TV & RADIO LISTINGS GUIDE October 2019
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Poldark and Durrells in Corfu soon wrap and we’re making room on Sunday OCTOBER 3 AT 10PM nights for three all-new MASTERPIECE series. WITF’S INTERNATIONAL FILM Beginning October 6, we’ll add contem- SERIES KICKS OFF WITH porary series Press at 10pm. Set in the world of newspapers in London - its past riven by hacking scandals, its present at the mercy of the digital age and the 24-hour news cycle, its future uncertain - this razor sharp and observant drama explores the current, turbulent media landscape and the ethical dilemmas •• that journalists and editors face each day. This show is led by Charlotte Riley (Peaky Blinders) and Ben Chaplin (Apple •• PREMIERES Tree Yard), alongside Priyanga Burford (King Charles III) and David Suchet MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS (Poirot). AT 9PM This month marks the launch of an all-new public affairs series Retro Report. The show connects the present to the past with stories from across Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, but will be announced soon. the country. The series broadcasts two to reach it they must endure a 16-mile Stay tuned in November for new episodes per twice Mondays and trek from France to Spain, a hike across MASTERPIECE special The Chaperone. Tuesdays at 9pm. Topics include how the Pyrenees Mountains and record high Louise Brooks, the 1920s silver screen decades-old research on human behavior temperatures throughout the final stretch. sensation who never met a rule she didn’t shows that social media’s addictive power WITF imports films from around the break, epitomized the restless, reckless is by design rather than chance; why half globe with a new International Film spirit of the Jazz Age. But, just a few years a million children still have dangerously Series Thursday nights at 10pm. This earlier, she was a 15-year-old student high lead levels even though it was banned series is made possible thanks to a generous in Wichita, Kansas for whom fame and from gasoline and household products donor who provided the necessary funding fortune were only dreams. When she decades ago; and why mandatory arbitra- to acquire these titles. The series premieres heads to New York to study with a leading tion agreements enacted on Wall Street with the 2011 film Calm At Sea which is in dance troupe, her mother (Victoria Hill) 20 years ago have negatively impacted French & German with English subtitles. insists there be a chaperone. Norma today’s #MeToo movement. WITF also Few outside Europe are familiar with Carlisle (Elizabeth McGovern, Downton produced segments for Retro Report Guy Môquet, the symbol of the French Abbey), a local society matron who never focusing on Intellectual Disability and Resistance against the Nazi occupation broke a rule in her life, impulsively volun- Nuclear Power. You’ll see these segments during the second World War, but to the teers to accompany Louise (Haley Lu in-between programs throughout the country of France, he is a brave soul that lives Richardson) to New York for the summer. month. forever in their hearts and minds. Calm at Thanks for watching WITF! ■ A diverse group of people are Sea kicks off WITF’s International Film Fred Vigeant, Director of Programming for stripped of their everyday comforts Series October 3 at 10pm. Additional titles WITF TV and WITF 89.5 & 93.3 as they attempt the medieval Camino de Santiago pilgrimage from France Look for Fred Vigeant's PICKS throughout the guide! • into Spain in a new three-part series Subscribe to WITF's Program Points, our e-newsletter highlighting key programs each week Pilgrimage Thursdays at 8pm begin- on WITF TV, WITF 89.5 & 93.3, and witf.org. Send an email to [email protected]. ning October 3. Their destination is the Subject line: subscribe me.
WITF | OCTOBER 2019 TV & RADIO LISTINGS PRIMETIME at a Glance For more information go to witf.org/tv BBC World News M-F 5:30pm Nightly Business Report M-F 11:30pm BBC Newsnight SAT 5:00pm PBS Newshour M-F 6:00pm Amanpour & Company M-F 12:00am PBS Newshour Weekend SAT 5:30pm BBC World News M-F 11:00pm PBS Newshour Weekend SUN 5:30pm
8:00pm 8:30pm 9:00pm 9:30pm 10:00pm 10:30pm
1 TUE Secrets of the Dead FRONTLINE
2 WED Nature NOVA Wild Metropolis
3THU Pilgrimage* A Place to Call Home* Calm At Sea*
Firing Line with 4FRI Washington Week Great Performances Now Hear This TBD Margaret Hoover
Keeping Up 5SAT Vicar of Dibley* Shakespeare & Hathaway-Private Investigators* Professor T Appearances*
6SUN Durrells In Corfu on MASTERPIECE* Poldark on MASTERPIECE* Press on MASTERPIECE
7MON Antiques Roadshow Retro Report on PBS POV
8TUE Finding Your Roots Retro Report on PBS FRONTLINE
9WED Nature NOVA Wild Metropolis
10THU Pilgrimage* A Place to Call Home* Amerika Square* Firing Line with 11FRI Washington Week Great Performances: Now Hear This The Hispanic Heritage Awards Margaret Hoover Keeping Up 12 SAT Vicar of Dibley* Shakespeare & Hathaway-Private Investigators* Professor T Appearances*
13SUN Durrells In Corfu on MASTERPIECE* Poldark on MASTERPIECE* Press on MASTERPIECE
14 MON Antiques Roadshow Retro Report on PBS POV
15TUE Finding Your Roots Retro Report on PBS FRONTLINE
16WED Nature NOVA Wild Metropolis
17 THU Pilgrimage* A Place to Call Home* Little England*
Firing Line with 18FRI Washington Week Great Performances: Grammy Salute to Music Legends Margaret Hoover Keeping Up Shakespeare & Hathaway-Private Investigators* 19SAT Vicar of Dibley* Appearances* begins at begins at 9:15pm Professor T 8:40pm
20 SUN Durrells In Corfu on MASTERPIECE* Poldark on MASTERPIECE* Press on MASTERPIECE
21MON Antiques Roadshow Retro Report on PBS POV
22 TUE Finding Your Roots Retro Report on PBS FRONTLINE
23WED Nature NOVA Life From Above
Trans-Siberian Orchestra: Ghosts of Christmas 24THU A Place to Call Home* Remembrance Eve* Firing Line with 25FRI Washington Week Rothko: American Masters Songwriting With Soldiers Margaret Hoover Keeping Up 26 SAT Vicar of Dibley* Shakespeare & Hathaway-Private Investigators* Professor T Appearances*
27 SUN Durrells In Corfu on MASTERPIECE* Poldark on MASTERPIECE* Press on MASTERPIECE
28 MON Antiques Roadshow Retro Report on PBS Independent Lens
29TUE Finding Your Roots Retro Report on PBS FRONTLINE
30WED Nature NOVA Life From Above
31 THU Things That Go Bump In The Night A Place to Call Home* Nakom*
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TUESDAY 1 SATURDAY 5 8:00pm • Secrets of the Dead: Scan- 7:00pm Lawrence Welk Show: The Songs • ning The Pyramids Scientists use non-invasive of Jimmy McHugh* #1707 technologies to explore what lies within the 8:00pm Vicar of Dibley: Election* David Great Pyramid at Giza. #1701 has been the Councillor in a safe Tory seat for 9:00pm • FRONTLINE: The Crown a number of years. #105 Prince of Saudi Arabia #3802 8:30pm Keeping Up Appearances: The 11:00pm BBC World News Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket - Daisy’s Toy- 11:30pm Nightly Business Report boy* Hyacinth’s social standing at a church 12:00am Amanpour & Company function is jeopardized when Onslow becomes more ardent. #105 WEDNESDAY 2 PRESS ON 9:00pm • • Shakespeare & Hatha- MASTERPIECE 8:00pm • • Nature: Octopus: Mak- way-Private Investigators: No More Cakes and ing Contact A professor raises and studies a Ale* Frank and Lu must find a witness to prove Sundays at 10pm pet octopus in his home and makes remark- that a man on trial for robbery and assault is able discoveries. #3701 innocent. #115 TUESDAY 8 9:00pm • NOVA: Inside The Megafire 10:00pm • Professor T: The Hotel From the front line of the Camp Fire, the dead- Murder Professor T decides to launch his own 8:00pm • Finding Your Roots: Hol- liest wildfire in California history, #4608 investigation into the murder of a plastic sur- lywood Royalty Actors Isabella Rossellini, 10:00pm • Wild Metropolis: Residents geon. #105 Anjelica Huston and Mia Farrow explore their From humpback whales breaching in New 11:00pm Austin City Limits: Gary Clark, Jr. family histories. #601 York’s Hudson Bay to huge colonies of mega- #4501 9:00pm • • Retro Report On PBS: bats in Adelaide; explore our most-loved and SUNDAY 6 Episode Two Uncover crime evidence pulled familiar cities through fresh eyes: the eyes of from DNA websites. Learn why Americans are the animals that live in them. #101 7:00pm • Big Ben: Saving The World’s ambivalent about robots. #102 11:00pm BBC World News Most Famous Clock* Delves into the history 10:00pm FRONTLINE: On The President’s 11:30pm Nightly Business Report of the iconic London landmark, as well as the Orders #3619 12:00am Amanpour & Company restoration work that’s currently being done 11:00pm BBC World News THURSDAY 3 inside it #101 11:30pm Nightly Business Report 8:00pm Durrells In Corfu 12:00am Amanpour & Company 8:00pm Pilgrimage* Seven •• • • Season 4 on MASTERPIECE: Episode Two An WEDNESDAY 9 celebrities are stripped of their everyday com- encounter with Daphne leaves Leslie ponder- forts and must live as modern day pilgrims as ing about fatherhood. Margo moves in with 8:00pm • Nature: The Serengeti Rules they trek a famous medieval pilgrimage. #101 Theo. #4934 Scientists make surprising discoveries that 9:00pm A Place to Call Home: transform human understanding of nature and • • 9:00pm Poldark Season 5 on Somewhere Beyond The Sea Sarah goes to •• ecology. #3702 * MASTERPIECE re caught in a dangerous web. Sydney under the pretense of visiting her sick George pursues the fruits of a new alliance. 9:00pm NOVA: Day The Dinosaurs Died aunt, while Jack keeps an eye on Rene. #303 #4940 Scientists explore the impact of the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs 66 million years 10:00pm Calm at Sea* Few out- 10:00pm Press on MASTER- • • •• ago. #4421 side Europe are familiar with Guy Môquet, the PIECE Holly, deputy news editor of the Herald, symbol of the French Resistance against the tries to obtain CCTV footage of a fatal hit-and- 10:00pm • Wild Metropolis: Nazi occupation during the second World War, run. Commuters In a modern migration, animals but to the country of France, he is a brave soul 11:00pm Downton Abbey Season 4 on travel in and out of cities to find food or to that lives forever in their hearts and minds. MASTERPIECE: Part Six #4406 start a family. #102 11:35pm BBC World News 12:00am Bluegrass Underground: Lucero 11:00pm BBC World News 11:30pm Nightly Business Report showcases their streamlined sound honoring 11:30pm Nightly Business Report 12:00am Amanpour & Company their seminal Southern and Rock influences. 12:00am Amanpour & Company FRIDAY 4 #905 THURSDAY 10 MONDAY 7 8:00pm Washington Week #5914 8:00pm • • Pilgrimage* #102 8:30pm Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 8:00pm Antiques Roadshow: The Gen X 9:00pm • • A Place to Call Home: #314 Years: Hour Three #2325 Too Old to Dream* Sarah decides not to go 9:00pm • Great Performances: 9:00pm • • Retro Report on PBS: through with the abortion but meets a desperate Now Hear This: Scarlatti–Man Out of Time Episode One Learn social media’s addictive young woman and her mother at the clinic. #304 power and discover how Wall Street women Discover how composer Scarlatti generated 10:00pm • • Amerika Square* a new sound inspired by the guitar that is still fought harassment. #101 Filmmaker Yannis Sakaridis presents a clever relevant. #4407 10:00pm • POV: America Diego returns satirical view of the Greek migrant crisis by 10:00pm TBD home after his grandmother falls and his exploring both xenophobic and sympathetic 11:00pm BBC World News father is arrested for elder neglect.#3212 sentiments of Greeks towards foreigners 11:30pm Nightly Business Report 11:00pm BBC World News escaping the war and hardships that engulfed 12:00am Amanpour & Company 11:30pm Nightly Business Report their native lands. 12:00am Amanpour & Company 11:30pm BBC World News Follow us on Twitter 12:00am Amanpour & Company Tweet your favorite programs
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FRIDAY 11 MONDAY 14 FRIDAY 18 8:00pm Washington Week #5915 8:00pm Antiques Roadshow: Junk in the 8:00pm Washington Week #5916 8:30pm Firing Line with Margaret Hoover Trunk #2326 #315 8:30pm Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 9:00pm • • Retro Report On PBS #316 9:00pm • • Great Performances: Episode Three Learn why crime witnesses fail 9:00pm Great Performances: Now Hear This: Handel - Italian Style Dis- to act and meet a Naval officer who trans- • • Grammy Salute to Music Legends Perfor- cover how Handel’s experience in Italy with formed the military. #103 Vivaldi, Scarlatti and Corelli influenced his mances by Garth Brooks, Snoop Dogg, Johnny career. #4408 10:00pm • POV: The Feeling of Being Mathis, Sheila E and more stars are show- Watched Journalist Assia Boundaoui uncovers cased. #4409 10:00pm The Hispanic Heritage • one of the largest counterterrorism probes 11:00pm BBC World News Awards People doing great work in a variety conducted before 9/11. #3213 of fields to benefit the Hispanic community are 11:30pm Nightly Business Report 11:30pm BBC World News celebrated. #2019 12:00am Amanpour & Company 12:00am Amanpour & Company 11:00pm BBC World News SATURDAY 19 TUESDAY 15 11:30pm Nightly Business Report 7:00pm Lawrence Welk Show: Musical 12:00am Amanpour & Company 8:00pm • Finding Your Roots Tour of Europe* #1709 SATURDAY 12 Off The Farm Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores 8:00pm Vicar of Dibley: 1996 Easter Spe- the humble roots of actors Melissa McCarthy cial* With the arrival of Lent, the parishioners 7:00pm Lawrence Welk Show: Musical and Eric Stonestreet. #602 Memories* #1708 are thinking what they may give up in prepara- 9:00pm Retro Report On PBS tion for Easter and more. #201 8:00pm Vicar of Dibley: Animals* Geral- • • Episode Four President Trump takes on the dine plans to hold a special service of blessing 8:40pm Keeping Up Appearances: The press with a time-tested strategy. Learn the in St. Barnabas Church for all the animals of Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket - The Memoirs of origins of vaccine fears. #104 the village. #106 Hyacinth Bucket*Hyacinth is appalled when 10:00am FRONTLINE: Supreme Revenge 8:30pm Keeping Up Appearances: The she sees a man next door at Liz’s who has A look at the no-holds-barred war for control Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket - The Christen- spent the night there! #201 of the Supreme Court sheds light on partisan 9:15pm Shakespeare & ing* Hyacinth enjoys a quiet family christening, conflicts. #3714 • • until pandemonium breaks loose. #106 Hathaway-Private Investigators: Nothing Will 11:00pm BBC World News Come of Nothing* Lu and Frank delve into the 9:00pm • • Shakespeare & 11:30pm Nightly Business Report Hathaway-Private Investigators: The Offered world of high stakes gambling at the casino to 12:00am Amanpour & Company find a missing gambler. #117 Fallacy* The PIs must clear their names and prove that they are being framed by mysteri- WEDNESDAY 16 10:00pm • Professor T: The Mask ous doppelgangers. #116 8:00pm Nature: Undercover Murders A crime occurs that is identical to a • • double murder solved by Commissioner Fla- 10:00pm Professor T: Tamara A call in the Jungle A film crew journeys to the • mant fifteen years ago. #201 girl’s suicide perplexes the police. Professor T untouched wilderness of biodiversity in the knows more about the victim than he lets on. Amazon rainforest. #3703 11:00pm • Austin City Limits: Steve #106 9:00pm NOVA: Why Bridges Collapse Earle & The Dukes: A Tribute to Guy Clark • #4503 11:00pm • Austin City Limits: Maggie In 2018, Italy’s Morandi Bridge collapsed, kill- Rogers #4502 ing 43 people. NOVA investigates what went SUNDAY 20 wrong. #4618 SUNDAY 13 7:00pm • • Feud: American Expe- 10:00pm Wild Metropolis Survi- rience The bloody backwoods battle between 7:00pm Big Ben: Saving The • • vors Follow captivating stories of animals that Appalachian clans, the Hatfields and McCoys, World’s Most Famous Clock* #102 have been displaced, from herons to hump- is explored. 8:00pm • • Durrells In Corfu back whales. #103 8:00pm • • Durrells In Corfu Season 4 on MASTERPIECE - Episode Three 11:00pm BBC World News Season 4 on MASTERPIECE - Episode Four Louisa meets Spiros’ wife and invites her to 11:30pm Nightly Business Report Spiros’ increased presence continues to de- join the family on a trip that ends badly. #4935 12:00am Amanpour & Company light Louisa. Gerry realizes he has feelings for 9:00pm • • Poldark Season 5 on THURSDAY 17 Galini. #4936 MASTERPIECE - Episode Three Ross’ tenac- 9:00pm • • Poldark Season 5 on ity in helping Ned bears fruit, but at a cost. 8:00pm Pilgrimage* #103 • • Masterpiece - Episode Four Ross’ tenacity in George’s sanity deteriorates. #4941 9:00pm • • A Place to Call Home: helping Ned bears fruit, but at a cost. George’s 10:00pm • Press on MASTERPIECE: Living in the Shadow Rene remains cold to sanity deteriorates. #4942 Pure Holly helps Leona investigate a lead at a Sarah following the revelation that she’s carry- 10:00pm • Press On MASTERPIECE: hospital. Ed works on the Post’s showbiz desk. ing George’s baby. #305 Don’t Take My Heart, Don’t Break My Heart #4948 10:00pm • • Little England* Holly investigates a lead that a powerful busi- 11:00pm • Downton Abbey MASTER- 20 year-old Orsa (Penelope Tsilika) is passion- ness tycoon coerces young women into sleep- PIECE #4948 ately in love with second mate Spyros Maltabes ing with him. #4949 (Andreas Konstantinou), a secret she dares not 12:00am Bluegrass Underground: Broth- 11:00pm • Downton Abbey MASTER- ers Osborne The Brothers Osborne showcase reveal to anyone, least of all her domineering PIECE #4608 mother, Mina. #303 their “twang-and-crunch” sound, which is 12:00am Bluegrass Underground: equal parts country and rock. #906 11:35pm BBC World News Gregory Alan Isakov Isakov strikes a balance 12:00am Amanpour & Company of space and instrumentation with precise ar- rangements and poignant lyrics. #907
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MONDAY 21 MONDAY 28 9:00pm • Rothko: American Masters 8:00pm Antiques Roadshow: Virginia Mark Rothko’s luminous color field paintings 8:00pm Antiques Roadshow: Virginia Beach, Hour Two #2114 helped define the abstract expressionist move- Beach, Hour Three #2115 9:00pm • • Retro Report On PBS: ment. #3302 9:00pm • • Retro Report On PBS: Episode Five Surrogate parenthood is still be- 10:00pm • • Songwriting with Sol- Episode Seven Uncover the story behind new ing shaped by Baby M. Learn how texting could diers Professional artists work with veterans AIDS hot spots and learn about the origin of reduce suicides. #105 to tell their stories of war and return home special ops forces. #107 10:00pm • POV: Blowin’ Up A team of through song. 10:00pm • Independent Lens: Made In rebel heroines work to change the way women 11:00pm BBC World News Boise Four surrogates in Boise, Idaho and the arrested for prostitution are prosecuted. 11:30pm Nightly Business Report intended parents whose children they carry #3214 12:00am Amanpour & Company are featured. #2101 11:30pm BBC World News SATURDAY 26 11:30pm Nightly Business Report 12:00am Amanpour & Company 12:00am Amanpour & Company 7:00pm Lawrence Welk Show: Halloween TUESDAY 22 #1710 TUESDAY 29 8:00pm Finding Your Roots: Family 8:00pm Vicar of Dibley: Xmas Special 8:00pm Finding Your Roots: Unfamiliar Reunions DNA technology uncovers the family 1996 - Christmas Lunch* Christmas is coming Kin Actors Fred Armisen and Christopher mysteries of hip hop legends Sean Combs and in Dibley and Geraldine is having problems, not Walken and musician Carly Simon learn about LL Cool J. #307 only with her sermon, but also with multiple their roots. #402 invitations to Christmas lunch from the 9:00pm • • Retro Report on PBS 9:00pm Retro Report parishioners. #202 • • Episode Six Discover lessons from a 1970s On PBS Episode Eight Discover how sex ed 8:30pm Keeping Up Appearances: The public housing experiment. Understand the programs are informed by past failures. #108 roots of newborn testing. #106 Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket * Hyacinth is 10:00pm FRONTLINE: Target El Paso very thrilled when the wealthy Mrs. Fortescue 10:00pm FRONTLINE: Zero Tolerance #3804 #3803 asks them to give her a lift into town. #202 11:00pm BBC World News 11:00pm BBC World News 9:00pm • • Shakespeare & Hath- 11:30pm Nightly Business Report 11:30pm Nightly Business Report away-Private Investigators: In My Memory 12:00am Amanpour & Company 12:00am Amanpour & Company Lock’d* Frank and Lu set out to discover the WEDNESDAY 30 WEDNESDAY 23 identity of a wounded man who has no clue who he is. #118 8:00pm Nature: Okavango - River of 8:00pm Nature: Okavango: River of • • 10:00pm • Professor T: The Go- Dreams: Limbo The landscape and wildlife of Dreams: Paradise A lioness severely injured Between Chief Inspector Rabet is confronted the “Middle River,” the delta of the Okavango by a buffalo is left for dead by her pride on the with the driver who killed his daughter in a car River, are explored. #3705 Upper Okavango River. #3704 crash. #108 9:00pm • NOVA: Secrets of the Sky 9:00pm • NOVA: Look Who’s Driving 11:00pm • Austin City Limits H.E.R. Tombs A team of scientists and explorers Peer under the hood of the autonomous auto- #4504 probe high altitude caves in the Tibetan Hima- motive industry to learn how exactly driverless SUNDAY 27 layas. #4401 cars work. #4619 10:00pm Life from Above: Colorful Planet 7:00pm Trans-Siberian Orchestra: 10:00pm • • Life from Above: Mov- • • New footage of the greatest, most beautiful ing Planet Cameras in space capture footage Ghosts of Christmas Eve See 10/24 at 8pm and powerful colors on our planet is show- of the greatest and most powerful movements 8:00pm Durrells In Corfu Sea- cased. #102 on our planet. #101 • • son 4 on MASTERPIECE - Episode Five The 11:00pm BBC World News 11:00pm BBC World News residence in Corfu are excited at the prospect 11:30pm Nightly Business Report 11:30pm Nightly Business Report of a visit from the king of Greece. #4937 12:00am Amanpour & Company 12:00am Amanpour & Company 9:00pm • • Poldark Season 5 on WEDNESDAY 31 THURSDAY 24 MASTERPIECE - Episode Five #4943 8:00pm Things That Go Bump in the 8:00pm • • Trans-Siberian Orches- 10:00pm • Press on MASTERPIECE Night New England’s most bone-chilling tales of tra: Ghosts of Christmas Eve Narrated by the Magic Duncan is shocked when the Post is the supernatural and unexplained mysteries. late Ossie Davis, this a fantasy trip through the banned from Downing Street’s daily press 9:00pm • A Place to Call Home: The magic of Christmas. conferences. #4950 Sins of the Father* On the anniversary of Lewis 9:00pm • • A Place to Call Home: 12:00am Bluegrass Underground: Steve Bligh’s death, George reflects on the troubled In The Heat of the Night Sarah has taken ill Earle and the Dukes Producer, author, actor relationship he had with his father. #307 and singer-songwriter Steve Earle is master and fears for the life of her baby. #306 9:00pm Nakom* Set in present musician and writer’s writer. #908 • • 10:00pm • • Remembrance Depicts day Ghana, Nakom follows Iddrisu, a talented a remarkable love story that blossomed amidst medical student who is summoned home by the terror of a German concentration camp in his sister after their father’s sudden death. Poland 1944. WILD METROPOLIS 11:30pm BBC World News 12:00am Amanpour & Company 12:00am Amanpour & Company FRIDAY 25 8:00pm Washington Week #5917 Like us on Facebook 8:30pm Firing Line with Margaret Hoover for video previews #317 October 2, 9 & 16 at 10pm
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** Schedule WITF TV DAYTIME SPECIAL PROGRAMS WITF TV DAYTIME SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE subject to MONDAY–FRIDAY FRIDAY change 5:00am BBC World News 12:00pm Amanpour & Company • 5:30am Public Affairs Programming 1:00pm The Great British Baking Show 6:00am Peg + Cat 2:00pm A Chef’s Life 6:30am Arthur 2:30pm Family Travel with Colleen Kelly 7:00am Ready Jet Go! SATURDAY 7:30am Wild Kratts 5:30am Happy Yoga 8:00am Nature Cat 6:00am Mister Rogers Neighborhood 8:30am Molly of Denali 6:30am Splash and Bubbles 9:00am Curious George 7:00am Sesame Street 9:30am Let’s Go Luna! 7:30am Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 10:00am Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 8:00am Let’s Go Luna! 10:30am Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 8:30am Molly of Denali 11:00am Sesame Street 9:00am This Old House Hour 11:30am Pinkalicious & Peterrific 10:00am American Woodshop 12:00pm GENERAL AUDIENCE* 10:30am Woodsmith Shop Sundays starting October 13 at 2 & 3pm 3:00pm Nature Cat 11:00am Motorweek SUNDAY 6 3:30pm Wild Kratts/(Cyberchase Fri only) 11:30am Lidia’s Kitchen 4:00pm Molly of Denali 12:00pm Pati’s Mexican Table 1:00pm • Re-Evolution: The Cuban Dream The stories of five Cubans shed light on how Cuba is shaped by an ongoing culture of 4:30pm Odd Squad/(Kid Stew Fri only) 12:30pm Moveable Feast with Fine Cooking revolution. 5:00pm Odd Squad 1:00pm Ciao Italia 1:30pm Ballet Hispanico Enjoy iconic works from the country’s 5:30pm BBC World News America 1:30pm Joanne Weir Gets Fresh premier Latino dance company, CARMEN.maquia and Club Havana. 6:00pm PBS Newshour 2:00pm Rick Steves’ Europe 3:00pm • Conexiones: A Mexican Cuban Connection 7:00pm Sesame Street 2:30pm Growing A Greener World This documentary chronicles the 2016 tour of Cuba by Mexican 7:30pm Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 3:00pm Garden Smart American roots group Los Cenzontles. GENERAL AUDIENCE 3:30pm Transforming Health SUNDAY 13 4:00pm This Old House Hour MONDAY 1:00pm Rise and Fall of the Brown Buffalo The life of radical 5:00pm Asia Insight Chicano lawyer, author and countercultural icon, Oscar Zeta Acosta is 12:00pm Amanpour & Company 5:30pm PBS Newshour Weekend examined. 1:00pm America’s Test Kitchen from 6:00pm Antiques Roadshow 2:00pm Latino Americans: Foreigners In Their Own Cook’s Illustrated • SUNDAY Land The first Spanish explorers in North America and the US 1:30pm Cook’s Country expansion in the Southwest are examined. #101 5:00am Classical Stretch 2:00pm Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting 6:00am Mister Rogers Neighborhood 3:00pm • Latino Americans: Empire of Dreams A look at 2:30pm Painting with Paulson how the American population was reshaped by Latino immigration 6:30am Splash and Bubbles TUESDAY from 1880 to the 1940s. #102 7:00am Sesame Street 12:00pm Amanpour & Company SATURDAY 20 7:30am Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 1:00pm Sara’s Weeknight Meals 8:00am Let’s Go Luna! 1:00pm • Freedom Writers: Stories from the Heart An 1:30pm Food Over 50 idealistic teacher tries to reach 150 at-risk students who were labeled 8:30am Molly of Denali 2:00pm Best of Sewing with Nancy “unteachable.” 9:00am Travels with Darley 2:30pm Painting and Travel with Roger & 2:00pm Latino Americans: War and Peace Trace the World 9:30am Samantha Brown’s Places to Love • Sarah Bansemer War II years and those that follow, as Latino Americans serve their new 10:00am Daytripper WEDNESDAY country. #103 10:30am Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi 12:00pm Amanpour & Company 3:00pm • Latino Americans: The New Latinos Immigrants 11:00am Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope from Puerto Rico, Cuba and the Dominican Republic seek opportunities 1:00pm The Jazzy Vegetarian 11:30am Two for the Road after World War II. #104 1:30pm Martha Bakes 12:00pm Firing Line with Margaret Hoover SUNDAY 27 2:00pm Make It Artsy 12:30pm Washington Week 2:30pm Fit 2 Stitch 1:00pm Voice of America: Lowell Thomas and the Rise of 1:00pm Visit Special Programs** • THURSDAY Broadcast News Lowell Thomas dominated American journalism in 4:00pm Song of the Mountains the 1930s and 1940s and was a famous adventurer. 12:00pm Amanpour & Company 5:00pm Focus On Europe 1:00pm Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street 2:00pm • Latino Americans: Pride and Prejudice 5:30pm PBS Newshour Weekend Labor leaders organize farm workers in California and activists push Television 6:00pm Great British Baking Show for education opportunities. #105 1:30pm Taste of History 3:00pm Latino Americans: Peril and Promise 2:00pm Quilting Arts • The debate over undocumented immigrants and the Latino influence 2:30pm Paint This with Jerry Yarnell on sports and media are explored. #106
6 * Not available on Passport WITF | OCTOBER 2019 TV & RADIO LISTINGS 89.5 & 93.3 NEWS & INFO For more information go to witf.org/radio YOUR HOME FOR NPR NEWS AND ALL THINGS REGIONAL STAFF CONNECTIONS WITF 89.5 & 93.3 TIM LAMBERT HOST OF WITF’S MORNING EDITION AND MONDAY–FRIDAY SATURDAY MULTIMEDIA NEWS DIRECTOR 12:00am BBC World Service 12:00am BBC World Service 5:00am Morning Edition 5:00am On The Media Tim has been with WITF 9:00am Smart Talk with Scott LaMar 6:00am The Pulse since August 2001. He was 10:00am 1A with Joshua Johnson 7:00am Planet Money promoted to the position of 12:00pm Here And Now 7:30am How I Built This Multimedia News Director in 2:00pm Monday: Reveal 8:00am Weekend Edition Saturday January, 2011. Lambert also Tuesday: Innovation Hub 10:00am Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! gets up at “0-dark-30” to help Wednesday: TED Radio Hour 11:00am Ask Me Another listeners start their day as Thursday: To The Best of 12:00pm It’s Been A Minute Morning Edition host. Our Knowledge 1:00pm Radiolab He is a five-time recipient Friday: Science Friday 2:00pm This American Life of the Radio Television Digital News Association’s (RTDNA) 3:00pm Fresh Air with Terry Gross 3:00pm TED Radio Hour National Edward R. Murrow Award for excellence in digital and Friday: Science Friday 4:00pm On The Media broadcast journalism and serves as one of four national coaches 4:00pm All Things Considered 5:00pm All Things Considered for the Trusting News project. Tim’s reporting has also been 6:30pm Marketplace 6:00pm Live from Here honored on the state, regional and national levels. 7:00pm SmartTalk with Scott 8:00pm Snap Judgment The Aliquippa native is a graduate of the Indiana University LaMar (Repeat 9am) 9:00pm Ask Me Another of Pennsylvania. Tim has been working in broadcast journalism 8:00pm Think 10:00pm Fresh Air Weekend since 1993, with stints in Lewistown and Gettysburg. ■ 9:00pm 1A with Joshua Johnson 11:00pm BBC World Service 10:00pm Fresh Air with Terry Gross 11:00pm BBC World Service SUNDAY Little known fact: Tim has seen Pearl Jam 12:00am BBC World Service in concert 22 times in 12 cities and 5:00am To The Best of Our Knowledge five states. 7:00am On Being 8:00am Weekend Edition Sunday 10:00am Hidden Brain A collection of interviews, photos, 11:00am The Moth and music videos, featuring local musicians who have stopped by the 12:00pm Live From Here WITF performance studio to share 2:00pm Studio 360 WITF.ORG/MUSIC a little discussion and sound. 3:00pm Splendid Table 4:00pm Reveal 5:00pm All Things Considered 6:00pm Rick Steves’ Travel FRESH AIR with 7:00pm WITF Presents Terry Gross 8:00pm Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! Monday-Thursday at 9:00pm The Moth Radio Hour 3pm and 10pm DEVIX 10:00pm BBC World Service
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MORNING EDITION IS NOW ON-DEMAND FM | HIGHLIGHTS 89.5 & 93.3 Do you have a smart speaker? You can hear devices (with the hopes of this rolling out to other manufac- WITF through your smart speaker by simply turers soon) the ability to hear Morning Edition later in the asking the speaker to “Play WITF Radio”. This day. If you enjoy the program but were too busy to listen, currently works with Apple HomePod, Amazon now you can simply ask your Echo device to “Play Morning Echo (Alexa) and Google Home. WITF along Edition” and the full program featuring WITF local news with stations across the country have now will begin playing. Try it today! ■ added a feature specifically to Amazon Echo
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