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Alan Shallcross

One of his last productions was a serial adaptation of the Oswald Wynd novel The Ginger Tree (1989) co-produced by the BBC, Japanese broadcaster NHK and WGBH Boston.

Alex Etel

Etel also played the bright-eyed ragamuffin Harry Gregson in the six-part TV adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's "Cranford" for the BBC and WGBH, which was transmitted on BBC 1 in the autumn of 2007 and co-starred Philip Glenister, Judi Dench, Eileen Atkins, Francesca Annis and Imelda Staunton.

Alyssa A. Goodman

From 2008 to 2009, Goodman was a "Scholar-in-Residence" at WGBH, while on sabbatical.

Bonnie Hammer

She began her career in television at WGBH, the public television station in Boston, where she produced This Old House and ZOOM.

Boston Pops Orchestra

Also during Fiedler's tenure, the Pops and local public television station WGBH developed a series of weekly televised broadcasts recorded during the Pops' regular season in Symphony Hall, Evening at Pops.

Boyd Estus

In addition to making films for the BBC and other overseas broadcasters, Estus has made many films for American broadcast television including the National Geographic Society, the Smithsonian Institution, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, and PBS television where he was a founding member of the film unit at WGBH Boston.

Catherine Clinton

She has written for the History Channel, consulted on projects for WGBH, and is a member of the Screen Writers Guild, and has authored, edited, co-authored or co-edited more than twenty books to date.

Connecticut Public Television

It was the fourth educational television station in New England, following WGBH-TV in Boston, WENH-TV in Durham, New Hampshire (now part of New Hampshire Public Television), and WCBB in Augusta, Maine (now part of the Maine Public Broadcasting Network).

Copa Airlines Flight 201

A year after the crash, the story of the crash of Flight 201 and its investigation was featured in a WGBH, BBC, and NDR documentary.

Darleen Wilson

Darleen Wilson is a Boston, Massachusetts-based folk musician, recording engineer, producer, and Director of Content for Integrated Media at public radio and television station WGBH.

Denise Black

Black appeared in 1991 on TV as Carrie Evans in Shoscombe Old Place, episode 60 of ITV's and WGBH, Boston's The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes and on stage as Goneril in Shakespeare's King Lear, toured in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night with the Cambridge Touring Company - and gave birth to a daughter, Dandy.

Garfield Kennedy

He produced and directed the Emmy Award-winning 9/11 documentary for the BBC and PBS WGBH Boston, Why the Towers Fell and has completed a series of fiction shorts including the BAFTA Nominated Bye-Child (written and directed by Bernard MacLaverty.

George Whitman

On Wednesday, September 26, 2007, journalist Gerry Hadden's story on George Whitman, his daughter Sylvia Beach Whitman, and Shakespeare & Company aired on NPR's The World (a co-production of the BBC, Public Radio International (PRI), and the Boston radio station WGBH).

Howie Carr

Carr has worked as a reporter and commentator for Boston television stations WGBH and WLVI.

Jane Little

In the United States during 1996-7, she was a producer for The World, a radio programme for Public Radio International (PRI) in association with WGBH Boston and BBC World Service.

Jewelle Gomez

Gomez was on the original staff of Say Brother (now Basic Black), one of the first weekly Black television shows (WGBH-TV Boston, 1968), and was on the founding board of the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) in 1984.

Kim McLarin

McLarin is also a host on Basic Black, Boston's longest-running weekly television program devoted exclusively to African-American themes, shown on WGBH.

Michael J. Sandel

An abridged form of this recording is now a 12-episode TV series, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?, in a co-production of WGBH and Harvard University.

Norman N. Holland

Holland was The Film Critic weekly from 1957 to 1959 on WGBH-TV in Boston,and he presented for Harvard's Lowell Institute a weekly 30-minute program, The Shakespearean Imagination in 1963 also on WGHB-TV.

Orit Wolf

She records regularly for many radio stations including the BBC, CBS, CBC, IBO, WGBH, NRK and GLR.

Peep and the Big Wide World

Peep and the Big Wide World is currently sponsored by the National Science Foundation in conjunction with WGBH-TV as part of an educational and outreach program.

Philip K. Allen

Allen returned to Massachusetts in 1957 as the assistant general manager for finance at WGBH-TV and WGBH radio.

Rachel Vetter Huang

She has performed on radio broadcasts from WQXR-FM New York, WGBH-FM Boston and on South Carolina, North Carolina, Colorado and California public television and radio networks.

Raymond W. Smock

He was senior historical consultant to WGBH-TV public television in Boston on their 26-part telecourse, A Biography of America (2000).

Seymour DeKoven

His unique style was utterly different from that of any popular-music disk jockey, but was also worlds apart from the dignified manner of other classical radio notables such as Robert J. Lurtsema of WGBH, Boston, and Robert Conrad of WCLV, Cleveland.

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking

Some co-production funding for the drama was provided by United States PBS broadcaster WGBH, and it was later shown on PBS's Masterpiece Theatre in 2005.

Simply Ming

Simply Ming is a television cooking show hosted by chef Ming Tsai, and is produced by WGBH Boston and Ming East-West LLC.

Suicide of Ryan Halligan

Halligan's story was featured on a Frontline television program entitled "Growing Up Online," produced in January, 2008, by WGBH-TV in Boston and distributed nationwide over PBS.

The Buccaneers

Independently, in the same year, the BBC hired screenwriter Maggie Wadey to adapt and finish the novel for a television serial adaptation, which was produced by the BBC and American PBS broadcaster WGBH, and screened on BBC One in the UK and in the Masterpiece Theatre series in the United States, airing in 1995.

The Time Warp Trio

The series debuted on July 9, 2005 as a production by Soup 2 Nuts, in association with WGBH Boston, and initially aired on Discovery Kids and CBBC.

The Way To Cook

The book was published by Knopf, the firm that published almost all of Child's work from the beginning to the end of her career; the video series was produced with and marketed by the WGBH Educational Foundation in Boston but was shot at Child's home in Santa Barbara, California.

Tug Yourgrau

After periods of odd jobs, he became a producer at WGBH-TV where he met Joel Olicker.

VerCiência

Among main traditional international participants of the VerCiência exhibitions are the BBC (UK) and WGBH (US), with programmes such as Horizon and Nova, good examples of how science and technology can be conveyed in an interesting and informative manner to the general public.

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