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This Week:
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Ethics and the World Crisis: A Dialogue
with the Dalai
Lama, click here.
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The Teacher
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"The Teacher" takes the viewer on a
colourful and reflective journey revealing the rich teachings of the Dalai Lama
against the dramatic backdrop of the Himalayas. The film features archive
footage of the 1959 uprising in Lhasa, Tibet and the destruction of Buddist
temples and monasteries in 1977 and also exclusive interviews with the Dalai
Lama and other leading religious figures who promote East/West spiritual
dialogue.
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Flip Flotsam
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This beautifully photographed, charming
documentary traces the fantastic journey of Africa's most popular shoes: the
flip-flop. Easily bought, quickly discarded, for Westerners the flip-flop stands
as a symbol of the summer holiday. But in its African homeland, it has a unique
life cycle and their story reveals much about Africa's economy and
culture.
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Who Speaks For Islam?
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A Link TV original production that
explores Islam in an age when Muslim extremists are laying claim to the
religion. Veteran NPR and PBS journalist, Ray Suarez, hosts a provocative
roundtable discussion with American Muslim scholars and, via satellite, Mike
Scheuer, author of Imperial Hubris and a former CIA expert who has
followed fundamentalist Islamic movements for a decade. The program gives
Americans the opportunity to hear rarely-heard Muslim voices, including Shaykh
Muhammad Tantawi, Grand Imam of Al-Azhar University in Cairo, the first
prominent Shaykh to speak out against Bin Laden after the 9/11 attacks.
Video pieces from the Middle East are interwoven throughout the program to give
viewers a political and cultural context.
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Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet
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The story of the seventh century prophet
who changed world history in 23 years and continues to shape the lives of more
than 1.2 billion people. Three years in the making, this film takes
viewers not only to ancient Middle Eastern sites where Muhammad's story unfolds,
but into the homes, mosques and workplaces of some of America's estimated seven
million Muslims to discover the many ways in which they follow Muhammad's
example. The film is narrated by Andre Braugher.
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Video of the Week
Artist: Tom� Kočko & Orchestra
Song: "To Dance!" (Do tanca!)
Country: Czech Republic
Official Website
This video certainly reminds us that at one point in time pre-Christian Europe was inhabited by tribes that worshipped the earth and its cycles of life and fertility, and a maypole dance was an opportunity to let all inhibitions go and celebrate it. Tom� Kočko has been mining the vein of Moravian folk songs and updating them. It's a rich archive indeed - the work of Dvorak and Jan�ček showcases this heritage, and serves to highlight the tremendous debt that classical music owes to central European folk music. Kočko has scored this piece with jews harp, bagpipes and shepherd's flute, retaining both the folk flavor of the beautiful modal melody, and the wild pagan abandon of a midsummer maypole dance.
To own the music of Tom� Kočko, click here.
Premiere: Monday, 1/31 at 7:55 PM ET (4:55 PM PT)
Repeat times are:
Tuesday, 2/1 at 1:55 AM ET (10:55 PM PT)
Tuesday, 2/1 at 7:55 AM ET (4:55 AM PT)
Tuesday, 2/1 at 1:55 PM ET (10:55 AM PT)
Remember that you can own much of the music featured on our music blocks by visiting our online music store. We have either CDs or 99 cent song downloads available for many of the artists on our 60 playlists. Check them out
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Link TV Current Events Coverage
 Mosaic: World News From The Middle East
A selection of daily news reports in English from a variety of
Middle Eastern broadcasters. MOSAIC currently airs Monday - Friday @ 10:30 PM ET
(7:30 PT). For more information about Mosaic, click here.
Watch Mosaic Online!
We now offer a limited
selection of programming, including "Mosaic: World News From The Middle East,"
via streaming on our
website.
 Democracy Now!
A national independent news
program, hosted by award-winning journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez and
produced out of the Downtown Community Television Center, a community media
center in New York City's Chinatown. Democracy Now normally airs Monday through
Friday at 11AM ET (8AM PT) and Monday through Thursday at 6PM ET (3PM PT). For
more information, click here.
 Viewpoint With James Zogby
A live
call-in discussion program about Middle East and world issues hosted by Dr.
James Zogby from Washington D.C. and broadcast throughout the Middle East by Abu
Dhabi Television. U.S. viewers may call 1-800-528-2090 with their questions or
comments during the program. A new live installment of this program will air
every Friday at 5:00 PM ET (2:00 PM PT). For more information about Viewpoint,
click here.
 DW Journal
Live broadcasts of Deutsche
Welle's live newscast to provide you with a European perspective on breaking
news. DW JOURNAL currently airs Mon - Fri @ 10PM, 4AM, 10AM, 4PM ET (7PM, 1AM,
7AM, 1PM PT). For online streaming of JOURNAL, please visit our Live Streams page.
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Download A Free Single Every Day
Download a Free Single from the Link TV Music Store every day... a great way to discover new artists! Each day we are putting up one song as a free download. As you all know we have been placing a free compilation of 8 tracks on the site each month. This has been a popular way to showcase some of our artists. Now we will be featuring a new artist every single day and you will be able to start collecting a new song each day from around the world. More...Download Today's Free Single.
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Best Viewer Comments Of The Week
(Keep them coming. Next week it could be yours!)
January 23, 2005
Thank you LINK TV for bringing the voices of resistance, liberation and justice to our homes!
January 18, 2005
We SOOO appreciate LINK.tv. In fact, we changed from cable specifically to get LINK TV, and probably 3/4 of our viewing time is spent on your channel...
January 19, 2005
I completely enjoy the rare opportunity to appreciate music I am certain I would never hear, or wouldn't have access to...
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Vital Info
Link TV can be seen on:
DIRECTV - Channel 375
The DISH Network - Channel 9410
Program Schedule and Descriptions:
Daily Schedule
Weekly Schedule
To see the contents of all World Music Blocks currently being aired, click here.
How to reach me:
Robert Eisert
Manager, Viewer Relations
Link TV
P.O. BOX 2008
San Francisco, CA 94126
For comments or questions about our World Music programming, please contact our Music Team at [email protected].
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