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1 MONDAY Amelia Earhart. The first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Tue 12am) | (Also Fri 12am) OPB+ A Wider World (Also Tue 4am) 9:00 OPB+ American Experience The 7:30 OPB+ Fly Brother With Ernest White II Codebreaker. Cryptanalyst Elizebeth Friedman : Pride and Joy (Also Tue 4:30am) took down Al Capone and a Nazi spy ring. Smokey Robinson & The Miracles/TJL 8:00 OPB This Land Is Your Land Take a vibrant (Also Fri 1am) look at the evolution of modern American folk 9:30 OPB Oregon Revealed Willamette Valley It’s What’s Happening, music. (Also Sun 6:30pm) | OPB+ Confucius Splendor. Take a breathtaking aerial journey Was a Foodie Celebrations, Ceremonies and across the valley’s scenic rivers, vineyards, Baby the Dumpling (Also Wed 12am) campuses and more. (Also Fri 3/12 8pm) Experience the legendary rock and 9:00 OPB+ Great Scenic Railway Journeys 10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Thu soul special that changed the face Eps 1&2. Take a ride on the last steam 5am) of television in 1965 and thrilled a engines. (Also Wed 1am) 11:00 OPB Tina Turner: One Last Time Join the generation of teenagers. Featuring 9:30 OPB Mr. Rogers: It’s You I Like Return to legendary performer for her unforgettable Smokey Robinson, Marvin Gaye, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, the beloved 2000 concert in . (Also Fri 4am) | The Righteous Brothers, Diana children’s series. (Also Wed 2:30am) OPB+ Daring Women Doctors: Physicians in Ross & The Supremes, The 10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Tue the 19th Century (Also Fri 2am) Temptations and more performing 5am) some of the greatest hits of all time. 11:00 OPB Mindfulness Goes Mainstream 4 THURSDAY Saturday, March 6, 7pm Experience the transformative power of 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am) | OPB & OPB+ mindfulness meditation. (Also Sat 6pm) | OPB+ Riding the Ocean Dragon Join China’s OPB+ Reel South Mossville: When Great Trees first expedition to the bottom of the Indian Fall (Also Wed 2am) Ocean. (Also Fri 4am) 10:00 OPB Masterpiece: 50 Fabulous Years! 8:00 OPB Carpenters: Close to You Trace the Celebrate the series that introduced 2 TUESDAY musical career of the brother and sister duo. generations of viewers to the delights of | 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour | OPB+ Nature (Also Tue 10pm) OPB+ NOVA Wonders What British drama. (Also Sun 3am) | OPB+ Primates: Secrets of Survival (Also Wed 4am) Are Animals Saying? Researchers try to crack the Amanpour & Company (Also Mon 5am) code of animal communication. (Also Sat 12am) 8:00 OPB 11:00 OPB+ Frontline ’s Assassins. See how How it Feels To Be Free. Black 9:00 OPB+ When Disaster Strikes A Perfect Iranian-backed Shia militias are terrorizing female artists challenge the Storm: Mozambique. When a cyclone strikes Iraq. (Also Mon 2am) entertainment industry’s Mozambique, bravery and hope remain. (Also 11:30 OPB Rick Steves’ Tasty Europe The racist stereotypes. (Also Wed Sat 1am) travel expert shows the importance of cuisine 8am OPB+) | OPB+ South 9:30 OPB Downton Abbey Returns! Join Jim in European culture. (Also Sun 4:30am) Pacific Oceans of Islands. Carter for a look back at the beloved hit Journey to the remote islands of the South series. (Also Sun 8pm) Pacific. (Also Thu 12am) 6 SATURDAY 10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Fri 9:00 OPB+ Life on the Reef Ep 1. View the Great 5am) 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Barrier Reef through the eyes of those who Rick Steves’ Europe France’s Dordogne live there. (Also Thu 1am) 11:00 OPB Inside the Mind of Agatha Christie Learn what made the famed crime writer tick. 6:00 OPB & OPB+ Mindfulness Goes 10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Wed (Also Sat 4am) | OPB+ DW Global 3000 (Also Mainstream (R-Also Sun 12am OPB) 5am) Sat 2am) 7:00 OPB & OPB+ It’s What’s Happening, Baby 11:00 OPB Tower of Power: 50 Years of Funk 11:30 OPB+ Variety Studio: Actors on Actors See callout on this page. (Also Sat 3/13 Groove to the signature sounds of the iconic (Also Sat 2:30am) 3:30pm) soul-funk-R&B band. (Also Thu 4am) | 9:00 OPB & OPB+ The Black Church: This Is OPB+ The Devil’s Advocate Get a rare look Our Story, This Is Our Song Ep 1. Host Henry into the lives of American lawyers who defend 5 FRIDAY Louis Gates, Jr. explores the roots of African accused terrorists. (Also Thu 2am) 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am) | American religion. (Also Mon 2am OPB) OPB+ The Legacy List With Matt Paxton Lenis Northmore/Newark, DE 3 WEDNESDAY 7 SUNDAY 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour | OPB+ Julia 8:00 OPB Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retirement 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Robinson and Hilbert’s Tenth Problem Guide Essential advice on planning for and Rick Steves’ Europe Edinburgh Robinson solved one of the 20th century’s thriving in retirement. (Also Wed 9:30pm) | OPB+ (Also Sat 6am) most vexing mathematical questions. (Also 6:00 OPB & OPB+ Rick Steves Island Hopping Thu 4am) 8:30 OPB+ The David Rubenstein Show: Peer- Europe Join Rick on a salty island journey through Malta, Capri, Orkney and Skye. (Also 8:00 OPB The Colorado The Colorado River has to-Peer Conversations (Also Mon 12:30am) Sat 11:30pm OPB) carved some of the most majestic landscapes 9:00 OPB+ The Shirts on on the planet. (Also Fri 1am) | OPB+ Their Backs (Also Mon 1am) 6:30 OPB & OPB+ This Land Is Your Land

2 MARCH 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

(R-Also Mon 10:30pm OPB) 8:00 OPB : Here & There Get a 8:00 OPB & OPB+ Downton Abbey Returns! behind-the-scenes look inside the filmmaker’s MONDAY – FRIDAY (R-Also Fri 9:30pm OPB) life and career. (Also Fri 1am) | OPB+ POV We Are the Radical Monarchs. Young girls of color 6:30 OPB Kids Programs (until noon) 10:00 OPB & OPB+ Rick Steves’ Europe: Great stand on the front lines of social justice. (Also German Cities Rick tours Hamburg, Dresden, Fri 12am) 7am OPB+ NHK Newsline Leipzig, Frankfurt and Nurnberg. (Also Tue 3am) 9:30 OPB Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retirement 7:30 OPB+ Sit & Be Fit (M/W/F); Guide (R-Also Sat 9:30pm) | OPB+ Without a Classical Stretch (Tu/Th) 8 MONDAY Whisper–Konnon: Kwe The untold story of Indigenous women and the American 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Tue 12am) | 8am OPB+ Sewing & Knitting women’s rights movement. (Also Fri 1:30am) OPB+ A Wider World (Also Tue 4am) 10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 8:30 OPB+ Quilting 7:30 OPB+ Fly Brother With Ernest White II 5am) Ovamboland: Northern Exposure (Also Tue 9am OPB+ Painting 4:30am) 11:00 OPB+ Raising Ms. President How do we raise the next generation of female leaders? 8:00 OPB Red, White and Rock Frankie Valli, The 10am OPB+ Woodworking (M/W/Th); (Also Fri 2am) Righteous Brothers, Connie Francis and more (Tu/F) celebrate pop oldies music. (Also Wed 1am) | 11:30 OPB Rick Steves’ Festive Europe OPB+ Confucius Was a Foodie Noodles: Long Experience the streets of Paris on Bastille Day 10:30 OPB+ Food & Cooking for Life, Food of Legends (Also Sun 6pm) and more. (Also Fri 4:30am) 11am OPB+ Nature (M); NOVA (Tu); 9:00 OPB+ Great Scenic Railway Journeys Curiosity Quest/The Great Eps 3&4. Take a ride up to Canada, through the 11 THURSDAY American Read (W); American Yukon to Alaska and more. (Also Sun 7pm) Experience (Th); Oregon 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am) | Experience (F) 10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Tue OPB+ Shelter Me The Art of Kindness. An 5am) artistic pup helps teach kids about creativity. 12pm OPB Painting | OPB+ Civil (Also Fri 4am) 10:30 OPB This Land Is Your Land (R-Also Sat Discourse (M); Between the 8pm) 8:00 OPB ‘70s Soul Superstars Patti LaBelle Covers (Tu); Reconnecting Roots (W); In the Americas (Th); Trust 11:00 OPB+ Reel South Gip (Also Wed 2am) hosts an all-star reunion of the legends of 1970s Motown, R&B and soul. (Also Sat 1am) Docs (F) | OPB+ NOVA Wonders What’s Living in You? 9 TUESDAY The human body is an ecosystem for trillions 12:30 OPB Food & Cooking | OPB+ of microbes. (Also Sat 12am) Growing Bolder (M); GZero World 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 12am) | (Tu); David Rubenstein: Peer-to- OPB+ Nature Primates: Family Matters (Also 9:00 OPB+ When Disaster Strikes The Silent Peer (W); Chavis Chronicles (Th); Wed 4am) Killer: Somalia. Humanitarians race to provide Seat at the Table (F) drought relief. (Also Sat 1am) 8:00 OPB Dolly Parton: 50 Years at the Opry Dolly takes to the stage to celebrate her 10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Fri 1pm OPB+ DW News 50th year with the Grand Ole Opry. (Also 5am) Thu 1am) | OPB+ South Pacific Castaways. 1:30 OPB Food & Cooking (M/Th); 10:30 OPB The Brain Revolution The latest Polynesians colonized every one of the South Travel (Tu/W/F) | OPB+ DW: The scientific research reveals how you can make Pacific’s 20,000 islands. (Also Thu 12am) Day your brain work for you. (Also Fri 8am) 9:00 OPB+ Life on the Reef Ep 2. Turtle hatchlings 11:00 OPB+ DW Global 3000 (Also Sat 2am) 2pm OPB Kids Programs (until 6pm) | emerge from the beach. (Also Thu 1am) OPB+ BBC Outside Source (M– 11:30 OPB+ Variety Studio: Actors on Actors 10:00 OPB Carpenters: Close to You (R-Also Th); BBC Today (F) (Also Sat 2:30am) Thu 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Wed 5am) 2:30 OPB+ BBC World News America 12 FRIDAY 11:00 OPB+ Big Dreams in Umatilla In rural 3pm OPB+ News & Public Affairs Oregon, a high school robotics team teaches 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am) | its kids to reach for the stars. (Also Thu 2am) OPB+ The Legacy List With Matt Paxton 3:30 OPB+ NHK Newsline 11:30 OPB Rick Steves Island Hopping Europe Lambert Family/Mechanicsville, VA (Also Sun (R-Also Sat 11:30pm) 10am) 4pm OPB+ PBS NewsHour 8:00 OPB Oregon Revealed Willamette Valley 5pm OPB+ Travel Splendor (R-Also Sun 3am) | OPB+ 10 WEDNESDAY Washington Week (Also Sat 6am) 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu 12am) | 5:30 OPB+ Food & Cooking (until 7pm) 8:30 OPB+ The David Rubenstein Show: OPB+ Charlotte Mansfield: A Woman Peer-to-Peer Conversations (Also Sun 1pm) Photographer Goes to War (Also Thu 4am) 6pm OPB Home Repair (M/Tu); Travel (W/Th/F) 9:00 OPB+ Finding Your Roots Write My Name 7:30 OPB+ Harpists’s Legacy: Ann Hobson in the Book of Life (Also Sun 1:30pm) Pilot and the Sound Change Pilot was the 6:30 OPB BBC Outside Source first black female principal player in a major 9:30 OPB Downton Abbey Returns! (R-Also (M–Th); BBC Today (F) symphony orchestra. (Also Thu 4:30am) Sun 12am)

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10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Mon 7:30 OPB+ Fly Brother With Ernest White II 5am) Stockholm: Le Jazz Hot 11:00 OPB+ Frontline Growing Up Poor in 8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Vintage Spokane, America. Examine the experience of child Hr 2 (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Confucius poverty against the backdrop of the pandemic Was a Foodie The Big Picture (Also Sun 6pm) and racial tensions. (Also Mon 2am) 9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Leo Adler. Adler 11:30 OPB Rick Steves’ Tasty Europe (R-Also made history in the magazine business. Sun 4:30am) (Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ Great Scenic Railway Journeys Eps 5&6. Ride the Pacific Northwest’s Mount Rainier Scenic Railroad 13 SATURDAY and more. (Also Sun 7pm) 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ 9:30 OPB Oregon Experience Beervana. Now a Rick Steves’ Europe Barcelona and Catalunya beer capital of the world, Oregon opened its 6:00 OPB & OPB+ John Sebastian Presents: first brewery, Liberty Brewing, in 1852. Folk Rewind Enjoy a live reunion of folk (Also Wed 2:30am) singers. 10:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Newport, Hr 3 8:00 OPB & OPB+ This Land Is Your Land (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & (R-Also Mon 1am OPB) Company (Also Tue 5am) 9:30 OPB & OPB+ Suze Orman’s Ultimate 11:00 OPB My Country No Retirement Guide (R-Also Mon 2:30am OPB) More. A family fights to preserve their agricultural way of life during an oil boom. 11:30 OPB & OPB+ Rick Steves Island (Also Wed 4am) | OPB+ Reel South Alabama Hopping Europe (R-Also Mon 4:30am OPB) Bound (Also Wed 2am)

Watch even 14 SUNDAY 16 TUESDAY | 5:00 OPB Firing Line With Margaret Hoover 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 12am) | more with OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions The OPB+ Nature Primates: Protecting Primates Palm Beaches, FL (Also Wed 4am) | 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend OPB+ 8:00 OPB Finding Your Roots The Vanguard. Rick Steves’ Europe Naples and Pompeii Author Ta-Nehisi Coates, filmmaker Ava 6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Uncovering Our DuVernay and author and activist Janet Mock Stream all your favorite OPB Stories (R) | OPB+ Confucius Was a Foodie trace their roots. (Also Fri 3/26 9pm OPB+) | Noodles: Long for Life, Food of Legends (R) OPB+ South Pacific Endless Blue. Sharks, shows when and where you whales and turtles go to great lengths to 6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Marbled Murrelets survive. (Also Thu 12am) want. (R) 9:00 OPB Finding Your Roots Reporting on the Activate OPB Passport and 7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Reporters. Featuring Christiane Biscuits (Also Sun 3/21 12am) | OPB+ Great download the free PBS Video Amanpour, Ann Curry and Lisa Ling. (Also Scenic Railway Journeys Eps 3&4 (R) Thu 2am) | OPB+ Life on the Reef Ep 3. App on your smart TV, phone, 8:00 OPB Marathon Lucy Worsley’s Royal Myths Humans and animals prepare for a cyclone. tablet or other streaming device & Secrets, Eps 1–3. Explore the powerful roles (Also Thu 1am) and start streaming today! and legacies of Elizabeth I, Queen Anne and 10:00 OPB Frontline Trump’s American Carnage. Marie Antoinette. (Also Tue 1am) | OPB+ How Donald Trump stoked division, violence American Masters Laura Ingalls Wilder: Prairie Binge-watch shows like and insurrection. (Also Fri 11pm OPB+) | OPB+ to Page. Wilder transformed her frontier Amanpour & Company (Also Wed 5am) Pride & Prejudice and childhood into the bestselling ‘Little House’ series. (Also Tue 12am) 11:00 OPB Connected: A Search for Unity We All Creatures Great and Small Are Blood. The Blood Tribe examines the 9:30 OPB+ American Masters Louisa May Get extended access to a impact of cultural genocide on the Blackfoot Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women. Alcott Nation in Alberta. (Also Thu 4am) | OPB+ library of 1600+ episodes was a free thinker with a literary double life. Horse Relative Explore the historic art of (Also Tue 1:30am) horse regalia. (Also Thu 2am)  Stream OPB TV live on any 11:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 3, Ep 8. device Elizabeth turns the tables on George. (Also 17 WEDNESDAY Tue 4am) | OPB+ The Italian Americans The American Dream 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu 12am) | OPB+ Fannie Lou Hamer: Stand Up Get to know the activist and civil rights legend. Learn more at 15 MONDAY opb.org/pbsapp 7:30 OPB+ Oregon Experience Beatrice Morrow 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Tue 12am) | Cannady. Cannady was a pioneer ad vocate OPB+ A Wider World (Also Tue 4am) for African American civil rights in Oregon.

4 MARCH 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

8:00 OPB Nature Fox Tales. Go inside the secret OPB+ The Legacy List With Matt Paxton world of red foxes. (Also Fri 1am) | OPB+ Day Family/Llewellyn Park, NJ (Also Sun 10am) SATURDAYS American Experience The Vote, Pts 1&2. Meet 8:00 OPB Father Brown The Celestial Choir. 6-10am OPB Kids Programs | OPB+ News, the first leaders in the battle to win the vote A mysterious saboteur infiltrates a choir Politics & Business for women. (Also Fri 12am) competition. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ 9:00 OPB NOVA Dead Sea Scroll Detectives. Washington Week (Also Sat 6am) 8am OPB Member Drive Programs Scientists examine newly surfaced fragments (3/6, 3/13 until 12am) 8:30 OPB+ The David Rubenstein Show: of the ancient Dead Sea Scrolls. (Also Fri 2am) Peer-to-Peer Conversations (Also Sun 1pm) 10am OPB Gardening | OPB+ Member 10:00 OPB Europe’s New Wild The Land of the Drive Programs (3/6, 3/13 until 9:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 6, Ep 8. Snow and Ice. In Lapland, native Sami people 12am); Marathons (until 7pm) Shelagh finally goes into labor. (Also Mon and conservation groups work to save an J. Schwanke’s Life in Bloom (3/20); 2am) | OPB+ Finding Your Roots Country age-old reindeer migration. (Also Fri 3am) | Garden SMART (3/27) Roots (Also Sun 1:30pm) OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 5am) 11:00 OPB Sewing & Quilting 10:00 OPB Seaside Hotel on Walter Presents 11:00 OPB Prehistoric Road Trip Welcome to Fatal Consequences. The Count receives a Fossil Country. Join host Emily on a journey 1pm OPB Cooking suspicious phone call. (Also Mon 3am) | through billions of years of Earth history. OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Mon 5am) 3pm OPB Motorweek (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America Hume harnessed the 11:00 OPB Resistance Ep 1. In World War II 3:30 OPB Woodworking power of Irish America to bring peace to Paris, two friends begin distributing a rebel Northern Ireland. (Also Fri 2am) newspaper. (Also Mon 4am) | OPB+ Frontline 4:30 OPB Home Repair Trump’s American Carnage (R-Also Mon 2am) 18 THURSDAY SUNDAYS 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am) | 20 SATURDAY OPB+ Shelter Me Building Inspiration. 5:00 OPB This Old House Tommy’s in the 6-9am OPB Kids Programs | OPB+ Volunteers renovate an animal shelter. Kitchen (Also Mon 6pm) | OPB+ Marathon J. Lifestyles (Also Fri 4am) Schwanke’s Life in Bloom, continued (until 7pm) 9am OPB Member Drive Programs 8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat The Science of Art. 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend (3/7 until 12am); Travel (3/14, Ocularist Fred Harwin makes prosthetic 3/21, 3/28) | OPB+ Member Drive 6:00 OPB Start Up Start Up 100th Episode/The eyeballs, hand painting each one to perfectly Programs (3/7 until 12am); Office Oasis match the patient’s other eye. (Also Sun Shelter Me (3/14, 3/21, 3/28) 6pm) | OPB+ NOVA Wonders Are We Alone? 7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Vienna and the 10am OPB Fires of Faith (3/14); Nature Peek inside the search for life elsewhere in Danube/The Czech Republic Off the Beaten (3/21, 3/28) | OPB+ Legacy List the universe (Also Sat 12am) Path (Also Sun 9am) | OPB+ Korla In 1939, With Matt Paxton John Roland Redd reinvented himself as a 8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide musician from India. Rodeo Girl. Fourteen-year-old 11am OPB NOVA (3/21, 3/28) | OPB+ Najiah Knight comes from a 8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries POV We Are the Radical Monarchs long line of rodeo champs. But Counterpunch. Frankie goes undercover as a (3/14); American Experience The the mini bull-riding teen from boxer. (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ Jazz Risk Vote, Pts 1&2 (3/21) The Vote, Pts Arlington, Oregon, has just (1945–1955). In postwar America, prosperity 3&4 (3/28) begun to make history. (Also Sun 6:30pm) and tension are reflected in the melodies of Noon OPB Jazz Risk (3/14); The bebop. (Also Sun 2am) 9:00 OPB Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Adventure (3/21); A Masterpiece Investigators O Brave New World. An oddball 9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders Death and the by Midnight (3/28) couple investigates crime. (Also Sun 2am) | Divas, Pts 1&2. The murder of a OPB+ When Disaster Strikes Paradise Lost: echoes a 1960s horror film. 12:30 OPB+ Without a Whisper (3/14) Bahamas. One of the Caribbean’s strongest 1pm OPB+ The David Rubenstein hurricanes hits. (Also Sat 1am) 10:00 OPB+ Independent Lens Mr. Soul! In 1968, Ellis Haizlip created a variety show Show: Peer-to-Peer 10:00 OPB Modus Season 2, Ep 6. Inger celebrating Black culture. (Also Sun 12am) Conversations Johanne realizes Helen Tyler does not want to be found. (Also Sun 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour 10:30 OPB The Forsyte Saga Ep 4. Bosinney 1:30 OPB+ Finding Your Roots runs to confront Soames for attacking Irene. & Company (Also Fri 5am) 2pm OPB The 11:00 OPB Masterpiece The Durrells in Corfu: 11:30 OPB Between the Covers J. Ryan Stradal Magic of Callas (3/14); The Magic | Season 4, Ep 4. Spiros’ increased presence OPB+ POV Shorts Uniquely Euro (Also of Horowitz (3/21); Renée Fleming delights Louisa. (Also Sun 4am) | OPB+ DW Sun 1:30am) (3/28) Global 3000 (Also Sat 2am) 2:30 OPB+ Seat at the Table 11:30 OPB+ Variety Studio: Actors on Actors 21 SUNDAY 3pm OPB News & Public Affairs (until (Also Sat 2:30am) 5:00 OPB Firing Line With Margaret Hoover | 6pm) | OPB+ South Pacific OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions Kansas 19 FRIDAY City 4pm OPB+ Life on the Reef (3/14, | 3/21); Great White Shark (3/28) 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am) | 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend OPB+ Rick Steves’ Europe Italy’s Amalfi Coast

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6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat The Science of Art | OPB+ South Pacific Ocean of Volcanoes. (R) | OPB+ Confucius Was a Foodie The Big Examine the birth, growth and death of an Picture (R) island. (Also Thu 12am) 6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Condit Dam (R) 9:00 OPB+ Great White Shark: New Perspectives on an Ancient Predator 7:00 OPB Bloodline An WGBH (Also Thu 1am) intimate profile of Vietnamese American chef Tu David Phu. 9:30 OPB Beyond the Canvas Taking the Stage. Tightrope: Americans (Also Sun 3/28 12am) | Lin-Manuel Miranda, Bryan Cranston and OPB+ Great Scenic Railway other artists share their passion for the Reaching for Hope Journeys Eps 5&6 (R) theater. (Also Thu 2:30am) Early each morning, 7:30 OPB The Windermere Children A moving 10:00 OPB Frontline Death Is Our Business. In would board the No. 6 bus and ride drama about child survivors of the Holocaust. New Orleans, COVID-19 reshapes the grieving through Yamhill, Oregon, to get to (Also Tue 12:30am) process. (Also Fri 11pm OPB+) | OPB+ school. But today, nearly a quarter Amanpour & Company (Also Wed 5am) 8:00 OPB+ American Experience Voice of of the kids who rode that bus with Freedom. The life of singer Marian Anderson 11:00 OPB Connected: A Search for Unity The him have died. Join journalists illuminates fundamental questions about Goodlands. Discover stories of resilience in Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn talent, race, democracy and the American North Philadelphia. (Also Thu 4am) | OPB+ as they return to Nick’s hometown soul. (Also Tue 12am) Live Art: Love An amazing night of music, and quickly find themselves at the dance and visual arts. (Also Thu 2am) 9:00 OPB Masterpiece Howards End, Eps 1&2. Two heart of a much bigger story about independent sisters seek love and meaning in those who fall through the cracks an ever-changing world. (Also Tue 2am) 24 WEDNESDAY of America. 10:00 OPB+ American Masters Eva Hesse. Meet 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu 12am) | Monday, March 22, 9pm one of the few women recognized during the OPB+ Oregon Experience Logger’s Daughter/ ‘70s New York art scene. (Also Tue 2am) Abigail Scott Duniway OPB 11:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 4, Ep 1. 8:00 OPB Nature Hippos: Africa’s River Giants. Ross watches Cornwall suffer under a new Hippos protect their families and more. (Also Member of Parliament. (Also Tue 4am) Fri 1am) | OPB+ American Experience The (Also Sun 2am) | OPB+ AI vs. the Human Vote, Pts 3&4. Discover how racism impacted Brain: The Final Showdown Learn how women’s fight for the vote. (Also Fri 12am) artificial intelligence technology is evolving. 22 MONDAY (Also Sat 1am) 9:00 OPB NOVA Saving the Dead Sea. Scientists 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour | OPB+ A Wider race to save the Dead Sea. (Also Fri 2am) 10:00 OPB Modus Season 2, Ep 7. Ingvar must World (Also Tue 4am) cooperate with Agent Warren. (Also Sun 3am) 10:00 OPB Fast-Forward See callout on page 7. 7:30 OPB+ Fly Brother With Ernest White II | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Fri 5am) (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Mumbai: Liquid Abundance Company (Also Thu 5am) 11:00 OPB Masterpiece The Durrells in Corfu: 8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Vintage Louisville Season 4, Ep 5. The residents of Corfu 11:00 OPB Prehistoric Road Trip We Dig 2021, Hr 1 (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ anticipate a visit from the king of Greece. Dinosaurs. Emily cruises into the Cretaceous. Confucius Was a Foodie Cantonese (Also (Also Sun 4am) | OPB+ DW Global 3000 (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ Fine Line: A Woman’s Sun 6pm) (Also Sat 2am) Place Is in the Kitchen Only six percent of 9:00 OPB Tightrope: Americans Reaching for head chefs and restaurant owners are 11:30 OPB+ Variety Studio: Actors on Actors Hope See callout on this page. (Also Wed women. (Also Fri 2am) (Also Sat 2:30am) 2am) | OPB+ Great Scenic Railway Journeys Eps 7&8. Visit a famed Colorado railroad. (Also Sun 7pm) 25 THURSDAY 26 FRIDAY 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am) | 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am) | 10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Tue OPB+ Shelter Me In Times of Need. Go inside OPB+ The Legacy List With Matt Paxton 5am) an Alzheimer’s facility that also fosters Seidel Family/Norristown, PA (Also Sun 10am) 11:00 OPB Independent Lens Coded Bias. A orphaned kittens. (Also Sun 9am) 8:00 OPB Father Brown The Queen Bee. A MIT researcher exposes racial and gender 8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Cosmic Design. William beekeeper dies mysteriously. (Also Mon 1am) bias in facial recognition technology. (Also Hernandez’s paintings capture the surprising | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sat 6am) Wed 4am) | OPB+ Reel South First Lady of the and the surreal. (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ NOVA Revolution (Also Wed 2am) 8:30 OPB+ The David Rubenstein Show: Wonders Can We Build a Brain? Follow advances Peer-to-Peer Conversations (Also Sun 1pm) in artificial intelligence. (Also Sat 12am) 9:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 7, Ep 1. 23 TUESDAY 8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Discovering Nonnatus House welcome their newest 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 12am) | Valhalla: Oregon’s Hidden Gorge. The Field midwife, Lucille. (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+ OPB+ Nature Okavango: River of Dreams: Guide team assembles its most complex Finding Your Roots The Vanguard (R-Also Paradise expedition ever. (Also Sun 6:30pm) Sun 1:30pm) 8:00 OPB American Masters Flannery. Flannery 9:00 OPB Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private 10:00 OPB Seaside Hotel on Walter Presents O’Connor’s provocative fiction was unlike Investigators The Chimes at Midnight. The Raging Storm. Mrs. Andersen receives terrible anything published before. (Also Thu 1am) team encounters oddly spirited geriatrics. news. (Also Mon 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour

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(Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ South Addis Ababa: Coffee and Faith 6:00 OPB Start Up Healthy Roots Dolls/Ann Pacific Strange Islands. The wildlife on these Arbor T-Shirt Company 8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Vintage Louisville isolated islands has evolved in extraordinary 2021, Hr 2 (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ ways. (Also Sun 3pm) 7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Athens and Side Confucius Was a Foodie Sichuan Trips/Greece’s Peloponnese (Also Sun 9am) | 9:00 OPB American OPB+ Singular Follow the story of jazz singer 9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Thomas Condon: Experience The Blinding Cecile McLorin Salvant. Of Faith and Fossils. Frontier preacher Thomas of Isaac Woodard. In Condon was the first to see the significance of 1946, an incident of 8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries School Ties, the John Day Fossil Beds. (Also Wed 2am) | racial violence by police School Lies. A young girl tries to help find her OPB+ Great Scenic Railway Journeys Eps sparked the fight for civil teacher’s killer. 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Irene leaves the Longwood Gardens International Organ 11:00 OPB Independent Lens ‘Til Kingdom Soames for good. Competition. (Also Thu 2am) Come/The Debate. Pastors encourage an 11:30 OPB Between the Covers Robert Kolker | OPB+ POV Shorts Comic Culture (Also Sun 31 WEDNESDAY 1:30am) 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour | OPB+ Carrie Chapman Catt: Warrior for Women Catt 28 SUNDAY devoted most of her life to the expansion of women’s rights. (Also Thu 4am) 5:00 OPB Firing Line With Margaret Hoover | OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions 8:00 OPB Extinction: The Facts David Guatemala, Pt 1 Attenborough explores the extinction crisis, how it drives pandemic diseases and more. | 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend OPB+ (Also Fri 1am) | OPB+ Not Done: Women Rick Steves’ Europe Milan and Lake Como Remaking America Trace the last five years 6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Cosmic Design (R) | of the women’s movement. 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