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1 TUESDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour Get in-depth analyses of current events. NC BBC World News America Katty Kay shares unique global perspectives. EX Confucius Was a Foodie Sichuan 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report See how animals adapt to city life on the premiere of Wild Metropolis Seasoned reporters Residents, Wednesday, October 2, at 10 PM, on UNC-TV. review financial news. 7:00 TV Nightly 10:00 NC Articulate 7:30 TV Muse Business Report with Jim Cotter Cultural History: Center NC PBS NewsHour The Wildest Dreamers for Craft/Chitlin’ Circuit EX Rick Steves’ Europe EX Family Pictures USA EX Born To Explore Iran: Tehran & Side Trips Southwest Florida Native with Richard Wiese 7:30 TV North Carolina Americans, ranchers and India: Incredible Land Weekend fishermen share stories. Deborah Holt Noel shows 10:30 NC On Story what’s up this weekend. The Original Disney EX Travelscope Princess: A Conversation Northern Ethiopia: Ancient with Linda Woolverton History & Spiritual Present 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company DV The acclaimed journalist 8:00 TV Secrets of the Dead and top peers explore Scanning the Pyramids today’s topics. Explore what lies within the NC PBS NewsHour Great Pyramid at Giza. EX Travelscope NC North Carolina Eastern Europe’s Treasures: Bookwatch From Budapest to Judy Goldman: Together Bucharest DV EX Family Pictures USA 11:30 EX In the Americas North Carolina Photos, with David Yetman and their backstories, Ice, Rock & Water: Connect with one of our smartest show how our state is The Sierra Nevada creatures on Nature Octopus: rapidly changing. Making Contact, Wednesday, 8:30 NC Story in the 2 WEDNESDAY October 2, at 8 PM, on UNC-TV. Public Square Lisa Genova 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour 8:00 TV Nature NC BBC World News Octopus: Making Contact DV America NC Independent Lens EX Queen’s Garden Tell Them We Are Rising Explore Central London’s Explore the pivotal role “royal wildlife” and historically black colleges remarkable plants. and universities have 6:30 NC Nightly played in America. DV Business Report EX Chefs A’ Field: 7:00 TV Nightly Good Catch Business Report Beautiful Swimmers Featur- FRONTLINE The Crown Prince of NC PBS NewsHour ing Chef Spike Gjerde Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, October 1, at EX Rick Steves’ Europe 8:30 EX Pati’s Mexican Table 9 PM, on UNC-TV. Iran’s Historic Capitals Season Premiere! A Local’s Tour of Culiacán 9:00 TV FRONTLINE 9:00 TV NOVA The Crown Prince Learn Inside the Megafire Probe about controversial the rise of record-breaking Mohammed bin Salman. fires across the U.S. West. NC Sci NC EX Kevin Belton’s Season Premiere! Animal New Orleans Celebrations Habitat/Conservation Burger Fest EX Family Pictures USA 9:30 NC Black Issues Forum Detroit Explore America’s Special Presentation: comeback city through resi- HBCU Legacy & Leadership dents’ photos and stories. Stanley Nelson discusses 9:30 NC Comic Culture The NC Zoo works to save gopher his documentary Tell Them Scott Hanna frogs on a new Sci NC, Tuesday, We Are Rising. October 1, at 9 PM, on the North EX Taste of History Carolina Channel. Best of Jamaica 4 | October visit unctv.org
10:30 NC Sci NC Animal Habitat/ Conservation EX Travelogue China The Goddess of the Sea 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC PBS NewsHour EX Travelscope South Korea: A Winter Journey DV 11:30 EX In the Americas with David Yetman Fiesta in the Yucatan: Maya Traditions Our state’s songwriters get their due as Steep Canyon Rangers: North Carolina Songbook premieres Thursday, October 3, at 10 PM, on UNC-TV. 4 FRIDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour 10:00 TV Wild Metropolis NC Flavor, NC NC BBC World News Residents Maple View Dairy/Panciutto America EX Confucius EX Travelscope EX Taste of History Cruising Canada: Was a Foodie 300 Years of Service Sweet Ottawa & the Rideau Canal 6:30 NC Nightly 10:30 NC A Colored School 8:20 TV My Home, NC—Shorts Business Report Second Ward High School Mitchell’s Clothing EX Kevin Belton’s alumni share stories about 8:30 TV Sci NC New Orleans Celebrations Charlotte’s first public high Animal Habitat/ Burger Fest school for Black students. Conservation 7:00 TV Nightly 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC Around Business Report NC PBS NewsHour the Farm Table NC PBS NewsHour EX Nature Ploughman’s Lunch EX Rick Steves’ Europe Living Volcanoes DV EX Burt Wolf: Rome: Baroque Brilliance Travels & Traditions 7:30 TV NC SPIN History of Chocolate, Part 1 3 THURSDAY Join Tom Campbell and 9:00 TV North Carolina his guests for informative, 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour Weekend balanced debate. NC BBC World News 17th Season Premiere! EX Travelscope America NC A Chef’s Life Sechseläuten: Switzerland’s EX New Scandinavian Love Me Some Spring Festival DV Cooking Candied Yams! 8:00 TV Washington Week Land of Fish & Apples EX Weekends Leading journalists analyze 6:30 NC Nightly with Yankee major news and events. Business Report The End of the Line NC North Carolina EX Christopher Kimball’s 9:20 TV Sci NC—Shorts Weekend Milk Street Television Memory Loss & Dancing EX Poldark Season 4 Baking in Paris 9:30 TV In Studio: on Masterpiece 7:00 TV Nightly Country Music Episode 3 Ross makes a Business Report Rissi Palmer speech in Parliament. NC PBS NewsHour NC Bringing It Home 8:20 NC Sci NC—Shorts EX Rick Steves’ Europe with Laura McIntosh South Mountains Fire Rome: Ancient Glory Garlic 8:30 TV FRONT ROW 7:30 TV Exploring EX Wild Nevada with Marc Rotterman North Carolina Season Premiere! The political analyst and On the Border Alamo to Caliente his guests discuss public EX Travelscope 10:00 TV Steep Canyon Rangers: affairs and policy issues. Land Without Limits: The North Carolina Songbook NC ncIMPACT Cariboo-Chilcotin Coast DV P remiere! The Grammy- Adverse Childhood 8:00 TV ncIMPACT winners pay tribute to other Experiences (ACEs): Adverse Childhood NC songwriting greats Cumberland County Experiences (ACEs): in a rousing concert at 9:00 TV Great Performances: Cumberland County the NC Museum of Art. Now Hear This NC North Carolina Scarlatti: Man Out of Time Weekend See how the composer EX Journeys in India generated a new sound Great Caves of inspired by the guitar. Ajanta & Ellora NC FRONT ROW 10:20 NC Sci NC—Shorts with Marc Rotterman Memory Loss & Dancing EX Jamestown An eclipse darkens the sky Give a hand to Deborah Holt Noel on the 17th season premiere of North and ghostly happenings Carolina Weekend, Thursday, reveal the Catholic spy and October 3, at 9 PM, on UNC-TV! Samuel’s true murderer.
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9:30 NC Washington Week EX Rudy Maxa’s World 10:00 TV Voces on PBS Turkey’s Turquoise Coast Porvenir, Texas Get the 12:30 TV America’s Heartland true story of a 1918 mas- All About Olive Oil sacre of 15 Mexican men NC Almanac Gardener in this tiny border town. Blooming of Rare Plants NC NC SPIN EX In the Americas EX Atlantis with David Yetman The Price of Hope In the Mouth of the Amazon 10:30 NC Firing Line with 1:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Margaret Hoover Voces on PBS explore a mass murder Salt Lake City, Part 3 Bright minds and fresh in Porvenir, Texas, Friday, October 4, NC Exploring voices debate important at 10 PM, on UNC-TV. North Carolina challenges. First Lost Colony 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company NC ncIMPACT EX New Play Piano NC PBS NewsHour Adverse Childhood in a Flash: EX EastEnders Experiences (ACEs): 3 Steps to Piano Success 11:30 EX EastEnders Cumberland County Scott “The Piano Guy” 9:50 NC North Carolina Houston inspires begin- Weekend—Shorts 5 SATURDAY ners to enjoy happy Mustang Museum music-making. 6 AM TV Mister Rogers’ 10:00 TV North Carolina 1:30 NC Earth Focus Neighborhood DV Weekend Sea Level Rising: NC Biographical NC My Home, NC Living with Water Conversations with Corral Riding/Historic Net 2:00 TV Rick Steves’ Europe Wendell Murphy Fishing/Mountain Love Story Greek Islands: Santorini, Part 3 of 3 EX New Scandinavian Mykonos & Rhodes DV EX Carolina Cooking NC First in Future Outdoor Journal The Taste of Trees Leslie Boney of the Blue Water Adventure 10:20 TV Sci NC—Shorts Institute for Emerging 6:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s South Mountains Fire Issues engages leaders in Neighborhood DV NC Sci NC—Shorts topics affecting our state. EX Expeditions with Lessons from 2:30 TV Curious Traveler Patrick McMillan Hurricane Florence Curious Copenhagen Belize: The Mayan Forest 10:30 TV ncIMPACT NC Story in the 7:00 TV Sesame Street DV Adverse Childhood Public Square NC Carolina Experiences (ACEs): Lisa Genova Outdoor Journal Cumberland County 3:00 TV Craftsman’s Legacy Blue Water Adventure NC Folkways The Still Maker EX Exploring The Fiddle NC To the Contrary North Carolina EX Jamie’s with Bonnie Erbé Man & Mammoth Quick & Easy Food National TV’s only women- in the Carolinas Scallops/Steak/Pastry Puff centered news analysis 7:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s 10:50 TV My Home, NC—Shorts show tackles hot topics. Neighborhood DV Mitchell’s Hardware EX 3 Steps to NC Almanac Gardener 11:00 TV Growing a Incredible Health! Blooming of Rare Plants Greener World with Joel Fuhrman, MD EX Burt Wolf: Modern Homesteading: Dr. Fuhrman offers a plan Travels & Traditions Transforming the Urban for shedding weight fast. Gone Fishing: Experience One Garden 3:30 TV American Woodshop Palm Beach, Part 1 at a Time Custom Wood Keeps 8:00 TV Pinkalicious NC Woodwright’s Shop NC Firing Line with & Peterrific DV with Roy Underhill Margaret Hoover NC Exploring Corner Cupboard, Part 2 4:00 TV This Old House Hour EX Taste of History North Carolina S eason Premiere! Westerly: First Lost Colony German Born, A Ranch Out Westerly/ EX Animal Babies: American Made Barn Door/Drywell First Year on Earth 11:30 TV P. Allen Smith’s NC FRONT ROW Testing Limits Garden Home with Marc Rotterman 8:30 TV Molly of Denali DV Down & Dirty 4:30 NC NC SPIN NC Sci NC NC Craftsman’s Legacy 5:00 TV Carolina Animal Habitat/ The Still Maker Outdoor Journal Conservation EX Taste of Malaysia Marsh Trout 9:00 TV Let’s Go Luna! DV with Martin Yan NC PBS NewsHour NC North Carolina Cultural Confluence Weekend Weekend of Peranakan Gain insights about EX Animal Babies Noon TV GardenSMART the week’s issues. Water Babies Expertise EX Forever Painless with 9:20 NC Sci NC—Shorts NC Growing a Miranda Esmonde-White Bug Museum Greener World Get an eye-opening 9:30 TV Nature Cat Mason Bee Revolution: education about chronic How the Hardest pain and its causes. Working Bee 6 | October visit unctv.org
5:30 TV PBS NewsHour 6:30 TV Wild Kratts EX Travelscope Weekend NC Education Matters The Cook Islands: NC Washington Week Learn about key issues Cultural Paradise DV 6 PM TV Song of the Mountains affecting education in NC. 12:30 TV NC SPIN The Nouveaux Honkies/ 7:00 TV Ready Jet Go! DV NC Fishing Tennessee Mafia Jug Band NC First in Future Behind the Lines NC Classic Gospel Mebane Rash Justin Walts: Semper Fidelis Atlanta Homecoming EX Antiques Roadshow EX Burt Wolf: EX The Big Band Years Palm Springs, Part 1 Travels & Traditions Nick Clooney and Peter 7:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s Great Art Undiscovered Marshall host this nostalgic Neighborhood DV 1:00 TV Christopher Kimball’s look at the stars and hits NC ncIMPACT Milk Street Television of the 1930s and ‘40s. Volunteer Firefighter Baking in Paris 7:00 TV As Time Goes By Shortage: Orange County NC Song of the Mountains You Must Remember This 8:00 TV Curious George DV The Dillards with Part 1 NC Carolina Business Charlene Darling & NC Sun Studio Sessions Review The Mayberry Deputy Chuck Mead & Chris William and his EX Food: What His Grassy Knoll Boys guests discuss business the Heck Do I Eat? 7:30 NC Echo Sessions news in the Carolinas. with Mark Hyman, MD Connect Beyond the Page EX Family Pictures USA Dr. Hyman reveals which Festival Performances North Carolina Photos, foods nurture our health TV As Time Goes By and their backstories, and which foods threaten it. You Must Remember This show how our state is 1:30 TV Ellie’s Part 2 rapidly changing. Real Good Food 8:00 TV Midsomer Murders 8:30 TV Wild Kratts Office Food Overhaul The Sicilian Defence, Part 1 NC Firing Line with 2:00 TV America’s NC Song of the Mountains Margaret Hoover Test Kitchen from The Dillards with 9:00 TV This Old House Hour Cook’s Illustrated Charlene Darling & Westerly: A Ranch Out Chicken & Biscuits The Mayberry Deputy Westerly/Barn Door/ NC Front & Center EX The Beatles: Drywell lovelytheband Eight Days a Week: NC Washington Week 2:30 TV Cook’s Country The Touring Years EX Family Pictures USA Aloha State Favorites Explore the history of the Detroit Explore America’s 3:00 TV Sara’s Fab Four from their early comeback city through resi- Weeknight Meals days in Liverpool to their dents’ photos and stories. S eason Premiere! Havana last concert in 1966. 9:30 NC FRONT ROW Weeknights 9:00 TV Midsomer Murders with Marc Rotterman NC Infinity Hall Live The Sicilian Defence, Part 2 10:00 TV Exploring Dave Mason NC Front & Center North Carolina EX The Beatles: lovelytheband On the Border Eight Days a Week: 10:00 TV Father Brown NC NC SPIN The Touring Years The Darkest Noon EX Family Pictures USA Explore the history of the NC Infinity Hall Live Southwest Florida Native Fab Four from their early Dave Mason Americans, ranchers and days in Liverpool to their 10:30 EX ADD & Loving It?! fishermen share stories. last concert in 1966. Patrick McKenna talks to 10:30 TV Sci NC 3:30 TV Lidia’s Kitchen researchers and ordinary Animal Habitat/Conservation Childhood Cravings people dealing with NC North Carolina 4:00 TV Kevin Belton’s Attention Deficit Disorder. Bookwatch New Orleans Celebrations 10:50 TV Muse—Shorts Malinda Maynor Lowery: Bastille Day Fete Mr. June Paints the Dome The Lumbee NC Austin City Limits 11:00 TV Hinterland 11:00 TV North Carolina Gary Clark Jr. A tragic story of love and Bookwatch 4:30 TV Mexico— loss is revealed following Judy Goldman: Together One Plate at a Time the murder of a local NC Comic Culture with Rick Bayless dignitary and barrister. Paul Kupperberg Chocolate & Churros: NC Austin City Limits EX Dream of Italy Breakfast of Champions Gary Clark Jr. Tuscany 5:00 TV Washington Week 11:30 TV Black Issues Forum NC PBS NewsHour 6 SUNDAY Visit unctv.org/bif. Weekend NC Story in the 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour 6 AM TV Nature Cat Public Square Weekend NC Closer to Truth Adam Zyglis NC ncIMPACT What’s Philosophy of EX Dream of Italy Adverse Childhood Cosmology? Rome Experiences (ACEs): EX Finding Your Roots Noon TV FRONT ROW Cumberland County The Vanguard with with Marc Rotterman EX Classical Rewind Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ava NC Carolina Explore the lives of DuVernay & Janet Mock DV Outdoor Journal the greatest compos- Marsh Trout ers of all time and the origins of their work. October | 7 evening&weekendlistings
5:50 NC North Carolina Weekend—Shorts Muddy Creek Café 6 PM TV Midsomer Murders The Sicilian Defence, Part 1 NC Black Issues Forum Visit unctv.org/bif. 6:30 NC Blackademics Television Tyson/Gilbarg 7:00 TV Midsomer Murders The Sicilian Defence, Part 2 NC Family Pictures USA Detroit Explore America’s comeback city through resi- dents’ photos and stories EX Carpenters: Close to You Trace the supergroup’s ca- Follow London’s turbulent media landscape as Press on Masterpiece reer through such enduring premieres Sunday, October 6, at 10 PM, on UNC-TV. hits as Close to You, Top of the World and more. EX Rolling Stones: 6:30 NC Nightly 7:50 TV ncIMPACT—Shorts Sticky Fingers at the Business Report Haywood County Fonda Theatre 7:00 TV Nightly 8:00 TV Durrells in Corfu Catch the only live Business Report Season 4 on Masterpiece performance of the NC PBS NewsHour Episode 2 An encounter legendary band’s entire EX Rick Steves’ Europe with Daphne leaves Leslie Sticky Fingers album. Rome: Backstreet Riches pondering fatherhood. 10:30 NC Piedmont Blues 7:30 TV A Chef’s Life Margo moves in with Theo. Discover NC’s unique Pickle Perfect NC Mighty Fine Memory musical subgenre. EX Family Travel Western NC fiddler Roger 11:00 NC ncIMPACT with Colleen Kelly Howell is a cultural treasure Adverse Childhood Mendocino County, CA: recognized for his musical Experiences (ACEs): Skunk Trains, Goats skill, generosity as a teacher Cumberland County 8:00 TV Antiques Roadshow and prodigious memory. TV EastEnders The Gen X Years 8:30 NC This Train Is Running: 11:20 NC My Home, NC—Shorts NC Exploring Lakota John Chatham Rabbits North Carolina Catch NC’s up-and-coming 11:30 NC My Home, NC Climate Changes singer and guitar virtuoso. Courage of Chris Rosati/ in the Carolinas EX Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: Salem St. Drum Co./ EX Masterpiece Mystery! 50 Years & Circlin’ Back Highland Brewing Co./ Grantchester Celebrate the ground- Hospital to Home/Villa Verde Part 1 Rev. Sidney Cham- breaking band’s musical TV EastEnders bers suspects a suicide is milestones and hits with actually murder and must Vince Gill, Jackson Browne 7 MONDAY get police help. DV and more stars. 8:30 NC Exploring 9:00 TV Poldark Season 5 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour North Carolina on Masterpiece NC BBC World News Natural Symbols Episode 2 Demelza and America of the State the children are caught EX Family Pictures USA 9:00 TV Retro Report on PBS in a dangerous web. Southwest Florida Native Series Premiere! Episode 1: NC Malpass Brothers: Americans, ranchers and Social Media’s Addictive Heading Home fishermen share stories. Power/How Wall Two Goldsboro brothers Street Women Fought follow their passion for Harassment preserving old-time music, NC My Home, NC while balancing hometown Chatham Rabbits/ humility and music fame. Mitchell’s Clothing/Artivist 10:00 TV Press on Masterpiece Rosalía Torres-Wiener P remiere! Death Knock EX Death in Paradise Holly, deputy news editor Dark Memories of the Herald, tries to 9:20 NC Sci NC—Shorts obtain CCTV footage of a Horseshoe Crab Blood fatal hit-and-run. 9:30 NC Muse NC Live from the Music Heritage & Double Door Inn Education: Steep Canyon For 43 years, music legends Rangers/Start of Cool performed in this converted Summer Camp/We Insist: Music of Max Roach house in Charlotte. See how Wall Street women fought harassment on the series premiere 9:50 NC North Carolina of Retro Report on PBS, Monday, Weekend—Shorts October 7, at 9 PM, on UNC-TV. Conrad & Hinkle 8 | October visit unctv.org
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NC Flavor, NC 10:30 NC Firing Line with Seaview Crab Company/ Margaret Hoover Port Land Grille 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company EX Travelscope NC PBS NewsHour Hong Kong: EX EastEnders Asia’s World City DV 11:30 EX EastEnders 8:30 TV Sci NC Food Innovations 26 SATURDAY NC Around the Farm Table 6 AM TV Mister Rogers’ Hold Your Horses Neighborhood EX Burt Wolf: Explore the new season of Jamestown, NC Biographical Travels & Traditions premiering Friday, October 25, at 9 PM, Conversations with Great Art Undiscovered on the Explorer Channel. Bob Timberlake 9:00 TV North Carolina Part 3 of 3 Weekend EX Taste of History EX Carolina NC A Chef’s Life Cajun Cuisine of the Outdoor Journal Have Yourself Some Acadians Early Bass Moonshine 6:30 NC Nightly 6:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s EX Weekends Business Report Neighborhood DV with Yankee EX Kevin Belton’s EX Expeditions with Trade New Orleans Celebrations Patrick McMillan 9:20 TV Sci NC—Shorts BBQ Fest The Quest for the Preventing ACL Injuries 7:00 TV Nightly Ivorybill Woodpecker 9:30 TV Sci NC Business Report 7:00 TV Sesame Street Cackalack-ology NC PBS NewsHour Sesame Friendship DV NC Bringing It Home EX Rick Steves’ Europe NC Carolina with Laura McIntosh France’s Loire: Outdoor Journal Artichokes Chateau Country Early Bass EX Wild Nevada 7:30 TV NC SPIN EX Exploring Leaving Las Vegas EX Travelscope North Carolina 10:00 TV Focus on the Future: Nicaragua: Culturally Rich Colors of the Earth Innovations at NC’s & Naturally Beautiful DV 7:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s TV Historically Minority 8:00 Washington Week Neighborhood DV Serving Institutions NC North Carolina NC Almanac Gardener Interim UNC System Weekend Growing Organic NC President Dr. William Roper, EX Poldark Season 4 Strawberries/Culinary Herbs members of UNC’s Board on Masterpiece EX Burt Wolf: of Governors and chancel- Episode 6 George finds Travels & Traditions lors at UNC’s Historically a way to ruin a business A History of Chocolate, Minority-Serving Institu- rival—and the Poldarks. Part 2 tions discuss their schools’ 8:20 NC Sci NC—Shorts 8:00 TV Pinkalicious Spot a Shark affordability, partnerships, & PeterrificDV innovation, academic 8:30 TV FRONT ROW NC Exploring excellence and access. with Marc Rotterman North Carolina NC North Carolina NC ncIMPACT Changing Sands Weekend Renewable Energy: EX Animals with Cameras: EX Journeys in India Pasquotank/Perquimans/ A Nature Miniseries Jaisalmer: India’s Gates Counties Chilean Devil Rays, Hidden Gem 9:00 TV Rothko: Azores/Brown Bears’ 10:20 NC Sci NC—Shorts American Masters Diets, Turkey DV Mark Rothko’s luminous Preventing ACL Injuries 8:30 TV Molly of Denali DV 10:30 NC Sci NC color field paintings helped NC Sci NC Food Innovations define the abstract expres- Food Innovations sionist movement. DV EX Travelogue China 9:00 TV Let’s Go Luna! DV New Year with the NC FRONT ROW NC North Carolina Miao People with Marc Rotterman Weekend 11:00 TV Amanpour & Company EX Jamestown EX Spy in the Wild: NC PBS NewsHour Banished Silas is de- A Nature Miniseries voted to his life with the EX Travelscope Love DV France: Following the Pamunkey, forcing Alice 9:20 NC Sci NC—Shorts to make a decision. Rhone DV New Approach to 11:30 EX In the Americas 9:30 NC Washington Week Bee Health with David Yetman 10:00 TV Songwriting 9:30 TV Nature Cat Bahian Reconcavo of Brazil: with Soldiers NC ncIMPACT Quilombos, Candomblé, Professional artists work Renewable Energy: with veterans to tell their Pasquotank/Perquimans/ stories of war and return 25 FRIDAY Gates Counties home through song. 9:50 NC North Carolina 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour NC NC SPIN Weekend—Shorts NC BBC World News EX Atlantis Pittsboro Folk Art America Touched by the Gods, Part 2 October | 19 evening&weekendlistings
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