Overview: Uncommon Knowledge is a weekly 30-minute current affairs TV show hosted by Peter Robinson and co-produced and presented by San Jose, California, PBS member station KTEH from 1997 to 2005. It was distributed first by American Public Television and later by PBS to public television stations throughout the United States and internationally by NPR Worldwide. The show is funded by foundations and organizations, including the conservative John M. Olin Foundation and produced by the Hoover Institution.