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MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Curious George 6:00 AM Classical Stretch The Cat in the Hat The Cat in the Hat 6:30 Body Electric Knows a Lot Knows a Lot About That! About That! Super Why! Wunderkind 7:00 Wai Lana Yoga Little Amadeus Dinosaur Train Peep and the Big 7:30 Sit and Be Fit Wide World / Pocoyo Thomas & Friends Bob the Builder 8:00 Clifford the Big Red Dog Angelina Ballerina: 8:30 Wild Kratts The Next Steps 9:00 Anne of Green Gables Wild Kratts Sesame Street 9:30 WordGirl The Zula Patrol DragonflyTV Biz Kid$ 10:00 Curious George Garden Smart The Professors 10:30 Sid the Science Kid P. Allen Smith’s Pritzker Military 11:00 WordWorld Garden Home Library Presents The Victory Garden 11:30 Dinosaur Train

PM Growing a Washington Week 12:00 Greener World Justice and 12:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood Law Weekly The Best of the Sewing with Nancy Mid-American Quilting Arts Crafting at the The American Religion & Ethics 1:00 Joy of Painting Gardener Spotted Canary Woodshop Newsweekly Gary Spetz’s Painting Martha’s Sewing Room Music Makers with Fons & Porter’s Beads, Baubles, Hometime Closer to Truth 1:30 Wild Places! Scott Houston Love of Quilting and Jewels

Wild Photo Adventures It’s Sew Easy Between the Lines Knitting Daily Around the House The Woodwright’s Second Opinion 2:00 with Barry Kibrick with Matt and Shari Shop Christina P. Allen Smith’s Rudy Maxa’s World The Cooking Odyssey Creative Living Woodsmith Shop Healthy Body, 2:30 Garden to Table with Sheryl Borden Healthy Mind The Jazzy Vegetarian Lidia’s Italy in America Essential Pépin Ciao Italia Joanne Weir’s Rough Cut Healthy Minds 3:00 Cooking Confidence Cook’s Country from New Scandinavian In Julia’s Kitchen America’s Test Kitchen Ask This Old House : 3:30 America’s Test Kitchen Cooking with Master Chefs from Cook’s Illustrated One-on-One European Journal Various Shows— 4:00 Please Check Listings 4:30 A Taste of History Consuelo Mack Asia Biz Forecast Out of Ireland The Truth About Money To the Contrary 5:00 WealthTrack with Ric Edelman with Bonnie Erbe

5:30 Journal Congo (except 4/6) Inside Washington 6:00 Newsline In the Loop 6:30 Nightly Business Report MotorWeek Antiques Roadshow Congo (except 4/3) In the Loop Ladies of Letters Various Shows— Moyers & Company 7:00 Please Check Listings 7:30 Autoline Just Seen It NOVA Inspector Morse Rick Steves’ Europe Lark Rise to Austin City Limits Masterpiece Great Decisions in 8:00 Candleford Mystery! Wallander Foreign Policy Travel with Kids Various Shows— 8:30 Please Check Listings Various Shows— Globe Trekker New Tricks Musicology: Live 9:00 Please Check Listings from the Old Town School of Folk Music 9:30 (4/19, 4/26) Just Seen It

Me & Mrs. Jones Inside Washington 10:00 Journal Lead Balloon Beyond the Beltway 10:30 with Bruce DuMont 11:00 Independent Lens Charlie Rose 11:30 P. O. V.

Children’s Comedy General How-to Drama Local News/Talk Travel

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Staff Paul Buckner features Station Manager Cynthia H. Syperek Cover Story Director of Programming & Content 4 Musicology: Live from the Cesar Rodriguez Old Town School of Folk Music Creative Services Director WYCC teams up with ’s own Alisa Clark Membership Coordinator Old Town School of Folk Music for WYCC PBS Chicago is located a new original concert series that at Kennedy-King College features performances and stories 6258 S. Union Ave. from culturally significant artists Chicago, IL 60621 Tune in Thursdays at 9 p.m. and see the Telephone: 773-224-3300 from around the world. New Tricks of former policemen brought http://www.wycc.org back to work to solve cases long unsolved. April WYCC PBS Chicago 6 is owned and Program Listings operated by the Cheryl L. Hyman Chancellor 8 Station Break Board of Trustees • Celebrate Day the Way Paula Wolff Chairperson • CCC Connections: Learn from Ellen Alberding Your Environment Vice Chairperson Charles Jenkins Trustee MHz Worldview Marisela Lawson 9  Trustee Everett Rand Trustee Membership Larry R. Rogers, Sr. 15 Your support helps keep WYCC going, Trustee Susan Santiago and we want to help you keep going out Art’s power to improve lives and Trustee on the town! With a WYCC MemberCard, strengthen communities comes into the spotlight on Humble Beauty: Zakeia S. Hampton you’ll get deals and discounts at locations Student Trustee Skid Row Artists, airing Sunday, throughout the area. April 14 at 4 p.m. and Saturday, WYCC PBS Chicago Magazine April 20 at 7 p.m. is published in cooperation with A+ Media, Inc. Not sure where to find WYCC PBS Chicago in Julio Abreu your area? Visit www.wycc.org to find out. Publisher

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Traveling from Lake to the Thar Desert, students from help tackle the water crisis on Water Pressures (Monday, April 1 at 9 p.m. and Saturday, April 6 at 7 p.m.). Turn to page 8 for more films and educational programs that open our eyes to environmental issues.

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iscover artists and bands from across the Americas, the , , Europe, the Pacific Islands, Asia, and the during Musicology: Live from the Old Town School of Folk Music. Each episode, filmed by WYCC’s veteran crew, will feature one culturally and musicallyD significant artist or group performing live at the 400-seat Maurer Concert Hall at the Old Town School of Folk Music. The episodes include 45 minutes of live concert footage along with 10 minutes of pertinent back story. There is no host or narrator, which gives each artist the opportunity to tell their own story in their language of choice (with subtitles utilized as necessary) and provide the historical, cultural, and musical context to better appreciate and understand their live performance. Thirteen artists or groups have been selected for the inaugural season of this unique and unprecedented music series, which will air Fridays at 9 p.m. starting April 19.

4 l wycc.org Habib Koité & Eric Bibb – Brothers in Bamako Future episodes include performances by: Friday, April 19 at 9 p.m. Bajofondo What began as a collective of Argentine and Uruguayan 21st-century Malian griot Habib artists who combined programming and samples with Koité and new world bluesman acoustic and electric instruments has now evolved into an Eric Bibb join the rhythms of eight-member group that liberally adds elements of Latin American roots music. their guitars and voices for some transatlantic blues. Koité’s ancestral knowledge set to song places him among the Alash Believing that traditional music must constantly evolve, most influential voices of contemporary Africa. Bibb, godson the musicians subtly infuse their songs with western of Paul Robeson, has established his name in the new elements while staying true to their Tuvan music, culture, generation of bluesmen without renouncing the legacy and heritage. They are masters of both traditional Tuvan instruments and the art of throat singing. of folk and gospel. Oliver Mtukudzi & the Black Spirits Oliver Mtukudzi is Zimbabwe’s pride and national The Creole Choir of treasure. A member of the Kore Kore tribe, he is one Friday, April 26 at 9 p.m. of the most successful African recording artists in North America. In fact, one of his biggest fans is Grammy-winning Founded in 1994, The Creole Choir country singer Bonnie Raitt. of Cuba has combined modern Joan Soriano Haitian sounds with music passed Born in the rural countryside in the Dominican Republic, Altan down from their families since the Joan fashioned his first guitar from fishing line and early 19th century. Although all of the members are native a discarded metal box. Today, he blends Afro-Dominican’s sacred traditions with bachata, which he infuses with equal to Camagüey, Cuba, they are also all descendents of Haitians parts romance and . enslaved to the Caribbean from . The Creole P’indékuecha Choir’s joyous sound is a feast for both the ears and eyes. This musical group of the indigenous P’urhépecha people of the western Mexican state of Michoacán Hamid Al-Saadi performs native genres using violin, guitar, bass, and vocals. First formed in 1999, they have since been recognized as Friday, May 3 at 9 p.m. cultural ambassadors. Vocalist Hamid Al-Saadi is the Christine Balfa & Balfa Toujours leading authority on the Iraqi This traditional Cajun band from Louisiana plays it Maqam tradition and has been straight from the heart, as it has been played in their Cajun family for hundreds of years. Led by Christine Balfa, named the main purveyor of daughter of the late, great Cajun fiddler Dewey Balfa, the band the Maqam in his generation. carries on in the soulful, impassioned Balfa Brothers tradition. The centuries-old tradition is unique to Iraq and is one of Kaumakaiwa Kanaka’ole the most sophisticated musical forms in the Arab world. In His performances and music seamlessly meld Hawaiian 2003, UNESCO added Maqam to the Representative List of culture and modern sensibilities by drawing from ancient ‘oli (chant) traditions, modern melodies, and original mele the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This concert (songs), in a powerful mix of music that speaks to the soul. marks Al-Saadi’s U.S. debut performance. Buika Born on the Spanish island of Majorca to Ecuato-Guinean Altan parents and surrounded by the flamenco music found in Friday, May 10 at 9 p.m. the Roma Gypsy neighborhood where she grew up, Buika has become a spellbinding performer with a powerhouse voice. Altan have established themselves as one of the most important live acts to play traditional Irish music in Ireland Garifuna Collective In 2007, Andy Palacio & the Garifuna Collective created and on the world stage. During their 25+ years of playing one of the most praised world music albums ever together, this band has created a way to bring the beauty released. The band continues to produce soul-stirring songs of traditional music to contemporary audiences with their inspired by their unique Afro-Amerindian cultural heritage. heartwarming and dynamic live performances. In 1996, For more information on Musicology and the artists, they were the first Irish band of their kind to be signed by please visit: www.wycc.org a major record label.

April 2013 l 5 Every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the program listings. Please visit our website wycc.org for APRIL 2013 more information and for the most up-to-date listings. listings Special programs are highlighted in ORANGE.

9:00 Inspector Morse 8:00 pm Lark Rise to Candleford 1 Monday Greeks Bearing Gifts—Part 2 Dorcas intercedes when a new maid drives a wedge between Old 7:00 pm MotorWeek Amos and his son. Robert refuses 7:30 pm Autoline 3 Wednesday to let his children sing a song in 8:00 pm NOVA praise of the Tories at the local 7:00 pm A Norway Passage: church concert. The Most Beautiful Voyage 9:00 pm New Tricks Left Field

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7:00 pm Ladies of Letters Irene receives a thank you Japan’s Killer Quake note from Vera, with whom she 9:00 pm Water Pressures socialized at a wedding. So begins Take a six-day journey in the land Leading nonprofits, along with a correspondence in which the of the Midnight to discover students from Northwestern ladies discourse upon all manner Norway’s deep fjords, crashing University, illustrate the power of events in their lives. waterfalls, and mountains of pairing traditional wisdom with 7:30 pm The Red Green Show rising from the sea along the simple teamwork to solve the The Beef Project spectacular coastline. water shortage crisis in India. 8:00 pm Rick Steves’ Europe 8:00 pm Austin City Limits Barcelona and Catalunya Bonnie Raitt / Mavis Staples 2 Tuesday 8:30 pm Travel with Kids 9:00 pm Live from the Artists Den : The City of Edinburgh 7:00 pm Antiques Roadshow 9:00 pm Globe Trekker Myrtle Beach, SC—Hour 2 Eastern Canada 8:00 pm Inspector Morse Greeks Bearing Gifts—Part 1 4 The murder of a chef at a Greek Thursday restaurant causes the Greek community of Oxford to close 7:00 pm In the Loop ranks. Morse turns to Greek 7:30 pm Just Seen It Adele scholars to help solve the murder. 6 Saturday

Let WYCC help you 10:30 am Garden Smart Laugh It Up with unwind on weekends 11:00 am P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home Keeping It Local with witty comedy 11:30 am The Victory Garden WYCC Comedies programming. 12:00 pm Growing a Greener World New shows and old Behind the Scenes with favorites have been Growing a Greener World added to the Friday 12:30 pm This Old House evening lineup, 1:00 pm The American Woodshop along with a block Queen Anne Lowboy of comedies on 1:30 pm Hometime Creekside Home Framing Saturday nights. 2:00 pm The Woodwright’s Shop Hurray for Hickory! 2:30 pm Woodsmith Shop Workbench Basics Fridays 3:00 pm Rough Cut: Woodworking 7PM — Ladies of Letters with Tommy Mac Carved Frame 7:30PM — The Red 3:30 pm Ask This Old House Green Show 4:00 pm European Journal 4:30 pm A Taste of History Saturdays Nothing Grows on Exuma 10PM — Me & Mrs. Jones 10:30PM — Lead Balloon

6 l wycc.org WYCC PBS Chicago offers teachers of different grade levels an excellent selection of high-interest, educationally rich programs for students, along with accompanying resources—absolutely free! Here are some of this month’s highlights categorized by content area.

SOCIAL STUDIES Program: A Taste of History – ’s Freedom Trail Focus: Geography and History Airing: Saturday, April 20 at 4:30 p.m. Grades: 3–6 Overview: This program explores the Freedom Trail, a walking tour of famous sites from 18th-century Boston, and then inspires us with historic Boston favorites: clam chowder and tripe à la mode. Free Additional Resources: Visit the Freedom Trail virtually! The Freedom Trail Foundation provides excellent resources through their website, including additional information about the historical sites along the Freedom Trail, articles, pod- casts, maps, the Mission US official web game, a bibliography, and more. http://www.thefreedomtrail.org

SCIENCE Program: NOVA – Japan’s Killer Quake Focus: Earth Science Airing: Monday, April 1 at 8 p.m. Grades: 6—12 Overview: In its worst crisis since World War II, Japan faces disaster on an epic scale: a death toll likely in the tens of thousands, massive destruction of homes and businesses, shortages of water and power, and the specter of nuclear melt- down. NOVA offers a clear-headed investigation of what triggered the earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent nuclear crisis. Can science and technology ever prevent devastation in the face of powerful natural forces? Free Additional Resources: Additional links provide further information on surviving a tsunami, anatomy of a tsunami, once and future tsunamis, training for a nuclear crisis, earthquakes in the Midwest, and more. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/earth/japan-killer-quake.html

5:00 pm Antiques Roadshow 11:00 am Pritzker Military 8:00 pm Great Decisions in Myrtle Beach, SC—Hour 2 Library Presents Foreign Policy 6:00 pm Global Health Frontiers: 12:00 pm Washington Week Cybersecurity: Defense Foul Water, Fiery Serpent 12:30 pm Justice and Law Weekly in the Digital Age Anita Alvarez (Human Trafficking) 8:30 pm Native : A Chitimacha 1:00 pm Religion & Ethics Newsweekly Recollection 1:30 pm Closer to Truth Does Hell Reveal God? 2:00 pm Second Opinion The Future of Cancer Treatment 2:30 pm Healthy Body, Healthy Mind Saving Lives: Stopping American health workers and Anaphylaxis, an Allergic community partners track the Emergency Living off the bounty of last-known reports of Guinea 3:00 pm Healthy Minds Louisiana’s Atchafalaya Basin, worm, a disabling parasitic Moonshot: The Next Frontier—One the tribe known as “the People infection, in order to drive this Mind for Research of Many Waters” persists and ancient enemy into extinction. 3:30 pm Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One rejuvenates its culture despite 7:00 pm Water Pressures gradually losing its ancestral Lea Salonga Leading nonprofits, along with territory. students from Northwestern 4:00 pm A Harpist’s Legacy: 9:00 pm Global Health Frontiers: University, illustrate the power Ann Hobson Pilot and the Foul Water, Fiery Serpent of pairing traditional wisdom Sound of Change American health workers and with simple teamwork to solve Follow Ann Hobson Pilot’s community partners track the the water shortage crisis in India. trailblazing journey as the first last-known reports of Guinea 8:00 pm Masterpiece Mystery! black female principal player in a worm, a disabling parasitic Wallander major symphony orchestra. infection, in order to drive this Sidetracked An unknown young 4:30 pm Music of Majestic Spirit ancient enemy into extinction. woman sets herself on fire in Sir Gilbert Levine leads the a field. Could her suicide be West German Radio Symphony connected to a string of grisly ax Orchestra and world-class 8 Monday murders that are felling members soloists and choirs in an inspired of Swedish high society? performance of Anton Bruckner’s 7:00 pm MotorWeek 9:30 pm Just Seen It Symphony No. 9. 7:30 pm Autoline 6:00 pm Inside Washington 8:00 pm NOVA Sunday 6:30 pm In the Loop Separating Twins 7 7:00 pm Moyers & Company 10:30 am The Professors April 2013 l 7 stationbreak Celebrate Earth Day the Water Way

About 70% of the Earth’s surface is covered by water—so WYCC PBS Chicago is celebrating Earth Day (April 22) all month long with programs about the importance of protecting our water resources, for a number of vital reasons. Over one billion people worldwide lack access to

safe drinking water. Water Pressures, airing Monday, Global Health Frontiers: April 1 at 9 p.m. and Saturday, April 6 at 7 p.m., Foul Water, Fiery Serpent documents the partnership between villagers in water- distressed Rajasthan, India, and students and faculty last reported in Ghana and Sudan. from Northwestern University in Evanston as they work Then, tune in to the first episode of Congo, “The to solve the water crisis in the Thar Desert. River That Swallows All Rivers,” on Wednesday, April 10 American health workers and community partners at 7 p.m. The Congo River, one of Africa’s least explored face a relentless cycle of success and failure during regions, is now so wide that animals are unable to cross Global Health Frontiers: Foul Water, Fiery Serpent it. It is also home to arguably the most primitive fish in on Saturday, April 6 at 6 p.m. and Sunday, April 7 the world. (Two additional episodes of Congo air this at 9 p.m. These dedicated men and women struggle month, on April 17 and April 24.) to confront Guinea worm disease, a disabling parasitic Please check the listings for more information on infection caused by drinking contaminated water and other programs about conservation.

Learn from Your Environment Whether or not you are a BIOLOGY 119 - Environmental Biology budding environmental scientist, Geared for both environmental science and non-science majors, the it is important to know how one environment and impacts on natural resources, pollution, and ecosystems environment affects another. From are emphasized. the big picture (how humans impact nature) to the details (interactions ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES 101 - Man and Environment I between microorganisms), the Study of humans, the environment, and their interrelationships; emphasis has a on urban systems in relation to world environment. class for you. Make Earth Day 2013 ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES 102 - Man and Environment II your motivation to learn more Resource and land management, interaction of social systems with the about our and the different environment, and relationship of individuals to the environment. environments found on it. Please MICROBIOLOGY 236 - Environmental Microbiology see the CCC Course Catalog for Examine the interaction of microorganisms with other more information. organisms and the physical environment. Public health To enroll or find microbiology will be addressed. more information on classes OCEANOGRAPHY 101 - offered by each of the seven Introduction to Oceanography City Colleges, please visit The ocean, as a new frontier awaiting exploration; www.ccc.edu or call study of interphase between air and water and 773-COLLEGE (773-265-5343). how it affects the physical environment.

8 l wycc.org Starting this month, RTÉ Six One News comes to MHz Worldview from beautiful Ireland every day at 4 p.m., with highlights from the latest Irish news coverage as well as global events. WYCC is proud to present news, perspectives, and entertainment from around the globe to its diverse audience through MHz Worldview, airing 24 hours a day, 7 days a week on digital channel WYCC 20-3. Please visit wycc.org/schedule.html MHz Worldview April at-a-glance for the current full schedule.

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY 6:00 News France 24 News France 24 News France 24 News France 24 News France 24 News France 24 News 6:30 RT News RT News RT News RT News RT News RT News RT News 7:00 Al Jazeera English Al Jazeera English Al Jazeera English Al Jazeera English After 10 The Week in France/The Week in the Americas 7:30 ETV English ETV English ETV English ETV English ETV English The Heat Crosstalk 8:00 NHK Programming NHK Programming NHK Programming NHK Programming NHK Programming World Affairs Today World Affairs Today 8:30 9:00 Global Ethics Forum My India Wilson Forum After 10 Taiwan Outlook Wilson Forum Global Ethics Forum 9:30 Dialogue at the Newsweek South Asia The Heat Dialogue at the Wilson Center Wilson Center 10:00 Hello Vietnam Hello Vietnam Hello Vietnam Hello Vietnam Hello Vietnam Global 3000 Wilson Forum 10:30 Arirang News Arirang News Arirang News Arirang News Arirang News European Journal 11:00 CCTV News CCTV News CCTV News CCTV News CCTV News Tomorrow Today After 10 11:30 euromaxx euromaxx euromaxx euromaxx euromaxx drive it! The Heat

12:00 PM JN1 Headline News JN1 Headline News JN1 Headline News JN1 Headline News JN1 Headline News NHK Programming NHK Programming 12:30 RT News RT News RT News RT News RT News 1:00 Euronews Euronews Euronews Euronews Hablemos de Salud Taiwan Outlook 1:30 France 24 News France 24 News France 24 News France 24 News France 24 News 2:00 Inside Taiwan Inside Taiwan Inside Taiwan Inside Taiwan Inside Taiwan CCTV Documentary CCTV Documentary 2:30 CCTV Documentary CCTV Documentary CCTV Documentary CCTV Documentary CCTV Documentary 3:00 NHK Programming NHK Programming NHK Programming NHK Programming NHK Programming Dialogue at the NHK Programming Wilson Center 3:30 In Focus In Focus 4:00 RTÉ Six One News RTÉ Six One News RTÉ Six One News RTÉ Six One News RTÉ Six One News RTÉ Six One News RTÉ Six One News 4:30 Journal Journal Journal Journal Journal Journal Journal 5:00 RT News RT News RT News RT News RT News RT News RT News 5:30 South Asia Newsline South Asia Newsline South Asia Newsline South Asia Newsline South Asia Newsline NHK Newsline The Afghan Report 6:00 Al Jazeera English Al Jazeera English Al Jazeera English Al Jazeera English Al Jazeera English Al Jazeera English Al Jazeera English 6:30 7:00 France 24 News France 24 News France 24 News France 24 News France 24 News France 24 News France 24 News NHK Newsline NHK Newsline NHK Newsline NHK Newsline 7:30 NHK Newsline Japan 7 Days NHK Newsline 7:30 7:40 NHK Documentary 8:00 Don Matteo Maigret Don Matteo Blood of the Vine Detective Montalbano Private Eye Vares Irene Huss (except 4/7) (except 4/4) 8:30 9:00 Fog and Crimes Van Veeteren (4/3, 4/10) 9:30 10:00 RT News RT News RT News RT News RT News 10:30 South Asia Newsline South Asia Newsline South Asia Newsline South Asia Newsline NHK Newsline The Afghan Report

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7:00 pm In the Loop 7:30 pm Just Seen It 8:00 pm Lark Rise to Candleford Ruby and Pearl Pratt face scandal when their estranged father returns to town—and works his scams, with the help of Caroline. Meanwhile, Laura ignores her This Old House father while out with Philip. 9:00 pm New Tricks Dark Chocolate

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7:00 pm Ladies of Letters Saturdays on WYCC Although she’s jealous, Vera 12:30pm This Old House 2:30pm Woodsmith Shop invites Irene and her new romance to lunch, and Irene 1:00pm The American Woodshop 3:00pm Rough Cut prepares to show off her dapper new lothario. Bill and Vera get on 1:30pm Hometime 3:30pm Ask This Old House famously, and Irene is furious. 2:00pm The Woodwright’s Shop 7:30 pm The Red Green Show The Owl Project 8:00 pm Austin City Limits Brought to you by Dawson Technical Institute You’ve seen how the skilled craftsmen in WYCC home improvement shows do it. Now you can truly get the skills to do it yourself—and more—by taking courses at Dawson Technical Institute, a campus of Kennedy-King College. With its Construction Technology Center and Career Center, DTI can help you learn to do your own repair work with classes such as Carpentry, Home Remodeling, or Plumbing and Fire Protection, or jump right into a job in Construction Management or as an Overhead Electrical Line Worker. Bon Iver Contact DTI and start building your success today! 9:00 pm Live from the Artists Den Dawson Technical Institute The Fray 3901 South State, Chicago, IL 60609 • 773-451-2000 13 Saturday 9:00 pm Inspector Morse 9:00 pm The Lost Bird Project 10:30 am Garden Smart Promised Land—Part 2 11:00 am P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home Sacred Places, Sacred Spaces 10 Wednesday 11:30 am The Victory Garden 12:00 pm Growing a Greener World 7:00 pm Congo Winter Gardening The River That Swallows All (Harborside, ME) Rivers This is a land shunned 12:30 pm This Old House Sculptor Todd McGrain for its awful secrets, a shameful 1:00 pm The American Woodshop memorializes five birds driven to history of ivory and , Tennessee-Inspired Cedar Chest extinction by creating six-foot- brutal wars, famines, and tall bronze sculptures of each terrifying diseases in days 1:30 pm Hometime and installing them in the last- gone by. Creekside Home Dormers known locations of the birds. 8:00 pm Rick Steves’ Europe 2:00 pm The Woodwright’s Shop Little Europe: San Marino, Painless Panel Doors 9 Tuesday Monaco, Vatican City, 2:30 pm Woodsmith Shop Liechtenstein, and Andorra Book Rack and Mantel Clock 8:30 pm Travel with Kids 3:00 pm Rough Cut: Woodworking 7:00 pm Antiques Roadshow Ireland: Tracing Ancestry Spokane, WA—Hour 1 with Tommy Mac in the Northwest 8:00 pm Inspector Morse Bamboo Vanity 9:00 pm Globe Trekker Promised Land—Part 1 A former 3:30 pm Ask This Old House Around the World: Across felon has been given a new life 4:00 pm European Journal America—Route 66 & Beyond and identity for his testimony 4:30 pm A Taste of History against a criminal. But it appears The First Three Seasons that the gangland boss is now 5:00 pm Antiques Roadshow aware of the felon’s new life. Spokane, WA—Hour 1 10 l wycc.org 6:00 pm Congo 6:00 pm Inside Washington Monday The River That Swallows All 6:30 pm In the Loop 15 Rivers This is a land shunned 7:00 pm Moyers & Company 7:00 pm MotorWeek for its awful secrets, a shameful 8:00 pm Great Decisions in 7:30 pm Autoline history of ivory and slavery, Foreign Policy brutal wars, famines, and Race for Resources: 8:00 pm NOVA terrifying diseases in days Cracking Your Genetic Code Energy and Geopolitics gone by. 8:30 pm Dreamers Theater 9:00 pm Bitter Seeds 7:00 pm The Lost Bird Project Biotechnology is changing the Sculptor Todd McGrain way farming is done all over the memorializes five birds driven to world. Explore the controversy— extinction by creating six-foot- from a village in India that uses tall bronze sculptures of each genetically modified seeds to the and installing them in the last- U.S. government promoting it. known locations of the birds. 8:00 pm Masterpiece Mystery! 16 Tuesday Wallander Firewall Four disparate strands— 7:00 pm Antiques Roadshow two deaths, a new love interest, A group of cognitively challenged Spokane, WA—Hour 2 and power grid problems— teens and young adults rehearse gradually weave a fiendish plot and stage an original musical 8:00 pm Inspector Morse with a gripping countdown to in the hopes of increasing Dead on Time—Part 1 Morse an impending disaster. awareness about this population investigates the apparent suicide 9:30 pm Just Seen It and their capabilities. of Henry Fallon who, suffering 9:00 pm Autism: Coming of Age from a fatal disease, appears to have shot himself. But suicide 14 Sunday turns into a murder investigation. 9:00 pm Inspector Morse 10:30 am The Professors Dead on Time—Part 2 11:00 am Pritzker Military Library Presents 17 Wednesday 12:00 pm Washington Week

12:30 pm Justice and Law Weekly Gain an inside look at the lives of 7:00 pm Congo John G. Levi and Diane C. White three adults with autism through Spirits of the Forest The BaAka 1:00 pm Religion & Ethics Newsweekly interviews with their families and pygmies of the Congo talk of a 1:30 pm Closer to Truth support teams, as well as autism huge creature they call Mokele Confronting Consciousness and disability experts from Mbembe, which has a single horn 2:00 pm Second Opinion around the country. and sleeps on a bed made of Angina elephant tusks. Is it a myth? 2:30 pm Healthy Body, Healthy Mind Multiple Sclerosis Explore the impact 3:00 pm Healthy Minds of genetically Military Mental Wellness— modified seeds, Part 1: Service, Resilience, Bitter Seeds and Dedication to Our Warriors whether they are 3:30 pm Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One Monday, April 15 9PM our hope for feeding Lin-Manuel Miranda the world’s growing 4:00 pm Humble Beauty: Encore Presentation population or the Skid Row Artists Sunday, April 21 5PM cause of a dire and tragic situation for Indian farmers.

Follow a group of homeless and formerly homeless artists from the area of L.A. known as Skid Row, and see how the community nourishes them and helps imbue their lives with meaning. 5:00 pm The Lost Bird Project Sculptor Todd McGrain memorializes five birds driven to extinction by creating six-foot- tall bronze sculptures of each and installing them in the last- known locations of the birds. April 2013 l 11 WYCC Families

Play Again Saturday, April 27 7PM Sunday, April 28 4PM Many families today spend more time in the virtual world than in nature. See what happens when a group of teenagers get unplugged and go on their first wilderness adventure.

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WYCC PBS Chicago is the station you can count on for quality CHICAGO DRAWBRIDGES Sunday, April 28 5PM family TV programs. With a wide range of topics, viewers of all ages Explore a fascinating and important can find entertaining and educational programs they will enjoy and aspect of Chicago’s history you may want to share with their family members. Children will have fun not have thought about, and learn a learning while watching the kid-friendly block on weekend mornings, bit about how bridges work too! and adults can share their interests through the shows they watch with their children and grandchildren.

8:00 pm Rick Steves’ Europe 8:00 pm Austin City Limits 3:30 pm Ask This Old House Great Swiss Cities: Luzern, John Legend & the Roots 4:00 pm European Journal Bern, Zurich, and Lausanne 9:00 pm Musicology: Live from 4:30 pm A Taste of History 8:30 pm Travel with Kids the Old Town School of Boston’s Freedom Trail Alaska: Kenai Peninsula Folk Music 5:00 pm Antiques Roadshow 9:00 pm Globe Trekker Habib Koité & Eric Bibb Malian Spokane, WA—Hour 2 Around the World: griot Habib Koité and new world 6:00 pm Congo Panamericana—Conquistadors, bluesman Eric Bibb join the Spirits of the Forest The BaAka Aztecs, and Revolutions rhythms of their guitars and pygmies of the Congo talk of a voices for some transatlantic huge creature they call Mokele 18 Thursday blues during the premiere Mbembe, which has a single horn episode. and sleeps on a bed made of elephant tusks. Is it a myth? 7:00 pm In the Loop 7:30 pm Just Seen It 20 Saturday 7:00 pm Humble Beauty: 8:00 pm Lark Rise to Candleford Skid Row Artists The arrival of a new Post Office Follow a group of homeless and 10:30 am Garden Smart formerly homeless artists from inspector causes problems for 11:00 am P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home Dorcas. Robert has been the area of L.A. known as Skid The Rose Show carving a decorative angel on Row, and see how the community the schoolhouse but is not 11:30 am The Victory Garden nourishes them and helps imbue getting paid. Laura loses an 12:00 pm Growing a Greener World their lives with meaning. important parcel. The Dirt on Creating a Healthy 8:00 pm Masterpiece Mystery! 9:00 pm New Tricks Garden (Raleigh, NC) Wallander Good Morning Lemmings 12:30 pm This Old House One Step Behind Three young 1:00 pm The American Woodshop people are ritually gunned down—and the murders have only 19 Friday Classic Fluted Book Case 1:30 pm Hometime just begun. As the clues add up, Wallander always seems to be Creekside Home Roofing 7:00 pm Ladies of Letters one step behind the killer. Irene invites Vera for a visit, but 2:00 pm The Woodwright’s Shop 9:30 pm Just Seen It insecurities return when Vera Hand Plane Essentials revels in the limelight at a soiree with Chris Schwarz that Irene takes her along to. 2:30 pm Woodsmith Shop 21 Sunday Worse still, Irene learns that her Five Cool Tools daughter is moving to Australia. 3:00 pm Rough Cut: Woodworking 10:30 am The Professors 7:30 pm The Red Green Show with Tommy Mac 11:00 am Pritzker Military The Beer Project Laminated Bowl Library Presents

12 l wycc.org 12:00 pm Washington Week 9:00 pm Green Fire: Aldo Leopold and 7:30 pm The Red Green Show 12:30 pm Justice and Law Weekly a Land Ethic for Our Time The Firewood Project Chief Justice James F. Holderman 8:00 pm Austin City Limits 1:00 pm Religion & Ethics Newsweekly Florence + the Machine / Lykke Li 1:30 pm Closer to Truth 9:00 pm Musicology: Live from the Old Is the Universe Religiously Town School of Folk Music Ambiguous? Creole Choir of Cuba Founded 2:00 pm Second Opinion in 1994, the choir has combined modern Haitian sounds with Stroke Intervention Explore the life of the famed music passed down from their 2:30 pm Healthy Body, Healthy Mind father of conservation, Aldo families since the early 19th Actinic Keratosis: The Link Leopold, and the many ways his century to a joyous sound. Between Chronic Sun land ethic idea continues to be Damage and Skin Cancer applied all over the world today. 3:00 pm Healthy Minds 27 Saturday Military Mental Wellness—Part 2: 23 Tuesday The Invisible Injuries of War and 10:30 am Garden Smart Post Traumatic Stress 11:00 am P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home 7:00 pm Antiques Roadshow 3:30 pm Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One The Food Show Spokane, WA—Hour 3 Haaz Sleiman 8:00 pm Inspector Morse 11:30 am The Victory Garden 4:00 pm Green Fire: Aldo Leopold Happy Families—Part 1 Sir John 12:00 pm Growing a Greener World and a Land Ethic for Our Time Balcombe is found brutally Sow True Seed (Asheville, NC) Explore the life of the famed murdered at his home, but his 12:30 pm This Old House father of conservation, Aldo family shows no signs of grief 1:00 pm The American Woodshop Leopold, and the many ways his and are more concerned with the Sectional Plantation Table land ethic idea continues to be future of the family business. 1:30 pm Hometime applied all over the world today. 9:00 pm Inspector Morse Creekside Home Stone 5:00 pm Bitter Seeds Happy Families—Part 2 Biotechnology is changing the way farming is done all over the world. Explore the controversy— 24 Wednesday from a village in India that uses genetically modified seeds to the 7:00 pm Congo U.S. government promoting it. Footprints in the Forest Congo 6:00 pm Inside Washington has the largest concentration of 6:30 pm In the Loop primates in the world, and the 7:00 pm Moyers & Company forests are home to all three closest living relatives of humans. 8:00 pm Great Decisions in Fresh insights are revealed. Foreign Policy 8:00 pm Rick Steves’ Europe Living Planet: State of the Seas Vienna and the Danube 8:30 pm Return An emotional documentary 8:30 pm Travel with Kids Visit us online at The Bahamas: Cat Island recounts Dr. Fred Sondermann’s wycc.org/pbskids.html & Grand Bahama journey to his homeland, 30 or call us at 773-487-1350. years after escaping from 9:00 pm Globe Trekker Around the World: Nazi Germany. Panamericana—Incas 9:00 pm Rescue in the Philippines: & Inquisitions Refuge from the Holocaust 25 Thursday

7:00 pm In the Loop 7:30 pm Just Seen It 8:00 pm Lark Rise to Candleford A homeless family takes advantage of Robert’s charity, leaving their little daughter behind. Sir Timothy is uneasy when Lady Adelaide wants to A high-profile group of poker adopt her. Dorcas regrets buddies hatched an intricate playing Cupid. international plan of rescue 9:00 pm New Tricks and re-settlement, saving 1,300 Fashion Victim Jews from certain death in Nazi Clifford the Big Red Dog concentration camps. Weekdays 8AM 26 Friday See the world from the larger-than-life 22 Monday view of everyone’s favorite oversized 7:00 pm Ladies of Letters canine, as he emphasizes the good Vera’s daughter, Karen, tells Irene 7:00 pm MotorWeek all about her brother, Howard. attributes children should learn to 7:30 pm Autoline Irene writes to Vera saying how embrace and practice in their lives. 8:00 pm NOVA impressed she is by her tolerance. Smartest Machine on Earth Vera is puzzled—so what if Howard likes feather boas? April 2013 l 13 3:30 pm Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One Tsai Chin 4:00 pm Play Again What are the consequences of a childhood removed from nature? Six teenagers get unplugged Strong Opinions. from their technology and go on their first wilderness adventure— Sharp Analysis. with no cell phone coverage. 5:00 pm Chicago Drawbridges Trace Chicago’s history through No “Spin.” the bridges that helped shape its development, from the first wood footbridge to today’s iconic structures. Beyond the Beltway 6:00 pm Inside Washington 6:30 pm In the Loop 7:00 pm Moyers & Company with Bruce DuMont 8:00 pm Great Decisions in Foreign Policy Sacred Cow: Defending America on a Budget Sundays 8:30 pm Glacier Park’s Night at 10:30pm of the Grizzlies

2:00 pm The Woodwright’s Shop 8:00 pm Masterpiece Mystery! English Layout Square Wallander with Chris Schwarz 2:30 pm Woodsmith Shop Modular Wine Server 3:00 pm Rough Cut: Woodworking

with Tommy Mac On the night of August 12, 1967, Demilune Table grizzly bears in Glacier National 3:30 pm Ask This Old House Faceless Killers Wallander Park killed two young women and 4:00 pm European Journal investigates the brutal slaying severely mauled one man. This 4:30 pm A Taste of History of an elderly couple at an attack influenced the fate of the The Midnight Ride isolated farmhouse. The fallout grizzly bear in the U.S. 5:00 pm Antiques Roadshow from the case leads the detective to doubt everything. Spokane, WA—Hour 3 9:30 pm Just Seen It 29 Monday 6:00 pm Congo Footprints in the Forest Congo 7:00 pm MotorWeek has the largest concentration of 28 Sunday 7:30 pm Autoline primates in the world, and the 8:00 pm NOVA forests are home to all three 10:30 am The Professors Hunting the Elements closest living relatives of humans. 11:00 am Pritzker Military Fresh insights are revealed. Library Presents 7:00 pm Play Again 12:00 pm Washington Week 30 Tuesday What are the consequences of a 12:30 pm Justice and Law Weekly childhood removed from nature? 7:00 pm Antiques Roadshow 1:00 pm Religion & Ethics Newsweekly Six teenagers get unplugged Myrtle Beach, SC—Hour 3 1:30 pm Closer to Truth from their technology and go on 8:00 pm Inspector Morse Is Consciousness an Illusion? their first wilderness adventure— Death of the Self—Part 1 Morse with no cell phone coverage. 2:00 pm Second Opinion and Lewis go to Italy to COPD investigate the murder of an 2:30 pm Healthy Body, Healthy Mind Englishwoman. The Italian verdict Clearing Up Rosacea is accidental death, but her 3:00 pm Healthy Minds husband questions the decision. Military Mental Wellness—Part 3: 9:00 pm Inspector Morse Serving Those Who Serve and Death of the Self—Part 2 Their Families Arts Council Operation of WYCC PBS Chicago is made possible in part by a grant from WYCC PBS Chicago programming is supported in part by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, an agency of the State of Illinois.

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Lark Rise to NOVA Inspector Morse Rick Steves’ Europe Lead Balloon Autoline 12:30 Candleford 1:00 Scully / The World Show Travel with Kids New Tricks Austin City Limits 1:30 Classic Gospel Congo (except 4/2) Various Shows Globe Trekker 2:00 WYCC Classic Movies WYCC Classic Movies

Spanish 101—Vistas Business 244—Dollars Geography 101—Power Psychology 201— Fine Arts 104—The 2:30 and Sense of Place Discovering Psychology American Cinema 3:00

Astronomy 201— Political Science 201— Geology 201—Earth Physical Science 101— Art 103—A World of Art Motorweek 3:30 Observations and Voices in Democracy Revealed Planet Earth Theories Literature 126— Music 121—Exploring Ladies of Letters Musicology: Live from 4:00 American Passages the World of Music the Old Town School of Folk Music 4:30 Political Science 201—Voices in Democracy The Red Green Show (4/21, 4/28)

Tavis Smiley Musicology: Live from Pritzker Military 5:00 the Old Town School Library Presents of Folk Music Second Opinion Healthy Body, Healthy Minds Living Smart A Taste of History (4/20, 4/27) 5:30 Healthy Mind (except 4/3)

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