the war. -
Zora Neale Hurston: Writer and Scientist
For most people who know about Zora Neale Hurston, her name is almost synonymous with her epic novel Their Eyes Were Watching God. A new AMERICAN EXPERIENCE film Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space reveals a more multifaceted, nuanced woman who was as much a social scientist as she was a fiction writer.