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American Masters Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir May 3, 10pm

Pictured: ‘The Joy Luck Club’ author Amy Tan and her mother. Photo courtesy of Jim McHugh. primetime

1 SATURDAY 11:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 4, Ep 7. Morwenna takes fate into her own hands. 5:00 OPB A Project for Every (Also Tue 4am) Floor (Also Mon 6pm) | OPB+ Marathon Civilizations, continued (until 7pm) 3 MONDAY 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Tue 12am) | 6:00 OPB The Legacy List With Matt Paxton OPB+ A Wider World (Also Tue 4am) Turn the Page/Washington, D.C. 7:30 OPB+ Museum Access Federal Reserve of 7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Granada, Chicago Money Museum: Chicago, IL (Also Tue Cordoba, and Spain’s Costa del Sol/Andalucia, 4:30am) Gibraltar and Tangier (Also Sun 9am) | OPB+ American Masters Ted Williams. Discover the 8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow (Also Wed Patrick Acum/ baseball legend’s many sides. 1am) | OPB+ Great Yellowstone Thaw Ep 1. Witness one of the greatest seasonal Extra Life: A Short 8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries Ward of the changes on Earth. (Also Sun 6pm) Roses. Trudy helps an old friend. (Also Mon History of Living Longer 9:00 OPB Oregon Experience The Suffragists. 12am) | OPB+ Baseball A National Heirloom Discover the innovations in (Also Sun 2am) Learn how Oregon women won the vote. (Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ Rick Steves and medicine that doubled the 9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders The Killings of Andalucia: Southern Spain (Also Sun 7pm) human lifespan in less than a Copenhagen, Pts 1&2. Barnaby and Nelson join century, and celebrate the unsung forces with Danish detectives. 9:30 OPB Oregon Experience Lola Baldwin. Baldwin was the country’s first sworn heroes of public health who 10:00 OPB+ Wrestle. High policewoman. (Also Wed 2:30am) believed change was possible school wrestlers face challenges on and off and acted on it. the mat. (Also Sun 12am) 10:00 OPB American Masters Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir. Explore the life of the Tuesdays at 8pm starting May 11 10:30 OPB The Forsyte Saga Ep 10. Fleur visits groundbreaking author of ‘The Joy Luck Club.’ OPB a farm where Jon is working. (Also Wed 8pm OPB+) | OPB+ Amanpour 11:30 OPB On Story On Writing Chernobyl | & Company (Also Tue 5am) OPB+ Unadopted What happens when you’re 11:00 OPB+ AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural ‘too old’ to get adopted? Exchange Mama Gloria (Also Wed 2am) American Masters Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir (R-Also Fri 12am) 2 SUNDAY 4 TUESDAY 9:00 OPB Human: The World Within Birth. Learn 5:00 OPB Firing Line With Margaret Hoover | 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 12am) | the story of human reproduction, from attraction OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions OPB+ Nature Equus: Story of the Horse: to the moment of birth. (Also Fri 2am) Volunteer Tourism, Pt 1 Origins (Also Wed 4am) 10:00 OPB Human: The World Within Pulse. 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ 8:00 OPB Laughing on the Explore the human circulatory system. Rick Steves’ Europe The Making Of Inside. Featuring comedians Lewis Black and (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company 6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Then and Now (R) | Roy Wood, Jr. (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ (Also Thu 5am) Secret Life of Farm Animals (Also Thu 12am) OPB+ Confucius Was a Foodie 11:00 OPB Life From Above Moving Planet. 6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Coronavirus and 9:00 OPB Philly D.A. Ep 4. The team pursues Cameras in space reveal ’s incredible Wildfire(R) probation reform. (Also Thu 2am) | OPB+ movements. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ Finding Supernature: Wild Flyers Defying Gravity the Virgo Vietnamese refugees search for the 7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show (Also Thu 1am) ship crew that rescued them. (Also Fri 2am) Desserts (Also Sun 5/09 12am) | OPB+ Coastal Railways With Julie Walters Wales 10:00 OPB Frontline Escaping Eritrea. An to Liverpool unprecedented undercover investigation into 6 THURSDAY one of the world’s most repressive regimes. 8:00 OPB Secrets of the Royal Jewels See the (Also Thu 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am) jewels of the royal collection. (Also Tue Company (Also Wed 5am) | OPB+ 10 Monuments That Changed 1am) | OPB+ American Masters Oliver Sacks. America (Also Fri 4am) 11:00 OPB Pacific Heartbeat The Australian Dream. Sacks helped redefine our understanding of 8:00 OPB Oregon Art the brain. (Also Tue 12am) Follow the inspirational story of Indigenous AFL legend Adam Goodes. (Also Thu 4am) Beat Artists in 9:00 OPB Masterpiece Atlantic Crossing: Empty | OPB+ The Art Detectives (Also Thu 2am) Extraordinary Times. Promises. The president gets on dangerous Artists responded in real ground. (Also Tue 2am) time to the events of 5 WEDNESDAY 2020, including lockdowns, protests and 10:00 OPB Masterpiece World on Fire, Ep 5. wildfires (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ Sinking 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu 12am) | Harry’s unit reaches Dunkirk. (Also Tue 3am) Cities London/Miami (Also Sat 12am) | OPB+ Into the Night: Portraits of Life and OPB+ Kitchenistas (Also Thu 4am) 8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Fish Trap. See Death To be human is to wrestle with the 8:00 OPB Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change how banned fished traps could help save concept of death. (Also Tue 2am) the World Ep 2. Thunberg visits the World endangered salmon. (Also Sun 6:30pm) Economic Forum. (R-Also Fri 1am) | OPB+

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9:00 OPB Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private 10:05 OPB+ Independent Lens Women in Blue. Investigators The Fairest Show Means the Female officers try to redefine what it means MONDAY – FRIDAY Most Deceit. Frank’s long-lost relative tracks to protect and serve. him down. (Also Sun 2am) 6:30 OPB Kids Programs (until noon) 10:30 OPB The Forsyte Saga Ep 11. Jon and 10:00 OPB Vera The Escape Turn. A tycoon is Fleur meet at Robin Hill. 7am OPB+ NHK Newsline murdered during a home invasion. (Also 11:30 OPB On Story A Conversation With Lulu Sun 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company Wang | OPB+ Why This Moment Explore the 7:30 OPB+ Sit & Be Fit (M/W/F); (Also Fri 5am) emotions and events surrounding Black Lives Classical Stretch (Tu/Th) 11:00 OPB+ DW Global 3000 (Also Sat 2am) Matter protests. (Also Sun 1:30am) 8am OPB+ Sewing & Knitting 11:30 OPB On Story A Conversation With Kevin | Willmott (Also Sun 4:30am) OPB+ Beyond 9 SUNDAY 8:30 OPB+ Quilting the Canvas World of Writers (Also Sat 2:30am) 5:00 OPB Firing Line With Margaret Hoover | OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions 9am OPB+ Painting 7 FRIDAY Volunteer Tourism, Pt 2 10am OPB+ Woodworking (M/W/Th); 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am) | 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ This Old House (Tu/F) OPB+ Greatest Bond Inmates, veterans and Rick Steves’ Europe Burgundy: Profound service dogs unite in of hope. (Also France 10:30 OPB+ Food & Cooking Sun 10am) 6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Artists in 8:00 OPB Father Brown The Curse of the Extraordinary Times (R) | OPB+ Confucius 11am OPB+ Nature (M); NOVA (Tu); Aesthetic. Father Brown tracks an artist’s Was a Foodie (R) The Great American Read (W); killer. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington (Th); Oregon 6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Fish Trap (R) Week (Also Sat 6am) Experience (F) 7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Tudor 8:30 OPB+ Beyond the Canvas Women of Week (Also Sun 5/16 12am) | OPB+ Rick 12pm OPB Painting | OPB+ Portrayal Wonder (Also Sun 1pm) Steves Andalucia: Southern Spain (R) and Perception (M); Between the 9:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 7, Ep 7. Covers (Tu); Reconnecting Roots 8:00 OPB Secrets of the Royal Kitchens Tour the Barbara remains kept in isolation. (Also (W); In the Americas (Th); My kitchens of the British royal family. (Also Tue Mon 2am) | OPB+ Finding Your Roots World Too (F) 1am) | OPB+ Independent Lens 9 to 5: The Story Grandparents and Other Strangers (Also Sun of a Movement. Go inside the fight that changed 1:30pm) OPB Food & Cooking | OPB+ Growing the American workplace. (Also Tue 12am) Bolder (M); GZero World (Tu); 10:00 OPB No Second Chance Ep 4. Alice 9:00 OPB Masterpiece Atlantic Crossing: The David Rubenstein: Peer-to-Peer escapes the police. (Also Mon 3am) | OPB+ Giant Awakes. Missy grows suspicious. (W); Chavis Chronicles (Th); Asian Amanpour & Company (Also Mon 5am) (Also Tue 2am) American Life (F) 11:00 OPB A Place To Call Home Fallout. Sarah 9:30 OPB+ Independent Lens A Woman’s Work: tries to persuade Leah to return home. (Also 1pm OPB+ DW News The NFL’s Cheerleader Problem. Cheerleaders Mon 4am) | OPB+ Frontline Escaping Eritrea take a stand for better pay. (Also Tue 1:30am) (R-Also Mon 2am) 1:30 OPB Travel | OPB+ DW: The Day 10:00 OPB Masterpiece World on Fire, Ep 6. 8 SATURDAY Paris falls to the Nazis. (Also Tue 3am) 2pm OPB Kids Programs (until 6pm) | OPB+ BBC Outside Source (M– 10:30 OPB+ Letters From Baghdad 5:00 OPB This Old House Three of Everything Th); BBC Today (F) (Also Mon 6pm) | OPB+ Marathon Between 11:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 4, Ep 8. the Covers, continued (until 7pm) Ross must reconcile with Demelza. (Also Tue 2:30 OPB+ BBC World News America 4am) 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend 3pm OPB+ News & Public Affairs 6:00 OPB The Legacy List With Matt Paxton 10 MONDAY Haul in the Family/Manheim, PA 3:30 OPB+ NHK Newsline 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour | OPB+ A Wider 7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Oslo/Norway’s World (Also Tue 4am) West: Fjords, Mountains and Bergen (Also Sun 4pm OPB+ PBS NewsHour 9am) | OPB+ Black in Blue The story of four 7:30 OPB+ Museum Access The Museum of African Americans who broke the color line in International Folk Art: Santa Fe, NM (Also Tue 5pm OPB+ Travel football. 4:30am) 5:30 OPB+ Food & Cooking (until 7pm) 8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries A History 8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow (Also Wed of Violins. A priceless violin is stolen. (Also 1am) | OPB+ Great Yellowstone Thaw Ep 2. 6pm OPB Home Repair (M/Tu); Travel | Mon 12am) OPB+ Baseball Shadow Ball Bear cubs come out of hibernation. (Also Sun (W/Th/F) (Also Sun 2am) 6pm) 9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders The Dagger 9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Art Makers. 6:30 OPB BBC Outside Source Club, Pts 1&2. A festival is upended after a Discover the artists who paved the way for (M–Th); BBC Today (F) manuscript disappears. Oregon’s flourishing arts scene. (Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ Rick Steves Iran (Also Sun 7pm)

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9:30 OPB Oregon Experience Capturing 13 THURSDAY Oregon’s Frontier. Photographs illuminate 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am) | Oregon frontier life. (Also Wed 2:30am) OPB+ Space Chase USA (Also Fri 4am) 10:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Celebrating 8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat The Place Where You Asian-Pacific Heritage (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ Persist. Artist and educator Lisa Jarrett shares Amanpour & Company (Also Tue 5am) her creative process. (Also Sun 6pm) | 11:00 OPB POV Through the Night. The lives of OPB+ Humanity From Space (Also Sat 12am) working mothers and a childcare provider 8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Ship Report. In intersect. (Also Wed 4am) | OPB+ AfroPop: Astoria, a popular radio program discusses The Ultimate Cultural Exchange Finding every ship that passes by the waterfront. Sally (Also Wed 2am) (Also Sun 6:30pm) 9:00 OPB Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private 11 TUESDAY Investigators The Chameleon’s Dish. A troubled 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 12am) | teen suffers from premonitions. (Also Sun 2am) OPB+ Nature Equus: Story of the Horse: 10:00 OPB Inspector Morse The Dead of Chasing the Wind (Also Wed 4am) Jericho. Morse has a talent for solving 8:00 OPB Extra Life: A Short History of Living murders. (Also Sun 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour Watch OPB Longer Vaccines. See callout on page 2. & Company (Also Fri 5am) (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ Secret Life of Farm 11:00 OPB+ DW Global 3000 (Also Sat 2am) Animals (Also Thu 12am) live with the 11:30 OPB+ Articulate With Jim Cotter (Also 9:00 OPB Philly D.A. Ep 5. A murder spike has Sat 2:30am) fingers pointing at Krasner. (Also Thu 2am) PBS Video App | OPB+ Supernature: Wild Flyers Masters of the Sky (Also Thu 1am) 14 FRIDAY 10:00 OPB Frontline Plastic Wars. Did the 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am) | There are more ways than ever plastic industry use recycling to sell more OPB+ Going to War A revealing look at to watch OPB whenever and plastic? (Also Thu 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & soldiers in battle. (Also Sun 10am) Company (Also Wed 5am) wherever you want. 8:00 OPB Father Brown The Fall of the House of 11:00 OPB Pacific Heartbeat For My Father’s St. Gardner. A gossip columnist is murdered. Now you can tune in to OPB live Kingdom. See how contemporary secular (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ families deal with devout Christian tithing. (Also Sat 6am) when you download the PBS (Also Thu 4am) | OPB+ The Art Detectives (Also Thu 2am) 8:30 OPB+ Beyond the Canvas Taking the Stage Video App on one of these (Also Sun 1pm) steaming devices: 12 WEDNESDAY 9:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 7, Ep 8. Roku Nonnatus house gets an influx of patients. 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu 12am) | (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+ Finding Your Roots OPB+ Independent Lens Out of State. Native No Laughing Matter (Also Sun 1:30pm)  TV (4th generation Hawaiians discover indigenous traditions in 10:00 OPB No Second Chance Ep 5. New prison. (Also Thu 4am) and newer) players in the kidnapping are revealed. 8:00 OPB Greta Thunberg: A Year To Change (Also Mon 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Amazon Fire the World Ep 3. Thunberg investigates Company (Also Mon 5am) potential solutions to limit climate change. 11:00 OPB A Place To Call Home All That Android TV (R-Also Fri 1am) | OPB+ American Experience Glitters. Regina is released from the asylum. Mr. Tornado. Ted Fujita transformed our (Also Mon 4am) | OPB+ Frontline Plastic Wars Apple iPhones and iPads understanding of tornadoes. (Also Fri 12am) (R-Also Mon 2am)  9:00 OPB NOVA Fighting for Fertility. Explore Android mobile devices the barriers to fertility, from the social to the biological. (Also Fri 2am) | OPB+ The 15 SATURDAY Download the free PBS Video Registry See the hidden history of the U.S. 5:00 OPB This Old House Finish Work Begins App to livestream OPB today. Army’s Military Intelligence Service. (Also (Also Mon 6pm) | OPB+ Marathon George Fri 1am) Hirsch Lifestyle, continued (until 7pm) 10:00 OPB Human: The World Within Fuel. Go 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend deep inside the human gut. (Also Fri 3am) | Learn more at OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 5am) 6:00 OPB The Legacy List With Matt Paxton Viva La Downsizing/Richmond, VA opb.org/pbsapp 11:00 OPB Life From Above Colorful Planet. View Earth’s kaleidoscope of colors from 7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Stockholm/ space. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ Nothing Left To Helsinki and Tallinn: Baltic Sisters (Also Sun Lose The story of Vietnamese refugees who 9am) | OPB+ Lidia Celebrates America lived in hiding for 25 years. (Also Fri 2am) Return of the Artisans

4 MAY 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

8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries A Sunshine 9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Sagebrush State of Mind. A woman gets scammed. Symphony. Discover the story of the oldest SATURDAYS (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ Baseball The established youth orchestra in America. 6-10am OPB Kids Programs | OPB+ News, National Pastime (Also Sun 1:30am) (Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ Rick Steves Egypt: Politics & Business Yesterday & Today (Also Sun 7pm) 9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders Murder by Magic, 10am OPB Gardening | OPB+ Marathons Pts 1&2. Someone suffers a crushing fate. 9:30 OPB Oregon Experience Reub Long’s (until 7pm) Civilizations (5/1); Oregon Desert. Explore the many scenic Between the Covers (5/8); George 10:30 OPB The Forsyte Saga Ep 12. Irene tries wonders of Oregon’s high desert. (Also Hirsch Lifestyle (5/15); Moveable to thwart Jon and Fleur’s love affair. | OPB+ Wed 2:30am) Feast (5/22); Monrovia Indiana/City Independent Lens The Providers. In rural New Hall (5/29) Mexico, clinics offer care regardless of a 10:00 OPB American Experience Billy Graham. patient’s ability to pay. (Also Sun 12am) Graham was one of the most influential 11:00 OPB Sewing & Quilting Christian leaders of the 20th century. (Also 11:30 OPB On Story A Conversation With David Wed 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company 1pm OPB Cooking Benioff and D.B. Weiss (Also Tue 5am) 3pm OPB Motorweek 11:00 OPB+ AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural 16 SUNDAY Exchange Professional Black Girl (Also Wed 3:30 OPB Woodworking 2am) 5:00 OPB Firing Line With Margaret Hoover | 4:30 OPB Home Repair OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions Do the Right Thing 18 TUESDAY 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 12am) | SUNDAYS Rick Steves’ Europe France’s Dordogne OPB+ Nature Nature’s Biggest Beasts (Also 6-9am OPB Kids Programs | OPB+ Wed 4am) 6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat The Place Where You Lifestyles Persist (R) | OPB+ Confucius Was a Foodie (R) 8:00 OPB Extra Life: A Short History of Living 9am OPB Rick Steves’ Europe | OPB+ Longer Data. Data is used to improve public 6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Ship Report (R) Good Works (5/2); 10 Monuments health. (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ Secret Life That Changed America (5/9); 7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show of Farm Animals (Also Thu 12am) Pâtisserie (Also Sun 5/23 12am) | OPB+ Rick Space Chase (5/16); Across the Steves Iran 9:00 OPB Philly D.A. Ep 6. Philadelphia Pacific (5/23, 5/30) residents are fed up with the opioid crisis. 10am OPB Greta Thunberg (5/2, 5/9, 8:00 OPB Secrets of the Royal Servants (Also Thu 2am) | OPB+ Supernature: Wild 5/16); Life at the Waterhole (5/23, Experience Buckingham Palace through the Flyers Crowded Skies (Also Thu 1am) 5/30) | OPB+ Queen Elizabeth’s eyes of the servants. (Also Tue 1am) | Secret Agents (5/2); Memorial Day OPB+ American Masters . 10:00 OPB Frontline The Healthcare Divide. Programming (5/9, 5/16, 5/23, 5/30) Explore the groundbreaking career of the Examine the growing inequities in American master trumpeter. (Also Tue 12am) healthcare exposed by COVID-19. (Also 11am OPB NOVA | OPB+ Independent Thu 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company Lens Coded Bias (5/2); The Donut 9:00 OPB Masterpiece Atlantic Crossing: The (Also Wed 5am) King (5/30); American Masters Gift. A Nazi agent slips through the cracks. Amy Tan (5/9); American (Also Tue 2am) 11:00 OPB Pacific Heartbeat Stan. A young musician fights cancer. (Also Thu 4am) | Experience Mr. Tornado (5/16); 9:30 OPB+ American Masters Twyla Moves. OPB+ The Art Detectives (Also Thu 2am) Viral: Antisemitism (5/23) Follow the career and process of a modern Noon OPB International Jazz Day 2021 dance pioneer. (Also Tue 1:30am) 19 WEDNESDAY (5/2); Uncle 10:00 OPB Masterpiece World on Fire, Ep 7. Vanya (5/9); The Arts Interrupted Harry has a second chance at saving Kasia. 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu 12am) | (5/16); Inside the Met (5/23, 5/30) (Also Tue 3am) OPB+ The Three Rabbis In 1960s Portland, | OPB+ The Registry (5/16) three men led an old-world community 12:30 OPB+ Signing Black (5/2); Lost 11:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 5, Ep 1. through an era of change. (Also Thu 4am) The Poldarks look to a peaceful life. (Also Tue Art of Argument (5/23); Next Gen 4am) | OPB+ First Avenue: Closer to the 8:00 OPB Life at the Asian Art (5/30) Waterhole Ep 1. Meet the Stars Go inside a legendary Minneapolis 1pm OPB We Are Family: Songs of first animal visitors to a nightclub. Hope (5/16); One Voice: The manmade waterhole in Songs We Share (5/30) | OPB+ Africa. (Also Fri 1am) | Beyond the Canvas 17 MONDAY OPB+ Viral: Antisemitism in Four Mutations Examine the infectiousness 1:30 OPB+ Finding Your Roots 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Tue 12am) | of hate and violence. (Also Fri 12am) OPB+ A Wider World (Also Tue 4am) 2pm OPB We Knew What We Had (5/2); 9:00 OPB NOVA Hindenburg: The New Evidence. Great Performances Havana 7:30 OPB+ Museum Access National Law Examine new film footage of the Hindenburg (5/16); Chicago Voices (5/23); John Enforcement Museum: Washington, DC (Also disaster. (Also Fri 2am) Leguizamo (5/30) Tue 4:30am) 9:30 OPB+ The Lost Art of Argument An 2:30 OPB On Story (5/9) | OPB+ Seat at 8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow (Also Wed ensemble at the University of Oregon the Table 1am) | OPB+ Great Yellowstone Thaw Ep 3. examine what a good argument can do. Soaring temperatures bring wildfires. (Also 3pm OPB News & Public Affairs (until (Also Fri 1:30am) Sun 6pm) 6pm) | OPB+ Nature & Wildlife APRIL MAY 20212019 5 primetime

10:00 OPB Human: The World Within Defend. Mon 4am) | OPB+ Frontline The Healthcare Wildly advanced biology keeps us alive. Divide (R-Also Mon 2am) (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 5am) 22 SATURDAY 11:00 OPB Life From Above Patterned Planet. 5:00 OPB This Old House Roof University See the wonderful shapes that cover Earth’s (Also Mon 6pm) | OPB+ Marathon Moveable surface. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ Spiritual Feast With Fine Cooking, continued (until 7pm) Logan Industry Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend Independent Lens 6:00 OPB The Legacy List With Matt Paxton The Donut King 20 THURSDAY You Gotta Have Art/Coventry, CT Follow the journey of Cambodian 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am) | 7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Galicia and the refugee Ted Ngoy, who arrived in OPB+ Across the Pacific Airborne (Also Fri Camino de Santiago/Basque Country (Also 4am) Sun 9am) | OPB+ Lidia Celebrates America California in the 1970s and, through A Salute to First Responders a mixture of diligence and luck, built 8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Finding the Flow. a multi-million dollar donut empire Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe wants his colorful, 8:00 OPB Masterpiece Mrs. Wilson, Ep 1. When life-sized portraits to make you stop whatever a spy novelist dies, his widow finds a mystery. up and down the West Coast. you’re doing. (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ Baseball The Capital Monday, May 24, 11pm Frozen Obsession Witness the dramatically of Baseball (Also Sun 1:30am) OPB changing Arctic. (Also Sat 12am) 9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders The Ballad of 8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Tribal Land Midsomer County, Pts 1&2. A folk ballad may Transfer. A small parcel of ancestral land is have inspired a murder. returned to the Clatsop-Nehalem people. (Also Tue 4am) | OPB+ Artbound That Far 10:30 OPB The Forsyte Saga Ep 13. Fleur (Also Sun 6:30pm) Corner: Frank Lloyd Wright in Los Angeles decides who to marry. | OPB+ Independent 9:00 OPB Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Lens Charm City. Baltimore copes with the Investigators The Rascal Cook. Frank and Lu consequences of violence. (Also Sun 12am) 24 MONDAY investigate culinary sabotage. (Also Sun 2am) 11:30 OPB On Story On Writing To All the Boys 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour | OPB+ A Wider | OPB+ Extinction: The Facts David I’ve Loved Before World (Also Tue 4am) Attenborough explores the extinction crisis. (Also Sat 1am) 7:30 OPB+ Museum Access The AKC Museum of the Dog: New York, NY (Also Tue 4:30am) 10:00 OPB Inspector Morse The Silent World of 23 SUNDAY Nicholas Quinn. Morse investigates a college 5:00 OPB Firing Line With Margaret Hoover | 8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow (Also Wed official’s death. (Also Sun 3am) | OPB+ OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions Kansas 1am) | OPB+ The Queen’s Garden Peek Amanpour & Company (Also Fri 5am) City, Pt 2 inside the garden at Buckingham Palace. (Also Sun 6pm) 11:00 OPB+ DW Global 3000 (Also Sat 2am) 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Rick Steves’ Europe Barcelona and Catalunya 9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Logger’s 11:30 OPB+ Articulate With Jim Cotter (Also Daughter. An African American woman Sat 2:30am) 6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Finding the Flow (R) | born and raised in eastern Oregon sets out OPB+ Confucius Was a Foodie (R) to explore her family’s past. (Also Wed | 21 FRIDAY 6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Tribal Land 2am) OPB+ Rick Steves Luther and the Transfer (R) Reformation (Also Sun 7pm) 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am) | OPB+ Soldier On: Life After Deployment 7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show 9:30 OPB Oregon Experience Massacre at Hells (Also Sun 10am) The Final (Also Sun 5/30 12am) | OPB+ Rick Canyon. In the 1880s, as many as 34 Chinese Steves Egypt: Yesterday & Today (R) miners were murdered at Hells Canyon. 8:00 OPB Father Brown The Tower of Lost Souls. (Also Wed 2:30am) Father Brown uncovers a dark secret. (Also 8:00 OPB Queen at War Follow Queen Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Elizabeth’s experiences during World War II. 10:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Ca’ d’Zan, Hr 1 | Sat 6am) (Also Tue 1am) | OPB+ American Experience (Also Wed 3am) OPB+ Amanpour & American Oz. Meet the man behind ‘The Company (Also Tue 5am) 8:30 OPB+ Beyond the Canvas Happiness (Also Wonderful Wizard of Oz.’ (Also Tue 12am) Sun 1pm) 11:00 OPB Independent Lens The Donut King. 9:00 OPB Masterpiece Atlantic Crossing: A See callout on this page. (Also Wed 8pm 9:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 8, Ep 1. | Queen Returns. Olav tries to keep Norway out OPB+) OPB+ AfroPop: The Ultimate Nonnatus welcomes two new nuns. (Also of the clutches of the Soviets. (Also Tue 2am) Cultural Exchange Film Shorts (Also Wed Mon 2am) | OPB+ Finding Your Roots Hard 2am) Times (Also Sun 1:30pm) 10:00 OPB The Windermere Children: In Their Own Words In 1945, a group of young Jewish 10:00 OPB No Second Chance Ep 6. Alice refugees began new lives in England’s Lake 25 TUESDAY closes in on the truth. (Also Mon 3am) | District. (Also Tue 3am) | OPB+ Inside the OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Mon 5am) 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 12am) | Met The Birthday Surprise (Also Tue 2am) OPB+ Nature Bears (Also Wed 4am) 11:00 OPB A Place To Call Home The Edge of 11:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 5, Ep 2. Reason. Regina returns to her farm. (Also 8:00 OPB Extra Life: A Short History of Living George pursues the fruits of a new alliance. Longer Medicine. Explore the invention of

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(Also 28 FRIDAY Monaco, Vatican City, Liechtenstein, and Thu 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am) | Andorra (Also Wed 5am) OPB+ Remembering Vietnam: The Telling Project (Also Sun 10am) 6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Earth Archive (R) | 11:00 OPB Pacific Heartbeat Tokyo Hula. OPB+ The Queen’s Garden (R) Follow hula dancing in Japan. (Also Thu 8:00 OPB The Woman in White Ep 1. A young 4am) | OPB+ Speaking Grief Learn why grief man encounters an asylum escapee. (Also 6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Mudbone Grown can be so difficult to explain. (Also Thu 2am) Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also (R) Sat 6am) 7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show 26 WEDNESDAY 8:30 OPB+ Beyond the Canvas (Also Sun 1pm) Cakes (Also Sun 12am) | OPB+ Rick Steves Luther and the Reformation (R) 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu 12am) | 9:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 8, Ep 2. The OPB+ Never Give Up! 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Mon 12am) | OPB+ Baseball A Whole New Ball 2am) | OPB+ Rick Steves Cruising the Jim Fitzgerald builds his own cameras Game (Also Sun 2am) Mediterranean and creates carbon transfer photographs of 9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders A Vintage Murder, 9:30 OPB Oregon Experience Road to . (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ American Pts 1&2. People are poisoned at a winery. Statehood. Learn how Oregon became the Experience The Swamp. Follow the story of 33rd state. (Also Wed 2:30am) Florida’s Everglades. (Also Sat 12am) 10:00 OPB+ POV The Rescue List. Two children, rescued from enslavement, embark on a 10:00 OPB Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten 8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Mudbone Grown. mission. (Also Sun 12am) A community comes to terms with its past, Shantae Johnson and Arthur Shavers are present and future. (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ rewriting what it means to be a Black farmer 10:30 OPB Hillary Standing Tall. Follow the early Amanpour & Company in Oregon. 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