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OPB+ POV Grit. A community demands 1 FRIDAY reparations after being submerged by a 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Tue 12am) | tsunami of mud. (Also Sun 1am) OPB+ Arab American Stories Eps 10 &11. People organize to uphold the rights of American citizens. (Also Sun 10am) 3 SUNDAY Vayno/Shutterstock 5:00 OPB Firing Line With Margaret Hoover 8:00 OPB Shakespeare & Hathaway: | OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels and Traditions Private Investigators Nothing Will Come Have a Healthy Trip K-12 Educational of Nothing. Lu and Frank delve into the world of high-stakes gambling. (Also Mon 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Programming: 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sun Rick Steves’ Europe North Wales: Feisty Weekdays on OPB 4:30pm OPB) and Poetic OPB has adjusted our television 8:30 OPB+ Norman Mineta and His 6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Ceramics Special schedules to support K-12 Legacy: An American Story Mineta rose to (R) | OPB+ South Pacific Castaways (R) become the first Asian American to serve in a students with grade-level and 6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Adaptive presidential cabinet. (Also Sun 1pm) subject-based programs during Skiing (R) the coronavirus outbreak. This 9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders The Dagger 7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show provides thousands of children Club. A festival is upended after a manuscript Masterclass 2 (Also Sun 5/10 12am) | OPB+ disappears. (Also Mon 2am) access to educational lessons Pilgrimage: The Road to Rome Ep 3 (R) while Oregon schools are 9:30 OPB+ Reconnecting Roots Travel: 8:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 9, Ep 6. closed. OPB’s primary broadcast Migration to Mobility (Also Sun 2pm) Fred attempts to reinstate a cancelled television channel now focuses on 10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also horticulture show. (Also Tue 1am) | OPB+ educational content from 6am to Mon 4am) NOVA Back to the Moon. Governments and 6pm, Monday through Friday. private industry prepare for a new age in 10:30 OPB Modus Season 2, Ep 3. Swedish space travel. (Also Tue 12am) Look for the education police clash with the FBI. (Also Mon schedule in the ‘Weekdays’ 3:30am) 9:00 OPB Masterpiece section on page 3. World on Fire, Ep 5. Harry 11: 00 OPB+ Frontline Coronavirus Pandemic and his unit reach Dunkirk. (R-Also Mon 2am) (Also Tue 2am) | OPB+ 11:30 OPB On Story On Writing Chernobyl NOVA The Planets: Inner (Also Mon 4:30am) Worlds/Mars (Also Tue 1am) 5 TUESDAY 10:00 OPB Masterpiece Baptiste, Ep 4. Edward 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu 12am) | 2 SATURDAY makes a reckless move. (Also Tue 3am) OPB+ Shelter Me In Times of Need (Also Wed 5am OPB+) 5:00 OPB This Old House Cape Ann/Tiling 11: 00 OPB Spies of Warsaw Ep 4. Mercier is a Family Affair (Also Mon 6pm) | OPB+ decides to help France and Poland. (Also Tue 8:00 OPB The Queen at War Follow Queen Marathon Lucky Chow, continued (until 7pm) 4am) | OPB+ Secrets of the Dead Galileo’s Elizabeth II’s experiences during World War II Moon. Galileo’s ‘Sidereus Nuncius’ changed and learn how she was shaped by the war. 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend our understanding of the cosmos. (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ Gorilla Family and 6:00 OPB Somewhere South It’s a Greens Me Eps 1&2. Gordon Buchanan gains the trust of a gorilla family. (Also Sun 3pm) Thing 4 MONDAY 7:00 OPB Art Wolfe’s Travels to the Edge 9:00 OPB American Experience George W. 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 12am) | Patagonia: Mount Fitz Roy (Also Sun 9:30am) Bush, Pt 2. War in Iraq ensues as President OPB+ A Wider World Season 10, Eps 7&8. | OPB+ No Passport Required Philadelphia Bush begins his second term. (Also Thu A veterans group gives medical goods a 2am) 7:30 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Helsinki and second life. (Also Tue 5am) Tallinn: Baltic Sisters (Also Sun 9am) 10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also 8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow McNay Art Wed 4am) 8:00 OPB A Place To Call Home Reaching Museum, Hr 3 (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Home. Sarah and George prepare to leave for South Pacific Endless Blue (Also Sun 6pm) 11: 00 OPB Pacific Heartbeat Anote’s Ark Israel. (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ Country (R-Also Thu 4am) | OPB+ Skindigenous 9:00 OPB Fire in the Heartland: Kent State, Music The Sons and Daughters of America Kahnawake/New Mexico (Also Thu 2am) May 4th, and Student Protest in America (1964–1968) (Also Sun 2am) The story of students who lost their lives 9:00 OPB Death in Paradise Season 3, Ep 8. protesting at Kent State University. (Also Fri 6 WEDNESDAY Humphrey’s wife returns. 8:30pm OPB+) | OPB+ Penelope Keith’s 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am) | Hidden Villages East Anglia (Also Sun 7pm) 10:00 OPB Jamestown Season 2, Ep 6. OPB+ History of Christianity God in the Ghostly happenings reveal Samuel’s true 10:00 OPB American Experience George W. Dock (Also Thu 5am) murderer. | OPB+ POV Farmsteaders. The Bush, Pt 1. Explore the life and tumultuous 8:00 OPB Spy in Nolans try to resurrect their family’s dairy presidency of George W. Bush. (Also Wed the Wild: A Nature farm. (Also Sun 12am) 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Miniseries The North. Tue 4am) 11: 00 OPB Last Tango in Halifax Ep 4. Spy creatures learn how Police search for Alan and Celia. | 11: 00 OPB+ Pacific Heartbeat Mele Murals animals move, feed and (Also Wed 2am) fight. (Also Sun 10am) 2 MAY 2020 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/tvchannels Full schedule and VOD at opb.org/schedules Programs are subject to change weekdays
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9:00 OPB H20: The Molecule That Made Us 10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also 5:30 OPB BBC World News Crisis. People are forced to adapt to Earth’s Mon 4am) changing water cycle and more. (Also Sun 10:30 OPB Modus Season 2, Ep 4. Ingvar and 6am OPB Natural Science (Grades 11am ) Inger’s private lives are put to the test. K-3) | OPB+ Lifestyles 10:00 OPB Expedition With Steve (Also Mon 3:30am) Backshall Mexico: Maya Underworld. See 6:30 OPB History (Grades K-3) 11: 00 OPB+ Frontline Bitter Rivals: Iran and callout on page 4. (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ Saudi Arabia, Pt 1. Examine the rivalry that Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 4am) plunged the Middle East into sectarian war. 7am OPB Math (Grades K-3) | 11: 00 OPB Power Trip: The Story of Energy (Also Mon 2am) OPB+ NHK Newsline Wealth. Energy has changed the way wealth 11:30 OPB In This Together: A PBS is concentrated. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ 7:30 OPB+ Fitness American Portrait Story (Also Mon The Day the ‘60s Died Revisit the turbulent 4:30am) spring of 1970. (Also Fri 2am) 8am OPB Science (Grades K-3) | OPB+ Sewing & Knitting 9 SATURDAY 7 THURSDAY 8:30 OPB Financial Literacy (Grades 5:00 OPB This Old House (Also Mon 6pm) 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am) | K-3) | OPB+ Painting | OPB+ Marathon Pati’s Mexican Table, OPB+ This Old House Hour (Also Sun continued (until 7pm) 9am) 9am OPB Science (Grades 4-8) | 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend 8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Paper Arts. The OPB+ Woodworking paper mosaic work of Mary Wells is the 6:00 OPB Somewhere South How Do You story of her life. (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ Cue? 10am OPB History (Grades 4-8) | Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed OPB+ Food & Cooking (until 7:00 OPB Art Wolfe’s Travels to the Edge the World The Rocket (Also Sat 1am) noon) The Southwest: Zion and Canyon de Chelly 8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Losing Our (Also Sun 9:30am) | OPB+ Somewhere 11am OPB Local: Natural Science, Dark Skies. Light pollution is hurting people South American as Hand Pie Arts & Culture and wildlife more than you might think. 7:30 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Galicia and (Also Sun 6:30pm) the Camino de Santiago (Also Sun 9am) 11:30 OPB Local History 9:00 OPB Inspector Morse Absolute 8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries The Old Conviction. A man convicted of a large financial Switcheroo. An old rival peddles antiquities. Noon OPB Social Studies & Science swindle dies in prison. (Also Sun 2am) | (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ Country Music (Grades 4-8) | OPB+ Second OPB+ Niall Ferguson’s Networld Disruption Will the Circle Be Unbroken? (1968–1972) Opinion (M); Gardening (Tu); 10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also (Also Sun 2am) Travel (W/Th); Make it Artsy (F) Fri 4am) 9:00 OPB Hinterland Season 3, Ep 1. Mathias 12:30 OPB+ Aging (M); GZero World 11: 00 OPB Masterpiece Grantchester: Season returns to Aberystwyth. (Tu); Start Up (W); Journeys 3, Ep 2. Sidney and Geordie investigate the 10:00 OPB Jamestown Season 2, Ep 7. in Japan (Th); Ask This Old appearance of a dead bird. (Also Sun 4am) | Maria runs away. | OPB+ POV Blowin’ Up. House (F) OPB+ DW Global 3000 (Also Sat 2am) A team works to help women arrested for 11:30 OPB+ Articulate With Jim Cotter prostitution. (Also Sun 12am) 1pm OPB Science (Grades 4-8) | Beyond the Status Quo (Also Sat 2:30am) OPB+ News & Public Affairs 11: 00 OPB Last Tango in Halifax Ep 5. (until 5pm) Caroline throws herself into her new relationship.
8 FRIDAY 11:30 OPB+ POV Shorts Water Warriors (Also 2pm OPB Literature & Liberal Arts 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour | OPB+ Arab Sun 1:30am) (Grades 4-12) American Stories Eps 12&13. Meet indi- viduals who have made lasting contributions 3pm OPB World History (Grades 9-12) to American institutions. (Also Sun 10am) 10 SUNDAY 5:00 OPB Firing Line With Margaret Hoover 8:00 OPB Shakespeare & Hathaway: 4pm OPB U.S. History (Grades 9-12 | OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels and Traditions Private Investigators In My Memory until 6pm) Tea for Two Lock’d. A wounded man can’t remember who he is. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ 5pm OPB+ Travel Washington Week (Also Sun 4:30pm OPB) Rick Steves’ Europe Edinburgh 5:30 OPB+ Food & Cooking (until 7pm) 8:30 OPB+ Fire in the Heartland: Kent 6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Paper Arts (R) | State, May 4th, and Student Protest in OPB+ South Pacific Endless Blue (R) America (R-Also Sun 1pm) 6pm OPB Home Repair (M/Tu); Travel 6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Losing Our (W/Th/F) 9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders Murder by Dark Skies (R) Magic, Pts 1&2. A woman suffers a crushing 7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show 6:30 OPB BBC Outside Source fate. (Also Mon 2am) Masterclass 3 (Also Sun 5/17 12am) | (M–Th); BBC Today (F)
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OPB+ Penelope Keith’s Hidden Villages 9:00 OPB+ Nature Natural Born Hustlers: Steve attempts to summit a remote and East Anglia (R) Staying Alive. Meet the cheats and sneaks of unclimbed mountain. (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ the animal world. (Also Sun 4pm) Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 4am) 8:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 9, Ep 7. Kevin’s newest patient has a troubled home life. 10:00 OPB Asian Americans Breaking 11: 00 OPB Power Trip: The Story of Energy (Also Tue 1am) | OPB+ NOVA The Planets: Through. At the turn of the millennium, Cities. Explore the connected futures of cities Jupiter/Saturn/Ice Worlds (Also Tue 12am) Asian Americans were empowered by and energy. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ Hayao rising influence. (Also Thu 3am) | OPB+ Miyazaki: 10 Years With the Master 9:00 OPB Masterpiece World on Fire, Ep 6. Amanpour & Company (Also Wed 4am) Ponyo is Here. Miyazaki dreams up his hit Paris falls to the Nazis. (Also Tue 2am) movie ‘Ponyo on the Cliff By the Sea.’ 11: 00 OPB Pacific Heartbeat Power Meri 10:00 OPB Masterpiece Baptiste, Ep 5. Julien (Also Fri 2am) (R-Also Thu 4am) | OPB+ Skindigenous plots an audacious move. (Also Tue 3am) India/Taiwan (Also Thu 2am) 11: 00 OPB Before We Die Ep 1. Police detective 14 THURSDAY Hanna Svensson handles a mysterious 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am) | informant when her colleague and lover goes 13 WEDNESDAY OPB+ This Old House Hour (Also Sun missing. (Also Tue 4am) | OPB+ NOVA 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am) | 9am) Wonders What’s the Universe Made of? OPB+ Vanished Dream: Wartime Story of My Japanese Grandfather (Also Thu 8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Cosmic Design. 5am) William Hernandez’s paintings capture the 11 MONDAY surprising and the surreal. (Also Sun 6pm) 8:00 OPB Spy in the Wild: A Nature 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 12am) | | OPB+ Breakthrough: The Ideas That Miniseries The Islands. Discover the islands OPB+ A Wider World Season 10, Eps 9&10. Changed the World The Smartphone (Also of the South Pacific with a spy koala and crab. Follow an arts program for people with Sat 12am) (Also Sun 10am) | OPB+ Story of China intellectual disabilities. (Also Tue 5am) Golden Age/The Ming (Also Sun 11am) 8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Discovery on 8:00 OPB Asian Americans Mount St. Helens. Join Field Guide on one of 9:00 OPB NOVA Eagle Power. Researchers put Breaking Ground/A Question their most dangerous expeditions. (Also one eagle to the test to reveal her incredible of Loyalty. The first generation Sun 6:30pm) strength, eyesight and flying skills. (Also of U.S.-born Asian Americans Sun 11am ) 9:00 OPB Inspector Morse Cherubim and had their loyalties tested Seraphim. Morse experiences a family tragedy. during World War II. (Also 10:00 OPB Expedition With Steve (Also Sun 2am) | OPB+ Niall Ferguson’s Wed 1am) | OPB+ South Backshall Greenland: Ice Mountain. Networld Winner Takes All (Also Sat 1am) Pacific Ocean of Volcanoes (Also Sun 6pm) 10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Fri 4am) 9:00 OPB+ Penelope Keith’s Hidden Villages South-West England (Also Sun 7pm) 11: 00 OPB Masterpiece Grantchester: Season 3, Ep 3. Villagers become ill at a 10:00 OPB Oregon Experience Oregon’s cricket match. (Also Sun 4am) | OPB+ Japanese Americans. Discover the history DW Global 3000 (Also Sat 2am) of Oregon’s Japanese Americans, from their early pioneer beginnings to their forced 11:30 OPB+ Articulate With Jim Cotter By incarceration during WWII and beyond. the Horns (Also Sat 2:30am) (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Tue 4am) 15 FRIDAY 11: 00 OPB+ Pacific Heartbeat Power Meri. 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Tue 12am) See life within Papua New Guinea’s first | OPB+ Live Art: Family Artists celebrate national women’s rugby league team. (Also inclusion and ability with a concert. (Also Sun Tue 11pm ) 10am) 11: 05 OPB Independent Lens Rewind. 8:00 OPB Shakespeare & Hathaway: A family home video archive reveals cycles of True to Nature Ltd. Private Investigators The Envious Court. abuse. (Also Wed 4:05am) Expedition With Frank and Lu go undercover at a tennis club. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington 12 TUESDAY Steve Backshall Week (Also Sun 4:30pm OPB) 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu 12am) New Episodes 8:30 OPB+ Finding Your Roots Hollywood | OPB+ Troubled Waters: A Turtle’s Head into the unknown with Royalty (Also Sun 1pm) Tale Examine how human-made problems explorer Steve Backshall as 9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders The Ballad endanger sea turtles. (Also Wed 5am) he journeys to the world’s last of Midsomer County, Pts 1&2. A folk ballad 8:00 OPB Asian Americans Good unexplored places and faces inspires violence. (Also Mon 2am) Americans/Generation Rising. Learn how challenges around the globe, 9:30 OPB+ Reconnecting Roots Native Asian Americans were targeted during encountering extraordinary wildlife Americans: An Uncommon History (Also the Cold War. (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ and meeting remarkable people Sun 2pm) Nature’s Greatest Dancers The Dance for Love. Animals make moves in pursuit of along the way. 10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also romance. (Also Sun 3pm) Wednesdays at 10pm Mon 4am) OPB 4 MAY 2020 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/tvchannels Full schedule and VOD at opb.org/schedules Programs are subject to change weekENDs
10:30 OPB Modus Season 2, Ep 5. Swedish 9:00 OPB Masterpiece World on Fire, Ep 7. police search for a mole. (Also Mon 3:30am) SATURDAYS Harry has a second chance at saving Kasia. 11: 00 OPB+ Frontline Bitter Rivals: Iran and (Also Tue 2am) 6-10am OPB Kids Programs | OPB+ Saudi Arabia, Pt 2. Saudi Arabia makes a News, Politics & Business 9:30 OPB+ When We Were Apollo Meet the stand in Yemen. (Also Mon 2am) builders of the Apollo Space Program. (Also 10am OPB Gardening | OPB+ 11:30 OPB On Story A Conversation With Tue 1:30am) Marathons (until 7pm) Lucky David Benioff and D.B. Weiss (Also Mon Chow (5/2); Mexican Cooking (5/9); 10:00 OPB Masterpiece Baptiste, Ep 6. Julien 4:30am) Journeys in Japan/Travelogue discovers the inside source. (Also Tue 3am) China (5/16); Steve Raichlen’s 11: 00 OPB Before We Die Ep 2. Attempts to Project Smoke (5/23); Member 16 SATURDAY rescue Sven are foiled. (Also Tue 4am) | Drive Programs (5/30) 5:00 OPB This Old House (Also Mon OPB+ Space Chase USA See how Cocoa 11am OPB Sewing & Quilting 6pm) | OPB+ Marathon Travelogue China, Beach, Florida, transformed into a center for continued (until 7pm) the U.S. space program. 1pm OPB Cooking
5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend 3pm OPB Motorweek 18 MONDAY 6:00 OPB Shelter Me Partners for Life 3:30 OPB Woodworking 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 12am) | 7:00 OPB Art Wolfe’s Travels to the Edge OPB+ A Wider World Season 11, Eps 1&2. 4:30 OPB Home Repair India: Varanasi to Bandhavgarh (Also Sun An NHL coach includes his son with Down 9:30am) | OPB+ Somewhere South Syndrome in his professional life. (Also Tue Porridge for the Soul 5am) 7:30 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Basque SUNDAYS 8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Little Rock, Country (Also Sun 9am) Hr 3 (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ South Pacific 6-9am OPB Kids Programs | OPB+ 8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries Last Strange Islands (Also Sun 6pm) Lifestyles Dance. The team investigates a kidnapping 9:00 OPB Broken Places Explore why 9am OPB Travel (5/3, 5/10, 5/17, gone wrong. (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ adversity affects some children differently. 5/24); Member Drive Programs Country Music Are You Sure Hank Done it (Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ Penelope Keith’s (5/31 until 12am) | OPB+ This This Way? (1973–1983) (Also Sun 2am) Hidden Villages Devon and Cornwall Old House Hour (5/3, 5/10, 5/17, 9:00 OPB Hinterland Season 3, Ep 2. Mathias (Also Sun 7pm) 5/24); Member Drive Programs struggles as two cases collide. (5/31 until 12am) 10:00 OPB Created Equal: Clarence 10:00 OPB Jamestown Season 2, Ep 8. Thomas in His Own Words Supreme Court 10am OPB Spy in the Wild | OPB+ Jocelyn learns what it means to lose Justice Clarence Thomas discusses his Arab American Stories (5/3, everything. life and legacy. (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ 5/10); Live Art Family (5/17); Amanpour & Company (Also Tue 4am) Touching the Sound (5/24) 10:30 OPB+ POV Bill Nye: Science Guy. Bill 11: 00 OPB+ Pacific Heartbeat Born This Nye seeks to change the world through 11am OPB H20: The Molecule (5/3, science. (Also Sun 12am) Way: Awa’s Story and the Rogers. A 5/10); NOVA (5/17) | OPB+ Rising transgender teen overcomes hurdles at 11: 00 OPB Last Tango in Halifax Ep 6. Celia From the Rails (5/3); Story of college. (Also Tue 11pm OPB) and Alan’s relationship falters. China (5/10, 5/17, 5/24) Noon OPB Dishing With Julia Child (5/3 17 SUNDAY 19 TUESDAY until 3pm); Great Performances LA 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu 12am) | Phil 100 (5/10); Leonard Bernstein 5:00 OPB Firing Line With Margaret Hoover OPB+ Untamed Bears/Turtles (Also Wed (5/17); American Masters Sammy | OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels And Traditions 5am) Davis Jr. (5/24) | OPB+ Journey to The Road to Ruin Promontory (5/3) 8:00 OPB NOVA Deadliest Tornadoes. In 2011, 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ tornadoes left a trail of destruction across 1pm OPB+ Norman Mineta and Rick Steves’ Europe Naples and Pompeii the U.S. (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ Nature’s His Legacy (5/3); Fire in the 6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Cosmic Design Greatest Dancers The Dance for Life. Heartland (5/10); Finding Your (R) | OPB+ South Pacific Ocean of Animals perform dance-like moves to survive. Roots (5/17, 5/24) Volcanoes (R) (Also Sun 3pm) 1:30 OPB Great Performances Birgit 6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Discovery on 9:00 OPB American Experience Nilsson (5/10) Mount St. Helens (R) Mr. Tornado. Pioneering meteorologist Ted Fujita transformed our understanding of 2pm OPB Great Performances 7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show tornadoes. (Also Thu 2am) | OPB+ Nature In the Heights (5/17); Nas Live: Masterclass 4 (Also Sun 5/24 12am) | OPB+ Natural Born Hustlers: The Hunger Hustle. Classical Hip Hop (5/24) | OPB+ Penelope Keith’s Hidden Villages South- Animals employ clever tactics to trap food. Reconnecting Roots West England (R) (Also Sun 4pm) 2:30 OPB+ Between the Lines 8:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 9, Ep 8. 10:00 OPB Frontline Inside Italy’s COVID War. Petra must move up her wedding. (Also 3pm OPB News & Public Affairs (until Go inside a hospital battling COVID-19 cases Tue 1am) | OPB+ 8 Days: To the Moon and 6pm) | OPB+ Nature & Wildlife in northern Italy. (Also Fri 11pm OPB+) | Back See a stunning recreation of the first Programs (5/3, 5/10, 5/17, 5/24 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Wed moon landing. (Also Tue 12am) until 5pm) 4am) NOVEMBER APRIL MAY 202020192013 5 primetime
11: 00 OPB Pacific Heartbeat Born This Way: 11:30 OPB+ Articulate With Jim Cotter Awa’s Story and the Rogers (R-Also Thu Wayfinders (Also Sat 2:30am) 24 SUNDAY 4am) | OPB+ Skindigenous Lebret/Nimkii 5:00 OPB Firing Line With Margaret Hoover (Also Thu 2am) | OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels and Traditions 22 FRIDAY Visiting a Great Museum Can Reduce Stress 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Tue 12am) 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ 20 WEDNESDAY | OPB+ Touching the Sound Pianist Rick Steves’ Europe Italy’s Amalfi Coast 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am) Nobuyuki Tsujii is undeterred by lifelong | OPB+ Reaching West: Dreams of blindness. (Also Sun 10am) 6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat One Skill Informs China’s New Generation (Also Thu 5am) Another (R) | OPB+ South Pacific Strange 8:00 OPB Shakespeare & Hathaway: Islands (R) 8:00 OPB Spy in the Wild: A Nature Private Investigators Too Cold for Hell. Miniseries The Poles. Get an up-close look at Frank and Lu track down stolen goods. 6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Hit the Trail (R) penguins, wolf cubs and polar bears. (Also (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week 7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Sun 10am) | OPB+ Story of China The Last (Also Sun 4:30pm OPB) Cakes (Also Sun 5/31 12am) | OPB+ Empire/The Age of Revolution (Also Sun 11am) 8:30 OPB+ Finding Your Roots Off the Farm. Penelope Keith’s Hidden Villages Devon 9:00 OPB NOVA Decoding Featuring actors Melissa McCarthy and Eric and Cornwall (R) COVID-19. Join doctors Stonestreet. (Also Sun 1pm) 8:00 OPB National Memorial Day Concert fighting against COVID-19 9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders A Vintage Celebrate America’s men and women in as they strategize to stop Murder, Pts 1&2. A poisoner targets a wine uniform with performances by the National the spread, and meet the tasting event. (Also Mon 2am) Symphony Orchestra. (Also Sun 9:30pm) | researchers racing to find OPB+ Oregon Experience Oregon at War. treatments and vaccines. 9:30 OPB+ Reconnecting Roots Trains: Oregonians share their World War II stories. Photo: Zigres/Shutterstock Tracking Progress (Also Sun 2pm) (Also Tue 12am) (Also Fri 2am) 10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also 9:00 OPB+ Debt of Honor: Disabled Veterans 10:00 OPB Expedition With Steve Backshall Mon 4am) in American History An unflinching look at Suriname: Ghost River. Steve and his team 10:30 OPB Modus Season 2, Ep 6. Helen Tyler warfare and disability. (Also Tue 1am) kayak an unnamed river. (Also Fri 3am) | does not want to be found. (Also Mon OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 4am) 9:30 OPB National Memorial Day Concert 3:30am) (R-Also Tue 1am) 11: 00 OPB Power Trip: The Story of Energy 11: 00 OPB+ Frontline Inside Italy’s COVID War Transportation. See how energy brought us 10:00 OPB+ Lifeline: Pearl Harbor’s (R-Also Mon 2am) modern transportation. (Also Fri 4am) | Unknown Hero In 1941, U.S. Navy sailor OPB+ Hayao Miyazaki: 10 Years With 11:30 OPB On Story On Writing ‘To All the Joe George became an unlikely hero. the Master Drawing What’s Real. Miyazaki Boys I’ve Loved Before’ (Also Mon 4:30am) 11: 00 OPB Before We Die Ep 3. Christian is weaves memories of his late mother into a threatened. (Also Tue 4am) film. (Also Fri 2am) 23 SATURDAY 11:30 OPB+ The Last Ring Home A soldier’s 5:00 OPB This Old House (Also Mon 6pm) ring returns home. 21 THURSDAY | OPB+ Marathon Steven Raichlen’s Project 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am) | Smoke, continued (until 7pm) 25 MONDAY OPB+ This Old House Hour (Also Sun 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend 9am) 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 12am) | 6:00 OPB Shelter Me Hearts & Paws OPB+ A Wider World Season 11, Eps 3&4. 8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat One Skill Informs Adaptive technology helps people find Another. Andiel Brown is the gospel choir 7:00 OPB Art Wolfe’s Travels to the Edge meaningful employment. (Also Tue 5am) director at University of Oregon. He’s also a The Southern Ocean: South Georgia Island bodybuilder and former Ducks football player. (Also Sun 9:30am) | OPB+ Somewhere 8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Charleston,
(Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ H20: The Molecule South Dumpling Dilemma Hr 1 (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ South Pacific That Made Us Flow (R-Also Sat 12am) Fragile Paradise (Also Sun 6pm) 7:30 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Rome: 8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Hit the Trail. Ancient Glory (Also Sun 9am) Experience Oregon’s first hut-to-hut biking 8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries Radio route. (Also Sun 6:30pm) Daze. A radio show serves as a cover for a 9:00 OPB Inspector Morse Deadly Slumber. heist. (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ Country OPB Program After an operation goes wrong, the doctor is Music Don’t Get Above Your Raisin (1984– Schedules murdered. (Also Sun 2am) | OPB+ Niall 1996) (Also Sun 2am) Ferguson’s Networld Networld War (Also Online Anytime 9:00 OPB Hinterland Season 3, Ep 3. Mathias Sat 1am) unearths shocking secrets. You can download OPB’s 10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also most current TV and radio 10:00 OPB Jamestown Season 3, Ep 1. Fri 4am) Banished Silas is devoted to the Pamunkey. | programming schedules anytime 11: 00 OPB Masterpiece Grantchester: OPB+ POV Almost Sunrise. Friends haunted on our website. Season 3, Ep 4. Sidney investigates several by combat experiences trek across America. Find them at opb.org/guide. post office robberies. (Also Sun 4am) | OPB+ (Also Sun 12am) DW Global 3000 (Also Sat 2am) 11: 00 OPB Last Tango in Halifax Ep 7. Gillian spirals into a dark place.
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