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april 2012 Volume XXXIX, Number 10
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PATTERNS • APRIL 2012
Looking good at 90
By Mark Leonard, General Manager Among the news on the front page of the April 6, 1922, Urbana Daily Courier were increasing numbers of divorces in Champaign-Urbana, township election results from Longview, indictments of bribery in Chicago and a rash of burglaries in the twin cities. At the bottom of the first column, constrained to a mere six column inches, was mention of that evening’s first use of a government license granted to the University of Illinois to maintain a radio broadcasting station. Just a half-hour in length, the initial broadcast— originating from the electrical engineering laboratory—marked a technological milestone for that era. From this seemingly inauspicious start has grown a public media enterprise—radio, television, online and community engagement programs—that now embraces new technological tools to bring news, perspectives and stories on issues that matter to residents across central Illinois and around the globe. That growth and reach is why Illinois Public Media’s 90th anniversary is one to celebrate. We begin by interweaving some of the reasons with a few historic milestones in a special insert section in this issue of Patterns. You’ll see that as much as everything has changed, we remain committed to fulfilling the core values that originally gave rise to public broadcasting—not surprisingly, the beginnings of which are within the College of Media on this University of Illinois campus. For many area residents, family memories are focused on the news and resources that WILL has brought into their homes and lives over the years. Though the listeners to our early radio broadcasts are no longer with us, their children—individuals such as Ed Layden, quoted in the anniversary insert—offer insight on the central importance of those reports then and now. We also feature Rose Nolan’s family, whose support of our stations now spans three generations. We’re part of documenting life in central Illinois, too. Our WILL-produced programs, ranging from interviews with area World War II veterans and reports on hunger to the Illinois Pioneers series and our collaboration with Urbana University High School students for additional documentaries, contributes to our collective timeline. For all of these reasons and many more, we look forward to sharing in this anniversary with you— and to working together to ensure that the next 90 years have just as much impact.
The man behind the (friendly) monster Talk to any Sesame Street fan and it’s clear that the furry red monster named Elmo is one of the world’s most adored and recognizable characters. Now Independent Lens presents an insightful introduction to Elmo’s creator, Kevin Clash. Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey— winner of numerous film festival awards, including the 2011 Sundance Special Jury Prize—airs at 8 pm Thursday, April 5, on WILL-TV.
Photo: Courtesy of Rahoul Ghose/PBS
Featuring rare archival footage and interviews with Frank Oz, Rosie O’Donnell, Cheryl Henson and many others, the film tells the story of Clash’s childhood in Baltimore, his dream of being a puppeteer and of working with his idol, Jim Henson. After his mother taught him to use a sewing machine at the age of 10, Clash made 80 puppets. He went on to perform on Baltimore’s harbor front and on local television as a teenager, then moved to New York to work on Captain
Kangaroo and PBS’ The Great Space Coaster. Clash joined Sesame Street in 1986 and began working directly with Henson. Since then he’s racked up an impressive resume of film and television credits, including co-producing The Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland, and directing numerous Sesame Street episodes and other projects. His most recent work includes directing and appearing in Talk, Listen, Connect: When Families Grieve. A seventime Emmy Award winner for outstanding performer in a children’s series for his work as Elmo on Sesame Street, Clash has also won 10 Emmys for his work as co-executive producer.
Making changes to
improve health
s Dance class at Carrie Busey.
s Learning to make healthy snacks at Carrie Busey.
As part of a series of wellness reports airing on WILL Radio in April, Illinois Public Media’s Sean Powers visited with students at Champaign’s Carrie Busey Elementary School as they performed original rap music about exercise and nutrition, whipped up healthy snacks and learned dance steps after school as part of an anti-obesity effort. Sean’s reports look at these and other ways people in central Illinois are trying to improve their health and nutrition. Listen for his stories on Mondays during Morning Edition on WILL-AM and WILL-FM and The Afternoon Magazine on WILL-AM, and look for videos, photos, archived stories and more audio at willconnect.org. Here’s the rundown of his stories: • April 2: With recent changes to the lunch menus in Champaign schools, Unit 4 is trying to stay ahead of new federal regulations taking effect this year and beyond. • April 9: Several schools in the Champaign School District have adopted a nationwide anti-obesity initiative, called the 2 PATTERNS • APRIL 2012
Coordinated Approach to Child Health (CATCH). Carrie Busey Elementary School is one of the CATCH schools, and has updated its curriculum to concentrate more on nutrition, revised the school lunch menu and added an afterschool dance program. • April 16: Research at the University of Illinois suggests that physical activity can boost cognitive health. To test that theory, Jefferson Middle School recently added exercise equipment in its classrooms. Students report that after spending time working out, they feel more relaxed and focused in the classroom. • April 23: Carle Hospital has launched a program where employees can earn points with the company based on their amount of physical activity. Those points can be redeemed for cash, discounts on health insurance premiums and additional vacation days. • April 30: The Champaign-Urbana Safe Routes to School Project is working to make walking and biking to school safer and appealing for children. But threats to federal funding and concerns over safety issues could hamper those efforts. The series is funded, in part, by a grant fromthe Lumpkin Family Foundation.
Kilborn Alley takes the stage Filmed at Kentucky’s W.C. Handy Blues & Barbecue Festival, the ChampaignUrbana based Kilborn Alley Blues Band is featured on the series Jubilee at 9 pm Friday, April 13, on WILL-TV. The group performs songs from their four CDs including the latest, Better Off Now, whose title track was a 2010 Blues Blast winner for song of the year. The album was also nominated for best album of the year in the 2010 Blues Music Awards. Fusing harmonica, guitars and pounding rhythm, Kilborn Alley Blues Band has racked up many Blues Blasts magazine award nominations and wins over the past several years, including for best band in 2009 and 2011, and 2009 rising star winner. Kilborn Alley singer and guitarist Andrew Duncanson will be Kevin Kelly’s guest on WILL-FM’s Live and Local at noon Thursday, April 12, before Jubilee airs on WILL-TV.
Get the scoop on Congress from
an NPR reporter Offering both a depth of knowledge and entertaining commentary, NPR congressional correspondent Andrea Seabrook will provide an insider’s perspective on political events and their larger implications at a WILL special event from 6-7:30 pm Wednesday, April 11. Tickets are $25 per person. Call 217-3337300 to reserve your seat. Seating is limited so don’t delay. Seabrook will also appear as a guest on WILL-AM’s Focus at 10:06 am on Thursday, April 12. In her reports for NPR, Seabrook delivers critical, insightful reporting, explaining the daily complexities of legislation and the longer trends in American politics. She and NPR’s Peter Overby won the prestigious Joan S. Barone award for their “Dollar Politics” series, which exposed the intense lobbying effort around President Obama’s health care legislation. Another collaboration with Overby on the flow of money during the 2010 midterm elections drew huge audience interest on npr.org. She’s also hosted the weekend edition of NPR’s All Things Considered and anchored NPR’s live coverage of national party conventions and election nights in 2006 and 2008, and is a frequent guest host of NPR programs, including Weekend Edition and Talk of the Nation.
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weekdays 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.
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.
5 pm NPR All Things Considered with Robert Siegel, Melissa Block and Michele Norris
7 pm The Evening Concert
WILL-FM 90.9 and HD1 106.5 in Danville
Wednesday: Civic Orchestra of Chicago 4/4 4/11 4/18 4/25
Cliff Colnot, cond SIBELIUS; RAVEL Emmanuel Villaume, cond RAVEL; SCRIABIN Jaap van Zweden SHOSTAKOVICH; MUSSORGSKY Myung-Whun Chung VERDI; TCHAIKOVSKY
The Keeping Score Series: 13 Days When Music Changed Forever 4/4 4/11 4/18 4/25
The Dawn of Opera: MONTEVERDI The Baroque Era: BACH Classic Era Opera: MOZART Emergence of the Piano: BEETHOVEN
Thursday:
Live! At the Concertgebouw 4/5 Mariss Jansons, cond; Leif Ove Andnes, piano BRAHMS; WAGNER 4/12 James Gaffigan, cond; Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano MUSSORGSKY; RAVEL 4/19 Philippe Herrewege, cond MOZART; MENDELSSOHN 4/26 Bernard Haitink, cond MAHLER
Friday:
Great orchestras from the great concert venues. Listings are subject to change.
Prairie Performances
Monday:
3/5 4/2 4/9
4/13
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Edo de Waart, cond Mariss Jansons, cond; Andres Schiff, piano BRAHMS; DVORAK Manfred Honeck, cond; Johannes Moser, cello DVORAK; J.STRAUSS, JR. 4/16 Arild Remmereit, cond; Viviane Hagner, violin MOZART; HAYDN 4/23 Itzhak Perlman, cond/violin BACH; TCHAIKOVSKY 4/30 Gianandrea Noseda, cond; Denis Matsuev, piano TCHAIKOVSKY
4/20
4/27
Tuesday:
The New York Philharmonic This Week Photo: Christian Steiner
4/6
4/3 4/10 4/17 4/24
David Zinman, cond; Peter Serkin, piano “The Beethoven Experience, No. 1 of 3” David Zinman, cond; Alisa Weilerstein, cello “The Beethoven Experience, No. 2 of 3” David Zinman, cond; Gil Shaham (left), violin “The Beethoven Experience, No. 3 of 3” Alan Gilbert, cond HAYDN; SCHUBERT; RAVEL
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Millikin-Decatur Symphony Orchestra (3/3/12) Robert Belinic, guitar The Millikin Union of Choirs Michael Luxner, cond BACH/STOKOWSKI; RODRIGO; RAVEL Sinfonia da Camera (3/10/12) American Spirit Jonathan Keeble, flute Dmitry Kouzov, cello Ian Hobson, cond PUGH; GILLIS; GRIFFES; BLOCH; GERSHWIN Illinois Symphony Orchestra (2/25/12) Ecstatic & Exotic Rei Hotoda, cond Bridget Kibbey, harp ROUSE; RODRIGO; RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Sinfonia da Camera (4/17/12) Rush Hour—Returning Friends Jeffrey A. Spenner, guest cond Ian Hobson, piano; Sherban Lupu, violin GRIEG; ERNST; SIBELIUS
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. 4/7 The London Symphony Orchestra I: Krips, Kertesz, Abbado 4/14 The London Symphony Orchestra II: Previn, Thomas, Davis 4/21 Budget Reissues: Camden, Entré, Victrola, Seraphim 4/28 The Many “Debuts” of Vladimir Horowitz
Noon Afternoon at the Opera Live from the Met, 2011-12 season. 4/7 MANON (Massenet). Fabio Luisi, cond, with Anna Netrebko, Piotr Beczala and the Met Opera Chorus and Orchestra. 4/14 LA TRAVIATA (Verdi). Fabio Luisi, cond, with Natalie Dessay, Matthew Polenzani, Dmitri Hvorostovsky and the Met Opera Chorus and Orchestra. 4/21 SIEGFRIED (Wagner). Fabio Luisi, cond, with Deborah Voigt, Bryn Terfel and the Met Opera Orchestra. 4/28 DIE WALKUERE (Wagner). Katarina Dalayman, Jonas Kaufmann, Bryn Terfel and the Met Opera Orchestra.
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 Vladimir Horowitz (11 am, 4/28)
sundays 7 am NPR Weekend Edition with Rachel Martin
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. SPECIAL: Music of the Baroque Chorus and Orchestra, Handel's Messiah, 7-10 pm, 4/8
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.
FSC MIX paper from responsible sources
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!
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 plays requests at this time each Saturday. Submit requests at classreq@illinois.edu or 217-265-5084.
11 am-Noon Classics of the Phonograph 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
Vic Di Geronimo celebrates two-year anniversary of Classic Mornings WILL-FM host Vic Di Geronimo says he wants people to frequent his Classic Mornings program as if it were a place “like a coffee house, only for radio. You can go there no matter where you are and you feel comfortable. It’s special because of the companionship and the music.” He enjoys introducing people to music they haven’t heard. “You often remember a piece of music because of the place you heard it or because someone shares it with you,” he said. As his show begins its third year on the air in the 9 am-noon timeslot, Vic says he’s grateful that people listen and come back to listen some more. He’s continued to search out great music and come up with new twists and surprises for listeners. He particularly enjoys the creative process in coming up with a theme for the Classic Morning Prelude, a 10-minute segment that airs on WILL-FM 90.9 at 8:49 am. Because the segment comes at the end of Morning Edition, he knows he has the opportunity to catch some regular news listeners that are not regular classical music listeners. In one of his favorite Preludes, he reminded listeners of the old playground ritual of choosing football teams—“strings or no strings”―and turned it into a guessing game about sonatas. “It was very silly, but informative, entertaining―and there was a great pun at the end,” Vic said. Another time he took the “Linsanity” surrounding pro basketball player Jeremy Lin as a “LINvitation” to celebrate Taiwanese-American vioLINist Cho-Liang Lin. 6 PATTERNS • APRIL MARCH 2012 2012
He starts thinking about upcoming Prelude segments days in advance. After a few days of mulling over ideas and doing some research, the programs come together. Although Vic does a lot of preparation, he says he sometimes thinks his program comes together kind of magically. “Those connections between events and dates and discovering new things and the music—sometimes it just happens.”
FM 90.9 HD3
AM 580 Listener Comments: 217-333-0853 / willamfm@illinois.edu
Saturday
Sunday
5:00
BBC Overnight Continued
BBC World Service
6:00
Commodity Week
Inside Europe
6:30
Mid-American Gardener
Monday–Friday NPR Morning Edition with Jim Meadows
7:00
NPR Weekend Edition
BBC World Briefing
9:00
Car Talk
NPR Weekend Edition
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
On the Media
Fresh Air
1:00
This American Life
Media Matters
The Closing Market Report NPR News 2:01
2:00
The Midnight Special
The Tavis Smiley Show
BBC Business Daily
2:36
The World
3:00
All Things Considered with Jeff Bossert
4:00
NPR All Things Considered
All Things Considered
5:00
The People’s Pharmacy
Keepin’ the Faith
Special: Media Matters (4/22) Wait Wait ...
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
Left, Right & Center
9:00
Alternative Radio
New Dimensions
10:00
Bookworm
Le Show
10:30
New Letters on the Air
11:006 am
BBC World Service
On Point
BBC World Service
BBC World Service
Bold Listing = National/International News
11:07
10:07 am
Focus monthly guests 4/4 Cooking 4/16 Home Care 4/20 Personal Finance 4/5 Computers 4/6 Dog Care & Behavior 4/9 Family Medicine 4/20 Personal Finance (2-hour program)
Weather Monday-Friday Weather Forecast: 5:33, 6:33, 7:33, 8:33 am; 12:35, 4:33, 5:33 pm
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 Craig Cohen, news and public affairs director
The news from Illinois Public Media’s award-winning staff of reporters — Jim Meadows, Jeff Bossert and Sean Powers—can be heard during Morning Edition, The Afternoon Magazine and All Things Considered.
Saturday and Sunday Occasional updates PATTERNS • APRIL 2012 7
12.3
WILL-TV Cooking
(midnight-2 am; 6-8 am; noon-2 pm; 6-8 pm) Sun and Wed: Cook’s Country; Lidia’s Italy; Chef John Besh’s New Orleans; Sara’s Weeknight Meals Mon and Fri: Simply Ming; Lidia’s Italy; Ciao Italia; Hubert Keller Secrets of a Chef Tue and Thur: Essential Pepin; Great American Seafood Cookoff/Gourmet’s Adventures with Ruth (begins 4/5); Caprial and John’s Kitchen Cooking for Family; Mexico One Plate at a Time/Christina Cooks (begins 4/12)
Travel
(2-3 am; 8-9 am; 2-3 pm; 8-9 pm) Sun and Wed: Rick Steves’ Europe; Wild Photo Adventures Mon and Fri: Rick Steves’ Europe; Travel With Kids Tue and Thu: Burt Wolf Travels and Traditions; OpenRoad
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; American Woodshop; Around the House with Matt and Shari Tue and Thu: Victory Garden; Woodwright’s Shop; Woodsmith Shop; Growing Bolder Wed and Sun: Mid-American Gardener; 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 Nature (4/2, 4/30); Ubaldo (4/9); The Reconstruction of Asa Carter (4/16); Earth: The Operators’ Manual (4/23) 8:00 Nature 11:00 Finding Your Roots
Tuesdays
7:00 American Masters (4/3); Jews and Baseball (4/10); Desperate Hours (4/17); Circus Dreams (4/24) 8:00 Swimming in Auschwitz (4/17) 8:30 Erma Bombeck: Legacy of Laughter (4/3); Baseball in Sacramento (4/10); Dreamers Theater (4/24) 11:00 Women, War & Peace (4/3); Jewish Soldiers in Blue & Gray (4/10); Independent Lens (4/17); Global Voices (4/24)
Wednesdays
7:00 Independent Lens (4/4, 4/18); Frontline (4/25) 8:00 Priceless (4/4); Frontline (4/11, 4/18) 11:00 The Doha Debates (4/4); Dreamers Theater (4/11); Long Road Home (4/18); Carhenge: Genius or Junk? (4/25) 11:30 Independent Lens (4/11, 4/25)
Arts and Crafts
(5-6 am; 11-noon; 5-6 pm; 11-midnight) Sun and Wed: Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting; Donna Dewberry Show Mon and Fri: Sewing with Nancy; Best of Simply Painting: Across Europe Tue and Thu: Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting; Best of the Joy of Painting
Saturday Marathons in April
A six-hour block of themed programming April 7: Spring Fling Garden preparations, early spring flowers and recipes for Passover and Easter celebrations. April 14: Birds of a Feather Recipes from chicken cordon bleu and turducken to roasted duck and foie gras. April 21: It’s Not Easy Being Green Michele Beschen presents a lifestyle that embraces nature, simplicity and eco-friendliness. April 28: Fix Up Your Home Update and increase the value of your home, beautify a backyard or re-purpose spaces for the family to enjoy.
See the full Create schedule at will.illinois.edu/tv/ schedule
12.2 Fridays
7:00 Intelligence Squared (4/13); Hoover Dam (4/20); Earth: The Operator’s Manual (4/27) 7:30 Panama Canal (4/6) 8:00 Wilder: An American First (4/13); Seabiscuit (4/20); Earth: The Operator’s Manual (4/27) 11:00 Grand Coulee Dam (4/6); Images of Tony Gleaton (4/13); Surviving the Dust Bowl (4/20); The Crash of 1929 (4/27) 11:30 Basic Black (4/13)
Saturdays
7:00 Washington Week 7:30 McLaughlin Group 8:00 Need to Know 8:30 Inside Washington 9:00 Martin Luther (4/7); American Masters 10:00 Martin Luther (4/7); American Masters (4/28) 10:30 Knee Deep (4/21) 11:00 Moyers & Company
Sundays
7:00 Global Voices (4/1); The Greatest Good (4/8); Wilderness: The Great Debate (4/15) 7:30 A Chitimacha Recollection (4/29) 8:00 Pacific Heartbeat 9:00 Global Voices 10:00 Global Voices (4/1, 4/15, 4/29); Long Road Home (4/22) 10:30 You’ll Always Be With Me (4/8) 11:00 Pacific Heartbeat
Thursdays
7:00 America Revealed (4/12, 4/19, 4/26) 8:00 Saving the Titanic (4/5); Titanic with Len Goodman (4/12); Secrets of the Dead (4/19); Pioneers in Aviation (4/26) 11:00 NOVA
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See the full World schedule at will.illinois.edu/tv/schedule
WILL-TV daytime
David Thiel, Program Director
Monday - Friday Market to Market (M) Nightly Business Report (T-F) Body Electric (M, W, F) Sit and Be Fit (T, Th) Clifford Wild Kratts Curious George The Cat in the Hat Super WHY! Dinosaur Train Sesame Street Sid the Science Kid
Saturday 5:00
Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood
French in Action
5:30
Angelina Ballerina
Destinos
6:00 6:30 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30
Curious George The Cat in the Hat Super WHY! Dinosaur Train Thomas & Friends Bob the Builder Sid the Science Kid Motorweek Growing a Greener World
Curious George The Cat in the Hat Super WHY! Dinosaur Train Cyberchase Fetch! Electric Company Biz Kid$ Moyers & Company
Super WHY! Barney & Friends
P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home 11:00 Mid-American Gardener 11:30 Victory Garden
The Cat in the Hat Sid the Science Kid
Noon America’s Test Kitchen 12:30 Cook's Country
Sewing Programs
1:00 1:30
Essential Pepin
2:00
Joanne Weir’s Cooking Confidence
Martha Speaks
2:30
Simply Ming
Arthur
Tracks Ahead
Wild Kratts
3:00 3:30 4:00
Electric Company/ Fetch! (F)
4:30
This Old House Hour
BBC World News
Rick Steves’ Europe
PBS NewsHour
5:00 5:30 6:00
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: Beauty of Oil Painting Th: Color World with Gary Spetz F: Katie Brown Workshop
WordWorld
▲ ▲
How To Programs
▲
Painting and How To Programs
WordGirl
Nightly Business Report
Sunday
America’s Heartland Market to Market T he McLaughlin Group Religion + Ethics Newsweekly Specials 4/1
Hubert Keller: Secrets of a Chef 1:00 Richard Bangs’ Hong
Heartland Highways Hometime
Lawrence Welk
Kong 2:00 Richard Bangs’ Costa Rica 3:00 Richard Bangs’ Pearl River Delta 4:00 Great Performances: The Thomashefskys 4/8 1:00 Angle of Attack 2:00 Angle of Attack 3:00 Horsemen Cometh 4:00 Sherlock Holmes 5:00 Sherlock Holmes 4/15 1:00 Vision of Muhammad Yunus 2:00 Scarred Lands & Wounded Lives 3:00 Family Homelessness in America 4:00 Sherlock Holmes 5:00 Hustle 4/22 1:00 Great Performances at the Met: Rodelinda 4:30 Food Forward 5:00 Energy Quest 4/29 1:00 Saving Songbirds 2:00 Small Farm Rising 3:00 Sherlock Holmes 4:00 Sherlock Holmes 5:00 Hustle
See listings 2:00 pm How To M: Rough Cut Tu: Wai Lana Yoga W: Garden Smart Th: For Your Home F: Woodwright’s Shop
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april tv features
t Margaret Mitchell
Two author features from American Masters Discover the Pulitzer Prize-winning author behind Gone With the Wind, one of the world’s bestselling novels adapted into one of the most popular films of all time, with Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel at 8 pm Monday, April 2. Then at 9 pm, Harper Lee: Hey Boo explores the phenomenon behind To Kill a Mockingbird and the mysterious life of its Pulitzer Prize-winning author, including why she never published again.
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Photo: Courtesy of © BBC for MASTERPIECE- Photographer: Todd Antony
Photo: Courtesy of Donald Uhrbrock/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images
Saving the Titanic (9 pm Sunday, April 1) offers a dramatic interpretation of the ship’s final hours, told from the point of view of the nine members of the engineering crew who fought courageously to keep the power systems running in a valiant attempt to save the stricken vessel. Then, picking up from this winter’s Costa Concordia disaster, as well as back to the Titanic’s sinking and ahead to the future of sea travel, NOVA looks at cruise ship safety and the science of ships’ buoyancy in Why Ships Sink at 8 pm Wednesday, April 18.
Photo: Courtesy of Chris Amess/WGBH
from the Titanic to today
Photo: Courtesy of Atlanta History Center
Photo: Courtesy of Tile Films Ltd.
Sea travel,
s Harper Lee in a local courthouse while visiting her hometown.
Expectations of wealth Masterpiece Classic presents Charles Dickens’ tale of a battered orphan boy who rises from blacksmith’s apprentice to gentleman under the patronage of a mysterious benefactor. Great Expectations, starring Gillian Anderson (left), David Suchet and Ray Winstone, airs at 8 pm Sundays, April 1 and 8.
Fewer than 100 naturally occurring elements form the ingredients of everything in our world, from solid rocks to ethereal gases, from scorching acids to the living cells in our body. Now, Hunting the Elements, hosted by The New York Times technology correspondent David Pogue—who also hosted NOVA’s 2011 Making Stuff series—delves into the world of extreme chemistry to unlock the elements’ secrets. His findings include answers for why some elements, such as platinum and gold, are relatively inert while others, such as phosphorous and potassium, are violently explosive, as well as why some are vital to living while others are potentially lethal.
Photo: Courtesy of WGBH Educational Foundation
NOVA uncovers secrets of the elements
s David Pogue and Theodore Gray after a demonstration.
The program airs at 8 pm Wednesday, April 4. See page 17 for a feature about C-U resident Theodore Gray, prominently featured in Hunting the Elements.
Photo: Courtesy of jeffross.com
New Live from Lincoln Center
The systems that propel America Technology expert and communications attorney Yul Kwon (winner of Survivor: Cook Islands) hosts a new four-part series that reveals a nation of interdependent and intricately interwoven networks that feed and power the nation, produce millions of goods, transport people great distances and still come together to make America work. These networks all rely on vast, complex and precisely calibrated systems, yet most Americans have never had the chance to observe or understand them—until now. America Revealed is at 9 pm Wednesdays, April 11, 18 and 25, and concludes in May.
Celebrated soprano Renee Fleming returns to Lincoln Center’s Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse for an intimate performance that ranges from 19th-century art songs to her favorite contemporary jazz, rock and Broadway melodies. Fleming is accompanied by members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and some special surprise guests. Renee Fleming at the Penthouse is at 8 pm Friday, April 6.
Better living through design In a new three-part series, a public health physician explores how communities are reimagining public transit, redefining how their strengths attract new industry, creating energy sustainability initiatives, battling air and water pollution and establishing clean, healthy environments for low-income neighborhoods. Don’t miss Designing Healthy Communities at 9 pm Mondays, April 16, 23 and 30. PATTERNS • APRIL 2012 11
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BritCom Saturday Night 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00 10:30 11:15
As Time Goes By Waiting for God Keeping Up Appearances Black Books Red Green Show Doctor Who Doctor Who Confidential
1Sunday 7:00 Finding Your Roots (TV-PG) (DVS) Part 3 of 10. Henry Louis Gates Jr. introduces pairs of well-known people bound by an often hidden link as they use genealogy and genetics to find surprises in their ancestral history. Repeated 2:30 am Tuesday. 8:00 Masterpiece Classic (TV-PG) Great Expectations. Part 1 of 2. See article page 10. Repeated midnight Monday; and 3:30 am Tuesday. 9:00 Saving The Titanic (TV-PG) See article page 10. Repeated 1 am Monday; 2:30 am Saturday; 8 pm 4/10; 2 am 4/11; and 4 am 4/12. 10:00 Globe Trekker (TV-PG) (DVS) Sri Lanka & Maldives. 11:00 Jubilee (TV-G) The Stella Vees.
2Monday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) El Paso, Texas. Part 2 of 3. Repeated 1:30 am Tuesday; 4 am Wednesday; and 7 pm Saturday. 8:00 American Masters (TV-PG) Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel. See article page 10. Repeated 3 am Wednesday. 9:00 American Masters (TV-PG) Harper Lee: Hey Boo. See article page 10. Repeated midnight Tuesday; and 3 am Thursday. 10:30 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose
3Tuesday 7:00 American Experience (TV-G) (DVS) Grand Coulee Dam. Learn how the tension between technological achievement and environmental impact hangs over the legacy of Grand Coulee Dam. Repeated midnight Wednesday; and 2 am Monday. 8:30 American Experience (TV-PG) (DVS) Panama Canal. Archive photos and film plus first-hand accounts tell the story of one of the world’s most significant technological achievements. Repeated 1:30 am Wednesday; and 3:30 am Monday. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose
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4Wednesday 7:00 Nature (TV-PG) (DVS) Ocean Giants: Deep Thinkers. Like humans, whales and dolphins work cooperatively, show empathy and are self-aware. What other similarities might we share? Repeated midnight Thursday. 8:00 NOVA (TV-G) Hunting The Elements. See article page 11. Repeated 1 am Thursday; and 3 am Friday. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose
5Thursday 7:00 Mid-American Gardener (TV-G) Repeated 11 am Saturday. 7:30 This Old House (TV-G) 8:00 Independent Lens (TV-PG) (DVS) Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey. See article page 1. Repeated 1 am Friday; 2 am Sunday; 8 pm Monday; and midnight Tuesday. 9:30 Thomas Comma (TV-G) (DVS) This award-winning animated film, based on a story by poet Martha Baird, tells the adventure of a lonely comma looking for the right sentence. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? Again! 11:00 Charlie Rose
6Friday 7:00 Friday Night Public Affairs See left. 8:00 Live from Lincoln Center (TV-G) Renee Fleming at the Penthouse. See article page 11. Repeated 1 am Saturday. 9:30 Two Feet from the Audience (TV-G) A look at bringing classical music to non-traditional and alternative venues. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? Again! 11:00 Charlie Rose
7Saturday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) El Paso, Texas. Part 2 of 3. Repeated from 7 pm Monday. 8:00 BritCom Saturday Night See left. 11:45 Austin City Limits (TV-PG) Raphael Saadiq/Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears.
8Sunday 7:00 Finding Your Roots (TV-PG) (DVS) Part 4 of 10. Henry Louis Gates Jr. introduces pairs of well-known people bound by an often hidden link as they use genealogy and genetics to find surprises in their ancestral history. Repeated 2 am Tuesday; and 3 am Wednesday. 8:00 Masterpiece Classic (TV-PG) Great Expectations. Part 2 of 2. See article page 10. Repeated midnight Monday; and 3 am Tuesday.
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10:00 Globe Trekker 11:00 Jubilee (TV-G) Cedric Burnside and Lightnin’ Malcolm/Curley Taylor and Zydeco Trouble.
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9Monday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) El Paso, Texas. Part 3 of 3. Repeated 4 am Wednesday; 3 am and 7 pm Saturday. 8:00 Independent Lens (TV-PG) (DVS) Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey. Repeated from 8 pm Thursday. 9:30 Fit Kids, Healthy Families (TV-G) How and why childhood obesity has become a major health issue, plus information on making wise nutritional and exercise choices. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? Again! 11:00 Charlie Rose
10Tuesday 7:00 Titanic with Len Goodman (TV-PG) The Dancing with the Stars judge meets the ship’s modern-day descendants. Repeated 1 am Wednesday; 3 am Thursday; and 2 am Saturday. 8:00 Saving The Titanic (TV-PG) Repeated from 9 pm 4/1. 9:00 Frontline TBA. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? Again! 11:00 Charlie Rose
11Wednesday 7:00 Nature (TV-PG) (DVS) Ocean Giants: Voices of the Sea. Humpback whales’ songs and a sperm whale’s sonar laser beam. Repeated midnight Thursday; 4 am Friday; and 4 am Monday. 8:00 NOVA (TV-PG) Deadliest Tornadoes. The science behind the April 2011 tornado outbreak and the scientists
10:00 10:30 11:00
trying to understand whether it relates to global climate change. Repeated 1 am Thursday; 3 am Friday; and 3 am Monday. America Revealed (TV-PG) Food Machine. Part 1 of 4. See article page 11. Repeated 2 am Thursday; and 3 am 4/18. Last of the Summer Wine Are You Being Served? Again! Charlie Rose
12Thursday 7:00 Mid-American Gardener (TV-G) Repeated 11 am Saturday. 7:30 This Old House (TV-G) 8:00 Hustle (TV-14) Tiger Troubles. Albert faces trouble from Czech Charlie, forcing Sean to suggest a con involving an aging playboy and a jewel-encrusted tiger. Repeated 5 pm Sunday. 9:00 Sherlock Holmes (TV-G) The Three Gables. After Douglas Maberley is rejected by his lover, he completes the manuscript of his life story and then dies in mysterious circumstances. Repeated 4 pm Sunday. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? Again! 11:00 Charlie Rose
13Friday 7:00 Friday Night Public Affairs See page 12. 8:00 Art in the Twenty-First Century (TV-PG) (DVS) Change. Artists Ai Weiwei, El Anatsui and Catherine Opie engage with communities. Repeated 1 am Saturday; 3 am Sunday; and 2 am Monday. 9:00 Jubilee (TV-G) Kilborn Alley Blues Band. Repeated 11 pm Sunday. 10:00 Independent Lens (TV-14) When The Drum Is Beating. Haiti’s most popuPATTERNS • APRIL 2012 13
WILL-TV lar band has survived 60 years. Repeated 2 am Sunday. 11:00 Charlie Rose
14Saturday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) El Paso, Texas. Part 3 of 3. Repeated from 7 pm Monday. 8:00 BritCom Saturday Night See page 12. 11:30 Austin City Limits (TV-PG) John Legend & The Roots.
15Sunday 7:00 Finding Your Roots (TV-PG) (DVS) Part 5 of 10. Henry Louis Gates Jr. introduces pairs of well-known people bound by an often hidden link as they use genealogy and genetics to find surprises in their ancestral history. Repeated 2 am Tuesday. 8:00 Masterpiece Classic (TV-PG) The Mystery of Edwin Drood. This adaptation of Charles Dickens’ last novel completes the psychological thriller about a provincial choirmaster’s obsession with 17-year-old Rosa Bud. Repeated midnight Monday; and 3 am Tuesday. 10:00 Globe Trekker (TV-PG) 11:00 Jubilee (TV-G) Kilborn Alley Blues Band. Repeated from 9 pm Friday.
16Monday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Atlanta, Ga. Part 1 of 3. Repeated 1 am Tuesday; 4 am Wednesday; 3 am and 7 pm Saturday. 8:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Providence, R.I. Part 1 of 3. 9:00 Designing Healthy Communities (TV-G) Retrofitting Suburbia. Part 1 of 4. See article page 11. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine
10:30 Are You Being Served? Again! 11:00 Charlie Rose
17Tuesday 7:00 Lidia Celebrates America (TV-G) (DVS) Weddings: Something Borrowed, Something New. Bastianich celebrates various cultures by focusing on the traditions surrounding weddings. Repeated 1 am Wednesday; 4 am Thursday; and 2 am Saturday. 8:00 American Experience (TV-PG) (DVS) Hoover Dam. During the Great Depression, men desperate for work struggled against heat, choking dust and perilous heights to build a structure that transformed the American Southwest. Repeated 2 am Wednesday; and 3 am Thursday. 9:00 Frontline TBA. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? Again! 11:00 Charlie Rose
18Wednesday 7:00 Nature (TV-PG) River of No Return. Follow the journey of a young couple who chose the largest continguous wilderness area in the lower 48 states for their year-long honeymoon. Repeated midnight Thursday; and 3 am Friday. 8:00 NOVA (TV-PG) Why Ships Sink. See article page 10. Repeated 1 am Thursday; and 4 am Friday. 9:00 America Revealed (TV-G) Nation on the Move. Part 2 of 4. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? Again! 11:00 Charlie Rose
19Thursday 7:00 Mid-American Gardener (TV-G) Repeated 11 am Saturday. 7:30 This Old House (TV-G)
Sinfonia da Camera Ian Hobson, music director
Rush Hour—Returning Friends
2011–2012 Season Tuesday, April 17 5:30 p.m.
Sherban Lupu, violin • Ian Hobson, piano • Jeffrey A. Spenner, guest conductor
Sibelius Ernst Grieg Grieg
Karelia Suite, Op. 1: March Violin Concerto Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 16 Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46: Morning and In the Hall of the Mountain King
After the concert Garcia’s Pizza will provide complimentary hot pizza for the Sinfonia audience!
Contact Krannert Center Ticket Office for tickets. Call 217/333-6280 or 800/KCPATIX or visit www.krannertcenter.com
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Music for the Theatre Saturday, April 28 • 7:30 pm
Faith United Methodist Church, Champaign 2011–2012 Concert Season Kevin Kelly, Music Director
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W.A. Mozart: Overture to The Magic Flute Paul Bowles: Music for a Farce Erich Korngold: Suite from Much Ado About Nothing Felix Mendelssohn: Incidental Music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream Half-time: Amasong
8:00 Hustle (TV-14) The Father of Jewels. Determined to get even, Sean leads a con on his dad to get back the money he owes in back-dated child support. 9:00 Sherlock Holmes (TV-G) The Dying Detective. Sherlock Holmes gets a visit from Adelaide Savage who is worried about her husband’s increasing habit of smoking opium to heighten his powers for writing poetry. Repeated 3 pm 4/29. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? Again! 11:00 Charlie Rose
20Friday 7:00 Friday Night Public Affairs See page 12. 8:00 Art in the Twenty-First Century (TV-PG) (DVS) Boundaries. Artists David Altmejd, Tabaimo and Lynda Benglis present taboo subject matter and discover innovative uses of media. Repeated 1 am Saturday. 9:00 Independent Lens (TV-PG) Revenge of the Electric Car. Automakers are competing to build the best models to meet consumers’ interest in electric cars. Repeated 2 am Sunday. 10:30 Illinois Lawmakers 11:00 Charlie Rose
21Saturday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Atlanta, Ga. Part 1 of 3. Repeated from 7 pm Monday. 8:00 BritCom Saturday Night See page 12. 11:30 Austin City Limits (TV-PG) Tom Waits.
22Sunday 7:00 Finding Your Roots (TV-PG) (DVS) Part 6 of 10. Henry Louis Gates Jr. introduces pairs of well-known people bound by an often hidden link as they use genealogy and genetics to find surprises in their ancestral history. Repeated 2 am Tuesday. 8:00 Masterpiece Classic (TV-PG) Birdsong. Part 1 of 2. An adaptation of Sebas-
tian Faulk’s best-selling novel about lovers torn apart by World War I. Repeated 12:30 am Monday; and 3 am Tuesday. 9:30 Powering The Planet—Earth: The Operators’ Manual (TV-G) Eight fast-paced case studies and stories about nations and communities transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable or low-carbon sources of energy. Repeated 2 am Monday; 2 am Friday; and 3 am Saturday. 10:30 Globe Trekker 11:30 Jubilee (TV-G) Albert Castiglia.
23Monday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Atlanta, Ga. Part 2 of 3. Repeated 1 am Tuesday; 4 am Wednesday; and 7 pm Saturday. 8:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Providence, R.I. Part 2 of 3. 9:00 Designing Healthy Communities (TV-G) Rebuilding Places of the Heart. Part 2 of 4. See article page 11. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? Again! 11:00 Charlie Rose
24Tuesday 7:00 American Experience (TV-G) (DVS) The Crash of 1929. A chronicle of how the economic boom of the 1920s was created and then went bust, erasing the predictions of an era when everyone would be rich. Repeated 2 am Wednesday; 3 am Thursday; and 2:30 am Monday. 8:00 Frontline Money, Power and Wall Street. Decisions and missed opportunities in repairing the nation’s economy. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? Again! 11:00 Charlie Rose
25Wednesday 7:00 Nature (TV-PG) (DVS) Radioactive Wolves. Filmmakers and scientists document the lives of the wolves and other wildlife thriving in the “dead zone” that still surrounds the remains of the Chernobyl PATTERNS • APRIL 2012 15
WILL-TV nuclear reactor. Repeated midnight Thursday; and 3 am Friday. 8:00 NOVA (TV-G) Secrets of the Sun. Scientists have fresh understanding of the sun that may help predict and track solar storms that could zap our power grid and shut down telecommunications. Repeated 1 am Thursday; and 4 am Friday. 9:00 America Revealed (TV-G) Electric Nation. Part 3 of 4. See article page 11. Repeated 2 am Thursday; and 3:30 am Monday. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose
sport hunting have shunted the animal from the Great Plains it once dominated. Repeated 3 am Sunday. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Illinois Lawmakers 11:00 Charlie Rose
26Thursday
29Sunday
7:00 Mid-American Gardener (TV-G) Repeated 11 am Saturday. 7:30 This Old House (TV-G) 8:00 Hustle (TV-14) Conned Out of Luck. When Mickey is conned by someone who sold him a useless mobile phone online, the crew comes up with a payback con. Repeated 5 pm Sunday. 9:00 Sherlock Holmes (TV-G) The Golden Pince-Nez. Holmes investigates when Willoughby Smith, secretary to Professor Coram, is found dead clutching a pince-nez. Repeated 4 pm Sunday. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose
27Friday 7:00 Friday Night Public Affairs See page 12. 8:00 Art in the Twenty-First Century (TV-PG) (DVS) History. Artists Glenn Ligon, Mary Reid Kelley and Marina Abramovic play with historical events, exploring and exposing commonly held assumptions about historic “truth.” Repeated 1 am Saturday; and 1:30 am Monday. 9:00 Independent Lens (TV-PG) Facing The Storm: Story of the American Bison. The bison stands on the brink of collapse after cattle ranching, urban sprawl and
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28Saturday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Atlanta, Ga. Part 2 of 3. Repeated from 7 pm Monday. 8:00 BritCom Saturday Night See page 12. 11:30 Austin City Limits (TV-PG) Roy Orbison.
7:00 Finding Your Roots (TV-PG) (DVS) Part 7 of 10. Henry Louis Gates Jr. introduces pairs of well-known people bound by an often hidden link as they use genealogy and genetics to find surprises in their ancestral history. 8:00 Masterpiece Classic (TV-PG) Birdsong. Part 2 of 2. An adaptation of Sebastian Faulk’s best-selling novel about lovers torn apart by World War I. Repeated midnight Monday. 9:30 Take 2 (TV-PG) Saxophonist/clarinetist Frank Glover and pianist Claude Sifferlen enjoyed a 20-year musical collaboration and a father/son-type bond before Sifferlen succumbed to inoperable cancer. 10:00 Globe Trekker 11:00 Jubilee (TV-G) Joe Louis Walker with Murali Coryell.
30Monday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Atlanta, Ga. Part 3 of 3. 8:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Providence, R.I. Part 3 of 3. 9:00 Designing Healthy Communities (TV-G) Social Policy in Concrete. Part 3 of 4. See article page 11. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose
membership news & events
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Local expert featured on Hunting the Elements
In Hunting the Elements, Gray is one of the scientific experts consulted by program host David Pogue.
“It was interesting and fun to work with David,” Gray said. “Filming was halfway between improv and scripted. We’d first discuss the content off-camera, then the director would ask s Element collector Theodore Gray (right) and host David Pogue discuss the world us to keep having of weird extreme chemistry and the quest to unlock the secrets of the elements. the conversation— When you’ve written a definitive tome as many as six times—while various about the earth’s elements that’s sold over segments were filmed from different half a million copies and been translated aspects. The discussion would evolve in into 22 languages—not to mention an new directions, and the challenge was to existing iPad app in five languages and a keep it spontaneous.” soon-to-be-released version in six more— Gray thinks NOVA may have documented it’s a good bet that NOVA might ask you to for the first time on film the “dim, but share your expertise. spectacular” outcome of his demonstration That’s the case for Champaign-Urbana involving white phosphorous. resident Theodore Gray, author of The “Because the human eye is incredibly Elements: A Visual Exploration of Every sensitive, it can see things that video can’t Known Atom in the Universe. He’s also a capture. Advancements in super high contributing editor at Popular Science sensitivity digital cameras that also record magazine and has authored its “Gray high definition video made it possible to Matter” column since 2003. And before register the phenomenon,” Gray said. all of these achievements, he co-founded Wolfram Research, known for its creation of the world’s leading technical software system, Mathematica, and Wolfram|Alpha. It was the need for a new conference table at Wolfram that spurred Gray to design and build an actual “table of elements,” including a mounted sample of each element. “As it turned out, the table was much too distracting for its intended purpose,” Gray related. But since he had the elements— methodically purchased on eBay—Gray composed high-quality photos to create a poster, which was quickly snapped up by schools and office dwellers alike. His 2009 book and follow-up iPad apps were logical next steps to satisfy a worldwide fascination with Gray’s entertaining explanations of entries on the periodic table.
Tour Britain with WILL Visit the real Downton Abbey, Agatha Christie’s English Riviera, Bath and Yorkshire villages with the producer of Last of the Summer Wine. WILL Britain’s Masterpiece & Mystery Tour—Sept. 27-Oct. 2, 2012. will.illinois.edu/willtravel/britain
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Meet one family’s three generations of WILL supporters
s (Left to right) Maureen Henry, Colleen Nolan-Grob, Rose Nolan, Kathy Nolan Henry.
Although WILL-TV was brand new in 1955 when Rose Nolan moved from Chicago to Champaign-Urbana for her husband to enroll at the University of Illinois, she first discovered WILL Radio’s classical music programming. Today she’s still a WILL and public broadcasting fan, now joined by her children and grandchildren. Daughter Colleen Nolan-Grob, an oncology nurse, remembers growing up in a house filled with music. “If it was on WILL, we listened to it—symphonies, marching band pieces, jazz,” she said. “My
dad, who had been in a drum and bugle corps, would whistle with any type of music and often would serve as conductor—he was pretty good at it. My mother would have the radio on anytime she was in the kitchen or in her sewing room.” Kathy Nolan Henry, employed at the Illinois State Geological Survey, distinctly recalls their youngest sister, Moira, enjoying The Electric Company.
Her daughter, Maureen Henry, loved the PBS Kids program Arthur. “They had positive lessons and interesting guest characters,” she said. “I’ll never forget that I learned who WILL sparks aha moments Yo Yo Ma and Click & Clack were because of that show.” Maureen is Rose: “I enjoy David Inge’s selection of WILLnow an English teacher at Heritage AM’s Focus guests, including regulars Sandy Junior High School in Homer. Mason and Doyle Moore and his conversations with them. I’ve read many of the books from All four agree that WILL offers an authors he interviews. My favorites on TV incredible array of widely accessible are Charlie Rose and Dr. Who, along with programs. “From kids to adults, Masterpiece’s Downton Abbey.” liberals and conservatives, it really Kathy: “I enjoy the content of NOVA, Masterpiece, Antiques Roadshow, Frontline and WILL-TV’s Mid-American Gardener.” Colleen: “NOVA, POV and Frontline offer great ideas and information, plus I like the cooking and travel shows on the Create channel.” Maureen: “I love the BritComs, including my favorite, Vicar of Dibley, plus Celtic Woman performances and the Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple from Masterpiece Mystery.” 18 PATTERNS • APRIL 2012
is something for everyone,” Colleen said. Maureen added, “Watching programs on WILL was something that my family could do together, and have discussions about. My parents instilled an appreciation for WILL in me from a very young age. We support the stations because we believe in what public broadcasting is all about.”
Photo: Bob Culkeen
Paul Coolley retiring from WILL ag programs Farmers have been listening to Paul Coolley wish them a “profitable day” for nearly three decades on WILL radio. He’s been a fixture of agriculture in east central Illinois since taking his first job as a broker for Tabor Grain Company in 1972. He joined Archer Daniels Midland in 1975 when it acquired Tabor. With his retirement in late April, he also retires from his WILL Radio broadcasts. Along with former director of agricultural programming Charles Lindy and the late Paul Bates of Bates Commodities, he helped create the primary agricultural programming on WILL. First came the Opening and Closing Market Reports, centered on guest analysts, including Paul. Later, Commodity Week joined the schedule, featuring Paul’s conversations about agricultural issues moving the marketplace.
s Paul Coolley (center) with Dave Dickey (left) and Todd Gleason.
benefited from Paul’s constant flow of ideas for WILL for the last 27 years. “He’s not particularly reserved. So if he has an idea, you’re going to hear it. Most of them are awfully good,” said Todd. Agricultural programming director Dave Dickey said he and listeners will miss Coolley’s thoughtful analysis, delivered on WILL-AM each Wednesday since 1985. “That’s about 2,700 appearances, not counting Commodity Week, the All Day Ag Outlook, and our evening ag panels,” he said. Thank you, Paul, for your years of service to WILL!
A new staff member and a promotion at Illinois Public Media
with community partners to address them. She began work at WILL as promotions coordinator in 1998, and has codirected the Youth Media Workshop since 2003. Her previous experience at public radio and television stations in Pennsylvania included producing newscasts, TV documentaries on rural life in central Pennsylvania and a weekly news program for children that aired in classrooms across the country.
Photo: Michael Owen Thomas
Todd Gleason, host of Commodity Week and the Closing Market Report, said he’s
Craig Cohen, whom many listeners will remember as WILL-AM’s local Morning Edition host from 19952002, rejoined WILL as director of news and public affairs March 5. In other staff news, Kimberlie Kranich has been promoted to director of community content and engagement. Craig, who most recently worked as director of programming and producer/ host for WITF-FM and TV in Harrisburg, Pa., said he was thrilled to return to the Midwest and to Illinois Public Media. “I’ll seek to ensure WILL continues to provide in-depth stories and conversations to give listeners the information they need to make up their own minds about the issues and ideas that affect us all,” he said. Kimberlie has been director of community engagement at Illinois Public Media since 2001. She has led our process of assessing community needs and working
In her new position, she will continue to direct engagement efforts, but will also supervise creation of programming content about the community, including news and public affairs, to provide more coordination between listening to the community and content for radio, television and the Web. “With Craig’s and Kimberlie’s efforts, we look forward to continuing our gains in cross-platform programming and using online media to deepen our impact in the community,” said Mark Leonard, general manager of Illinois Public Media.
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Vintage Vinyl Sale
2012
Join us for this year’s sale on Saturday, May 5, at our new location—1803 Philo Road in Urbana, directly north of Hot Slots Racing and behind Walgreen’s.
Join us April 3 Hell and Back Again overlaps the narratives of the life of a Marine on the frontlines of the war in Afghanistan and the same Marine’s life in recovery at home to create a realistic depiction of how Marines experience this war. The story follows the U.S. Marines Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, as they launch a major assault on a Taliban stronghold in southern Afghanistan. Within hours of being dropped deep behind enemy lines, Sgt. Nathan Harris’ unit is attacked from all sides. The parallel story begins with Sgt. Harris’ return home to his wife after he is severely injured. In physical and psychological pain, he attempts to reconcile the immense gulf between his experiences at war with the terrifying normalcy of life at home. These two stories intertwine to communicate the drama of war and the experience of returning home for a whole generation returning from military service. A free screening of the film and a discussion of the issues it raises will take place at 6 pm Tuesday, April 3, in Robeson Rooms A & B of the Champaign Public Library (200 W. Green St.). Illinois Public Media and the library are partners in presenting the 10-film Community Cinema series for 2011-2012. The film will be shown with closed captions for the hearing impaired and an English Sign Language interpreter will sign the discussion.
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Please bring your donations of CDs, records, DVDs, video games and players, stereo equipment, speakers, CD and DVD players to this space beginning April 2 between the hours of 9 am and 4 pm. Or drop off donations in sturdy boxes at Busey Bank locations in Urbana, Champaign, Savoy and Mahomet during regular bank hours from April 2-27. If you’d like to volunteer to help sort and price items or to work at the sale, we’d appreciate that, too. Each item you donate to the Vintage Vinyl sale benefits Illinois Public Media’s Illinois Radio Reader, which provides news and information to blind and visually impaired residents of central Illinois. For more information or to volunteer, please contact Deane Geiken, event organizer and director of Illinois Radio Reader, at 217-333-6503.
Great car with deluxe features, including optional public media programs. Call 1-866-789-8627 for details on donating your vehicle as another way to support WILL while earning a tax deduction.
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Lady Macbeth: A Kabuki Play
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DoCha Chamber Music Festival
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Krannert Uncorked with Deak Harp One Man Band, blues
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Dance for People with Parkinson’s
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Friends of Theatre: Shozo Sato Retrospective
12, 26
Krannert Uncorked
12-14
Our Town
19
13
Traffic Jam: Ryan Ideus and The Feudin Hillbillys
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields with Joshua Bell, violin
19-21
Studiodance II Our Town
14, 22
Dessert and Conversation: Our Town
19-22 26
Chanticleer
15
Krannert Center Debut Artist: Wuna Meng, piano
26-29
Paradises Lost
27-28
Pilobolus
17
Sinfonia da Camera: Rush Hour— Northern Lights
28-29
Libretto: Paradises Lost
19
Krannert Uncorked with Los Guapos, Afro-Cuban jazz
KRANNERT CENTER PERFORMING ARTS