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1 THURSDAY 3 SATURDAY 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am) | 5:00 OPB (Also Mon 6pm) | OPB+ Magic Numbers: Hannah Fry’s OPB+ Marathon Architecture, continued (until Mysterious World of Maths Numbers as God 7pm) (Also Sun 9am) 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend 8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat One Skill Informs 6:00 OPB Start Up Michigan Fields/The Kitchen Another. Andiel Brown is the gospel choir By Cooking With Que director at University of Oregon. He’s also a bodybuilder and former Ducks football player. 7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Copenhagen/ (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ NOVA Wonders Denmark: Beyond Copenhagen (Also Sun 9am) Can We Make Life? (Also Sat 12am) | OPB+ The Four Sons and All Their Sons: A Passover Tale This beloved story has been 8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide The Timber Wars. a part of Passover for centuries. It’s been 30 years since the spotted owl was listed as a threatened species and logging 8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries A Brother Uprising LLC was curtailed throughout the Northwest. in Arms. A man claiming to be Frankie’s half- What’s happened since? (Also Sun brother begs for help. (Also Mon 12am) | 6:30pm) OPB+ Jazz A Masterpiece by Midnight (1961– NOVA Present). During the ‘60s, jazz is in trouble. 9:00 OPB Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Picture a Scientist (Also Sun 2am) Investigators This Promised End. Hitmen Women make up less than a threaten an undertaker. (Also Sun 2am) | 9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders The Christmas quarter of , technology, OPB+ NOVA Beyond the Elements: Reactions. Haunting. Pts 1&2. New detective Charlie Find the key molecules and chemical Nelson moves into Midsomer. engineering and math (STEM) reactions that paved the way for our world. professionals in the United States, 10:00 OPB+ Sacred Become immersed in daily (Also Sat 1am) and numbers are even lower for spiritual practices from around the world. 10:00 OPB Modus Ep 8. Authorities now know (Also Sun 12am) women of color. But a growing where to find Helen Tyler. (Also Sun 3am) | group of researchers is exposing 10:30 OPB The Forsyte Saga Ep 6. Old Jolyon OPB+ Amanpour & Company long-standing discrimination and dies. 11:00 OPB Masterpiece The Durrells in Corfu: making science more inclusive. 11:30 OPB POV Shorts Cherish | OPB+ POV Season 4, Ep 6. Larry throws an audacious Shorts The Calling Wednesday, April 14, 9pm play. (Also Sun 4am) | OPB+ DW Global 3000 OPB (Also Sat 2am) 11:30 OPB+ Variety Studio: Actors on Actors 4 SUNDAY (Also Sat 2:30am) 5:00 OPB Firing Line With Margaret Hoover 10:00 OPB Masterpiece World on Fire, Ep 1. | OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions When war breaks out, a young man vows to 2 FRIDAY Making a Restaurant, Pt 1 help his lover flee Warsaw. (Also Tue 3am) 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am) | 11:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 4, Ep 3. Rick Steves’ Europe Tuscany’s Dolce Vita OPB+ The Legacy List With Matt Paxton Demelza contends with a failing mine. (Also Shirley Macon/Aberdeen, NJ (Also Sun 10am) 6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat One Skill Informs Tue 4am) Another (R) | OPB+ Confucius Was a Foodie 8:00 OPB Father Brown The Scales of Justice. Sichuan (R) Bunty stands trial for murder. (Also Mon 1am) 5 MONDAY | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sun 4:30pm 6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide The Timber Wars (R) 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Tue 12am) | OPB) 7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show OPB+ A Wider World (Also Tue 5am OPB) 8:30 OPB+ The David Rubenstein Show: | Batter (Also Sun 4/11 12am) OPB+ Great 7:30 OPB+ Fly Brother With Ernest White II Peer-to-Peer Conversations Ken Griffin (Also Scenic Railway Journeys Eps 9&10 (R) Tajikistan: Crown of the World (Also Tue Sun 1pm) 8:00 OPB My Grandparents’ War Helena 4:30am) 9:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 7, Ep 2. Bonham Carter. Actress Helena Bonham 8:00 OPB Hemingway A Writer (1899–1929). Lucille faces racism and prejudice when a Carter explores the heroism of her Filmmakers Ken Burns and Lynne Novick new mother becomes ill. (Also Mon 2am) | grandparents during World War II. (Also examine the visionary work and the turbulent OPB+ Immigrant Nation | Tue 1am) OPB+ The Black Church: This Is life of Ernest Hemingway, one of the greatest (Also Sun 1:30pm) Our Story, This Is Our Song Eps 1&2. Trace and most influential writers America has the 400-year-old story of the Black church in 10:00 OPB Seaside Hotel Adventure in the ever produced. (Also Mon 10pm) | OPB+ America. (Also Tue 12am) Summer Night. A love triangle becomes more Confucius Was a Foodie Sweet (Also Sun complicated. (Also Mon 3am) | OPB+ 9:00 OPB Masterpiece 6pm) Amanpour & Company Atlantic Crossing, Ep 1. 9:00 OPB+ Coastal Railways With Julie A Norwegian princess 11:00 OPB Resistance Ep 3. Lili joins a new Walters West Highland Railway (Also Sun steals the heart of resistance group. (Also Mon 4am) | OPB+ 7pm) President Franklin Frontline Coal’s Deadly Dust (Also Mon 2am) Roosevelt during World War II. (Also Tue 2am)

2 APRIL 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 Hemingway A Writer (1899–1929) Mount St. Helens after the 1980 eruption. (R-Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Amanpour & (Also Sun 6:30pm) MONDAY – FRIDAY Company 9:00 OPB Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private 6:30 OPB Kids Programs (until noon) 11:00 OPB+ Reel South Muni/Flat Town (Also Investigators This Rough Magic. A magic Wed 2am) trick goes wrong. (Also Sun 2am) | OPB+ NOVA Beyond the Elements: Indestructible. 7am OPB+ NHK Newsline Can some scientific advancements backfire? 6 TUESDAY (Also Sat 1am) 7:30 OPB+ Sit & Be Fit (M/W/F); 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 12am) | Classical Stretch (Tu/Th) 10:00 OPB Vera Blood Will Tell. An entrepreneur OPB+ Nature American Spring Live: Birth and whose is being repossessed is found Rebirth 8am OPB+ Sewing & Knitting dead. (Also Sun 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & 8:00 OPB Hemingway The Avatar (1929–1944). Company 8:30 OPB+ Quilting Ernest Hemingway reports on the Spanish 11:00 OPB+ Harbor From the Holocaust In a Civil War and begins a stormy romance. story of hope, 20,000 Jews found refuge in 9am OPB+ Painting (Also Tue 10pm) | OPB+ South Pacific Fragile China during World War II. Paradise. A look at what’s being done to preserve the South Pacific. (Also Sun 3pm) 11:30 OPB On Story A Conversation With Gina 10am OPB+ Woodworking (M/W/Th); Prince-Bythewood (Also Sun 4:30am) This Old House (Tu/F) 9:00 OPB+ Europe’s New Wild The Missing Lynx (Also Sun 4pm) 10:30 OPB+ Food & Cooking 10:00 OPB Hemingway The Avatar (1929–1944) 9 FRIDAY (R-Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ Amanpour & 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am) | 11am OPB+ Nature (M); NOVA (Tu); Company OPB+ Fauci: Virus Hunter Get to know Dr. The Great American Read (W); Anthony Fauci’s life story and career. (Also (Th); Oregon 11:00 OPB+ 3 Seconds Behind the Wheel Sun 10am) Experience (F) Car cameras monitor the behavior of eight distracted drivers. (Also Thu 2am) 8:00 OPB Father Brown The Wisdom of the Fool. 12pm OPB Painting | OPB+ Civil Father Brown visits a jester convention. (Also Discourse (M); Between the Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Covers (Tu); Reconnecting Roots 7 WEDNESDAY Sun 4:30pm OPB) (W); In the Americas (Th); Trust 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu 12am) | 8:30 OPB+ The David Rubenstein Show: Docs (F) OPB+ We’ll Meet Again Surviving the Holocaust Peer-to-Peer Conversations Jean Liu (Also 8:00 OPB Hemingway The Blank Page (1944– Mon 12:30am) 12:30 OPB Food & Cooking | OPB+ 1961). Ernest Hemingway is overcome by a 9:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 7, Ep 3. Growing Bolder (M); GZero World declining mental condition. (Also Wed Valerie and Magda take part in a beauty (Tu); David Rubenstein: Peer-to- 10pm) | OPB+ G.I. Jews: Jewish Americans contest. (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+ Finding Peer (W); Chavis Chronicles (Th); in World War II Follow the story of the Your Roots Black Like Me (Also Sun 1:30pm) Seat at the Table (F) 550,000 brave Jewish Americans who served in World War II. (Also Fri 12am) 10:00 OPB Seaside Hotel End of Season. The 1pm OPB+ DW News Count finds himself in a touchy situation. 9:30 OPB+ Through the Eye of the Needle: (Also Mon 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & The Art of Esther Nisenthal Krinitz (Also Fri 1:30 OPB Travel | OPB+ DW: The Day Company 1:30am) 11:00 OPB Resistance Ep 4. Lili agrees to go 2pm OPB Kids Programs (until 6pm) | 10:00 OPB Hemingway The Blank Page undercover. (Also Mon 4am) | OPB+ Frontline OPB+ BBC Outside Source (M– (1944–1961) (R-Also Fri 1am) | OPB+ Right To Fail (Also Mon 2am) Th); BBC Today (F) Amanpour & Company

11:00 OPB+ Conquistadors With Michael 2:30 OPB+ BBC World News America Wood The Fall of the Aztecs (Also Fri 2am) 10 SATURDAY 5:00 OPB This Old House (Also Mon 6pm) | 3pm OPB+ News & Public Affairs 8 THURSDAY OPB+ Marathon Changing Seas, continued (until 7pm) 3:30 OPB+ NHK Newsline 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am) | 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend OPB+ Magic Numbers: Hannah Fry’s 4pm OPB+ PBS NewsHour Mysterious World of Maths Expanded 6:00 OPB Me Horizons (Also Sun 9am) 7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Istanbul/Iran: 5pm OPB+ Travel 8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat A Passage to Oregon. Tehran and Side Trips (Also Sun 9am) | OPB+ Anton Pavlenko was well known as a detailed Babe Ruth at Sing Sing 5:30 OPB+ Food & Cooking (until 7pm) plein-air painter, but he’s recently found a 8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries Things passion for abstract work. (Also Sun 6pm) Better Left Dead. Frankie concocts a chilling 6pm OPB Home Repair (M/Tu); Travel | OPB+ NOVA Wonders What’s the Universe ruse. (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ Baseball (W/Th/F) Made of? (Also Sat 12am) Our Game. Discover the origins of baseball. 8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Mount Saint (Also Sun 2am) 6:30 OPB BBC Outside Source Helens Special. Three stories explore life on (M–Th); BBC Today (F)

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9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders Let Us Prey, Wed 2am) | OPB+ Coastal Railways With Pts 1&2. A series of murders seem to be Julie Walters The East Coast Line (Also Sun inspired by a macabre medieval fresco. 7pm) 10:00 OPB+ POV The Gospel of Eureka. 10:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Meadow Brook Evangelical Christians and drag queens Hall, Hr 3 (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour dismantle stereotypes. (Also Sun 12am) & Company 10:30 OPB The Forsyte Saga Ep 7. Irene leaves 11:00 OPB Independent Lens Down a Dark for Paris. Stairwell. A Chinese American cop kills an innocent Black man in Brooklyn. (Also Wed 11:30 OPB POV Shorts The Spectrum of Divide | 4am) | OPB+ Reel South You Asked for the OPB+ FILMS BYKIDS Facts (Also Wed 2am)

11 SUNDAY 13 TUESDAY 5:00 OPB Firing Line With Margaret Hoover 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 12am) | | OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions OPB+ Nature American Spring Live: Migration Making a Restaurant, Pt 2 8:00 OPB Finding Your Roots The New World. 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Featuring actor John Lithgow and journalist Rick Steves’ Europe Italy’s Great Hill Towns . (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ 6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat A Passage to Oregon Animals Reunited Enjoy reunion tales from (R) | OPB+ Confucius Was a Foodie Sweet (R) around the world. (Also Sun 3pm) 6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Mount Saint 9:00 OPB American Experience Ruby Ridge. Helens Special (R) The 1992 FBI siege helped launch the modern militia movement. (Also Thu 2am) | OPB+ 7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Watch your Europe’s New Wild Return of the Titans (Also Pastry (Also Sun 4/18 12am) | OPB+ Coastal Sun 4pm) Railways With Julie Walters West Highland favorites Railway (R) 10:00 OPB Frontline American Insurrection. Examine the rising threat of far-right violence 8:00 OPB My Grandparents’ War Mark Rylance. in America. (Also Fri 11pm OPB+) | OPB+ The actor explores the extraordinary story of any time with Amanpour & Company his grandfather during World War II. (Also Tue 1am) | OPB+ Marathon History of 11:00 OPB Connected: A Search for Unity Christianity: The First Christianity/Catholicism/ The River. Compassionate people from Orthodoxy (Also Tue 12am) Laredo, Texas, home to the largest inland port in America, are visited. (Also Thu 4am) | 9:00 OPB Masterpiece Atlantic Crossing, Ep 2. Stream all your favorite OPB OPB+ First Language: The Race To Save Prince Olav and the king plan their escape. Cherokee (Also Thu 2am) shows when and where you (Also Tue 2am) want. 10:00 OPB Masterpiece World on Fire, Ep 2. Kasia joins the Polish resistance. (Also Tue 14 WEDNESDAY Activate OPB Passport and 3am) 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu 12am) | OPB+ Building the American Dream In download the free PBS Video 11:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 4, Ep 4. Texas, immigrant construction workers seek Ross reunites with his family. (Also Tue 4am) | App on your smart TV, phone, justice and equality in an industry rife with OPB+ Pilgrimage: The Road to Rome Ep 1. exploitation. tablet or other streaming device British celebrities embark on a and start streaming today! 1,000-kilometer pilgrimage. 8:00 OPB Nature The Leopard Legacy. A leopard Binge-watch shows mother faces many 12 MONDAY challenges as she raises her like Hemingway and 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour | OPB+ A Wider cubs in Africa. (Also Sun Downton Abbey World (Also Tue 5am OPB) 10am) | OPB+ PBS American Portrait I Dream/I Get extended access to a 7:30 OPB+ Fly Brother With Ernest White II Work (Also Sun 11am) Cape Town: The City Beautiful (Also Tue library of 1600+ episodes 4:30am) 9:00 OPB NOVA Picture a Scientist. See callout on page 2. (Also Sun 11am) Stream OPB TV live on 8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Vintage Las any device Vegas 2021, Hr 1 (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ 10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company Confucius Was a Foodie Salt (Also Sun 6pm) 11:00 OPB Ancient Skies Gods and Monsters. 9:00 OPB Unearthing Ogawa The diary of a Learn what our ancestors understood about Learn more at Japanese soldier found by an American in a the mysteries of space. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ opb.org/pbsapp cave leads to discoveries decades later. (Also Conquistadors With Michael Wood The Conquest of the Incas (Also Fri 2am)

4 APRIL 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

15 THURSDAY 17 SATURDAY SATURDAYS 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am) | 5:00 OPB This Old House (Also Mon 6pm) | OPB+ Magic Numbers: Hannah Fry’s OPB+ Urban Conversion It Takes a Village 6-10am OPB Kids Programs | OPB+ News, Mysterious World of Maths Weirder and Politics & Business 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Weirder (Also Sun 9am) Living Dream: 100 Years of Rocky Mountain 10am OPB Gardening | OPB+ Marathons 8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Vietnam. Portland National Park (until 7pm) Museums & Architecture artist Dao Strom’s work explores the (4/3); Changing Seas (4/10); Urban 6:00 OPB Shelter Me intersection of her Vietnamese birth and Conversation/Living Dream (4/17); American life. (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ The 7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Iran’s Historic Best of Joy of Painting (4/24) Last Artifact Scientists and metrologists Capitals/Croatia: Adriatic Delights (Also Sun 11:00 OPB Sewing & Quilting work to redefine the kilogram. (Also Sat 12am) 9am) | OPB+ Major League Cuban Baseball The history of Cubans in the major leagues. 1pm OPB Cooking 8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Pika Comeback. Pika thrive in the cool, damp climate of the 8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries Life on the 3pm OPB Motorweek Columbia River Gorge. But when wildfire Line. The team goes undercover at a struck, were they able to survive? (Also telephone exchange. (Also Mon 12am) | 3:30 OPB Woodworking Sun 6:30pm) OPB+ Baseball Something Like a War. Meet 4:30 OPB Home Repair some of early baseball’s most colorful 9:00 OPB Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private characters. (Also Sun 2am) Investigators Toil and Trouble. Lu and Frank try to exonerate a local criminal. (Also Sun 9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders Wild Harvest, 2am) | OPB+ NOVA Beyond the Elements: Life. Pts 1&2. A farmer is found dead and the SUNDAYS Discover surprising molecules that allowed investigation leads to a tyrannical celebrity chef. 6-9am OPB Kids Programs | OPB+ for the origination of life. (Also Sat 1am) Lifestyles 10:00 OPB+ POV 93queen. Follow an all-female 10:00 OPB Vera Parent Not Expected. A teenager’s volunteer ambulance corps. (Also Sun 12am) 9am OPB Rick Steves’ Europe | OPB+ body is recovered near a salmon farm. (Also Magic Numbers: Hannah Fry’s 10:30 OPB The Forsyte Saga Ep 8. Soames Sun 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company Mysterious World of Maths (4/4, learns that Irene and young Jolyon are 4/11, 4/18); Far Afield: A 11:00 OPB+ DW Global 3000 (Also Sat 2am) together. Conservation Love Story (4/25) 11:30 OPB On Story A Conversation With Akiva | 11:30 OPB POV Shorts In the Absence OPB+ 9:30 OPB+ Rewilding a Mountain (4/25) Goldsman (Also Sun 4:30am) | OPB+ FILMS BYKIDS Variety Studio: Actors on Actors (Also 10am OPB Science & Nature (until noon) Sat 2:30am) | OPB+ Legacy List With Matt 18 SUNDAY Paxton (4/4); Fauci: Virus Hunter 5:00 OPB Firing Line With Margaret Hoover (4/11); Queen Elizabeth’s Secret 16 FRIDAY | OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions The Agents (4/18, 4/25) 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am) | Beach Vacation, Pt 1 11am OPB+ Not Done: Women OPB+ Queen Elizabeth’s Secret Agents Ep 1. 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Remaking America (4/4); PBS Uncover the secret state that kept Queen Rick Steves’ Europe Vienna American Portrait Story (4/18, Elizabeth I in power. (Also Sun 10am) 4/25 until 1pm) 6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Vietnam (R) | OPB+ 8:00 OPB Father Brown The Folly of Jephthah. Noon OPB American Masters Doc Confucius Was a Foodie Salt (R) Flambeau seeks to remove an unwanted rival. Severinson (4/4); Great Performances (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week 6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Pika Comeback (R) Jonas Kaufmann (4/11); Romeo & (Also Sun 4:30pm OPB) Juliet (4/25) | OPB+ American 7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Masters Holly Near (4/4) 8:30 OPB+ The David Rubenstein Show: Botanical (Also Sun 4/25 12am) | OPB+ Peer-to-Peer Conversations Steve Ballmer Coastal Railways With Julie Walters The 1pm OPB American Masters Oliver Sacks (Also Mon 12:30am) East Coast Line (R) (4/11); Beethoven in Beijing (4/18) | OPB+ The David Rubenstein 9:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 7, Ep 4. Sister 8:00 OPB My Grandparents’ War Kristin Scott Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations Julienne navigates a complex situation with a Thomas. Actress Kristin Scott Thomas Pakistani family. (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+ explores a lost chapter of her family history 1:30 OPB Great Performances Twilight: Finding Your Roots Children of the Revolution during World War II. (Also Tue 1am) | OPB+ Los Angeles (4/4) | OPB+ Finding (Also Sun 1:30pm) Marathon History of Christianity: Reformation/ Your Roots Protestantism/God in the Dock (Also Tue 12am) 10:00 OPB on Walter 2pm OPB Great Performances Ellis Presents Ep 1. When a doctor wakes up from 9:00 OPB Masterpiece Atlantic Crossing, Ep 3. Island: The Dream of America (4/25) a coma, she finds her life has taken a drastic Princess Martha and the children flee to 2:30 OPB On Story On Writing Chernobyl turn. (Also Mon 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & America. (Also Tue 2am) (4/18) | OPB+ Seat at the Table Company 10:00 OPB Masterpiece World on Fire, Ep 3. Tom 3pm OPB News & Public Affairs (until 11:00 OPB Resistance Ep 5. Lili sends a coded faces the fight of his life. (Also Tue 3am) 6pm) | OPB+ South Pacific (4/4, message to London. (Also Mon 4am) | OPB+ 4/11); Animals Reunited (4/18); 11:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 4, Ep 5. Frontline American Insurrection (R-Also Mon Rivers of Life The Amazon (4/25) 2am) Ross faces successive failures. (Also Tue 4am) | OPB+ Pilgrimage: The Road to Rome 4pm OPB+ Outdoor Idaho (4/4); Europe’s Ep 2. The pilgrims continue their journey. New Wild (4/11, 4/18, 4/25)

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19 MONDAY 9:00 OPB NOVA Reef Rescue. Scientists race to help corals adapt to warming oceans. (Also | 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Tue 12am) Sun 11am) OPB+ A Wider World (Also Tue 5am OPB) 10:00 OPB Critical Care: America vs. the 7:30 OPB+ Fly Brother With Ernest White II World – PBS NewsHour Presents America’s Double Feature: Bogota and Casablanca (Also healthcare system is examined next to those Tue 4:30am) of other nations. (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ 8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Vintage Las Amanpour & Company | Vegas 2021, Hr 2 (Also Wed 1am) OPB+ 11:00 OPB Ancient Skies Finding the Center. Yoni Brook Confucius Was a Foodie Tea:​ Culture, Locate our planet’s place in the cosmos. (Also Celebration, Commerce and Cuisine (Also Sun Fri 4am) | OPB+ Conquistadors With Independent Lens 6pm) Michael Wood The Search for El Dorado (Also Philly D.A. 9:00 OPB Oregon Experience The Jewish Fri 2am) Frontier. Jewish pioneers were among the In this groundbreaking docuseries, earliest settlers in the Far West. (Also Wed 22 THURSDAY go inside the emotional, high- 2am) | OPB+ Coastal Railways With Julie stakes work of Philadelphia District 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am) | Walters The Great Western Road (Also Sun Attorney Larry Krasner. Together 7pm) OPB+ Far Afield: A Conservation Love Story Bert Raynes inspired people to observe and with an ensemble of idealistic 10:00 OPB American care about their wild neighbors. outsiders from different walks of Experience American Oz. life, Krasner takes on a fundamental Follow the life of author 7:30 OPB+ Rewilding a Mountain Witness an L. Frank Baum, the man amazing transformation on Hart Mountain in overhaul of an entrenched criminal behind ‘The Wonderful Oregon. (Also Thu 11pm OPB) justice system. Wizard of Oz.’ | OPB+ 8:00 OPB Greta Thunberg: A Year To Change Tuesday, April 20, 9pm Amanpour & Company the World Eps 1–3. Join the teen activist as OPB 11:00 OPB+ Reel South That’s Wild (Also Wed she works to mobilize all of us to slow down 2am) climate change. (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ Secrets of the Dead Hannibal in the Alps. Uncover the mystery of Hannibal’s attack on 10:00 OPB No Second Chance on Walter 20 TUESDAY Rome. (Also Sat 12am) Presents Ep 2. Alice attempts to locate her | sister. (Also Mon 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 12am) 9:00 OPB+ Secrets of the Dead Building Notre & Company OPB+ Nature American Spring Live: Dame. See how the iconic cathedral was Connections created. (Also Sat 1am) 11:00 OPB Resistance Ep 6. Lili escapes the Gestapo and returns to Paris. (Also Mon 4am) 8:00 OPB Finding Your Roots Laughing on the 10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company Inside. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the | OPB+ Frontline Sex Trafficking in America family trees of comedians Lewis Black and 11:00 OPB Rewilding a Mountain (R-Also Sun (R-Also Mon 2am) Roy Wood, Jr. (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ 4am) | OPB+ DW Global 3000 (Also Sat 2am) Rivers of Life The Amazon (Also Sun 3pm) 11:30 OPB America’s Forests With Chuck 24 SATURDAY 9:00 OPB Independent Lens Philly D.A., Eps 1&2. Leavell Oregonians embrace new ways of 5:00 OPB This Old House (Also Mon 6pm) | See callout on this page. (Also Thu 2am) | engaging with . (Also Sun 4:30am) | OPB+ Marathon Best of the Joy of Painting, OPB+ Europe’s New Wild The Land of the OPB+ Variety Studio: Actors on Actors continued (until 7pm) Snow and Ice (Also Sun 4pm) (Also Sat 2:30am) 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend 10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company 6:00 OPB The Legacy List With Matt Paxton 11:00 OPB Connected: A Search for Unity The 23 FRIDAY Six Generations of Stuff/Leesburg, VA Sea. Fishing is a passion for the residents of 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am) | Port Clyde, Maine. (Also Thu 4am) | OPB+ OPB+ Queen Elizabeth’s Secret Agents Ep 2. 7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Dubrovnik and The Plastic Problem: PBS Newshour Cecil battles for his spy network. (Also Sun Balkan Side-Trips/The Best of Slovenia (Also Presents See what’s being done about our 10am) Sun 9am) | OPB+ Signs of the Time Explore single-use plastics problem. (Also Thu 2am) the origins of baseball’s hand signals. 8:00 OPB Father Brown The Numbers of the Beast. A fortune teller helps Mrs. McCarthy 8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries Out on a 21 WEDNESDAY at bingo. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Limb. Frankie goes undercover as a hostess. Washington Week (Also Sun 4:30pm) (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ Baseball The 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu 12am) | Faith of 50 Million People. Babe Ruth makes OPB+ Life in Synchro Synchronized skaters 8:30 OPB+ Beyond the Canvas The Writers his first major league appearance. (Also Sun lift, leap and spin in ways the rink has never World (Also Mon 12:30am) 2am) seen. 9:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 7, Ep 5. 9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders The Flying Club, 8:00 OPB Nature Sharks of Hawaii. Learn Lucille tries to win the trust of a fearful Pts 1&2. A body is dropped out of a plane. surprising facts about Hawaii’s sharks. mother. (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+ Finding Your (Also Sun 10am) | OPB+ PBS American Roots Relatives We Never Knew We Had (Also 10:00 OPB+ POV The War To Be Her. Maria Portrait I Keep/I Rise (Also Sun 11am) Sun 1:30pm) Toorpakai defied the Taliban in order to play squash. (Also Sun 12am)

6 APRIL 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

10:30 OPB The Forsyte Saga Ep 9. Fleur and 11:00 OPB+ Reel South The Passing On (Also 29 THURSDAY Jon meet again. Wed 2am) 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am) | 11:30 OPB POV Shorts Uniquely Euro | OPB+ OPB+ Good Work: Masters of the Building FILMS BYKIDS 27 TUESDAY Arts Meet America’s master painters, stone 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 12am) | masons and artisans. (Also Sun 9am) 25 SUNDAY OPB+ Nature Okavango: River of Dreams: 8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Then and Now. In the Inferno 5:00 OPB Firing Line With Margaret Hoover 1930s, up-and-coming photographer Minor | OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions The 8:00 OPB Finding Your Roots On Broadway. White was hired to document some of Beach Vacation, Pt 2 Featuring Broadway stars Audra MacDonald Portland’s early architecture. (Also Sun and Mandy Patinkin. (Also Thu 1am) | 1am) | OPB+ Sinking Cities New York/Tokyo. 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ OPB+ Rivers of Life The Nile (Also Thu 12am) Cities prepare for rising sea levels and Rick Steves’ Europe Salzburg and superstorms. (Also Sat 12am) Surroundings 9:00 OPB Independent Lens Philly D.A., Ep 3. The murder of a police sergeant tests the 8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Coronavirus and 6:00 OPB Greta Thunberg: A Year To Change D.A.’s resolve. (Also Thu 2am) | OPB+ Wildfire. COVID-19 is adding new challenges the World Ep 1 (R-Also Wed 8pm) | OPB+ Europe’s New Wild Europe’s Amazon (Also to the already difficult job of being a wildland Confucius Was a Foodie Tea:​ Culture, Thu 1am) firefighter. (Also Sun 1:30am) Celebration, Commerce and Cuisine (R) 10:00 OPB Frontline The Virus That Shook the 9:00 OPB Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private 7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show World, Pt 2. Explore differing struggles, beliefs Investigators Exit, Pursued by a Bear. A Desserts | OPB+ Coastal Railways With Julie and responses during the pandemic. (Also former soap star is threatened. (Also Sun Walters The Great Western Road (R) Fri 11pm) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company 2am) 8:00 OPB My Grandparents’ War Carey 11:00 OPB Connected: A Search for Unity 10:00 OPB Vera Dirty. The murder of a cleaner Mulligan. Actress Carey Mulligan travels to The Divide. Monty Moran meets residents of puts Vera on an intriguing trail. (Also Sun Japan to explore her grandfather’s experience Brunswick, Georgia, where Ahmaud Arbery 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company during World War II. (Also Tue 1am) | OPB+ was killed. (Also Thu 4am) | OPB+ Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet Follow the 11:00 OPB+ DW Global 3000 (Also Sat 2am) Lighthawk: Destination Conservation life of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. (Also Volunteer pilots support conservation efforts. 11:30 OPB On Story A Conversation With Brenda Tue 12am) (Also Thu 2am) Chapman (Also Sun 4:30am) | OPB+ 9:00 OPB Masterpiece Atlantic Crossing, Ep 4. Beyond the Canvas All About the Music (Also Martha is pressured to exploit her friendship Sat 2:30am) with the president. (Also Tue 2am) 28 WEDNESDAY 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu 12am) | 10:00 OPB Masterpiece World on Fire, Ep 4. 30 FRIDAY OPB+ Jim Crow of the North Learn why Harry’s courage is tested. (Also Tue 3am) | Minnesota suffers with some of the worst 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ Great Museums: The Art of Islam at racial disparities in the nation. OPB+ Queen Elizabeth’s Secret Agents Ep 3. the Met and the Louvre Cecil exposes a terrorist threat. (Also Sun 8:00 OPB Greta Thunberg: A Year To Change 11:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 4, Ep 6. 10am) the World Ep 1 (R-Also Fri 1am) | OPB+ George aims to ruin a business rival. (Also Independent Lens Coded Bias. An MIT 8:00 OPB Father Brown The River Corrupted. Tue 4am) | OPB+ Pilgrimage: The Road to researcher exposes bias in facial recognition Sid returns to Kembleford. (Also Mon 1am) | Rome Ep 3. The pilgrims begin the final technology. (Also Fri 12am) OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sat 6am) stretch of their journey. 9:00 OPB NOVA Fighting for Fertility. Explore 8:30 OPB+ Beyond the Canvas The Greats (Also Mon 12:30am) 26 MONDAY the barriers to fertility, from the social to the biological. (Also Fri 2am) 9:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 7, Ep 6. 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Tue 12am) | 9:30 OPB+ Signing Black in America Learn Barbara gets involved with a widow. (Also OPB+ A Wider World (Also Tue 5am OPB) how Black American Sign Language Mon 2am) | OPB+ Finding Your Roots 7:30 OPB+ Journey on the Trans-Siberian developed in historically segregated African Southern Roots (Also Sun 1:30pm) Railway American deaf communities. (Also Fri 1:30am) 10:00 OPB No Second Chance on Walter 8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Vintage Wichita 10:00 OPB Human: Presents Ep 3. Alice finds new hope. (Also (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Confucius Was a The World Within Mon 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company Foodie Huaiyang (Also Wed 12am) React. Explore the (Also Mon 5am) incredible universe 9:00 OPB The West Is Burning Examine the 11:00 OPB A Place To Call Home Own Worst inside each and every state of western forests and the history of Enemy. A local youth disrupts Inverness’s one of us. (Also Fri forest management. (Also Wed 2am) | Anzac Day ceremony. (Also Mon 4am) | OPB+ 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company OPB+ Coastal Railways With Julie Walters Frontline The Virus That Shook the World, Pt 2 Wales to Liverpool (Also Wed 1am) 11:00 OPB Ancient Skies Our Place in the (R-Also Mon 2am) Universe. Scientific pioneers reshape our 10:00 OPB Frontline The Virus That Shook understanding of the solar system. (Also Fri the World, Pt 1. The epic story of people 4am) | OPB+ Conquistadors With Michael around the world living through the year of Wood All the World Is Human (Also Fri 2am) the pandemic. (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company

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