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wqpt.org/donate 309/764-2400 JUNE 2021 HIGHLIGHTS LEDISI LIVE A TRIBUTE TO NINA SIMONE Join the powerhouse vocalist Ledisi as she celebrates the songs of the legendary singer, songwriter and activist Nina Simone

Performances include include “My Baby Just Cares for Me,” “Four Women,” “I Put a Spell on You” and “Trouble in Mind.”

SATURDAY, JUNE 19 | 9:00PM

THE HUMBOLDT FORUM It has been one of Europe’s most expensive and controversial cultural projects in recent years: The rebuilding of the Berlin City Palace, home of the Humboldt Forum – billed as the German capital’s answer to the Louvre. Is this really a place to foster a constructive dialogue of world cultures?

TUESDAY, JUNE 29 | 8:15PM

IRELAND WITH MICHAEL Travel across Ireland with internationally renowned singer Michael Londra in a celebration of Irish culture, history, and music. Combining glorious video footage from the Emerald Isle, fascinating travel destinations, exciting cultural experiences, and performances from Irish stars, Ireland with Michael allows you to tour Ireland from your own home.

Begins TUESDAY, JUNE 22 | 8:00PM wqpt.org

US ON MASTERPIECE Douglas, his wife and teenage son take a European summer vacation together. What could go wrong?

Tom Hollander, Saskia Reeves, and Tom Taylor star in an adaptation of David Nicholls' bittersweet, bestselling novel about a family giving their relationship one last shot.

MONDAY, JUNE 28 | 8:00PM

THE LANGUAGE OF WHALES What is the meaning of the sounds and acoustic signals emitted by whales? Do they have anything in common with human speech?

This fascinating documentary explores the astonishing communicative powers of these marine giants.

THURSDAY, JUNE 3 | 8:15PM

RICK STEVES EUROPE AWAITS Travel lovers have spent the last year or so dreaming of where they’ll go post-COVID. Rick Steves shares vivid and unforgettable visits to European favorites—off-beat, romantic, or just good for the soul—that he’d love to visit when we can travel again.

TUESDAY, JUNE 8 | 7:00PM JUNE 2021 PRIMETIME 8:00 New Tricks TUESDAY End of the Line: The team FRIDAY 1 reinvestigates the murder of an 4 7:00 Rick Steves’ Luther unnamed vagrant strangled on a tube 7:00 Red, White and Rock and the Reformation train 15 years ago, after DNA tests on a suspect in a warehouse robbery reveal him to be the dead man’s son. 9:00 Inspector Morse The Infernal Serpent: Morse is called in when an eminent environmentalist is murdered minutes before he is due to give a controversial lecture at a college. Join Frankie Valli, The Righteous Five hundred years ago, Martin 11:00 Jamestown Brothers, Connie Francis and more Luther kicked off the Protestant Season 3, Episode 8: Mercy and for a 2002 patriotic celebration Reformation, which contributed to Pepper bring joy to the town, but of America and pop oldies music. the birth of our modern age. Trace the Sharrows’ rivalry reaches 9:00 Suze Orman’s the events while visiting key sites the breaking point. Ultimate Retirement Guide relating to the Reformation. 8:00 Samantha Brown’s Places to Love 3 THURSDAY Ft. Myers & Sanibel Island, Florida 7:00 The Cities 8:30 Two for the Road 7:30 Whitney Reynolds Adventure Across South Africa First Generations: A look at first 9:00 Cycle Around Japan generation of all sorts. Bicycle through the scenery of 8:00 Real Prince Philip: Japan, stay with locals and discover A Royal Officer Join the acclaimed personal hidden traditions in a Japan you finance expert for essential didn't know existed. Viewers advice on planning for and experience breath-taking cycling thriving in retirement. adventures and see a side of Japan they won't find in the guidebooks. 11:30 Dr. Fuhrman’s Food As Medicine 9:30 Illinois Adventure Learn how to use food to help 10:00 Finding Your Roots prevent disease and improve health Immigrant Nation: Guests include with this nutritional and natural actors Scarlett Johansson, Explore the Duke of Edinburgh’s healing expert, who provides Paul Rudd and John Turturro. life story and see how his military the latest scientific research and 11:00 D-Day at experiences played into his later practical, easy-to-follow advice. Pointe-Du-Hoc achievements. The remarkable story of the U.S. 9:00 Prince Philip: For Army’s 2nd Ranger battalion, led SATURDAY Queen and Country 5 by Lt. Col. James Earl Rudder, Celebrate the life of one of Britain’s 7:00 Pavlo Live in Kastoria which scaled the 100-foot cliffs most fascinating modern royals, A musical tribute to America’s of Pointe-du-Hoc in Normandy Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. freedoms, its leaders and its to destroy six German cannons. veterans, and to the patriotism 10:00 Margaret: Lawrence Welk held dear as part The Rebel Princess of the classic American success 2 WEDNESDAY story of his life. 7:00 Antiques Roadshow 8:30 The Bee Gees, One Night Only

Part 1: This intimate two-part series profiles Princess Margaret, whose life and loves reflected the Celebrity Edition, Hour 4: Join TV social and sexual revolution that personality Carson Kressley, actor transformed the western world Taped in Las Vegas in 1997, Gbenga Akinnagbe, humorist during the 20th century. experience one of the very few Bee Mo Rocca, and musicians Paquito Gees performances ever filmed, the D’Rivera and Brenda Feliciano as 11:30 Margaret: music special showcases many of they get the Roadshow experience. The Rebel Princess Part 2 their greatest disco and pop hits.

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10:00 The Carpenters: 8:30 Classical Rewind 9:30 John Sebastian Close to You Experience the beauty, romance Presents: Folk Rewind and dramatic power of musical masterpieces in this visual and auditory joyride through the world of classical hits. 10:00 Change Your Brain, Heal Your Mind with Daniel Amen Practical steps to help you feel happier, sharper and more in A music-filled documentary that control of your own destiny. Join John Sebastian of The Lovin’ traces the Carpenters' career Spoonful in a special featuring the through the eyes of Richard greatest singers and songwriters Carpenter and the group's friends TUESDAY of the classic 50s & 60s folk era, in the music business 8 with historic footage and new 7:00 Rick Steves’ performances. 11:30 Overcoming Europe Awaits Anxiety, Depression, 11:30 Dr. Fuhrman’s Trauma, and Grief Food As Medicine Psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Amen and Learn how to use food to help his wife Tana Amen, an ICU nurse, prevent disease and improve health show you how to tame your hidden with this nutritional and natural dragons—and help you feel happier, healing expert, who provides more positive and more in control the latest scientific research and of your own emotions. practical, easy-to-follow advice.

Rick Steves shares vivid and 6 SUNDAY unforgettable visits to European 10 THURSDAY 7:00 Memory Rescue favorites, off-beat, romantic, or just 7:00 The Cities with Daniel Amen, MD good for the soul, that he’d love 7:30 Whitney Reynolds Improve your memory and even to visit when we can travel again. Reinventions: Sitting down with rescue it if you think it’s too late. 9:00 The Bee Gees, guests who have reinvented 9:00 Eat Your Medicine: One Night Only who they once were. The Pegan Diet with Taped in Las Vegas in 1997, 8:00 Tina Turner: Mark Hyman, MD experience one of the very few Bee One Last Time Gees performances ever filmed, the music special showcases many of their greatest disco and pop hits. 10:30 Straight from the Heart: Timeless Music From the 60s & 70s

Hyman breaks down the pegan diet, In 2000, Tina Turner’s final UK which combines aspects of paleo concert was filmed at London’s and vegan diets and explains how to Wembley Stadium. Turner’s use food as medicine. inspiring, powerful performance 11:00 The Bee Gees, made it an unforgettable event. One Night Only Blasting out hit after hit and taking Taped in Las Vegas in 1997, Join Tony Orlando and Dawn for the audience through her amazing experience one of the very few musical memories featuring the four-decade career. Bee Gees performances ever filmed, most popular singers and songs 9:30 Suze Orman’s the music special showcases many heard on the radio in the 1960s and Ultimate Retirement Guide of their greatest disco and pop hits. 1970s. Plus guests: Fifth Dimension, Join the acclaimed personal Dionne Warwick, Debby Boone, finance expert for essential BJ Thomas, Lou Rawls and others. advice on planning for and 7 MONDAY thriving in retirement. 7:00 Pavlo Live in Kastoria WEDNESDAY 11:30 Dream of Italy: Travel, A musical tribute to America’s 9 Transform and Thrive freedoms, its leaders and its 7:00 Red, White and Rock The star power of world-famous veterans, and to the patriotism Join Frankie Valli, The Righteous celebrities combine with that nearly Lawrence Welk held dear as part Brothers, Connie Francis and more indescribable magnetism and magic of the classic American success for a 2002 patriotic celebration of Italy to teach viewers how to live story of his life. of America and pop oldies music. better, the Italian way.

STERLING/ROCK FALLS MUSCATINE SAVANNA 9:00 Longevity Paradox 11:00 Straight from the FRIDAY with Steven Gundry, MD Heart: Timeless Music 11 Life-changing information with us From the 60s & 70s 7:00 Magic Moments: and shows us a step-by-step easy Join Tony Orlando and Dawn for The Best of 50’s Pop approach to help us all feel better and musical memories featuring the more youthful, no matter your age. songs heard on the radio in the era. 10:30 Tina Turner: One Last Time In 2000, Tina Turner’s final UK 14 MONDAY concert was an inspiring, powerful, 7:00 New Tricks and unforgettable performance.

Sing along with your favorite 13 SUNDAY artists of the 1950s pop era. 7:00 Magic Moments: 9:00 Straight from the The Best of 50’s Pop Heart: Timeless Music 9:30 Pavlo Live in Kastoria From the 60s & 70s Join Tony Orlando and Dawn for Lost In Translation: The team are musical memories featuring the drawn into a world of immigration songs heard on the radio in the era. loopholes, Albanian gangs and 10:30 The Carpenters: family feuds when they reinvestigate Close to You the death of an unidentified male. 8:00 Magic Moments: SATURDAY The Best of 50’s Pop 12 A musical tribute to America’s The magic moments from the 7:00 Rick Steves freedoms, its leaders and its 1950s. Sing along with your favorite Europe Awaits veterans, and to the patriotism artists of the 1950s pop era. Travel lovers have spent the last Lawrence Welk held dear as part 10:00 Rick Steves year or so dreaming of where of the classic American success Europe Awaits they'll travel post-COVID. story of his life. DAYTIME SCHEDULE SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY 6:00AM Autoline Dinosaur Train 6:30AM America’s Heartland Pinkalicious & Peterrific 7:00AM Hero Elementary Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum 7:30AM Xavier Riddle Daniel Tiger 8:00AM Curious George Donkey Hodie 8:30AM Daniel Tiger Let's Go Luna 9:00AM Daniel Tiger Hero Elementary 9:30AM Arthur Elinor Wonders Why 10:00AM Woodsmith Shop Sesame Street 10:30AM Start Up Pinkalicious & Peterrific 11:00AM Ask This Old House Am. Test Kitchen To Dine In Milk Street Moveable Feast 11:30AM This Old House Cook’s Country Jacques Pepin How to Cook Well Lidia’s Kitchen 12:00PM Rick Steves Europe Motorweek Love of Quilting Garden Smart Paint This 12:30PM Illinois Adventure Fishing... Lines It’s Sew Easy A Greener World Joy of Painting 1:00PM Milk Street Chicago Tonight Chicago Tonight 1:30PM Lidia’s Kitchen The Cities 2:00PM Am. Test Kitchen Sesame Street 2:30PM Cook’s Country Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum 3:00PM Jaques Pepin Odd Squad 3:30PM Sara’s Weeknight Wild Kratts 4:00PM The Cities Curious George 4:30PM Whitney Reynolds Nature Cat 5:00PM Arthur Antiques Roadshow 5:30PM Chicago Tonight Chicago Tonight 6:00PM The Cities Finding Your Roots 6:30PM BBC World News WQPT PBS KIDS PROGRAMS 11:00 Professor T TUESDAY WEDNESDAY Heir to the Throne, Part 1: Professor 15 16 T struggles to adjust to a hostile and 7:00 Great Australian 7:00 Antiques Roadshow dangerous new environment. Railway Journeys 8:00 Samantha Brown’s Places to Love 17 THURSDAY 7:00 The Cities 7:30 Whitney Reynolds 8:00 The Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song Celebrity Edition Hour 2: Visit with author Marc Brown, chef Carla Hall, humorist John Hodgman, Samantha’s Tips for Making and musicians Ruben Blades and Travel Count Luba Mason to learn the stories and discover the values of their 8:30 Two for the Road personal collections. 9:00 Cycle Around Japan 8:00 New Tricks 9:30 Illinois Adventure Setting Out Your Stall: The team Part 1: The intimate four-hour series 10:00 Finding Your Roots reinvestigates a highly sensitive from Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores Guests: Tea Leoni & Gaby Hoffmann case when new information links the 400-year-old story of the black the unexplained death of popular church in America, the changing 11:00 POV market trader. The Gospel of Eureka: The spotlight nature of worship spaces, and the is beaming on drag shows and a 9:00 Inspector Morse men and women who shepherded passion play in an Arkansas town. The Sins of the Father: The old- them from the pulpit, the choir loft, With verve, humor and unfailing fashioned Radford Brewery is the and church pews. compassion, The Gospel of Eureka subject of an unwelcome takeover bid 10:00 The Black Church: This builds unexpected bridges between by a huge multi-national—and then is Our Story, This is Our Song religious faith and sexual orientation. the managing director is murdered. Part 2

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Sesame Street Masterpiece Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum & Mysteries Odd Squad Wild Kratts Curious George Nature Cat Arthur Lawrence Welk Let's Go Luna follows the adventures of three Chicago Tonight animal friends as they traverse the globe with Lawrence Welk LetsGoLuna_FullPageStationAd_02.indd 1 BBC World News their parents’ traveling performance troupe. Schedule subject to change without notice. Explore more at wqpt.org/kids 8:00 NOVA 9:30 Illinois Adventure FRIDAY Arctic Ghost Ship: An astonishing 10:00 Finding Your Roots 18 find could solve the mystery of 7:00 America’s Test Kitchen Sir John Franklin’s lost expedition. A Trip to Vietnam 9:00 American Experience

7:30 Cook’s Country Sealab: The little-known story of the daring program that revolutionized undersea exploration. 10:00 Black Church: This is Our Story, This is Our Song Part 1 Southern Roots: Guests include DJ and producer Questlove, talk MONDAY show host Dr. Phil and journalist 21 Charlayne Hunter-Gault. Regional Italian American Favorites 7:00 New Tricks Setting Out Your Stall 11:00 Out in Rural America 8:00 Jacques Pepin’s A film exploring the struggles and Heart and Soul 8:00 Dark Angel joys of being lesbian, gay, bisexual, Wonders of the Sea on Masterpiece transgender, and genderqueer in 8:30 Moveable Feast rural America. with Relish Martha’s Vineyard: Menemsha 9:00 Christopher Kimball’s 23 WEDNESDAY Milk Street Television 7:00 Antiques Roadshow Entertaining Favorites Celebrity Edition Hour 3: Learn 9:30 Lidia’s Kitchen about the cherished treasures of Fishing the Adriatic actor Ronny Chieng, cartoonist with Uncle Emilio This one-night drama tells the Mo Willems, broadcast journalist Soledad O’Brien and fashion 10:00 Ask This Old House extraordinary true story of Victorian Colors, Fireplace Upgrade poisoner Mary Ann Cotton, played designer Christian Siriano when by Golden Globe winner and Emmy they are shared with longtime 10:30 This Old House Antiques Roadshow appraisers. Almost Home award nominee Joanne Froggatt ("Anna" from Downton Abbey). 8:00 New Tricks 11:00 Austin City Limits Moving Target: The team The Raconteurs, Black Pumas 10:00 Poldark on Masterpiece reinvestigate a hit and run that left Season 4, Episode 7: The a cycle courier with a serious brain Warleggans’ domestic bliss comes injury and complete memory loss 19 SATURDAY under threat, and as Morwenna of anything prior to the accident. 7:00 Classic Gospel takes fate into her own hands, Ross 9:00 Inspector Morse Best of Gordon Mote and Demelza encounter deadly Driven to Distraction: The apparently 8:00 Austin City Limits complications on their vacation. motiveless murder of two young 11:00 Poldark women points to a psychotic killer. on Masterpiece 11:00 Professor T Season 4, Episode 8: Elizabeth Heir To the Throne, Part 2: Professor hopes to persuade George that T meets an old friend who convinces Valentine is his child as Ross tries to him that a well-structured life has its mend things with Demelza. advantages, and gains a powerful new ally who needs his help. TUESDAY Stevie Ray Vaughan on Austin City 22 THURSDAY Limits: 30 Years On 7:00 Great Australian 24 Railway Journeys 7:00 The Cities 9:00 Ledisi Live: Sydney to Broken Hill A Tribute to Nina Simone 7:30 Whitney Reynolds 8:00 Ireland with Michael 8:00 Reconstruction: 10:00 Bluegrass It’s A Long Way from Here to Clare Underground America After The Civil War 8:30 Two for the Road 10:30 The Songwriters Wayne Kirkpatrick 11:00 Great Australian Railway Journeys Port Augusta to Darwin: The Ghan 20 SUNDAY 7:00 NOVA Part 1: Join Henry Louis Gates, The Ship That Changed The World: Travel, Adventure, Marriage and Jr. for this exploration of the The discovery of a European ship the New American Dream! Follow transformative years following the dating back to the 15th century Emmy-nominated adventurers Nik Civil War, when the nation struggled may provide physical evidence of and Dusty Green on their inspiring to rebuild itself in the face of engineering breakthroughs that journeys around the globe. profound loss, massive destruction helped create the modern world. 9:00 Cycle Around Japan and revolutionary social change.

DEWITT GALESBURG FRUITLAND SAVANNA 10:00 Reconstruction: 8:30 Two for the Road America After The Civil War 27 SUNDAY Sailing The Bahamas Part 2: Explore the rise of Jim 9:00 Cycle Around Japan Crow and the undermining of 7:00 The Gene: An Intimate History This unique series takes viewers Reconstruction's legal and political on a journey of Japan—meet locals, legacy, and see how African hit the backroads, and discover Americans fought back using artistic hidden traditions in this country that expression to put forward a you won't find in the guidebooks. "New Negro" for a new century. 9:30 Illinois Adventure 10:00 Finding Your Roots 25 FRIDAY Funny Business: Guests include 7:00 America’s Test Kitchen comedians Amy Schumer, Aziz Ansari and Maya Rudolph. Tacos, Guacamole, and Margaritas Episode 1: A fascinating history of 7:30 Cook’s Country the human genome weaves together 11:00 POV Aloha State Favorites science and personal stories. 8:00 Jacques Pepin’s Patients with rare genetic diseases Heart and Soul and their doctors seek to discover cures, often in a race against time. 8:30 Moveable Feast with Relish 8:00 NOVA Martha’s Vineyard: North Tabor Farm Fighting for Fertility: Whether it’s flash-freezing an egg to minus 9:00 Christopher Kimball’s 197 degrees, or searching for Milk Street Television sperm where there seems to be Lasagna Bolognese Lindy Lou, Juror Number 2: Twenty none, the high-tech world of years ago, Lindy sat on a jury ago 9:30 Lidia’s Kitchen assisted reproduction is ushering that handed down the death penalty in a new era of possibilities. to a Mississippi man convicted in a 10:00 Reconstruction: double homicide. Now, living with America After The Civil War an unbearable feeling of guilt, Lindy Part 1 commits to tracking down her fellow 11:00 Reconstruction: jurors to tackle past demons. America After The Civil War Part 2 30 WEDNESDAY Our Courtyard Cantina 7:00 Antiques Roadshow 28 MONDAY Celebrity Edition Hour 4: Join TV 10:00 Ask This Old House personality Carson Kressley, actor Working from Home 7:00 New Tricks Moving Target Gbenga Akinnagbe, humorist 10:30 This Old House Mo Rocca, and musicians Paquito Our 3 Decker 8:00 Us on Masterpiece D’Rivera and Brenda Feliciano as Connie tells Douglas she wants they get the 'Roadshow' experience. 11:00 Austin City Limits to end their 20-year marriage, Stevie Ray Vaughan on Austin City but not before they take a 8:00 New Tricks Limits: 30 Years On European vacation with Albie, Objects of Desire: Detective their rebellious teenage son. Superintendent Sandra Pullman is reunited with an old flame, 10:00 Poldark DCI James Larson, when the 26 SATURDAY on Masterpiece 7:00 Classic Gospel team reinvestigate the murder Season 5, Episode 1: The Poldarks of a respected antiques dealer. Best of Sue Dodge look forward to life together in peace, 8:00 Austin City Limits but a plea from Ned Depard compels 9:00 Inspector Morse Ross to return to the capital. Masonic Mysteries: Morse finds himself framed for murder by 11:00 Poldark an unknown mastermind and on Masterpiece suspended as Lewis is seconded Season 5, Episode 2: Demelza to DCI Bottomley, who is in and the children become caught charge of the case. in a dangerous web. 11:00 Professor T TUESDAY Thrill to an hour with Grammy- 29 winning Austin blues-soul rocker 7:00 Great Australian Gary Clark Jr. Railway Journeys 9:00 Song of the Mountains The Dillards & The Mayberry Deputy 10:00 Bluegrass The Lost Sheep: John gets a Underground new colleague, ambitious and 10:30 The Songwriters talented detective Saskia, and 11:00 Great Australian together they investigate a prison break, gaining insight from Railway Journeys Adelaide to Perth Sydney to Broken Hill Professor T, who links it to another 8:00 Ireland with Michael inmate’s death by overdose.

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The celebratory Juneteenth program will showcase local cultural performances including, music, poetry, storytelling, and dance. While this event is a celebration of the abolition of slavery, it will also help to deepen the understanding of the systemic issues On June 19, 1865, Major General Gordon of oppression, inequality, and racism Granger rode into Galveston, Texas to facing the Quad City Black community. announce that the Civil War had ended and slaves had been freed. ABOUT FoMLK The Friends of MLK (FoMLK) empowers June 19 is celebrated across the and encourages residents of the Quad nation as Juneteenth, also referred City region to better understand civil to as Freedom Day or Emancipation and human rights issues for all races, Day. Juneteenth celebrates the colors and creeds as exemplified by emancipation of the last remaining Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. enslaved people in the United States. However, the freedom promised by the

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