TV & RADIO LISTINGS GUIDE October 2019 PRIMETIME For more information go to witf.org/tv Poldark and Durrells in Corfu soon wrap and we’re making room on Sunday OCTOBER 3 AT 10PM nights for three all-new MASTERPIECE series. WITF’S INTERNATIONAL FILM Beginning October 6, we’ll add contem- SERIES KICKS OFF WITH porary series Press at 10pm. Set in the world of newspapers in London - its past riven by hacking scandals, its present at the mercy of the digital age and the 24-hour news cycle, its future uncertain - this razor sharp and observant drama explores the current, turbulent media landscape and the ethical dilemmas •• that journalists and editors face each day. This show is led by Charlotte Riley (Peaky Blinders) and Ben Chaplin (Apple •• PREMIERES Tree Yard), alongside Priyanga Burford (King Charles III) and David Suchet MONDAYS AND TUESDAYS (Poirot). AT 9PM This month marks the launch of an all-new public affairs series Retro Report. The show connects the present to the past with stories from across Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela, but will be announced soon. the country. The series broadcasts two to reach it they must endure a 16-mile Stay tuned in November for new episodes per twice Mondays and trek from France to Spain, a hike across MASTERPIECE special The Chaperone. Tuesdays at 9pm. Topics include how the Pyrenees Mountains and record high Louise Brooks, the 1920s silver screen decades-old research on human behavior temperatures throughout the final stretch. sensation who never met a rule she didn’t shows that social media’s addictive power WITF imports films from around the break, epitomized the restless, reckless is by design rather than chance; why half globe with a new International Film spirit of the Jazz Age. But, just a few years a million children still have dangerously Series Thursday nights at 10pm. This earlier, she was a 15-year-old student high lead levels even though it was banned series is made possible thanks to a generous in Wichita, Kansas for whom fame and from gasoline and household products donor who provided the necessary funding fortune were only dreams. When she decades ago; and why mandatory arbitra- to acquire these titles. The series premieres heads to New York to study with a leading tion agreements enacted on Wall Street with the 2011 film Calm At Sea which is in dance troupe, her mother (Victoria Hill) 20 years ago have negatively impacted French & German with English subtitles. insists there be a chaperone. Norma today’s #MeToo movement. WITF also Few outside Europe are familiar with Carlisle (Elizabeth McGovern, Downton produced segments for Retro Report Guy Môquet, the symbol of the French Abbey), a local society matron who never focusing on Intellectual Disability and Resistance against the Nazi occupation broke a rule in her life, impulsively volun- Nuclear Power. You’ll see these segments during the second World War, but to the teers to accompany Louise (Haley Lu in-between programs throughout the country of France, he is a brave soul that lives Richardson) to New York for the summer. month. forever in their hearts and minds. Calm at Thanks for watching WITF! ■ A diverse group of people are Sea kicks off WITF’s International Film Fred Vigeant, Director of Programming for stripped of their everyday comforts Series October 3 at 10pm. Additional titles WITF TV and WITF 89.5 & 93.3 as they attempt the medieval Camino de Santiago pilgrimage from France Look for Fred Vigeant's PICKS throughout the guide! • into Spain in a new three-part series Subscribe to WITF's Program Points, our e-newsletter highlighting key programs each week Pilgrimage Thursdays at 8pm begin- on WITF TV, WITF 89.5 & 93.3, and witf.org. Send an email to [email protected]. ning October 3. Their destination is the Subject line: subscribe me. WITF | OCTOBER 2019 TV & RADIO LISTINGS PRIMETIME at a Glance For more information go to witf.org/tv BBC World News M-F 5:30pm Nightly Business Report M-F 11:30pm BBC Newsnight SAT 5:00pm PBS Newshour M-F 6:00pm Amanpour & Company M-F 12:00am PBS Newshour Weekend SAT 5:30pm BBC World News M-F 11:00pm PBS Newshour Weekend SUN 5:30pm 8:00pm 8:30pm 9:00pm 9:30pm 10:00pm 10:30pm 1 TUE Secrets of the Dead FRONTLINE 2 WED Nature NOVA Wild Metropolis 3THU Pilgrimage* A Place to Call Home* Calm At Sea* Firing Line with 4FRI Washington Week Great Performances Now Hear This TBD Margaret Hoover Keeping Up 5SAT Vicar of Dibley* Shakespeare & Hathaway-Private Investigators* Professor T Appearances* 6SUN Durrells In Corfu on MASTERPIECE* Poldark on MASTERPIECE* Press on MASTERPIECE 7MON Antiques Roadshow Retro Report on PBS POV 8TUE Finding Your Roots Retro Report on PBS FRONTLINE 9WED Nature NOVA Wild Metropolis 10THU Pilgrimage* A Place to Call Home* Amerika Square* Firing Line with 11FRI Washington Week Great Performances: Now Hear This The Hispanic Heritage Awards Margaret Hoover Keeping Up 12 SAT Vicar of Dibley* Shakespeare & Hathaway-Private Investigators* Professor T Appearances* 13SUN Durrells In Corfu on MASTERPIECE* Poldark on MASTERPIECE* Press on MASTERPIECE 14 MON Antiques Roadshow Retro Report on PBS POV 15TUE Finding Your Roots Retro Report on PBS FRONTLINE 16WED Nature NOVA Wild Metropolis 17 THU Pilgrimage* A Place to Call Home* Little England* Firing Line with 18FRI Washington Week Great Performances: Grammy Salute to Music Legends Margaret Hoover Keeping Up Shakespeare & Hathaway-Private Investigators* 19SAT Vicar of Dibley* Appearances* begins at begins at 9:15pm Professor T 8:40pm 20 SUN Durrells In Corfu on MASTERPIECE* Poldark on MASTERPIECE* Press on MASTERPIECE 21MON Antiques Roadshow Retro Report on PBS POV 22 TUE Finding Your Roots Retro Report on PBS FRONTLINE 23WED Nature NOVA Life From Above Trans-Siberian Orchestra: Ghosts of Christmas 24THU A Place to Call Home* Remembrance Eve* Firing Line with 25FRI Washington Week Rothko: American Masters Songwriting With Soldiers Margaret Hoover Keeping Up 26 SAT Vicar of Dibley* Shakespeare & Hathaway-Private Investigators* Professor T Appearances* 27 SUN Durrells In Corfu on MASTERPIECE* Poldark on MASTERPIECE* Press on MASTERPIECE 28 MON Antiques Roadshow Retro Report on PBS Independent Lens 29TUE Finding Your Roots Retro Report on PBS FRONTLINE 30WED Nature NOVA Life From Above 31 THU Things That Go Bump In The Night A Place to Call Home* Nakom* 2 * Not available on Passport WITF | OCTOBER 2019 TV & RADIO LISTINGS PRIMETIME For more information go to witf.org/tv TUESDAY 1 SATURDAY 5 8:00pm • Secrets of the Dead: Scan- 7:00pm Lawrence Welk Show: The Songs • ning The Pyramids Scientists use non-invasive of Jimmy McHugh* #1707 technologies to explore what lies within the 8:00pm Vicar of Dibley: Election* David Great Pyramid at Giza. #1701 has been the Councillor in a safe Tory seat for 9:00pm • FRONTLINE: The Crown a number of years. #105 Prince of Saudi Arabia #3802 8:30pm Keeping Up Appearances: The 11:00pm BBC World News Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket - Daisy’s Toy- 11:30pm Nightly Business Report boy* Hyacinth’s social standing at a church 12:00am Amanpour & Company function is jeopardized when Onslow becomes more ardent. #105 WEDNESDAY 2 PRESS ON 9:00pm • • Shakespeare & Hatha- MASTERPIECE 8:00pm • • Nature: Octopus: Mak- way-Private Investigators: No More Cakes and ing Contact A professor raises and studies a Ale* Frank and Lu must find a witness to prove Sundays at 10pm pet octopus in his home and makes remark- that a man on trial for robbery and assault is able discoveries. #3701 innocent. #115 TUESDAY 8 9:00pm • NOVA: Inside The Megafire 10:00pm • Professor T: The Hotel From the front line of the Camp Fire, the dead- Murder Professor T decides to launch his own 8:00pm • Finding Your Roots: Hol- liest wildfire in California history, #4608 investigation into the murder of a plastic sur- lywood Royalty Actors Isabella Rossellini, 10:00pm • Wild Metropolis: Residents geon. #105 Anjelica Huston and Mia Farrow explore their From humpback whales breaching in New 11:00pm Austin City Limits: Gary Clark, Jr. family histories. #601 York’s Hudson Bay to huge colonies of mega- #4501 9:00pm • • Retro Report On PBS: bats in Adelaide; explore our most-loved and SUNDAY 6 Episode Two Uncover crime evidence pulled familiar cities through fresh eyes: the eyes of from DNA websites. Learn why Americans are the animals that live in them. #101 7:00pm • Big Ben: Saving The World’s ambivalent about robots. #102 11:00pm BBC World News Most Famous Clock* Delves into the history 10:00pm FRONTLINE: On The President’s 11:30pm Nightly Business Report of the iconic London landmark, as well as the Orders #3619 12:00am Amanpour & Company restoration work that’s currently being done 11:00pm BBC World News THURSDAY 3 inside it #101 11:30pm Nightly Business Report 8:00pm Durrells In Corfu 12:00am Amanpour & Company 8:00pm Pilgrimage* Seven •• • • Season 4 on MASTERPIECE: Episode Two An WEDNESDAY 9 celebrities are stripped of their everyday com- encounter with Daphne leaves Leslie ponder- forts and must live as modern day pilgrims as ing about fatherhood. Margo moves in with 8:00pm • Nature: The Serengeti Rules they trek a famous medieval pilgrimage. #101 Theo. #4934 Scientists make surprising discoveries that 9:00pm A Place to Call Home: transform human understanding of nature and • • 9:00pm Poldark Season 5 on Somewhere Beyond The Sea Sarah goes to •• ecology. #3702 * MASTERPIECE re caught in a dangerous web. Sydney under the pretense of visiting her sick George pursues the fruits of a new alliance.