BookTV

An award-winning show, produced by Claytowne productions, Book TV has been covering author appearances at Capitola Book Café and Bookshop Santa Cruz since October ’96. Broadcast three times weekly on Community Television of Santa Cruz County, these professionally produced two-camera shoots feature the full talk plus the best of the Q&A session from such authors as Howard Zinn , Angela Davis, Frank McCourt, Norman Solomon, Amiri Baraka, Robert Anton Wilson, Tim Ferris and Susie Bright.. Our catalog is now over 100 authors strong and grows monthly. Book TV covers a wide range of authors, specializing on coverage of Politics, Biography, Science, History, Poetry, Sexuality, Queer and Essay.

Winner of the 1999 WAVE Award for "Best Educational Program" Professional.

BookTV is sponsored by Capitola Book Café and Bookshop Santa Cruz with additional funding provided by a generous grant from Ow Family Properties.

Channel 25 Fridays @ 7:00pm
Channel 27 Fridays @ 9:00pm
Channel 27 Sundays @ 9:00pm

BookTV Shows

BTV 001
HOWARD ZINN - The Possibility of Hope - TRT 1 hr, 41 min.

BTV002
HOWARD ZINN with
STUDS TERKEL, introduced by
ALICE WALKER - TRT 1:29:22

BTV003
HOWARD ZINN - "Our Legacy from the Sixties" - TRT 1:23:51

BTV004
HOWARD ZINN - "What Does the Past Say About the Future…and So What?" - TRT 1:15:27

BTV005
HOWARD ZINN - "The Community Television of Santa Cruz Interview" - TRT 53: 00

BTV006
GORE VIDAL in conversation with CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS - TRT 1hr 14min.

BTV007
NORMAN SOLOMON - "The CIA-Crack Cocaine Connection and the Media’s Response to it" - TRT 1hr 14 min.

BTV008
NORMAN SOLOMON - "Overview of Corporate Media" - TRT 29 min.

BTV009
NORMAN SOLOMON - "Wizards of Media Oz" - TRT 50 min.

BTV010
NORMAN SOLOMON - "The Trouble With Dilbert" - TRT 29 min.

BTV011
ANGELA DAVIS - "The Corporatization of our Prison System" - TRT 1hr 6 min.

BTV012
ANGELA DAVIS - "Blues Legacies and Black Feminism" - TRT 1hr.

BTV013
MICHAEL PARENTI - "Democracy and Class Warfare" - TRT 47 min.

BTV014
AMIRI BARAKA - "Poetry, Funk-lore, and Revolutionary Discourse" - TRT 47 min.

BTV015
AMIRI BARAKA - "Talkin’ Revolution and Assorted Topics" - TRT 41 min.

BTV016
DAVID BARSAMIAN - TRT 61 min.

BTV018
SAUL LANDAU - "Red Hot Radio" - TRT 60 min.

BTV019
PAUL HARRIS - "Black Rage" - TRT 60 min.

BTV020
RON RUIZ - "Guiseppe Rocco" -TRT 60 min.

BTV021
MICHAEL RIORDAN - "Crystal Fire" - TRT 60 min.

BTV022
SHELBY STEELE - "A Dream Deferred" - TRT 60 min.

BTV023
DANIEL KOHANSKI - "the Philosophical Programmer" - TRT 60 min.

BTV024
DOUG DOUD - "Blues For America" - TRT 60 min.

BTV025
DAPHNE SCHOLINSKI - "The Last Time I Wore A Dress" -TRT 60 min.

BTV026
RUBY RICH - " Chick Flicks" - TRT 60 min.

BTV027
CRAIG REINARMAN - "Crack in America" - TRT 60 min.

BTV028
REVEREND JAMES LAWSON - "The Crucifixion of Martin Luther King" - TRT 90 min.

BTV029
MARGE FRANZ, BETTINA APTHEKER, RUTH HUNTER - "Red Diapers: Growing Up In the Communist Left" - TRT 90 min.

BTV030
KATHLEEN DESMAISONS - "Potatoes Not Prozac" - TRT 60 min.

BTV031
FRANCES CONLEY - "walking out on the boys" - TRT 60 min.

BTV032
GARY WEBB - "Dark Alliance" - TRT 60 min.

BTV033
CLAIRE CHOW - "Leaving Deep Water" - TRT 60 min.

BTV034
WILL SELF - "Great Apes" -TRT60 min.

BTV035
FRANZ STEIDL - "The Lost Battalions" - TRT 60 min.

BTV036
GARY RIVLIN -"The Plot to get Bill Gates" - TRT 60 min.

BTV037
WENDY CHAPKIS - "Live Sex Acts" - TRT 60 min.

BTV038
MARK ZEPEZAUER - "Take the Rich Off Welfare" - TRT 60 min.

BTV039
VICTOR MARTINEZ - "Parrot in the Oven" - TRT 60 min.

BTV040
DAWN ATKINS - "Queer Looks" - TRT 60 min.

BTV041
LAURIE OLSEN - "Made in America" - TRT 60 min.

BTV042
PETER RADETSKI - "Allergic to the 20th Century" - TRT 60 min.

BTV043
ADAM HOCHSCHILD - "King Leopold’s Ghost" - TRT 60 min.

BTV044
TIM FERRIS - "The Whole Shebang" - TRT 60 min.

BTV045
FRITJOF CAPRA - "The Web of Life" - TRT 60 min.

BTV046
JANIS KEYSER AND LAURA DAVIS - " Becoming the Parent you Want to Be" - TRT 60 min.

BTV047
LINDA NIEMANN - "Railroad Voices" - TRT 60 min.

BTV048
DAN KINDLON - "Raising Cain" - TRT 60 min.

BTV049
SUSAN FERRISS AND RICARDO SANDOVAL - "The Fight in the Fields" - TRT 60 min.

BTV050
SUSAN SAMUELS DRAKE - "Fields of Courage" - TRT 60 min.

BTV051
VICKIE LEON - "Uppity Women of the Rennisance" - TRT 60 min.

BTV052
VALERIE KULETZ - "The Tainted Desert" - TRT 60 min.

BTV053
SUSANNE JONAS AND SUZIE DODD THOMAS - "Immigration" - TRT 60 min.

BTV054
SUSIE BRIGHT - "The Sexual State of the Union" - TRT 60 min.

BTV055
SUSIE BRIGHT - "The Best American Erotica ‘97" - TRT 60 min.

BTV056
SUSIE BRIGHT -"The Best American Erotica ‘99" - TRT 60 min.

BTV057
SUSIE BRIGHT - "Full Exposure" - TRT 60 min.

BTV058
JOHN ROBBINS - TRT 60 min.

BTVO59
FRANK WILSON - "The Hand" - TRT 60 min.

BTV060
SUSIE BRIGHT - "Sexual State of the Union" (Capitola Book Café) - TRT 60 min.

BTV061
KEVIN DANAHER - "Corporations are Gonna Get Your Mama" - TRT 60 min.

BTV062
JOHN TRUDELL - "No title" - TRT 60 min.

BTV063
NORMAN SOLOMON - "Community Television Interview" - TRT 60 min.

BTV064
HOWARD ZINN AND CLAYBOURNE CARSON - "Revisiting the 60’s" - TRT 90 min.

BTV065
DALE AND MARLON SHERMAN - "Examining Contemporary Native American Land Use Issues" - TRT 90 min.

BTV066
JANA MARCUS - "In The Shadow of the Vampire" - TRT 60 min.

BTV067
CALIFORNIA POETRY OF PLACE - TRT 60 min.

BTV068
MARTIN LEE - "The Beast Reawakens" - TRT 60 min.

BTV069
LOU HARRISON - - TRT 60 min.

BTV070
MORTON MARCUS - "When People Could Fly" - TRT 60 min.

BTV071
ROXANNE DUNBAR-ORTIZ -"Red Dirt" - TRT 60 min.

BTV072
NANCY SCHEPER-HUGHES " Small Wars "- TRT 60 min.

BTV073
CAMREN MANHEIM - "Wake Up: I’m Fat!!" - TRT 60 min.

BTV074
JUAN RAMIEREZ - TRT 60 min.

BTV075
BLAIR JACKSON - "Garcia-An American Life" - TRT 60 min.

BTV076
ROBERT F. BARSKY - "Noam Chomsky" - TRT 60 min.

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