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PERIODICALS 825 Eighth Avenue New York, NY 10019-7435 thirteen.org VOL 30, ISSUE 4 / APRIL 2021 Ready to enjoy THIRTEEN Passport? If your contribution to THIRTEEN is $60+ annually or $5 monthly and you haven’t yet activated your account, visit thirteen.org/passport and use the four-word activation code on this label, located above your name. COURTESY OF MCGEE MEDIA My Grandparents’ War Four Families, Four Remarkable WWII Stories. PREMIERES SUN 4TH, 8 P.M. Finding Your Roots: On Broadway Tue 27th, 8 p.m. Join Henry Louis Gates, Jr. as he investigates the family histories of Broadway stars Audra McDonald and Mandy Patinkin. thirteen.org 1 Sun 4th-25th, 8 p.m. FAMILY HISTORIES EVENING AND NIGHT My Grandparents’ War To view the monthly program guide on our website, visit thirteen.org/schedule and click on “Program Guide.” LADY VIOLET BONHAM CARTER, actress Mark Rylance (Sun 11th, 8 p.m.) delves Helena Bonham Carter’s paternal grand- into the story of his grandfather, Osmond mother, was a woman ahead of her time. Skinner, who spent nearly four years as a 10:30 Bright Lights Little to three decades as A mother of four and liberal politician, she Japanese prisoner of war. A banker with SYMBOL KEY City The history of bandleader to The Tonight volunteered as an air raid warden, cam- no military training, Skinner joined the Hong Tennessee’s Cumberland Show Starring Johnny County Playhouse. Carson. REPEATS 6TH, 4AM. paigned for women’s rights, took a stand Kong Volunteer Defence Corps, was shot Premiere REPEATS 4TH, 11PM. 10:30 Beyond the Our productions against Hitler and antisemitism —and was during a battle on Christmas Day, and was 11:00 Amanpour and Canvas: “The Greats” a marked woman on the Gestapo blacklist. taken as a POW. Rylance’s views on war Aired earlier Company Hosted by Amna Nawaz. this month Discover her extraordinary story and are tested as he uncovers the shocking 11:00 Amanpour and To be announced more in My Grandparents’ War, a new story of how his grandfather survived Hong 4/02 EARLY FRI AM Company 12:00 MetroFocus [R] four-part documentary series that follows Kong’s notorious POW camps. 12:30 One-on-One With 4/03 EARLY SAT AM four British actors as they examine the Kristin Scott Thomas (Sun 18th, 8 p.m.) 1 THURSDAY Steve Adubato 12:00 MetroFocus [R] impact of World War II on their grandpar- discovers how her grandfather, Royal Navy 1:00 Extinction: The 12:30 One-on-One With ents and families. officer William Scott Thomas, saved thou- 5:00 BBC World News Facts [R] Steve Adubato Helena Bonham Carter (The Crown, sands at Dunkirk and survived some of Outside Source 2:00 Climate Change— 1:00 Ancient Remedies 5:30 NJ Spotlight News The Facts [R] With Dr. Josh Axe [R] Harry Potter series), Mark Rylance (Dunkirk, World War II’s most devastating battles. With Briana Vannozzi 3:00 NOVA: “Mystery 3:00 The Colorado Masterpiece: Wolf Hall), Kristin Scott Thomas Her journey is packed with revelation and 6:00 MetroFocus Beneath the Ice” [R] REPEATS 3RD, 6AM. (Darkest Hour, The English Patient), and emotion as she meets the families of 6:30 BBC World News 4:00 Finding Your Roots [R] 4:30 The Transformational Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman, people her grandfather saved and veter- America 5:00 American Masters: Power of Yoga REPEATS The Great Gatsby) each host a one-hour ans who served alongside him. 7:00 PBS NewsHour “Walter Winchell: The 3RD, 7:30AM; 4TH, 12NOON; 8:00 NYC-ARTS With Power of Gossip” [R] AND 7TH, 3AM. journey into their respective family histories, In the fourth episode, Carey Mulligan Philippe de Montebello traveling to historic locations to retrace (Sun 25th, 8 p.m.) travels to Japan to and Paula Zahn. their grandparents’ footsteps during the learn about her grandfather’s experience 2 FRIDAY 3 SATURDAY conflict that changed their lives forever. as a British naval officer during World 8:30 It’s What’s The first episode follows Helena War II. A teenager from the Welsh Valleys, Happening Baby 5:00 BBC World News 6:00 PBS NewsHour Performances by Ray Today Weekend Bonham Carter (Sun 4th, 8 p.m.) as she Denzil Booth traveled thousands of miles Charles, Dionne 5:30 NJ Spotlight News 6:30 GZERO World With explores the heroism of her grandparents to fight the Japanese military in the final Warwick, The With Briana Vannozzi Ian Bremmer in France and England during World War months of the war. Mulligan immerses Temptations, The 6:00 MetroFocus 7:00 Driving While Black: II. In London, she meets a woman whose herself in Japanese military strategy of Righteous Brothers, the 6:30 BBC World News Race, Space and Mobility father’s escape from Nazi-occupied the era to better understand her grand- Ronettes, and more in America in America The advent of this historic 1965 concert. 7:00 PBS NewsHour the automobile brought Czechoslovakia was made possible by her father’s experiences on Britain’s biggest REPEATS 3RD, 4PM AND 8:00 Washington Week new freedoms and new grandmother Violet. She also investigates warship—the first ever attacked by a 10PM; AND 4TH, 1PM. 8:30 Firing Line With perils for African Americans. the story of her maternal grandfather, Japanese kamikaze aircraft—and the Margaret Hoover 10:00 It’s What’s Eduardo Propper de Callejón, a Spanish devastation he witnessed. 9:00 American Masters: Happening Baby SEE 1ST, diplomat who defied his government’s My Grandparents’ War will be available “Never Too Late: The Doc 8:30PM. [R] Severinsen Story” The orders by issuing visas to help Jewish to stream for 28 days following each broad- master trumpeter’s 4/04 EARLY SUN AM people escape the Holocaust as the Nazis cast on thirteen.org and via the THIRTEEN (BOTTOM ARCHIVE – ELENA BONHAM CARTER; LEFT) FAMILY ROW, RIGHT) © WILD PICTURES; (BOTTOM LEFT TO ROW, (TOP COVER: ARCHIVE; © WILD PICTURES RIGHT) FAMILY (LEFT TO ARCHIVE. THIS PAGE: FAMILY CENTER AND RIGHT IMAGES) ROW, amazing career—concert 12:00 Memory Rescue [R] invaded France. Explore app (thirteen.org/explore). PRODUCTIONS TJL tours into his 90s, added With Daniel Amen, MD Original funding for the PBS presentation of My Grandparents’ War was provided, in part, by Elaine and W. Weldon Wilson and by PBS. 2 thirteen.org 3 EVENING AND NIGHT 2:00 Dr. Fuhrman’s Food 8:00 My Grandparents’ help his Polish lover Kasia War I. He marries Hadley 12:30 One-on-One With 5:30 NJ Spotlight News as Medicine [R] War: “Helena Bonham flee Warsaw. (Part 1 of 7) Richardson, moves to Paris, Steve Adubato With Briana Vannozzi 4:00 Joyful Pain Free Carter” The actress REPEATS 6TH, 2AM. and finds success as a 1:00 Joyful Pain Free 6:00 MetroFocus Living With Lee Albert [R] explores the heroism of 11:00 Bright Lights Little novelist. A film by Ken Living With Lee Albert [R] 6:30 BBC World News her grandparents in City [R] Burns and Lynn Novick. 3:00 The Transformational America France and England 11:30 Rick Steves Fascism (Part 1 of 3) REPEATS 5TH, Power of Yoga [R] 7:00 PBS NewsHour 4 SUNDAY during World War II. (Part in Europe The horrific 10PM AND 8TH, 1AM. 4:00 Dr. Fuhrman’s Food 8:00 NYC-ARTS With 1 of 4) REPEATS 9TH, 5AM. consequences of 10:00 Hemingway: “A as Medicine [R] Philippe de Montebello 6:00 PBS NewsHour genocide and total war. Writer (1899-1929)” [R] and Paula Zahn. Weekend Hosted by Hari 9:00 Atlantic 8:30 Mister Rogers: It’s Sreenivasan. Crossing on Masterpiece 4/05 EARLY MON AM 4/06 EARLY TUE AM 7 WEDNESDAY You I Like Celebrating a 6:30 MetroFocus Norwegian Crown 1:00 Frontline: “From 12:00 MetroFocus [R] television icon. Whoopi Princess Martha and her Jesus to Christ: The First 12:30 One-on-One With 5:00 BBC World News Goldberg, Itzhak Perlman, 7:00 Auschwitz husband Prince Olav Christians” (Parts 1-4 of 4) Steve Adubato Outside Source Yo-Yo Ma, Esperanza Remembered: An visit President Franklin 1:00 Atlantic Crossing on 5:30 NJ Spotlight News Spalding, Sarah Silverman, NYC-ARTS Special Paula Roosevelt in 1939. With Masterpiece SEE 4TH, 9PM. [R] With Briana Vannozzi and many others share Zahn hosts this inside look Kyle MacLachlan. (Part 1 5 MONDAY 2:00 World on Fire on 6:00 MetroFocus their memories. Michael at Auschwitz. Not long ago. of 8) REPEATS 6TH, 1AM. Masterpiece SEE 4TH, 10PM. [R] 6:30 BBC World News Keaton hosts. REPEATS Not far away., an exhibition 5:00 BBC World News 3:00 My Grandparents’ America 10TH, 4:30PM AND 11TH, 1PM. at The Museum of Jewish Outside Source War SEE 4TH, 8PM. [R] 7:00 PBS NewsHour Heritage—A Living 5:30 NJ Spotlight News 4:00 American Masters 8:00 Hemingway: “The 10:00 Warwick Davis Memorial to the Holocaust. With Briana Vannozzi SEE 2ND, 9 PM. [R] Blank Page (1944-1961)” and the Dwarfs of REPEATS 8TH, 5AM. 6:00 MetroFocus Hemingway follows the U.S. Auschwitz The story of 6:30 BBC World News Army in the European war the Ovitz family, Jewish COURTESY OF JULIE VRABELOVA COURTESY America 6 TUESDAY theatre. Postwar, he is beset dwarf siblings who were 7:00 PBS NewsHour by tragedy. A Ken Burns deported to Auschwitz 10:00 World on Fire on 8:00 Hemingway: “A 5:00 BBC World News film.