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Celebrate Halloween with the Capitol Steps

Join WCVE Public Radio Halloween night for some political satire with the Capitol Steps.

The Capitol Steps began as a group of Senate staffers who set out to satirize the very people and places that employed them. And although not all of the current members of the Steps are former Capitol Hill staffers, taken together the performers have worked in a total of 18 Congressional offices and represent 62 years of collective House and Senate staff experience.

Season 5 of “Charlottesville Inside-Out” Premieres November 10

The award-winning Charlottesville Inside-Out, hosted by Terri Allard, begins its fifth season on Thursday, November 10 at 8:30 p.m. Charlottesville Inside-Out is a fun and unique interview program in which Terri highlights the people, places and quality of life that define Charlottesville and its surroundings. Each thirty-minute show features two interview segments that are conducted on location.

American Masters: Pearl Jam Twenty

In honor of Pearl Jam’s 20th anniversary, award-winning director and music journalist Cameron Crowe creates a definitive portrait of the seminal band carved from over 1,200 hours of rarely and never-before-seen footage, plus 24 hours of recently shot concert and interview footage.

"WCVE Forum" to Air Discussion About Geriatric Wellness

The WCVE Forum will air a community conversation that was taped live in the Community Idea Stations studio on October 11. “A Conversation About Geriatric Wellness” can be heard at 6:00 p.m. Sunday, October 16.

WCVE Public Radio partnered with Richmond Magazine and the VCU Department of Psychiatry to present the live forum. Regional experts answered questions from the audience about geriatric health.

NOVA: Finding Life Beyond Earth

Scientists are on the verge of answering one of the greatest questions in history: Are we alone? Combining the latest telescope images with dazzling CGI, “Finding Life Beyond Earth” immerses audiences in the sights and sounds of alien worlds, while top astrobiologists explain how these places are changing how we think about the potential for life in our solar system.

PBS Arts Premier: The Guthrie Theater Presents H.M.S. Pinafore

The PBS Arts Fall Festival premieres Friday, October 14 with a new production of the beloved classic HMS Pinafore from the Guthrie Theater. Gilbert and Sullivan’s first blockbuster is among the most crowd-pleasing comic musicals in history, loved for its dynamite songs, gleefully entertaining story and saucy satire. The captain’s daughter is in love with an ordinary sailor, but her father has a more sophisticated suitor in mind. Will she and her beloved defy convention and set sail for love?

Women, War & Peace

Women, War & Peace is a bold new five-part PBS television series that challenges the conventional wisdom that war and peace are men’s domain and places women at the center of an urgent dialogue about conflict and security. In the film, you’ll meet women from Bosnia, Liberia, Afghanistan and Colombia who faced, and stood up to, violence and intimidation in the name of peace.

WCVE Forum October 9: “The Upside of Quitting”

You know the bromide: winners never quit and quitters never win. To which Freakonomics Radio says … Are you sure? Sometimes quitting is strategic, and sometimes it’s the best thing you can do. It’s all about opportunity cost: when you’re doing one thing, you can’t be doing another. So when do you quit the one and start the other?

WCVE Forum October 2: “The Folly of Prediction”

This episode of Freakonomics explores quite a few realms of prediction — most unsuccessful, some more so — and you’ll hear from quite a variety of people.

Sesame Street Celebrates Season 42

Sesame Street, beloved by four-decades of preschoolers and their caregivers, launches Season 42 on the Community Idea Stations on September 26. In an effort to encourage school readiness, especially in the disciplines of science and math, areas where US students are falling behind, the new season focuses on a STEM curriculum, an acronym for Science, Technology, Engineering and Math.