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Home Fires Making Historical A Girl and Her Cat Preparing for a Discoveries—page 6 Teach Math—page 7 Baby—page 9 August at-a-glance Please visit wycc.org/schedule for the most current programming schedule. MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY Doctor Who Classics Sesame Street 6:00 AM Classical Stretch 6:30 Body Electric Sid the Science Kid Wai Lana Yoga Mister Rogers’ 7:00 Neighborhood 7:30 Sit and Be Fit Curious George Nature Cat 8:00 Cyberchase (except 8/13) Ready, Jet, Go! Dinosaur Train 8:30 (except 8/13) Ready, Jet, Go! 9:00 Wild Kratts Sesame Street Cyberchase 9:30 (except 8/20) 10:00 Dinosaur Train Odd Squad Curious George Mid-American Gardener Expeditions with 10:30 Patrick McMillan Splash and Bubbles (except 8/10) Garden Smart Pritzker Military 11:00 Presents Peg + Cat P. Allen Smith’s 11:30 Garden to Table PM Feel Grand with Conversations in the 12:00 Super Why! Jane Seymour Digital Age This Old House Justice and Law 12:30 Thomas & Friends Weekly The Best of the Sewing with Nancy Well Read Quilting Arts The Beauty of The American Black America 1:00 Joy of Painting Oil Painting Woodshop Wyland’s Art Studio Fit 2 Stitch Between the Lines Fons & Porter’s Beads, Baubles, Rough Cut Closer to Truth 1:30 Love of Quilting and Jewels Jonathan Bird’s Sew It All Bake, Decorate, Knitting Daily For Your Home The Woodwright’s Shop Second Opinion 2:00 Blue World Celebrate! Jacques Pépin: Heart Ciao Italia Mexico: One Plate Sara’s Weeknight Creative Living Woodsmith Shop Healthy Body, 2:30 & Soul at a Time Meals Healthy Mind New Scandinavian Nick Stellino’s Hubert Keller: Secrets Simply Ming Pati’s Mexican Table Ask This Old House Stories of the Mind 3:00 Cooking Storyteller in the of a Chef Kitchen (8/22, 8/29) Delicious TV’s Moveable Feast with Eat! Drink! Italy! Steven Raichlen’s America’s Test Kitchen Fly Tying: Growing a Greener 3:30 Vegan Mashup Fine Cooking with Vic Rallo Project Smoke The Angler’s Art World Focus on Europe Baby Makes 3 4:00 NHK Newsline Washington Week Scully: The World 4:30 DW News Show Consuelo Mack To the Contrary with This Is America Focus on Europe Asia Insight History Detectives The Great Fire 5:00 WealthTrack Bonnie Erbe and the World (except 8/5) 5:30 Nightly Business Report The Appalachians On Story 6:00 (except 8/5) Charlie Rose 6:30 In the Loop MotorWeek Antiques Roadshow Journeys in India In the Loop Song Stage Dalziel and Pascoe The Appalachians 7:00 (8/19, 8/26) (except 8/27) Autoline This Week Pedal America British Antiques Songs at the Center 7:30 Roadshow NOVA Masterpiece: Rick Steves’ Europe DCI Banks Austin City Limits Vera (except 8/27) 8:00 Home Fires 8:30 Travels with Darley This Wild Life Inside Men Globe Trekker Infinity Hall Live Masterpiece: Arthur & 9:00 (8/1, 8/8, 8/15) George (8/5, 8/12) 9:30 Theater Talk Theater Talk Doctor Who: Tom Baker Classic Gospel 10:00 DW News / The Day Movies 10:30 Tavis Smiley 11:00 Charlie Rose Film School Shorts 11:30 (except 8/19) Children’s Comedy General How-to Drama Local News/Talk Travel 2 wycc.org Bold type indicates a new program or a program being aired at a new time. Please visit wycc.org/schedule for the most current programming schedule. contents AUGUST 2017 4 Cover Story Masterpiece: Home Fires 5 August Program Listings 10 FNX: First Nations Experience MHz Worldview 11 Visit wycc.org/magazine for the full Digital Edition. Staff WYCC PBS Chicago WYCC PBS Chicago Michael McKenna - Director of is licensed to the Magazine is Programming and Content published in Cesar Rodriguez - Creative Services cooperation with Director A+ Media, Inc. Alisa Clark - Membership Coordinator Julio Abreu Jonathan Bird’s Blue World, airing WYCC PBS Chicago is located at Publisher Juan Salgado - Chancellor Mondays at 2 p.m., is an educational Kennedy-King College Amy Sawyer Editorial Director 6258 S. Union Ave. Board of Trustees underwater adventure series that the entire Charles R. Middleton - Chairperson Tammy West family can enjoy. 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For more information on on-line courses, call the Center for Distance Learning at 312-553-5975. Late Night on WYCC PBS Chicago Please visit wycc.org/schedule for the most current programming schedule. MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY AM Beyond the Beltway Democracy Now! Democracy Now! Democracy Now! Democracy Now! Democracy Now! Austin City Limits 12:00 with Bruce DuMont (except 8/20) 12:30 Native Report NOVA Masterpiece: Rick Steves’ Europe DCI Banks In the Loop Infinity Hall Live 1:00 Home Fires Black America Travels with Darley British Antiques 1:30 Roadshow Classic Gospel This Wild Life Masterpiece: Globe Trekker WYCC Classic Movies WYCC Classic Movies 2:00 Grantchester (8/23, 8/30) 2:30 Theater Talk Vera (except 8/28) Journeys in India Classic Gospel The Appalachians The Doctor Blake 3:00 (8/10, 8/17, 8/24) Mysteries (8/4, 8/11) 3:30 Pedal America Theater Talk Antiques Roadshow History Detectives Masterpiece: Science Goes to the Scully: The World Show 4:00 (except 8/3) Arthur & George Movies (8/4, 8/11) 4:30 Theater Talk Asian American Life Business First AM America’s Veterans: Pritzker Military 5:00 Musical Tribute Presents (except 8/26) MotorWeek Consuelo Mack To the Contrary with This Is America and Asia Insight 5:30 WealthTrack Bonnie Erbe the World Children’s Comedy General How-to Drama Local News/Talk Travel wycc.org Bold type indicates a new program or a program being aired at a new time. EPISODE 1 Tuesday, August 1 at 8 p.m. In the face of impending war with Germany, the Great Paxford Women’s Institute faces an internal war of sorts Home Fires when Joyce Cameron resigns and takes most of the membership with her. Frances Barden and her supporters must A group of women bands together as come together to resurrect the Institute. the men from their rural community EPISODE 2 leave to fight in World War II. Tuesday, August 8 at 8 p.m. It’s been three weeks since Britain n August 1939, the people of England realize that war with declared war on Germany. As Frances Germany is imminent. The residents of Great Paxford, a small and Joyce battle for leadership of the English village, start doing their part to help the effort. While the new WI, the other members face their own problems, from a cancer diagnosis Imen enlist or wait to be called, the women fulfill roles left behind. to an unhappy marriage to a new romance. Masterpiece: Home Fires is a moving drama about two Great Paxford women, Frances Barden and Joyce Cameron, who vehemently disagree EPISODE 3 about what role of the Women’s Institute (WI) should play during the Tuesday, August 15 at 8 p.m. war. Cameron, the longtime president of the WI, is obsessed with class and tradition and believes the institute should suspend all activities. The impact of the war begins to be felt in Great Paxford as the women must Barden, a stubborn and forward-thinking leader, thinks that the make sacrifices for the salvage effort. WI has an important job. As each woman gains female followers in Meanwhile, Pat’s situation with Bob their community, the quarrel grows. Will the WI, a national service goes from bad to worse. Will the women organization, shut up shop or reinvent itself? of the village discover what’s going on before it’s too late? EPISODE 4 Tuesday, August 22 at 8 p.m. Secrets and lies are rife in the village for the women of the WI, who navigate threats of exposure as they try to preserve the lives they’ve built for themselves, and create an air raid shelter for the village. EPISODE 5 Tuesday, August 29 at 8 p.m. As everyone in Great Paxton adjusts to a new way of life, new revelations and difficult decisions haunt the women of the village. EPISODE 6 Tuesday, September 5 at 8 p.m. Some young lovers get a second chance and others take a turn for the worse while the WI works to raise money and spirits. France’s expected defeat makes the possibility of Nazi invasion more real than ever before. 4 Every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the program listings. Please visit our website wycc.org for AUGUST 2017 more information and for the most up-to-date listings. listings Special programs are highlighted in PINK.