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John Grisham on North Carolina Bookwatch • Rootle’ween • Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street
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AT THE NC STATE FAIR! Saturday, October 14, 10 AM to 2 PM
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NC Innovate NC Greensboro EX Story of India The Power of Ideas DV 11:30 TV Black Issues Forum Celebrate 30 Years from the Archives Visit unctv.org/bif. NC Conversations Meet a fascinating Tar Heel. Noon TV North Carolina Bookwatch Rich Rosen & Joe Mosnier: Julius Chambers NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Caddis Hatch Trout EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Catch the two-hour premiere of Poldark Season 3 on Masterpiece, Sunday, Montreal, Quebec, Canada: October 1, at 9 PM, on UNC-TV. Bonjour, Montreal DV 12:30 TV Flavor, NC 1 SUNDAY 7:30 TV Bob the Builder DV Wild-Harvested Clams NC Consuelo Mack NC New Fly Fisher 6 AM TV Nature Cat WealthTrack Stillwater Forage NC Closer to Truth Get advice for managing EX Born To Explore Can Metaphysics investments. with Richard Wiese Discern God, Part 2 8:00 TV Curious George Scotland: Vikings, Puffins EX History Detectives NC Carolina & Ponies WWII Tokyo Rose Business Review 1:00 TV Ellie’s Real Good Food Recording Chris William and his Beauty Food 6:30 TV Wild Kratts guests discuss business NC Song of the Mountains NC Education Matters news in the Carolinas. Tribute & Memorial to Learn about key issues af- EX Chris Tarrant: Miss Dixie Hall: Dixie Trio/ fecting education in NC. Extreme Railways The RidgeRunners/ 7:00 TV Thomas & Friends DV Railroad to Mandalay Heather Berry & Tony Mabe NC Third Rail with Ozy 8:30 TV Wild Kratts EX Doc Martin Join Emmy® winner Carlos NC Bottom Line Gentlemen Prefer Watson for provocative Hosts Joe Stewart and 1:30 TV Martha Stewart’s and timely debates. Sougata Mukherjee take a Cooking School EX Globe Trekker weekly look at NC’s busi- Grilled Favorites Tough Boats: ness and economic trends. 2:00 TV America’s Test The Nile, Egypt 9:00 TV This Old House Kitchen from Cook’s Detroit: Rebirth in Detroit Illustrated NC Washington Week Italian Vegetarian Leading journalists analyze NC Bluegrass LISTINGS KEY: major news and events. Underground TV UNC-TV PBS & More EX Greeks Kasey Chambers The Good Strife NC North Carolina Channel EX Miss Fisher’s 9:30 TV Ask This Old House Stories with a Local Accent Murder Mysteries Hawaii Makes 50 The Blood of EX UNC-EX NC Front Row with Juana the Mad The Explorer Channel Marc Rotterman 2:30 TV Cook’s Country DV Descriptive voiceovers The media strategist Big Family Breakfast discusses state and COLOR UNC-TV productions NC Echo Sessions national politics and & local interest The Nth Power policy with his guests. 3:00 EX Doctor Blake Shaded programs indicate 10:00 TV Exploring Mysteries fundraiser specials. North Carolina The Sky Is Empty Colors of the Earth TV Sara’s Weeknight PLEASE NOTE: While every NC North Carolina Meals effort is made to ensure the Bookwatch Fish Around the World Rich Rosen & Joe Mosnier: NC Austin City Limits accuracy of CenterPiece, on-air Julius Chambers announcements, updates at Paul Simon EX Story of India 3:30 TV Lidia’s Kitchen unctv.org and posts to social Beginnings DV More Pasta media provide the latest sched- 10:30 TV SciTech Now 4:00 TV Mexico— uling information. Some pro- North Carolina One Plate at a Time NC Parks’ Second Century gram start and end times June with Rick Bayless NC First in Future vary slightly from our listings. Shaking Up the Margarita Frank Emory NC First in Future Add at least five minutes when 11:00 TV Carolina Frank Emory recording your favorite shows. Outdoor Journal Bluefish on Top
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EX Father Brown NC BBC World News The Crimson Feather America 4:30 TV Pati’s Mexican Table Katty Kay shares unique The Mezcal Trail global perspectives. NC Bottom Line EX Story of India 5:00 TV Charlie Rose— The Power of Ideas DV The Week 6:30 NC Nightly Get a retrospective of the Business Report acclaimed interviewer’s Seasoned reporters nightly program. review financial news. Photo: Lenoir-Rhyne University Lenoir-Rhyne Photo: NC PBS NewsHour 7:00 TV Nightly Weekend SciTech Now North Carolina shares Lenoir-Rhyne University’s Eclipse Business Report Gain insights about the Discoveries, Monday, October 2, NC Charlie Rose week’s issues. at 9:30 PM, on the North Carolina This native Tar Heel EX Midsomer Murders Channel. interviews fascinating Dead Letters, Part 2 personalities. 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour 9:00 TV Poldark Season 3 EX Rick Steves’ Europe Weekend on Masterpiece Athens & Side Trips NC BBC Newsnight Season Premiere! Episode 1 7:30 TV A Chef’s Life Get comprehensive cover- Demelza and Ross try to Rabbit age of international news patch things up. EX Family Travel and current events. 9:30 NC Opera Reimagined: with Colleen Kelly 6 PM TV Doc Martin Animating the Cunning Columbia, SC: Southern The Shock of the New Little Vixen Food, Watersports, NC Black Issues Forum See how the Cleveland Museums & Baseball Celebrate 30 Years from the Orchestra stunningly rei- 8:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Archives Visit unctv.org/bif. magined Janáček’s classic. Boise, Part 3 EX Rick Steves’ Italy: EX Visions of Europe NC Exploring Cities of Dreams Soar above the wonders of North Carolina Tour ancient glories and Britain, France, Germany, Cradle of Forestry backstreet riches of Rome, Italy and Greece in this EX Grantchester Venice and Florence. sweeping aerial tour. Season 3 on Masterpiece 10:00 NC Ballet Hispánico 6:30 NC Black America Episode 2 DV Women & Sports with Enjoy iconic works from 8:30 NC Exploring Wendy Hilliard CARMEN.maquia and North Carolina 7:00 TV A Place to Call Home Club Havana. DV Works in Progress Catch the Tiger 11:00 TV EastEnders 9:00 TV Antiques Roadshow NC Great Performances EX Best of Detroit, Part 1 at the Met: Nabucco Majestic Nature NC Innovate NC James Levine conducts Witness scenic America Wilson Verdi’s early drama of through stunning time- EX Midsomer Murders Ancient Babylon. lapse macro and traditional Days of Misrule, Part 1 7:50 TV My Home, NC—Shorts cinematography. 9:30 NC SciTech Now Mama Dip 11:30 TV EastEnders North Carolina NC Our State 8:00 TV Poldark Revealed Season Premiere! Eclipse Meet cast and crew on Elizabeth Keckly/Great Discoveries location in lovely Cornwall. American Photographer 10:00 TV POV EX Great Performances Swim Team Parents of Pavarotti: A Voice for the 2 MONDAY teens on the autism Ages Celebrate the tenor spectrum train the teens whose presence extended 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour with high expectations. Get in-depth analyses of far beyond opera. NC NOVA current events. Eclipse Over America EX Midsomer Murders Days of Misrule, Part 2 11:00 NC PBS NewsHour EX History Detectives WWII Tokyo Rose Recording 11:30 TV BBC World News Get comprehensive coverage of international news and current events.
3 TUESDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour NC BBC World News America EX Taste of Louisiana with Chef John Folse & Co. Find inspiration on POV Swim Team, Monday, October 2, at 10 PM, on UNC-TV. Bobbie Lee Belanger
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6:30 NC Nightly Business Report EX Mexico— One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless Island Time 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report NC Charlie Rose EX Rick Steves’ Europe Copenhagen 7:30 TV Flavor, NC Wild Caught Shrimp EX Rudy Maxa’s World London Photo: Dan Powers Meet Weaverville’s Master Puppeteer Hobey Ford on MUSE: The Arts Show, premiering Tuesday, October 3, at 9 PM, on the North Carolina Channel.
11:00 NC PBS NewsHour NC Beyond the Fields: EX Joseph Rosendo’s Slavery at Middleton Place Travelscope Learn about slavery and Following the Reformation its 21st century impact Trail in Switzerland in Charleston, SC. & Germany DV EX Moveable Feast 11:30 EX In the Americas with Fine Cooking with David Yetman Polesine Parmense, Italy Coffee & Culture in Oaxaca 9:30 EX On the Road with Vic Rallo: Italy! Bernie Sanders joins Henry Louis Gates Jr on Finding Your 4 WEDNESDAY Umbria Roots, Tuesday, October 3, at 10:00 TV FRONTLINE 8 PM, on UNC-TV. 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour North Korea’s NC BBC World News Deadly Dictator 8:00 TV Finding Your Roots America NC Circle Unbroken: Season Premiere! EX Galilei Files: A Gullah Journey from The Impression Larry David Science & Faith Africa to America and Bernie Sanders share See how the Italian scholar’s Anita Singleton-Prather Eastern European roots. pioneering views upset the presents a sensory celebra- NC North Carolina Roman Catholic Church. tion of the Gullah people. Bookwatch 6:30 NC Nightly EX Nick Stellino: Season Premiere! John Business Report Storyteller in the Kitchen Grisham: Camino Island 7:00 TV Nightly I Love Cheese! EX Travelscope Business Report 10:30 EX Taste the Islands Greece: Cruising the Isles NC Charlie Rose with Chef Irie DV EX Rick Steves’ Europe Morning Glory 8:30 NC First in Future Denmark: Beyond 11:00 TV Are You Patrick Woodie Copenhagen Being Served? EX Bare Feet in NYC 7:30 TV SciTech Now The Club with Mickela Mallozzi North Carolina NC PBS NewsHour Little Greece DV Eclipse Discoveries EX Chris Tarrant: 9:00 TV The Vietnam War EX Born To Explore Extreme Railways Déjà Vu Communists hold with Richard Wiese Railroad to Mandalay the North as America sup- Namibia: Painted People 11:30 TV BBC World News ports an untested South. DV of the Desert NC MUSE: The Arts Show 8:00 TV Nature Series Premiere! Weaverville’s Naledi: One Little Elephant Master Puppeteer Hobey Caretakers help a baby Ford See stories from our elephant survive and find state and beyond. her place in the herd. EX Greeks of the Sea NC Reel South Agathonisi Counter Histories: Rock Hill 9:30 NC Conversations EX Pati’s Mexican Table Dr. Robert Newman From Pueblo to City 10:00 NC Biographical 8:30 NC Reel South Conversations with Soul City Frank Daniels Jr. EX Taste of History Premiere! Part 1 of 3 Washington’s Character,
EX Greeks Charisma & Ambition Keevan Coco Photo: Chasing Greatness 9:00 TV NOVA Bestselling author John Grisham 10:30 TV The Vietnam War Secrets of the Shining launches the 20th season of North Riding the Tiger JFK and Knight Master armorers re- Carolina Bookwatch, Tuesday, his advisors wrestle with engineer the Greenwich ar- October 3, at 8 PM, on the North Carolina Channel. U.S. involvement. DV mor, then put it to the test. 6 | October visit unctv.org
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Business Report Photo: Jamie McGurk Sign of the Broken Sword EX Jacques Pépin: See Biographical Conversations 10:30 NC Carolina Heart & Soul with Frank Daniels Jr. and Shannon Business Review Global Gastronomy Vickery, Tuesday, October 3, at 10 PM, 10:50 EX North Carolina 7:00 TV Nightly on the North Carolina Channel. Weekend—Shorts Business Report Umstead Tea NC Charlie Rose NC PBS NewsHour 11:00 TV British Antiques EX Rick Steves’ Europe EX Joseph Rosendo’s Roadshow Istanbul Travelscope Scottish National Gallery 7:30 TV Our State Eastern Europe’s Treasures: of Modern Art Gold/Warrenton/Quilts From Budapest to NC PBS NewsHour EX Rudy Maxa’s World EX Doctor Blake Bucharest DV Uzbekistan 11:30 TV BBC World News Mysteries 8:00 TV MUSE: The Arts Show EX In the Americas For Whom the Bell Tolls Weaverville’s Master with David Yetman 11:30 TV BBC World News Puppeteer Hobey Ford Favelas & Samba: Brazil NC North Carolina 7 SATURDAY Stories of Service Porter Halyburton 6 FRIDAY 6 AM TV Mister Rogers’ EX Music Voyager 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour Neighborhood Funky Nassau NC BBC World News NC Biographical 8:30 TV Exploring America Conversations with North Carolina EX Taste of History Ruth Easterling Fire in the Land of 300 Years of Service Part 3 of 3 the Longleaf Pine 6:30 NC Nightly EX Innovate NC NC Discussions of War Business Report Pembroke Jacksonville EX Pati’s Mexican Table 6:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s EX Bare Feet in NYC From Pueblo to City Neighborhood DV with Mickela Mallozzi 7:00 TV Nightly EX Exploring Little Haiti DV Business Report North Carolina 9:00 TV North Carolina NC Charlie Rose Beauty with Six Legs Weekend EX Midsomer Murders 7:00 TV Sesame Street DV Deborah Holt Noel shows Death & Dust, Part 1 NC Carolina Outdoor what’s up this weekend. 7:30 TV North Carolina Journal Classics NC The Vietnam War Weekend Joe Albea and John Moore Déjà Vu Communists hold 7:50 EX SciTech—Shorts share top moments from the North as America sup- Aspirin of the Future this long-running series. ports an untested South. DV 8:00 TV Washington Week EX Carolina Outdoor EX Born To Explore Leading journalists analyze Journal Classics with Richard Wiese major news and events. 7:30 TV Sesame Street DV Tanzania: Remote Tribes NC North Carolina NC Carolina 9:30 TV A Chef’s Life Weekend Outdoor Journal Season Premiere! Two-mato EX Coroner Bluefish on Top Vivian searches for toma- The Captain’s Pipe EX Carolina toes to serve at the restau- 8:30 TV Front Row with Outdoor Journal rant’s 10th birthday party. Marc Rotterman Bluefish on Top EX Travels with Darley NC MUSE: The Arts Show 8:00 TV Daniel Tiger’s Illinois: Ottawa & Beyond Weaverville’s Master Neighborhood DV 10:00 TV Biographical Puppeteer Hobey Ford NC Exploring Conversations with 8:50 EX North Carolina North Carolina Frank Daniels Jr. Weekend—Shorts Lawson’s Voyage Part 1 of 3 Flor de America Cigars to the Carolinas EX Weekend in Havana 9:00 TV Great Performances: EX North Carolina Geoffrey Baer travels to Havana Time Machine Weekend Havana, Cuba and visits Take a musical journey to 8:30 TV Splash & Bubbles with dancers, musicians, today’s Cuba where past, NC Exploring architects and writers. present and future collide North Carolina 10:30 NC North Carolina in joyful celebration. Green Gift Stories of Service NC Front Row with EX From the Vineyard Porter Halyburton Marc Rotterman Childress/Mothervine 11:00 TV Keeping Up EX Miss Fisher’s Appearances Murder Mysteries The Hostess Framed for Murder
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9:00 TV Curious George DV 4:30 TV This Old House NC North Carolina A House for the Weekend Next Generation EX Weekend in Havana NC Charlie Rose— Geoffrey Baer visits with The Week dancers, musicians, EX Conversation architects and writers. with Bill Moyers 9:30 TV Dinosaur Train DV The journalist, political NC Our State commentator and author Flat Rock/Davidson/ reflects on his life and Canjoe Man storied career. 10:00 TV North Carolina Enjoy a Conversation with Bill 5:00 TV Carolina Weekend Moyers, Saturday, October 7, Outdoor Journal NC From the Vineyard at 4:30 PM, on The Explorer Channel. Bluefish on Top Childress/Mothervine NC PBS NewsHour EX New Scandinavian EX Rick Steves’ Italy: Weekend Cooking Cities of Dreams 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour New Nordic Cuisine Tour ancient glories and Weekend 10:30 TV Exploring backstreet riches of Rome, NC Washington Week North Carolina Venice and Florence. 6 PM TV Lawrence Welk Show Where Rivers Are Born 1:30 NC Baby Makes 3 County Fair (1975) NC A Craftsman’s Legacy Natural Wonders NC WoodSongs The Sword Smith 2:00 TV Rick Steves’ Europe John McEuen/ EX Moveable Feast Germany’s Hamburg & Bill & The Belles with Fine Cooking the Luther Trail EX Ken Burns: Polesine Parmense, Italy NC First in Future America’s Storyteller 11:00 TV Growing a Patrick Woodie American Sampler Explore Greener World 2:30 TV Joseph Rosendo’s the filmmaker’s many docu- A Year in the Life of the Travelscope mentaries and short series. Garden Farm, Part 1 La Joie De Vivre in 7:00 TV As Time Goes By NC The Woodwright’s Quebec City, Canada DV Covering Up Shop with Roy Underhill NC Innovate NC NC Jubilee Big Ash Mallet! DV Wilson Lonesome River Band EX Taste of History 3:00 TV A Craftsman’s Legacy 7:30 TV As Time Goes By German Born, The Still Maker Moving In American Made NC Third Rail with Ozy 8:00 TV Midsomer Murders 11:30 TV P. Allen Smith’s EX Great Performances The Black Book Garden Home Pavarotti: A Voice for the NC Song of the Mountains Deck the Halls DV Ages Celebrate the tenor Tribute & Memorial to NC The Woodwright’s whose presence extended Miss Dixie Hall: Dixie Trio/ Shop with Roy Underhill far beyond opera. The RidgeRunners/ Woodwright! The Musical 3:30 TV Woodsmith Shop Heather Berry & Tony Mabe DV Curved Lids & Face Frames EX ‘60s Pop, Rock & Soul EX Pati’s Mexican Table NC Conversations Relive your favorite sounds From Pueblo to City Dr. Robert Newman from the sensational ‘60s. Noon TV Almanac Gardener 4:00 TV The Woodwright’s 8:50 TV My Home, NC—Shorts Growing Organic NC Straw- Shop with Roy Underhill Football Heroes berries/Culinary Herbs Who Wrote the Book 9:00 TV Doctor Blake NC Growing a of Sloyd? Mysteries Greener World NC Front Row with My Brother’s Keeper Gardening in the Marc Rotterman NC Bluegrass Desert Southwest Underground EX Rudy Maxa’s World Marty Stuart Montreal & Quebec City 9:30 NC Echo Sessions 12:30 TV America’s Heartland Soulful Electronica Music Turning Sugar Beets into from HoveyKraft Sugar Products 10:00 TV Doctor Blake NC Almanac Gardener Mysteries Moss Gardening/ This Time & This Place Houseplant Problems NC Live from EX In the Americas the Artists Den with David Yetman Hozier Bahia: Brazil’s African EX ‘60s Generation Connection Catch essential R&B, pop 1:00 TV Antiques Roadshow and folk rock from 1965-69. Boise, Part 3 11:00 TV Luther NC Baby Makes 3 Luther must rescue Ripley, Boy or Girl abducted by Cameron, in time to prevent Cameron’s See Question Mark & The Mysterians murderous set piece. on‘60s Pop, Rock & Soul, Saturday, NC Austin City Limits October 7, at 8 PM, on The Explorer Channel. Ed Sheeran
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NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Beetle Spin Approach EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Bonin/Ogasawara Islands: A Land Far, Far Away DV 12:30 TV MUSE: The Arts Show NC State Cypher: Rap & Spoken Word NC New Fly Fisher Ohio Steelhead: Emerald Shiners EX Born To Explore See the story behind Lin-Manuel Miranda’s (R) smash hit on Hamilton’s with Richard Wiese America, Saturday, October 14, at 10 PM, on The Explorer Channel. Canada: The Mighty Polar Bear Migration NC Jubilee 7:00 TV Thomas & Friends DV 1:00 TV Ellie’s Real Good Food The Seldom Scene NC Third Rail with Ozy Big Flavor, Less Salt 7:30 TV As Time Goes By EX Globe Trekker NC Song of the Mountains The Mini Series Nigeria Riley Anglen & The Big 8:00 TV Midsomer Murders 7:30 TV Bob the Builder DV Guns/Appalachian Trail Secrets & Spies NC Consuelo Mack EX Doc Martin NC Song of the Mountains WealthTrack The Portwenn Effect Tribute & Memorial to Miss 8:00 TV Curious George 1:30 TV Martha Stewart’s Dixie Hall: Larry Stephenson NC Carolina Cooking School Band/Chris Jones & The Business Review Breads Night Drivers EX Chris Tarrant: 2:00 EX Miss Fisher’s EX ‘70s Soul Superstars Extreme Railways Murder Mysteries Patti LaBelle hosts an all- One Way Ticket to Siberia Death on the Vine star reunion of the legends 8:30 TV Wild Kratts TV America’s Test of 1970s Motown, R&B NC Charlie Rose— Kitchen from Cook’s and soul. The Week Illustrated 8:50 TV My Home, NC—Shorts 9:00 TV This Old House The Ultimate Sticky Buns Hot Dog World A Few Good Landscapers NC Bluegrass 9:00 TV Doctor Blake NC Washington Week Underground Mysteries EX Fake or Fortune? Parker Millsap By the Southern Cross LS Lowry 2:30 TV Cook’s Country NC Bluegrass 9:30 TV Ask This Old House The Devil Made Me Do It Underground Toolbox/Smoke Detector/ NC Echo Sessions Parker Millsap Leaking Valve Rootsy Jamaican Music 9:30 NC Echo Sessions NC Front Row with from Dub Kartel Rootsy Jamaican Music Marc Rotterman 3:00 EX Doctor Blake from Dub Kartel 10:00 TV MUSE: The Arts Show Mysteries 10:00 TV Doctor Blake NC State Cypher: King of the Lake Mysteries Rap & Spoken Word TV Sara’s Weeknight A Night to Remember NC North Carolina Meals NC Live from Bookwatch Beans on the Side the Artists Den Michele Tracy Berger: NC Austin City Limits Alt-j Reenu-You The Pretenders EX Hamilton’s America EX Story of India 3:30 TV Lidia’s Kitchen The creation of pop culture The Meeting of Two DV Fish Fiesta Broadway phenomenon 10:30 TV SciTech Now 4:00 TV Mexico— Hamilton and the history North Carolina One Plate at a Time behind it are explored. Science of Baseball with Rick Bayless 11:00 TV Luther NC First in Future A Passion for Cheese Luther investigates a brutal, Ted Abernathy NC First in Future escalating murderer with no 11:00 TV Carolina Ted Abernathy apparent no motive. Outdoor Journal EX Father Brown NC Austin City Limits Beetle Spin Approach The Alchemist’s Secret The Pretenders NC Innovate NC 4:30 TV Pati’s Mexican Table Wilmington Women of Oaxaca 15 SUNDAY EX Story of India NC Charlie Rose— Freedom DV The Week 6 AM TV Nature Cat 11:30 TV Black Issues Forum 5:00 TV Charlie Rose— NC Closer to Truth Celebrate 30 Years from the The Week Huston Smith: Tribute to Archives Visit unctv.org/bif. NC PBS NewsHour a Religious Visionary NC Conversations Weekend EX History Detectives Meet a fascinating Tar Heel. EX Midsomer Murders Hindenburg Instrument Noon TV North Carolina Vixen’s Run, Part 2 Panel? Bookwatch 6:30 TV Wild Kratts Michele Tracy Berger: NC Education Matters Reenu-You October | 13 evening&weekendlistings
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9:00 TV The Vietnam War 7:30 TV Our State Resolve North Vietnamese Clocks/Ferries/Parades troops march on as antiwar EX Rudy Maxa’s World efforts build in the U.S. DV Montreal & Quebec City NC MUSE: The Arts Show 8:00 TV MUSE: The Arts Show Black Mountain Potter Black Mountain Potter Jim McDowell Jim McDowell 9:30 NC Conversations NC Vietnam: Learning, Dr. Assad Meymandi Healing & Counseling EX Eye on the Sixties: Local experts provide help The Iconic Photography and direction in this live of Rowland Scherman special broadcast. See how the famed EX Music Voyager Jack Johnson shares smoked fish, magazine photojournalist songs and surfer lore in Hawai’i on Eleuthera captured transformational Family Ingredients, premiering 8:30 TV Exploring events of the 1960s. Wednesday, October 18, at 9:30 PM, North Carolina 10:00 NC Biographical on The Explorer Channel. . Maine to Florida in 1 Day Conversations with EX Bare Feet in NYC Frank Daniels Jr. 9:00 TV NOVA with Mickela Mallozzi Part 3 of 3 Secrets of the Forbidden Nuyorican Barrios DV 11:00 TV Waiting for God City Explore ingenious 9:00 TV North Carolina Glamorous Grannies engineering in imperial Weekend NC PBS NewsHour China’s power center. NC The Vietnam War EX Joseph Rosendo’s EX Moveable Feast The River Styx Hanoi Travelscope with Fine Cooking hastens insurgency as LBJ Armenia: Ancient History & Livorno, Italy deploys ground troops. DV Modern Traditions, Part 1 9:30 EX Family Ingredients EX Born To Explore DV S eason Premiere! with Richard Wiese 11:30 TV BBC World News California: Smoked Fish Namibia: Wild Cheetah EX In the Americas with Jack Johnson DV 9:30 TV A Chef’s Life with David Yetman 10:00 TV FRONTLINE Prolific Peppers Vivian Mexico City’s Markets: Fight for Mosul preps peppers, then gets a A Millennium of Trade NC Piedmont Blues lesson in stuffing peppers Meet the pioneers of this and delegating authority. 18 WEDNESDAY distinctive NC music style. EX Travels with Darley EX Nick Stellino: France’s Western Front, 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour Storyteller in the Kitchen Part 1 NC BBC World News Bacon or Pancetta 10:00 TV Biographical America 10:30 NC Workin’ Man Blues Conversations with EX Wildest Arctic Merle Haggard, Buck Ow- Frank Daniels Jr. Arctic Ocean: ens and other legends dis- Part 1 of 3 The Frozen Sea DV cuss the dust bowl roots of EX Real Rail Adventures: 6:30 NC Nightly country music in California. Swiss Winter Magic Business Report EX Taste the Islands Marvel at the Swiss rail sys- 7:00 TV Nightly with Chef Irie tem and visual splendors. Business Report Eat Your Veggies 11:00 TV Keeping Up NC Charlie Rose 11:00 TV Are You Appearances EX Rick Steves’ Europe Being Served? The New Vicar Norway’s West: Fjords, Shedding the Load NC PBS NewsHour Mountains & Bergen NC PBS NewsHour EX Joseph Rosendo’s 7:30 TV SciTech Now EX Chris Tarrant: Travelscope North Carolina Extreme Railways Armenia: Ancient History & Hurricane Hunters One Way Ticket to Siberia Modern Traditions, DV EX Born To Explore 11:30 TV BBC World News 11:30 TV BBC World News with Richard Wiese EX In the Americas South Africa: 19 THURSDAY with David Yetman Amazing Encounters Brazil’s Pernambuco: 8:00 TV Nature 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour The Forgotten Interior Animal Reunions NC BBC World News Caretakers reunite with America wild animals. DV EX Nick Stellino: 20 FRIDAY NC Embers: The Heart & Storyteller in the Kitchen 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour Soul of Beach Music The Food Artist NC BBC World News Soak up the history of 6:30 NC Nightly America beach music and The Em- Business Report EX Taste of History bers’ role in its evolution. EX Jacques Pépin: Alexander Hamilton the EX Pati’s Mexican Table Heart & Soul Financier The Art of Mole Catch o’ the Day 6:30 NC Nightly 8:30 EX Christopher Kimball’s 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report Milk Street Television Business Report EX Pati’s Mexican Table The New Baking with NC Charlie Rose The Art of Mole Claire Ptak EX Rick Steves’ Europe Stockholm October | 15 evening&weekendlistings
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Trinity River Band bring the old time music to Song of the Mountains, Saturday, October 28, at 8 PM, on the North Carolina Channel.
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