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TV & RADIO LISTINGS GUIDE DECEMBER 2020

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As 2020 draws to a close, I thank you for being a viewer ELLA WISHES YOU and on-going supporter of WITF. Your financial investment in WITF is the A SWINGIN’ essential engine that keeps programming you find in this month’s CHRISTMAS guide possible. December brings our fourth and final fundraiser of the year. If you haven’t made a donation to WITF recently, now is a great time to show your appreciation for programs like Antiques Roadshow, dramas like the The Trouble with Maggie Cole, and mysteries like Endeavour on MASTERPIECE. Please call 1-800-233-9483 to make your contribu- tion or to renew your gift today. This month we’ll encore the popular • Sanditon on MASTERPIECE with two mini-marathons. If you can believe it (or remember) Sanditon premiered DEC. 15 • 8pm back in January. Although a fan favorite, I regret that we only have one season of the drama with no current plans for addi- What goes on at City Hall? A new, the quirky Miranda. tional seasons. Let’s all cross our fingers immersive, four and a half-hour docu- The series comes to an end with a mini for more to come. All eight episodes of mentary shows how ’s City Hall marathon on December 26. In January the series will run over two Sundays, can enter into civil discourse with its we welcome the Vicar of Dibley to join December 20 and 27, beginning at citizens. City government touches almost Keeping Up Appearances in our .org/thechoice #TheChoicePBS 8:00pm. Taking a quick glimpse ahead to every aspect of our lives. From police and Britcom block Saturdays at 8:00pm. As January, MASTERPIECE will feature sanitation to marriage certificates and noted last month, stay tuned for Last of a remake of the classic All Creatures elder support, most of us are unaware of, the Summer Wine to join the schedule Great and Small. Check back next or take for , the breadth of services later in 2021. month for more highlights about what to that support residents and visitors. City Thanks for watch WITF in 2020. I’m watch on MASTERPIECE in 2021. Hall demonstrates a city government so glad you welcome us into your living Join us on December 10 at 7:00pm for successfully serving a diverse population, room throughout the year. We’re looking Family Night: Coding. This hour- and how its administration addresses forward to bringing you more engaging, long special will encourage children, policy priorities such as racial justice, entertaining and enlightening programs in kindergarten through fifth grade, affordable housing, climate action, and in 2021. Best wishes this holiday season! and their families to get excited about homelessness. City Hall premieres computer science together. You can catch December 22 at 8:00pm. a repeat of this special on December 17 Since October we have been featuring Fred Vigeant, Director of Programming for at 8:30pm following the premiere of the WITF TV and WITF 89.5 & 93.3 2020 Teacher Impact Awards. Look for Fred Vigeant's PICKS throughout the guide! Like us on Facebook • for video previews Subscribe to WITF's Program Points, our e-newsletter highlighting key programs each week on WITF TV, WITF 89.5 & 93.3, and witf.org by visiting witf.org/newsletters.

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Amanpour & Company M-F 4:00pm BBC World News America M-F 5:30pm BBC Outside Source M-Th 7:00pm DW The Day M-F 5:00pm PBS NewsHour M-F 6:00pm Transforming Health F 7:00pm

8:00pm 8:30pm 9:00pm 9:30pm 10:00pm 10:30pm

1 TUE : An Evening of Harmony Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retirement Guide

2 WED Andy Williams: Greatest Love Songs (My Music) NOVA

3 THU Judy Collins - Winter Stories* : 24 Karat Gold Tour

4 FRI Washington Week AMERICAN MASTERS: Keith Haring: Street Art Boy Brain Fitness Program An Accidental Dolly Parton: I Will Always Love You 5 SAT MASTERPIECE: 50 Fabulous Years! Studio: The Story (My Music) starts at 7:30pm of Handmade Films* Peter Bence: 6 SUN Joe Bonamassa: Royal Tea Live* Josh Groban: An Evening of Harmony Around The World

7 MON Lucy Worsley’s 12 Days of Tudor Christmas Fever: The Music of Peggy Lee*

8 TUE Driving While Black: Race, Space and Mobility In America

9 WED Nature: Santa’s Wild Home Judy Collins - Winter Stories*

10 THU Ken Burns: Here & There What to Eat When with Dr. Michael Roizen Easy Yoga for Diabetes with 11 FRI Washington Week Pasquale Esposito: Il Tempo Peggy Cappy Metallica and the : Same Song, Separate 12 SAT One Night Only* San Francisco Voices* starts at 7:30pm Symphony

13 SUN MASTERPIECE: 50 Fabulous Years! Lucy Worsley’s 12 Days of Tudor Christmas Christmas with the Tabernacle Choir 14 MON Antiques Roadshow Independent Lens Featuring Kelli O’Hara Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas 15 TUE Christmas at Belmont FRONTLINE with Vanessa Williams

16 WED Nature NOVA NOVA Teacher Impact 17 THU Family Night: Coding The Ornament of the World Awards Firing Line with 18 FRI Washington Week Crane Candlelight Concert Hope College Christmas Vespers* Margaret Hoover Keeping Up 19 SAT Miranda* Miranda* Father Brown* Father Brown* starts at 10:15pm Appearances*

20 SUN Sanditon On MASTERPIECE Sanditon On MASTERPIECE Sanditon On MASTERPIECE

21 MON Antiques Roadshow Antiques Roadshow All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914

22 TUE City Hall

23 WED Nature NOVA NOVA

24 THU The St. Olaf Christmas Festival Christmas at Belmont Keeping Up Appearances* Firing Line with Keeping Up 25 FRI Washington Week Call The Midwife Holiday Special* Margaret Hoover Appearances*

26 SAT Miranda Marathon*

27 SUN Sanditon On MASTERPIECE Sanditon On MASTERPIECE Sanditon On MASTERPIECE

28 MON Antiques Roadshow Antiques Roadshow Vernon Jordan: Make It Plain

29 TUE American Masters: Laura Ingalls Wilder – Prairie to Page Independent Lens

30 WED Nature NOVA

31 THU United In Song: Celebrating The Resilience of America United In Song: Celebrating The Resilience of America

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FRIDAY 4 MONDAY 7 8:00pm Washington Week #6023 8:00pm Lucy Worsley’s 12 Days of • 8:30pm • • AMERICAN Tudor Christmas Lucy Worsley discovers MASTERS: Keith Haring – Street Art Boy that much of what we enjoy in contemporary • International art sensation Keith Haring Christmas has Tudor origins. blazed a trail through the art scene of ‘80s 9:30pm Fever: The Music of Peggy New York. #3306 Lee* The life of musical legend Peggy Lee is 10:00pm Brain Fitness Program This showcased through vintage interviews and program is designed to drive beneficial performances. chemical, physical and functional change in 11:00pm BBC World News #2272 the brain. 11:30pm Amanpour and Company #3114 11:30pm BBC World News #2270 TUESDAY 8 12:00am Amanpour and Company #3113 8:00pm • Driving While Black: Race, SATURDAY 5 Space and Mobility In America Discover 7:30pm • Dolly Parton: I Will Always how the advent of the automobile brought AMERICAN MASTERS Love You (My Music) Celebrate the - new freedoms and new perils for African songwriter’s career from her early days to her Americans. KEITH HARING: success as a crossover superstar. 11:00pm BBC World News #2274 STREET ART BOY 9:00pm • MASTERPIECE: 50 Fabulous 11:30pm Amanpour and Company #3115 Years! The series that introduced generations WEDNESDAY 9 of viewers to the delights of British drama is 8:00pm Nature: Santa’s Wild Home DEC. 4 • 8:30pm celebrated. An intimate look into life in Lapland, home 10:30pm An Accidental Studio: The of tenacious wildlife such as reindeer and Story of Handmade Films* The small British wolverines. #3806 production company behind such maverick TUESDAY 1 9:30pm Judy Collins - Winter Stories* hits as Life of Brian is showcased. Folk singer Judy Collins, Jonas Fjeld and 8:00pm Josh Groban: An •• SUNDAY 6 Chatham County Line perform emotionally Evening of Harmony Join the global superstar evocative songs. for a concert of songs and new 8:00pm • Joe Bonamassa: Royal music from his upcoming album Harmony. Tea Live* The blues rock guitarist and 11:00pm BBC World News #2276 Songs include “Bring Him Home,” “Over the songwriter performs from the Ryman theater 11:30pm Amanpour and Company #3116 Rainbow,” “The Impossible Dream” and “The in Nashville, Tennessee. THURSDAY 10 First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.” 9:00pm • Josh Groban: An 9:30pm Suze Orman’s Ultimate Evening of Harmony Join the global superstar 8:00pm • Ken Burns: Here & There* Retirement Guide The personal finance expert for a concert of timeless songs and new Interviews with Ken Burns, his colleagues and provides essential advice on planning for and music from his upcoming album Harmony. friends highlight the filmmaker’s life and career. thriving in retirement. Songs include “Bring Him Home,” “Over the 9:30pm • What to Eat When with 11:30pm BBC World News #2264 Rainbow,” “The Impossible Dream” and “The Dr. Michael Roizen Dr. Michael Roizen 12:00am Amanpour and Company #3110 First Time Ever I Saw Your Face.” discusses making food choices and demystifies the intermittent fasting trend. WEDNESDAY 2 10:30pm • Peter Bence: Around The World At only 28 years old, this 11:00pm BBC World News #2278 8:00pm Andy Williams: Greatest Love internationally acclaimed virtuoso pianist has 11:30pm Amanpour and Company #3117 Songs (My Music) Enjoy the romantic developed an edgy, percussive playing style crooner’s hits and best-loved ballads that has broken down boundaries between Follow us on Twitter including “” and “Love Story.” classical and popular music. Tweet your favorite programs 9:30pm NOVA: Mysteries of Sleep Scientists peer more deeply into the sleeping brain and discover just how powerful sleep LUCY WORSLEY’S can be. #4704 11:00pm BBC World News #2266 12 DAYS OF TUDOR CHRISTMAS 11:30pm Amanpour and Company #3111 THURSDAY 3 8:00pm Judy Collins - Winter Stories* Folk singer Judy Collins, Jonas Fjeld and Chatham County Line perform emotionally evocative songs. 9:30pm • Stevie Nicks: 24 Karat Gold Tour Singer Stevie Nicks performs smash hits from her and solo careers and shares stories. 11:00pm BBC World News #2268 11:30pm Amanpour and Company #3112 DEC. 7 • 8pm | DEC. 13 • 9:30pm

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FRIDAY 11 8:00pm Washington Week #6024 8:30pm • Pasquale Esposito: Il Tempo The acclaimed Neapolitan-American JOSH tenor celebrates the 10th anniversary of his Il Tempo album. GROBAN: 10:00pm Easy Yoga for Diabetes with Peggy Cappy Learn how yoga and a good AN EVENING diet can improve health and have a positive impact on life with diabetes. OF HARMONY 11:00pm BBC World News #2280 11:30pm Amanpour and Company #3118 SATURDAY 12 7:30pm • The Lennon Sisters: Same Song, Separate Voices* Join ’s greatest sister act for a joyful and exuberant DEC. 1 • 8pm | DEC. 6 • 9pm | DEC. 13 • 6:30pm song filled career retrospective. 9:00pm • Bee Gees One Night 9:00pm Christmas at Belmont Tradition- 9:00pm • Crane Candlelight Concert Only* This music special showcases many al carols, classical masterworks, world music The Crane Chorus and the Crane Symphony of the Bee Gees greatest and pop hits, and great seasonal favorites are performed. Orchestra present a very special holiday including “How Deep Is Your Love,” “To Love #2019 concert. #2019 Somebody,” “Massachusetts,” “You Should 10:00pm Frontline: Return from ISIS The 10:00pm • Hope College Christmas Be Dancing/Alone,” and many more. story of an American boy taken by his mother Vespers* A celebration of the true spirit of 10:30pm Metallica and the San Francisco to the ISIS-controlled city of Raqqa. #3612 Christmas and features beautiful choral and Symphony: S&M 2 * The ultimate heavy 11:00pm BBC World News #2284 instrumental music. #2019 metal band performs symphonic renditions of 11:30pm Amanpour and Company #3120 11:00pm BBC World News #2290 fan favorites with the orchestra. WEDNESDAY 16 11:30pm Amanpour and Company #3123 SUNDAY 13 8:00pm Nature: Animal Odd Couples SATURDAY 19 8:00pm MASTERPIECE: 50 Fabulous Unlikely cross-species relationships, such 7:00pm • The Carol Burnett Show - Years! The series that introduced generations as a chimp bottle-feeding a tiger cub, are Carol’s Favorites* #111 of viewers to the delights of British drama is examined. #3003 8:00pm Keeping Up Appearances - The celebrated. 9:00pm NOVA: Einstein’s Quantum Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket: The Toy 9:30pm Lucy Worsley’s 12 Days of Riddle Physicists capture light from across Store* Hyacinth has to intervene when Daddy Tudor Christmas Lucy Worsley discovers the universe in a bid to prove quantum slips out and runs up a toy store bill that he that much of what we enjoy in contemporary entanglement. #4602 cannot pay. #208 Christmas has Tudor origins. 10:00pm NOVA: Apollo’s 8:30pm Miranda: A New Low* #110 11:00pm Joe Bonamassa: Royal Tea • • Daring Mission Astronauts reveal how 9:00pm Miranda: Just Act Normal* Live* The blues rock guitarist and songwriter • the first mission to the moon pioneered #111 performs from the Ryman theater in groundbreaking technologies. #4518 Nashville, Tennessee. 9:30pm • Father Brown: The Skylark 11:00pm BBC World News #2286 Scandal* The Kembleford Ramblers annual MONDAY 14 11:30pm Amanpour and Company #3121 outing takes a tragic turn when the local 8:00pm Antiques Roadshow: New THURSDAY 17 Lord is found strangled. #179 Orleans, Hour Three A Chinese wine vessel 10:15pm • Father Brown: The from 1795 and an English Smith & Son 8:00pm • • Teacher Impact Honourable Theif* Lady Felicia’s home tourbillon pocket watch are appraised. #2206 Awards 2020 Join us as we travel to central comes under threat and Father Brown must Pennsylvania counties and meet teachers 9:00pm Christmas with the seek help from an unlikely ally. #180 • • who are passionate about what they do. Tabernacle Choir Featuring Kelli O’Hara 11:00pm Austin City Limits: Khalid/Mac and Richard Thomas Celebrate the holidays 8:30pm Family Night: Coding Demarco #4408 with Kelli O’Hara, Richard Thomas and the This hour-long special will encourage Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square. children, in kindergarten through fifth 10:00pm Independent Lens: The Force grade, and their families to get excited about The long-troubled Oakland Police Department computer science together. struggles to confront federal demands for 9:30pm The Ornament of the World reform. #1907 Muslims, Christians and Jews forged SANDITON 11:30pm BBC World News #2282 a common cultural identity during a remarkable time in history. ~ MARATHON ~ 12:00am Amanpour and Company #3119 11:30pm BBC World News #2288 TUESDAY 15 12:00am Amanpour and Company #3122 8:00pm • • Ella Wishes You A FRIDAY 18 Swinging Christmas with Vanessa Williams Ella Fitzgerald’s iconic album of holiday 8:00pm Washington Week #6025 classics is presented by the American Pops 8:30pm Firing Line with Margaret Hoover Orchestra. #425 DEC. 20 • starting at 8pm

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SUNDAY 20 9:00pm Christmas at Belmont Traditional carols, classical masterworks, 7:00pm • Purdue 86th Anniversary world music and great seasonal favorites are Christmas Show Holiday favorites and performed. #2019 • VERNON sacred music are performed by Purdue Musical Organizations ensembles. 10:00pm Keeping Up Appearances - The JORDAN: Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket: Christmas 8:00pm Sanditon On MASTERPIECE A 1994 - Angel Gabriel Blue* Daisy informs MAKE IT coach accident brings Charlotte to Sanditon, Hyacinth that someone has been found in where she meets Tom and Sidney Parker. PLAIN “Daddy’s” bed - and it isn’t “Daddy!” #603 #5001 11:00pm BBC World News #2298 9:00pm Sanditon On MASTERPIECE Aiming to seal a match for her nephew 11:30pm Amanpour and Company #3127 Edward, Lady Denham hosts a pineapple FRIDAY 25 DEC. 28 • 10pm party for an heiress. #5002 7:00pm Christmas with the 10:00pm Sanditon On MASTERPIECE • Tabernacle Choir Featuring Kelli O’Hara 11:00pm Sanditon On Young Stringer presses Tom for pay owed his and Richard Thomas Celebrate the holidays builders, currently toiling under dangerous MASTERPIECE* Romance, jealousy and with Kelli O’Hara, Richard Thomas and the betrayal fill the air on the night of the conditions. #5003 Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square. Midsummer Ball. #5008 11:00pm Sanditon On MASTERPIECE 8:00pm Washington Week #6026 Lord Babington courts Esther. Charlotte and MONDAY 28 8:30pm Firing Line with Margaret Sidney clash over Miss Lambe’s meeting with Hoover #426 8:00pm Antiques Roadshow: Orlando, Otis. #5004 Hour Three A Chinese gold-splashed bronze 9:00pm • • Call The Midwife MONDAY 21 Holiday Special* #2020 vase and 1946 Einstein-signed photo and prints are appraised. #2118 8:00pm Antiques Roadshow: Orlando, 10:35pm Keeping Up Appearances - The Hour One Interesting items include Joe Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket: Christmas 9:00pm • Antiques Roadshow: Strummer’s boots from 1979 and a 1941 Grant 1995 - The Pageant* Hyacinth decides to Harrisburg, Hour One A Pennsylvania Dutch Wood “March” lithograph. #2116 organize and direct a local pageant titled coffeepot, an H. F. Farny painting and a Rene Lalique necklace are appraised. #2201 9:00pm Antiques Roadshow: Orlando, “Our Town in the Civil War.” #604 10:00pm Vernon Jordan: Make It Hour Two Fantastic finds include a 1965 11:05pm BBC World News #2300 • Plain #2201 NASA Corned Beef archive and a 1918 WWI 11:30pm Amanpour and Company #3126 11:00pm BBC World News #2302 peach can label letter. #2117 SATURDAY 26 10:00pm All Is Calm: The Christmas 11:30pm Amanpour and Company #3129 Truce of 1914 Allied and German soldiers 7:00pm • The Carol Burnett Show - TUESDAY 29 laid down their arms to celebrate Christmas Carol’s Favorites* #112 8:00pm American Masters: Laura MIRANDA MARATHON 8pm–12am: • together during World War I. Ingalls Wilder: Prairie to Page The life 11:30pm BBC World News #2292 8:00pm • The Perfect Christmas* and legacy of the author of the best-selling TUESDAY 22 #112 “Little House” series are explored. #3210 8:30pm It Was Panning* #113 8:00pm • 9:30pm Independent Lens: Won’t • City Hall The efforts by 9:00pm What a Surpise* #114 • Boston city government to provide services • You Be My Neighbor? The legacy of icon that support residents are showcased. 9:30pm • The Dinner Party* #115 Fred Rogers is celebrated in a film from 10:00pm Je Regret Nothing* #116 Academy Award winner Morgan Neville. WEDNESDAY 23 • 10:30pm • Three Little Words* #117 #2201 8:00pm Nature: Snowbound – Animals 11:00pm • A Brief Encounter* #118 11:30pm BBC World News #2304 of Winter Travel across the snow globe 11:30pm I Do But to Who?* #119 12:00am Amanpour and Company #3130 to meet penguins, bison and more animal • 12:00am The Final Curtain* #120 WEDNESDAY 30 survivors of winter. #3406 • 9:00pm NOVA: Pluto and Beyond The SUNDAY 27 8:00pm • Nature: Cold Warriors: New Horizons spacecraft attempts to fly 7:00pm The Great British Baking Wolves and Buffalo Buffalo and wolves by Ultima Thule, an object four billion miles Show: Cake Twelve amateur bakers enter the engage in epic life and death dramas across from Earth. #4601 competition tent to duplicate Mary Berry’s the Wood Buffalo National Park. #3008 10:00pm NOVA: Flying Supersonic The Classic Cherry Cake. #101 9:00pm • NOVA: The Impossible history of the Concorde, the passenger plane 8:00pm Sanditon On MASTERPIECE Flight Two intrepid pilots attempt to that flew at twice the speed of sound, is Young Stringer threatens a worker boycott construct and fly the first solar-powered revealed. #4513 of the annual cricket match with Sanditon’s airplane around the world. #4503 11:00pm BBC World News #2296 gentlemen. #5005 11:00pm BBC World News #2306 11:30pm Amanpour and Company #3126 9:00pm Sanditon On MASTERPIECE 11:30pm Amanpour and Company #3131 THURSDAY 24 Charlotte and Sidney comb the THURSDAY 31 underworld to find Miss Lambe and Tom tries 8:00pm United In Song: 7:00pm Holiday Handbells: The Raleigh to save Sanditon. #5006 • • Ringers* The acclaimed community handbell Celebrating The Resilience of America 10:00pm Sanditon On MASTERPIECE choir based in Raleigh, North Carolina 9:30pm United In Song: Celebrating With the approach of Sanditon’s regatta, the performs holiday favorites. The Resilience of America success of the resort hangs in the balance. 11:00pm : The Library of 8:00pm The St. Olaf Christmas Festival: #5007 A New Song of Joy and Hope* Congress for Popular Song Country music icon Garth Brooks receives Follow us on Twitter the Gershwin Prize for Tweet your favorite programs Popular Song.

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Schedule subject to WITF TV DAYTIME SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE change MONDAY–FRIDAY SATURDAY 5:00am BBC World News 5:30am The Best of The Joy of Painting 5:30am Public Affairs Programming 6:00am Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood 6:00am Odd Squad / 6:30am Sesame Street Kid Stew (Friday Only) 7:00am Molly of Denali 6:30am Nature Cat 7:30am Let’s Go Luna! 7:00am Molly of Denali 8:00am Arthur 7:30am Wild Kratts 8:30am Xavier Riddle and the 8:00am Hero Elementary Secret Museum 8:30am Xavier Riddle and the 9:00am This Old House Secret Museum 9:30am Ask This Old House 9:00am Curious George 10:00am American Woodshop 9:30am Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 10:30am Classic Woodworking DEC. 13 • 8pm 10:00am Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 11:00am Motorweek 10:30am Elinor Wonders Why 11:30am Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street ** 11:00am Sesame Street Television WITF TV DAYTIME SPECIAL PROGRAMS 11:30am Peg + Cat 12:00pm Pati’s Mexican Table 12:00pm Scigirls 12:30pm America’s Test Kitchen SATURDAY 5 12:30pm Curious Crew 1:00pm Kitchen Queens: 10:00am • Eric Clapton’s Crossroads Guitar Festival 2019 1:00pm Learning At Home Schedule 1:30pm Ciao Italia 12:00pm Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retirement Guide The see witf.org/schedules 2:00pm Neven’s Spanish Food Trails personal finance expert provides essential advice on planning for for information 2:30pm Rick Steves’ Europe and thriving in retirement. 3:00pm Cooking & Crafting (See below) 3:00pm Growing A Greener World 2:00pm Stevie Nicks: 24 Karat Gold Tour Singer Stevie Nicks 4:00pm Amanpour & Company 3:30pm Garden Smart performs smash hits from her Fleetwood Mac and solo careers and shares stories. 5:00pm DW The Day 4:00pm Antiques Roadshow 5:30pm BBC World News America 3:30pm Peter, Paul & Mommy, Too America’s most popular folk 5:00pm The McLaughlin Group trio performs a timeless repertoire of children’s songs. 6:00pm PBS NewsHour 5:30pm PBS NewsHour 6:00pm Fever: The Music of Peggy Lee The life of musical 7:00pm BBC World News Outside Source/ 6:00pm The Show legend Peggy Lee is showcased through vintage interviews and Transforming Health (Friday only) (12/19&26 only)/My Music performances. 7:30pm Monday – This Old House SUNDAY SUNDAY 6 Tuesday – Articulate 5:30am America’s Heartland Wednesday – Born to Explore 10:00am What to Eat When with Dr. Michael Roizen Dr. Michael 6:00am Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood Roizen discusses making food choices and demystifies the – Ask This Old House Thursday 6:30am Sesame Street intermittent fasting trend. Friday- The Chavis Chronicles 7:00am Molly of Denali 12:00pm Easy Yoga: The Secret to Strength and Balance with COOKING & CRAFTING 7:30am Let’s Go Luna! Peggy Cappy Peggy Cappy shows how yoga can aid people who 8:00am Arthur want to increase strength and mobility at any age. MONDAY 1:00pm Judy Collins - Winter Stories* Folk singer Judy 3:00pm America’s Test Kitchen from 8:30am Xavier Riddle and the Collins, Jonas Fjeld and Chatham County Line perform emotionally Cook’s Illustrated Secret Museum evocative songs. 3:30pm Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting 9:00am Curious George 2:30pm Nathan Carter: Celtic Country Music sensation TUESDAY 9:30am Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood Nathan Carter performs a variety of country and Irish classics in a Dublin concert. 3:00pm Cooks Country 10:00am Make48 10:30am Start Up 4:00pm Brain Fitness Program This program is designed to 3:30pm Fit 2 Stitch drive beneficial chemical, physical and functional change in the 11:00am Story in the Public Square WEDNESDAY brain. (12/20 & 12/27) 3:00pm Lidia’s Kitchen 11:30am Laura Flanders Show SATURDAY 12 3:30pm Painting and Travel with Roger & Sarah Bansemer 12:00pm Visit Special Programs** 10:00am Andy Williams: Greatest Love Songs (My Music) Enjoy 4:00pm Song of the Mountains the romantic crooner’s hits and best-loved ballads including “Moon THURSDAY River” and “Love Story.” 3:00pm Nick Stellino: Storyteller 5:00pm The Whole Truth with David Eisenhower/ 11:30am • Ken Burns: Here & There Interviews with Ken Burns, in the Kitchen his colleagues and friends highlight the filmmaker’s life and career. 3:30pm Paint This with Jerry Yarnell Civil Discourse (12/20 & 12/27) 1:00pm Great Performances: Lea Salonga In Concert FRIDAY 5:30pm PBS NewsHour Weekend Acclaimed singer Lea Salonga and the Symphony 3:00pm Roadtrip Nation 6:00pm The Durrells On MASTERPIECE Orchestra perform at the Sydney Opera House. #4512 3:30pm Films BYkids

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WITF TV DAYTIME **SPECIAL PROGRAMS CONTINUED WITF 89.5 & 93.3 2:30pm Lucy Worsley’s 12 Days of Tudor Christmas Lucy Worsley discovers that much of what we enjoy in contemporary MONDAY–FRIDAY SATURDAY Christmas has Tudor origins. 12:00am BBC World Service 12:00am BBC World Service 4:00pm Nature: Santa’s Wild Home An intimate look into life in 5:00am Morning Edition 5:00am On The Media Lapland, home of tenacious wildlife such as reindeer and wolverines. 9:00am Smart Talk with Scott LaMar 6:00am The Pulse #3806 10:00am 1A 7:00am Planet Money SUNDAY 13 12:00pm Here And Now 7:30am How I Built This 10:00am Sinatra In Concert at Royal Festival Hall* Frank 2:00pm Monday: Reveal 8:00am Weekend Edition Saturday Sinatra performs “Pennies From Heaven” more classics in this Tuesday: Innovation Hub 10:00am Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! concert from November 16, 1970. Wednesday: TED Radio Hour 11:00am Ask Me Another 11:30am Easy Yoga for Arthritis with Peggy Cappy The “Yoga Thursday: To The Best of 12:00pm It’s Been A Minute for All of Us” author effectively addresses arthritis relief through Our Knowledge the practice of yoga. 1:00pm On The Media 12:30pm The Lennon Sisters: Same Song, Separate Voices* Friday: Science Friday 2:00pm Radiolab Join television’s greatest sister act for a joyful and exuberant song 3:00pm Fresh Air with Terry Gross 3:00pm This American Life filled career retrospective. Friday: Science Friday 4:00pm BBC NewsHour 2:00pm What to Eat When with Dr. Michael Roizen 4:00pm All Things Considered 5:00pm All Things Considered Dr. Michael Roizen discusses making food choices and demystifies 6:30pm Marketplace 6:00pm The Moth Radio Hour the intermittent fasting trend. 7:00pm Smart Talk with Scott 7:00pm Snap Judgment 4:00pm Ken Burns: Here & There Interviews with Ken Burns, his colleagues and friends highlight the filmmaker’s life and career. LaMar (Repeat 9am) 8:00pm Ask Me Another 6:00pm Josh Groban: An Evening of Harmony See 12/1 at 8:00pm Think 9:00pm Fresh Air Weekend 8pm 9:00pm 1A 10:00pm BBC World Service 7:30pm A Charlie Brown Christmas Feeling down about 10:00pm Fresh Air with Terry Gross the commercialism of Christmas, Charlie Brown becomes the 11:00pm BBC World Service SUNDAY director of the gang’s holiday play to discover the true meaning of 12:00am BBC World Service Christmas. 5:00am To The Best of Our Knowledge SUNDAY 20 7:00am On Being 12:00pm Great American Railroad Journeys: Reno to Napa 8:00am Weekend Edition Sunday Valley #301 10:00am Hidden Brain 1:00pm The Great British Baking Show: Christmas 11:00am The New Yorker Radio Hour Masterclass St. Lucia buns, mincemeat and marzipan couronne, 12:00pm Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me French galette and Genoa cake are served. #115 1:00pm Innovation Hub 2:00pm The Great British Baking Show: Christmas 2:00pm Ted Radio Hour Masterclass Stollen, mincemeat streusel and a gingerbread house and more Christmas classics are served.#215 3:00pm Latino USA 3:00pm The Great British Baking Show: Christmas Master- 4:00pm BBC NewsHour class A pavlova wreath, a Chelsea bun Christmas tree, a towering 5:00pm All Things Considered pandoro and more are prepared. #315 FRESH AIR with 6:00pm Rick Steves’ Travel 4:00pm The Great British Baking Show: Christmas Master- Terry Gross 7:00pm The Splendid Table class Judges Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood detail how to make Monday-Thursday at perfect mince pies, Christmas cake and more. #515 8:00pm WITF Presents 3pm and 10pm 5:00pm Civil Discourse Bari Weiss discusses the global threat of 9:00pm Reveal White supremacy and the dangers of political neutrality. #101 10:00pm BBC World Service SUNDAY 27 12:00pm Great American Railroad Journeys: San Francisco #302 1:00pm • Craft In America: Storytellers Artists who use narrative to communicate personal and universal truths are highlighted. #1201 2:00pm • Craft In America: Democracy Explore how craft is intertwined with our nation’s defining principles. #1202 3:00pm • Holy Silence Focuses on American officials who worked to influence the Vatican’s actions during World War II. 5:00pm Civil Discourse Larry Krasner, District Attorney of , discusses his work to address systemic racism. #102 ON WITF 89.5 & 93.3 Like us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter for video previews Tweet your favorite programs DEC. 24 • 10am

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