Tuesday nights on wttwPrime, you can catch the series History Detectives at 7pm. I really like this show. Folks with old stuff they’ve inherited, found, or bought come to the history detectives to figure out where it came from. Sort of like Antiques Roadshow, but way more in-depth – here you get to find out the story (or history, as it were) behind the items, instead of what they are worth. So, not only do you learn about the item, but about it’s place in the world.
On tonight’s episode, a woman learns about the history of a camera inherited from her uncle who survived the Holocaust. Her family tells two conflicting stories about the uncle – in one he survives persecution with the help of his gentile girlfriend, and in the other, he takes pictures with the camera for the Nazi’s. Also, a confusing letter from 1942 leads to an examination of the history of Alcoholics Anonymous.
At 8pm, Simon Schama’s Power of Art delves into the life of Caravaggio.
At 9pm, the first in a series called Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick? Here is the series description:
UNNATURAL CAUSES is a four-hour series that, for the first time on television, sounds the alarm about glaring socio-economic and racial inequities in health and searches for their causes. he series looks at what’s making us sick in the first place, investigating startling new findings that suggest there is much more to poor health than bad habits, inadequate health care or unlucky genes. The series circles in on a slow killer in plain view: the social circumstances in which we are born, live and work that can affect our risk for disease as surely as germs and viruses.
