TV Schedules

In Performance at the Governor's Mansion

Madisonville

A concert from the Glema Mahr Center for the Arts in Madisonville spotlights Western Kentucky talent: the Murray State University Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Dennis Johnson; vocalist Janet Cunningham; a choral group from the Governor's School for the Arts; and nationally known flutist Jim Walker, originally from Muhlenberg County. A 1997 KET production.

Wonder: The Lives of Anna & Harlan Hubbard

The story of Anna and Harlan Hubbard, who led their lives as few people in modern times have and in doing so found contentment and freedom. Living in a boat house they built, sustained by food they raised or caught, supported by no electricity, the Hubbards, found their way without modern conveniences. Kentucky author Wendell Berry narrates.

Kentucky Life

The Little School That Could, Nada Tunnel, Kentucky Museum, Lexington's 1833 Cholera Epidemic

Jackson Independent School District in Breathitt County is at the center of a community effort to preserve local agriculture and feed hungry kids in the process; the history of Nada Tunnel, a former railroad tunnel that is often referred to as "The Gateway to the Red River Gorge"; Chip visits the Kentucky Museum in Bowling Green; and a look back at the 1833 cholera epidemic in Lexington. A 2026 KET production.

Tim Farmer's Country Kitchen

Checking the Honey Bees, Slinging Honey, Dehydrating Mushrooms & Baklava

We invite Sarah Preston out (The Bee Expert!) to check our hive that hasn't been touched for 3 years! Learn about the life stages of a bee, the varroa destructor and how to know when honey is ready to harvest. Take some frames to the cabin to sling some honey to use in our favorite dessert recipe, Baklava. Also, learn how to dehydrate mushrooms to keep them for up to 6 months.

Headwaters: Real Stories from Rural America

Life Stories

The lives of two African American women in eastern Kentucky: Mabel Parker Hardison Smith taught school for more than 35 years in the coalfields of eastern Kentucky. Evelyn Williams, coal miner's daughter and wife, domestic worker and mother of nine, battled to save her land from destruction by a large oil and gas firm. A 2001 Production.

Wonder: The Lives of Anna & Harlan Hubbard

The story of Anna and Harlan Hubbard, who led their lives as few people in modern times have and in doing so found contentment and freedom. Living in a boat house they built, sustained by food they raised or caught, supported by no electricity, the Hubbards, found their way without modern conveniences. Kentucky author Wendell Berry narrates.

Kentucky to the World

Empower Today & Change Tomorrow: Louisville's Global Game Changers

This program focuses on Louisville's own Global Game Changers (GGC), a nonprofit that seeks to empower all children to discover their inner superpower through unique educational programs and partnerships. Sam Corbett, president of the Jefferson County Public Education Foundation, moderates a discussion with GGC co-founders Jan Helson, a successful business owner and philanthropist, and her daughter Rachel Annette Helson, an actress, producer, CEO and philanthropist who lives in New York City, as well as Anne and Justin Walker, who returned from successful careers to Louisville to head the organization. Together they are expanding GGC using their equation: MY TALENT + MY HEART = MY SUPERPOWER to change the trajectory of Louisville youth to become change-makers in their community. A 2018 Production.

Deep Down

Two eastern Kentucky neighbors are at odds in a contentious community battle over a proposed mountaintop removal coal mine. A 2010 production.

Crafting Tradition

Pioneer families made baskets, fishing nets, quilts, brooms, and furniture by hand, from whatever materials were available, because they had to. Today, these same items are mass-produced and readily available, but the hand-made versions persist for very different reasons. This 1993 KET documentary visits members of five Western Kentucky families to discover how they are preserving the tradition of hand-crafting these household items?and why they believe it is important to maintain this link to the past. A 1993 KET Production.

Kentucky Tonight

Bywords

Ben Bernstein

Ben Bernstein, owner of the Mike Fink riverboat restaurant, talks about his family's restaurant business. A 1981 KET production.

Kentucky Life

The Little School That Could, Nada Tunnel, Kentucky Museum, Lexington's 1833 Cholera Epidemic

Jackson Independent School District in Breathitt County is at the center of a community effort to preserve local agriculture and feed hungry kids in the process; the history of Nada Tunnel, a former railroad tunnel that is often referred to as "The Gateway to the Red River Gorge"; Chip visits the Kentucky Museum in Bowling Green; and a look back at the 1833 cholera epidemic in Lexington. A 2026 KET production.

Kentucky Time Capsule

In the American Way

Looks back at urban renewal in Louisville in the 1970s, including the destruction that was required to make way for new development, and at the opposition voices who argued that "quality of life" could not be measured by concrete. Prominent among them was Kentucky farmer and writer Wendell Berry. A 2003 KET Production.

Tim Farmer's Country Kitchen

Checking the Honey Bees, Slinging Honey, Dehydrating Mushrooms & Baklava

We invite Sarah Preston out (The Bee Expert!) to check our hive that hasn't been touched for 3 years! Learn about the life stages of a bee, the varroa destructor and how to know when honey is ready to harvest. Take some frames to the cabin to sling some honey to use in our favorite dessert recipe, Baklava. Also, learn how to dehydrate mushrooms to keep them for up to 6 months.

Kentucky to the World

Empower Today & Change Tomorrow: Louisville's Global Game Changers

This program focuses on Louisville's own Global Game Changers (GGC), a nonprofit that seeks to empower all children to discover their inner superpower through unique educational programs and partnerships. Sam Corbett, president of the Jefferson County Public Education Foundation, moderates a discussion with GGC co-founders Jan Helson, a successful business owner and philanthropist, and her daughter Rachel Annette Helson, an actress, producer, CEO and philanthropist who lives in New York City, as well as Anne and Justin Walker, who returned from successful careers to Louisville to head the organization. Together they are expanding GGC using their equation: MY TALENT + MY HEART = MY SUPERPOWER to change the trajectory of Louisville youth to become change-makers in their community. A 2018 Production.

Deep Down

Two eastern Kentucky neighbors are at odds in a contentious community battle over a proposed mountaintop removal coal mine. A 2010 production.

Kentucky Tonight

WoodSongs Kids

Wyatt Ellis & Owen Brockman

Twelve-year-old master musician Wyatt Ellis plays mandolin, guitar and fiddle; banjo player Owen Brockman, 12, is part of Tomorrow's Bluegrass Stars and the "IBMA Kids on Bluegrass" program.

Kentucky Life

The Little School That Could, Nada Tunnel, Kentucky Museum, Lexington's 1833 Cholera Epidemic

Jackson Independent School District in Breathitt County is at the center of a community effort to preserve local agriculture and feed hungry kids in the process; the history of Nada Tunnel, a former railroad tunnel that is often referred to as "The Gateway to the Red River Gorge"; Chip visits the Kentucky Museum in Bowling Green; and a look back at the 1833 cholera epidemic in Lexington. A 2026 KET production.

Bywords

Ben Bernstein

Ben Bernstein, owner of the Mike Fink riverboat restaurant, talks about his family's restaurant business. A 1981 KET production.

Ride Through Ludlow Lagoon

Ludlow Lagoon was one of the Midwest's most exciting amusement parks around the turn of the 20th century. Discover the stories about the park through photographs, anecdotes, and newspaper headlines.

Kentucky Life

Hillbilly Days; Stitching the S.E.L.F.; Kentucky's Stonehenge; Friends of Eastern Cemetery

Every April, Pikeville hosts the Hillbilly Days festival, three days of food, fun, and hillbilly spirit; Lexington students get first-hand experience in the world of fashion; the late artist Chester Fryer created Kentucky Stonehenge in Munfordville; Friends of Eastern Cemetery in Louisville is helping to restore the most over-buried cemetery in the U.S. A 2023 KET Production.

WoodSongs Kids

Wyatt Ellis & Owen Brockman

Twelve-year-old master musician Wyatt Ellis plays mandolin, guitar and fiddle; banjo player Owen Brockman, 12, is part of Tomorrow's Bluegrass Stars and the "IBMA Kids on Bluegrass" program.

Kentucky to the World

Empower Today & Change Tomorrow: Louisville's Global Game Changers

This program focuses on Louisville's own Global Game Changers (GGC), a nonprofit that seeks to empower all children to discover their inner superpower through unique educational programs and partnerships. Sam Corbett, president of the Jefferson County Public Education Foundation, moderates a discussion with GGC co-founders Jan Helson, a successful business owner and philanthropist, and her daughter Rachel Annette Helson, an actress, producer, CEO and philanthropist who lives in New York City, as well as Anne and Justin Walker, who returned from successful careers to Louisville to head the organization. Together they are expanding GGC using their equation: MY TALENT + MY HEART = MY SUPERPOWER to change the trajectory of Louisville youth to become change-makers in their community. A 2018 Production.

Crafting Tradition

Pioneer families made baskets, fishing nets, quilts, brooms, and furniture by hand, from whatever materials were available, because they had to. Today, these same items are mass-produced and readily available, but the hand-made versions persist for very different reasons. This 1993 KET documentary visits members of five Western Kentucky families to discover how they are preserving the tradition of hand-crafting these household items?and why they believe it is important to maintain this link to the past. A 1993 KET Production.

Kentucky Afield

Tim Farmer's Country Kitchen

Checking the Honey Bees, Slinging Honey, Dehydrating Mushrooms & Baklava

We invite Sarah Preston out (The Bee Expert!) to check our hive that hasn't been touched for 3 years! Learn about the life stages of a bee, the varroa destructor and how to know when honey is ready to harvest. Take some frames to the cabin to sling some honey to use in our favorite dessert recipe, Baklava. Also, learn how to dehydrate mushrooms to keep them for up to 6 months.

Kentucky Life

Hillbilly Days; Stitching the S.E.L.F.; Kentucky's Stonehenge; Friends of Eastern Cemetery

Every April, Pikeville hosts the Hillbilly Days festival, three days of food, fun, and hillbilly spirit; Lexington students get first-hand experience in the world of fashion; the late artist Chester Fryer created Kentucky Stonehenge in Munfordville; Friends of Eastern Cemetery in Louisville is helping to restore the most over-buried cemetery in the U.S. A 2023 KET Production.

Kentucky Tonight

Kentucky Life

The Little School That Could, Nada Tunnel, Kentucky Museum, Lexington's 1833 Cholera Epidemic

Jackson Independent School District in Breathitt County is at the center of a community effort to preserve local agriculture and feed hungry kids in the process; the history of Nada Tunnel, a former railroad tunnel that is often referred to as "The Gateway to the Red River Gorge"; Chip visits the Kentucky Museum in Bowling Green; and a look back at the 1833 cholera epidemic in Lexington. A 2026 KET production.

Kentucky Edition

In Performance at the Governor's Mansion

Madisonville

A concert from the Glema Mahr Center for the Arts in Madisonville spotlights Western Kentucky talent: the Murray State University Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Dennis Johnson; vocalist Janet Cunningham; a choral group from the Governor's School for the Arts; and nationally known flutist Jim Walker, originally from Muhlenberg County. A 1997 KET production.

Bluegrass and Backroads

Rock Bottom Soap; Woodford Reserve Bourbon; Bluegrass Youth Ballet

Rock Bottom Soap, Woodford Reserve Bourbon, and the Bluegrass Youth Ballet are visited. A 2018 Production.

From This Valley

Author and outdoorsman Gurney Norman explores Eastern Kentucky's Big Sandy region, including its trails, its people, its history, and its rich literary heritage. A 1989 KET production.