Program Guide
AUGUST 2020 VOL. 50 NO. 8 PROGRAM GUIDE
ENDEAVOUR SEASON 7
Premieres Sunday, August 9, at 9:00 p.m. (See Page 11)
A WPSU ORIGINAL THE NATIONAL PARKS: ABBA FOREVER: THE INVESTMENT AMERICA'S BEST IDEA A CELEBRATION Wednesday, August 5, Beginning Sunday, August 9, Saturday, August 29, at 10:00 p.m. at 6:00 p.m. at 8:00 p.m. You want your donations to WPSU to work as hard as possible. Learn more about our new Learning at Home programming at learning.wpsu.org. Starting our new fiscal year on July 1, 2020 we have made the difficult decision to revise the MONDAY – FRIDAY WPSU program guide to maintain a guide with 6:00 Ready Jet Go! television listings showing programs titles with 6:30 Arthur no descriptions, to streamline it to four pages. 7:00 Curious George This new format will begin with the September 7:30 Wild Kratts 8:00 Hero Elementary 2020 edition. 8:30 Molly of Denali This saves WPSU several thousand dollars a 9:00 Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum year in printing costs that can be applied to 9:30 Let's Go Luna! program costs. 10:00 Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood 10:30 Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood We hope you are with us in this decision 11:00 Sesame Street toward station sustainability. We welcome 11:30 Pinkalicious & Peterrific your feedback via email at [email protected] or 12:00 Learning at Home Lineup: telephone at 814-865-3333. Check listings online at learning.wpsu.org 5:00 Odd Squad Thank you for your support. 5:30 Weather World (Re-airs at 5:45 p.m.) 6:00 BBC World News America 6:30 DW The Day 7:00 PBS NewsHour
weeknights at 5:30 p.m. and 5:45 p.m. Now streaming online at TUNE-IN OR STREAM wpsu.org/weatherworld Sunday, August 2, at 10:30 p.m.
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SATURDAY, AUG 1 10:00 The Kate 10:30 Family of Us: Marty Stuart & His Fabulous A PBS American Portrait Story 9:00 This Old House Superlatives See a moving and meaningful Westerly/Pining for Old Pine Marty Stuart & His Fabulous picture of families in America today 9:30 American Woodshop Superlatives share hits, favorites, and the way these relationships Carving American Folk Art/ stories, and a world premiere on The shape us. Sharpening Tips Kate stage - their “hillbilly surf” music. 11:00 Professor T 10:00 Woodsmith Shop 11:00 Austin City Limits The Family Weekend Workbench Cage the Elephant/ A physician, his wife and two children 10:30 Fishing Behind the Lines Tank and the Bangas are found dead. It is unclear to the Salmon River Reflections Nashville rockers Cage the Elephant team which one of them was the killer 11:00 J Schwanke’s Life in Bloom blaze through hits and albums of the other three and therefore which The Garden, Contained from fifth albumSocial Cues. New of them committed suicide. 11:30 Garden Smart Orleans’ jazz/soul mavens Tank and 12:00 In Julia’s Kitchen the Bangas groove through songs with Master Chefs from their second LP Green Balloon. MONDAY, AUG 3 Christopher Gross 12:30 Neven’s Spanish Food Trails 8:00 Antiques Roadshow Wine Country SUNDAY, AUG 2 Vintage Boston 1:00 My Greek Table Learn how the antiques market has with Diane Kochilas 9:00 Classic Gospel evolved in the last 15 years, including The Culinary Tapestry of Corfu GVB Reunion Live a $124,000 value increase. 1:30 The Farmer and the Foodie 10:00 To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbé 9:00 Vintage Roads Great & Small Farming Well 10:30 Changing Seas Axmouth to Lincoln: 2:00 Kevin Belton’s The Cordell Bank: On the Roman Way New Orleans Kitchen A National Treasure Visiting Somerset, the Cotswolds, The Po-Boy Sandwich 11:00 Journeys in Japan and the Midlands, Chris and Peter 2:30 Magic of a Dish: New York 11:30 Trails to Oishii Tokyo attempt some tricky Roman roads Top Chef Goes to Japan 12:00 Simply Ming and encounter the former heartland Winter Ming Tsai with Guest William Kovel of the British motor industry. 3:00 Vintage Roads Great & Small 12:30 Christopher Kimball’s 10:00 POV Axmouth to Lincoln: Milk Street Television Chez Jolie Coiffure on the Roman Way Secrets of Oaxaca In this captivating documentary filmed 4:00 Reconnecting Roots 1:00 Confucius Was a Foodie in a single tiny room, viewers step inside Travel: Migration to Mobility Cantonese an underground hair salon with its 4:30 Into the Outdoors 2:00 Lidia’s Kitchen charismatic proprietor, a Cameroonian Extreme Survival Strategies Childhood Cravings immigrant named Sabine. 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen 5:00 Weekends with Yankee 11:00 Amanpour and Company Deep Roots from Cook’s Illustrated 5:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend The Very Best Paris-Brest 6:00 Antiques Roadshow 3:00 Power Trip: The Story of Energy TUESDAY, AUG 4 Vintage Miami 4:00 Ask This Old House 7:00 Fawlty Towers Walkway Reset, 8:00 American Experience: Reagan The Germans Patch Chipped Floor Lifeguard 7:30 Still Open All Hours 4:30 Ask This Old House Follow Reagan from his youth in the Series 6, Episode 6 Silica Dust, Wobbly Toilet American heartland to the triumph 8:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway: 5:00 MotorWeek of his “revolution” in 1981. Private Investigators 5:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 10:00 Statecraft: The Bush 41 Team Reputation, Reputation, 6:00 Roosevelts: An Intimate History Examine George H.W. Bush’s Reputation! A Strong and Active Faith foreign policy team’s expertise as Frank and Lu enter the competitive (1944-1962) they navigated international crises. world of hairdressing and find 8:00 The Great British Baking Show 11:00 Amanpour and Company themselves combing through a The Final tangled web of backstabbing Find out which of the three finalists and deceit. will be crowned best amateur baker. WEDNESDAY, AUG 5 9:00 A Place to Call Home 9:00 Endeavour Season 6 on Masterpiece 8:00 Animals with Cameras, New Adventures A Nature Miniseries George tries to comfort Sarah Degüello The collapse of a tower block Deep-dive with Chilean devil rays, through her crisis, but she pushes track brown bears’ diets and follow him away. reveals a clue that may uncover the truth behind the crime that has dogs that protect sheep. haunted Endeavour and the team. AUGUSTLISTINGS3 9:00 NOVA 10:00 Woodsmith Shop 10:30 Fawlty Towers Rise of the Mammals Router Joinery The Germans A new trove of fossils reveals 10:30 Fishing Behind the Lines While Sybil is in the hospital for a how mammals took over after an A Look Back - Highlight Episode minor operation, Basil conducts a asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs 66 11:00 J Schwanke’s Life in Bloom fire drill at the hotel and manages to million years ago Thinking Outside the Vase offend a group of German tourists. WPSU ORIGINAL 11:30 Garden Smart 11:00 Amanpour and Company 12:00 In Julia’s Kitchen 10:00 The Investment 2020 with Master Chefs Penn State student entrepreneurs Jody Adams will pitch to a panel of judges and FRIDAY, AUG 7 12:30 Neven’s Spanish Food Trails compete for part of a $30,000 prize 8:00 Washington Week Pinchos pool to try to earn funds for their 8:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 1:00 My Greek Table startup companies. 9:00 Great Performances with Diane Kochilas 11:00 Amanpour and Company In The Heights: Saving the Earth on Paros Chasing Broadway Dreams 1:30 The Farmer and the Foodie Follow a group of talented young Coming Around One Table THURSDAY, AUG 6 creators led by composer-lyricist with Common Earth Gardens 2:00 Kevin Belton’s 8:00 Midsomer Murders Lin-Manuel Miranda as they New Orleans Kitchen The Sleeper Under the Hill produce an original musical. Spring Fling When a farmer is found horribly 10:00 International Jazz Day from Cuba 2:30 Magic of a Dish: New York murdered in the middle of a stone Enjoy the many renowned artists Top Chef Goes to Japan circle, suspicion points at a group who present an extraordinary Ultimate of druids. concert from the Gran Teatro de La Habana in Havana. 3:00 Across the Pacific 9:30 Last Tango in Halifax Airborne 11:00 Amanpour and Company Caroline is relieved to find that Greg 4:00 Reconnecting Roots is a natural with Flora and a positive Hunting: Field to Fork influence on Lawrence. Alan begins SATURDAY, AUG 8 4:30 Into the Outdoors to distance himself from Gary, while Plant Diversities Gillian discovers that their private 9:00 This Old House 5:00 Weekends with Yankee family matter has just gone public. Westerly/Save the Flagpole Arts and the Sea 9:30 American Woodshop 5:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend Storage Ottoman with Dominoes 6:00 Antiques Roadshow Tucson, Hour Two
Sundays, at 6:00 p.m., beginning August 9 This six-part documentary series directed by Ken Burns and co-produced with his longtime colleague, Dayton Duncan, is the story of an idea as uniquely American as the Declaration of Independence and just as radical: that the most special places in the nation should be preserved, not for royalty or the rich, but for everyone.
Wednesday, August 5, at 10:00 p.m. Penn State student entrepreneurs will pitch to a panel of judges and compete for part of a $30,000 prize pool to try to earn funds for their startup companies.
Support provided by KCF Technologies and Everett Cash Mutual Insurance Co, with additional support from Ulicny Financial Communications and Strategy and Ben Franklin Technology Partners.
AUGUSTLISTINGS4 7:00 Fawlty Towers SUNDAY, AUG 9 8:00 The Great British Baking Show Communications Problems The Final 7:30 Still Open All Hours 9:00 Classic Gospel Try to determine which of the Christmas 2019 Booth Brothers: Country Roads three finalists will be judged best 8:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway: 10:00 To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbé amateur baker. Private Investigators 10:30 Changing Seas 9:00 Endeavour Season 7 Best Beware My Sting Toxic Waters on Masterpiece An energy tycoon hires Frank and 11:00 Journeys in Japan Oracle Lu to keep an eye on his wayward 11:30 Trails to Oishii Tokyo As Morse sees in the new year at an eldest daughter and ensure that the 12:00 Simply Ming opera house in Venice, a murder in wedding of his youngest daughter On the Road in California: Oxford puts Thursday on a quest to goes off without a hitch. Northern California find the man responsible. 12:30 Christopher Kimball’s 9:00 A Place to Call Home 11:00 Professor T Milk Street Television Autumn Affairs Past Imperfect From Morocco to Egypt As Prudence, Delia, and Carolyn A series of attacks have been 1:00 Confucius Was A Foodie prepare for what turns out to be a carried out on SUVs. At the Sichuan scandalous party in Sydney, Jack same time, pamphlets are being 2:00 Lidia’s Kitchen has decided to confront his nemesis distributed for an anarchist student Memories of the Mountains head on. group which Professor T was once 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen 10:00 The Kate a member of. from Cook’s Illustrated Delbert McClinton and the Hearty Mediterranean at Home Self-Made Men + Dana 3:00 Power Trip: The Story of Energy Delbert McClinton performs a MONDAY, AUG 10 Transportation swingin’ set of music including 4:00 Ask This Old House 8:00 Antiques Roadshow “Giving It Up for Your Love.” Tankless Water Heater, Tucson, Hour Three 11:00 Austin City Limits Retaining Wall Journey to Tucson, Arizona to see Miguel/Alessia Cara 4:30 Ask This Old House fantastic finds including a 1994 L.A. singer Miguel blends funk, rock, Dutch Door, Landscape Checkers Pete Seeger original song, an 1889 hip hop, and electronica in gems from 5:00 MotorWeek George Hitchcock oil diptych, his album War & Leisure. Canadian 5:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend and an 1861 Abraham Lincoln hitmaker Cara dazzles with pop/R&B 6:00 National Parks: presidential pardon. hits and songs from her new album America’s Best Idea The Pains of Growing. The Scripture of Nature (1851-1890)
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AT RED ROCKS Saturday, August 29, at 8:00 p.m. Saturday, August 29, at 11:30 p.m. Celebrate the supergroup with Neil Sedaka, Donny Osmond, Tim Rice, and the band members Join the three-time Grammy Award nominees for themselves. Featuring a greatest hits soundtrack a magical night of music in this stunning natural including “Dancing Queen” and “Mamma Mia!,” setting. The band performs an energetic mix of the program includes original interviews and rare bluegrass, country, pop melodies, folk, indie rock, archival footage. honky-tonk, and ragtime before a sold-out crowd.
AUGUSTLISTINGS5 9:00 Daring Women Doctors: 10:30 Fawlty Towers 8:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway: Physicians in the 19th Century Communications Problems Private Investigators Follow the challenging and A racing tip and a guest who is All That Glisters illuminating history of 19th century hard of hearing spell financial Frank and Lu find themselves women doctors. disaster for Basil. puzzling through the world of 10:00 POV 11:00 Amanpour and Company enigmatology as they become About Love podcasters investigating a Three generations of the Phadke mysterious twenty-year-old car family live together in their home FRIDAY, AUG 14 accident that killed a young mother. in Mumbai. When the youngest 8:00 Washington Week 9:00 A Place to Call Home daughter turns the camera towards 8:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover Life Longs for Itself her family, the personal becomes 9:00 Great Performances Four months after Prudence’s political as power structures within Much Ado About Nothing party, Carolyn and Jack are living the family become visible, and This modern interpretation of separately, and one of Anna’s novels eventually unravel. Shakespeare’s romantic classic with has been adapted into a radio serial. 11:30 Amanpour and Company an all-black cast features Danielle 10:00 The Kate Brooks and Grantham Coleman. Joseph 11:30 Amanpour and Company Songs include “White Flag,” TUESDAY, AUG 11 “Blood and Tears,” the emotional 8:00 American Experience: Reagan “Room for You”, and more. An American Crusade SATURDAY, AUG 15 11:00 Austin City Limits Dan Auerbach/Shinyribs Learn about Reagan’s battle with 9:00 This Old House the Soviet Union, his resolve to end Auerbach puts the Black Keys on Westerly/Seaside Transformation hold to showcase his second solo the Cold War and the Iran-Contra 9:30 American Woodshop affair, the lowest point during his album Waiting on a Song. Fronted by Building a Better Bookcase Kevin Russell of the Gourds, Shinyribs second term. 10:00 Woodsmith Shop 11:00 Amanpour and Company whips up Texas country soul from its Flag Case new LP I Got Your Medicine. 10:30 Fishing Behind the Lines Spring Wall-Eye - WEDNESDAY, AUG 12 Dave Rocky Rockwell SUNDAY, AUG 16 8:00 Nature 11:00 J Schwanke’s Life in Bloom Undercover in the Jungle All About Lavender 9:00 Classic Gospel Go undercover with a film crew on 11:30 Garden Smart Jimmy Fortune: God & Country a perilous journey to the untouched 12:00 In Julia’s Kitchen 10:00 To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbé wilderness of biodiversity in the with Master Chefs 10:30 Changing Seas Amazon rainforest. Zarela Martinez Corals in Crisis 11:00 Journeys in Japan 9:00 NOVA 12:30 Neven’s Spanish Food Trails Rioja 11:30 Trails to Oishii Tokyo Decoding the Great Pyramid 12:00 Simply Ming New archeological evidence sheds 1:00 My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas On the Road in California: light on the stunning engineering of Santa Cruz the Great Pyramid of Giza. Figs in a Glass 1:30 The Farmer and the Foodie 12:30 Christopher Kimball’s 10:00 Discover the Firebird Tackling Carp in Milk Street Television The Discovery Orchestra helps Western Kentucky The New Australia both classical music novices and 2:00 Kevin Belton’s New Orleans 1:00 Confucius Was a Foodie seasoned concertgoers to hear Kitchen Sweet and appreciate new details in Igor St. Joseph’s Day 2:00 Lidia’s Kitchen Stravinsky’s 1919 “Firebird Suite.” 2:30 Cook’s Country Growing Up Italian 11:00 Amanpour and Company BBQ Brisket and Fritters 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen 3:00 Across the Pacific from Cook’s Illustrated Latin Laboratory Flavorful Chinese Favorites THURSDAY, AUG 13 4:00 Reconnecting Roots 3:00 Power Trip: The Story of Energy 8:00 Midsomer Murders Native Americans: Wealth The Night of the Stag An Uncommon History 4:00 Ask This Old House A VAT inspector goes missing 4:30 Into the Outdoors Rain Chain, Vanity Installation as he hunts for an illicit cider still Know Your H2O 4:30 Ask This Old House responsible for brewing The Beast, 5:00 Weekends with Yankee Lawn Care, a potent local hooch. Walk on the Wild Side Workshop of the Future 5:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 5:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend 9:30 Last Tango In Halifax 5:30 National Parks: Caroline gets to the heart of the 6:00 Antiques Roadshow Omaha, Hour One America’s Best Idea reason Gillian is reluctant to go The Last Refuge (1890-1915) through with the wedding. With 7:00 Fawlty Towers The Psychiatrist 8:00 Lucy Worsley’s Celia’s encouragement, Alan takes Royal Photo Album the first step toward forgiveness. 7:30 Still Open All Hours Series 6, Episode 1 Lucy Worsley takes us through the story of the royal photograph.
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AUGUSTLISTINGS7 9:00 Endeavour Season 7 WEDNESDAY, AUG 19 10:30 Fishing Behind the Lines on Masterpiece A Cornucopia of Catfish - Oracle 8:00 PBS NewsHour & NPR Thomas Davis As Morse sees in the new year at an Convention Coverage 11:00 J Schwanke’s Life in Bloom opera house in Venice, a murder in Democratic National Convention Pets and Flowers Oxford puts Thursday on a quest to 11:00 Amanpour and Company 11:30 Garden Smart find the man responsible. 12:00 In Julia’s Kitchen 11:00 Professor T with Master Chefs Of Passion THURSDAY, AUG 20 Jean-Georges Vongerichten Having witnessed more poor 8:00 PBS NewsHour & NPR 12:30 Neven’s Spanish Food Trails teaching by Van der Weyden, Convention Coverage San Sebastian Professor T is at his wits’ end and Democratic National Convention 1:00 My Greek Table comes up with a plan to pretend 11:00 Amanpour and Company with Diane Kochilas that he is considering a job offer An Ionian Odyssey at a different university. 1:30 Pati’s Mexican Table FRIDAY, AUG 21 One Day in Oaxaca 2:00 Kevin Belton’s MONDAY, AUG 17 8:00 Washington Week New Orleans Kitchen 8:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover Seriously Good Shellfish 8:00 PBS NewsHour & NPR 9:00 Great Performances 2:30 Cook’s Country Convention Coverage Kinky Boots Italian Comfort Food Classics Democratic National Convention Enjoy the Tony-winning musical 3:00 Across the Pacific 11:00 Amanpour and Company about friendship and extraordinary Another Ocean shoes with songs by Cyndi Lauper. 4:00 Reconnecting Roots 11:30 Amanpour and Company Trains: Tracking Progress TUESDAY, AUG 18 4:30 Into the Outdoors 8:00 PBS NewsHour & NPR Refining Crude Oil Convention Coverage SATURDAY, AUG 22 5:00 Weekends with Yankee Democratic National Convention 9:00 This Old House Treasures from the Earth 11:00 Amanpour and Company Westerly/A Ranch Out Westerly 5:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 9:30 American Woodshop 6:00 Antiques Roadshow Mid-Century Modern Nightstand Omaha, Hour Two with Jaida! 7:00 Fawlty Towers 10:00 Woodsmith Shop Waldorf Salad Craftsman Rocker
LET'S TALK MENOPAUSE Sunday, August 30, at 10:00 p.m.
Get the tools and discover successful strategies to effectively cope with Sunday, August 30, at 8:00 p.m. this new phase of life. Learn about common Celebrate the magic in this powerful and stirring symptoms, health risks, reinvention of the groundbreaking show. Catapulting and therapeutic options. Riverdance into the 21st century, this new cinematic Real women share their experience immerses viewers in the extraordinary own personal journeys and energy and passion of Irish music and dance. first-hand experiences.
AUGUSTLISTINGS8 7:30 Still Open All Hours 11:00 Journeys in Japan 9:00 Endeavour Season 7 Series 6, Episode 2 11:30 Trails to Oishii Tokyo on Masterpiece 8:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway: 12:00 Simply Ming Zenana Private Investigators On the Road in California: An investigation at Lady Matilda’s O Thou Invisible Spirit of Wine Monterey College uncovers a potential link to When paranormal activity is 12:30 Christopher Kimball’s a series of crimes. reported in a Tudor pub, old family Milk Street Television 11:00 Professor T feuds are brought to a head. The Oaxacan Kitchen Diamond 9:00 A Place to Call Home 1:00 Confucius Was a Foodie A jeweler’s family is taken hostage Reaching Home 2:00 Lidia’s Kitchen while the jeweler is on his way to Sarah and George prepare to leave for Storytime with Grandma empty the safe at his shop; an his embassy posting in Israel and she 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen accident en route raises suspicion. tries one more time to reconcile Jack from Cook’s Illustrated and Carolyn. Nutritious and Delicious 10:00 The Kate 3:00 Power Trip: MONDAY, AUG 24 The Story of Energy The Wood Brothers 8:00 PBS NewsHour & The Wood Brothers perform Cities 4:00 Ask This Old House NPR Convention Coverage “American Heartache” and more Republican National Convention songs in an uninhibited concert. Spitting Faucet, Painting 101 4:30 Ask This Old House 11:00 Amanpour and Company 11:00 Austin City Limits Houston After Harvey Run the Jewels 5:00 MotorWeek Groove to a full hour with hip-hop 5:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend TUESDAY, AUG 25 superstars Run the Jewels. The duo 6:00 National Parks: 8:00 PBS NewsHour & showcases its latest album Run the America’s Best Idea NPR Convention Coverage Jewels 3, as well as its greatest hits. The Empire of Grandeur Republican National Convention (1915-1919) 11:00 Amanpour and Company SUNDAY, AUG 23 WPSU ORIGINAL 9:00 Classic Gospel 8:00 Speaking Grief WEDNESDAY, AUG 26 David Phelps: Hymnal Learn to validate and support the 8:00 PBS NewsHour & 10:00 To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbé experience of death and loss in a NPR Convention Coverage 10:30 Changing Seas grief-avoidant society. Republican National Convention Mystery of the 11:00 Amanpour and Company Humpback Whale Song
August 30 is National Grief Awareness Day
In honor of National Grief Awareness Day, Speaking Grief will be released, in full, on Monday, August 31, speakinggrief.org at 8:00 p.m.
This documentary tells the story of a soft-spoken minister, puppeteer, writer, and producer a production of philanthropic support from whose show was beamed daily into homes across America for more than 30 years.
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THURSDAY, AUG 27 2:30 Suze Orman’s Ultimate 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen Retirement Guide from Cook’s Illustrated 8:00 PBS NewsHour & Join the personal finance expert for Springtime Feast NPR Convention Coverage essential advice on planning for and 3:00 America’s Test Kitchen Republican National Convention thriving in retirement. from Cook’s Illustrated 11:00 Amanpour and Company 4:30 Deepak Chopra: Savory and Sweet Italian Becoming Metahuman 4:00 Jonathan Antoine in Concert: Become happier, more joyful, Going the Distance FRIDAY, AUG 28 and energetic with a simple three- The virtuosic tenor performs a 8:00 Washington Week step process. medley of Disney classics, Broadway 8:30 Neil Diamond: 6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend numbers, and opera standards. Hot August Night III 6:30 Mister Rogers: It’s You I Like 5:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend Celebrate the legendary singer- Join host Michael Keaton to 6:00 Ken Burns: America’s Storyteller songwriter in this triumphant 2012 celebrate “Mister Rogers’ Join Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, concert at the Greek Theatre in Neighborhood,” the pioneering George Lucas, and more for a Los Angeles. children’s series that premiered tribute to the acclaimed filmmaker. 10:00 American Experience: nationally 50 years ago. 8:00 Riverdance Woodstock: Three Days That 8:00 ABBA Forever: A Celebration 25th Anniversary Show Defined a Generation Celebrate the supergroup with Neil Celebrate the magic of Irish music Celebrate the 50th anniversary Sedaka, Donny Osmond, Tim Rice, and dance in this reinvention of the of the concert that became a and the band members themselves. groundbreaking show. touchstone for a generation. 9:30 Fleetwood Mac: The Dance 10:00 Let’s Talk Menopause Celebrate the band's greatest hits Get the tools and discover from their beloved album Rumours successful strategies to effectively SATURDAY, AUG 29 in this 1997 reunion concert. cope with this new phase of life. 8:00 This Old House: 11:30 The Avett Brothers at Red Rocks 11:00 Professor T 40th Anniversary Special Join the three-time Grammy Award Jitske Relive 40 years of This Old House nominees for a magical night of Jitske, a 17-year-old girl with Down with our anniversary special, music in this stunning natural setting. syndrome, claims she knows who featuring archival footage and brand murdered her mother, but she new interviews! doesn’t want to say who it is. 9:30 Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: SUNDAY, AUG 30 50 Years and Circlin’ Back 9:00 Magic Moments - MONDAY, AUG 31 Celebrate the band's hits along The Best of 50’s Pop with special guests Vince Gill, John Join hosts Phyllis McGuire, Pat 8:00 Independent Lens Prine, Jackson Browne, and more. Boone, and Nick Clooney for this Won’t You Be My Neighbor? 11:00 Longevity Paradox nostalgic trip back to the 1950s. This documentary tells the story of with Steven Gundry, MD 11:00 Rise Up: The Songs of the the soft-spoken minister, puppeteer, Dr. Gundy shares an easy approach Women’s Movement writer, and producer whose show to help us all feel better and more Celebrate the centennial of women's was beamed daily into homes across youthful, at any age. right to vote through the soundtrack America for more than 30 years. 12:30 Ken Burns: America’s Storyteller of the women's movement. 10:30 Beyond the Canvas Join Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep, 12:30 The Brain Fitness Program Making Music George Lucas and more for a tribute Discover the inner workings of Music icons Bruce Springsteen and to the acclaimed filmmaker. the brain with a user's guide to Reba McEntire talk about their most changing it for the better. vulnerable moments. 11:00 Amanpour and Company AUGUSTLISTINGS10 NEW SEASON 2 HD RADIO MONDAY–THURSDAY 12:00 a.m. Classical Music 9:00 a.m. BBC World News Hour 10:00 a.m. On Point 12:00 p.m. Classical Music 4:00 p.m. BBC World News Hour 5:00 p.m. Democracy Now 6:00 p.m. PBS NewsHour 7:00 p.m. World Cafe 9:00 p.m. BBC News
FRIDAY 5:00 a.m. Classical Music 9:00 a.m. BBC News Hour 10:00 a.m. On Point 12:00 p.m. Classical Music 4:00 p.m. BBC World News 5:00 p.m. Democracy Now 6:00 p.m. PBS NewsHour 7:00 p.m. Conversations from the World Cafe 8:00 p.m. Afropop Worldwide ENDEAVOUR 9:00 p.m. BBC News SATURDAY 1:00 a.m. Classical Music Season 7 Premieres 7:00 a.m. Performance Today Weekend 9:00 a.m. From the Top Sunday, August 9, at 9:00 p.m. 10:00 a.m. Car Talk 11:00 a.m. Weekend Edition 1:00 p.m. Splendid Table In Season 7, Endeavour and his colleagues enter a new 2:00 p.m. Only a Game decade and era of change. However, the events of the past 3:00 p.m. Fresh Air Weekend year have left their mark: old friendships will be challenged, 4:00 p.m. BBC World News Hour and new relationships will blossom. Amidst the dawn of 5:00 p.m. Thistle and Shamrock 6:00 p.m. All Things Considered women’s liberation, social progression and scientific growth, 7:00 p.m. World Cafe the 1970s begin for Oxford’s finest with the discovery of a 9:00 p.m. Jazz Nights in America body at the canal towpath on New Year’s Day. 10:00 p.m. Folk Alley 12:00 a.m. BBC World Service
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