Who let the dogs out? Scientists reintroduce wild canines into a national park in Mozambique in “Nature’s Fear Factor” on a new “Nova.” 9 p.m.

Anchoring the six-title lineup is the premiere of NOVA’s Nature’s Fear Factor on Oct. 14 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. Produced by HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, the hour-long film will chart the scientific experiment to bring African wild dogs back to Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park to examine how predators play a crucial role in keeping wild ecosystems in balance.

Ric Burns, director of the film Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, joins Ira to talk about the life and legacy of Oliver Sacks.

“Oliver Sacks: His Own Life,” Ric Burns’ majestic documentary, covers all eight decades of the unconventional physician’s life but is rooted in the final months before his death of cancer in 2015 at the age of 82.

The documentary’s chief virtue, after the very considerable pleasure of getting to spend time in Sacks’s company, is learning how much his personal life rivaled his career in remarkableness.

“His Own Life” is a compassionate, endlessly fascinating testament to that, as well as to the assertion, by one of Sacks’s friends, that the man’s placid acceptance of mortality offered a “master class in dying.” 

Take advantage of this month’s Learning at Home broadcast schedule – great for students engaged in hybrid or distance instruction, and families looking to spend some extra, quality time together!