December 2011 Patterns

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Christmas to classical and pop to rock Plus ways to see three live performances

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december 2011 Volume XXXIX, Number 6

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Radio 90.9 FM: A mix of classical music and NPR information programs, including local news. (Also heard at 106.5 in Danville.)

See pages 4-5.

101.1 FM and 90.9 FM HD2: Locally produced music programs and classical music from C24. (101.1 is available in the Champaign-Urbana area.) See page 6.

580 AM: News and information, NPR, BBC, news, agriculture, talk shows. (Also heard on 90.9 FM HD3 with live streaming on will.illinois.edu.) See page 7.

Television

WILL Create Cooking, travel, gardening and home improvement, arts and crafts. 12.3; also available on Comcast and Mediacom.

See page 8.

WILL World PBS documentaries, news and public affairs. 12.2; also available on Comcast and Mediacom. See page 8.

WILL-HD All your favorite PBS and local programming, in high definition when available. 12.1; Contact your cable or satellite provider for channel information.

See pages 9-17.

Online

will.illinois.edu

PATTERNS • DECEMBER 2011

“A treasured community resource.” That’s the common thread to the comments I’ve received since starting my position with Illinois Public Media and the WILL stations six months ago. I’ve learned about the many ways our organization serves you across central Illinois, and I am very grateful for your generosity. As one of 13,120 individual annual contributors or more than 431 businesses, you have chosen to help give a voice to the local arts, education, new ideas and innovation that we bring to your communities.

This partnership is what allows us to bring you the best in television and radio programs, as well as outreach efforts that benefit central Illinois residents.

You’ve helped us showcase Champaign’s 150 years of history with an original series celebrating the community and its leaders, plus take a local look at Prohibition in our area and explore the stories along Route 150. We’re bringing you reports on the complex issues of feeding the hungry, along with the progress in breaking down barriers for those with disabilities. We’ve held open discussions on a variety of domestic and international issues brought forward in the films of our Community Cinema series. Together, we celebrated 30 years of insightful Focus programs, took an expanded regional approach to Mid-American Gardener and, with our partner organizations, made strides on the goals of C-U Fit Families.

We know you have choices in what you support, and all of us are thankful that you’ve placed your trust and your financial contributions with WILL. Some of you selected payroll deduction; others made an annual gift by credit card. Still other friends have provided for gifts in their estate plans or have discovered the benefits of funding a Charitable Gift Annuity. Some have donated vehicles. Whatever the method, your gift makes a very real difference in the quality of projects and programs we bring to you.

Now I ask you to consider making an additional gift before the year’s end and to ask a friend to join with you. You have our word that we will continue to be the best stewards of the funding you provide. On behalf of everyone at WILL, I send you our best wishes for a healthy, happy holiday season and bright, prosperous new year!

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Photo: Courtesy of Giovanni De Sandre

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Music: The perfect gift!

s From left: David Archuleta, Andrea Bocelli and Peter Noone.

What a holiday gift we have for music lovers this month! No matter what your favorite, it’s here on WILL-TV—from Christmas to classical, pop to rock and folk to 50s and 60s standards. We’ve highlighted a few of these specials, but check pages 2-3 and 10-11 for more music programs.

this all-new concert features favorites from Paul Revere & The Raiders, Gary Lewis & The Playboys, The Kingsmen, The Ventures, Question Mark & The Mysterians and Jefferson Starship. The program airs at 7 pm Saturday, Dec. 3.

PBS Arts Festival: Andrea Bocelli Live in Central Park The popular tenor is accompanied by the New York Philharmonic and joined by Celine Dion, Tony Bennett, Chris Botti, David Foster, sopranos Ana María Martínez and Pretty Yende, violinist Nicola Benedetti, bass baritone Bryn Terfel, flutist Andrea Griminelli and the Westminster Symphonic Choir. Great Performances captured this free concert for New York as part of the PBS Arts Festival, and it now airs at 8 pm Friday, Dec. 2.

60s Pop, Rock & Soul Hosted by icons Peter Noone of Herman’s Hermits and Davy Jones of The Monkees,

Buddy Holly: Listen to Me Taped before a live audience on what would have been Buddy Holly’s 75th birthday (Sept. 7, 2011), this concert features three generations of top recording artists performing Holly’s music, including Paul Anka, Shawn Colvin, Chris Isaak, Lyle Lovett, Graham Nash, Stevie Nicks, Boz Scaggs, Phil Everly and many others. Keith Richards, Ringo Starr, Eric Idle, Jackson Browne and Brian Wilson also offer tributes during the program at 8:30 pm Wednesday, Dec. 7.

Plus a few extra refrains See page 17 for details on three more holiday music specials, including how to spend New Year’s Eve with the rock band Coldplay.

t Shawn Colvin

Photo: Courtesy of Lester Cohen Songmasters LLC

Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and special guest David Archuleta American Idol season 7 runner-up and platinum recording artist David Archuleta joins the renowned Mormon Tabernacle Choir for an energetic Christmas celebration at 7 pm Tuesday, Dec. 13. His clear and powerful vocals pair with the choir’s classic sound for yuletide favorites, as well as on Los Pastores a Belén, sung in Spanish in tribute to Archuleta’s Honduran ancestry.

Veteran actor Michael York, a Grammy Award winner for a spoken word recording, recounts the tale of the choir’s humble beginnings. The program also features organ, choir and orchestra performances.

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On the cover: David Archuleta (Credit: Courtesy of Intellectual Reserve), Ana Maria Martinez & Andrea Bocelli (Credit: Courtesy of Giovanni De Sandre) and Celtic Woman (Credit: Courtesy of Jason Fobart).

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Photo: Courtesy of Jason Fobart

performances e v i l ts to e k c i t t Straight No Chaser, Celtic Woman e G and Celtic Thunder

s Celtic Woman

Internationally renowned for their stage productions and musical inspirations, Celtic Woman—Believe is an all-new show with vocalists Chloë Agnew, Lisa Kelly, Lisa Lambe and Celtic violinist Mairead Nesbitt performing classic Irish songs, such as The Water Is Wide, timeless pop tunes like Bridge Over Troubled Water and inspirational songs, such as Ave Maria with their signature sound. Tune in to the program at 8:30 pm Tuesday, Dec. 6, to learn how to get tickets to

Celtic Woman’s April 3 concert in Champaign, along with a limited number of tickets to an exclusive meet-and-greet event with the group.

The Celtic Thunder Christmas special (7:30 pm Thursday, Dec. 8) includes traditional and pop holiday favorites— including Silent Night and Winter Wonderland—from this five-member vocal group. Watch the program for a chance to get tickets to Celtic Thunder’s Dec. 15 show at Bloomington’s Center for the Performing Arts. t Celtic Thunder

Helpful information for saving money Back-to-back programs starting at 7 pm Monday, Dec. 5, offer dollarwise advice. First, Financial Fitness After 50! features noted educator, best-selling author and money manager Paul Merriman (right) sharing his five life-changing choices to help baby boomers grow and manage their money in retirement.

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Following at 8:30 pm is How to Shop for Free with Coupon Master Kathy Spencer, a mother of four who saves thousands of dollars per year on popular everyday products. She shares her savings strategies with an entertaining and concise guide on how to save money, stock up and slash your budget.

Photo: Courtesy of Jack Hartin Photography, CA

Filmed live at Harrah’s Resort in Atlantic City, Straight No Chaser—Songs of the Decades (Holiday Edition) includes everything from Joy to the World and You’re a Mean One, Mr. Grinch to The Boys Are Back in Town and Billie Jean—all with the group’s trademark harmonies. Watch the show at 7 pm Tuesday, Dec. 6, for your opportunity to get tickets plus meet the 10 members of Straight No Chaser when they perform at Normal’s Braden Auditorium Saturday, April 21.

Get ready

for the second season of

Downton Abbey

Masterpiece Classic’s Downton Abbey, winner of six Emmy Awards, including the honor for outstanding miniseries or movie, is back for its second season beginning Sunday, Jan. 8, on WILL-TV. Seven new episodes will continue the stories of the noble Crawley family and the staff who serve them in their Edwardian country house.

WILL-TV will air the first two episodes of the first season beginning at 7 pm Sunday, Dec. 18, and the third episode at 8 pm Sunday, Dec. 25. If you missed it last season, this is an opportunity to see why The New York Times called the series “an instant classic.”

Get a preview of the second season, along with cast interviews, at www.pbs.org/wgbh/ masterpiece/downtonabbey/.

Many east central Illinois nursing homes rated below average Numerous nursing homes and assistedliving facilities in east central Illinois are imperiling patients by failing to meet basic standards of care, according to reporting

by CU-CitizenAccess.org.

to improve it. Your calls with questions and comments are welcome during an interactive Focus discussion on WILL-AM, with live video on will.illinois.edu.

Forty percent of the 74 facilities that serve more than 7,200 Medicare and Medicaid patients in east central Illinois have been repeatedly rated below average by inspectors.

CU-CitizenAccess.org reporters found that four of the seven nursing homes in Champaign County have been rated below average. The overall federal score is a combination of the ratings for health inspection, staffing and quality measures.

On Monday, Dec. 5, CU-CitizenAccess.org will present Bed Check: The Condition of East Central Illinois Nursing Homes, a report on why so many homes are found wanting and what can be done about it.

Listen to the report during Morning Edition and All Things Considered on WILLAM 580 and FM 90.9 and online at will.illinois.edu. Then at 11 am on Tuesday, Dec. 6, join the conversation about nursing home quality and what can be done

The CU-CitizenAccess.org nursing home reporting is based on the initial work of Sabrina Santucci, a former journalism student in University of Illinois journalism professor Brant Houston’s class, with further reporting by Dan Petrella and Pam Dempsey. Houston is Knight Chair in Investigative Reporting.

CU-CitizenAccess.org is a community online news and information project that is overseen

by Houston and U of I journalism department chair Rich Martin.

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The cast—including Dame Maggie Smith, Elizabeth McGovern, Hugh Bonneville, Dan Stevens, Michelle Dockery, Siobhan Finneran and many others—returns as the new season picks up in the middle of World War I.

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 Great orchestras from the great concert venues.

Listings are subject to change.

Monday: Live! At the Concertgebouw

Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra Yannick Nezet-Seguin, cond; Simone Lamsma, violin

MASSENET; RAVEL 12/12 Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra

Yannick Nezet-Seguin, cond; Nicolas Angelich, piano

SAINT-SAENS; FRANCK 12/19 Special: Hannukah Lights 2011 and Chanukah in Story and Song (see page 6) 12/26 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Christoph Eschenbach, cond

SCHUMANN; BRAHMS 12/5

WILL-FM 90.9 and HD1 106.5 in Danville

12/14

12/21 12/28

Semyon Bychkov, cond MOZART; SHOSTAKOVICH Special: A Paul Winter Solstice Concert Nicholas McGegan, cond; Stewart Goodyear, piano MOZART; HUMMEL

Thursday: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra 12/1

Andres Cardenes, cond & violin; Anne Martindale Williams, cello

TCHAIKOVSKY; VIVALDI 12/8 Marek Janowski, cond; Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano

SAINT-SAENS; BERLIOZ 12/15 Mariss Jansons, cond; Yo-Yo Ma, cello

HAYDN; BOCCHERINI 12/22 Special: St. Olaf Christmas Festival 12/29 Marek Janowski, cond; Chee-Yun, violin

MOZART; MENDELSSOHN

Friday: Prairie Performances

Illinois Symphony Orchestra (10/15/11) Tragedy & Triumph Donato Cabrera, guest cond Awadagin Pratt, guest artist: piano

ADAMS; GRIEG; BERLIOZ 12/9 Eastern Illinois University Symphony (11/13/11) Richard Robert Rossi, cond Susan Teicher, piano

Triumph and Tragedy

DVORAK; BEETHOVEN 12/16 Illinois Chamber Orchestra (11/5/11)

Innovative & Inspirational

Kenneth Raskin, guest cond STRAVINSKY; TCHAIKOVSKY 12/23 Special: Jonathan Winters’ A Christmas Carol and A Leroy Anderson Christmas Special (see page 6) 12/30 Illinois Symphony Orchestra (11/19/11) Fast & Furious Alastair Willis, guest cond

Nicolas Kendall, guest artist: violin ADAMS; BRUBECK; BEETHOVEN 12/2

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.

Tuesday: The New York Philharmonic This Week 12/6

12/13

12/20

Zubin Mehta, cond HOLST; RESPIGHI Bernard Haitink, cond R. STRAUSS; BEETHOVEN Special: A Chanticleer Christmas; Lessons and Carols from Washington National Cathedral (see page 6) 12/27 Jeffrey Kahane, cond & piano

MOZART; BEETHOVEN

Wednesday: Chicago Symphony Orchestra 12/7

Christoph von Dohnanyi, cond; Paul Lewis, piano MOZART; SCHUMANN

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s Paul Lewis (7 pm, 12/7)

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. *Note: early starts for two programs.

12/3 Guiomar Novaes, Famous Brazilian Pianist (10:30 am) 12/10 Famous Recordings of Handel’s Messiah 12/17 J.S. Bach and Music of the Holiday Seasons 12/24 Christmas Music of the Baroque (10 am) 12/31 Offenbach and Johann Strauss: Music for the Big Party

Noon Afternoon at the Opera

s Marina Poplavskaya (noon, 12/10)

sundays 7 am NPR Weekend Edition with Audie Cornish

9 am

FPO Sunday Baroque

Live from the Met, 2011-12 season. *Note: early starts for two programs.

12/3 RODELINDA (Handel). Harry Bicket cond, with Renee Fleming, Stephanie Blythe, Andreas Scholl, Met Opera Chorus and Orchestra. (11:30 am) 12/10 FAUST (Gounod). Yannick Nezet-Seguin cond, with Marina Poplavskaya, Jonas Kaufmann, Rene Pape and Met Opera Chorus and Orchestra.

12/17 MADAMA BUTTERFLY (Puccini). Placido Domingo, cond, with Liping Zhang, Robert Dean Smith and Met Opera Chorus and Orchestra.

12/24 LA FILLE DU REGIMENT (Donizetti). Yves Abel, cond, with Nino Machaidze, Kiri Te Kanawa, Lawrence Brownlee and the Met Opera Chorus and Orchestra. (11 am) 12/31 DIE FLEDERMAUS (J. Strauss). Archival broadcast of Jan. 20, 1951. Eugene Ormandy, cond, with Patrice Munsel, Rise Stevens, Charles Kullman and Richard Tucker.

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.

12/24 Special: Brass and Choral Holiday Special 12/31 Special: Toast of the Nation

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

Spend the holidays with WILL Radio WILL-FM 90.9 specials include:

WILL-AM 580 specials include:

Dec. 19, 7 pm – Hanukkah Lights 2011. A perennial NPR favorite featuring stories and memoirs written by acclaimed authors expressly for the show, read by NPR’s Susan Stamberg and Murray Horwitz.

Dec. 23, 10 am – Told and Retold: Winter.

Master storyteller and award-winning author Gioia Timpanelli (What Makes a Child Lucky) offers contemporary stories drawing heavily on natural history, interwoven with music by Tom Waits, Bob Dylan, Billie Holliday and others.

Dec. 20, 7 pm – A Chanticleer Christmas.

American Public Media’s one-hour celebration of the season through the voices of Chanticleer, the 12-voice San Francisco-based men’s choir, performing music of 1300s England to new arrangements of classic and contemporary carols.

Dec. 23, 7 pm – Jonathan Winters’ A Christmas Carol. The master comedian presents a distinctive reading of Dickens’ holiday classic in this program hosted by NPR’s Lisa Simeone.

Dec. 26, 10 am and 11 am – Third Coast Festival. Gwen Macsai, host of the Third Coast’s Re:sound, and an award-winning writer/humorist, will guide listeners through this two-hour tour of the world’s best new documentaries.

Dec. 26, 2 pm – A Season’s Griot. A one-hour Kwanzaa celebration, hosted by Madago Lloyd Wilson, that explores the theme of peace through storytelling, music and voices from the streets.

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CEMBER 2011

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

Mid-American 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

On the Media

Fresh Air

1:00

This American Life

Media Matters

The Closing Market Report

2:00

The Midnight Special

10:00 Specials – Told and Retold: Winter, 12/23; Third Coast Festival, 12/26 (see page 6)

NPR Weekend Edition

11:00 Specials – Chanukah in Story and Song, 12/23; Third Coast Festival, 12/26

2:00 Special – A Season’s Griot, 12/26 (see page 6)

Special – A Christmas Carol (12/25)

The Tavis Smiley Show

NPR News 2:01 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

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

11:005 am

BBC World Service

On Point BBC World Service

Wait Wait ...

BBC World Service

Bold Listing = National/International News

11:07

10:07 am

Focus monthly guests 12/7 Cooking 12/13 Lawn & Garden Care 12/14 Nutrition 12/16 Personal Finance 12/19 Home Care

12/1 Computers 12/2 Dog Behavior & Care 12/9 From the Archives 12/12 Family Medicine

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 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.

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12.3

WILL-TV Cooking

(midnight-2 am; 6-8 am; noon-2 pm; 6-8 pm) Sun and Wed: America’s Test Kitchen; Lidia’s Italy; Chef John Besh’s New Orleans; Nick Stellino Cooking with Friends Mon and Fri: Simply Ming; Lidia’s Italy; Ciao Italia; New Scandinavian Cooking Tue and Thur: Jacques Pepin: More Fast Food; Food Trip with Todd English; Kimchi Chronicles; Taste This!

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; Rudy Maxa’s World Tue and Thu: Globetrekker; Globetrekker

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; Rough Cut with Tommy Mac; B Organic Tue and Thu: Victory Garden; Woodwright’s Shop; American Woodshop; Glass with Vicki Payne Wed and Sun: Mid-American Gardener; Ask This Old House; For Your Home; Katie Brown Workshop

Arts and Crafts

(5-6 am; 11-noon; 5-6 pm; 11-midnight) Sun and Wed: Knit & Crochet Today; Gary Spetz’s Painting Wild Places with Watercolor Mon and Fri: Sewing with Nancy; Grand View Tue and Thu: Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting; Best of the Joy of Painting

Saturday Marathons in December

A six-hour block of themed programming December 3: Korean Food Diary Marja Vongerichten discovers her connections to Korean food and culture.

December 10: Steeple Chase Create’s travel experts take us through Europe to see the world’s most beautiful cathedrals.

December 17: The Gift of Giving Our gift specialists will teach you how to add special details to a homemade gift.

December 24: Joy of the Holidays How to prepare a delicious feast and decorate your home.

December 31: Midnight Celebration You’re invited to a New Year’s open house with great appetizers!

Programming will vary during the pledge drive Dec. 1-11. See the full Create schedule at will.illinois.edu

Primetime Schedule Monday-Friday

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

Mondays

7:00 Jews & Christians (12/19); Judaism, Christianity, Islam (12/26) 8:00 Nature (12/5, 12/12, 12/19, 12/26) 11:00 Independent Lens (12/5, 12/12); Jews & Christians (12/19); Judaism, Christianity, Islam (12/26)

Tuesdays

8:00 History Detectives (12/6, 12/13, 12/20) 11:00 God in America (12/6, 12/13, 12/20); Beyond Theology (12/27) 1 1:30 Stories from America’s Religious Environmental Movement (12/27)

Wednesdays

7:00 Independent Lens (12/14) 8:00 Frontline (12/7, 12/14, 12/21, 12/28) 11:00 Dreamers Theatre (12/7); Boyfriends (12/14); New Metropolis (12/21, 12/28) 11:30 Independent Lens (12/7, 12/21, 12/28)

12.2 8:00 Niagara Falls (12/9); New Recruits (12/16); Dabbawallas (12/23); Taking the Middle Path to Happiness (12/30) 11:00 American Experience: We Shall Remain (12/2); National Park-to-Park Highway (12/9); Ascent of Money (12/16, 12/23); Inventing L.A.: The Chandlers (12/30)

Saturdays

7:00 Washington Week 7:30 McLaughlin Group 8:00 Need to Know 8:30 Inside Washington 9:00 National Park-to-Park Highway (12/3); Helen of Troy (12/10); Lost Cave Temples (12/17); Botany of Desire (12/24); Buddha (12/31) 10:00 National Park-to-Park Highway (12/3); Secrets of Shangri-La (12/17) 11:00 The Grove (12/3); Survival: Lives in the Balance (12/10, 12/17, 12/24, 12/31);

Sundays

Thursdays

7:00 Independent Lens (12/11) 7:30 POV (12/18) 8:00 America at a Crossroads (12/4); Independent Lens (12/11); Global Voices (12/25) 9:00 Global Voices (12/4, 12/11, 12/18, 12/25); 10:00 Contrary Warrior (12/4); Global Voices (12/11, 12/25) 10:30 Volcanoes of New Mexico (12/18) 11:00 POV (12/4, 12/11, 12/18); Images of Tony Gleaton (12/25) 11:30 Independent Lens (12/25)

Fridays

Programming will vary during the pledge drive Dec. 1-11. See the full World schedule at will. illinois.edu

7:00 NOVA (12/1, 12/15, 12/29) 8:00 The Grove (12/1); Survival: Lives in the Balance (12/8, 12/15, 12/22, 12/29); 11:00 Summer of Birds (12/1); NOVA (12/8, 12/22, 12/29); Hawaii: Roots of Fire (12/15) 11:30 Volcanoes of New Mexico (12/15) 7:00 National Park-to-Park Highway (12/9); Ascent of Money (12/16, 12/23) 7:30 Aleut Story (12/2)

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WILL-TV 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) Clifford Wild Kratts Curious George

5:30

Angelina Ballerina

Destinos

6:00 6:30 7:00

Curious George The Cat in the Hat Super WHY!

Curious George The Cat in the Hat Super WHY!

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

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

Dinosaur Train Thomas & Friends Bob the Builder Sid the Science Kid A Place of Our Own Growing a Greener World P. Allen Smith’s Garden to Table

Dinosaur Train Cyberchase Fetch!

Electric Company Word Girl Biz Kid$ Motorweek

Sid the Science Kid WordWorld

America’s Heartland

The Cat in the Hat

11:00 Mid-American Gardener 11:30 Victory Garden Noon America’s Test Kitchen

A Place of Our Own

12:30 Cook's Country

eligion + Ethics R Newsweekly

Sewing Programs

1:00

Essential Pepin

1:30

Chef John Besh’s New Orleans

2:00 2:30

Cuisine Culture

3:00 3:30 4:00

Ebert Presents at the Movies

Electric Company/ Fetch! (F)

4:30

This Old House Hour

BBC World News

5:00

Nightly Business Report

5:30 6:00

Super Why! Barney & Friends

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How To Programs

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Painting and How To Programs

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

PBS NewsHour

Kimchi Chronicles Heartland Highways Hometime

Market to Market The McLaughlin Group

Specials

12/4 1:30, The War 4:30, Marching Once More: 60 Years After the Battle of the Bulge 12/11 1:00, TBA 2:00, TBA 3:00, TBA 4:00, TBA 12/18 1:00, The Crane Candlelight Christmas Concert 2:00, Travelscope: Christmas in Switzerland 2:30, Agatha Christie’s Poirot 3:30, Agatha Christie’s Poirot 4:30, Hustle 5:30, Doctor Who: Voyage of the Damned 12/25 1:00, Christmas at Belmont 2:00, Candles and Carols 3:00, Purdue Christmas Show 4:00, Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir 5:00, Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas

Rick Steves’ Europe

Hustle returns in Jan. 2012, see specials above

Lawrence Welk

Doctor Who

Daytime schedules and programs will vary during the pledge drive Dec. 1-11. Please see listings.

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: Painting with Paulson Th: Around the House F: Katie Brown Workshop (begins 12/16)

2:00 pm How To M: Rough Cut Tu: Wai Lana Yoga W: Garden Smart Th: For Your Home F: Woodsmith Shop

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december tv features

A new national memorial

The Grove (9 pm Monday, Dec. 12) chronicles the transformation of a sevenacre garden hidden in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park, from neglected eyesore to landscaped sanctuary to the National AIDS Memorial. During the process, a community in crisis found healing and remembrance, but as the Grove’s stakeholders seek broader public recognition through an international design competition, a battle erupts over what constitutes an appropriate memorial for the AIDS pandemic.

s Liz Stanley and George Wileman

© 2011Gravitas LLC

Films as cultural heritage

What do the films Casablanca, Blazing Saddles and West Side Story have in common? Besides being popular, they have also been deemed “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant” by the Library of Congress and listed on The National Film Registry. Now These Amazing Shadows, a new Independent Lens documentary, tells the history and importance of the registry, which includes 550 American cinema treasures.

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Beyond the Eames chair

Photo: Courtesy of Mary Ellen Matthews

The husband-and-wife team of Charles and Ray Eames are perhaps best remembered for their mid-century modern furniture, built from novel materials like molded plywood, fiberglass-reinforced plastic and aluminum. Now learn more about their influence on significant events and movements in American life—from the development of modernism to the rise of the computer age—as American Masters presents Eames: The Architect and the Painter at 9 pm Monday, Dec. 19.

No troubled water here

The human connection to the cosmos

Photo: Courtesy of Diana DeLucia

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In June 2011, Paul Simon thrilled hometown fans with a special club performance at New York City’s historic Webster Hall.

The show was the culmination of a soldout, two-month U.S. tour, now captured in Paul Simon: Live at Webster Hall (9 pm Saturday, Dec. 3), which features Simon performing classic songs and music from his critically acclaimed new album, So Beautiful or So What.

What role do humans play in the 14-billion-year drama of the universe? How do we connect with the intricate web of life? Weaving modern science with enduring wisdom from the world’s cultures, Journey of the Universe (7 pm Wednesday, Dec. 7) explores cosmic and Earth evolution as a profound process of creativity, connection and interdependence, and offers an opportunity to respond to ecological and social challenges of our times.

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Celebrating unique holiday traditions

Join Lidia Bastianich as she discovers an Italian Christmas Eve with actors Mo Rocca and Stanley Tucci; a MexicanAmerican Christmas with four generations of the Cortez family in San Antonio; a Chinese New Year celebration with the Fong-Torres family in San Francisco; and a Jewish-American Passover in New York. Lidia Celebrates America: Holiday Tables & Traditions airs at 7 pm Tuesday, Dec. 20.

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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 Waiting for God Keeping Up Appearances Black Books Red Green Show Doctor Who Doctor Who Confidential

On pledge drive days with this symbol, program start and end times may vary.

1Thursday 1:00 Sewing with Nancy: Sewing A to Z 7:00 Mid-American Gardener (TV-G) 8:00 Agatha Christie’s Poirot (TV-PG) Death in the Clouds. During Poirot’s flight from Paris to London, a fellow passenger is murdered by a poisoned dart and Scotland Yard’s Inspector Japp asks the sleuth to investigate.

10:30 Are You Being Served? Again!

11:00 Charlie Rose

2 Friday

1:00 Bob Ross: The Happy Painter A behind-the-scenes look at the public television personality who continues to inspire people to pursue their artistic dreams.

7:00 Friday Night Public Affairs See above.

8:00 PBS Arts from New York: Andrea Bocelli Live in Central Park (TV-G) See article page 1. Repeated midnight Saturday; 6 pm Sunday; and midnight Monday.

10:30 Are You Being Served? Again!

11:00 Charlie Rose

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3 Saturday am 10:00 Mayo Clinic Diet Insight from the only diet book published by the Mayo Clinic, including research from its locations in Minnesota, Florida and Arizona.

11:30 Financial Fitness After 50! With Paul Merriman See article page 2. pm 1:00 How to Shop for Free with Coupon Master Kathy Spencer See article page 2.

2:00 Historic Walks This documentary explores several unique and famous footpaths where history was made.

3:30 Victor Borge: Comedy in Music!

This new special features rare archival footage from the Andy Williams Show and Perry Como Show not seen in more than 40 years.

5:00 Welk Stars—Through the Years A salute to 18 of the favorite Welk entertainers.

7:00 60s Pop, Rock & Soul (My Music) (TV-G) See article page 1. Repeated midnight Sunday; 3 am Thursday; 7:30 pm Friday; midnight 12/10; and 3 am 12/11.

9:00 Paul Simon: Live at Webster Hall, New York (TV-G) See article page 11. Repeated 2 am and 10 pm Sunday; and 2:30 am Monday.

10:30 Carole King and James Taylor Live at the Troubadour (TV-G) The 2007 concert that reunited James Taylor and Carole King with musicians Danny Kortchmar, Lee Sklar and Russ Kunkel from their first appearances at L.A.’s Troubadour Club in 1971.

4Sunday 1:00 Rick Steves’ European Insights 1:30 The War: A Necessary War Covering the events of Dec. 1941 to Dec. 1942 through the experiences of the inhabitants of Mobile, Ala.; Sacramento, Calif.; Waterbury, Conn.; and Luverne, Minn.

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You’ll love our special selection for the holiday season.

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4:30 Marching Once More: 60 Years After the Battle of the Bulge 6:00 PBS Arts from New York: Andrea Bocelli Live in Central Park (TV-G) Repeated from 8 pm Friday.

8:00 Masterpiece Mystery! (TV-PG) (DVS) Miss Marple VI: The Pale Horse. Using a list of names sent by the victim, Miss Marple seeks justice for a longtime friend’s murder.

10:00 Paul Simon: Live at Webster Hall (TV-G) Repeated from 9 pm Saturday.

11:30 Ebert Presents at the Movies (TV-PG)

5Monday

1:00 Mayo Clinic Diet Repeated from 10 am Saturday.

7:00 Financial Fitness After 50! with Paul Merriman (TV-G) See article page 2. Repeated 12:30 am and 1 pm Tuesday; and 1 pm Thursday.

8:30 How to Shop for Free with Coupon Master Kathy Spencer (TV-G) See article page 2. Repeated 2 am Tuesday; and 1 pm Wednesday.

9:30 Behind The Britcom: From Script to Screen (TV-G) The writers, producers and actors that have brought you many of your favorite British comedies—share how the programs are made.

Repeated 3 am Tuesday.

11:30 Charlie Rose

6Tuesday

1:00 Financial Fitness After 50! With Paul Merriman (TV-G) 7:00 Straight No Chaser—Songs of the Decades (TV-G) See article page 2. Repeated midnight Wednesday.

8:30 Celtic Woman—Believe (TV-G) See article page 2. Repeated 1:30 am Wednesday; 3 am Friday; and 8:30 pm Saturday.

10:30 Are You Being Served? Again!

11:00 Charlie Rose

7 Wednesday

1:00 How to Shop for Free with Coupon Master Kathy Spencer 2:00 Rick Steves’ European Insights 7:00 Journey of the Universe (TV-G) See article page 11. Repeated midnight Thursday.

8:30 Buddy Holly: Listen to Me (TV-G) See article page 1. Repeated 1:30 am Thursday; and 3:30 am Saturday.

10:00 More Funny Ladies of British Comedy (TV-PG) Penelope Keith, star of The Good Neighbors and To the Manor Born, shares clips of the great women of British comedy in their funniest moments.

11:00 Charlie Rose

8 Thursday

1:00 Financial Fitness After 50! With Paul Merriman 7:00 Mid-American Gardener (TV-G) 7:35 Celtic Thunder Christmas See article page 2.

9:00 TBA 11:00 Charlie Rose

9Friday

1:00 Mayo Clinic Diet 7:00 Washington Week 7:30 60s Pop, Rock & Soul: My Music (TV-G) Repeated from 7 pm Saturday, 12/3.

9:30 Santana—Live at Montreux 2011 (TV-G) Taped during the Montreux Festival in Switzerland, Carlos Santana and his band performing a selection of their greatest hits. Repeated 2 am Saturday.

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10 Saturday

14Wednesday

am 10:00 Easy Yoga for Arthritis with Peggy Cappy 11:00 Suze Orman’s Money Class pm 1:00 Grand Canyon Serenade 2:00 Frank Sinatra: Concert for the Americas 3:30 Lennon Sisters: Same Song, Separate Voices 5:00 Lawrence Welk’s Big Band Splash Rarely-seen performances of the music of Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey and other Big Band legends.

7:00 Christmas with the Celts (TV-G) The Celts perform Irish, Scottish and American carols in the historic Ryman Auditorium as they’re joined by special guests, including piper Ivan Goff of Riverdance. Repeated midnight Sunday.

8:30 Celtic Woman—Believe Repeated from 8:30 pm Tuesday.

7:00 Live from Lincoln Center (TV-G) George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker. See article page 17. Repeated midnight Thursday; 2:30 am Friday; and 2 am Sunday.

9:00 NOVA (TV-G) (DVS) Mystery of the Megavolcano. NOVA studies a magma chamber in Southeast Asia which exploded so violently during the Ice Age that gases and ash may have encircled the globe and blotted out the sun for years. Repeated 2 am Thursday.

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

11:00 Charlie Rose

11Sunday

7:00 Great Performances (TV-G) Andrea Bocelli & David Foster: My Christmas In Concert. Seasonal favorites showcase Bocelli’s vocals in new Foster arrangements with special performances by Natalie Cole, Mary J. Blige, The Muppets and many others.

9:00 TBA 11:00 Ebert Presents at the Movies (TV- PG) 11:30 Roadtrip Nation (TV-G)

12 Monday

7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Madison, Wisc. Part 3 of 3. Repeated 1 am Tuesday; and 7 pm Saturday.

8:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Denver, Colo. Part 3 of 3. Repeated 4 am Wednesday.

9:00 The Grove (TV-PG) See article page 10.

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

11:00 Charlie Rose

13Tuesday

7:00 Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Featuring David Archuleta (TV-G) See article page 1. Repeated 1 am Wednesday; 4 am Thursday; 1 am and 7 pm 12/24; 4 pm 12/25; and 4 am 12/26.

8:00 L.A. Holiday Celebration Experience the many cultures and holiday traditions of Los Angeles County through this annual celebration of music and dance.

9:00 Frontline (TV-PG) From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians.

Looking at the life of Jesus of Nazareth and the period that followed his death, including how his followers interpreted his teachings.

11:00 Charlie Rose

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15 Thursday

7:00 Mid-American Gardener (TV-G) Repeated 11 am Saturday.

7:30 This Old House (TV-G) 8:00 Hustle (TV-14) Getting Even. The grifter’s barman, Eddie, asks for the crew’s help to fight the nursing home where his father resides as the administrators are trying underhanded tactics to take away his home.

9:00 Agatha Christie’s Poirot (TV-PG) The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly. Poirot is called in to investigate a series of kidnap threats against the 3-year-old son of a wealthy aristocrat.

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

11:00 Charlie Rose

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

8:00 PBS Arts from San Francisco: The Little Mermaid From San Francisco Ballet (TV-G) Created in 2005 for the Royal Danish Ballet to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Hans Christian Andersen’s birth, the San Francisco Ballet presented the American premiere in March 2010, featuring a score by acclaimed composer Lera Auerbach and ballerina Yuan Yuan Tan in the title role. Repeated 1 am Saturday; and 2 am Monday.

10:30 Are You Being Served?

11:00 Charlie Rose

17Saturday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Madison, Wisc. Part 3 of 3. Repeated from 7 pm Monday.

8:00 BritCom Saturday Night See page 12.

11:40 Austin City Limits (TV-PG) Esperanza Spalding/Madeleine Peyroux.

18 Sunday 7:00 Masterpiece Classic (TV-PG) Downton Abbey. Part 1 of 3. When the Titanic goes down, Lord Grantham loses his immediate heir and his daughter Mary loses her fiance, throwing Downton Abbey and its servants into turmoil. Repeated 1:30 am Tuesday.

WILL-TV 8:30 Masterpiece Classic (TV-PG) Downton Abbey. Part 2 of 3. Mary entertains three suitors, including a Turkish diplomat whose boldness leads to a surprising event.

Repeated 12:30 am Monday; and 3 am Tuesday.

10:00 Ebert Presents at the Movies (TV-PG) 10:30 Globe Trekker (TV-PG) (DVS) Special: World War II in the Pacific Islands.

11:30 Roadtrip Nation (TV-G)

9:00 Agatha Christie’s Poirot (TV-PG) Four and Twenty Blackbirds. When eminent artist Henry Gasgcoine dies after dining at a London chop house, Poirot is asked to investigate the case as a murder.

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

11:00 Charlie Rose

19Monday

7:00 Friday Night Public Affairs See page 12.

8:00 National Christmas Tree Lighting 2011 Performances by some of the biggest names in entertainment, capped by the ceremonial tree lighting, traditionally handled by the president and first family.

9:00 Christmas at St. Olaf (TV-G) Repeated from 8 pm Tuesday.

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

11:00 Charlie Rose

7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Forever Young.

8:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Big & Little. Repeated 4 am Wednesday.

9:00 American Masters (TV-G) Eames: The Architect and the Painter. See article page 11. Repeated midnight Tuesday; and 2 am Wednesday.

10:30 Are You Being Served?

11:00 Charlie Rose

20Tuesday

7:00 Lidia Celebrates America (TV-G) (DVS) Holiday Tables & Traditions. See article page 11. Repeated 1 am Wedneday; 3 am Thursday; 4 am Friday; and 3 am Saturday.

8:00 Christmas at St. Olaf (TV-G) See article page 17. Repeated 4 am Thursday; 9 pm Friday; 2 am Saturday; and 3 am Monday.

9:00 Frontline (TV-PG) From Jesus to Christ: The First Christians.

Tracing the development of the Gospels and the growth of Christianity from a small Jewish sect to an official religion of the Roman Empire.

11:00 Charlie Rose

21Wednesday

7:00 Nature (TV-G) Christmas In Yellowstone. Breathtaking landscapes frame intimate scenes of wolves and coyotes, elk and bison, bears and otters as they make their way through their most challenging season of the year. Repeated 7 pm Sunday.

8:00 NOVA (TV-PG) (DVS) What Darwin Never Knew. New scientific breakthroughs are cracking nature’s biggest secrets at the genetic level, confirming the brilliance of Darwin’s insights while exposing clues to the diversity of life forms. Repeated 1 am Thursday; and midnight Sunday.

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

11:00 Charlie Rose

22 Thursday

7:00 Mid-American Gardner (TV-G) Repeated 11 am Saturday.

7:30 This Old House (TV-G) 8:00 Hustle (TV-14) A Designer’s Paradise. Using The Emperor’s New Clothes as inspiration, the crew are looking to con Clarissa Bartwell, an immoral fashionista.

23 Friday

24 Saturday 7:00 Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Featuring David Archuleta (TV-G) Repeated from 7 pm 12/13.

8:00 Waiting for God Christmas Special 9:00 Keeping Up Appearances Specials 9:30 Winter Voices: An A Cappella Holiday (TV-G) This 2010 WILL-TV special features six of central Illinois’ best a cappella singing groups performing holiday favorites.

10:30 Doctor Who Specials: The Next Doctor

25 Sunday

7:00 Nature (TV-G) Christmas In Yellowstone. Repeated from 7 pm 12/21.

8:00 Masterpiece Classic (TV-PG) Downton Abbey. Part 3 of 3. Growing into his role as heir, Matthew brings out the bitter rivalry between sisters Mary and Edith while servants Thomas and O’Brien scheme against Bates. Repeated midnight Monday; and 2 am Tuesday.

9:30 Travelscope: Christmas In Switzerland 10:00 Ebert Presents at the Movies (TV-PG) 10:30 Globe Trekker Texas.

11:30 Roadtrip Nation (TV-G)

26Monday

7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Phoenix, Ariz. Part 1 of 3. Repeated 1 am Tuesday; and 4 am Wednesday.

8:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) San Jose, Calif. Part 1 of 3.

9:00 Lincoln Laureates 2011 Shahid Khan and Timothy Nugent are among this year’s honorees.

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

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27Tuesday 7:00 Botany of Desire (TV-PG) By exploring the natural history of the apple, the tulip, marijuana and the potato, this program shows how human desires are an essential, intricate part of natural history.

Repeated 1 am Wednesday; and 3 am Thursday.

9:00 Frontline The Undertaking.

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

28Wednesday

7:00 Nature (TV-PG) (DVS) Arctic Bears. A comparison of the lives of polar bears, who are facing difficulties, and grizzly bears, whose world is expanding northward.

Repeated midnight Thursday; and 4 am Friday.

8:00 NOVA (TV-PG) (DVS) Extreme Ice. Photojournalist James Balog and a scientific team deploy time-lapse cameras in risky, remote locations in the Arctic, Alaska and the Alps to create a photo archive of melting glaciers. Repeated 1 am Thursday; and 3 am Friday.

9:00 NOVA (TV-G) (DVS) Secrets Beneath the Ice. Results of a scientific project show that Antarctica’s ice has melted and frozen again dozens of times during that period, creating ominous implications for coastal cities around the globe. Repeated 2 am Thursday; and 3 am Saturday.

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

29Thursday

7:00 Mid-American Gardener Specials (TV-G) Repeated 11 am Saturday.

7:30 This Old House (TV-G) 8:00 Hustle (TV-14) Conning The Artists. As the crew celebrates at

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Eddie’s Bar, a man who claims they have dishonored his family has come to seek revenge.

9:00 Agatha Christie’s Poirot (TV-PG) The Third Floor Flat. No sooner has a new tenant moved into the third floor flat of Poirot’s mansion block than she is murdered, giving Poirot a crime to solve on his very own doorstep.

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

30Friday

7:00 Friday Night Public Affairs See page 12.

8:00 American Masters (TV-PG) Troubadours: Carole King/James Taylor & The Rise of the Singer-Songwriter. The 1960s musicians, including Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell, Cat Stevens and others who forged a new kind of song, accompanied by little more than an acoustic guitar or a piano. Repeated 1 am Saturday.

9:30 Independent Lens (TV-PG) These Amazing Shadows. See article page 10.

10:30 Are You Being Served?

31Saturday

7:00 Live from Lincoln Center (TV-G) Bernstein and Gershwin. The New York Philharmonic’s New Year’s Eve concert includes Bernstein’s Overture to Candide and Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, plus Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and Piano Concerto in F with guest artist Jean-Yves Thibaudet.

9:00 Great Performances (TV-G) Sondheim! The Birthday Concert. Recorded on Sondheim’s 80th birthday in March 2010, the New York Philharmonic’s all-star salute includes performances by Nathan Gunn, Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, Mandy Patinkin, Bernadette Peters and many others.

11:00 Coldplay New Year’s Eve: An Austin City Limits Special See article page 17.

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Modern rock giants Coldplay ring in the New Year starting at 11 pm Saturday, Dec. 31 with an Austin City Limits New Year’s Eve special highlighting their mega-hits and songs from their newest album, Mylo Xyloto.

credit: from mountainmarionettes.com

Photo: Courtesy of Scott Newton for KLRU

A rockin’ New Year’s Eve

Sugar plum fairies and toy soldiers

George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker will be broadcast by Live From Lincoln Center at 7 pm Wednesday, Dec. 14, featuring New York City Ballet’s dancers and the New York City Ballet Orchestra, as well as 50 children from the School of American Ballet, the official school of New York City Ballet. The creative team for the production includes Rouben Ter-Arutunian (scenic design), Karinska (costume design), and Mark Stanley (lighting design), after the original design by Ronald Bates. t Anton Armstrong, artistic director of St. Olaf College Christmas Festival

A centennial Christmas production This new production of one of the nation’s most highly acclaimed annual musical celebrations marks the 100th anniversary of the annual Christmas Festival from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn. Featuring the college’s renowned choirs and orchestra, the program will highlight selections from previous Christmas festivals, including excerpts from R.V. Williams’ Hodie, as well as newly commissioned works by American composers André J. Thomas and David N. Childs.

Christmas at St. Olaf airs at 8 pm Tuesday, Dec. 20.

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membership news & events

Health and wellness reports begin this month

Freelance reporter Lisa Braddock goes this month to Danville’s Northeast Elementary School, where the cafeteria serves fresh fruit and veggies, and no fried foods or gooey desserts.

Listen on Monday, Dec. 12, for her story about the school, which won a gold medal for its anti-obesity efforts, becoming the first elementary school in the country to receive the award from the Alliance for a Healthier Generation, founded by the American Heart Association and the William J. Clinton Foundation to reduce childhood obesity.

Lisa’s report will be the first in a periodic series of reports, most done by Illinois Public Media News reporter Sean Powers, focused on health and wellness in central Illinois. Beginning this month, Sean will produce at least 11 feature stories through June 2012, with additional online content. You can hear all of them on WILL Radio’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered, and online at will.illinois.edu.

At 11 am Tuesday, Dec. 13, Northeast Elementary principal Cheryl McIntire and educators from other schools join Focus host David Inge to talk about what schools are doing to combat obesity. Call in with questions and comments to join the discussion on WILL-AM, with live video on will.illinois.edu.

The health and wellness reporting is being funded by a $20,000 grant from the 18 PATTERNS • DECEMBER 2011

Lumpkin Foundation to Illinois Public Media for an anti-obesity community engagement and media messaging campaign.

Sean said that in his role as the station’s health and wellness reporter, he’s interested in exploring some of the barriers that may prevent adults and children from being healthier. “Whether it’s obesity, mental health or even a lack of public support for critical programs, it’s important for me to connect the community with the resources people can use to lead healthier lives,” he said.

As part of the initiative, Illinois Public Media has produced a public awareness video encouraging recipients of SNAP (formerly known as food stamps) to use their benefits at the Urbana farmers’ market. The video will be shown in a waiting room of the C-U Public Health District and other agencies. Additional videos are planned to promote SNAP use at other farmers’ markets.

Gaining control of our history with the American Archive

By Jack Brighton, Director of Innovation and New Media Do you know how many important historical moments have been captured by WILL since its founding in 1922? Neither do we. Changes in staff, technology and focus over the decades have resulted in a fragmented collection of media archives spread over many locations with no master index. WILL produced many thousands of broadcasts documenting the 20th century and its people, events and stories. But like broadcasters everywhere, we don’t fully know what we’ve got.

A new $81,000 grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting will enable us to fill that gap by creating a complete inventory of every media asset in our disparate collections. The American Archive Content Inventory Project awarded Illinois Public Media funding for four full-time catalogers through early 2012.

These catalogers are pouring through the thousands of analog and digital media items stored in our tape library, hard drives, closets and desk drawers. We’re creating a master digital “card catalog” which will reveal the full extent and value

of WILL productions over decades. And it will help us secure funding in the next round of American Archive grants, when we hope to digitize, preserve and make accessible much of this content.

In the age of the Internet with access to just about everything, it’s easy to forget how much of our history remains locked up in older analog media formats like film and magnetic tape. Those formats are now reaching the end of their physical lifespan, and the historical records they contain are in grave danger of being lost forever. Meanwhile, born-digital media is like a fire hose of new content every day. In truth, it simply isn’t possible to save everything forever. But if you don’t even know what you’ve got, you can’t make good decisions about preservation priorities.

Ultimately, this work will enable us to fully manage our media collections, preserve their value for the future and make these important stories and historical moments accessible to all citizens.

Be tax-savvy about year-end gifts You already know that your year-end gift helps WILL while also counting as a charitable donation for tax purposes.

For more ideas on making tax-savvy gifts, please request a brochure by contacting: Danda Beard • WILL • 217-333-9393 dtbeard@illinois.edu PATTERNS • DECEMBER 2011 19

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December Community Cinema:

Troop 1500

At Hilltop Prison in Gatesville, Texas, a unique Girl Scout troop unites daughters with mothers who are serving time for serious crimes, giving them a chance to rebuild their broken bonds. Facing long sentences from the courts, the mothers struggle to mend their fractured relationships with their daughters.

Troop 1500 follows five young Girl Scouts—sisters Caitlin and Mikaela, Jasmine, Jessica, and Naomi—whose mothers are serving time. Once inside the prison, the girls of Troop 1500 fall into the arms of the mothers they seldom see—Kenya, Melissa, Ida, and Susan— crying and laughing while pulling out report cards and pictures and passing along hellos from grandparents and absent brothers.

The film goes beyond the girls’ prison experience to show what their daily lives are like, offering a sobering but hopeful look at the struggles faced by the more than 1.5 million American children who have a parent behind bars.

A free screening of the film from Independent Lens and a discussion of the issues it raises will take place at 6 pm Tuesday, Dec. 6, 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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All types of business throughout central Illinois support WILL with a contribution or business underwriting of programs, and we appreciate them all. Within this generous group are some of the area’s finest restaurants, including these longtime supporters. Thank you!

Radio Maria 119 N. Walnut, Champaign www.shout.net/~radiom Since 2001 owners David Spears and Sharon Owens have brought a menu of out-of-theordinary foods that reflect the diverse tastes of Champaign-Urbana to central Illinois. They feel that WILL does the same for radio—offering perspectives and information not found anywhere else, while at the same time bringing you news that covers the vital issues of our own local communities.

The Great Impasta 156C Lincoln Square, Urbana www.greatimpastarestaurant.com For over 23 years The Great Impasta has been supporting programs like Focus and Fresh Air on WILL-AM, as well as arts programs on WILLTV. Opened in 1983, The Great Impasta holds a special place in the hearts of area residents for its intimate atmosphere, homemade Italian dishes and special desserts.

Silvercreek 402 N. Race Street, Urbana The Courier Café 111 N. Race Street, Urbana www.couriersilvercreek.com Owner Allen Strong began supporting WILL in 1999. His first restaurant, The Courier Café, is known for its delicious breakfasts and antique setting. Silvercreek Restaurant offers casual fine dining, including fresh fish and juicy steaks, along with enticing vegetarian-friendly dishes and artisan breads made and baked in-house every day.

s David Spears, co-owner of Radio Maria

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Krannert Uncorked with the Maurice McKinley Quartet, jazz

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The Nutcracker

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Winter Lights Festival

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DanĂş

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Pre-concert Beethoven Talk

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Krannert Uncorked

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Krannert Uncorked with the Cerulean Saxophone Quartet

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Dance for People with Parkinson’s

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Pacifica Quartet Beethoven Cycle Part 3

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