Moyers & Company
Continuing his long-running conversation with the American public, Bill Moyers returned to television in January 2012 with Moyers & Company, a weekly series of smart talk and new ideas aimed at helping viewers make sense of our tumultuous times through the insight of America's strongest thinkers. Airing on public television and radio stations around the country, the series offers a forum to poets, writers and artists, scientists and philosophers, and leading scholars. The program also features Moyers' hallmark essays on democracy.
- 2012-2015
- 3 seasons
- American Public Television
- News, Talk & Interview
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Continuing his long-running conversation with the American public, Bill Moyers returned to television in January 2012 with Moyers & Company, a weekly series of smart talk and new ideas aimed at helping viewers make sense of our tumultuous times through the insight of America's strongest thinkers. Airing on public television and radio stations around the country, the series offers a forum to poets, writers and artists, scientists and philosophers, and leading scholars. The program also features Moyers' hallmark essays on democracy.
Season 3 Episode Guide
5 Episodes 2014
Episode 1
Neil DeGrasse Tyson on the New Cosmos
Sun, Jan 12, 2014 30 mins
When Bill Moyers announced his intention to retire just weeks ago, he received - and read - thousands of messages on his website and Facebook urging him to stay on the air. "I felt as if I were going AWOL in the heat of battle," he said. So he revoked his decision, opting instead to continue with a half-hour version of his program that "will still give us flexibility to offer a forum to strong and provocative voices." With the motto "Occupy Democracy," Bill Moyers continues his popular weekly broadcast "Moyers & Company" and begins a new half-hour format with nothing short of the universe itself. The revised telecast kicks off with the first of a series of conversations with famed astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, Frederic P. Rose director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Their wide-ranging interview touches on a variety of topics, including the nature of an expanding, accelerating universe (and how it will end), the difference between "dark energy" and "dark matter," the concept of God in cosmology and why science matters. "Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind," Tyson tells Moyers. "Because it transforms who we are, how we live, and it gives us an understanding of our place in the universe."
Episode 2
Neil DeGrasse Tyson on Science, Religion and the Universe
Sun, Jan 19, 2014 30 mins
Bill Moyers continues his conversation with Neil deGrasse Tyson, Frederick P. Rose director of the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and host of the upcoming Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey on the National Geographic Channel and Fox TV. Tyson speculates not only on the nature of our expanding, accelerating universe and the dark energy and dark matter that may control its destiny but on the possibility of many parallel universes. "Why should nature make anything in ones?" he asks. "Everything else we ever thought was unique or special, we found more of them, so, philosophically, it's not unsettling to imagine more than one universe." Tyson and Moyers also discuss whether science and the Bible can be reconciled. Dr. Tyson points out that while living in a free country means enjoying the right to freedom of thought, "the problem arises if you have a religious philosophy that is not based on objective realities that you then want to put in a science classroom. Then I'm going to stand there and say, 'No, I'm not going to allow you in the science classroom. I'm not telling you what to think, I'm just telling you in the science class, you're not doing science.'"
Episode 3
From a Universe of Wonder to the Politics of Earth
Wed, Jan 1, 2014 27 mins
From the far reaches of the universe, a return to Earth with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson to talk about science, politics, and democracy.
Episode 4
David Simon: My Country Is a Horror Show!
Fri, Jan 31, 2014 27 mins
Journalist and television producer David Simon on America as "a horror show," the divided state of the union and the vast gap between rich and poor.
Episode 5
Bill McKibben to Obama: Say No to Big Oil
Sat, Feb 1, 2014 27 mins
The showdown nears for the Keystone XL pipeline, and Bill McKibben says it's time for Barack Obama to stand up to oil companies and just say no.