of it airing on pbs. we are so thrilled to have ken burns here with us. thank you for coming. >> thank you, my friend. thank you. >> how on earth is there a white board in your studio that we need to see? like a beautiful mind? are there post its? how do you take something this vast and organize them into pieces. >> well, most of the credit goes to my longtime producing partner and writer dayton duncan who wrestled the larger intertwining of this sort of russian novel of a story into the eight episodes. and our coproducer, julie dunn fee who found the photographs and the footage and conducting the interviews. it's been an amazing thing. i remember in jazz a lit critic told us of charlie parker perfecting the bebop that he