April 2011 Patterns

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april 2011 Volume XXXVIII, Number 10 Bringing you local productions

By Jay Pearce, Director of Created Content It is a challenge to maintain a high level of locally produced programs during uncertain financial times.

But we are working hard to fulfill our commitment to you by seeking out new funding opportunities, taking advantage of new technology that allows us to work more efficiently and by forming partnerships to increase our productivity affordably.

We’re working with C-U Citizen Access reporters in our newsroom to more comprehensively cover issues that are important to you. In addition, we’re actively identifying new issues through community conversations, especially in the corridor along Route 150. This summer, we’ll bring you numerous reports on what we’ve found. For all of these community issues, Celeste Quinn is leading our initiative to aggregate coverage on willconnect.org.

In another area of collaboration, we’re working with University of Illinois professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering Bill Hammack to share his expertise. As many of you remember, Professor Hammack regularly contributed commentaries on engineering and science to WILL Radio from 1999 to 2005. Now he’s producing short videos along the lines of those Engineering and Life radio pieces.

These videos have received more than one million views on YouTube and now we’re interspersing them with programs on WILL-TV. We’re expanding the reach of our current shows, too. For example, you can watch Illinois Gardener online as well as on air. To reach Dianne Noland and her expert panelists during each week’s broadcast, you can phone, email and now chat live with them.

At other times, you can keep up with plant and garden news on the website illinoisgardener.org plus interact with Dianne Noland and her panelists on the website’s blog.

In a new series coming soon to WILL-AM, community member Elizabeth Goldsmith Conley will begin a discussion of issues related to education.

We’re applying for a major grant to help fund a multi-year TV/radio/online examination of the high school dropout problems in Decatur.

We’re now soliciting your recipes for quick, healthy meals (see page 20) that you can teach me to prepare in our TV studio for a new program coming in June.

We continue to be your partner for the news, information and programs that make a difference in our communities. With your support, we’re working to make them happen!

Don’t miss the

sequel to Upstairs Downstairs

The romantic, moving and epic story of Upstairs Downstairs resumes when a new couple moves into 165 Eaton Place. As part of its 40th anniversary season, Masterpiece Classic presents three new one-hour episodes by acclaimed screenwriter Heidi Thomas (Cranford) at 8 pm Sundays, April 10, 17 and 24, on WILL-TV.

The stellar cast includes the original series creators Dame Eileen Atkins (Cranford, Murder on the Orient Express) and Jean Marsh (Sense and Sensibility) with Marsh reprising her Emmy Award-winning role as Rose Buck while Atkins appears as the aristocratic Lady Maud.

The story opens in 1936, six years after the Bellamy family moved out at the end of the original series. Recently inherited by young Sir Hallam Holland (Ed Stoppard), the house needs considerable attention, which his vivacious wife, Lady Agnes, (Keeley Hawes) sets out to provide. Agnes retains Rose, the proprietor of a domestic employment agency, to assist her in hiring servants—unaware of Rose’s previous association with the house—and soon Rose is the new housekeeper. Rounding out the cast are Anne Reid (Bleak House) as the cook, Ellie Kendrick (The Diary of Anne Frank) as housemaid and Adrian Scarborough (Cranford) as the butler.

Once again the stories of the upper class and working class intertwine against a backdrop of world events—the abdication crisis of Edward VIII, the growing belligerence of Hitler and Mussolini, along with the rise of the British Union of Fascists.

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WILL-FM to broadcast DoCha

Young People’s Concert at the Orpheum

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oCha, the Downtown Champaign Chamber Music Festival, opens at noon Friday, April 1, with an interactive chamber music program specially designed for kids. It features a comic musical play, “Introducing Wolfgang Amadeus Schmutzinberry,” that introduces children to the instrumentation and textures of the string quartet as well as the process of composing music.

WILL-FM plans a special broadcast of the program live at noon. Kevin Kelly of Live and Local will host and narrate the performance for children from Champaign County schools in the theater of the Orpheum Children’s Science Museum.

DoCha collaborated with acclaimed music educator, composer, guitarist and writer Rami Vamos (inset above) to design a fun and educational chamber music program for children. He will serve as actor, and members of the Pacifica Quartet (above right) will perform in the program.

The same children’s concert program will be repeated at an event open to families and the public at 1 pm Saturday, April 2, at the Orpheum. The children’s museum will offer a hands-on music-making activity for children after the Friday and Saturday concerts.

“Because our mission is to expand the audience for chamber music, we’re excited to add this youth education component to the festival,” said Sally Takada Bernhardsson, executive director of DoCha. “Children are the next generation of music listeners, performers and educators. We hope they’ll attend the event and think chamber music is as fun as we think it is.”

Kevin said DoCha does a great job of offering chamber music to people of all interests and ages, and making it available in new settings. “It’s a logical extension to do a program that specifically targets young listeners.”

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The festival continues at the Orpheum through April 3, with evening performances targeted toward adults, but also appropriate for children, Sally said. For more information and the full schedule, visit docha.org.

The Civil War rides again The award-winning film series produced

by Ken Burns that first aired in 1990 will be rebroadcast on WILL-TV over five consecutive nights (7 pm Sunday, April 3-Thursday, April 7) to coincide with the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War. The series remains the highest-rated program in the history of American public television.

The Cause–1861 (April 3) begins with an examination of slavery, the causes of the war and the burning questions of union and states’ rights.

A Very Bloody Affair–1862 (April 4) explores the birth of modern warfare and the transformation of Lincoln’s war to preserve the Union into a war to emancipate the slaves. Forever Free–1862 (April 4) covers the bloodiest day of the war, General Robert E. Lee’s invasion of Maryland, followed shortly by the emancipation.

Simply Murder–1863 (April 5) begins with the Union disaster at Fredericksburg, then examines the clashes at Chancellorsville and Vicksburg. This installment is followed that same evening by The Universe of Battle–1863 as the Battle of Gettysburg becomes the turning point of the war.

Stonewall Uprising screening spurs discussion of LGBT rights In the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of New York City. Such raids were not unusual in the late 1960s, an era when homosexual sex was illegal in every state but Illinois.

That night, however, gay men and women did something they had not done before: they fought back. As told by those present, from drag queens to a former New York mayor, the streets erupted into violent protests and demonstrations, announcing that the gay rights movement had arrived.

A new documentary from the PBS series American Experience examines

the dramatic event that launched this worldwide rights movement. Illinois Public Media and the UP Center of Champaign County will present a public screening and discussion of Stonewall Uprising at 6:30 pm Thursday, April 14, in Robeson Rooms A and B of the Champaign Public Library, 200 W. Green St. Residents of central Illinois will have a chance to discuss the film and their perspectives on the struggles for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender rights in the 21st century. WILL will provide video cameras for those who would like to make a video recording of their own story about the challenges of being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender in east central Illinois. We’ll post the videos on Illinois Public Media’s website.

The next evening, Valley of the Shadow of Death–1864 chronicles the series of battles that pitted Grant and Lee against each other along with Sherman’s Atlanta campaign. That episode is followed by Most Hallowed Ground–1864, detailing the presidential campaign of 1864, key Union victories and turning Lee’s estate into Arlington National Cemetery.

On Thursday, April 7, War Is All Hell– 1865 follows Sherman’s March to the Sea, Lincoln’s second inauguration and Lee’s surrender. Concluding the evening is the last part of the series, The Better Angels of Our Nature–1865, covering Lincoln’s assassination and funeral, and the capture of John Wilkes Booth.

The UP Center, which opened about 15 months ago, is a multi-service agency for youth and adults to support and promote human care, educational and communitybuilding activities for the well-being and development of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, questioning and ally community of Champaign County.

Kevin Johnson, president of the UP Center, said looking back at the history of the rights movement “helps us see what strategies work, what strategies don’t work.

It helps us reflect on how far we’ve come although we have a long way to go.”

The film will be shown with closed captions for the hearing impaired and a sign language interpreter will sign the evening’s discussion.

If you miss the screening, WILL-TV will broadcast Stonewall Uprising on American Experience at 9 pm Monday, April 25.

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weekdays WILL-FM 90.9 and HD1 106.5 in Danville

6 am NPR Morning Edition with Renee Montagne, Steve Inskeep and Jim Meadows

9 am Classic Mornings with Vic Di Geronimo Join Vic for music and companionship and make each morning a classic morning!

Noon Live and Local with Kevin Kelly Kevin’s get-together features music and a daily serving of news about, and interviews with, area musicmakers, plus a calendar of regional music events.

Wednesday: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra 4/6

4/13

4/20

4/27

Thursday: Civic Orchestra of Chicago 4/7

4/14

4/21

4/28

1 pm Afternoon Classics

Julie Amacher, Lynn Warfel and Mindy Ratner keep you company throughout the afternoon. Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac is at 1:01. NPR News Headlines at 3:01.

4/7

4/14

4/21

4/28

5 pm NPR All Things Considered

Andres Cardenes, cond/violin; Anne Martindale Williams, cello POULENC; TCHAIKOVSKY; VIVALDI Marek Janowski, cond; Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano SAINT-SAENS; BERLIOZ Mariss Jansons, cond; Yo-Yo Ma, cello HAYDN; BOCCHERINI; R. STRAUSS; et al Marek Janowski, cond; Chee-Yun, violin MOZART; MENDELSSOHN; DVORAK

Leo McFall; Cliff Colnot, conds SIBELIUS, R. STRAUSS Cliff Colnot; cond STRAVINSKY; RESPIGHI Lorin Maazel; Rossen Milanov, conds RIMSKY-KORSAKOV; DEBUSSY James McGaffigan; Myung Whun Chung, conds R. STRAUSS; BRAHMS

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Schubert for Quartet All SCHUBERT program Bach and Vivaldi BACH; VIVALDI Folk Traditions DVORAK; DOHNANYI Art of the Baroque Recorder TELEMANN; SAMMARTINI; TARTINI

with Robert Siegel, Melissa Block and Michele Norris 4/1

Special: Capitol Steps — Politics Takes a Holiday, 6:30 pm

7 pm The Evening Concert Great orchestras from the great concert venues.

Listings are subject to change.

Friday: Prairie Performances 4/1

4/8

Monday: Live! From the Concertgebouw 4/4

4/11 4/18

4/25

Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic Kees Bakels, cond; Alexei Ogrintchouk, oboe SIBELIUS; MOZART; BEETHOVEN Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra John Eliot Gardiner, cond MARTINU; HAYDN; SCHUMANN Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra Yannick Nezet-Seguin, cond; Simone Lamsma, violin BERLIOZ; DE FALLA; RAVEL; et al Netherlands Radio Chamber Philharmonic Thomas Dausgard, cond; Jean-Guihen Queyras, cello BAX; ELGAR; RACHMANINOFF

Tuesday: Chicago Symphony Orchestra 4/5

4/12

4/19

4/26

Mikko Franck, cond; John Mahoney, Erin Wall TCHAIKOVSKY; BEETHOVEN; STRAVINSKY Michael Tilson Thomas, cond COPLAND; STRAVINSKY Charles Dutoit, cond; Robert Chen, violin RAVEL; ROSSINI; LALO Xian Zhang, cond; Stephen Hough, piano All TCHAIKOVSKY program

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4/15 4/22

4/29

C-U Symphony (1/22/11) Steven Larsen, cond Classics II ELGAR; LISZT; JANACEK Muza Rubackyté, piano Illinois Chamber (1/22/11) Karen Lynne Deal, cond Cosmopolitan Classics HAYDN; SCHUBERT; PROKOFIEV U of I Symphony (1/28/11) NIELSEN; GRONDAHL; BEETHOVEN Elliot Chasanov, trombone Sinfonia da Camera (2/5/11) Ian Hobson, music director Croatia to the Canary Isles CORBELLA; PAPANDOPULO; SHCHEDRIN; DVORAK William Moersch, xylophone Illinois Symphony (2/12/11) Karen Lynne Deal, cond Rhythmically Rousing BERNSTEIN; RACHMANINOV; GERSHWIN; RAVEL Jade Simmons, piano

9 pm Night Music Gillian Martin, Bob Christiansen, Ward Jacobson, Scott Blankenship or John Zech keep you company through the night and into the morning. NPR News Headlines at 9:01.

saturdays & sundays saturdays 7 am NPR Weekend Edition with Scott Simon

9 am Classics By Request John Frayne plays requests for two hours at this time each Saturday. Submit requests at classreq@illinois. edu or 217-265-5084. Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac at 9:01.

11 am Classics of the Phonograph John Frayne’s weekly exploration of memorable recordings from the 20th century.

4/2 Liszt’s 200th Birthday: Great Liszt Pianists 4/9 Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops 4/16 Chinese Classical Music: Yellow River Concerto, Butterfly Lovers Concerto 4/23 Riccardo Muti in Chicago 4/30 Antonin Dvorak’s Other Concertos

Noon Afternoon at the Opera Live from the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

4/2 DAS RHEINGOLD (Wagner). James Levine, cond, with Bryn Terfel.

4/9 LE COMTE ORY (Rossini). Maurizio Benini, cond, with Diana Damrau, Joyce DiDonato and Juan Diego Florez.

4/16 WOZZECK (Berg). James Levine, cond, with Waltraud Meier and Mattias Goerne.

4/23 CAPRICCIO (R. Strauss). Andrew Davis, cond, with Renee Fleming.

4/30 IL TROVATORE (Verdi). James Levine, cond, with Sondra Radvanovsky, Dolora Zajick, Marcelo Alvarez and Dmitri Hvorostovsky.

4 pm NPR All Things Considered 5 pm A Prairie Home Companion Garrison Keillor and friends present music, skits, and the latest news from Lake Wobegon. [Also Sundays at 2 pm]

7 pm Classics All Night Bob Christiansen and Scott Blankenship keep you company Saturday night and into Sunday morning. NPR News Headlines at 7:01 and 10:01.

s Bryn Terfel (noon 4/2)

sundays 7 am NPR Weekend Edition with Liane Hansen

9 am Sunday Baroque Suzanne Bona provides relaxing early music by the likes of Bach, Handel and Vivaldi. Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac at 9:01.

1 pm From the Top A live performance program featuring America’s best young classical musicians, hosted by pianist Christopher O’Riley.

2 pm A Prairie Home Companion Garrison Keillor and friends present music, skits and the latest news from Lake Wobegon.

4 pm NPR All Things Considered 5 pm Classical Music Mindy Ratner and Valerie Kahler are your hosts.

NPR News Headlines at 7:01.

10 pm Harmonia Angela Mariani presents Baroque and early music.

NPR News Headlines at 10:01.

11 pm The Romantic Hours Music, poetry and romance with Mona Golabek.

midnight Classical Music Scott Blankenship and John Zech are your hosts throughout the night and into the morning.

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101.1 and 90.9 HD2

weekdays

saturdays

6-9 am Classical Music

7-9 am Classical Music

9 am-noon Classic Mornings with Vic Di Geronimo

9-11 am Classics by Request

Join Vic for music and companionship and make each morning a classic morning!

John Frayne plays requests at this time each Saturday. Submit requests at classreq@illinois.edu or 217-265-5084.

11 am-Noon Classics of the Phonograph

Noon-1 pm Live and Local with Kevin Kelly Kevin’s get-together features music and a daily serving of news about, and interviews with, area musicmakers, plus a calendar of regional music events.

1 pm - overnight Classical Music/Friday: Prairie Performances 7-9 pm

John Frayne’s weekly exploration of memorable recordings from the 20th century. See page 5 for listings.

Noon-overnight Classical Music

sundays all day Classical Music

The Capitol Steps are back!

It’s time for another hilarious 30 minutes as The Capitol Steps present their Politics Takes a Holiday April Fool’s 2011 Edition, airing on WILL-AM at 2:36 and 6:30 pm Friday, April 1, and also at 6:30 pm on WILL-FM. Join the crew—celebrating its 30th anniversary this year—as they skewer topics both inside the D.C. Beltway and beyond!

News award for Illinois Public Media reporter A report by Sean Powers about legislation to extend immigration rights to same-sex bi-national couples received the second place award in the Hard News Feature category of the Illinois Associated Press Broadcasters Association 2010 Journalism Excellence Contest, downstate radio division.

Listen to the archived story, which aired on WILL-AM Monday, Nov. 29, at will.illinois.edu/news/story/lgbtim1130.

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FM 90.9 HD3

AM 580 Listener Comments: 217-333-0853 / willamfm@illinois.edu

Saturday

Sunday

5:00

BBC Overnight Continued

City Club Forum

6:00

Commodity Week

Inside Europe

6:30

Illinois Gardener

Monday–Friday NPR Morning Edition with Jim Meadows

7:00

NPR Weekend Edition

BBC World Briefing

9:00

Car Talk

Focus with David Inge NPR News 10:01/11:01

10:00

Wait Wait ... Don’t Tell Me

Says You

11:00

State Week in Review

Car Talk

11:30

Commodity Week

The Afternoon Magazine with Celeste Quinn NPR News 12:01

Noon

Travel with Rick Steves

Fresh Air

1:00

This American Life

The Closing Market Report NPR News 2:01

2:00

The Midnight Special

BBC Business Daily Special: Capitol Steps– Politics Takes a Holiday 4/1

2:36

The World All Things Considered with Jeff Bossert

3:00

NPR Weekend Edition

On the Media

Media Matters with Bob McChesney The Tavis Smiley Show

Wait Wait ...

4:00

NPR All Things Considered

All Things Considered

5:00

The People’s Pharmacy

Keepin’ the Faith with Steve Shoemaker

6:00

Commonwealth Club

This American Life

Fresh Air

7:00

Living on Earth

BBC World Service

8:00

Latino USA

To the Best of Our Knowledge

8:30

World Vision Report

9:00

Alternative Radio

New Dimensions

10:00

Bookworm

Le Show

10:30

New Letters on the Air

11:005 am

BBC World Service

Special: Capitol Steps–Politics Takes a Holiday 4/1, 6:30 pm

On Point BBC World Service

BBC World Service

Bold Listing = National/International News

10:07 am

4/6 Cooking 4/12 Lawn & Garden Care 4/13 Diet & Nutrition 4/15 Personal Finance 4/18 Home Care

11:07

Focus monthly guests

4/1 Dog Behavior & Care 4/7 Computers 4/11 Family Health

Weather Monday-Friday Weather Forecast: 5:33, 6:33, 7:33, 8:33 am; 12:35, 4:33, 5:33 pm Saturday and Sunday Occasional updates

Agriculture Dave Dickey, agriculture director; Todd Gleason, host, Closing Market Report & Commodity Week

Pre-Opening Market Report: 8:49 am; Opening Market Report: 9:49 am; Market Update: 10:58 and 11:58 am; Ag and Stock Market Report: 12:55 pm; Settlements: 1:58 pm; Closing Market Report: 2:06 pm. To listen to archived ag reports, sign up for the Illinois Public Media Ag E-newsletter, or download our agricultural podcasts, visit www.willag.org. Call 217-333-3434 for market analysis, updated at 9:15 am and 3:15 pm daily.

Illinois Public Media News Tom Rogers, news and public affairs director

The news from Illinois Public Media’s award-winning staff of reporters — Tom Rogers, Jim Meadows, Jeff Bossert and Sean Powers—can be heard during Morning Edition, The Afternoon Magazine and All Things Considered.

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12.3 Cooking

(midnight-2 am; 6-8 am; noon-2 pm; 6-8 pm) Sun and Wed: Cook’s Country; Lidia’s Italy; Joanne Weir’s Cooking Class; New Scandinavian Cooking with Andreas Viestad Mon and Fri: Simply Ming; Lidia’s Italy; Ciao Italia; Caprial and John’s Kitchen Tue and Thur: Gourmet’s Adventures with Ruth; Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home; Martin Yan’s Hidden China/Cooking Odyssey (begins 4/21); Avec Eric/ Hubert Keller: Secrets of a Chef (begins 4/19)

Travel

(2-3 am; 8-9 am; 2-3 pm; 8-9 pm) Sun and Wed: Rick Steves’ Europe; Equitrekking Mon and Fri: Rick Steves’ Europe; Travelscope Tue and Thu: Richard Bangs’ Adventure with Purpose; Richard Bangs’ Adventure with Purpose

Gardening/Home Improvement

(3-5 am; 9-11 am; 3-5 pm; 9-11 pm) Mon and Fri: Garden Smart/Garden Home (F); This Old House; Hometime; Crafting at the Spotted Canary/ Around the House with Matt and Shari (begins 4/8) Tue and Thu: Victory Garden; Woodwright’s Shop; Woodsmith Shop; Winemakers/Uncorked: Wine Made Simple (begins 4/21) Wed and Sun: Garden Smart/Garden Home (S); Ask This Old House; For Your Home; Katie Brown Workshop

Primetime Schedule Monday-Friday

9:00 PBS NewsHour 10:00 Nightly Business Report 10:30 Journal

Mondays

7:00 Time Team America (4/4, 4/11, 4/18) 8:00 Nature 11:00 Time Team America; Time Team Special Edition (4/25)

Tuesdays

7:00 Churchill (4/5); American Experience: Great Famine (4/12) 7:30 American Experience: Stonewall Uprising (4/26) 8:00 Churchill (4/5); Triumph at Carville (4/12); Sense of Wonder (4/19) 11:00 Churchill (4/5); Creating Alaska (4/12); American Experience: Earth Days (4/19); Anyone and Everyone (4/26)

Wednesdays

8:00 Independent Lens (4/6); Frontline 11:00 Inventing LA (4/6); Carhenge: Genius or Junk? (4/13); Four Hands, One Heart (4/20); Losing Lambert: A Journey Through Survival & Hope (4/27) 11:30 Independent Lens (4/13, 4/20, 4/27)

Thursdays

7:00 The Greatest Good (4/7); NOVA (4/28) 7:30 Four Hands, One Heart (4/21) 8:00 Niagara Falls (4/7); NOVA ScienceNow (4/14, 4/28); NOVA (4/21) 11:00 The Greatest Good (4/7); NOVA (4/14); American Masters (4/21); NOVA ScienceNow (4/28)

Arts and Crafts

(5-6 am; 11-noon; 5-6 pm; 11-midnight) Sun and Wed: Lap Quilting with Georgia Bonsteel; Grand View Mon and Fri: Martha’s Sewing Room; One Stroke Painting with Donna Dewberry Tue and Thu: Gary Spetz’s Watercolor Quest; Best of the Joy of Painting

Saturday Marathons in April

A six-hour block of themed programming April 2: April in Paris Discover Paris with Burt Wolf and Rick Steves, then try recipes from Jacques Pépin, Hubert Keller and Chris Kimball.

April 9: Sugar and Spice Daisy Martinez, Ming Tsai, Rick Bayless and Maryanne Esposito create dishes that are sweet, fiery or both!

April 16: The Joys of Spring Burt Wolf, P. Allen Smith, Joanne Weir and Katie Brown will help you celebrate the season with beautiful blooms and tasty meals.

April 23: It’s Not Easy Being Green In recognition of Earth Day, learn how to beautify your plate and your garden.

April 30: Wonders of the World Visit Victoria Falls, the Great Wall of China and the Great Barrier Reef.

See the full Create schedule at will.illinois.edu

12.2 Fridays

7:00 In Search of Myths and Heroes (4/1); In Search of Shakespeare (4/8, 4/15); Story of India (4/22, 4/29) 8:00 Secrets of the Dead 11:00 In Search of Myths and Heroes (4/1); In Search of Shakespeare (4/8, 4/15); Story of India (4/22, 4/29)

Saturdays

7:00 Four Days at Dragon-Con (4/2); Bedouin Women at the Crossroads (4/23); Independent Lens (4/30) 7:30 POV (4/9, 4/16) 8:00 God Willing (4/2); Our Summer in Tehran (4/23); POV (4/30) 9:00 Last One (4/2); Independent Lens (4/9, 4/16); POV (4/23) 9:30 Great Performances (4/30) 10:00 Okie Noodling (4/2); Dinka Diaries (4/9); Global Voices (4/16); POV (4/23) 11:00 Okie Noodling 2 (4/2); Independent Lens (4/9); Bedouin Women at the Crossroads (4/23) Independent Lens (4/30) 11:30 POV (4/16)

Sundays

7:00 Washington Week 7:30 McLaughlin Group 8:00 Need to Know 9:00 Global Voices 10:00 Virginia Lee Burton: A Sense of Place (4/3); Doha Debates (4/17); Global Voices (4/24) 10:30 Carhenge: Genius or Junk? (4/10) 11:00 Washington Week 11:30 McLaughlin Group See the full World schedule at will.illinois.edu

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daytime

David Thiel, Program Director

Monday - Friday

Saturday

Sunday

Market to Market (M) Nightly Business Report (T-F)

5:00

Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood

French in Action

Body Electric (M, W, F) Sit and Be Fit (T, Th)

5:30

Angelina Ballerina

Destinos

Between the Lions

Curious George

Curious George

The Cat in the Hat Super WHY!

The Cat in the Hat Super WHY!

Dinosaur Train

Dinosaur Train

Thomas & Friends

Cyberchase*

Bob the Builder

Fetch!

Sid the Science Kid

Electric Company

Sid the Science Kid**

6:00 6:30 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00

A Place of Our Own P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home

Word Girl Woodsmith Shop/The Truth About Money (begins 4/24)

WordWorld

10:30 Around the House/P. Allen

Clifford Curious George The Cat in the Hat Super WHY! Dinosaur Train Sesame Street

Smith’s Garden to Table (begins 4/30)

Motorweek America’s Heartland

Barney & Friends

11:00 Illinois Gardener 11:30 Victory Garden

The Cat in the Hat

Noon America’s Test Kitchen

The McLaughlin Group

A Place of Our Own

12:30 Cook's Country

Sewing Programs

1:00

Simply Ming

eligion + Ethics R Newsweekly Specials

1:30

Avec Eric

2:00

Martin Yan’s Hidden China

2:30 3:00 3:30 4:00

Lidia’s Italy

Electric Company/ Fetch! (F)

4:30

This Old House Hour

BBC World News

5:00

Nightly Business Report

5:30

Rick Steves’ Europe

PBS NewsHour

6:00

Lawrence Welk

Super Why!

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How Tos

Martha Speaks Arthur WordGirl Wild Kratts Design Squad Nation (F)

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Painting and How To Programs

Illinois Adventure Heartland Highways Hometime

Market to Market

4/3 1:00, Great Performances at the Met: Don Carlo 4/10 1:00, Autism: Coming of Age 2:00, Decoding Autism 3:00, Sherlock Holmes 4:00, Sherlock Holmes 4/17 1:00, Rediscovering Alexander Hamilton 3:00, Mysteries of the Jesus Prayer 4:00, Sherlock Holmes 4/24 1:00, Great Performances at the Met: La Fanciulla Del West 3:30, Glacier Park’s Night of the Grizzlies

Hustle

Doctor Who

*Shalom Sesame: It’s Passover, Grover! (4/17) **Shalom Sesame: It’s Passover, Grover! (4/15)

1:00 pm Sewing M: Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting Tu: Sewing with Nancy W: Quilting Arts Th: Martha’s Sewing Room F: Knitting Daily

1:30 pm Painting and How To M: Best of Joy of Painting Tu: Paint This with Jerry Yarnell W: Artist Toolbox Th: B Organic F: Painting and Travel with Roger & Sarah Bansemer

2:00 pm How To M: Woodturning Workshop Tu: Wai Lana Yoga W: Garden Smart Th: For Your Home/Scrapbook Memories (begins 4/21) F: Woodwright’s Shop PATTERNS • APRIL 2011 9

april tv features Programs celebrate Earth Day Watch for environment-related specials throughout the month.

Earth: The Operator’s Manual (9 pm Sunday, April 10) includes worldwide case studies of generating clean energy for a growing population, improving the environment and creating an age of technological innovation full of new “green” jobs. The four-part Saving the Bay (9 pm Wednesdays, April 20 and 27; continues in May) explores how San Francisco Bay was almost lost to landfill schemes, and celebrates the more recent restoration and expansion of this treasured estuary.

Photo: Courtesy of Art Howard

It’s time for the truth…

about money, that is!

Now a new program with host Ric Edelman, twice ranked by Barron’s magazine as the top independent financial adviser in the United States, provides practical information about saving and investing. Aided by 20 years of research in human psychology and neuroeconomics, Edelman reveals ways to avoid making common mistakes and start making better financial decisions about everything from buying cars to handling credit cards and choosing investments. The Truth About Money with Ric Edelman premieres at 10 am Sunday, April 24.

The Truth About TRUTH

MONEY with RIC EDELMAN

Tracing African roots to new places

Independent Lens features a month of art

Henry Louis Gates, Jr., uncovers Latin America’s African roots in a new four-part series, Black in Latin America. Professor Gates discovers, behind a shared legacy of colonialism and slavery, vivid stories and people marked by African roots. The first two parts air at 7 pm Tuesdays in April— Haiti & The Dominican Republic: An Island Divided (April 19) and Cuba: The Next Revolution (April 26) — with the remaining segments coming in May.

The Desert of Forbidden Art (9:30 pm Tuesday, April 5) explores how banned Soviet art worth millions of dollars was stashed in a far-off desert of Uzbekistan, while also examining how art survives in times of oppression. Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child (9 pm Tuesday, April 12) pays homage to the brief career of this wunderkind who began as a graffiti artist. Waste Land (9 pm Tuesday, April 19) follows Vik Muniz to his home country of Brazil as he creates portraits of the catadores who scavenge in the world’s largest garbage dump on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. Marwencol (9 pm Tuesday, April 26) tells the story of Mark Hogancamp, brain damaged after a vicious beating, as he comes to terms with the trauma by constructing a 1/6 th-scale World War II-era town in his backyard.

Photo: Courtesy of Max Penson

t Jean-Michel Basquiat

Photo: Courtesy of Lee Jaffe

Exploring forgiveness

A new two-part PBS film from award-winning filmmaker Helen Whitney examines the timely concept and practice of forgiveness through a range of experiences, from personal betrayal to global reconciliation after genocide. Forgiveness ­­— A Time to Love and a Time to Hate airs at 9 pm Sundays, April 17 and 24.

t Mark Hogancamp

Photo: Courtesy of Tom Putnam

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WILL-TV Friday Night Public Affairs 7:00 Washington Week 7:30 Need to Know

BritCom Saturday Night 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:15

As Time Goes By The Old Guys Keeping Up Appearances Chef!

Red Green Show Doctor Who Doctor Who Confidential

1Friday 7:00 Friday Night Public Affairs See above.

8:30 Ebert Presents at the Movies (TV-PG) Repeated 10:30 pm Sunday.

9:00 Friday Night Mystery (TV-G) Sherlock Holmes: Silver Blaze. The most famous racehorse in England is missing and his trainer is found murdered. Repeated 3 pm 4/10.

10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? Again!

11:00 Charlie Rose

2 Saturday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Dallas, Tex. Part 1 of 3. Repeated from 7 pm Monday.

8:00 BritCom Saturday Night See above.

11:30 Austin City Limits (TV-PG) Jimmy Cliff.

3Sunday 6:00 Doctor Who The Eleventh Hour. See article page 17.

Repeated from 10:30 pm Saturday.

7:00 The Civil War (TV-PG) The Cause–1861. Part 1 of 9. See article page 2. Repeated 11:30 pm; and 2:30 am Tuesday.

9:00 No Tomorrow (TV-14) (DVS) Learn how the film Aging Out, which told the story of teenagers leaving foster care, became the centerpiece of a death penalty trial for the murderer of the documentary’s principal subject, Risa Bejarano.

10:30 Ebert Presents at the Movies (TV-PG) Repeated from 8:30 pm Friday.

11:00 Jammin at Hippie Jack’s (TV-PG) Daddy: Will Kimbrough and Tommy Womack, Part 2.

11:30 The Civil War (TV-PG) The Cause–1861. Repeated from 7 pm.

4Monday 7:00 The Civil War (TV-PG) A Very Bloody Affair–1862/Forever Free–1862.

Parts 2 and 3 of 9. See article page 2. Repeated midnight Tuesday.

9:30 Every War Has Two Losers: A Poet’s Meditation on Peace (TV-G) (DVS) Discover how William Stafford, a WW II con-

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scientious objector and National Book Award winner, chose to answer the call to war.

10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? Again!

11:00 Charlie Rose

5Tuesday 7:00 The Civil War (TV-PG) Simply Murder–1863/The Universe of Battle–1863. Parts 4 and 5 of 9. See article page 2. Repeated midnight Wednesday.

9:30 Independent Lens The Desert of Forbidden Art. See article page 11. Repeated 3 am Wednesday; and 3 am Monday.

10:30 Are You Being Served? Again!

11:00 Charlie Rose

6Wednesday 7:00 The Civil War (TV-PG) Valley of the Shadow of Death–1864/Most Hollowed Ground–1864. Parts 6 and 7 of 9. See article page 2. Repeated midnight Thursday; and 1:30 am Sunday.

9:30 On The Line (TV-G) Travel with a Latina journalist as she patrols the U.S.-Mexican border with the Minutemen Civil Defense Corps.

10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? Again!

11:00 Charlie Rose

7Thursday 7:00 The Civil War (TV-PG) War Is All Hell–1865/The Better Angels of Our Nature–1865. Parts 8 and 9 of 9. See article page 2. Repeated midnight Friday.

9:30 Green Jobs: EcoSense for Living (TV-G) Examples in New Orleans and Spartanburg, S.C., demonstrate unique ways of creating new jobs.

10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? Again!

11:00 Charlie Rose

8Friday 7:00 Friday Night Public Affairs See above left.

8:30 Ebert Presents at the Movies (TV-PG) Repeated 10 pm Sunday.

9:00 Friday Night Mystery (TV-G) Sherlock Holmes: Wisteria Lodge. Holmes and Watson investigate the murder of the man who has invited Scott Eccles to dinner at Wisteria Lodge in the Surrey countryside. Repeated 4 pm Sunday.

10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? Again!

11:00 Charlie Rose

9Saturday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Dallas, Tex. Part 2 of 3.

8:00 BritCom Saturday Night See above left.

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11:30 Austin City Limits (TV-PG) Spoon.

10Sunday 7:00 Nature (TV-G) (DVS) Cuba: The Accidental Eden. As tourism dramatically increases on this small island, learn how Cuba’s natural treasures are being threatened. Repeated 4 am Tuesday.

8:00 Masterpiece Classic (TV-PG) Upstairs Downstairs. Part 1 of 3. See article page 1. Repeated midnight Monday; 2 am Tuesday; and 1:30 am Saturday.

9:00 Earth: The Operators’ Manual (TV-G) See article page 10. Repeated 1 am Monday; and 3 am Tuesday.

10:00 Ebert Presents at the Movies (TV-PG) Repeated from 8:30 pm Friday.

10:30 Globe Trekker 11:30 Jammin at Hippie Jack’s (TV-PG) Dan Tyminski with Ronnie Bowman, Part 1.

11Monday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Billings, Mont. Part 1 of 3. Repeated 1 am Tuesday; 3 am and 7 pm Saturday.

8:00 American Experience (TV-PG) The Great Famine. When a devastating famine descended on Russia in 1921, Americans responded with a two-year relief campaign that fed 11 million Soviet citizens a day. Repeated midnight Tuesday; and 2 am Wednesday.

9:00 Planet Forward Energy Innovation. Citizens and experts talk about innovations that might improve how we generate or use energy.

10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? Again!

11:00 Charlie Rose

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12Tuesday 7:00 Lessons from the Real World (TV-G) (DVS) A firsthand look at K-12 schools and classes that weave community and societal problemsolving through their curriculum. Repeated 1 am Sunday.

8:00 Frontline Football High. Repeated midnight Wednesday; 3:30 am Thursday; and 2 am Sunday.

9:00 Independent Lens (TV-PG) Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child. See article page 11. Repeated 2 am Thursday; and 3 am Sunday.

10:30 Are You Being Served? Again!

11:00 Charlie Rose

13Wednesday 7:00 Secrets of the Dead (TV-PG) Battle for the Bible. Explore the story of 15th and 16th century crusaders who brought the Bible to people in English for the first time, launching a religious revolution that changed the course of history. Repeated 1 am Friday.

8:00 NOVA (TV-PG) (DVS) The Bible’s Buried Secrets. More than a century of literary detective work and decades of archeological excavation in the Holy Land offer provocative new insights into the creation of the Bible. Repeated midnight Thursday; 2 am Friday; and 3 am Monday.

10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? Again!

11:00 Charlie Rose

14Thursday 7:00 Illinois Gardener Repeated 11 am Saturday.

7:30 Illinois Pioneers Parkland College. Learn about the early days of Champaign’s community college.

8:00 Hustle (TV-14) Price for Fame. Mickey’s team is looking to PATTERNS • APRIL 2011 13

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target nasty pub owner Benny Frazier who smuggles illegal refugees to work for him.

Repeated 5 pm Sunday.

This Old House Hour (TV-G) Repeated 4:30 pm Saturday.

Last of the Summer Wine Are You Being Served? Again!

Charlie Rose

15Friday 7:00 Friday Night Public Affairs See page 12.

8:30 Ebert Presents at the Movies (TV-PG) Repeated 10:30 pm Sunday.

9:00 Friday Night Mystery (TV-G) Sherlock Holmes: The Bruce Partington Plan.

Sherlock’s enigmatic brother asks Sherlock to locate the stolen plans for a secret submarine and to solve the murder of the government clerk who last had them. Repeated 4 pm Sunday.

10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served?

11:00 Charlie Rose

16Saturday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Billings, Mont. Part 1 of 3. Repeated from 7 pm Monday.

8:00 BritCom Saturday Night See page 12.

11:30 Austin City Limits (TV-PG) Avett Brothers/Heartless Bastards.

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7:00 Nature (TV-PG) Survivors of the Firestorm. A look at healing in the aftermath of 2009 bush fires that incinerated over a million acres in the Australian state of Victoria, including key mountain ash forest ecosystems. Repeated 4 am Tuesday.

8:00 Masterpiece Classic (TV-PG) Upstairs Downstairs. Part 2 of 3. See article

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page 1. Repeated 12:30 am Monday; 3 am Tuesday; and 1:30 am Saturday.

9:00 Forgiveness—A Time to Love and a Time to Hate (TV-MA) Part 1 of 2. See article page 11. Repeated 1:30 am Monday.

10:30 Ebert Presents at the Movies (TV-PG) Repeated from 8:30 pm Friday.

11:00 Woodsongs (TV-G) The Punch Brothers and the Chapin Sisters.

18Monday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Billings, Mont. Part 2 of 3. Repeated 2 am Tuesday; 4 am Wednesday; and 3 am and 7 pm Saturday.

8:00 American Masters (TV-G) John Muir in the New World. See article page 17. Repeated midnight Tuesday; and 2 am Wednesday.

9:30 Games of the North (TV-G) Follow four modern Inuit athletes as they continue a centuries-old tradition of games to strengthen mind, body and spirit. Repeated 1:30 am Tuesday; and 3:30 am Wednesday.

10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served?

11:00 Charlie Rose

19Tuesday 7:00 Black In Latin America (TV-PG) (DVS) Haiti & the Dominican Republic: An Island Divided. Part 1 of 4. See article page 11.

Repeated 1 am Wednesday; and 1 am and 4 am Friday.

8:00 Frontline Educating Sergeant Pantzke. Repeated midnight Wednesday, 3:30 am Thursday; and 1 am Sunday.

9:00 Independent Lens (TV-PG) Waste Land. See article page 10. Repeated 2 am Thursday; and 2 am Sunday.

10:30 Are You Being Served?

11:00 Charlie Rose

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20Wednesday 7:00 Secrets of the Dead (TV-PG) Lost in the Amazon. A modern day quest to discover the fate of famed adventurer Col. Percy Fawcett, who went looking for a city of gold in the Amazon in 1925 and disappeared in the jungles of Brazil.

8:00 NOVA (TV-G) Power Surge. A look at the innovations that are part of $30 billion earmarked to tackle the threat of global warming. Repeated midnight Thursday; 2 am Friday; and 3 am Monday.

9:00 Saving The Bay (TV-PG) Marvel of Nature. Part 1 of 4. See article page 10. Repeated 1 am Thursday; 3 am Friday; and 4 am Monday.

10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served?

11:00 Charlie Rose

21Thursday 7:00 Illinois Gardener Repeated 11 am Saturday.

7:30 Illinois Pioneers Athletics. Join host Rick Atterberry for a look at the history of sports in Champaign.

8:00 Hustle (TV-14) Ties That Bind Us. Fellow con man James Whittaker Wright III enlists the help of the Hustle crew to avenge his legendary grifter grandfather’s treatment by Cornfoots Merchant Bank. Repeated 5 pm Sunday.

9:00 This Old House Hour (TV-G) Repeated 4:30 pm Saturday.

10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served?

11:00 Charlie Rose

22Friday

Susan Kundrat MS, RD, LDN, CSSD

Listen to Susan the second Wednesday of every month in the 10 a.m. hour on WILL AM, or visit her from 11-1 every Wednesday at Strawberry Fields.

8:30 Ebert Presents at the Movies (TV-PG) Repeated 10:30 pm Sunday.

9:00 Friday Night Mystery (TV-PG) (DVS) Masterpiece Mystery! Poirot: Cat Among The Pigeons. The Belgian sleuth tackles a murder case involving international espionage, a Middle Eastern revolution and a missing princess.

10:30 Are You Being Served?

11:00 Charlie Rose

23Saturday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Billings, Mont. Part 2 of 3. Repeated from 7 pm Monday.

8:00 BritCom Saturday Night See page 12.

11:30 Austin City Limits (TV-PG) My Morning Jacket.

24Sunday 7:00 Nature (TV-PG) (DVS) Cloud: Challenge of the Stallions. As Cloud rules the mountains, the story turns to his two sons. Bolder is his by birth while Flint was sired by another stallion, but raised by Cloud.

Will it be nature or nurture that produces the heir to Cloud’s reign? Repeated 4 am Tuesday.

8:00 Masterpiece Classic (TV-PG) Upstairs Downstairs. Part 3 of 3. See article page 1. Repeated 12:30 am Monday; 1:30 am Tuesday; and 1:30 am Saturday.

9:00 Forgiveness—A Time to Love and a Time to Hate (TV-MA) Part 2 of 2. See article page 11. Repeated 1:30 am Monday; and 2:30 am Tuesday.

10:30 Ebert Presents at the Movies (TV-PG) Repeated from 8:30 pm Friday.

11:00 Woodsongs (TV-G) Cherryholmes and Kenny White.

7:00 Friday Night Public Affairs See page 12.

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25Monday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Billings, Mont. Part 3 of 3. Repeated 4 am Wednesday; and 3 am and 7 pm Saturday.

8:00 American Experience (TV-14) Stonewall Uprising. See article page 3.

Repeated midnight Tuesday; and 2 am Wednesday.

9:30 Dreamers Theater Follow a Richmond, Va.-based group of mentally challenged teens and young adults as they rehearse and stage an original musical highlighting the issues faced by individuals with special needs.

10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served?

11:00 Charlie Rose

26 Tuesday 7:00 Black In Latin America (TV-PG) (DVS) Cuba: The Next Revolution. Part 2 of 4. See article page 11. Repeated 1 am Wednesday; and 1 am and 4 am Friday.

8:00 Frontline Post Mortem. Repeated midnight Wednesday; 3:30 am Thursday; and 1 am Sunday.

9:00 Independent Lens (TV-PG) Marwencol. See article page 11. Repeated 2 am Thursday.

10:30 Are You Being Served?

11:00 Charlie Rose

27Wednesday 7:00 Secrets of the Dead (TV-14) (DVS) Escape from Auschwitz. Two young Slovak Jews escaped from this Nazi death camp and sent a detailed account of their experiences to Allies around the world in hopes of ending the horror.

8:00 NOVA (TV-PG) (DVS) Mt. St. Helens Back from the Dead. Biologist Charlie Crisafulli has documented the return of plant and animal life to Mt. St. Helens after its devastating eruption in 1980. Repeated midnight Thursday; and 2 am Friday.

9:00 Saving The Bay (TV-PG) Harbor of Harbors. Part 2 of 4. See article page 10. Repeated 1 am Thursday; and 3 am Friday.

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10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:29 Are You Being Served?

11:00 Charlie Rose

28Thursday 7:00 Illinois Gardener Repeated 11 am Saturday.

7:30 Illinois Pioneers Industry—Past, Present and Future. This new episode looks at the industries at the heart of Champaign’s economy.

8:00 Hustle (TV-14) A Bollywood Dream. An old friend of Albert’s asks for his help in bringing down ruthless sweatshop owner Kulvinda Samar.

9:00 This Old House Hour (TV-G) Repeated 4:30 pm Saturday.

10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served?

11:00 Charlie Rose

29Friday 7:00 Friday Night Public Affairs See page 12.

8:30 Ebert Presents at the Movies (TV-PG) 9:00 Friday Night Mystery (TV-PG) (DVS) Masterpiece Mystery! Poirot: Mrs. McGinty’s Dead. When Mrs. McGinty’s lodger James Bentley is sentenced to die for her murder, Poirot joins forces with famed crime novelist Ariadne Oliver to save Bentley.

10:29 Are You Being Served?

11:00 Charlie Rose

30Saturday

7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Billings, Mont. Part 3 of 3. Repeated from 7 pm Monday.

8:00 BritCom Saturday Night See page 12.

11:30 Austin City Limits (TV-PG) Alejandro Escovedo/Trombone Shorty.

Photo: Courtesy of Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera

april tv features continued

Great Performances at the Met offers two new productions Director Nicholas Hytner makes his Met debut with this new production of Verdi’s Don Carlo (1 pm Sunday, April 3), conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Roberto Alagna leads the cast which also stars Ferruccio Furlanetto, Marina Poplavskaya, Anna Smirnova and Simon Keenlyside.

Puccini’s wild-west opera, La Fanciulla Del West, features Deborah Voigt in the title role of the “girl of the golden west,” opposite Marcello Giordani in this revival of Giancarlo Del Monaco’s 1991 production.

Nicola Luisotti conducts in this program airing at 1 pm Sunday, April 24.

A new lead in Doctor Who

Photo: Courtesy of Ken Howard/Metropolitan Opera

The Eleventh Hour, the first of the new Doctor Who series featuring Matt Smith as the title character, comes to WILL-TV in its usual 10:30 pm slot Saturday, April 2 (repeated 6 pm Sunday, April 3). The Doctor has regenerated into a brand new man, but danger strikes before he can recover. With the TARDIS wrecked, and the sonic screwdriver destroyed, the new Doctor has just 20 minutes to save the world.

Paying tribute to the father of conservation

Through his tireless advocacy, John Muir almost single-handedly saved the Yosemite Valley of California from destruction and was the force behind the creation of the National Parks Service. In a program filmed throughout the breathtaking landscapes and wilderness traveled by Muir those many years ago, American Masters takes a new look at the father of the environmental movement who taught us through his actions, writing and art to care for and protect our natural surroundings. John Muir in the New World airs at 8 pm Monday, April 18.

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membership news & events Award honors a career of outreach efforts Illinois Gardener host Dianne Noland is certain the popular WILL-TV program figured prominently in her winning a 2010-2011 University of Illinois Campus Award for Excellence in Public Engagement. Becoming an Illinois Gardener panelist in 1992 allowed Dianne to share her lifelong passion for plants with a larger group of gardening enthusiasts—and to continue her outreach efforts in a new way. It’s a natural connection for this seventh generation member of a Blue Mound, Ill., farming family whose ancestors were early settlers of Macon County.

Interest blossoms early

“I have a vivid memory of seeing this beautiful yellow ‘thingee’ in a flower garden when I was 5,” she said. “During a Sunday school class outing, I remember running over to what I learned was a daffodil. One look at that intricate beauty and I was hooked!”

“I always appreciated the universal connections I saw between people and plants—whether flowers that mark our special occasions and remembrances or vegetables for our food.”

After completing her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in horticulture at the U of I, Dianne worked at nurseries and garden centers, but grew to miss daily interactions with people. Being chosen to teach floral design at her alma mater in 1980 balanced the equation. Four years later she volunteered to teach a class on perennials—which were just starting to gain more prominence—and then added courses on herbs, flower shop management and judging flower quality, which led to her coaching the U of I floral judging team for 10 years.

A growing expertise

She contributed information to half of the 12-volume authority set published by Redbook Floral Services in the early 1990s and authored or co-authored numerous books on topics from perennials to herbs. Her own Floral Design and Interior Landscape Management is the textbook of choice at the high school, community college and university level in 33 states.

As her expertise expanded, Dianne’s outreach opportunities multiplied. She became a regular guest on CBS affiliate WCIA-TV’s Garden Talk program with Sandra Casserly, spending 10 years on that show before original Illinois Gardener host Jack Kelly tapped her as a contributing panelist. She was the natural choice to succeed him and seven years later, she also recruited new panelists whose knowledge matched the emerging interests of a growing program audience.

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Soon, her grandpa Charley Noland was teaching her to plant potatoes by using the length of her foot for proper spacing. By age 10, Dianne was researching various kinds of bulbs. At 17, she spent a summer with a host family in the southern

part of Switzerland as an American Field Service exchange student, an experience that heightened her burgeoning interest.

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The life story of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto unfolds like a tale of Shakespearean dimensions. The first Muslim woman elected to lead an Islamic nation, she evolved from a pampered princess to a polarizing politician in the most dangerous country on Earth.

“As we added topics, we tried to more closely identify each contributor’s expertise areas,” Dianne added. “We now have 35 panelists, including several of my former students and former teachers!”

“My focus is for Illinois Gardener viewers to always get ideas and gain knowledge,” she said. “That’s why we spell the names of plants and offer additional resources, plus new ways to interact with our panelists.”

Some of those innovations stemmed from addressing increased viewership and call volume when the program became syndicated to public TV stations throughout Illinois in 2008. Others were the result of incorporating new technology such as panelist blogs and, most recently, an online chat feature during each live broadcast at 7 pm Thursdays from WILL’s studio.

Join Illinois Public Media at 6:30 pm Tuesday, April 26, for a screening and an audience-driven panel discussion of the Independent Lens documentary, Bhutto, which chronicles the tumultuous life and tragic death of the charismatic leader. Her two terms in power saw acts of courage and controversy as she eradicated polio and stood up for women while fighting the male-dominated political elite, but she also battled accusations of corruption and scandal.

In 2007, with Pakistan in turmoil and under the thumb of yet another military dicta-

A brief hiatus for Illinois Gardener After a 31-year teaching career at the University of Illinois, Dianne Noland is retiring May 15. But don’t worry, after taking a well-earned break to work with her acres of home flower and herb gardens, she’ll be back with Illinois Gardener in late July, complete with a new set. “After all,” she said, “gardening is in my blood. I’ve always been a zone 5 person!”

tor, Bhutto was called back onto the world stage as Pakistan’s best hope for democracy. With her assassination she left a legacy of simmering controversy and undeniable courage that will be debated for years.

The screening, the fourth in Illinois Public Media’s Community Cinema series, takes place in Robeson Rooms A and B of the Champaign Public Library, 200 W. Green St. The film will be shown with closed captioning for the hearing impaired. A sign language interpreter will sign the pre-andpost film discussion.

If you miss the screening, WILL-TV will broadcast Independent Lens: Bhutto at 9 pm Tuesday, May 10.

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WANTED: TV COOKS AND RECIPES Do you have what it takes to get a quick and healthy meal on the table? If so, send us your recipes for a new WILL-TV cooking show in June featuring easy-to-prepare, healthful dishes. You might be asked to appear on the show to help host Jay Pearce learn to prepare your special dish. We’ll include many of the submitted recipes in a new cookbook we’re putting together.

MAIL RECIPES TO: Jay Pearce Illinois Public Media 300 N. Goodwin Ave. Urbana, IL 61801-2316

OR EMAIL them to will-tv@illinois.edu and put “healthy cooking” in the subject line.

It’s time for Vintage Vinyl!

Join us for this year’s sale on Saturday, April 30, at our new location—the former Altman’s Billiards and Patio Supply at 301 W. Marketview Dr. in Champaign. The sale opens with a $5 admission fee from 8 to 11 am. There’s no fee from 11 am to 3 pm.

Doors close from 3 to 4 pm to prepare for the half-price sale from 4-6 pm.

From Monday, April 4, to Friday, April 22, please bring your donations of CDs, records, DVDs, video games and players, stereo equipment, speakers, CD and DVD players (in sturdy boxes) to Busey Bank locations in Urbana, Champaign, Savoy and Mahomet during regular business hours. Each item you donate to the Vintage Vinyl sale benefits

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WILL’s Illinois Radio Reader, which provides news and information to blind and visually impaired residents of central Illinois. If you’d like to volunteer to help sort and price items, we would appreciate that, too!

“Please help us make the 2011 Vintage Vinyl sale the biggest yet,” said Deane Geiken, event organizer and director of WILL’s Illinois Radio Reader program.

For more information or to volunteer, please contact Deane at 217-333-6503.

What would you get on the bus for? Tell us.

From May until November 1961, a courageous band of black and white Americans, many of them college students, traveled on buses and trains through the Deep South to challenge civil rights inequities. They called themselves Freedom Riders. More than 400 riders risked their lives as they deliberately violated Jim Crow laws. Their belief in non-violent activism was sorely tested as mob violence and bitter racism greeted them along the way.

Join us for an interactive event including a screening of excerpts of the inspirational new American Experience documentary, Freedom Riders, and a discussion about the meaning of the Freedom Rides to Americans today and what inspires today’s young people to action.

The event is at 7 p.m.

Thursday, April 28, in the auditorium of the National

Center for Supercomputing Applications, 1205 Clark St., Urbana.

WILL-TV will be making video recordings of people who would like to answer the questions, “What would

you get on the bus for today?” and “What sacrifices are you willing to make and for what?” for use on our website and on television.

Learn more about the event online at will.illinois.edu.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011 • 7:00 pm McKinley Presbyterian Church 809 South Fifth Street, Champaign with Julien Labro, bandoneón and Shawn Purcell, guitar Maurice Ravel: Le Tombeau de Couperin Osvaldo Golijov: Lullaby & Doina Astor Piazzolla: Concerto for Guitar, Bandoneón and String Orchestra Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 Order tickets online at www.PrairieEnsemble.org or call 217-355-9077

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APRIL 1

Suzanne Vega

1-2, 6-10 Misalliance 1-3

DoCha Chamber Music Festival

2

International Festival

5

Leif Ove Andsnes, piano

6

Septeto Nacional Ignacio Piñeiro de Cuba

7

Krannert Uncorked with the Edison School Jazz Band Sinfonia da Camera: Rush Hour—Play It Again!

7-9

Boneyard Arts Festival

21-23

Studiodance II

12

Trisha Brown Dance Company

27-29

TPO Virtual Playground

14

Ebène Quartet

28

Ben Heppner, tenor

14, 28

Krannert Uncorked

28-30

La Calisto

15

Dance for People with Parkinson’s

30

17

Krannert Center Debut Artists: Patrycja Likos, cello, and Chu-Chun Yen, piano

TPO’s Kindur: The Adventurous Life of Sheep in Iceland

21

Krannert Uncorked with Musicerend Gezelschap, classical trio

Libretto: La Calisto

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