Lauren Groveman, from Larchmont, New York, shows Julia Child the many steps of bagel baking. In this episode, Groveman demonstrates how bagels are boiled, and then baked. Flavors can be added to the top and the bottom of the bagels. Bagel-baking tips are shared, including how baking soda and sugar help brown the bagels during baking, and tossing ice cubes on the bottom of the oven creates steam. Groveman also prepares vegetable cream cheese, smoked...

The courageous, spirited Mary Queen of Scots tells her own story--from her youth as a young girl married to the invalid young King of France to her short reign as Queen of Scotland and her tragic imprisonment by her ruthless, merciless cousin Queen Elizabeth.

Queen of France at sixteen, widowed at eighteen, Mary Stuart defies pressure to remarry and instead returns to her native Scotland to reclaim her rightful throne. By birth, she also has a rival claim to the throne of Elizabeth I, who rules as the Queen of England. Mary asserts her claim to the English throne, threatening Elizabeth's sovereignty. Betrayal, rebellion, and conspiracies within each court imperil both Queens, driving them apart, as each...

Mary Jemison, a Shawnee captive, was adopted by the Senecas, later married a young warrior and spent the rest of her life with them serving as a link between Indian and white communities.

Painfully familiar with the clash of personal and religious expression, Salman Rushdie can now be seen as a literary sentinel regarding the rise of Islamic extremism. In this program, Bill Moyers talks with the author of Shame, The Satanic Verses, and Shalimar the Clown about the impact of 9/11, about tension between moderate and radical Islam, and about the need to hold the line on fundamentalism even when it leads to personal risk. A reading by...