OCT. 2020

COVID Diaries: On the Front Line Thu., Oct. 1 10PM | HD 23.1

Latino Vote: Dispatches from the Battleground Tue., Oct. 6 9PM | HD 23.1

Monstrum: The History of Zombies Fri., Oct. 30 10:30PM | HD 23.1

Michelle Jokisch Polo Weekends | 8AM | 90.5 FM Weekend Weekends | 5PM | 90.5 FM 8 | THU 15 | THU WKAR HD 8:00 This Old House 8:00 This Old House Channel 23.1 • Comcast 904 • WOW 157 8:30 Ask This Old House 8:30 Ask This Old House PRIMETIME 9:00 Michigan Out of 9:00 PBS NewsHour Doors Debates: A Special 9:30 Under the Radar Report = original Michigan 16 | FRI 10:00 Secrets of Her 8:00 Washington Week = Pledge Special Majesty’s Secret 8:30 Off the Record Service 1 | THU 9:00 Great Performances 11:00 Amanpour and 11:00 Democracy Now! 8:00 This Old House Company 17 | Sat 8:30 Ask This Old House 9 | FRI 9:00 Michigan Out of 8:00 Antiques Roadshow 8:00 Washington Week Doors 9:00 Secrets of Highclere 9:30 Under the Radar 8:30 Off the Record Castle Michigan 9:00 American Masters 10:00 Last Tango in Halifax 10:00 COVID Diaries: On 11:00 Classic Albums: John 11:00 Austin City Limits the Front Line Lennon–Plastic Ono 18 | SUN 10:30 Family of Us: A PBS Band 8:00 Trouble with Maggie American Portrait 10 | SAT Cole Story 8:00 Antiques Roadshow 9:00 Flesh and Blood 11:00 Amanpour and 9:00 Secrets of the Tower 10:00 Cobra Company of London 11:00 Professor T 2 | FRI 10:00 Last Tango in Halifax 19 | MON 8:00 Washington Week 11:00 Austin City Limits 8:00 Antiques Roadshow 8:30 Off the Record 9:00 with 9:00 Great Performances COVID Diaries: Kelly Corrigan 10:00 Art in the Twenty– 10:00 Independent Lens First Century On the Front Line 20 | TUE 11:00 Democracy Now! A WKAR Original 8:00 Finding Your Roots 3 | SAT 9:00 American Masters 8:00 Antiques Roadshow Thu., Oct. 1 | 10PM | HD 23.1 10:00 Frontline 9:00 Secrets of Her A nurse faces two crises 11:00 Amanpour and Majesty’s Secret at once: COVID-19 and Company Service racial tensions in the 21 | WED 10:00 Last Tango in Halifax U.S. As a front line 8:00 Nature 11:00 Austin City Limits worker, she risks her 9:00 NOVA 4 | SUN well-being and that of 10:00 Age of Nature 8:00 Last Tango in Halifax her family. 11:00 Amanpour and Company 9:00 Flesh and Blood LEARN MORE AT WKAR.ORG 10:00 Cobra 22 | THU 11:00 Professor T 8:00 This Old House 5 | MON 11 | SUN 8:30 Ask This Old House 8:00 Antiques Roadshow 8:00 Last Tango in Halifax 9:00 PBS NewsHour 9:00 Tell Me More with 9:00 Flesh and Blood Debates: A Special Kelly Corrigan 10:00 Cobra Report 10:00 POV 11:00 Professor T 11:00 Amanpour and 6 | TUE 12 | MON Company 8:00 The Hispanic Heritage 8:00 Antiques Roadshow 23 | FRI Awards 9:00 Tell Me More with 8:00 Washington Week 9:00 Latino Vote: Kelly Corrigan 8:30 Off the Record Dispatches from the 10:00 POV 9:00 American Masters Battleground 13 | TUE 10:30 Beyond the Canvas 10:00 Frontline 8:00 Finding Your Roots 11:00 Democracy Now! 11:00 Amanpour and 9:00 Driving While Black 24 | SAT Company 11:00 Amanpour and 8:00 Antiques Roadshow 7 | WED Company 9:00 Death in Paradise 8:00 Nature 14 | WED 10:00 Queen Elizabeth’s 9:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 Nature Secret Agents Debates: A Special 9:00 NOVA 11:00 Austin City Limits Report 10:00 Age of Nature 25 | SUN 11:00 Amanpour and 11:00 Amanpour and 8:00 Trouble with Maggie Company Company Cole 9:00 Flesh and Blood a 10:00 Cobra DAYTIME WORLD 11:00 Professor T Channel 23.2 • Comcast 904 • WOW 157 26 | MON WEEKDAYS PRIMETIME 8:00 Antiques Roadshow 6:00 Fitness Special 9:00 COVID Diaries: On 6:30 PBS KIDS Hispanic Heritage = the Front Line 12:00 Explore Michigan Month Special 9:30 Generation Nation: (Mon.) A PBS American 12:00 Creative and = Your Vote 2020 Portrait Story Culinary (Tue.) 10:00 Independent Lens 12:00 Green Living (Wed.) 1 | THU 12:00 Stay Informed (Thu.) 27 | TUE 10:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 Not Done: Women 12:00 Celebrate the Arts (Fri.) 11:00 DW the Day Remaking America 2 | FRI 9:00 Frontline 2:00 PBS KIDS 8:00 Ruben Salazar: Man 11:00 Amanpour and 5:30 Curious Crew (Mon.) in the Middle-A Voces Company 6:00 BBC World News 7:00 PBS NewsHour Special Presentation 28 | WED 9:00 POV 8:00 Nature SATURDAYS 10:00 PBS NewsHour 9:00 NOVA 10:30 Curious Crew 11:00 DW the Day 10:00 Age of Nature 11:00 PBS KIDS 3 | SAT 11:00 Amanpour and 11:30 Rudy Maxa’s World Company Ends 8:00 Last Tango in Halifax 29 | THU 12:00 Rick Steves’ Europe 9:00 Van der Valk on 8:00 This Old House 12:30 Garden Smart Masterpiece 8:30 Ask This Old House 1:00 Under the Radar 11:00 Professor T 9:00 Michigan Out of Michigan 4 | SUN Doors 1:30 This Old House 8:00 Hawaii: Islands of 9:30 Under the Radar 2:00 Ask This Old House Wonder Michigan 2:30 MotorWeek 9:00 VOCES on PBS 10:00 Death in Paradise 3:00 Start Up 10:00 Doc World 11:00 Amanpour and 3:30 Chef’s Life 5 | MON Company 4:00 Baking with Julia 8:00 Seats at the Table 30 | FRI 4:30 Michigan Out of 9:30 Stories from the Stage 8:00 Washington Week Doors 10:00 PBS NewsHour 8:30 Washington Week 5:00 Ageless Living 11:00 DW the Day 2020 Election Special 5:30 Curious Crew 9:00 Off the Record 6:00 PBS NewsHour 6 | TUE 9:30 Swingin’ Sesame Weekend 8:00 America ReFramed Street Celebration: 50 6:30 Make48 9:30 Reel South Years and Counting 7:00 Lawrence Welk 10:00 PBS NewsHour 10:30 Monstrum: The 11:00 DW the Day SUNDAYS History of Zombies 7 | WED 10:30 Curious Crew 31 | SAT 9:00 Frontline 11:00 Off the Record 8:00 Antiques Roadshow 10:00 PBS NewsHour 11:30 Spotlight on the 9:00 Death in Paradise News 11:00 DW the Day 10:00 Queen Elizabeth’s 12:00 Firing Line 8 | THU Secret Agents 12:30 To the Contrary 8:00 Ancient Skies 11:00 ACL Presents: 50 1:00 Great British Baking 9:00 Ancient Skies Years of Asleep Show at the Wheel: A 10:00 PBS NewsHour Retrospective 2:00 Baking with Julia 11:00 DW the Day 2:30 In Julia’s Kitchen 9 | FRI with Master Chefs 8:00 The Hispanic Heritage 3:00 Jamie’s Ultimate Veg Awards WKAR TV UPDATE 3:30 Steven Raichlen’s 9:00 Latino Vote: Project Fire Dispatches from the The TV schedule in this 4:00 Documentary Battleground guide may have been Specials 10:00 PBS NewsHour updated since printed. 6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend 11:00 DW the Day 6:30 Washington Week 10 | SAT Visit wkar.org for 8:00 Last Tango in Halifax the most up-to-date 7:00 Specials 9:00 Flesh and Blood schedule! 10:00 Cobra 11:00 Professor T 10:00 PBS NewsHour 11 | SUN 11:00 DW the Day CREATE 8:00 Nature 23 | FRI Channel 23.3 • Comcast 27 • WOW 155 9:00 Reel South 8:00 Dismantling PRIMETIME 10:00 Doc World Democracy 12 | MON 9:00 Dismantling 1 | THU 8:00 Reel South Democracy 8:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television 9:00 The Future of 10:00 PBS NewsHour America’s Past 11:00 DW the Day 8:30 My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas 9:30 Stories from the Stage 24 | SAT 9:00 This Old House Create 10:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 Trouble with Maggie Cole Showcase: Detroit 11:00 DW the Day Project 9:00 Flesh and Blood on 13 | TUE 10:00 Wild Travels 8:00 America ReFramed Masterpiece 10:00 Cobra 10:30 Joseph Rosendo’s 9:30 POV Shorts Travelscope 11:00 Professor T 10:00 PBS NewsHour 11:00 Rick Steves’ Europe 11:00 DW the Day 25 | SUN 8:00 Nature 2 | FRI 14 | WED 8:00 America’s Test Kitchen 9:00 Finding Your Roots 8:30 POV from Cook’s Illustrated 10:00 American Masters 10:00 PBS NewsHour 8:30 My Greek Table with 11:00 DW the Day 26 | MON Diane Kochilas 15 | THU 9:00 The Future of 9:00 Somewhere South America’s Past 8:00 Nile: Rivers of Life 3 | SAT 9:30 Stories from the Stage 9:00 Age of Nature 8:00 Somewhere South 10:00 PBS NewsHour 10:00 PBS NewsHour 9:00 Best of the Joy of 11:00 DW the Day 11:00 DW the Day Painting 27 | TUE 16 | FRI 10:00 Great Estates Scotland 8:00 Saving Brinton: 8:00 Inheritance 11:00 Flavor of Poland America ReFramed 10:00 PBS NewsHour 4 | SUN 9:00 America Lost 11:00 DW the Day 8:00 Somewhere South 10:00 PBS NewsHour 10:00 Great Estates Scotland 17 | SAT 11:00 DW the Day 11:00 To Dine For with Kate 8:00 Last Tango in Halifax 28 | WED 9:00 Flesh and Blood Sullivan 8:30 Independent Lens 10:00 Cobra 5 | MON 10:00 PBS NewsHour 11:00 Professor T 8:00 America’s Test Kitchen 11:00 DW the Day from Cook’s Illustrated 18 | SUN 29 | THU 8:00 Nature 8:30 My Greek Table with 8:00 Mississippi: Rivers of Diane Kochilas 9:00 Finding Your Roots Life 9:00 Somewhere South 10:00 Abandoned in the 9:00 Age of Nature Arctic 10:00 Family Travel with 10:00 PBS NewsHour Colleen Kelly 19 | MON 11:00 DW the Day 10:30 Fly Brother with 8:00 Battleground 30 | FRI Ernest White II 9:00 The Future of 8:00 Death in Paradise 11:00 Rick Steves’ Europe America’s Past 9:00 Antiques Roadshow 6 | TUE 9:30 Stories from the Stage 10:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 In Julia’s Kitchen with 10:00 PBS NewsHour 11:00 DW the Day Master Chefs 11:00 DW the Day 31 | SAT 8:30 My Greek Table with 20 | TUE 8:00 Trouble with Maggie Diane Kochilas 8:00 America ReFramed Cole 9:00 Somewhere South 9:00 Reel South 9:00 Flesh and Blood on 10:00 Passion Italy 10:00 PBS NewsHour Masterpiece 10:30 Joseph Rosendo’s 11:00 DW the Day 10:00 Cobra Travelscope 21 | WED 11:00 Professor T 11:00 Rick Steves’ Europe 9:00 Frontline 7 | WED 10:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 Lidia’s Kitchen 11:00 DW the Day 8:30 My Greek Table with 22 | THU The full Diane Kochilas 8:00 Amazon: Rivers of Life WKAR WORLD 9:00 Somewhere South schedule is available 9:00 Age of Nature on wkar.org 10:00 Burt Wolf: Travels and 8:30 My Greek Table with 10:00 Family Travel with Traditions Diane Kochilas Colleen Kelly 10:30 Curious Traveler 9:00 Weekends with 10:30 Fly Brother with 11:00 Rick Steves’ Europe Yankee Ernest White II 8 | THU 9:30 Jacques Pépin: Heart 11:00 Rick Steves’ Europe 8:00 Christopher Kimball’s & Soul 20 | TUE Milk Street Television 10:00 Passion Italy 8:00 In Julias Kitchen with 8:30 My Greek Table with 10:30 Travelscope Master Chefs Diane Kochilas 11:00 Rick Steves’ Europe 8:30 My Greek Table with 9:00 Somewhere South 14 | WED Diane Kochilas 10:00 Wild Travels 8:00 Lidia’s Kitchen 9:00 Samantha Brown’s 10:30 Joseph Rosendo’s 8:30 My Greek Table with Places to Love Travelscope Diane Kochilas 10:00 Passion Italy 11:00 Rick Steves’ Europe 9:00 P. Allen Smith’s 10:30 Travelscope 9 | FRI Garden to Table 11:00 Rick Steves’ Europe 8:00 America’s Test 9:30 The Jazzy Vegetarian 21 | WED Kitchen from Cook’s 10:00 Burt Wolf: Travels and 8:00 Lidia’s Kitchen Illustrated Traditions 8:30 My Greek Table with 8:30 My Greek Table with 10:30 Curious Traveler Diane Kochilas Diane Kochilas 11:00 Rick Steves’ Europe 9:00 Samantha Brown’s 9:00 Weekends with 15 | THU Places to Love Yankee 8:00 Christopher Kimball’s 10:00 Burt Wolf: Travels and 9:30 P. Allen Smith’s Milk Street Television Traditions Garden to Table 8:30 My Greek Table with 10:30 Curious Traveler 10:00 Chef’s Life: The Final Diane Kochilas 11:00 Rick Steves’ Europe Harvest 9:00 Joanne Weir Gets 22 | THU 11:00 Weekends with Fresh 8:00 Christopher Kimball’s Yankee 9:30 The Jazzy Vegetarian Milk Street Television 10 | SAT 10:00 Wild Travels 8:30 My Greek Table with 8:00 Somewhere South 10:30 Travelscope Diane Kochilas 9:00 Best of the Joy of 11:00 Rick Steves’ Europe 9:00 Samantha Brown’s Painting 16 | FRI Places to Love 10:00 Great Estates 8:00 America’s Test 10:00 Wild Travels Scotland Kitchen from Cook’s 10:30 Travelscope 11:00 Flavor of Poland Illustrated 11:00 Rick Steves’ Europe 11 | SUN 8:30 My Greek Table with 23 | FRI 8:00 Somewhere South Diane Kochilas 8:00 America’s Test 9:00 Weekends with 9:00 Samantha Brown’s Kitchen from Cook’s Yankee Places to Love Illustrated 9:30 P. Allen Smith’s 17 | SAT 8:30 My Greek Table with Garden to Table 8:00 Somewhere South Diane Kochilas 10:00 Great Estates 9:00 Best of the Joy of 9:00 Best of the Joy of Scotland Painting Painting 11:00 To Dine for with Kate 10:00 Great Estates 24 | SAT Sullivan Scotland 8:00 Somewhere South 12 | MON 11:00 Flavor of Poland 9:00 Best of the Joy of 8:00 America’s Test 18 | SUN Painting Kitchen from Cook’s 8:00 Somewhere South 10:00 Great Estates Illustrated 9:00 Samantha Brown’s Scotland 8:30 My Greek Table with Places to Love 11:00 Flavor of Poland Diane Kochilas 10:00 Great Estates 25 | SUN 9:00 Chef’s Life: The Final Scotland 8:00 Somewhere South Harvest 11:00 To Dine For with Kate 9:00 Best of the Joy of 10:00 Family Travel with Sullivan Painting Colleen Kelly 19 | MON 10:00 Great Estates 10:30 Fly Brother with Scotland Ernest White II 8:00 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s 11:00 To Dine For with Kate 11:00 Rick Steves’ Europe Illustrated Sullivan 13 | TUE 8:30 My Greek Table with 26 | MON 8:00 In Julia’s Kitchen with Diane Kochilas 8:00 America’s Test Master Chefs 9:00 Samantha Brown’s Kitchen from Cook’s Places to Love Illustrated 8:30 My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas KIDS 24/7 9:00 Best of the Joy of Channel 23.4 • Comcast 293 Painting 10:00 Family Travel with MORNING Colleen Kelly 6:00 Splash and Bubbles 10:30 Fly Brother with 6:00 Caillou (Sat.–Sun.) Ernest White II 6:30 Word World 11:00 Rick Steves’ Europe 6:30 Clifford the Big Red 27 | TUE Dog (Sat.–Sun.) 6pm–10pm Fri., Sat., Sun. 8:00 In Julia’s Kitchen with 7:00 Peg + Cat Master Chefs 7:00 Esme & Roy (Sat.– Oct. 2–4 8:30 My Greek Table with Sun.) Nature Cat Diane Kochilas 7:30 Peep and the Big Double Feature Wide World 9:00 Best of the Joy of Oct. 9–11 Painting 8:00 Sid the Science Kid 8:30 Super WHY! Curious George 10:00 Passion Italy Mini-Marathon 10:30 Travelscope 9:00 Pinkalicious & 11:00 Rick Steves’ Europe Peterrific Oct. 16–18 28 | WED 9:30 Clifford the Big Red Wild Kratts Dog 8:00 Lidia’s Kitchen Movie Marathon 10:00 Let’s Go Luna! 8:30 Kevin Belton’s New Oct. 23–25 Orleans Celebrations 10:30 Dinosaur Train 11:00 The Cat in the Hat Spooky Stories! 9:00 Best of the Joy of Specials Painting Knows a Lot About That! 10:00 Burt Wolf: Travels and Oct. 30–Nov. 1 Traditions 11:30 Martha Speaks Halloween 10:30 Curious Traveler AFTERNOON Movie Marathon 11:00 Rick Steves’ Europe 12:00 Nature Cat 29 | THU 12:30 Ready Jet Go! 1:00 Arthur 8:00 Christopher Kimball’s Supported in part by Milk Street Television 1:30 Odd Squad 8:30 Kevin Belton’s New 2:00 Cyberchase Orleans Celebrations 2:30 Molly of Denali 9:00 Best of the Joy of 3:00 Pinkalicious & Painting Peterrific 10:00 Wild Travels 3:30 Elinor Wonders Why 10:30 Travelscope 4:00 Sesame Street 11:00 Rick Steves’ Europe 4:30 Daniel Tiger’s HAVE Neighborhood 30 | FRI 8:00 America’s Test EVENING QUESTIONS? 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Learn more about Michelle at wkar.org! 90.5 FM Michigan Matinee Fiesta! With Elbio Thursdays | 7pm | 90.5 FM Barilari Repeat broadcasts Sundays at 1pm Sundays | 4pm | 90.5 FM Oct. 1 Fiesta! features Latinx concert As the seasons turn, it’s time music and artistically significant to head down some of those compositions from Latin America, dark alleyways for an hour of Spain, and Portugal. It is hosted JODY KNOL film noir. Classics fromMax by acclaimed composer, musician, 90.5 Classical Host Steiner’s Mildred Pierce to Elmer performer, and professor Elbio Bernstein’s Sweet Smell of Barilari. Fiesta! provides a Success and some contemporary valuable platform for the sound, Great Lakes Concerts tales like Johnny Greenwood’s culture, and history of classical Saturdays | 12pm | 90.5 FM Inherent Vice. music in Latin America. Oct. 3 Oct. 8 The Jackson Symphony plays An hour of filmic adaptations of HAVE Arthur Sullivan’s Pirates of literature from the 19th century. Penzance Overture, and the Thomas Newman’s take on QUESTIONS? Saginaw Bay Symphony Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women Orchestra performs Peter and the ever-popular, folk-inspired (517) 884-4700 Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6. Trevor Jones score to James Fenimore Cooper’s The Last of [email protected] Oct. 10 the Mohicans. Lansing Symphony plays Bruce Stark’s Symphonic Dances; Oct. 15 WEEKDAYS Dvorak’s Piano Quintet in A is Interlochen Collection host and played by an Absolute Music author Amanda Sewell sits 12 a Classical Music Quintet; Jackson Symphony down with us to discuss her new 5 a Morning Edition W performs Copland’s Letter from biography about Wendy Carlos, Mary Ellen Pitney Home. a pioneering electronic artist, and 9 a Classical Morning sample her scores to the Stanley 1 p Classical Afternoon Oct. 17 Kubrick filmsA Clockwork 2 p NY Philharmonic (F) performs Jackson Symphony Orange and The Shining as well as 4 p All Things Considered Verdi’s Anvil Chorus, cellist Disney’s Tron. W Sophia Saliby Zlatomir Fung; Ann Arbor 7 p Classical Music (M) Symphony plays Dvorak’s Cello Oct. 22 7 p The Interlochen Concerto; Sonnambula performs A return appearance of our Collection (T) 17th century consort music. Halloween episode to give you 7 p The Fugue (W) some creepy crawlies. Bernard 7 p Michigan Matinee (Th) Oct. 24 Herrmann’s The Ghost and Mrs. Saginaw Bay Symphony plays 7 p MSU In Concert (F) Muir, John Carpenter’s minimalist ’s Hebrides Overture, 8 p Wind & Rhythm (F) Mendelssohn Halloween score, and go trick- and the Traverse Symphony or-treating with John Williams SATURDAYS performs Tchaikovsky’s while E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial is 12 a Classical Music Symphony No. 5. underneath that ghost costume 8 a Weekend Edition Oct. 31 Eliott made for him. 10 a Wait Wait Don't Tell Me Jackson Symphony performs Oct. 29 11 a This American Life ’s Entr’acte; Caroline Shaw Our monthly feature where 12 p Great Lakes Concerts performs Lansing Symphony we focus upon newly released 1 p Classical Music ’s 2nd Symphony; Beethoven soundtracks from the past 5 p ATC Weekend flutist and Richard Sherman few weeks and ask you for 6 p Folk W Matt Watroba , marimba, play Gwendolyn Dease some favorite film scores so 8 p Full Moon Hacksaw . Bach we can play listener requests. 10 p European Jazz Stage Send your suggestion to SUNDAYS , and hear Choral Singing [email protected] 12 a Classical Music what makes the final cut. Special 8 a Weekend Edition Mon., Oct. 19–Fri., Oct. 23 | 10 a Hidden Brain W 9am–4pm | 90.5 FM Shankar Vedantam During these times when music- 11 a The Splendid Table W making is made dangerous by Francis Lam the pandemic, Jody Knol and 12 p The Fugue Jamie Paisley invite you to, “lift 1 p Michigan Matinee every voice,” during the week of 2 p Chicago Symphony October 19th–23rd. At the top 4 p Fiesta! W Elbio Barilari of each hour from 9am–4pm, a 5 p ATC Weekend different choral masterpiece will JAMIE PAISLEY 6 p Folk W Matt Watroba be presented from every era of Michigan Matinee Host 9 p Thistle And Shamrock music. Tune in and celebrate the 10 p Sunday Classics very first instrument of all: the 11 p Classical Music voice. PERIODICAL Support WKAR for your community

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