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1 FRIDAY 3 SUNDAY 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am) | 5:00 OPB Firing Line With Margaret Hoover | OPB+ The Legacy List With Matt Paxton OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions Venice, Anne Manley/Richmond, VA (Also Sun 10am) Italy 8:00 OPB The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Not Cricket. A stranger collapses on Millie and Rick Steves’ Europe Swiss Alps Jean’s doorstep. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ 6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Winter Arts (R-Also Courtesy of the film/Alvin Jaime Garcia Washington Week (Also Sat 6am) Thu 1/28 8pm) | OPB+ Great Estates 8:30 OPB+ History With David Rubenstein Scotland Dumfries (R) Big Dreams in Umatilla Robert A. Caro (Also Sun 1pm) 6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Crater Lake Ski In rural Umatilla, Oregon, a school 9:00 OPB Great Performances From Vienna: Expedition (R-Also Thu 1/28 8:30pm) superintendent refuses to see The New Year’s Celebration 2021. Enjoy a 7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show limits, a community invests in its festive selection of Strauss Family waltzes. Chocolate (Also Sun 1/10 12am) | OPB+ I’ll schools, and kids are given the (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+ Finding Your Roots Have What Phil’s Having Italy (R) DNA Mysteries (Also Sun 1:30pm) opportunity to excel. This is a story 8:00 OPB Prince Albert: A Victorian Hero about a high school robotics team 10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Mon Revealed Prince Albert had a profound role that united a town and taught its 5am) in shaping Victorian Britain. (Also Tue 1am) | kids to reach for the stars. 10:30 OPB Masterpiece The Child in Time. OPB+ American Experience Reagan, Pts 1&2. A moment of distraction triggers a crisis. Examine how Ronald Reagan became such Monday, January 11, 9pm (Also Mon 3:30am) a popular and controversial president. (Also OPB Tue 12am) 11:00 OPB+ American Pharaoh The Egyptian national soccer team tries to qualify for the 9:00 OPB Masterpiece World Cup. (Also Mon 2am) Elizabeth Is Missing. 8:00 OPB Finding Your Roots Breaking the A woman desperately tries Silences. Featuring Gayle King, Jordan Peele 2 SATURDAY to solve two mysteries as and Issa Rae. (Also Fri 1/29 9pm OPB+) | she declines into dementia. OPB+ Decoding the Driftless Decipher 5:00 OPB This Old House (Also Mon 6pm) | (Also Tue 2am) ancient clues from America’s ‘Driftless OPB+ Marathon Happy Yoga With Sarah Starr, 11:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 2, Ep 9. Region.’ (Also Thu 12am) continued (until 7pm) Ross confronts his demons. (Also Tue 4am) 9:00 OPB PBS American Portrait I Dream. 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend Everyday people share the meaning of the 6:00 OPB I’ll Have What Phil’s Having 4 MONDAY American dream. (Also Thu 2am) | OPB+ Barcelona (Also Mon 1/18 9pm OPB+) Walk in the Park With Nick Molle: Rivers of 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Tue 12am) | the Rockies (Also Thu 1am) 7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe England’s Bath & OPB+ A Wider World (Also Tue 4am) York/North Wales: Feisty and Poetic (Also Sun 10:00 OPB Frontline American Voices: A Nation 7:30 OPB+ Roadtrip Nation Opening Doors 9am) | OPB+ American Masters Andrew in Turmoil. Americans confront the pandemic (Also Tue 4:30am) Wyeth and a polarizing election and its aftermath. 8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow American Stories (Also Thu 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & 8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Great Estates Company (Also Wed 5am) Emancipation Day. Civil rights hero Marcus Scotland Kincardine (Also Sun 6pm) Garvey hires the team. (Also Mon 12am) | 11:00 OPB John Lewis: Get in the Way The OPB+ Lincoln @ Gettysburg The telegraph 9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Linus Pauling. journey of late-civil rights hero and gave President Lincoln new powers. (Also The scientist used his fame to promote world congressman John Lewis. (Also Thu 4am) | Sun 2am) peace. (Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ I’ll Have OPB+ Dead Reckoning: War, Crime and What Phil’s Having Paris (Also Sun 7pm) Justice From WWII to the War on Terror The 9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders Dark Secrets, General’s Ghost (Also Thu 2am) Pts 1&2. Elderly eccentrics become murder 10:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Harrisburg, Hr 2 suspects. | OPB+ Al Capone: Icon Understand (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & the celebrity gangster’s cultural impact. Company (Also Tue 5am) 6 WEDNESDAY 10:00 OPB+ POV And She Could Be Next: 11:00 OPB Independent Lens A Woman’s Work: 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu 12am) | Building a Movement. Women of color The NFL’s Cheerleader Problem. Three NFL OPB+ Lucy Worsley’s Royal Photo Album transform politics from the ground up. (Also cheerleaders take a stand for better pay. Photography helped to reinvent the British Sun 12am) (Also Wed 4am) | OPB+ AfroPop: The monarchy. (Also Thu 4am) Ultimate Cultural Exchange 10 Days in Africa: 10:30 OPB Before We Die Ep 6. Hanna tries to 8:00 OPB Nature A Squirrel’s Guide to Success. A Home Movie (Also Wed 2am) save her son. The world’s top squirrel scientists make groundbreaking discoveries. (Also Fri 1am) | 11:30 OPB Between the Covers Nelson & Alex 5 TUESDAY OPB+ Tightrope Is the American dream out Demille of reach? (Also Fri 12am) 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 12am) | OPB+ Nature The Last Rhino (Also Wed 4am) 9:00 OPB NOVA Prediction by the Numbers. Discover why some predictions succeed while others fail. (Also Fri 2am)

2 JANUARY 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 weekdays

10:00 OPB When Disaster Strikes A Perfect owner is found dead. (Also Mon 4am) | OPB+ Storm: Mozambique. When a cyclone strikes Frontline A Thousand Cuts (R-Also Mon 2am) MONDAY – FRIDAY Mozambique, bravery and hope remain. (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company 9 SATURDAY 6:30 OPB Kids Programs (until noon) (Also Thu 5am) 5:00 OPB This Old House (Also Mon 6pm) | 7am OPB+ NHK Newsline 11:00 OPB Aurora: Fire in the Sky (Also Fri OPB+ Marathon Classical Stretch, continued | 4am) OPB+ In Search of Shakespeare (until 7pm) 7:30 OPB+ Sit & Be Fit (M/W/F); A Time of Revolution (Also Fri 2am) Classical Stretch (Tu/Th) 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend 8am OPB+ Sewing & Knitting 7 THURSDAY 6:00 OPB I’ll Have What Phil’s Having Los Angeles (Also Mon 1/25 9pm OPB+) 8:30 OPB+ Quilting 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am) | 7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Edinburgh/ OPB+ QE2: The World’s Greatest Cruise 9am OPB Health & Aging (1/1) | OPB+ Naples and Pompeii (Also Sun 9am) | OPB+ Ship Pt 2. By the 1970s, the QE2 approached Painting financial disaster. (Also Fri 4am) American Experience Annie Oakley 8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Abstract Energies. 8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries Dressed To 10am OPB+ Woodworking (M/W/Th); Portland artist Samantha Wall explores the Kill. Designer Coco Chanel is the target of an This Old House (Tu/F) internal forces that drive us. (Also Sun assassination attempt. | OPB+ Jazz Gumbo 10:30 OPB+ Food & Cooking 6pm) | OPB+ Tide Understanding the Tide. See (Beginnings to 1917). The Original Dixieland Jazz Band records an unexpected hit. (Also the world’s dramatic tides. (Also Sat 12am) 11am OPB+ Nature (M); NOVA (Tu); Sun 2am) 8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Mount Hood Educational Programs (W); Climb. Explore the history, challenges and 9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders Echoes of the American Experience (Th); Oregon rewards of climbing Oregon’s highest peak. Dead, Pts 1&2. Barnaby investigates a spate of Experience (F) (Also Sun 6:30pm) wedding-themed murders. 12pm OPB Painting | OPB+ Civil 9:00 OPB The Victim Ep 1. A bereaved mother 9:30 OPB+ Aretha! Queen of Soul Aretha Discourse (M); Breaking Big (Tu); faces trial for accusing a man of killing her Franklin’s incredible voice and soulful refrains Make 48 (W); In the Americas son. (Also Sun 2am) | OPB+ How We Got to made her a legend. (Th); Trust Docs (F) Now With Steven Johnson Cold (Also Sat 10:00 OPB+ POV And She Could Be Next: 12:30 OPB Food & Cooking | OPB+ 1am) Claiming Power. Discover how democracy can Growing Bolder (M); GZero 10:00 OPB Modus Ep 6. Inger makes a be preserved, and made stronger, by those World (Tu); Start Up (W); Chavis frightening connection. (Also Sun 3am) | most marginalized. (Also Sun 12am) Chronicles (Th); Seat at the Table OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Fri 5am) 10:30 OPB Before We Die Ep 7. The police close (F) 11:00 OPB Masterpiece The Durrells in Corfu: in on Christian. 1pm OPB+ DW News Season 3, Ep 4. Gigi comes to visit. (Also Sun 11:30 OPB Between the Covers Talia Carner | 4am) OPB+ Film-Maker Season 3, Ep 1 (Also Sun 1:30 OPB Ken Burns: Here & There 11:30 OPB+ Articulate With Jim Cotter Drawing 1:30am) (1/1); Travel | OPB+ DW: The Day Meaning From Life (Also Sat 2:30am) 2pm OPB Kids Programs (until 6pm) | 10 SUNDAY OPB+ BBC Outside Source (M– 8 FRIDAY 5:00 OPB Firing Line With Margaret Hoover | Th); BBC Today (F) 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am) | OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions 2:30 OPB+ BBC World News America OPB+ The Legacy List With Matt Paxton Florence, Italy (Also Sun 10am) 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ 3pm OPB Oregon Revealed Willamette 8:00 OPB The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco Rick Steves’ Europe French Alps and Lyon Valley Splendor (1/1) | OPB+ News & Public Affairs Iron in War. Having exposed police corruption, 6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Abstract Energies (R) | the women go it alone. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Great Estates Scotland Kincardine (R) OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sat 6am) 3:30 OPB+ NHK Newsline 6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Mount Hood 8:30 OPB+ History With David Rubenstein Climb (R) 4pm OPB+ PBS NewsHour Walter Isaacson (Also Sun 1pm) 7:00 OPB Chef Darren: The Challenge of 4:30 OPB Josh Groban: An Evening of 9:00 OPB Frontline A Thousand Cuts. Award- Profound Deafness Born deaf, Darren Weiss Harmony (1/1) winning filmmaker Ramona S. Diaz examines became chef. (Also Sun 1/17 12am) | OPB+ Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte’s I’ll Have What Phil’s Having Paris (R) 5pm OPB+ Travel crackdown on the press – and his prime target, journalist Maria Ressa. (Also Fri 7:30 OPB Masterpiece: 50 Fabulous Years! 5:30 OPB+ Food & Cooking (until 7pm) 11pm OPB+) | OPB+ Finding Your Roots War Take a nostalgic look back at the beloved Stories (Also Sun 1:30pm) series. (Also Tue 12:30am) 6pm OPB Pink Martini Celebrates New Year’s Eve (1/1); Home Repair (M/ 8:00 OPB+ American Experience Clinton, Pts 1&2. 10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Mon Tu); Travel (W/Th/F) 5am) President Bill Clinton’s career was full of accomplishment and scandal. (Also Tue 1am) 11:00 OPB Thou Shalt Not Kill Ep 5. A nightclub 6:30 OPB BBC Outside Source (M–Th); BBC Today (F)

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9:00 OPB Masterpiece All Creatures Great and Thu 4am) | OPB+ Dead Reckoning: War, 8:00 OPB The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco Small, Ep 1. James Herriot begins a job with a Crime and Justice From WWII to the War on Fog of War. When a diplomat dies, the FBI harried Yorkshire veterinarian. (Also Tue Terror The Blind Eye (Also Thu 2am) attempts to control the story. (Also Mon 1am) 2am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sat 6am) 10:00 OPB Masterpiece The Unseen Alistair 13 WEDNESDAY 8:30 OPB+ History With David Rubenstein Marie Arana (Also Sun 1pm) Cooke. Get to know the longtime Masterpiece 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu 12am) | Theatre host. (Also Tue 3am) OPB+ Lucy Worsley’s Royal Myths & 9:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 6, Ep 2. The 11:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 3, Ep 1. Secrets Elizabeth I: The Warrior Queen (Also team prepares for a challenging birth. (Also Dwight vanishes. (Also Tue 4am) Thu 4am) Mon 2am) | OPB+ Finding Your Roots Flight (Also Sun 1:30pm) 8:00 OPB Nature The Alps: The High Life. See 11 MONDAY callout on this page. (Also Fri 1am) | OPB+ 10:00 OPB Masterpiece Press: Pure. Holly helps Big Dreams in Umatilla (R-Also Fri 12am) Leona with a lead. (Also Mon 3am) | OPB+ 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour | OPB+ A Wider Amanpour & Company (Also Mon 5am) World (Also Tue 4am) 9:00 OPB NOVA Secrets in Our DNA. What happens once our DNA is in the hands of 11:00 OPB Thou Shalt Not Kill Ep 6. Valeria 7:30 OPB+ Roadtrip Nation Play Forever (Also genealogy testing companies? (Also Fri wishes to move on. (Also Mon 4am) | Tue 4:30am) 2am) | OPB+ Personal Statement: America OPB+ Frontline Plastic Wars (R-Also Mon 8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Vintage ReFramed Three students strive to get their 2am) Baltimore 2021, Hr 1 (Also Wed 1am) | classmates to college. (Also Sun 12pm) OPB+ Great Estates Scotland Rosslyn (Also 10:00 OPB When Disaster Strikes The Silent 16 SATURDAY Sun 6pm) Killer: Somalia. Humanitarians race to provide 5:00 OPB This Old House (Also Mon 6pm) | drought relief. (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ 9:00 OPB Big Dreams in Umatilla See callout OPB+ Marathon Fly Brother With Ernest White Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 5am) on page 2. (Also Wed 8pm OPB+) | OPB+ II, continued (until 7pm) I’ll Have What Phil’s Having Hong Kong (Also 11:00 OPB Earth’s Sacred Wonders House of 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend Sun 7pm) the Divine. Journey to the world’s landmark 10:00 OPB American spiritual sites. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ In Experience The Search of Shakespeare The Lost Years (Also Codebreaker. Cryptanalyst Fri 2am) Elizebeth Friedman took down Al Capone and a 14 THURSDAY Nazi spy ring. (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am) | Amanpour & Company (Also Tue 5am) OPB+ Genius by Stephen Hawking Can We Time Travel? (Also Fri 4am) 11:00 OPB Independent Lens A Day in the Life of America/American Nomads. Film crews in 8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat William Stafford. The every state capture moments of American life and legacy of Oregon’s beloved poet life. (Also Wed 4am) | OPB+ AfroPop: The laureate. (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ Tide Living Ultimate Cultural Exchange Fatal Assistance With the Tide. China’s fishermen find an (Also Wed 2am) unexpected source of income. (Also Sat 12am) 8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Willamette Falls. 12 TUESDAY Oregon’s largest waterfall is surrounded by concrete, powerlines and history. (Also Sun 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 12am) | 6:30pm) Erwin Zupancic/© Terra Mater OPB+ Nature The World’s Most Wanted Animal Factual Studios & Wild Nature Film (Also Wed 4am) 9:00 OPB The Victim Ep 2. Craig takes the stand. (Also Sun 2am) | OPB+ How We Got to Now 8:00 OPB Finding Your Roots Coming to With Steven Johnson Sound (Also Sat 1am) Nature America. Featuring Nancy Pelosi, Norah O’Donnell and Zac Posen. (Also Thu 1am) | 10:00 OPB Modus Ep 7. The killer moves closer. The Alps OPB+ Plants Behaving Badly Murder & (Also Sun 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Europe’s highest mountain range Mayhem/Sex & Lies (Also Thu 12am) Company (Also Fri 5am) connects eight countries, spanning 9:00 OPB PBS American Portrait I Work. 11:00 OPB Masterpiece The Durrells in Corfu: 750 miles from the Mediterranean Americans share stories about work life. Season 3, Ep 5. A new family settles in Corfu. to the Adriatic seas. In a two-part (Also Thu 2am) (Also Sun 4am) special, traverse this imposing 10:00 OPB Frontline Plastic Wars. Did the 11:30 OPB+ Articulate With Jim Cotter From mountain chain over the course of plastic industry use recycling to sell more Isolation to Ovation (Also Sat 2:30am) a year to discover how Alpine plastic? (Also Fri 11pm OPB+) | OPB+ animals fight to survive its most Amanpour & Company (Also Wed 5am) 15 FRIDAY extreme seasonal conditions. 11:00 OPB African Americans: Many Rivers To 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am) | January 13 & 20, 8pm Cross The Black Atlantic (1500 – 1800). Learn OPB+ The Legacy List With Matt Paxton OPB about the earliest Africans, both slave and (Also Sun 10am) free, who arrived on American shores. (Also

4 JANUARY 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

6:00 OPB Cultivating the Wild Explore the 7:30 OPB+ Roadtrip Nation Bringing People In enduring legacy of America’s first (Also Tue 4:30am) SATURDAYS environmentalist. 8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Vintage 6-10am OPB Kids Programs | OPB+ News, 7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Italy’s Amalfi Baltimore 2021, Hr 2 (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Politics & Business Coast/Milan and Lake Como (Also Sun 9am) | Great Estates Scotland Inveraray (Also Sun 10am OPB Gardening | OPB+ Marathons OPB+ American Masters James Beard 6pm) (until 7pm) Happy Yoga (1/2); 8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries Extra 9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Oregon State Classical Stretch (1/9); Good Road/ Innings. A baseball player dies mid-game. University. Explore the history of Oregon’s Fly Brother With Ernest White II (1/16); (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ Jazz The Gift largest university. (Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ Seeing the USA/Seeing Canada (1917 – 1924). Louis Armstrong rises to I’ll Have What Phil’s Having Barcelona (1/23); No Passport Required (1/30) stardom. (Also Sun 2am) (R-Also, Sun 7pm) 11:30 OPB Sewing & Quilting 9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders The Oblong 10:00 OPB American Masters How it Feels To 1pm OPB Cooking Murders, Pts 1&2. Jones goes undercover. Be Free. Six iconic Black female artists challenge the entertainment industry’s racist 3pm OPB Motorweek 10:00 OPB+ Independent Lens Jonathan Scott’s stereotypes. (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ 3:30 OPB Woodworking Power Trip. Home renovation expert Jonathan Amanpour & Company (Also Tue 5am) Scott tries to flip the switch on how 4:30 OPB Home Repair Americans access power. (Also Sun 12am) 11:00 OPB+ AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange My Friend Fela and Birth of Afrobeat 10:30 OPB Before We Die Ep 8. Björn and (Also Wed 2am) Hanna realize Christian’s deadly mistake. SUNDAYS 11:30 OPB Between the Covers Mamta 6-9am OPB Kids Programs | OPB+ Chaudhry | OPB+ Film-Maker Season 3, Ep 2 19 TUESDAY Lifestyles (Also Sun 1:30am) 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 12am) | 9am OPB Travel | OPB+ QE2: The OPB+ Nature The Serengeti Rules (Also Wed World’s Greatest Cruise Ship (1/3, 4am) 1/10); Genius by Stephen Hawking 17 SUNDAY (1/17, 1/24, 1/31) 8:00 OPB Finding Your Roots To the Manor 5:00 OPB Firing Line With Margaret Hoover | Born. Featuring Glenn Close and John Waters. 10am OPB Nature (1/10, 1/17, 1/24); OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions What’s (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ Paleo Sleuths NOVA (1/3, 1/31) | OPB+ Legacy Cooking in Rome? Watch the changing landscape of America’s List With Matt Paxton 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Great Plains. (Also Thu 12am) 11am OPB NOVA | OPB+ Secrets of Rick Steves’ Europe Germany’s Fascist Story 9:00 OPB PBS American Portrait I Keep. People Scotland Yard (1/3); Tightrope (1/10); 6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat William Stafford (R) | try to preserve or change long-standing Dreams in Umatilla (1/17); The OPB+ Great Estates Scotland Rosslyn (R) traditions. (Also Thu 2am) | OPB+ Secrets White House: Inside Story (1/24); From the Ice Scientists race to collect artifacts Independent Lens Dolores (1/31) 6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Willamette Falls (R) from melting Yukon ice. (Also Thu 1am) Noon OPB Great Performances Dialogues 7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show 10:00 OPB Frontline President Biden. The story des Carmelites (1/3); Jazz | OPB+ The Final (Also Sun 1/24 12am) | OPB+ I’ll of how crisis and tragedy prepared Joe Biden Secrets of Her Majesty’s Secret Have What Phil’s Having Hong Kong (R) to become America’s next president. (Also Service (1/3); Personal Statement: 8:00 OPB Masterpiece Fri 11pm OPB+) | OPB+ Amanpour & America ReFramed (1/17) Miss Scarlet and the Duke: Company (Also Wed 5am) 1pm OPB+ History With David Inheritance. Penniless, 11:00 OPB African Americans: Many Rivers To Rubenstein/Peer-to-Peer Eliza goes to work as Cross The Age of Slavery (1800 – 1860). Black a private detective. 1:30 OPB+ Finding Your Roots (1/3, lives changed following the American (Also Tue 1am) | OPB+ 1/10, 1/17, 1/31) Revolution. (Also Thu 4am) | OPB+ Dead American Experience George W. Bush, Pts Reckoning: War, Crime, and Justice From 2pm OPB Great Performances La Phil 1&2. President Bush defined a new era in WWII to the War on Terror In Our Time 100 (1/10); In Concert at the American foreign policy. (Also Tue 12:30am) (Also Thu 2am) Hollywood Bowl (1/17, 1/24, 1/31) | OPB+ Variety Studio: Actors on 9:00 OPB Masterpiece All Creatures Great and Actors (1/24) Small, Ep 2. Siegfried’s fun-loving brother arrives. (Also Tue 2am) 20 WEDNESDAY 2:30 OPB+ Between the Lines 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu 12am) | 10:00 OPB Inside the Mind of Agatha Christie 3pm OPB News & Public Affairs (until OPB+ Lucy Worsley’s Royal Myths & Learn what made the crime writer tick. 6pm) | OPB+ Living Dream: 100 Secrets Queen Anne: The Mother of Great (Also Tue 3am) Years of Rocky National Park (1/3); Britain (Also Thu 4am) Decoding Driftless (1/10); Plants 11:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 3, Ep 2. 8:00 OPB Nature The Alps: Winter’s Fortress. Behaving Badly (1/17); Paleo Drake falls in love. (Also Tue 4am) Blizzards and avalanches create hostile Sleuths (1/24); Homo Spatius (1/31) | ecosystems. (Also Fri 1am) OPB+ The 4pm OPB+ Walk in the Park (1/10); 18 MONDAY White House: Inside Story Gain access to Secrets From the Ice (1/24); America’s most iconic residence. (Also Fri | A Year in Space (1/31) 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Tue 12am) 12am) OPB+ A Wider World (Also Tue 4am) 4:30pm OPB+ Oregon Experience The Beach Bill (1/3)

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9:00 OPB NOVA Decoding da Vinci. Examine the 10:00 OPB Masterpiece Press: Don’t Take My 9:00 OPB Masterpiece All Creatures Great and science behind Leonardo da Vinci’s Heart, Don’t Break My Heart. Holly investigates Small, Ep 3. An ailing racehorse tests James. masterpieces. (Also Fri 2am) a lead about sexual misconduct. (Also Mon (Also Tue 2am) 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also 10:00 OPB When Disaster Strikes Paradise Lost: Mon 5am) 10:00 OPB Agatha Christie’s England See the Bahamas. One of the Caribbean’s strongest real places that inspired Christie’s literary hurricanes strikes. (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ 11:00 OPB Thou Shalt Not Kill Ep 7. Two deaths universe. (Also Tue 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 5am) within the arts community cause concern. Independent Lens One Child Nation. The (Also Mon 4am) | OPB+ Frontline President 11:00 OPB Earth’s Sacred Wonders Closer to untold story of China’s former one-child Biden (R-Also Mon 2am) the Divine. A Shinto devotee undertakes a policy. (Also Tue 2am) grueling challenge. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ In 11:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 3, Ep 3. Search of Shakespeare The Duty of Poets 23 SATURDAY A failed harvest incites riots. (Also Tue 4am) (Also Fri 2am) 5:00 OPB This Old House (Also Mon 6pm) | 11:30 OPB+ POV Shorts Comic Culture OPB+ Marathon Seeing the USA, continued 21 THURSDAY (until 7pm) 25 MONDAY 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am) | 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend OPB+ Genius by Stephen Hawking Are We 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Tue 12am) | 6:00 OPB Farmers for America Farmers unite Alone? (Also Fri 4am) OPB+ A Wider World (Also Tue 4am) urban and rural Americans with food. 8:00 OPB Oregon Art 7:30 OPB+ Roadtrip Nation Jump In (Also Tue 7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Tuscany’s Dolce Beat The Fine Art of Craft. 4:30am) Vita/Italy’s Great Hill Towns (Also Sun 9am) | Masterful Warm Springs OPB+ American Masters Jacques Pepin 8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Vintage Tucson weaver Kelli Palmer 2021, Hr 1 (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Secrets creates intricate corn 8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries 50 Shades of Royal Travel Secrets of the Royal Train husk baskets. (Also of Greyson. Mary’s job is threatened. (Also (Also Sun 6pm) Sun 6pm)| OPB+ Tide Harnessing the Tide. Mon 12am) | OPB+ Jazz Our Language A seaweed farm harnesses Rathlin’s tides. (1924 – 1928). Soloists and singers take 9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Luther Cressman: (Also Sat 12am) center stage. (Also Sun 2am) Quest for First People. In the 1930s, Cressman uncovered Ice Age sandals in an Oregon cave. 8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Rain Beetles. 9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders The Sleeper (Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ I’ll Have What Scientist Chris Marshall hunts for an elusive Under the Hill, Pts 1&2. A body is found inside Phil’s Having Los Angeles (R-Also Sun 7pm) new species. (Also Sun 6:30pm) an ancient stone circle. 10:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Recut Newport, 9:00 OPB The Victim Ep 3. Anna takes the 10:00 OPB+ POV Portraits and Dreams. Pt 5 (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & stand. (Also Sun 2am) | OPB+ To Catch a Kentuckians revisit photographs they took as Company (Also Tue 5am) Comet An orbiter makes a historic landing on schoolchildren. (Also Sun 12am) the surface of a comet. (Also Sat 1am) 10:30 OPB POV 10:30 OPB Before We Die Ep 9. The Mimica The Mole Agent. An 10:00 OPB Modus Ep 8. Inger and Ingvar form a family plans to smuggle heroin. 83-year-old amateur clear picture of the killer. (Also Sun 3am) | 11:00 OPB+ POV America. Diego returns home detective goes OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Fri 5am) to care for his grandmother. undercover at a 11:00 OPB Masterpiece The Durrells in Corfu: retirement home. 11:30 OPB Between the Covers James O. Born Season 3, Ep 6. Louisa wants a party for Gerry. (Also Wed 3:30am) (Also Sun 4am) 11:00 OPB+ Reel South F11 and Be There 11:30 OPB+ Articulate With Jim Cotter The 24 SUNDAY (Also Wed 2am) Monument Man (Also Sat 2:30am) 5:00 OPB Firing Line With Margaret Hoover | OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions Siena 26 TUESDAY and Assisi, Italy 22 FRIDAY 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 12am) | 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am) | OPB+ Nature Dogs in the Land of Lions (Also Rick Steves’ Europe Egypt’s Cairo OPB+ The Legacy List With Matt Paxton Wed 4am) (Also Sun 10am) 6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat The Fine Art of Craft 8:00 OPB Finding Your Roots Against All Odds. 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