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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.

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Let us count the ways!

By Debbie Hamlett, Director of Development With February the traditional month to celebrate love, it’s timely to let all of you who support Illinois Public Media and the WILL stations know how much we appreciate and value you. As we begin the second month of an exciting new year, we’re able to launch new programs and community initiatives because of individual financial support like yours— dollars that now make up 43 percent of our overall budget. Thank you!

It’s support from Friends of WILL that has put new Illinois Pioneers programs in the pipeline, including our first new episode featuring David Inge’s interview with University of Illinois College of Media graduate Rick Kaplan, who’s served as president of CNN, senior vice president of ABC News and president of MSNBC—not to mention holding the record for most Emmy Awards by an individual in a career. This show airs at 7:30 pm Friday, Feb. 17.

Another Pioneers installment features a true pioneer of local public broadcasting—former WILL chief engineer Rob Beldon. This program includes rare footage of early WILL-TV programs produced during Rob’s tenure, recently discovered as part of our American Archive project funded by a grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. It airs at 7:30 pm Friday, Feb. 24.

In addition, we’re continuing our previous efforts on radio, TV and online to address area communities’ concerns surrounding hunger and its related issues. As part of our radio fundraising pledge drive this month, we’ll partner for the third year with the Common Ground Food Co-op to donate meals for families through the Eastern Illinois Foodbank. Support AM 580 and FM 90.9 and this community effort beginning Thursday, Feb. 9.

Then on Tuesday, Feb. 14, we’ll join with other public radio stations across Illinois in a day-long call for financial support. Please help us show that WILL Radio supporters love their stations the most!

Day in and day out, it’s our pleasure to hear from all of you connected to us and to one another through your relationship with public media. We know you agree that exploring topics and learning about issues creates a space for making your own informed decisions. It’s important work and we couldn’t do it without you!

From draft dodging to the Dayton Accords, from Monica Lewinsky to a balanced budget, the presidency of William Jefferson Clinton veered between scandal and achievement. In Clinton, the latest installment in the critically acclaimed series of presidential biographies, American Experience explores the story of an American president who rose from a broken childhood in Arkansas to become one of the most successful politicians in modern American history. The two-part series airs on WILL-TV at 8 pm Monday, Feb. 20, and at 7 pm Tuesday, Feb. 21.

The program begins by recounting key events in Clinton’s life, including earning a Rhodes Scholarship and a J.D. from Yale Law School—where he met fellow student Hillary Rodham—to his election as governor of Arkansas before defeating George H.W. Bush for president in 1992.

American Experience then follows Clinton across his two terms during the crucial and transformative period between the fall of the Berlin Wall and 9/11 as he confronted

some of the key forces that would shape the future, including partisan political warfare and domestic and international terrorism. The program also examines his struggles, with uneven success, to define the role of American power in a post-Cold War world, including his responsibility in facilitating the Middle East Peace Agreement of September 1993 (shown below) between Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat.

Most memorably, it explores how Clinton’s conflicted character made history, even as it enraged his enemies and confounded his friends. The program features unprecedented access to scores of Clinton insiders including White House press secretary Dee Dee Myers, White House counsel Bernard Nussbaum, White House chief of staff Leon Panetta and deputy chief of staff Harold Ickes, as well as interviews with foreign leaders, members of the Republican opposition, childhood friends, staffers from Clinton’s years as governor of Arkansas, biographers and journalists.

Photo: ©Flip Schulke/CORBIS

A revealing look at a charismatic leader

Cab Calloway

Photo: Courtesy of Kartemquin Films

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Photo: Courtey of Cab Calloway, 1943,The Strand, New York, NY

Programs honor Black History Month

s Ameena Matthews, violence interrupter

The WILL stations feature a variety of programs in honor of Black History Month, including the following three offerings on WILL-TV. Frontline: The Interrupters Join a group of older former gang leaders trying to “interrupt” shootings and protect their communities from the violence they once committed. This new film follows the inner workings of CeaseFire, an innovative program in Chicago designed to prevent shootings, including weekly meetings where the interrupters report on the simmering disputes and the senseless shootings in their neighborhoods. From director Steve James (Hoop Dreams, Stevie), The Interrupters is a compelling observational journey into the stubborn, persistent violence that plagues our American cities. It airs at 8 pm Tuesday, Feb. 14.

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Great Performances: Memphis Winner of the 2010 Tony Award for best new musical, Memphis tells the 1950s story of white disc jockey Huey Calhoun (Chad Kimball) and his romantic interest, Felicia Farrell (Montego Glover), a rising black singer who can’t make the break out of segregated clubs on her own.

When the two collaborate, her soulful music reaches radio audiences everywhere, and the golden era of early rock ’n’ roll takes flight.

But as things heat up, the question of whether the world is ready for their music—or their love—is put to a test. With an original story by Joe DiPietro (I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change) and a new score with music by Bon Jovi founding member David Bryan, the production is directed by Christopher Ashley (Xanadu) and choreographed by Sergio Trujillo (Jersey Boys). Don’t miss the program at 8 pm Friday, Feb. 24.

American Masters: Cab Calloway A singer, dancer and band leader, Cab Calloway was an exceptional figure in the history of jazz while he charmed audiences

An interactive conversation with the C-U mayors

Join WILL reporter Jim Meadows as he talks to Champaign Mayor Don Gerard and Urbana Mayor Laurel Prussing about the past year and the year ahead for the twin cities.

Airing at 8 pm Thursday, Feb. 2, on WILL-TV and WILL-AM 580, with live video and an interactive chat online at will. illinois.edu, Focus: A Conversation with Two Mayors will give viewers and listeners a chance to call in with their questions.

Photo: Courtesy of Broadway Worldwide

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around the world with boundless energy, bravado and elegant showmanship. His back glide dance step is the precursor to Michael Jackson’s moonwalk, and his scatting lyrics find their legacy in today’s hip-hop and rap.

An ambassador for his race, Calloway was one of the first black musicians to tour the segregationist South, as early as 1932. At the top of his game in the jazz and swing eras of the ’30s and ’40s, he toured as Sportin’ Life in Porgy and Bess, forever putting his personal stamp on “It Ain’t Necessarily So.” His career flagged until he was rediscovered in the 1980s in The Blues Brothers and even on Sesame Street, becoming a new cult hero of sorts. Watch this program at 9 pm Monday, Feb. 27.

Photo: Joanna Strauss

Don Gerard and Laurel Prussing

“Although the cities are separate, with different city officials, police forces and schools, many of the issues affecting one affect the other. There’s a lot of overlap,” Jim said. “We’ll be talking about policecommunity relations, ideas for alternate energy sources, economic development, efforts to reduce crime and other issues important to residents of both cities.”

The progam will be repeated at 3 pm Saturday, Feb.4.

Send words of love on Valentine’s Day Win your sweetheart’s favor when you combine a special dedication with a music request to be included on WILL-FM’s Words of Love, Soft and Tender. Hosted by Roger Cooper, the program airs in place of The Evening Concert from 7-11 pm Tuesday, Feb. 14.

Just think of that special someone in your life and write a few poetic lines—perhaps something such as: Dear John, Roses are red, Violets are blue.

I requested Gershwin’s Rhapsody for you.

Make your request via email to willamfm@ illinois.edu before Feb. 10. Then sit back, relax and share the fun when we read your poem and play your music request.

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weekdays

WILL-FM 90.9 and HD1 106.5 in Danville

6 am NPR Morning Edition

Steven Larsen conducts the C-U Symphony, 2/3 and 2/17 at 7 pm.)

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.

2/22

2/29

1 pm Afternoon Classics

The Keeping Score Series: 13 Days When Music Changed Forever

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.

2/1

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:

Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra (new season) 2/6

2/13

2/20

2/27

Edo de Waart, cond; Ronald Brautigan, piano BRAHMS; BEETHOVEN Andreas Delfs, cond BRITTEN; MAHLER Edo de Waart, cond; Garrick Olhsson, piano SCHUMANN; BEETHOVEN Edo de Waart, cond; Emanuel Ax, violin BEETHOVEN; SCHUBERT

Tuesday:

Chicago Symphony Orchestra 2/7

2/14 2/21

2/28

Riccardo Muti, cond; Mathieu Dafour, flute VERDI; ROTA; IBERT Special: Words of Love (see article page 3) Bernard Labadie, cond; Richard Pare, organ HANDEL; MOZART Riccardo Muti, cond; Michele Campanella, piano WAGNER; LISZT

Wednesday: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center 2/1

2/8

2/15

Ransom Wilson, flute; Joseph Silverstein, violin BACH; et al Gilbert Kalish, piano; Fred Sherry, cello DVORAK; BRAHMS Gilbert Kalish, piano; Fred Sherry, cello SCHUMANN; BRAHMS

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2/8 2/15 2/22 2/29

Emanuel Ax, piano; Belcea Quartet SCHUBERT; BEETHOVEN Jeffrey Kahane, piano; Cho-Liang Lin, violin BRAHMS; BEETHOVEN

The first public performance of the “Eroica”: BEETHOVEN The launch of the first “Ring” cycle at Bayreuth: WAGNER Opening Day of the Exposition Universelle in Paris: DEBUSSY The premiere of “Elektra”: RICHARD STRAUSS The Premiere of the Ballet, The Rite of Spring: STRAVINSKY

Thursday:

San Francisco Symphony 2/2

Michael Tilson Thomas, cond MAHLER 2/9 Semyon Bychkov, cond RACHMANINOFF 2/16 Alexander Barantschik, cond and violin BACH 2/23 Charles Dutoit, cond WALTON; HOLST

Friday:

Prairie Performances 2/3

2/10

2/17

2/24

C-U Symphony (10/28/11) Steven Larsen, cond Classics I – Variations on a Theme Timothy Ehlen, piano BRITTEN; VON DOHNANYI; ELGAR The Prairie Ensemble (11/16/11) Kevin Kelly, music director East Meets West Zhou Yi, pipa RESPIGHI; PROKOFIEV; TAN DUNN; HAYDN C-U Symphony (1/28/2012) Steven Larsen, cond Classics II – Dances and Romances Stefan Milenkovich, violin CORIGLIANO; SAINT-SAENS; MAHLER TBA

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.

s German magnetophon devices, the precursor to multi-track audio (Classics of the Phonograph, 2/25)

11 am Classics of the Phonograph

sundays

John Frayne’s weekly exploration of memorable recordings from the 20th century.

2/4 Great Short Pieces for the Violin and Orchestra 2/11 Charles O’Connell and His Tell-All(?) Book about Recording Artists 2/18 Famous Record Debuts 2/25 Back Through the Decades in Recording History

7 am NPR Weekend Edition

Noon Afternoon at the Opera

FPO

Live from the Met, 2011-12 season. *Note 11 am start on 2/11.

2/4 ANNA BOLENA (Donizetti). Marco Armiliato, cond, with Anna Netrebko, Ekaterina Gubanova, Stephen Costello and the Met Chorus and Orchestra.

2/11 *DIE GӦTTERDÄMERUNG (THE TWILIGHT OF THE GODS) (Wagner). Fabio Luisi, cond, with Deborah Voigt, Jay Hunter Morris and the Met Chorus and Orchestra.

2/18 THE BARBER OF SEVILLE (in Italian) (Rossini). Maurizio Benini, cond, with Diana Damrau, Colin Lee, Rodion Pogossov and the Met Chorus and Orchestra.

2/25 ERNANI (Verdi). Marco Armiliato, cond, with Angela Meade, Marcello Giordani, Dmitri Hvorostovsky and the Met Chorus and 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.

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.

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!

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

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Learn about proposed stormwater utility fees This month, Illinois Public Media takes a look at the nation’s aging water system and plans for a stormwater utility fee in Champaign and Urbana. Both cities are considering implementing a fee as have other Illinois cities, including Aurora, Bloomington, Moline, Normal, Rock Island and Morton.

At 3 pm Sunday, Feb. 12, WILL-TV airs Liquid Assets: The Story of Our Water Infrastructure, which tells the story of America’s distressed essential infrastructure systems: drinking water, wastewater, and stormwater. These complex and aging systems—some in the ground for more than 150 years—are critical components for basic sanitation, health, public safety and economic development.

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Then on Wednesday Feb. 15, on WILL-AM’s Morning Edition, Illinois Public Media News examines proposed stormwater utility fees in Champaign and Urbana. Reporter Jim Meadows reports on why cities say they need the fee to pay for the operation, maintenance and rehabilitation of the stormwater drainage system. If a fee is adopted, every property owner within the city would pay based on the size of the area on their property that rainwater won’t penetrate.

Then at 11 am the same day on WILL-AM’s Focus, with a video webcast on will.illinois. edu, representatives of the city and others knowledgeable about water infrastructure issues will talk to host David Inge and answer listener and viewer questions.

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 Special report: Proposed stormwater utility fees in C-U (2/15)

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

NPR Weekend Edition

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

Wait Wait ...

6:00

Commonwealth Club

This American Life

Fresh Air

7:00

Living on Earth

BBC World Service Special – 8:00: Focus: A Conversation with Two Mayors (2/2)

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

10:07 am

2/1 Cooking 2/8 Nutrition 2/14 Lawn & Garden Care 2/17 Personal Finance 2/20 Home Care

11:07

Focus monthly guests

2/2 Computers 2/3 Dog Behavior & Care 2/13 Family Medicine

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 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 • FEBRUARY 2012 7

12.3

WILL-TV Cooking

(midnight-2 am; 6-8 am; noon-2 pm; 6-8 pm) Sun and Wed: America’s Test Kitchen/Cook’s Country (begins 2/15); 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/Hubert Keller Secrets of a Chef (begins 2/27) Tue and Thur: Jacques Pepin: More Fast Food; Food Trip with Todd English; Kimchi Chronicles; Mexico One Plate at a Time

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 Now; Donna Dewberry Show 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 February

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; Grannies on Safari 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; Around the House with Matt and Shari Tue and Thu: Victory Garden; Woodwright’s Shop; American Woodshop; Glass with Vicki Payne/Growing Bolder (begins 2/7)

Primetime Schedule Monday-Friday

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

Mondays

7:00 Focus: A Conversation with Two Mayors (2/6) 7:30 Harpists’s Legacy: Ann Hobson Pilot and the Sound Change (2/20) 8:00 Nature (2/6, 2/13, 2/20) 11:00 Nature (2/6, 2/27); Stokes: An American Dream (2/13); NCRM Freedom Awards 2003 (2/20) 11:30 Independent Lens (2/13)

Tuesdays

7:00 Carrier (2/7, 2/14, 2/21); Black in Latin America (2/28) 8:00 Faces of America 11:00 Carrier (2/7, 2/14, 2/21); Black in Latin America (2/28)

Wednesdays

7:00 POV (2/1); Independent Lens (2/8, 2/22) 8:00 Frontline; Pact (2/15) 11:00 Independent Lens (2/1, 2/8, 2/22); Frontline (2/15); Indian Motorcycle Memories (2/29) 11:30 POV (2/29)

Thursdays

7:00 Inside Nature’s Giants (2/2, 2/9); Cave People of the Himalaya (2/16) 8:00 Leonardo’s Dream Machines (2/2, 2/9); Lost Cave Temples (2/16); 400 Years of the Telescope (2/23) 11:00 NOVA; Volcanoes of New Mexico (2/23) 11:30 Journey to Palomar (2/23)

A six-hour block of themed programming February 4: Big Game Snack Attack Create’s chefs share secrets for throwing a great Super Bowl party.

February 11: So In Love Ideas for heart-shaped cakes, a quiet dinner for two, an engagement party and more!

February 18: Let the Good Times Roll The finest seafood and Cajun dishes just in time for Fat Tuesday.

February 25: African Roots Explore Africa and learn about the continent’s influences on American food.

See the full Create schedule at will.illinois.edu

12.2 Fridays

7:00 Focus: A Conversation with Two Mayors (2/3) 7:30 Independent Lens (2/17) 8:00 History Detectives (2/3); Underground Railroad: William Still Story (2/10); Clinton 12 (2/24) 11:00 American Experience (2/3, 2/10, 2/24); Slavery By Another Name (2/17)

Saturdays

7:00 Washington Week 7:30 McLaughlin Group 8:00 Need to Know 8:30 Inside Washington 9:00 Great Performances (2/4); American Masters 10:00 American Masters (2/25) 10:30 Alma’s Jazzy Marriage (2/4); Carhenge: Genius or Junk? (2/11); Dreamers Theater (2/18) 11:00 Moyers & Company

Sundays

7:00 Athens: The Dawn of Democracy (2/5); Global Voices (2/12, 2/19); Kalb Report (2/26) 8:00 Afropop (2/5, 2/12); Global Voices (2/19); 49th Star: Creating Alaska (2/26) 9:00 Global Voices 10:00 Global Voices (2/19) 10:30 Fiji Firewalkers (2/5); A Journey Through Survival & Hope (2/12); Harpists’s Legacy: Ann Hobson Pilot and the Sound Change (2/26) 11:00 Athens: The Dawn of Democracy (2/5); Global Voices (2/12); Kalb Report (2/19); Miller Center of Public Affairs National Debate Series (2/26) See the full World schedule at will.illinois.edu

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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)

5:30

Angelina Ballerina

Destinos

Clifford

Curious George

Curious George

The Cat in the Hat

The Cat in the Hat

Super WHY!

Super WHY!

Sid the Science Kid

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

Dinosaur Train Thomas & Friends Bob the Builder Sid the Science Kid Motorweek Growing a Greener World

Dinosaur Train Cyberchase Fetch!

Electric Company Biz Kid$ Moyers & Company

WordWorld

10:30 P. Allen Smith’s Garden to

Super Why!

11:00 Mid-American Gardener 11:30 Victory Garden

America’s Heartland

Noon America’s Test Kitchen 12:30 Cook's Country

The McLaughlin Group

1:00 1:30

Specials

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

Table/P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home (begins 2/11)

Barney & Friends The Cat in the Hat A Place of Our Own

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Painting and How To Programs

▲

How To Programs

▲

Sewing Programs

2:00

Essential Pepin

2/5

2:30

Arthur

3:00 3:30

Tracks Ahead

Wild Kratts

4:00

Hometime

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: Painting with Paulson Th: Color World with Gary Spetz F: Katie Brown Workshop

Nightly Business Report

eligion + Ethics R Newsweekly

Hubert Keller: Secrets of a Chef 1:30 Joanne Weir’s 3:30 Cooking Confidence 5:30

Martha Speaks WordGirl/The Rise of Miss Power movie (2/20)

Market to Market

Simply Ming Heartland Highways

Lawrence Welk

John Sebastian Presents: Folk Rewind 60s Pop, Rock and Soul Journey of the Universe

2/12 1:00 Independent Lens: Have You Heard from Johannesburg?

3:00 Liquid Assets 4:30 Bloom: The Plight of Lake Champlain 5:00 Hustle 6:00 Doctor Who 2/19 1:00 Independent Lens: Have You Heard from Johannesburg?

4:00 Hustle 5:00 Doctor Who 2/26 1:00 Great Performances at the Met: Don Giovanni 3:30 The Unforgettable Hampton Family 4:00 Hustle 5:00 Doctor Who: Planet of the Dead

See above or 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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Photo: Courtesy of Robert Reitmaier, The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne

february tv features

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Preparing for separate lives

Play it again!

The second season of Michael Feinstein’s American Songbook airs at 8 pm Fridays, Feb. 3, 10 and 17. In the first program, Time Machines, the singer-songwriter explores how technology has preserved and altered the way we think about the great songs and singers of the past. Next, Lost and Found reveals Feinstein’s discovery of an undocumented song by one of the giants of American popular music and follows his quest to verify its authenticity. Then Saloon Singers examines the allure of musical nightlife, from Mississippi juke joints to the neon of Las Vegas, and highlights the history of some of the pioneering nightclub entertainers.

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A workable health care model?

One small community in Colorado delivers the highest value-for-the-money health care in the United States and covers nearly everyone in town. U.S. Health Care: The Good News (9 pm Wednesday, Feb. 29) features interviews with health policy experts and members of the Colorado community to examine how it’s possible to provide excellent health care at reasonable cost.

Photo: Courtesy of Collection of Michael Feinstein

Abandoned shortly after birth in Bangladesh, twin girls joined at the head had little chance of survival until they were saved and taken to Australia by an aid worker. After two years, Trishna and Krishna are ready for a marathon separation surgery. With exclusive access, NOVA documents the girls and their caregivers throughout their journey in Separating Twins at 8 pm Wednesday, Feb. 8.

s Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers flank their musical director and arranger Hal Borne. It was in a box of Hal Borne’s papers, given to Michael Feinstein by Hal’s widow Rose, that Michael discovered a previously unknown, unpublished, lost song by a major American songwriter.

Understanding the Amish religion

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Photos: Courtesy of WGBH/Tim Cragg

American Experience answers many questions about the Amish religious community, including how the insular order has thrived within one of the world’s most open, individualistic societies. The Amish (7 pm Tuesday, Feb. 28) explores how the Amish have successfully asserted themselves in resisting the encroachments of modern society and government, asks what Americans’ attraction to the Amish says about national values and looks at what the future holds for a community whose existence is so rooted in the past.

Meeting new heroes for freedom s Above: William Still, father of the Underground Railroad. Courtesy of Swarthmore College

Above right: Actor Dion Johnstone as William Still.

Extraordinary people risked their lives to help fugitive slaves escape via the clandestine Underground Railroad.

Among them was William Still of Philadelphia, a free black man who accepted delivery of crates containing human “cargo.” Underground Railroad: The William Still Story (9 pm Monday, Feb. 6) reveals some of the lesser-known stories behind this humanitarian enterprise, and explores key Canadian connections, including the surprising fate of former slaves who crossed the U.S.-Canada border.

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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

1Wednesday 7:00 Nature (TV-PG) (DVS) Wolverine: Chasing The Phantom. Go inside the secretive world of the largest and least known member of the weasel family to learn about one of the most efficient and resourceful carnivores on Earth. Repeated midnight Thursday; and 4 am Friday.

8:00 NOVA (TV-PG) Ice Age Death Trap. Racing against developers in the Rockies, archaeologists uncover a site packed with preserved bones of mammoths, mastodons and other extinct beasts.

Repeated 1 am Thursday; and 3 am Friday.

9:00 Inside Nature’s Giants (TV-PG) Great White Shark. Experts reveal the shark’s array of senses, including the ability to detect the electro-magnetic field of other creatures; the origins of the shark’s killing bite; and how sharks’ teeth and jaws evolved from their outer skin and gill arches. Repeated 4 am Thursday; and 4 am Monday.

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

11:00 Charlie Rose

2Thursday 7:00 Mid-American Gardener (TV-G) Repeated 11 am Saturday.

7:30 This Old House (TV-G) 8:00 Focus: A Conversation with Two Mayors (TV-G) See article page 3. Repeated 3 pm Saturday.

9:00 Agatha Christie’s Poirot (TV-PG) The Dream. After telling Poirot of a recurring dream in which he commits suicide at midday using a revolver, Benedict Farley is found dead with a gun in his hand.

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

11:00 Charlie Rose

3Friday 7:00 Friday Night Public Affairs See above.

8:00 Michael Feinstein’s American Songbook (TV-PG) Time Machines. Part 1 of 3. See article page 10. Repeated 1 am Saturday; 2 am Monday; and 3 am Tuesday.

9:00 Independent Lens (TV-PG) (DVS) Daisy Bates: First Lady of Little Rock. The story of Daisy Bates’ support of nine black

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students to enroll in the all-white Central High School in Little Rock, Ark.—action that pitted a president against a governor. Repeated 2 am Sunday.

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

11:00 Charlie Rose

4Saturday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Eugene, Ore. Part 2 of 3. Repeated from 7 pm Monday.

8:00 BritCom Saturday Night See left.

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

5Sunday 7:00 Masterpiece Classic (TV-PG) Downton Abbey, Series II. Part 4 of 7. In the climactic battle of the war, Matthew and William go over the top to an uncertain fate. Vera plays a cruel endgame with Bates and Anna while Daisy faces the severest test of her life. Repeated from 8 pm 1/29.

8:00 Masterpiece Classic (TV-PG) Downton Abbey, Series II. Part 5 of 7. As the war nears its end, Downton’s aristocrats and servants put their lives back together. Mary and Sir Richard go estate hunting, and a mysterious wounded officer makes a shocking revelation. Repeated 2 am Tuesday; and 7 pm 2/12.

9:00 A Celtic Pilgrimage with John O’Donohue (TV-G) See article page 17.

10:00 Globe Trekker (TV-PG) (DVS) Tunisia & Libya.

11:00 Jubilee (TV-G) Alias Jones/Bryant-Stevens Band.

6Monday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Eugene, Ore. Part 3 of 3. Repeated 1 am Tuesday; 4 am Wednesday; and 7 pm Saturday.

8:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Houston, Texas. Part 3 of 3. Repeated 3 am Saturday.

9:00 Underground Railroad: The William Still Story (TV-PG) (DVS) See article page 11. Repeated midnight Tuesday; 3 am Wednesday; 3:30 am Friday; and 1 am Monday.

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

11:00 Charlie Rose

7Tuesday 7:00 American Experience (TV-PG) (DVS) Freedom Riders. A look back at the group of college students who risked everything to campaign against segregation in the deep South. Also included are current interviews with many of the Freedom Riders. Repeated 1 am Wednesday; and 2 am Thursday.

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9:00 Frontline TBA. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served?

11:00 Charlie Rose

8Wednesday 7:00 Nature Raccoon Nation. See article page 17.

Repeated midnight Thursday.

8:00 NOVA (TV-PG) Separating Twins. See article page 10.

Repeated 1 am Thursday.

9:00 Inside Nature’s Giants (TV-PG) Big Cats. A look at the similarities and differences of lions and tigers, along with the voicebox characteristics that enable them to roar. One biologist also comes face to face with a liger, the cross between a lion and a tiger. Repeated 4 am Thursday; 4 am Monday; and 3 am Wednesday.

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

11:00 Charlie Rose

9Thursday 7:00 Mid-American Gardener (TV-G) Repeated 11 am Saturday.

7:30 This Old House (TV-G) 8:00 Hustle (TV-14) Diamond Seeker. Due to a mix-up, a jewelry fence gives Mickey a valuable diamond necklace, rather than a fake ruby needed for a scam. Repeated 5 pm Sunday.

9:00 Sherlock Holmes (TV-G) The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax.

The Lady is caught between an old family quarrel with her brother and a sinister horseman who seems to haunt her life before she mysteriously disappears.

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

11:00 Charlie Rose

10Friday 7:00 Friday Night Public Affairs See page 12.

8:00 Michael Feinstein’s American Songbook (TV-PG) Lost and Found. Part 2 of 3. See article page 10. Repeated 1 am Saturday; and 2 am Monday.

9:00 Independent Lens (TV-PG) The Black Power Mixtape 1967-1975. Combining candid 16mm footage that had lain undiscovered in the cellar of Swedish Television for the past 30 years with contemporary audio interviews from leading African-American artists, activists, musicians and scholars, this documentary examines the evolution of the Black Power Movement in the African-American community. Repeated 2 am Sunday.

10:30 Are You Being Served?

11:00 Charlie Rose

11Saturday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Eugene, Ore. Part 3 of 3. Repeated from 7 pm Monday.

8:00 BritCom Saturday Night See page 12.

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

12Sunday 7:00 Masterpiece Classic (TV-PG) Downton Abbey, Series II. Part 5 of 7.

Repeated from 7 pm 2/5.

8:00 Masterpiece Classic (TV-PG) Downton Abbey, Series II. Part 6 of 7. The Spanish flu strikes Downton, disrupting one match, hastening another and transforming the fortunes of all. Mary, Sybil and Robert each confront a moment of truth while Anna and Bates discover brief happiness. Repeated 3 am Tuesday; and 6 pm 2/19.

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WILL-TV 10:00 Globe Trekker (TV-PG) (DVS) Central China.

11:00 Jubilee (TV-G) Doug Macleod/Otis Taylor Band.

13Monday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Pittsburgh, Pa. Part 1 of 3. Repeated 2 am Tuesday; 4 am Wednesday; and 7 pm Saturday.

8:00 Slavery By Another Name (TV-PG) See article page 17. Repeated midnight Tuesday; 3 am Thursday; and 1 am Monday.

9:30 Not In Our Town: Class Actions (TV-G) Stories of three students and their communities standing together to stop hate crimes and bullying. Repeated 1:30 am Tuesday; 4:30 am Thursday; and 2:30 am Monday.

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

11:00 Charlie Rose

14Tuesday 7:00 American Experience (TV-G) (DVS) Tupperware! How a small plastics company became a cultural phenomenon, thanks to women from all walks of life who discovered financial success by selling the new food storage containers. Repeated 2 am Wednesday; 3 am Saturday; and 3 am Sunday.

8:00 Frontline The Interrupters. See article page 2.

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

11:00 Charlie Rose

15Wednesday 7:00 Nature (TV-G) (DVS) The Himalayas. Explore the diversity of wildlife and habitats of the earth’s highest mountain chain.

8:00 NOVA (TV-G) (DVS) Extreme Cave Diving. With a team of climatologists, paleontologists and anthropologists, join NOVA’s exploration of Blue Holes—underwater caves that formed during the last ice age.

9:00 Cave People of the Himalaya Two mountain climbers reveal astonishing evidence of a previously unknown, 1500-year-old death ritual high in the Himalayan caves.

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

11:00 Charlie Rose

16Thursday 7:00 Mid-American Gardener (TV-G) Repeated 11 am Saturday.

7:30 This Old House (TV-G) 8:00 Hustle (TV-14) Politics. The con artists set their their sights on Rhona Christie, a member of Parliament who is not only ruthless in her business dealings but also in lining her pockets.

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9:00 Sherlock Holmes (TV-G) The Problem of Thor Bridge. A dejected wife arranges to meet her children’s governess at Thor Bridge, but is gunned down.

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

11:00 Charlie Rose

17Friday 7:00 Washington Week 7:30 Illinois Pioneers Rick Kaplan. See inside front cover column for description.

8:00 Michael Feinstein’s American Songbook (TV-PG) Saloon Singer. Part 3 of 3. See article page 10.

9:00 Independent Lens (TV-PG) (DVS) More Than a Month. See article page 19.

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

11:00 Charlie Rose

18Saturday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Pittsburgh, Pa. Part 1 of 3. Repeated from 7 pm Monday.

8:00 BritCom Saturday Night See page 12.

11:30 Austin City Limits (TV-PG) Steve Martin/Sarah Jarosz.

19Sunday 6:00 Masterpiece Classic (TV-PG) Downton Abbey, Series II. Part 6 of 7.

Repeated from 8 pm 2/12.

8:00 Masterpiece Classic (TV-PG) Downton Abbey, Series II. Part 7 of 7. In the finale, the family gathers at Downton Abbey for Christmas.

10:00 Globe Trekker (TV-PG) (DVS) Micronesia.

11:00 Jubilee (TV-G) Kenny Neal.

20 Monday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Pittsburgh, Pa. Part 2 of 3. Repeated 2 am Tuesday; and 7 pm Saturday.

8:00 American Experience (TV-PG) (DVS) Clinton. Part 1 of 2. See article page 1.

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

11:00 Charlie Rose

21Tuesday 7:00 American Experience (TV-PG) (DVS) Clinton. Part 2 of 2. See article page 1.

9:00 Frontline TBA. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served?

11:00 Charlie Rose

WILL-TV 7:00 Nature Ocean Giants: Giant Lives/Deep Thinkers/ Voices Of The Sea. Three programs explore various facets of whales, dolphins and humpback whales and also reveal a surprising underwater world where sound takes the place of sight.

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

11:00 Charlie Rose

Wanamaker and Gina McKee, follows the virtuous Little Nell Trent and her shop-owner grandfather as they encounter tragic misfortunes that lead to the loss of their beloved curiosity shop.

9:30 POV (TV-PG) Racing Dreams. A chronicle of a year in the life of three pre-teens who dream of becoming NASCAR drivers as they race extreme go-karts in the World Karting Association’s national series.

11:00 Jubilee (TV-G) Hog Maw Blues Band.

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

7:30 This Old House (TV-G) 8:00 Hustle (TV-14) The Road Less Travelled. Past victims of the gang’s cons collaborate to bring down the team and get their money back.

9:00 Sherlock Holmes (TV-G) The Adventure of Shoscombe Old Place. Sir Robert Norebertson has gambled all on the success of a horse in the Champion Stakes.

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

11:00 Charlie Rose

24Friday 7:00 Washington Week 7:30 Illinois Pioneers Rob Beldon. See inside front cover column for description.

8:00 Great Performances (TV-PG) Memphis. See article page 2.

10:30 Are You Being Served?

11:00 Charlie Rose

25Saturday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Pittsburgh, Pa. Part 2 of 3. Repeated from 7 pm Monday.

8:00 BritCom Saturday Night See page 12.

11:30 Austin City Limits (TV-PG) Robert Earl Keen/Hayes Carll.

26Sunday 6:00 Masterpiece Classic (TV-PG) Downton Abbey, Series II. Part 7 of 7.

Repeated from 8 pm 2/19.

8:00 Masterpiece Classic (TV-PG) (DVS) The Old Curiosity Shop. This classic Dickens novel, brought to life with an all-star cast including Sir Derek Jacobi, Toby Jones, Zoe

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

8:00 In Performance at the White House (TV-G) An all-star celebration of the musical form that sprang from the Mississippi Delta to the west side of Chicago with deep roots in Africa and influences on modern American music from soul to rock ’n’ roll.

9:00 American Masters (TV-G) Cab Calloway: Sketches. See article page 2.

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

11:00 Charlie Rose

28Tuesday 7:00 American Experience (TV-PG) (DVS) The Amish. See article page 11.

9:00 Frontline TBA. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served?

11:00 Charlie Rose

29Wednesday 7:00 Nature (TV-PG) (DVS) Echo: An Elephant to Remember. A look back at Echo, the elephant matriarch, the subject of many Nature films and the leader of a carefully studied herd of elephants in Africa.

8:00 NOVA Japan’s Killer Quake. Authoritative on-the-spot reporting, personal stories of tragedy and survival, compelling eyewitness videos, explanatory graphics and exclusive helicopter footage for a unique look at the science behind the March 11, 2011, catastrophe.

9:00 U.S. Health Care: The Good News (TV-PG) See article page 10.

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

11:00 Charlie Rose

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More to love!

3 WILL-TV channels of great programs

WILL World offers encore showings of the best of PBS programs—from Frontline and Independent Lens to NOVA, Nature and American Experience, plus other news and public affairs programs such as Nightly Business Report and Journal. And if you miss PBS NewsHour at 6 pm on our main channel, catch it at 9 pm on World.

Photo: Kristine Juergensen © Pilot Productions

In addition to our main channel (12.1), WILL Create brings you 24-hour programming on cooking, travel, gardening, and home improvement, along with arts and crafts. So liven up the winter months by exploring exotic locales with Grannies on Safari, learn new stitches with Knit & Crochet Now, cook up a feast with Chef John Besh’s New Orleans and decorate in style with Katie Brown Workshop—just four of the 36 regular programs that air each day on Create. Plus, each Saturday’s six-hour marathon of themed programs offers even more possibilities.

s Globe Trekker host Adela Ucar (pictured) kicks off her Nigerian visit in the capital of Lagos.

Check out the schedules on page 8 of this Patterns issue or go to will.illinois.edu/tv/ schedule/ for the full Create (12.3) and World (12.2) program guides.

Sinfonia da Camera Ian Hobson, music director

2011–2012 Season Saturday, March 10 7:30 p.m.

American Spirit Jonathan Keeble, flute

Pugh Gillis Griffes Bloch Gershwin

Dmitry Kouzov, cello

Lunch with Schrödinger’s Cat—world première Symphony 5.5 Poem for Flute and Orchestra Schelomo; Hebraic Rhapsody American in Paris

Contact Krannert Center Ticket Office for tickets.

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february tv features

An insightful tour of Ireland

Photo: Courtesy Leisa Cole

Weaving ancient wisdom with personal history and breathtaking imagery, A Celtic Pilgrimage (9 pm Sunday, Feb. 5) reveals western Ireland through the insights of Irish author, poet and philosopher John O’Donohue. The program includes Corcomroe Abbey, Mamean Mountain, St. Coleman’s Well, Poulnabrone Dolmen, Dun Aengus, the Burren and Mullaghmore.

Outwitting Raccoons

Photo: Courtesy of Janet Foster

Are the complex obstacles that our fast-paced urban world throws at raccoons actually pushing the development of their brains? In Raccoon Nation, Nature explores this scientific theory by asking scientists from around the world to share their thoughts and research on the subject. As a follow-up, they closely follow a family of raccoons as they navigate a large city. The program airs at 7 pm Wednesday, Feb. 8.

Photos: Colm Hogan. © Colm Hogan 2006

continued

When did slavery end?

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Douglas Blackmon, Slavery By Another Name highlights new practices of involuntary servitude that arose in the South following the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. Spanning the eight decades following 1865, the program examines a “neoslavery” system in which men, often guilty of no crime, were arrested and compelled to work without pay.

A Sundance Film Festival selection for 2012, this documentary airs at 8 pm Monday, Feb. 13.

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membership news & events

Choosing to make a bequest gift

John D. and Lissa May Mudrick

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n addition to their current annual support, John and Lissa May Mudrick have chosen a bequest gift to underscore their appreciation for and enjoyment of the WILL stations.

Lissa is a University of Illinois graduate who first discovered FM 90.9 for background music while studying. Later, as an agent for State Farm Insurance, she became a charter member of WILL’s Business Partners program. John discovered the stations when he moved to the area in 1987 to begin a new position with Chanute Air Force Base in Rantoul.

Shortly after they married in 1993, Lissa and John prepared wills and realized they also wanted to make provisions for various charitable organizations that hold special meaning for them.

“We liked the fact that we could choose to earmark a percentage of our estate, rather than a fixed dollar amount, for WILL and other charitable organizations,” Lissa said.

“It’s a good way to think in terms of a ‘no matter what, we can do this’ amount. Plus,

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it allows for the fluctuations in the value of your assets,” she added.

“And since none of us knows what life has in store for us, it’s also beneficial that the bequest arrangements are adjustable or even revocable in the future,” John said.

The programs that spur John’s support are This Old House, Motor Week, As Time Goes By and any history-related show. Lissa’s favorites include All Things Considered, Weekend Edition and Wait, Wait, Don’t Tell Me. “We both enjoy the in-depth news reporting, the intelligence and wit in the various entertainment shows and the quality of the research and production in the history and documentary programs.

We’re happy to do our part to support public broadcasting because we understand how Illinois Public Media enhances our daily lives,” Lissa said.

“Thanks to WILL’s programs, we keep finding and learning new and different perspectives on our world community,” John added.

Photo: Courtesy of Thiago Da Costa

Community Cinema: February

In More Than a Month, Independent Lens tells the story of Shukree Hassan Tilghman, a 29-year-old African-American filmmaker on a cross-country campaign to end Black History Month. This tongue-in-cheek journey investigates what the treatment of history tells us about race and equality in a “post-racial” America.

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.

A free screening of the film and a discussion of the issues it raises will take place at 6 pm Tuesday, Feb. 7, in Robeson

If you miss the Community Cinema screening, More Than a Month airs at 9 pm Friday, Feb. 17, on WILL-TV.

Nominate an Illinois Pioneer!

As we plan upcoming WILL-TV Illinois Pioneers programs, we’re looking for people who have taken the lead to make significant impact in central Illinois and beyond.

If you know someone who’s blazed a trail to make a positive difference in your community and in the lives of others, please nominate that person by providing: • a one-paragaraph description of his or her accomplishments

• his or her name, address, phone number and email • your name, address, phone number and email Email this information to will-tv@illinois. edu with “Pioneers” in the subject line or mail it to Illinois Public Media, 300 N. Goodwin Ave., Urbana IL 61801. And don’t miss the first two programs in the next series of Illinois Pioneers, airing at 7:30 pm Fridays, Feb. 17 and 24.

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more february tv features

Photo: Courtesy of Anti-Apartheid Movement Archives Committee

Apartheid as you’ve never seen it before

s From top: Bishop Desmond Tutu (1988), John Sebastian and Davy Jones.

Have You Heard From Johannesburg? showcases the history of the global effort to destroy South African apartheid. With a story never before told in any medium and featuring interviews with dozens of the major players, this five-part film from Independent Lens explores how a violent, racist government was destroyed by the concerted efforts of men and women working inside and outside South Africa for more than three decades. Parts 1 and 2 air on WILL-TV at 1 pm Sunday, Feb. 12, while parts 3-5 begin at 1 pm Sunday, Feb. 19.

Get ready for a super Sunday!

Three of your previous pledge favorites return Sunday, Feb. 5, so cheer for the public television team with your financial gift during our super Sunday.

First up at 1:30 pm is John Sebastian Presents: Folk Rewind, a treasure trove of historical footage of the classic 1950s and 1960s folk era with performances by Pete Seeger, Judy Collins, Harry Belafonte, Bobby Darin and many others.

Then at 3:30 pm, reminisce with hosts Peter Noone and Davy Jones, along with other musical artists who perform classics from the decade of peace, love and profound social change in 60s Pop, Rock and Soul.

At 5:30 pm, Journey of the Universe re-imagines the universe story and reframes the human connection to the cosmos.

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Thanks to our Program Underwriters!

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Thank you for your generosity!

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Krannert Uncorked with the New Orleans Jazz Machine Pacifica Quartet Beethoven Cycle Part 4

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February Dance The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

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Dessert and Conversation: February Dance

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Irvin Mayfield and the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra Afterglow: Hathaways and Tom Turino

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The St. Olaf Choir: A Centennial Retrospective St. Olaf Choir 100th Anniversary Tour

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Spirit of Uganda

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Sinfonia da Camera: More Mozart

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Kronos Quartet

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Krannert Uncorked with Kevin Elliott, singer/songwriter

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Dance for People with Parkinson’s

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Pacifica Quartet Beethoven Cycle Part 5

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Tschaikowski St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra

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PERFORMING ARTS