Hillary Schupf of Sirius Satellite Radio tells us that “George Takei’s America: A Howard 100 News Documentary” is debuting tonight at 7PM EDT on Howard 101. The show will be rebroadcast on 9 August.
She offers this description of the show: “Takei transports listeners back into his family’s emotional and compelling history, retracing with Howard 100 News reporter Steve Langford the exact steps he took as a 5-year old boy, when he and his little brother and baby sister and their parents were rounded up by American soldiers and ordered at gunpoint into prison camps for 4 years in the spring of 1942.
“Takei takes us to the house in East Los Angeles, where the Takei family first surrendered, then showing us the horse stalls at Santa Anita Racetrack near Los Angeles, where George’s family was forced to live under armed guard for several weeks, before being shipped off to prison camps in Arkansas and Northern California. But it’s how George Takei’s family survived this unspeakable injustice, ultimately taking this American tragedy and turning into the American dream, that makes ‘George Takei’s America’ ‘George Takei’s ‘America the Beautiful’.
“Takei returns to his announcer’s chair on The Howard Stern Show on August 9, and SIRIUS XM will air an encore presentation of ‘George Takei’s America: A Howard 100 News Documentary’ that night at 7:00 pm EDT on Howard 101. Howard Stern programs both of his SIRIUS XM Radio channels, Howard 100 and Howard 101. Howard 100 and Howard 101 are available online worldwide through SIRIUS Internet Radio at www.sirius.com, as well as at www.howardstern.com.”
There’s an audio clip from the program available here.