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JANUARY 2021 GUIDE

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AMERICAN EXPERIENCE FREEDOM RIDERS Deliberately violating Jim Crow laws in order to test and challenge a segregated interstate travel system, the Freedom Riders met with bitter racism and mob violence along the way, sorely testing their belief in nonviolent activism. SUNDAY, JANUARY 17 | 10:00 PM

ELIZABETH IS MISSING stars as Maud, a woman determined to find her missing friend Elizabeth. DECODING THE But can she solve DRIFTLESS the mystery of her friend’s Buckle-up for a wild ride of science- disappearance before adventure, above, on, and within the her dementia erases amazing Driftless Region of North America. all the clues? Directed by Jonas Stenstrom of WED JANUARY 20 9:00PM Untamed Science. SUNDAY, JANUARY 10 | 7:00 PM wqpt.org

POV 306 HOLLYWOOD This magical realist documentary of two siblings who undertake an archaeological excavation of their late grandmother’s house. They embark on a journey from her home in to ancient Rome, from fashion to physics, in search of what life remains in the objects we leave behind. THURSDAY, JANUARY 7 | 10:00 PM

CYCLING AROUND JAPAN Bicycle through the scenery of Japan, stay with locals and discover hidden traditions in a Japan you didn’t know existed. TUESDAYS | 9:00 PM

ALL CREATURES GREAT & SMALL James Herriot’s adventures as a veterinarian in 1930’s Yorkshire get a glorious new adaptation in a seven-part series based on his beloved books. Exciting newcomer Nicholas Ralph will make his debut as the iconic vet who became renowned for his inspiring humor, compassion and love of life. BEGINS MONDAY JANUARY 18 | 8:00 PM JANUARY 2021 PRIMETIME 8:00 Canyons & Ice: The 1 FRIDAY Last Run of Dick Griffith 5 TUESDAY 7:00 America’s Test Kitchen 7:00 Rick Steves’ Europe The Most Important Meal Austrian and Italian Alps 7:30 Cook’s Country 7:30 Great Scenic 8:00 Jacques Pepin’s Railway Journeys Heart and Soul Just Ducky! 8:00 Samantha Brown’s 8:30 Pati’s Mexican Table Places to Love Budapest, Hungary 9:00 Christopher Kimball’s 8:30 Born to Explore Milk Street Television Over his life, he has crossed 6,000 with Richard Wiese Middle East Favorites miles of the Arctic solo. Starvation, 9:30 Lidia’s Kitchen drowning, bears, foxes, blinding 10:00 Ask storms, frostbite - the list of what Happy Holidays from Asktoh! has tried to kill Dick is long. All of it has failed. Now, at 89, he takes one 10:30 This Old House last white water-rafting trip through Back to Narragansett the Grand Canyon. 11:00 10:00 Ottaway: A River Reborn Explore the history and future Dancing with the World of humanity’s relationship with 9:00 Cycling Around Japan the Boardman River. 9:30 Illinois Adventure 11:00 Toward the Source: An Arctic Odyssey 10:00 11:00 Ottaway: A River Reborn Gary Clark Jr. Explore the history and future of humanity’s relationship with the Boardman River. 2 SATURDAY 7:00 Classic Gospel WEDNESDAY Gospel Bluegrass Homecoming 6 7:00 Antiques Roadshow 8:00 Austin City Limits A journey of self-discovery and , Hour 1: A diamond Gary Clark Jr.: Grammy & Blues spiritual awakening, as a filmmaker bracelet and a Van Cleef & Arpels Music Award-winner Gary Clark Jr. sets out on a solo canoe journey ring, Mardi Gras Comus Krewe performs songs off his across the Northwest Territories parade float watercolors from 1892, “This Land.” of Canada. and Keith Haring subway graffiti art 9:00 Song of the Mountains from around 1980. Johnny Counterfit, The VW Boys MONDAY 8:00 New Tricks 10:00 Backstage Pass 4 The Truth Is Out There: The team Brother Elsey 7:00 New Tricks find themselves at the center of a The War Against Drugs: A chance conspiracy when they reopen the 11:00 Oh, What A Night! remark leads most of the UCOS The Best of Under the case of a dead journalist to protect team to join him as they re- a dead officer’s reputation. Streetlamp investigate the death of a heroin addict at the clinic nine years earlier. 9:00 Wuthering Heights SUNDAY 8:00 The Woman in White 3 Episode 4: Count Fosco and 7:00 NOVA Sir Percival set their sinister plan into motion with tragic results. Marian and Walter make a horrifying discovery. 9:00 Poldark on Masterpiece Season 2, Episode 4: As the law Heathcliff and Cathy’s fiery romance cracks down on smugglers, the in this adaptation of Emily Bronte’s Warleggans tighten the screws classic novel. The adopted gypsy Arctic Ghost Ship: An astonishing on Ross. boy Heathcliff finds his soulmate in find could solve the mystery of Sir 10:00 The Forsyte Saga Cathy, but unable to have her, he John Franklin’s lost expedition. Episode 5: Irene leaves Soames seeks vengeance on those who for good, leaving behind everything, come between them. including her wedding ring.

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10:00 Jamestown 9 SATURDAY 11 MONDAY 7:00 Classic Gospel 7:00 New Tricks Bradley Walker, Call Me Old- The Truth Is Out There Fashioned 8:00 The Woman in White 8:00 Austin City Limits Episode 5: Sir Percival’s secret Austin City Limits Hall of Fame: is exposed, and Walter risks The First Six Years everything for the woman he loves. 9:00 Song of the Mountains 9:00 Poldark Episode 5: Governor Yeardley falls ill The Dillards & Mayberry Deputy on Masterpiece and Farlow is quick to seize power, 10:00 Backstage Pass Season 2, Episode 5: The threat but Redwick sees an opportunity. Joshua Powell: Psychedelic Indie rock of debtor’s prison looms for Ross. 11:00 Antiques Roadshow that blends with American folk music. Could a missing person hold the New Orleans, Hour 2 key to his freedom? 11:00 Rick Steves’ Europe Austrian and Italian Alps 10:00 The Forsyte Saga THURSDAY 11:30 Great Scenic 7 Railway Journeys 7:00 The Cities 7:30 Whitney Reynolds What Now 10 SUNDAY 8:00 Legacy List 7:00 Decoding the Driftless with Matt Paxton Anne Manley, Richmond, Virginia 9:00 Legacy List Episode 7: Soames continues to with Matt Paxton be obsessed with Irene and wants to resume their marriage since she won’t grant a divorce, but she leaves for Paris to escape his harassment. 11:00 The Forsyte Saga Episode 8: Soames learns that A wild adventure through the air, Irene and young Jolyon are across rugged landscapes, on together at Robin Hill. and under water, through a secret underworld, and across time itself Lenis Northmore, Newark, Delaware to explore and decipher ancient TUESDAY clues of the Driftless Region. 12 10:00 POV 7:00 Rick Steves’ Europe 306 Hollywood: After the owner of 8:00 The Illinois River Swiss Alps the house at 306 Hollywood Avenue Wetlands for Wildlife: Learn about dies, her two grandchildren begin an the environmental changes on the 7:30 Great Scenic epic excavation of her belongings. Illinois River and efforts to establish Railway Journeys a healthy environment for fish 8:00 Samantha Brown’s and waterfowl. Places to Love 8 FRIDAY 9:00 Glaciers of the Winds The Florida Keys & Key West 7:00 America’s Test Kitchen 8:30 Born to Explore 7:30 Cook’s Country with Richard Wiese Horse Power 8:00 Jacques Pepin’s Heart and Soul 9:00 Cycling Around Japan Cuisine Economique 9:30 Illinois Adventure 8:30 Pati’s Mexican Table 10:00 Finding Your Roots 9:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television Vietnamese Every Day Explore how receding alpine glaciers will affect the ecosystem, 9:30 Lidia’s Kitchen municipalities, farmers, and 10:00 Ask This Old House ranchers downstream. Reclaim Beam Mantel, Geothermal 10:00 10:30 This Old House The Swamp: The story of Florida’s Upgrading Old School Everglades and the repeated efforts to conquer what was once seen Hollywood Royalty: Isabella Rossellini, 11:00 Austin City Limits Anjelica Huston, and Mia Farrow. Austin City Limits Hall of Fame: as a useless wasteland and the The First Six Years passionate efforts to preserve it. 11:00 The Illinois River Solutions for Sediment

STERLING/ROCK FALLS MUSCATINE SAVANNA 13 WEDNESDAY 14 THURSDAY 15 FRIDAY 7:00 Antiques Roadshow 7:00 The Cities 7:00 America’s Test Kitchen American Stories: A Navajo belt, 7:30 Whitney Reynolds 7:30 Cook’s Country bracelet & basket, a WWI peach can label letter, and James McNeill 8:00 Legacy List 8:00 Jacques Pepin’s Whistler artwork. with Matt Paxton Heart and Soul 8:00 New Tricks 9:00 Shattered Dreams: Sex Trafficking in America A look at the pervasive, dark under- world of sex trafficking in America. 10:00 POV

Wonders of the Sea Fresh Starts: The UCOS team 8:30 Pati’s Mexican Table exhumes the body of car crash 9:00 Christopher Kimball’s victim Victoria Fleeting after her Milk Street Television husband David claims to have All-New Italian seen her at a local playground The Apology: Meet three of the 9:30 Lidia’s Kitchen 18 months after her death. 200,000 former “comfort women” 10:00 Ask This Old House 9:00 Wuthering Heights kidnapped and forced into military sexual slavery by the Imperial Landscape Lights, Brick Walkway 10:00 Jamestown Japanese Army during World War II. 10:30 This Old House Episode 6: As the settlers mark Outside Details the harvest, an arrival in town 11:30 Decoding the Driftless disrupts the celebrations. Buckle-up for a wild ride of science- 11:00 Austin City Limits adventure, above, on, and within perform classics and 11:00 Antiques Roadshow the amazing Driftless region of new songs from their record & New Orleans, Hour 3 North America. documentary series Sonic Highways.

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DAYTIME SCHEDULE THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY Dinosaur Train Mister Rogers Pinkalicious & Peterrific Wild Kratts Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum Hero Elementary SPORTS LIFE Daniel Tiger Xavier Riddle Speak the Global Daniel Tiger Curious George Let's Go Luna Daniel Tiger Language of Sport Daniel Tiger Daniel Tiger Sports Life presents sports stories, interviews Elinor Wonders Why Elinor with stars and reports from around the world. Sesame Street It’s Sew Easy The new magazine covers one topic a week Pinkalicious & Peterrific Fons and Porter and shows you how sport changes people’s Moveable Feast Simply Ming Antiques Roadshow lives. Everything we know about life can be Lidia’s Kitchen New Orleans Kitchen found in sports. Paint This Ask This Old House Watch Sports Life every weekend on DW. Joy of Painting This Old House

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Sesame Street Masterpiece Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum & Mysteries Odd Squad Wild Kratts Curious George Nature Cat Arthur Lawrence Welk Chicago Tonight Lawrence Welk BBC World News wqpt.org/schedule Schedule subject to change without notice. 10:00 The Forsyte Saga 10:00 Backstage Pass Episode 9: The Forsyte family, THURSDAY Willy Tea Taylor & The Harmed including Soames and Annette’s 21 Brothers 7:00 The Cities daughter, Fleur, gathers in London 11:00 Rick Steves’ Europe when June arrives with her 7:30 Whitney Reynolds French Alps and Lyon half-brother Jon. Longhaulers 11:30 Great Scenic 11:00 The Forsyte Saga 8:00 Legacy List Railway Journeys Episode 10: Fleur visits a farm with Matt Paxton Climb onboard the Alberta Prairie where Jon is working. Young Jolyon, 9:00 10 Towns That Railway in Canada, then the Boone who is ill, asks Soames to stop Fleur Changed America and Scenic Valley Railroad, and seeing his son, but Soames was the Heber Valley Railroad in Utah. unaware of their friendship.

TUESDAY 24 SUNDAY 19 7:00 NOVA 7:00 Rick Steves’ Europe French Alps and Lyon 7:30 Great Scenic Railway Journeys Ten towns designed from the 8:00 Samantha Brown’s ground up by visionary architects, Places to Love corporations, and citizens. Top of the South Island, New Zealand 10:00 NOVA Secrets of Noah’s Ark: A team 8:30 Two for the Road attempts to build the flood boat Cuba’s Cancer Hope: Can Cuba’s Adventure In Bolivia, Part 1 using inscriptions from an ancient innovative lung cancer vaccines 9:00 Cycling Around Japan clay tablet. give new hope to patients across 9:30 Illinois Adventure 11:00 POV the world? 10:00 Finding Your Roots 8:00 No Asylum: Breaking The Silences: Guests The Untold Chapter include Jordan Peele and Issa Rae. of Anne Frank’s Story Anne Frank’s father, Otto struggled 11:00 Ripple of Hope to obtain visas to save his family from the Holocaust, an unknown chapter of Anne’s life now revealed through Otto’s letters. 9:00 Dreams of Hope Whose Streets?: When unarmed The story of a historic concert at the teenager Michael Brown is killed by Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in police and left lying in the street for Birmingham, Alabama, more than hours, it marks a breaking point. 50 years after a hate crime there Robert F. Kennedy killed four African American girls. FRIDAY 10:00 My Survivor 22 Witness life-changing experiences 20 WEDNESDAY 7:00 America’s Test Kitchen of students who forged intimate 7:00 Antiques Roadshow 7:30 Cook’s Country relationships with Holocaust Vintage Baltimore 2021, Hour 1: 8:00 Jacques Pepin’s Heart survivors through an innovative Plains & Prairie American Indian art, and Soul Menu Memories internship program. a presentation sword with a Lincoln- 8:30 Pati’s Mexican Table 11:00 What Will signed appointment and an 1885 Become of Us Opening Day baseball program. 9:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television 8:00 New Tricks The Greek Kitchen Shadow Show 9:30 Lidia’s Kitchen 9:00 Elizabeth is Missing on Masterpiece 10:00 Ask This Old House Garden Upgrade, Adirondack Chair 10:30 This Old House Design Elements 11:00 Austin City Limits Follow six Armenian Americans, The War and Treaty, Ruthie Foster famous and otherwise, as they navigate the 100th anniversary of the Genocide, forging identities 23 SATURDAY for the next 100 years. 7:00 Classic Gospel A woman desperately tries to solve Mark Lowry, Dogs Go to Heaven two mysteries as she declines ever deeper into dementia. 8:00 Austin City Limits 25 MONDAY The War and Treaty, Ruthie Foster 7:00 New Tricks 11:00 Jamestown 9:00 Song of the Mountains Shadow Show: UCOS re-open an Henry presents his newfound riches Hillary Klug, David Childers, investigation when violent clips to the townsfolk and soon acquires Steve Gulley and Tim Stafford. of an actress are posted online. himself an array of eager friends.

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Inheritance: Thrown onto her own, Eliza goes to work as a private detective to get out of debt. Luckily, a family friend known as the Duke, is a policeman willing to help. A look back at one of the Midwest 10:00 Jamestown region’s most renowned festivals— Episode 8: A boat from the annual Mississippi Valley Blues Season 2, Episode 7: Elizabeth arrives. Yeardley receives instructions Festival held in Davenport. takes her future into her own heralding a political change. hands, while Ross reaches 10:30 Baba Wain: A Musical 11:00 Antiques Roadshow Note in the Key of Beauty a breaking point. Orlando, Hour 3 10:00 The Forsyte Saga 11:00 Rick Steves’ Europe Episode 11: Jon and Fleur meet Germany’s Fascist Story: Traveling at Robin Hill and Fleur relates THURSDAY across Germany, we learn how their parents’ history. 28 fascism rose and then fell, taking 7:00 The Cities millions of people with it. 11:00 The Forsyte Saga 7:30 Whitney Reynolds 11:30 Great Scenic Episode 12: Irene, who has told Ordinary People her son Jon about her relationship Railway Journeys Ride the White Pass and Yukon with Soames, wants to thwart 8:00PM Jon and Fleur’s love affair. Route Railroad in Alaska; the The Auction Tennessee Valley Railroad; plus the is at Your House Strasburg Railroad in Pennsylvania. TUESDAY Lights! Camera! Auction! 26 Don’t miss the first night of our 7:00 Rick Steves’ Europe SUNDAY Germany’s Fascist Story televised auction event featuring 31 a variety of unique items. 7:00 NOVA 7:30 Great Scenic Secrets in Our DNA: The value Railway Journeys 10:00 NOVA of DNA testing and the risks of 8:00 Samantha Brown’s Cuba’s Cancer Hope entrusting this private data to Places to Love 11:00 No Evidence of commercial enterprises and Disease Follow a unique rock online databases. band made up of six gynecologic 8:00 The Gene: oncology surgeons from across An Intimate History the country who are taking healing and the arts to a new level. 29 FRIDAY Sonoma County, 7:00 America’s Test Kitchen 8:30 Two for the Road 7:30 Cook’s Country Adventure in Bolivia, Part 2 8:00PM 9:00 Cycling Around Japan Episode 1: A fascinating history of The Auction the human genome weaves together 9:30 Illinois Adventure is at Your House science and personal stories. 10:00 Finding Your Roots The fun continues tonight! Patients with rare genetic diseases Coming to America: Guests include More great items! Don’t miss your and their doctors seek to discover Nancy Pelosi, Norah O’Donnell, chance to bid & win a variety of cures, often in a race against time. and Zac Posen. items and services. 10:00 NOVA 11:00 My Survivor The Truth About Fat: Scientists The realities of the Holocaust 10:00 Ask This Old House are coming to understand fat as a are being passed onto the Radiator Paint, Load Bearing Wall dynamic organ. Could it be that body next generation. 10:30 This Old House fat has more to do with biological Pizza Time processes than personal choices? WEDNESDAY 11:00 Austin City Limits 11:00 Living with 27 Sarah Jarosz, Ray Wylie Hubbard Alzheimer’s and Dementia 7:00 Antiques Roadshow Explore personal stories of those Vintage Baltimore 2021 who are living with dementia, 8:00 New Tricks SATURDAY insight from their care partners, Death of a Timeshare Salesman 30 and commentary from leading 7:00 Classic Gospel experts in dementia. Best of the Martins

JOSLIN DEWITT HILLSDALE BETTENDORF WOODHAUL MONTPELIER SHERRARD OUTREACHWITH MICHAEL CARTON WQPT Director of Educational Outreach With COVID-19 and whose work remains deeply influential keeping us home a around the world to this day. lot more this winter, In April, will release Hemingway many people are – a three-part, six-hour documentary turning to more series that will explore the life and work of traditional ways Ernest Hemingway. The film will paint an to pass the time. intimate picture of the legendary writer Families are playing and his enduring influence on literature more board games, and culture, so now is a great time to pull trying out new recipes, and doing puzzles. some of his classic stories off the shelf and Some people are taking up hobbies like get reacquainted. knitting and building model cars, while By the time spring comes around and the others are rediscovering their favorite film is released on WQPT, Hemingway’s books. stories will be fresh in your mind. That’ll All of these safe, indoor activities are be good, because we’re planning some great ways to pass the time, but I think exciting outreach around the film – and I this particular winter is perfectly suited for can’t wait to talk to you about your favorite reading with a purpose. We have a unique Hemingway stories! If you want to learn opportunity this winter to rediscover the more about the outreach we’re planning, works of a legendary writer who captured please email me at [email protected]. on paper the complexities of the human condition in sparse and profound prose,

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Kate Phillips (Peaky Blinders) stars in a six-part mystery as the headstrong, first-ever female detective in Victorian London, who won’t let any naysayers stop her from keeping her father’s business running. Stuart Martin (Jamestown) plays her childhood friend, professional colleague, and potential love interest, Scotland Yard Detective Inspector William Wellington, a.k.a., The Duke.

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