Stories
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From Barbados to Carolina: Colony of a Colony (1999) | ETV Classics
April 24, 2025Produced, written and directed by Larry Hall, this ETV Classics documentary outlines the relationship between Barbados and South Carolina. Barbados is a small island country in the southeastern Caribbean Sea, which had been known to the Spanish, as well as the Portuguese... -
South Carolina Today (1974) | Sandlapper's Corner
April 23, 2025This segment of Sandlapper's Corner takes a very futuristic bent when a spaceship lands in South Carolina and a space explorer emerges who has a keen interest in learning about the state. The young student who finds him offers to tell him all about South Carolina and the duo... -
The Big Picture with Marian McPartland (2007) | ETV Classics
April 22, 2025Today on The Big Picture, host Andrew Gobeil introduces Marian McPartland as she prepares to premiere her composition, “A Portrait of Rachel Carson,” with the University of South Carolina Symphony Orchestra. Before the premiere, Marian holds a Master Class with musicians... -
Marian McPartland Celebrated: A Portrait of Rachel Carson (2007) | ETV Classics
April 22, 2025Premiere of A Portrait of Rachel Carson performed by the University of South Carolina Symphony Orchestra with Dr. Donald Portnoy conducting and Marian McPartland performing her composition written to honor Rachel Carson. The audience warmly greeted Marian McPartland as she... -
Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz with Bobby Short (1986) | ETV Classics
April 18, 2025In this joy-filled ETV Classics special, Piano Jazz (1986) comes to television, as Marian McPartland welcomes the king of cabaret singers, Bobby Short. He leads off with a song that he does at the Carlyle every night, written in 1934 by Duke Ellington called “Drop Me Off in... -
Family Across the Sea (1990) | ETV Classics
April 17, 2025This ETV Classics special explores the remarkable connections between the Gullah of the South Carolina/Georgia Sea Islands and the people of West Africa, particularly those of Sierra Leone. The program traces the unparalleled historical connection and continued relationship...