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Enjoy the musical menagerie of two eccentric British songwriters Michael Flanders and Donald Swann in this affectionate forty-minute program that includes their one and only Broadway performance. Flanders and Swann met in school and performed together in their first revue in 1940. However, it wasn't until 1956 when encouraged by friends, they hired a London theatre to perform for two weeks. Their successful show ran for more than two years as they sang about ostriches and gnus, warthogs, armadillos and the all-too-fallible human species. This wonderful program with witty and amiably eccentric songs will undoubtedly bring them a brand new set of fans.

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"What can we say about Americans from the things they've made? When we look at them through the lens of their art, what do we see?," host and acclaimed TIME magazine art critic Robert Hughes asks. This extraordinary series presents a panoramic view of American history as reflected by artists in every medium and genre, from "primitive" portraits of the Colonial era to the complex visions of the present day. Explore the luminous, almost sacred work of early-American landscape artists. The varied experiences of 19th century America appear in the paintings of John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt and Winslow Homer. Discover how a uniquely American modernism was forged at the 1913 Armory Show, and ponder the creative genius that blossomed during the '20s, the Depression years and the exciting, innovative periods following World War II.

Titles are: "The Republic of Virtue," "The Promised Land," "The Wilderness and the West," "The Gilded Age," "A Wave from the Atlantic," "Streamlines and Breadlines," "The Empire of Signs," and "The Age of Anxiety."

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When Zach and Annie decide to deliver food to a homeless shelter, they get caught up in planning their rewards. Plato helps them discover the true spirit of giving in "Rocking Horse Land" - about a boy who learns the value of bringing joy to another; "Old Mr Rabbit's Thanksgiving Dinner" - where a rabbit's bounty gives wonderful meaning to the holiday; the "Gift of the Magi" - in which a couple's sacrificial gifts reflect their love; and the purpose of a day well spent, in the poem "Count That Day Lost."

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