August 2020 Program Schedule

AUGUST 2020 PROGRAM SCHEDULE

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The Lawrence Japan with Sue Perkins Japan with Sue Perkins Kimono Revolution Antiques Sat. 8/1 Welk Show* Roadshow** National Parks: America's Best Idea* Japan with Sue Perkins Japan with Sue Perkins P.O.V.** Sun. 8/2 Advocate America's Test Kitchen PBS NewsHour Midsomer Murders Doctor Blake Mysteries Hinterland** Mon. 8/3 From Cook's Illustrated

America's Test Kitchen PBS NewsHour Hold The Sunset W1A The Child In Time On Masterpiece Tue. 8/4 From Cook's Illustrated

America's Test Kitchen PBS NewsHour Shakespeare & Hathaway-Private Doc Martin Before We Die** Wed. 8/5 From Cook's Illustrated Investigators Cook's Country PBS NewsHour Sanditon On Masterpiece 800 Words The Tunnel** Thu. 8/6

Christopher Kimball's PBS NewsHour Washington Open Mind Firing Line with P.O.V. Fri. 8/7 Milk Street Television Week Margaret Hoover Chez Jolie Coiffure The Lawrence Keepers of the Light Statecraft: The Bush 41 Team Antiques Roadshow P.O.V.** Sat. 8/8 Welk Show* Chez Jolie Coiffure War* POV Shorts Antiques Roadshow Keepers of the Sun. 8/9 Light** America's Test Kitchen PBS NewsHour Midsomer Murders Grantchester Season 2 On Hinterland** Mon. 8/10 From Cook's Illustrated Masterpiece America's Test Kitchen PBS NewsHour John Sebastian Presents: Folk Rewind (My Music) Aging Backwards 2 Tue. 8/11 From Cook's Illustrated with Miranda Esmonde- White** America's Test Kitchen PBS NewsHour Shakespeare & Hathaway-Private Doc Martin Before We Die** Wed. 8/12 From Cook's Illustrated Investigators Cook's Country PBS NewsHour Sanditon On Masterpiece 800 Words The Tunnel** Thu. 8/13

Christopher Kimball's PBS NewsHour Washington Open Mind Firing Line with Frontline Fri. 8/14 Milk Street Television Week Margaret Hoover The Lawrence Secrets of the Dead Nova Great Performances at the Met Sat. 8/15 Welk Show* Decoding The Great Pyramid War* 10 Modern Marvels That Changed Antiques Roadshow Antiques Sun. 8/16 America Roadshow** America's Test Kitchen PBS NewsHour Midsomer Murders Grantchester Season 2 On Hinterland** Mon. 8/17 From Cook's Illustrated Masterpiece America's Test Kitchen PBS NewsHour Hold The Sunset Hold The Sunset Endeavour Season 7 On Masterpiece** Tue. 8/18 From Cook's Illustrated

America's Test Kitchen PBS NewsHour Shakespeare & Hathaway-Private Doc Martin Before We Die** Wed. 8/19 From Cook's Illustrated Investigators Cook's Country PBS NewsHour Sanditon On Masterpiece 800 Words The Tunnel** Thu. 8/20

Christopher Kimball's PBS NewsHour Washington Open Mind Firing Line with P.O.V.** Fri. 8/21 Milk Street Television Week Margaret Hoover About Love Alone in the Wilderness Suze Orman's Ultimate Retirement Guide Fleetwood Mac: Sat. 8/22 The Dance War* Ken Burns: The National Parks Brain Fitness Sun. 8/23 Program America's Test Kitchen PBS NewsHour Doo Wop to Pop Rock: My Music Celebrates 20 Years Mon. 8/24 From Cook's Illustrated

America's Test Kitchen PBS NewsHour Henry Louis Gates, Jr. - Uncovering America Forever Painless with Miranda Tue. 8/25 From Cook's Illustrated Esmonde-White** America's Test Kitchen PBS NewsHour Alone in the Wilderness 3 Steps to Pain-Free Living** Wed. 8/26 From Cook's Illustrated

Cook's Country PBS NewsHour Moments to Remember: My Music Thu. 8/27

Christopher Kimball's PBS NewsHour Washington Open Mind Ken Burns: The National Parks** Fri. 8/28 Milk Street Television Week John Sebastian Presents: Folk Rewind (My Music) Peter, Paul and Mary at Newport 1963-65 Suze Orman's Ultimate Sat. 8/29 Retirement Guide

Tom Lehrer - Live In 70s Soul Superstars (My Music) Let's Talk Menopause Sun. 8/30 Copenhagen 1967*

America's Test Kitchen PBS NewsHour Midsomer Murders Grantchester Season 2 On Hinterland** Mon. 8/31 From Cook's Illustrated Masterpiece

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VARIETY IS THE SPICE OF PROGRAMMING When we were all working at the station, often times then localize it to NHPBS. you would find Hazel Molin’s office door slightly ajar, “I’ll search the distributor’s the faint glow of lights flickering off the wall and database for programs that will fit the muffled voices coming from inside. Hazel is at work and theme. For example, this month I needed a watching television. Watching television at work? YES! 30-minute show and remembered KARAMU. It fit nicely between a documentary on racism and Hazel is the Manager of Broadcast Content. She’s the leading into a block of summer dramas.” Did we one who is responsible for scheduling NHPBS’ five mention Hazel has a mind like a steel trap? channels. She deals primarily with NHPBS, NHPBS Explore, but also with Create, World and PBS Kids Hazel is the number one person that the BritWit 24/7 channels. Since 2011, when NHPBS lost all of its Club members want to meet. “They like to hear state funding, Hazel has worked alongside WGBH what is coming up and are very interactive with us programmers to acquire programs at discounted rates about the British programs. I enjoy educating them and to bounce scheduling ideas off of them. “I screen about programming rights and explaining why you and curate programs from a variety of sources, including can’t just air something from the past.” several national distributors and local independent producers,” says Hazel. Now that is a lot of TV! What’s coming this fall? Well, Hazel has a few shows she can share: FRONTLINE - THE CHOICE, Hazel’s love of public television developed when she the long awaited conclusion of LAST TANGO IN was a student at the University of New Hampshire. HALIFAX, VAN DER VALK on MASTERPIECE, She recalls watching plenty of Masterpiece Theatre which is set in Amersterdam and ISLANDS OF with her aunt and uncle. “On my college vacations, I WONDER. And don’t worry--Hazel has already watched several series with them — I, CLAUDIUS, THE screened these programs, and she says you’re FLAME TREES OF THIKA and many others.” She landed going to love them! a support job in the programming department at Channel 11, grew into creating the broadcast logs, which Go to nhpbs.org/schedule for our up-to-date account for every second of the broadcast day, and was program schedule. promoted to her current position in 2000. AUGUST PROGRAMS OF NOTE For over 30 years now, Hazel has been working with and scheduling programs at NHPBS. She’s considered Hinterland a superhero in the PBS programmers world. She can August 3 | 10 PM NHPBS Explore calculate time in her head, she can recall obscure Statecraft: The Bush 41 Team programming details in the middle of a meeting, and August 4 | 10 PM NHPBS her attention to detail is second to none. Woodstock: Three Days that Defined a Generation August 19 | Noon NHPBS Explore On the homefront, she’s a devoted grandmother, she can bake a fierce Christmas stollen bread, and she has PBS NewsHour | Democratic National Convention sewn plenty of handmade, treasured baby quilts for August 17 - 20 | 8 PM NHPBS family and coworkers. But her true talents lie in how she PBS NewsHour | Republican National Convention can pick up on a programming theme from PBS and August 24 - 27 | 8 PM NHPBS

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Keepers of the Light Second Wind: The Tale of a Sailor Endeavour Season 7 on FRI August 7 | 8 PM SAT August 8 | 6 PM Masterpiece Witness as a community rallies to Follow award-winning nautical SUN August 9 | 9 PM save the Gay Head Lighthouse on photographer Onne van der Wal As Morse rings in the new year – Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts. as he completes a solo, hands-on 1970 – at an opera house in Venice, a This documentary captures a restoration of a 1972 Pearson 36- murder in Oxford puts Thursday on modern-day effort to move the foot sailboat. The film chronicles a quest to find the man responsible. structure away from the receding Onne’s career racing large sailboats Returning home, Morse makes a new cliffside and recounts the 200-year and photographing some of sailing’s acquaintance, and old friendships history of the iconic landmark. most thrilling moments. show signs of strain.

Great Performances at the Met: Lucy Worsley’s Royal Photo The Kate Akhnaten Album MON August 17 | Noon EXPLORE SAT August 15 | 9 PM EXPLORE SUN August 16 | 8 PM You’ve got front row seats to watch Experience composer Philip Glass’ The camera has been the British smart, bold performances from visionary masterpiece portraying Royal Family’s confidante, musicians with something to say. the impact of the Egyptian Pharaoh messenger, pursuer and keeper of The unique roster of performers – all Akhnaten as he rises to the throne. memories. British historian and host people whom Katharine Hepburn Anthony Roth Costanzo stars in the Lucy Worsley explores this complex would have found audacious enough title role. Karen Kamensek conducts. relationship between the camera to invite for a cocktail - includes folk and the British Royal Family. pop sister trio Joseph.

This month, NHPBS is continuing the conversation about the Black EXPLORE experience in America. On Sunday evenings, we are offering programs that highlight historical perspectives that will provide context to the injustices that Black Americans have faced. We will also celebrate their contributions and accomplishments. To learn more, go to nhpbs.org/raceinamerica.

The Central Park Five SUN August 2 | 5 PM ROADTRIP NATION SAT August 1 | 2 PM NHPBS EXPLORE Award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns tells the story of the five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem who were wrongly convicted of raping a white woman in New York City’s Central Park in 1989.

POV: Whose Streets? REAGAN: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE SUN August 9 | 5 PM TUE August 4 | 8 PM NHPBS When unarmed teenager Michael Brown is killed by police and left lying in the street for hours, it marks a breaking point for St. Louis. Take an unflinching look at the Ferguson uprising, where citizens assert their right to live.

DOC MARTIN Karamu: 100 Years in the House WED August 12 | 9 PM NHPBS EXPLORE SUN August 9 | 6:30 PM The word “Karamu” comes from a Swahili word meaning “a place of joyful gatherings.” For the past 100 years, the Karamu House in Cleveland, Ohio - the oldest African-American theater in the United States - has lived up to its name, serving as a community center for the arts and maintaining a legacy of innovation and diversity. LET’S TALK MENOPAUSE SAT August 22 | 11 AM NHPBS Charlottesville SUN August 16 | 5 PM Explore the events leading to the tragedies of August 11 and 12, 2017. CHARLOTTESVILLE offers local insight and perspective on the events, prompting us to ask questions about who we are as a people and what we can learn

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The Legacy List* My Mother and Other Strangers On Durrells In Corfu Season 4 On Endeavour Season 6 On Masterpiece Sat. 8/1 Masterpiece Masterpiece The Central Park Last Tango In Halifax The Great British Baking Show Endeavour Season 6 On Masterpiece Sun. 8/2 Five* PBS NewsHour* Greater Boston Rick Steves' Antiques Roadshow Antiques Roadshow P.O.V.** Mon. 8/3 Europe Chez Jolie Coiffure PBS NewsHour* Greater Boston Rick Steves' Reagan: American Experience Statecraft: The Tue. 8/4 Europe Bush 41 Team** PBS NewsHour* Greater Boston Windows to the Animals with Cameras, A Nature Nova Forces of Wed. 8/5 Wild Miniseries Rise of the Mammals Nature** PBS NewsHour* Greater Boston Rick Steves' The Central Park Five P.O.V.** Thu. 8/6 Europe Whose Streets? PBS NewsHour* Greater Boston Rick Steves' Keepers of the Light Great Performances International Fri. 8/7 Europe Jazz Day** Second Wind: The My Mother and Other Strangers On Durrells In Corfu Season 4 On Endeavour Season 6 On Masterpiece Sat. 8/8 Tale of a Sailor* Masterpiece Masterpiece Karamu: 100 Years in Last Tango In Halifax The Great British Baking Show Endeavour Season 7 On Masterpiece** Sun. 8/9 the House

PBS NewsHour* Greater Boston Rick Steves' Antiques Roadshow Antiques Roadshow P.O.V.** Mon. 8/10 Europe About Love PBS NewsHour* Greater Boston Rick Steves' Reagan: American Experience Frontline** Tue. 8/11 Europe PBS NewsHour* Greater Boston Windows to the Nature Nova Forces of Wed. 8/12 Wild Undercover in the Jungle Decoding The Great Pyramid Nature** PBS NewsHour* Greater Boston Rick Steves' John Sebastian Presents: Folk Rewind (My Music) Feel Better with Thu. 8/13 Europe Pressure Point Therapy** PBS NewsHour* Greater Boston Rick Steves' Aging Backwards 2 with Miranda Rick Steves Holy Land: Israelis and Palestinians Fri. 8/14 Europe Esmonde-White Today** Our Hometown My Mother and Other Strangers On Durrells In Corfu Season 4 On Endeavour Season 7 On Masterpiece** Sat. 8/15 Stratham Masterpiece Masterpiece Charlottesville* Last Tango In Halifax Lucy Worsley's Royal Photo Album Endeavour Season 7 On Masterpiece** Sun. 8/16

PBS NewsHour* Greater Boston Rick Steves' PBS Newshour Convention Coverage** Mon. 8/17 Europe PBS NewsHour* Greater Boston Rick Steves' PBS Newshour Convention Coverage** Tue. 8/18 Europe PBS NewsHour* Greater Boston Windows to the PBS Newshour Convention Coverage** Wed. 8/19 Wild PBS NewsHour* Greater Boston Rick Steves' PBS Newshour Convention Coverage** Thu. 8/20 Europe PBS NewsHour* Greater Boston Rick Steves' Hold The Sunset Hold The Sunset Great Performances Fri. 8/21 Europe Moments to Remember: My Music* Doo Wop to Pop Rock: My Music Celebrates 20 Years** Sat. 8/22

Neil Diamond: Hot Brain Secrets with Dr. Michael Merzenich Endeavour Season 7 On Masterpiece** Sun. 8/23 August Night III*

PBS NewsHour* Greater Boston Rick Steves' PBS Newshour Convention Coverage** Mon. 8/24 Europe PBS NewsHour* Greater Boston Rick Steves' PBS Newshour Convention Coverage** Tue. 8/25 Europe PBS NewsHour* Greater Boston Windows to the PBS Newshour Convention Coverage** Wed. 8/26 Wild PBS NewsHour* Greater Boston Rick Steves' PBS Newshour Convention Coverage** Thu. 8/27 Europe PBS NewsHour* Greater Boston Tom Lehrer - Live In Copenhagen 1967 Suze Orman's Ultimate Retirement Guide** Fri. 8/28

Ken Burns: America's 70s Soul Superstars (My Music) Abba Forever -- A Celebration** Sat. 8/29 Storyteller*

Ken Burns: The Riverdance 25th Anniversary Show John Sebastian Presents: Folk Rewind (My Music)** Sun. 8/30 National Parks* PBS NewsHour* Greater Boston Independent Lens Feel Better with Mon. 8/31 Won't You Be My Neighbor? Pressure Point Therapy**

Please Note: Programs on NHPBS begin before 6:30 PM when marked *. Programs end at 10:30 PM unless marked **

This program schedule is subject to change. Go to nhpbs.org/schedule for the most up-to-date listing of programs. "

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