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wttw wttw Prime wttw Create wttw World wttw PBS Kids wttw.com THE GUIDE 98.7wfmt The Member Magazine wfmt.com for WTTW and WFMT APRIL 5-7 | 8 PM April 2021 ALSO INSIDE On WFMT, on the Saturday morning before the premiere of Hemingway on WTTW, listen to Soundtrack – featuring the film’s original music score produced by Burns/Novick collaborator and award-winning producer and violinist Johnny Gandelsman. From the President & CEO The Guide The Member Magazine Dear Member, for WTTW and WFMT This April, we’re excited to bring you a new film from Ken Burns, who will uncover Renée Crown Public Media Center the man behind the myth of one of America’s greatest and most complicated writers. 5400 North Saint Louis Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60625 Over three consecutive nights, Burns tells the story, as only he can, of Ernest Hemingway’s life and work and his Main Switchboard enduring influence on literature and culture. On page 4, (773) 583-5000 read how Hemingway’s childhood in Oak Park influenced Member and Viewer Services (773) 509-1111 x 6 the rest of his life, and visit wttw.com/hemingwayevent to watch our virtual discussion with Ken moderated by Websites WTTW’s Chicago Tonight co-anchor Paris Schutz. wttw.com wfmt.com April also brings Earth Day, and WTTW will present The Power of Us: Confronting Our Climate Crisis, a Publisher documentary that follows a local couple educating youth Anne Gleason about climate change; Frozen Obsession, a profile of a Art Director Tom Peth research expedition to the Canadian Arctic Archipelago; The West is Burning,an WTTW Contributors exploration of the root causes of the California wildfires; Troubled Waters: A Turtle’s Julia Maish Lisa Tipton Tale, a look at people who rehabilitate sick sea turtles; and a three-part documentary WFMT Contributors on the crusading teen climate activist and three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee Andrea Lamoreaux Greta Thunberg. On wttw.com, learn about “zero-waste” lifestyles and composting in Chicago with tips on how to compost at home. Advertising and Underwriting WTTW WFMT will mark Earth Day with a San Francisco Symphony program featuring Nathan Armstrong Losing Earth, a concerto for percussion and orchestra by the contemporary American (773) 509-5415 composer Adam Schoenberg, a work evoking the effects of climate change in musical WFMT terms; and a special episode of With Heart and Voice that will celebrate the beauty Alexander Stonor Saunders (773) 509-5357 and wonder of the natural world through music. On wfmt.com, listen to our playlist of contemporary classical music inspired by the earth and environmentalism, and The Guide: The Member Magazine discover a compendium of easy, eco-friendly solutions to help musicians stay green. for WTTW and WFMT (ISSN 2329-1338) Thank you for watching and listening as spring continues in the Chicago area! April 2021 Volume 35, Number 274 Sincerely, The Guide: The Member Magazine Sandra Cordova Micek for WTTW and WFMT is published monthly (for contributors of $40 or more annually) by President & CEO Window To The World Communications, Inc., 5400 North Saint Louis Ave., Chicago, IL 60625-4698. Periodical postage paid at Chicago, IL and additional mailing offices. Inside the Guide POSTMASTER: Send address 3 WTTW Listings 14 Multi-Channel Primetime Grid changes to The Guide: The Member Magazine for WTTW and WFMT, 4 Ernest Hemingway’s Youth in 16 Do it Yourself Saturdays 5400 North Saint Louis Ave., Oak Park and Chicago 19 At-a-Glance Chicago, IL 60625-4698. Copyright 2020, Window To The World 6 WTTW Digital Channel Highlights 20 WFMT Listings Communications, Inc., Chicago, IL. 8 WTTW Kid Grid 31 Sponsors ON THE COVER: Ernest Hemingway at his home in Cuba, circa 1950s. Courtesy of A.E. Hotchner. 2 APRIL 2021 Programming Subject to Change Without Notice Daily Television Programming • Programmer’s Picks on WTTW11 Diana, 7 Days Philly D.A. Frontline: The Virus This landmark documentary tells the inside Radical civil rights attorney Larry Krasner leads that Shook the World story of the tumultuous and unprecedented week a band of activists attempting to end mass This film, using personal video and local footage that followed the death of Diana, Princess of incarceration by taking over the district attorney’s from around the world, chronicles COVID-19 from Wales, exploring how she came to have such an office. When Krasner wins the election, a novel lockdowns to funerals to protests, revealing the extraordinary effect on the nation and criminal justice experiment unfolds. Can outsiders differing struggles, beliefs, and responses across people around the world. reform a system from within? cultures, races, faiths, and privilege. Thursday, April 15, 8:00 pm Tuesday, April 20, 9:00 pm Monday, April 26, 9:00 pm See page 6 for information about WTTW Prime listings. MORNING-AFTERNOON 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 9:00 Baby Makes 3: Run for the 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids Roses This home improve- In the Spotlight MORNING-AFTERNOON ment series hosted by Melissa EVENING 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids Lozoff focuses exclusively 6:00 PBS NewsHour on creating nurseries for 7:00 Chicago Tonight EVENING first-time parents-to-be. 8:00 Rick Steves’ European 6:00 PBS NewsHour 9:30 J. Schwanke’s Life in Bloom Easter Taking you on a 7:00 Chicago Tonight: The 10:00 This Old House: Return spring journey through Week in Review to Dorchester Spain, Slovenia, Italy, and 7:30 Washington Week 11:00 Lidia’s Kitchen Greece, Rick celebrates this 8:00 The Great Chicago Quiz 10:30 Ask This Old House: Power 2,000-year-old story in a Show with Geoffrey Baer Washing, Deck Lights variety of cultures, explor- (Part 2 of 4) You think you 11:30 My Greek Table with Diane ing a rich and fascinating know Chicago? Geoffrey Baer Kochilas: The World’s mix of traditions. does, and in this new series, Most Famous Olive 9:00 Rick Steves’ Egypt: he gives a group of so- Yesterday & Today Rick sails cially distanced Chicagoans AFTERNOON beyond Europe, exploring a chance to prove that they 12:00 Cook’s Country: the historic and cultural do, too. Visit wttw.com/quiz Pennsylvania Dutch Country Photo: Tem eicia qui aut magnit eaquaer umquassedi unt eatecea unt umquassedi eaquaer magnit aut qui eicia Tem Photo: wonders of Egypt. in Cairo, to take the quiz yourself! 12:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Rick climbs to the center of a 8:30 Check, Please! Heritage, Fire: Gulf Coast Grill pyramid, greets the Sphinx El Solazo, Fulton Market and marvels at King Tut’s Kitchen Alpana welcomes Doc Severinsen gold. in Alexandria, Rick West Town resident and journeys into a wonderland esthetician Nanda Wait, who of back lanes and introduces recommended Heritage In the Spotlight American Masters: a traditional shisha (hookah) Restaurant and Caviar Bar experience. And on the Nile, in Humboldt Park; teacher Never Too Late - after sailing on a timeless Michael Konkoleski of West Doc Severinsen felucca, Rick kicks back on Lawn, who picked El Solazo Explore the groundbreaking a riverboat while enjoying in the West Elsdon neighbor- career of the colorful master iconic views of palm trees, hood; and performing arts trumpeter Doc Severinsen, from minarets, and rustic villages. center director Tommy his three decades as the colorful Finally, Rick shares a tour Hensel from Berwyn, who bandleader to The Tonight Show of Ramesses II’s magnificent loves Fulton Market Kitchen. Starring Johnny Carson to his temple ruins at Abu Simbel. 9:00 American Masters: Never relentless schedule of touring and 10:00 Baseball: The Faith of 50 Too Late - Doc Severinsen performing into his nineties. Million People (Part 3 of 9) 10:30 Beyond the Canvas: The Black Sox scandal The Greats Friday, April 2 reveals how eight members 11:00 BBC World News 9:00 pm of the Chicago White Sox, 11:30 Amanpour and Company including the incomparable “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, eatecea unt umquassedi eaquaer magnit aut qui eicia Tem Photo: “played with the faith of 50 Saturday 3 million people,” as F. Scott EARLY MORNING Fitzgerald later wrote, by tak- 12:30 Baseball: The Faith ing money from gamblers to of 50 Million People Thursday 1 throw the 1919 World Series. (Part 3 of 9) See Thurs. Ralf Little EARLY MORNING Apr. 1 at 10:00 pm. [R] 12:30 Finding Your Roots: 2:30 Independent Lens: Freedom Tales [R] Friday 2 ’Til Kingdom Come Death in Paradise 1:30 American Experience: EARLY MORNING - The Debate [R] (New Season!) The Blinding of Isaac 12:00 BBC World News 4:00 Austin City Limits: Woodard [R] 12:30 Amanpour and Company St. Vincent [R] Detective Inspector Neville Parker 3:30 Leah Chase: The Queen 1:30 Extinction: The Facts [R] 5:00 Chicago Tonight: The (Ralf Little) and his team are back of Creole Cuisine [R] 2:30 Climate Change: Week in Review [R] for a tenth season of all-new 4:30 BBC World News The Facts [R] 5:30 Yoga in Practice episodes to solve a new series of 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 3:30 NOVA: Mystery baffling murders on the fictional Beneath the Ice [R] MORNING Caribbean island of Saint Marie. 4:30 BBC World News 6:00-9:00 WTTW Kids Saturdays at 8:00 pm 2021 APRIL 3 Ernest Hemingway and first wife, Hadley Richardson, in Chamby, Switzerland, 1922, the year after they left Chicago for Europe. Photo: Ernest Hemingway Collection. Kennedy John F. Presidential Library and Museum, Boston. Ernest Hemingway’s Youth in Oak Park and Chicago by Daniel Hautzinger rnest Hemingway’s life and fiction were filled with extraordinary experiences and locales: World War I in Italy, Paris at the height of the Jazz Age, bullfighting in Spain, Esafaris and plane crashes in Africa, drinking and fishing in Cuba.