"Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin" on American Masters on PBS premieres Aug 2, 2019

[+ oldNbusted]

Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin

 

The first woman to win the Hugo and Nebula awards, for The Left Hand of Darkness.

[+ WmClarke]

Wish I had cable so I could watch it.

[+ honcho]

If you follow the link that @oldNbusted gave, at the the top of the trailer, there's a red/blue rectangle that says "Full Epsiode Avalable".

(color depending on whether you're hovering over it).

 

If you click that, you can watch it via the web - and here's the link: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/worlds-of-ursula-k-le-guin-full-film/11632/?button=fullepisode

[+ honcho]

Le Guin lived in Portland Oregon , and her daughter played 'cello in the Portland Junior Symphony during the time I was in college. The orchestra was desperately short of oboe players, and permitted up to the age of 21 (at start of season), so I overlapped with her for a couple of years. The daughter (Elizabeth Le Guin) was one of the founding members of Philharmonia Baroque , well known to Bay Area residents, and is now a professor of musicology at UCLA.

 

Almost everybody in the orchestra knew that the mother wrote really wonderful science fiction stories, but made no big deal of it in person if you should ever talk with her ...