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Europe’s New Wild Wednesdays at 10pm

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1 MONDAY 3 WEDNESDAY 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour | OPB+ A Wider 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu 12am) | World (Also Tue 4am) OPB+ Forgotten Slave Owners Pt 1. Britain was built on the profits of slavery. (Also Thu 7:30 OPB+ Afro-Latino Travels With Kim Haas 4am) San Jose (Also Tue 4:30am) 8:00 OPB Nature Pumas: Legends of the Ice © rtemegorov/Pond5 8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Vintage Tucson Mountains. Travel to the mountains of Chile 2021, Hr 2 (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Secrets to learn the secrets of the puma. (Also of Royal Travel Secrets of the Royal Flight NOVA Fri 1am) | OPB+ American Masters Lorraine (Also Sun 6pm) Hansberry. Follow the life and work of the Beyond the Elements 9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Searching for ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ playwright. (Also Fri In this three-part series, host David York. Learn the story of York, an enslaved 12am) Pogue sets out on a worldwide man who journeyed with Lewis and Clark. 9:00 OPB NOVA Beyond the Elements: Reactions. quest to find the key molecules and (Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ Ireland’s Wild Coast See callout on this page. (Also Fri 2am) Pt 1. Journey along Ireland’s rugged Atlantic chemical reactions that paved the coast. (Also Sun 7pm) 10:00 OPB Europe’s New Wild The Missing Lynx. way for our world and everything in Witness an astonishing resurgence of wildlife it. Along the way, he discovers an 9:30 OPB Oregon Experience Oregon’s Black across Europe’s most breathtaking Pioneers. African Americans helped to shape explosive chemical reaction that, landscapes. (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ Oregon, even as white settlers tried to force when reversed, enables us to feed Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 5am) them out. (Also Wed 2:30am) billions. Plus, molecules in deadly 11:00 OPB Food: Delicious Science Food on the 10:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Celebrating snail venom that may provide clues Brain. Discover how food keeps our bodies fit Black Americana (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ to lifesaving medicines. and healthy. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ Inside the Amanpour & Company (Also Tue 5am) Foreign Office Keeping Power and Influence. Wednesday, February 3, 9pm 11:00 OPB Independent Lens 9-to-5: The Story Follow Britain’s civil servants at work. (Also OPB of a Movement. The fight that inspired a hit Fri 2am) and changed the American workplace. (Also Wed 4am) | OPB+ Reel South First Lady of the Revolution (Also Wed 2am) 4 THURSDAY 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am) | 5 FRIDAY OPB+ Genius by Stephen Hawking Where 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am) | 2 TUESDAY Did the Universe Come From? (Also Fri 4am) OPB+ The Legacy List With Matt Paxton 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 12am) | (Also Sun 10am) 8:00 OPB Oregon OPB+ Nature Animal Odd Couples (Also Wed Art Beat Drawing 8:00 OPB Father Brown The Jackdaw’s Revenge. 4am) From History. Brown’s old foe is unexpectedly released from 8:00 OPB Finding Your Roots No Irish Need Mark Hallett’s prison. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Apply. Featuring actor Jane Lynch and 40-year career Week (Also Sat 6am) comedian Jim Gaffigan. (Also Fri 2/26 9pm drawing, painting 8:30 OPB+ The David Rubenstein Show: OPB+) | OPB+ The Great Ride Two married and sculpting Peer-to-Peer Conversations Lorne Michaels military veterans bike from Washington, D.C. dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals has (Also Sun 1pm) to Pittsburgh. (Also Thu 12am) taken him from Hollywood to India. (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ Leonardo’s Dream 9:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 6, Ep 4. 9:00 OPB The Jazz Ambassadors Asked to Machines Leading experts attempt to build An expectant mother buckles under the travel as cultural ambassadors, Louis da Vinci’s dream machines. (Also Sat 12am) strains of pregnancy. (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+ Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie and Duke Ellington Finding Your Roots Coming to America (Also faced a painful dilemma. (Also Thu 2am) | 8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Ship Report. Meet Sun 1:30pm) OPB+ Kingdoms of the Sky The Rockies. the woman behind the ‘The Ship Report,’ an Meet the remarkable inhabitants of this entertaining daily radio report of all the ships 10:00 OPB Masterpiece Press: Two Worlds. 3,000-mile mountain range. (Also Thu 1am) that pass by Astoria. (Also Sun 6:30pm) Duncan buries himself in his work. (Also Mon 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also 10:00 OPB Frontline Plastic Wars. Did the 9:00 OPB London: 2000 Years of History Ep 1. Mon 5am) plastic industry use recycling to sell more Learn how an uninhabitable swamp became plastic? (Also Fri 11pm OPB+) | OPB+ a world-famous city. (Also Sun 2am) 11:00 OPB Thou Shalt Not Kill Season 2, Ep 9. Amanpour & Company (Also Wed 5am) 10:00 OPB Modus Season 2, Ep 2. Inger’s past The writing is on the wall when a math professor is found dead. (Also Mon 4am) | 11:00 OPB African Americans: Many Rivers catches up with her. (Also Sun 3am) | OPB+ OPB+ Frontline Plastic Wars (R-Also Mon 2am) To Cross Making a Way Out of No Way Amanpour & Company (Also Fri 5am) (1897–1940). Examine the confines of 11:00 OPB Masterpiece The Durrells in Corfu: segregation during the Jim Crow era. (Also Season 3, Ep 8. A circus comes to town. (Also 6 SATURDAY Thu 4am) | OPB+ Dreams of Hope A church Sun 4am) | OPB+ DW Global 3000 (Also Sat | concert honors the four African American 5:00 OPB This Old House (Also Mon 6pm) 2am) girls who were killed there. (Also Thu 2am) OPB+ Marathon Between the Covers, 11:30 OPB+ Articulate With Jim Cotter Mario continued (until 7pm) Lanza at 100 (Also Sat 2:30am) 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend

2 FEBRUARY 2021 OPB = Comcast 10 or 710; antenna XX.1 R = Repeat within a week = Program premiere OPB+ = Comcast 310; antenna XX.2 Repeats are on original channel unless noted = Watch online at watch.opb.org KIDS = Comcast 311; antenna XX.3 Full channel list at opb.org/schedules Full schedule and VOD at opb.org/schedules Programs are subject to change weekdays

6:00 OPB Start Up The Schvitz/Plum Health 11:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 3, Ep 5. George reaches his breaking point. (Also Tue 7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe The Making Of/ MONDAY – FRIDAY 4am) | OPB+ The Italian Americans La Burgundy: Profound France (Also Sun 9am) | Famiglia/Becoming Americans 6:30 OPB Kids Programs (until noon) OPB+ Fat Boy: The Billy Stewart Story Stewart is considered one of the most prolific 7am OPB+ NHK Newsline and stylish R&B singers of the 1960s. 8 MONDAY 8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries Dealer’s 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour | OPB+ A Wider 7:30 OPB+ Sit & Be Fit (M/W/F); Choice. Frankie gets accused of murder. (Also World (Also Tue 4am) Classical Stretch (Tu/Th) Mon 12am) | OPB+ Jazz Swing: Pure Pleasure 7:30 OPB+ Afro-Latino Travels With Kim Haas (1935–1937). Jazz gains popularity. (Also Sun 8am OPB+ Sewing & Knitting Limon, Costa Rica (Also Tue 4:30am) 2am) 8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Vintage Orlando, 9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders The Dark Rider, 8:30 OPB+ Quilting Hr 1 (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Lucy Pts 1&2. A man falls to his death after seeing a Worsley’s Royal Palace Secrets Take a tour headless horseman. 9am OPB+ Painting of London’s most extraordinary palaces. 9:30 OPB+ Kindred Spirits: Artists Hilda (Also Sun 6pm) 10am OPB+ Woodworking (M/W/Th); Wilkinson Brown and Lilian Thomas 9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Beatrice Morrow This Old House (Tu/F) Burwell An aunt and niece achieve success Cannady. Cannady was a pioneer of civil as artists in segregated Washington D.C. rights in Oregon. (Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ 10:30 OPB+ Food & Cooking (Also Sun 3:30am) Ireland’s Wild Coast Pt 2. The odyssey 10:00 OPB+ POV Softie. A daring activist runs continues through Clew Bay, Donegal and the 11am OPB+ Nature (M); NOVA (Tu); for office in Kenya. (Also Sun 12am) northern coast. (Also Sun 7pm) Africa’s Great Civilizations (W); American Experience (Th); Oregon 10:30 OPB The Forsyte Saga Ep 1. Penniless, 9:30 OPB Oregon Experience Jazz Town. Experience (F) Irene Heron agrees to marry Soames Forsyte. Segregated from white-owned entertainment venues after World War II, Black entrepreneurs 11:30 OPB Between the Covers Angie Kim | 12pm OPB Painting | OPB+ Civil opened nightclubs and brought a wave of OPB+ Film-Maker (Also Sun 1:30am) Discourse (M); Breaking Big/ music to Portland. (Also Wed 2:30am) Between the Covers (Tu); Make 48 10:00 OPB American Experience Goin’ Back (W); In the Americas (Th); Trust 7 SUNDAY to T-Town. Learn the history of Greenwood, Docs (F) 5:00 OPB Firing Line With Margaret Hoover | a Black community that flourished in OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions Hong segregated Tulsa. (Also Sun 2/21 8pm OPB+) 12:30 OPB Food & Cooking | OPB+ Kong, Pt 1 | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Tue Growing Bolder (M); GZero 5am) World (Tu); Start Up (W); Chavis 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Chronicles (Th); Seat at the Table Rick Steves’ Europe Ethiopia: A Development 11:00 OPB Independent (F) Story Lens Women in Blue. Female officers try to 6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Drawing From 1pm OPB+ DW News redefine what it means History (R) | OPB+ Secrets of Royal Travel to protect and serve. Secrets of the Royal Flight (R) 1:30 OPB Travel | OPB+ DW: The Day (Also Wed 4am) | OPB+ 6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Ship Report (R) Reel South Seadrift 2pm OPB Kids Programs (until 6pm) | (Also Wed 2am) 7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show OPB+ BBC Outside Source (M– Masterclass 3 (Also Sun 2/14 12am) | OPB+ Th); BBC Today (F) Ireland’s Wild Coast Pt 1 (R) 9 TUESDAY 2:30 OPB+ BBC World News America 8:00 OPB Masterpiece Miss Scarlet and the 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 12am) | Duke: Memento Mori. A photographer receives OPB+ Nature Cold Warriors: Wolves and 3pm OPB+ News & Public Affairs messages from beyond the grave. (Also Buffalo (Also Wed 4am) Tue 1am) | OPB+ Asian Americans Breaking 8:00 OPB Finding Your Roots The Shirts on 3:30 OPB+ NHK Newsline Through. At the turn of the millennium, Asian Their Backs. Featuring actors Tony Shalhoub Americans found rising influence. (Also Tue and Christopher Meloni. (Also Thu 1am) | 4pm OPB+ PBS NewsHour 12am) OPB+ To the Ends of the Earth The Natural 9:00 OPB Masterpiece All Creatures Great and World: Pushing Boundaries. Travel from the 5pm OPB+ Travel Small, Ep 5. James experiences an ethical driest deserts in Africa to the mountainous plight involving Helen’s bull. (Also Tue 2am) Himalayas. (Also Thu 12am) 5:30 OPB+ Food & Cooking (until 7pm) | OPB+ Africa’s Great Civilizations Origins/ 9:00 OPB Al Capone: Icon Discover the celebrity The Cross and the Crescent. Uncover epic gangster’s enduring impact on American 6pm OPB Home Repair (M/Tu); Travel stories of African kingdoms and cultures. culture. (Also Thu 2am) | OPB+ Kingdoms (W/Th/F) (Also Tue 1am) of the Sky The Himalaya. Visit the planet’s 10:00 OPB Masterpiece The Long Song, Ep 2. highest mountain range. (Also Thu 1am) 6:30 OPB BBC Outside Source The handsome overseer Robert arrives, (M–Th); BBC Today (F) sparking a bitter rivalry. (Also Tue 3am)

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10:00 OPB Frontline China’s COVID Secrets. OPB+ Ancient Invisible Cities Athens (Also 10:00 OPB+ POV The Infiltrators. Two The untold story of the beginning of the Sat 1am) immigrants purposefully get arrested by Border Patrol. (Also Sun 12am) coronavirus pandemic and how China 10:00 OPB Modus Season 2, Ep 3. Swedish responded. (Also Fri 11pm OPB+) | OPB+ police clash with the FBI. (Also Sun 3am) | 10:30 OPB The Forsyte Saga Ep 2. Soames Amanpour & Company (Also Wed 5am) OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Fri 5am) designs a retreat to save his marriage. 11:00 OPB+ Rise of the Nazis Politics. Follow 11:00 OPB Masterpiece The Durrells in Corfu: 11:30 OPB Between the Covers Olin Cogdill | the chain of events that gave rise to Adolf Season 4, Ep 1. Louisa opens a boarding OPB+ Film-Maker (Also Sun 1:30am) Hitler. (Also Thu 2am) house. (Also Sun 4am) | OPB+ DW Global 11:30 OPB African Americans: Many Rivers To 3000 (Also Sat 2am) 14 SUNDAY Cross Rise! (1940–1968). Trace the long road 11:30 OPB+ Articulate With Jim Cotter Jets 5:00 OPB Firing Line With Margaret Hoover | to civil rights. (Also Thu 4am) vs. Sharks (Also Sat 2:30am) OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions Hong Kong, Pt 2 10 WEDNESDAY 12 FRIDAY 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu 12am) | 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am) | Rick Steves’ Europe Why We Travel OPB+ Forgotten Slave Owners Pt 2. Examine OPB+ The Legacy List With Matt Paxton 6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat The Big Story (R) | the propaganda war waged between Britain’s (Also Sun 10am) pro-slavery lobby and abolitionists. (Also Thu OPB+ Lucy Worsley’s Royal Palace Secrets 4am) 8:00 OPB Father Brown The Kembleford Dragon. (R) Brown must prevent a much-loved institution 6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Tribal Land 8:00 OPB Nature Big Bend: The Wild Frontier of from going off the rails. (Also Mon 1am) | Transfer; Sea Jellies (R) Texas. Roam the Rio Grande’s frontier lands OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sat 6am) alongside iconic animals of the Wild West. 7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show | 8:30 OPB+ The David Rubenstein Show: (Also Fri 1am) OPB+ POV American Promise. Masterclass 4 (Also Sun 2/21 12am) | OPB+ Peer-to-Peer Conversations Charles Schwab Two boys come of age, encountering issues Ireland’s Wild Coast Pt 2 (R) of race, class and opportunity. (Also Fri 12am) (Also Sun 1pm) 8:00 OPB Masterpiece Miss Scarlet and 9:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 6, Ep 5. 9:00 OPB NOVA Beyond the Elements: the Duke: Cell 99. Eliza stumbles upon a Nonnatus House welcomes a new recruit. Indestructible. In the quest for durability, can criminal enterprise. (Also Tue 1am) | some scientific advancements backfire? (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+ Finding Your Roots (Also Fri 2am) To the Manor Born (Also Sun 1:30pm) 10:00 OPB Europe’s New Wild Return of the 10:00 OPB Masterpiece Press: Resonance. Titans. Travel to the Carpathian Mountains, James reopens communication with a where Europe’s wildlife is thriving. (Also Fri whistleblower. (Also Mon 3am) | OPB+ 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Amanpour & Company (Also Mon 5am) Thu 5am) 11:00 OPB Thou Shalt Not Kill Season 2, Ep 10. 11:00 OPB Food: Delicious Science A Matter of Valeria returns to the scene of her father’s Taste. Learn the science behind what makes murder. (Also Mon 4am) | OPB+ Frontline food taste delicious. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ China’s COVID Secrets (R-Also Mon 2am) Inside the Foreign Office Brave New World. Diplomats prepare for the post-Brexit world. (Also Fri 2am) 13 SATURDAY 5:00 OPB This Old House (Also Mon 6pm) | OPB+ Marathon America’s Heartland, 11 THURSDAY continued (until 6:30pm) Oregon Field Guide | 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am) 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend Tribal Land Transfer; OPB+ Genius by Stephen Hawking What Are We? (Also Sun 9am) 6:00 OPB Start Up Will Power Fitness Gym/Ash Sea Jellies and Erie 8:00 OPB Oregon Art Native Americans on Oregon’s Beat The Big Story. 6:30 OPB+ Some Kind of Spark Follow a music north coast were pushed out of The Portland Street mentoring program at Juilliard. their ancestral home by white Art Alliance brings a 7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe France’s Dordogne/ settlers more than a century ago. diverse group of artists Barcelona and Catalunya (Also Sun 9am) But recently, the Clatsop-Nehalem together to create a new mural zone. 8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries Now You people were reunited with 18 acres (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ Impossible Builds See Her. When a magician’s assistant is killed, of their homeland in Seaside. The Scorpion Tower Frankie goes undercover. (Also Mon 12am) | Then, join the Field Guide team OPB+ Jazz Swing: The Velocity of Celebration 8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Tribal Land behind the scenes at the Oregon (1937–1939). A new sound emerges. (Also Sun Transfer; Sea Jellies. See callout on this page. 2am) Coast Aquarium, where a ‘jelly (Also Sun 6:30pm) mom’ offers an up-close look at the 9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders Murder of 9:00 OPB London: 2000 Years of History Ep 2. fascinating world of sea jellies. Innocence, Pts 1&2. Suspicion falls on a Medieval London was devastated by disease convicted murderer when a barrister is killed. Thursday, February 11, 8:30pm and power-hungry kings. (Also Sun 2am) | OPB 4 FEBRUARY 2021 OPB = Comcast 10 or 710; antenna XX.1 R = Repeat within a week = Program premiere OPB+ = Comcast 310; antenna XX.2 Repeats are on original channel unless noted = Watch online at watch.opb.org KIDS = Comcast 311; antenna XX.3 Full channel list at opb.org/schedules Full schedule and VOD at opb.org/schedules Programs are subject to change weekENDs

OPB+ American Experience Jubilee Singers: 9:00 OPB The Black Church: This Is Our Story, Sacrifice and Glory. The Jubilee Singers This Is Our Song Ep 1. See callout on page 6. SATURDAYS introduced audiences to the religious (Also Thu 2am) | OPB+ Kingdoms of the 6-10am OPB Kids Programs | OPB+ News, anthems of slavery. (Also Tue 12am) Sky The Andes. The world’s longest mountain Politics & Business 9:00 OPB Masterpiece range is home to astonishing natural life. All Creatures Great and (Also Thu 1am) 8am OPB Member Drive Programs (2/27 until 12am) Small, Ep 6. Tristan 10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Wed coaxes James to try a 5am) 10am OPB Gardening | OPB+ Marathons risky procedure. (Also (until 7pm) Between the Covers 11:00 OPB African Americans: Many Rivers Tue 2am) | OPB+ Africa’s (2/6); America’s Heartland (2/13); To Cross A More Perfect Union (1968–2013). Great Civilizations Growing a Greener World (2/20); Examine class disparity in the modern Black Empires of Gold/Cities. Uncover complex trade Member Drive Programs (2/27 community. (Also Thu 4am) | OPB+ Rise of networks and institutions that advanced until 12am) Africa’s great civilizations. (Also Tue 1am) the Nazis The First Six Months in Power. Hitler dismantles the German state. (Also Thu 2am) 11:30 OPB Sewing & Quilting 10:00 OPB Masterpiece The Long Song, Ep 3. Facing labor unrest and financial ruin for the 1pm OPB Cooking plantation, Robert’s sanity starts to unravel. 17 WEDNESDAY 3pm OPB Motorweek (Also Tue 3am) 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu 12am) | 11:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 3, Ep 6. OPB+ Hollywood’s Architect: The Paul R. 3:30 OPB Woodworking Williams Story Williams’ clients included Rev. Aunt Agatha and George cross swords. 4:30 OPB Home Repair (Also Tue 4am) | OPB+ The Italian Frank Sinatra, Cary Grant and Lucille Ball. Americans Becoming Americans (Also Thu 4am) 8:00 OPB Nature Equus: Story of the Horse, SUNDAYS 15 MONDAY Origins. Explore the fascinating evolutionary journey of the horse. (Also Fri 1am) | OPB+ 6-9am OPB Kids Programs | OPB+ 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Tue 12am) | American Masters How it Feels To Be Free. Lifestyles OPB+ A Wider World (Also Tue 4am) Six iconic Black female artists challenge the entertainment industry. (Also Fri 12am) 9am OPB Travel (2/7, 2/14, 2/21); 7:30 OPB+ Fly Brother With Ernest White II Member Drive Programs (2/28 Sao Paulo: Don’t Sleep (Also Tue 4:30am) 9:00 OPB NOVA Beyond the Elements: Life. until 12am) | OPB+ Genius by 8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Vintage Orlando, Discover surprising molecules that allowed Stephen Hawking (2/7, 2/14, Hr 2 (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Confucius for the origination of life. (Also Fri 2am) 2/21); Member Drive Programs (2/28 until 12am) Was a Foodie Origins of the Beginnings (Also 10:00 OPB Europe’s New Wild The Land of the Sun 6pm) Snow and Ice. In Lapland, native Sami people 10am OPB Nature | OPB+ Legacy List 9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Vanport. Once and conservation groups work to save an With Matt Paxton the second-largest city in Oregon, Vanport age-old reindeer migration. (Also Fri 3am) | 11am OPB NOVA | OPB+ American was destroyed by a catastrophic flood. OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 5am) Masters Lorraine Hansberry (2/7); (Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ Real Rail 11:00 OPB Food: Delicious Science We Are How it Feels To Be Free (2/21); POV Adventures: Swiss Grand Tour (Also Sun What We Eat. Discover why our brains crave American Promise (2/14) 7pm) certain foods. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ Inside 10:00 OPB American Experience Voice of the Foreign Office Brits in Trouble. Diplomats Noon OPB Jazz (2/7, 2/14, 2/21) aid Brits who find themselves in trouble Freedom. The life of singer Marian Anderson 1pm OPB+ The David Rubenstein overseas. (Also Fri 2am) illuminates fundamental questions about Show: Peer-to-Peer talent, race, democracy and the American Conversations soul. (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour 18 THURSDAY & Company (Also Tue 5am) 1:30 OPB In Concert at the Hollywood 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am) | Bowl Gustavo and Friends (2/7) | 11:00 OPB+ Reel South You Gave Me a Song OPB+ Genius by Stephen Hawking Where OPB+ Finding Your Roots (Also Wed 2am) Are We? (Also Fri 4am) 2pm OPB In Concert at the Hollywood 8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Sign of the Times. Bowl Fireworks! (2/14); Music 16 TUESDAY Nick Lee is the owner of Studio Signs Co., a Without Borders (2/21) 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 12am) | company responsible for creating some of 2:30 OPB Between the Covers (2/7) | OPB+ Nature A Squirrel’s Guide to Success Oregon’s most popular and iconic billboards OPB+ Seat at the Table (Also Wed 4am) and signs. (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ Impossible Builds Europe in the Desert (Also 3pm OPB News & Public Affairs (until 8:00 OPB Finding Your Roots Write My Name in Sat 12am) the Book of Life. Featuring musician Pharrell 6pm) | OPB+ The Great Ride (2/7); Williams and filmmaker Kasi Lemmons. 8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Mudbone Grown. To the Ends of the Earth The (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ To the Ends of Shantae Johnson and Arthur Shavers rewrite Natural World (2/14); Birds of East the Earth Birds of East Africa. A wildlife what it means to be a Black farmer in Oregon. Africa (2/21) (Also Sun 6:30pm) photographer captures the hidden lives of 4pm OPB+ Kingdoms of the Sky East African birds. (Also Thu 12am) Rockies (2/7); Himalaya (2/14); Andes (2/21)

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9:00 OPB London: 2000 Years of History Ep 3. Dedicated to Chaos (1940–1945). When London experiences the Industrial Revolution. America enters World War II, jazz is part of (Also Sun 2am) | OPB+ Ancient Invisible the arsenal. (Also Sun 2am) Cities Cairo (Also Sat 1am) 9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders Written in the 10:00 OPB Modus Season 2, Ep 4. Ingvar and Stars, Pts 1&2. An amateur astronomer is Inger’s private lives are put to the test. (Also killed with a meteorite. Sun 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company 10:00 OPB+ Independent Lens Hale County This (Also Fri 5am) Morning, This Evening. An intimate meditation 11:00 OPB Masterpiece The Durrells in Corfu: on life in America’s Black Belt. (Also Sun 12am) Season 4, Ep 2. Margo moves in with Theo. 10:30 OPB The Forsyte Saga Ep 3. Irene and (Also Sun 4am) | OPB+ DW Global 3000 Bosinney fall in love. (Also Sat 2am) PBS 11:30 OPB Between the Covers Amy Jo Burns 11:30 OPB+ Articulate With Jim Cotter Written | OPB+ Film-Maker (Also Sun 1:30am) From Life, Itself (Also Sat 2:30am) The Black Church: This Is Our Story, 19 FRIDAY 21 SUNDAY 5:00 OPB Firing Line With Margaret Hoover | This Is Our Song 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am) | OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions OPB+ The Legacy List With Matt Paxton Trace the 400-year-old story of the Cruising the Rhine, Pt 1 (Also Sun 10am) Black church in America. This 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ 8:00 OPB Father Brown The Angel of Mercy. moving two-part series from host Rick Steves’ Europe England’s Bath & York A villager dies in her sleep. (Also Mon 1am) | Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sat 6am) 6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Sign of the Times (R) how Black people have worshipped | OPB+ Confucius Was A Foodie Origins of 8:30 OPB+ The David Rubenstein Show: and, through their spiritual the Beginnings (R) Peer-to-Peer Conversations Bill Gates (Also journeys, improvised ways to bring Sun 1pm) 6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Mudbone Grown their faith traditions from Africa to (R) 9:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 6, Ep 6. the New World, translating them The Nonnatus family cares for Sister Mary 7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show into a form of Christianity that was Cynthia. (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+ Finding Cake (Also Sun 2/28 12am) | OPB+ Real Rail not only truly their own, but a Your Roots Against All Odds (Also Sun 1:30pm) Adventures: Swiss Grand Tour redemptive force for the nation. 10:00 OPB Seaside Hotel on Walter Presents 8:00 OPB Masterpiece Miss February 16 & 23, 9pm A Summer by the North Sea. This charming Scarlet and the Duke: The Case OPB drama follows the lives of hotel visitors and of Henry Scarlet. Eliza’s forensic staff in 1920s Denmark. (Also Mon 3am) | skills are strained as she gets OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Mon 5am) to the bottom of her father’s death. (Also Tue 1am) | 11:00 OPB Thou Shalt Not Kill Season 2, Ep 11. OPB+ American Experience 7:30 OPB+ Fly Brother With Ernest White II When a family is killed, their son is later found Goin’ Back to T-Town (R-Also Tue 12am) Tbilisi: The Whole Day Through (Also Tue alive in the trunk of a car. (Also Mon 4am) | 4:30am) OPB+ Frontline Myanmar’s Killing Fields. 9:00 OPB Masterpiece All Creatures Great and Secret footage shows the effort to kill and Small, Ep 7. Siegfried hosts a Christmas Eve 8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Vintage Spokane, expel Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar. party. (Also Tue 2am) | OPB+ Africa’s Hr 1 (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Confucius (Also Mon 2am) Great Civilizations The Atlantic Age/ Was a Foodie Confucius and the Origin of Commerce and of Civilizations. The Food Philosophy (Also Wed 12am) Atlantic trading world gave rise to powerful 9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Portland Civil 20 SATURDAY new kingdoms and the transatlantic slave Rights: Lift Ev’ry Voice. Experience the civil 5:00 OPB This Old House (Also Mon 6pm) | trade. (Also Tue 1am) rights movement in Portland. (Also Wed OPB+ Marathon Growing a Greener World, 10:30 OPB Beyond the Canvas Taking the 2am) | OPB+ Real Rail Adventures: Swiss continued (until 7pm) Stage. Featuring ‘Hamilton’ playwright Winter Magic (Also Wed 1am) 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend Lin-Manuel Miranda and actor Bryan 10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Tue Cranston. (Also Tue 3:30am) 6:00 OPB Start Up Cochrane House/Luminaid 5am) 11:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 3, Ep 7. 7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Little Europe: San 10:30 OPB Antiques Roadshow Harrisburg, Hr 3 George triumphs as his relationship with Marino, Monaco, Vatican City, Liechtenstein and (Also Wed 3:30am) Elizabeth deteriorates. (Also Tue 4am) | OPB+ Andorra/Great Swiss Cities: Luzern, Bern, Zurich The Italian Americans Loyal Americans/The 11:00 OPB+ Reel South Attaché (Also Wed and Lausanne (Also Sun 9am) | OPB+ Black American Dream 2am) Ballerina The personal stories of Black women who fell in love with ballet. 11:30 OPB Independent Lens Mr. Soul! In 1968, Ellis Haizlip created a public television variety 8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries No Friends 22 MONDAY show celebrating Black culture. (Also Wed Like Old Friends. Frankie works with Agatha 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour | OPB+ A Wider 4:30am) Christie. (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ Jazz World (Also Tue 4am)

6 FEBRUARY 2021 OPB = Comcast 10 or 710; antenna XX.1 R = Repeat within a week = Program premiere OPB+ = Comcast 310; antenna XX.2 Repeats are on original channel unless noted = Watch online at watch.opb.org KIDS = Comcast 311; antenna XX.3 Full channel list at opb.org/schedules Full schedule and VOD at opb.org/schedules Programs are subject to change

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(Also 9:00 OPB The Black Church: This Is Our Story, Ancient Invisible Cities Istanbul (Also Sat 1am) Mon 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company This Is Our Song Ep 2. Discover how the Black church expanded to address social 10:00 OPB Modus Season 2, Ep 5. Swedish 11:00 OPB Thou Shalt Not Kill Season 2, Ep 12. inequality. (Also Thu 2am) police search for a mole in their own ranks. Valeria’s mother reveals a secret. (Also (Also Sun 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Mon 4am) | OPB+ Frontline The Abortion 10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Wed Company (Also Fri 5am) Divide. Step inside the fight over abortion 5am) through the stories of women. 11:00 OPB Masterpiece The Durrells in Corfu: 11:00 OPB Lidia Celebrates America A Salute to Season 4, Ep 3. Louisa meets Spiros’ wife. First Responders. Chef Lidia Bastianich travels (Also Sun 4am) | OPB+ DW Global 3000 27 SATURDAY across the country to visit those serving on (Also Sat 2am) the front lines. (Also Thu 4am) | OPB+ Rise 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ of the Nazis Night of the Long Knives. Nazis 11:30 OPB+ Articulate With Jim Cotter The Rick Steves’ Europe Burgundy: Profound wreak havoc on German streets. (Also Thu 2am) Mirror of Time (Also Sat 2:30am) France (R) 6:00 OPB & OPB+ Rick Steves Island Hopping 24 WEDNESDAY 26 FRIDAY Europe See callout on this page. 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu 12am) | 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am) | 6:30 OPB & OPB+ Rick Steves European OPB+ Vernon Jordan: Make it Plain Meet OPB+ The Legacy List With Matt Paxton Festivals Rick celebrates the top 10 festivals in Europe. one of the most influential African American 8:00 OPB Father Brown The Honourable Thief. thought leaders in the country. (Also Thu 4am) Father Brown seeks help from an unlikely ally. 8:00 OPB & OPB+ Oregon Revealed Willamette 8:00 OPB Nature Equus: Story of the Horse: (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week Valley Splendor. Take a breathtaking aerial Chasing the Wind. 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This untraditional Tue 1am OPB) 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am) | island-hopping adventure skips the 9:30 OPB & OPB+ Masterpiece: 50 Fabulous OPB+ The West Is Burning Examine how hot sun and tiki drinks to explore Years! Celebrate the series that introduced forest management and litigation have led to remote beaches, castles, pre- generations of viewers to the delights of catastrophic fire seasons. (Also Fri 4am) historic wonders and salty British drama. (Also Tue 2:30am OPB) 8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Willie Little. Portland traditional island living. 11:00 OPB Josh Groban: An Evening of Harmony Singer Josh Groban performs assemblage artist and painter Willie Little Saturday, February 27, 6pm creates work that tells stories of his family ‘Bring Him Home,’ ‘,’ and OPB & OPB+ history in rural North Carolina. (Also Sun more. (Also Tue 4am)

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