June 2012 Patterns

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PATTERNS • JUNE 2012

New chapters

By Mark Leonard, General Manager June marks the end of the fiscal year for Illinois Public Media and the departure of some very familiar faces. Along with many other employees at the University of Illinois, several staff members at WILL are retiring by the end of June. For many long-term employees, changes to retirement pension benefits beginning in July make it financially disadvantageous to remain. Among our departing staff members are David Inge (host of Focus), Celeste Quinn (host of The Afternoon Magazine), Harriet Williamson (radio producer for Focus), Rita Schulte (director of membership and marketing) and Rick Bigler (broadcast engineer).

We are sad to see them go, but wish them well and hope that they stop back to see us!

Our challenge now is to bring several new employees on board who can fill the (large) shoes of our departing friends—no small challenge! We are committed to continuing the on-air traditions that David, Celeste and Harriet have established— thoughtful daily talk programming. This is an opportunity for us to reflect on the qualities of Focus and The Afternoon Magazine that make them work so well, as well as a chance to refine the formats. Director of News and Public Affairs Craig Cohen is working on a long- term vision for both shows and will be filling in as replacement host of Focus beginning in July. We hope to be able to announce our permanent plans for these important programs by fall.

On the membership-marketing side, it will be hard to replace Rita’s institutional knowledge, on-air enthusiasm and tireless efforts. We will be recruiting for several positions in this important area. In engineering, Rick Bigler is a transmitter specialist with a particularly deep understanding of our AM transmitter. You don’t notice a transmitter until it’s not working, and Rick has been one of the people called into service late at night, over weekends and on holidays to restore our transmitters to service when trouble strikes. At least now Rick can ignore the phone when it rings late at night during severe weather!

We will miss our friends, but wish them the very best as they each begin new chapters in their lives.

Photo: Courtesy of Detroit Public Television and Glenn Corcoran/The Photo Center, Inc.

Italian tenors earn their wings

Il Volo—Piero Barone, Ignazio Boschetto and Gianluca Ginoble—have received unanimous raves for their vocal talent and showmanship. Since their May 2011 American debut, they have appeared on American Idol, The Tonight Show, Ellen, The Today Show, Good Morning America and Entourage.

Now PBS is showcasing the trio in a new special, Il Volo Takes Flight, at 8:30 pm Wednesday, June 6, on WILL-TV. Filmed in a live performance at Detroit’s famed Opera House last October, the group sang operatic, pop and Italian classics. Backed by a 49-piece orchestra and five-piece rhythm section, Il Volo’s versions of “O Sole Mio,” “Il Mondo” and “E Più Ti Penso,” a medley of Ennio Morricone songs from the soundtracks to Once Upon a Time in America and Malena, and the Charlie Chaplin song, “Smile,” were met with standing ovations from the concert audience.

The trio continued their magic with the well-known Neapolitan song, “Funiculì, Funiculà,” as well as a new Diane Warren original, “La Luna Hizo Esto.” In addition, world-class guitarist Milos Karadaglic accompanied the group to introduce the song “Granada.”

Get Il Volo’s debut album Being released worldwide this month—after receiving rave reviews in Italy­—Il Volo’s first recording is available on CD as part of a combo premium package with your $150 pledge to WILL-TV. The package also includes a CD of music from Il Volo Takes Flight and a DVD or Blu-ray of the special.

After their debut on the Italian hit TV show, Ti Lascio Una Canzone (Leaving You a Song), Universal Music Group released Il Volo’s selftitled debut album in Italy in November 2010.

Already certified gold and on its way to platinum status in their home country, the album will be released worldwide in June.

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Photo: Courtesy of Adam Brown

We’re looking after your health and fitness

A new special from fitness icon Kathy Smith addresses and provides solutions to the “personal energy crisis” of individuals over the age of 50. Kathy Smith Ageless Energy (7 pm Tuesday, June 5) provides tools to create a life plan that ensures continuing energy, stamina, strength and vitality. Smith, who turned 60 last year, offers easy-todo exercises, along with information that explains how movement, food and attitude impact personal energy levels. She also outlines her four pillars of energy, why energy is the key to staying youthful and the importance of functional fitness and strength training.

Then at 8:30 pm, Blood Sugar Solution with Dr. Mark Hyman explores what he terms “diabesity,” outlines the underlying causes and provides a personalized plan to combat it. The program is based on his book of the same name, released in February 2012 and currently on The New York Times bestseller list.

Dr. Hyman identifies seven keys to achieving wellness—optimizing nutrition, balancing hormones, cooling inflammation, fixing digestion, enhancing detoxification, boosting energy metabolism and calming the mind—plus shares a six-week action plan that includes exercise advice, stressreducing strategies, a menu plan with delicious recipes and much more.

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Opera Gala returns Join Roger Cooper, Michael Cervone and John Frayne at 1 pm Saturday, June 23, on WILL-FM for Guess the Singer! on this year’s Opera Gala.

Unmask Tenor X, Soprano Y and Baritone Z as your hosts play mystery recordings and give you the chance to identify the singer.

As always, there will be prizes for correct answers, as well as drawings every hour for CDs of operatic music.

Please phone your trio of hosts at 217-2442628 with requests for your favorite singers, which they will play between recordings of the day’s mystery artists.

So doff the silly hats, release the balloons and get ready for Madame Mystery to sign in!

Britain’s Masterpiece & Mystery Tour Sept. 27-Oct. 7 Experience the real Downton Abbey, Agatha Christie’s English Riviera, Bath and Yorkshire villages with Alan J.W. Bell and cast members from Last of the Summer Wine. We had such a great time last year, we’re doing it again with more surprise visits from members of the Summer Wine cast. We’ll also take in the beautiful rooms and vistas of Highclere Castle (location for Downton Abbey) and the village of Bampton which also appears in the Mas-

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Sharing music from the Little House books

Just as the American family experience was documented by Laura Ingalls Wilder in her Little House on the Prairie books, Pa’s Fiddle celebrates the music that she heard as a child during her family’s adventures on America’s prairies in the years just after the Civil War. In Laura’s memories the music was played by her father on his fiddle—outdoors, by the potbelly stoves of

their many houses, at church services and at Saturday night socials.

The program, which airs on WILL-TV at 8 pm Monday, June 4, features performances

by Randy Travis, Rodney Atkins, Ronnie Milsap, Committed, Natalie Grant, Ashton Shepherd and The Roys, along with an allstar Nashville band led by Grammy-winner Randy Scruggs.

See full itineraries and pricing

terpiece smash hit. We’ll spend time in the Cotswolds and see the elegant town of Bath, where we visit the Jane Austen Centre before wrapping up our trip in London.

for these tours at will.illinois. edu/willtravel and contact Judy McElfresh at TourGroupPlanners (217-422-5002 or toll-free 877386-4777) for more information.

WILL Civil War Train Tour Sept. 7-15 This tour includes train travel in vintage style to the Southern Civil War battlefields and our nation’s capital with historian and author Tony Pitch. Delicious meals, the terrific company of other Friends of WILL and fascinating destinations await you as we travel along the famous City of New Orleans route in five private train cars restored to their 1940s and 1950s era glory. Plus, no unpacking and repacking!

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weekdays

WILL-FM 90.9 and HD1 106.5 in Danville

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

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

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

1 pm Afternoon Classics

s Alisa Weilerstein, 7 pm 6/20

6/20

Young Conductors Award Winner Concert Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra; Ainars Rubikis, cond; Alisa Weilerstein, cello DEBUSSY; SHOSTAKOVICH Solo Recital Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Kathryn Stott, piano SCHUBERT; FRANCK

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.

6/27

5 pm NPR All Things Considered

Music Mountain Chamber Music Festival

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: Festivals Deutsche Welle Festival Concerts 6/4

6/11

6/18 6/25

Bach Festival in Leipzig BACH; CORELLI Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival BEETHOVEN; TCHAIKOVSKY Early Music Days in Regensburg VIVALDI; TELEMANN Mahler Chamber Orchestra Residency BRAHMS; MAHLER

Thursday: Festivals 6/7

6/14

6/21

6/28

Friday: Prairie Performances 6/1

Tuesday: Chicago Sympony Orchestra 6/5

6/12

Manfred Honeck, cond; Till Fellner, piano BEETHOVEN; DVORAK Sir Mark Elder, cond; Emanuel Ax, piano CHOPIN; MENDELSSOHN

6/8

The New York Philharmonic This Week 6/19 Alan Gilbert, cond MAHLER 6/26 Alan Gilbert, cond; Yefim Bronfman, piano

TCHAIKOVSKY; LINDBERG (World Premiere)

Wednesday: Festivals

The Best of Salzburg Festival 2011

Mahler Scenes Clemens Hagen, cello; Albrecht Mayer, oboe J.STRAUSS, JR.; MAHLER Mozart Matinee Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra; Trevor Pinnock, cond;

E. Pahud, flute; M.P. Langlament, harp MOZART 6/6

6/13

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Harlem String Quartet; Mischa Dichter, piano MOZART; BORODIN St. Petersburg String Quartet; Victoria Schwartzman, piano BRAHMS; SHOSTAKOVICH St. Petersburg String Quartet; Victoria Schwartzman, piano BRAHMS; MOZART Cassatt String Quartet; Ursula Oppens, piano BARBER; BEETHOVEN

6/15

6/22

6/29

Millikin-Decatur Symphony Masterpieces in Miniature (4/21/12) Michael Luxner, cond Bruce Gibbons, organ Tina Nicholson, oboe Opus 24 Choral Ensemble PISTON; ALBINONI; THOMPSON; SCHUBERT Prairie Ensemble Music For The Theatre (4/28/12) Kevin Kelly, cond Ollie Watts Davis, soprano Elizabeth Buckley, mezzo Joi Hoffsommer; Henson Keyes, actors MENDELSSOHN Illinois Symphony Orchestra Titanic & Terrific (5/4/12 & 5/5/12) Kenneth Raskin, guest cond Adam Neiman, piano MOZART; RAVEL; MAHLER Danville Symphony Orchestra (3/10/12) Jeremy Swerling, cond SAINT-SAENS; GRIEG; MUSSORGSKY 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.

11 am Classics of the Phonograph

s Nathan Gunn, noon 6/16

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

6/2 The Chamber Orchestra: Boyd Neel and Karl Münchinger 6/9 The Avoidance of Arnold Schönberg’s Music 6/16 Jean Pierre Rampal and James Galway 6/23 One Hit Composers 6/30 Sibelius Beyond the Symphonies

7 am NPR Weekend Edition

Noon Afternoon at the Opera

Chicago’s Lyric Opera Season continues.

6/2 THE MAGIC FLUTE (Mozart). Sir Andrew Davis, cond, with Nicole Cabell, Charles Castronovo, Stéphane Degout and the Lyric Opera Orchestra and Chorus.

6/9 ARIADNE AUF NAXOS (R. Strauss). Sir Andrew Davis, cond, with Amber Wagner, Anna Christy, Alice Coote, Brandon Jovanovich and the Lyric Opera Orchestra and Chorus.

6/16 SHOW BOAT, in English (Jerome Kern).

John DeMain, cond, with Nathan Gunn, Ashley Brown, Alyson Cambridge and the Lyric Opera Orchestra and Chorus.

6/23 Opera Gala: Name that Singer! See article page 2.

6/30 AIDA (Verdi). Renato Palumbo, cond, with Sondra Radvanovsky, Marcello Giordani, Jill Grove, Gordon Hawkins and the Lyric Opera Orchestra and Chorus.

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.

sundays with Rachel Martin

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

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

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

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

NPR News Headlines at 7:01. ◆Special: Father’s Day Special: Songs My Father Taught Me, 6/10, 7-9 pm. See article page 6.

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

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

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

Music Mountain Festival

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From 7-9 pm each Thursday this month, The Evening Concert will feature performances from the 2011 season—the 82nd—at Music Mountain’s Summer Music Festival in Lakeville, Conn. The festival is known for presenting the masterpieces of chamber music, performed by acclaimed artists from around the world. Concerts take place in Gordon Hall, regarded as one of the finest chamber music halls in the United States for its acoustics and resonant, full-bodied sound. See page 4 for the concert lineup.

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Father’s Day concert special Using a combination of narration and performance, cellist Lynn Harrell tells the story of his music life and journey of self-discovery through his father, legendary opera baritone Mack Harrell, in Songs My Father Taught Me at 7 pm Sunday, June 10, on WILL-FM. A consummate soloist, chamber musician, recitalist, conductor and teacher, Harrell’s work throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia has placed him among today’s top performing artists.

He is a frequent guest of many leading orchestras including Boston, Chicago and New York, and has recently collaborated on projects with violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and pianist André Previn.

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Harrell’s father sang with the Metropolitan Opera each season from 1939 to 1948, and taught voice at The Juilliard School from 1945 to 1956. In 1954, he became director of the Aspen Music Festival and School, a position he held until his death at age 50 in 1960.

FM 90.9 HD3

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

Saturday

Sunday

5:00

BBC Overnight Continued

BBC World Service

6:00

Commodity Week

Inside Europe

6:30

Mid-American Gardener

Monday–Friday NPR Morning Edition with Jim Meadows

7:00

NPR Weekend Edition

BBC World Briefing

9:00

Car Talk

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

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

The Afternoon Magazine NPR News 12:01

NPR Weekend Edition

Wait Wait ...

6:00

Commonwealth Club

This American Life

Fresh Air

7:00

Living on Earth

BBC World Service

8:00

Latino USA

To the Best of Our Knowledge

8:30

Left, Right & Center

9:00

Alternative Radio

New Dimensions

10:00

Bookworm

Le Show

10:30

New Letters on the Air

11:006 am

BBC World Service

On Point

BBC World Service

BBC World Service

Bold Listing = National/International News

11:07

10:07 am

Focus monthly guests 6/12 Lawn & Garden Care 6/15 Personal Finance 6/18 Home Care

6/1 Dog Care & Behavior 6/7 Computers 6/11 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 Craig Cohen, news and public affairs director

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

Saturday and Sunday Occasional updates PATTERNS • JUNE 2012 7

12.3

WILL-TV Create began a new program schedule effective June 1. Programming will vary during the pledge drive June 2-10. See the full Create schedule at will.illinois.edu/tv/schedule Cooking—6-8 am; noon-2 pm

Sun and Wed: New Scandinavian Cooking; Cuisine Culture; Nick Stellino Cooking with Friends; Sara’s Weeknight Meals Mon and Fri: New Scandinavian Cooking; Chef John Besh’s New Orleans; Ciao Italia; Rachel’s Favorite Food at Home Tue and Thur: New Scandinavian Cooking; Gourmet’s Adventures with Ruth; Caprial and John’s Kitchen/ Jazzy Vegetarian (begins 6/26); Christina Cooks

Travel—8-9 am; 2-3 pm

Sun and Wed: Art Wolfe’s Travels to the Edge; Music Voyager Mon and Fri: Richard Bangs’ Adventures with Purpose Tue and Thu: Rudy Maxa’s World; OpenRoad/ Seasoned Traveler (begins 6/19)

Primetime Schedule Monday-Friday

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

Mondays

7:00 Nature (6/4); Changing Seas (6/11, 6/28); Walking the Great Divide (6/25) 7:30 Changing Seas (6/11, 6/18) 8:00 Nature 11:00 Changing Seas (6/11, 6/18); Walking the Great Divide (6/25) 11:30 Changing Seas (6/11, 6/18)

Tuesdays

7:00 Story of India 8:00 India with Sanjeev Bhaskar 11:00 Everest: A Climb for Peace (6/5); Nepal, Tibet, Bhutan (6/12); Bhutan: Middle Path to Happiness (6/19); Dabbawallas (6/26)

Wednesdays

7:00 Game Changers (6/6); State of the Re:Union (6/13) 8:00 Independent Lens (6/6); Frontline 11:00 World Peace and Other 4th Grade Achievements (6/6); Health Without Barriers (6/13); Gay Olympics on Trial (6/20); The Yemenis of the San Joaquin (6/27) 11:30 State of the Re:Union (6/13); Independent Lens (6/20); POV (6/27)

Thursdays

7:00 NOVA (6/7); NOVAScienceNow 8:00 NOVAScienceNow 11:00 NOVA

Gardening/Home Improvement—9-11 am; 3-5 pm

Mon and Fri: This Old House; American Woodshop; P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home; Around the House with Matt and Shari Tue and Thu: Woodwright’s Shop; Woodsmith Shop; Victory Garden; Growing Bolder/For Your Home (begins 6/21) Wed: Ask This Old House; For Your Home/Rough Cut with Tommy Mac (begins 6/10); Garden Smart; Katie Brown Workshop Sun: Ask This Old House; Rough Cut with Tommy Mac; Growing a Greener World; Katie Brown Workshop

Arts and Crafts—5-6 am; 11-noon

Sun and Wed: Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting; Donna Dewberry Show Mon and Fri: Sewing with Nancy; Scheewe Art Workshop Tue and Thu: Martha’s Sewing Room; Best of the Joy of Painting

Saturday Marathons—5-11 am; 5-11 pm June 2: Ice Cream June 9: Richard Bangs’ Adventureland June 16: I Do! June 23: Travel with Kids June 30: Living in America

12.2 Fridays

7:00 Boxing Gym (6/8); Global Voices (6/15); Inteligence Squared U.S. (6/22); NYPD’s

First Asian Women Officers (6/29) 8:00 A Personal View by Johan Norberg (6/1); Doha Debates (6/22); Thick Dark Fog (6/29) 8:30 Gay Olympics on Trial (6/8); In the Life (6/15) 11:00 The West and the Rest with Niall Ferguson (6/1); Underdog Plaza (6/8); Anyone and Everyone (6/15); Intelligence Squared U.S. (6/22); Searching for Roots in Canton (6/29)

Saturdays

7:00 Washington Week 7:30 McLaughlin Group 8:00 Need to Know 8:30 Illinois Lawmakers (6/2); Inside Washington 9:00 American Road to Victory (6/2, 6/9); War of 1812 (6/16); Queen Victoria’s Empire (6/23, 6/30) 10:00 American Road to Victory (6/2) 10:30 Gathering of Heroes (6/9) 11:00 Moyers & Company

Sundays

7:00 Frontline (6/3); A Personal View by Johan Norberg (6/10); POV (6/24) 8:00 Frontline (6/3); Globalization at the Crossroads (6/10); POV (6/17) 9:00 Global Voices 10:00 Independent Lens (6/3); POV (6/10); Intelligence Squared U.S. (6/24); 10:30 Gay Olympics on Trial (6/17) 11:00 Frontline (6/3); A Personal View by Johan Norberg (6/10); POV (6/17, 6/24)

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WILL-TV daytime

David Thiel, Program Director

Monday - Friday

Saturday

Sunday

5:00

Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood

French in Action

5:30

Angelina Ballerina

Destinos

Sid the Science Kid

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

Curious George The Cat in the Hat Super WHY! Dinosaur Train Thomas & Friends Bob the Builder Sid the Science Kid Motorweek Pedal America

Curious George The Cat in the Hat Super WHY! Dinosaur Train Cyberchase Fetch!

Electric Company Biz Kid$ Moyers & Company

WordWorld

10:30 P. Allen Smith’s

Super WHY! Barney & Friends

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

America’s Heartland Market to Market

The Cat in the Hat Sid the Science Kid

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

T he McLaughlin Group Religion + Ethics Newsweekly

Sewing Programs

1:00 1:30

Essential Pepin

2:00

Joanne Weir’s Cooking Confidence

Martha Speaks

2:30

Simply Ming

Arthur

Equitrekking

Wild Kratts

3:00 3:30 4:00

Electric Company/ Fetch! (F)

4:30

This Old House Hour

Market to Market (M) Nightly Business Report (T-F) Body Electric (M, W, F) Sit and Be Fit (T, Th) Clifford Wild Kratts Curious George The Cat in the Hat Super WHY! Dinosaur Train Sesame Street

Garden Home

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How To Programs

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Painting and How To Programs

WordGirl

BBC World News Nightly Business Report PBS NewsHour

5:00 5:30 6:00

Hubert Keller: Secrets of a Chef

Heartland Highways Hometime

SPECIALS 6/3 1:00, Ed Slott’s Retirement Rescue 3:00, Gospel Music of the

Statler Brothers 5:00, My Music:

The British Beat 6/10 1:00, Trains Around North America 4:00, Love Never Dies 6/17 1:00, Great Performances

at the Met: Ernani 3:30, Michael Graves: The Warehouse 4:00, Sherlock Holmes 5:00, Hustle 6/24 1:00, Shelter Me 2:00, Queen Victoria’s Empire 4:00, Sherlock Holmes 5:00, Hustle

Rick Steves’ Europe Lawrence Welk

See listings

Daytime schedules will vary during the pledge drive June 2-10. Please see listings.

1:00 pm Sewing M: Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting Tu: Sewing with Nancy W: Quilting Arts/Knit and Crochet Now! (begins 6/27) Th: Martha’s Sewing Room F: Knitting Daily/ It’s Sew Easy (begins 6/22)

1:30 pm Painting and How To M: Best of Joy of Painting Tu: Paint This with Jerry Yarnell W: Beauty of Oil Painting Th: Color World with Gary Spetz F: Katie Brown Workshop/Beads, Baubles and Jewels (begins 6/15)

2:00 pm How To M: Mid-American Gardener Tu: Wai Lana Yoga W: Garden Smart Th: For Your Home/Jazzy Vegetarian (begins 6/14) F: Woodwright’s Shop

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Sequel to the Phantom Love Never Dies, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s spellbinding follow-up musical to the phenomenal Phantom of the Opera, picks up 10 years later to find the Phantom in New York’s Coney Island. A new special showcases the highly acclaimed Australian production, which Webber described as “one of the finest productions I’ve ever seen of my work, anywhere.” It features a 21-piece orchestra and an impressive cast, including musical actors Ben Lewis as the Phantom and Anna O’Byrne as Christine Daae. The program airs at 7 pm Saturday, June 2, to kick off the WILL-TV fundraising drive.

Transforming the American musical

Photo: Marie Ueda (courtesy GLBT Historical Society)

Oscar Hammerstein—Out of My Dreams (8 pm Thursday, June 7) is a celebration of one of the most acclaimed lyricists and librettists of the 20th century—the man who wrote lyrics for over 1,000 songs and the books for 45 operettas and musicals. Hammerstein’s legendary musicals include Show Boat, Oklahoma, South Pacific, The King and I and The Sound of Music.

Choosing care over conflict Independent Lens presents a look at how San Francisco built a system of love, care and compassion in the early 1980s as the AIDS epidemic struck down friends and family members. We Were Here (9:30 pm Friday, June 15) chronicles the tireless fight of a diverse community in testament to the capacity of people to work together. s

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Fulfilling a family’s spiritual legacy Filmed over 20 years by acclaimed documentarian Jennifer Fox, POV’s My Reincarnation (9:30 pm Friday, June 22) chronicles the epic story of exiled Tibetan Buddhist master Chögyal Namkhai Norbu and his Western-born son, Yeshi. As Norbu rises as a teacher in the West, Yeshi, recognized from birth as the reincarnation of a famed Buddhist master, breaks away to embrace the modern world.

Host Mark L. Walberg

Festival focuses on the arts With host Anna Deavere Smith, the PBS Arts Summer Festival begins its second season of exploring cities around the globe to offer an in-depth look at music, theater, art, architecture and cultural history. It kicks off at 8 pm Friday, June 29, with Mariachi High, which follows a year in the life of the champion mariachi ensemble at Zapata High School in Zapata, Texas.

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Antiques Roadshow’s first visit to Phoenix was in 1997, when Arizona’s biggest story was a UFO sighting dubbed the “Phoenix Lights.” Fast forward 15 years for new believe-it-or-not moments: “Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Claus,” the original 1897 letter to the New York Sun, was appraised at $20,000 to $30,000 and gets a nice current value of $30,000 to $50,000; on the other hand, a circa 1890 mechanical bank, then worth $3,700, gets a lump of coal and a current value of $1,000 to $1,500. Vintage Phoenix airs at 7 pm Monday, June 18.

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Phoenix, then and now

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

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

8:00 An Evening with Dave Grusin (TV-G) The 10-time Grammy- and Oscar-winning composer, conductor and pianist performs with and welcomes musicians, from trumpeter Arturo Sandoval and percussionist Sammy Figueroa to Monica Mancini and Jon Secada.

9:00 This Is My Journey (TV-G) U of I graduate Kate Brickman’s 2011 documentary about three transgender people in central Illinois who are in the process of transitioning from one gender to the other.

10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Illinois Lawmakers 11:00 Charlie Rose

2Saturday am 10:00 Easy Yoga for Arthritis with Peggy Cappy 11:00 Blood Sugar Solution with Dr. Mark Hyman See article page 2. Repeated 1 pm Tuesday; 8:30 pm Tuesday; and 1:30 am Wednesday. pm 12:30 Kathy Smith Ageless Energy See article page 2. Repeated 1 pm Monday; 7 pm Tuesday; and midnight Wednesday.

2:00 Trains Around North America 5:00 Lawrence Welk: Precious Memories 7:00 Love Never Dies (TV-PG) See article page 10. Repeated 2 am Monday; and midnight and 4 pm Sunday, 6/10.

10:00 Quest: Beyond The Stars (TV-G) Images from the Hubble telescope serve as a backdrop to classical pieces and songs inspired by the cosmos that are performed by Quest, an instrumental orchestra ensemble from Europe. Repeated 3 am Thursday.

11:00 Buddy Holly: Listen to Me (TV-G) A variety of well-known singers and musicians honor Holly with a concert of his music on what would have been his 75th birthday in Sept. 2011. Repeated 1:30 am Thursday.

3Sunday

am 10:00 Moyers & Company

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Ed Slott’s Retirement Rescue Gospel Music of the Statler Brothers My Music: British Beat Downton Abbey—Behind The Drama (TV-G) Go behind the scenes on production of the wildly popular Masterpiece Classic series, plus get insight into the characters from writer Julian Fellowes and the actors who bring them to life.

8:00 Masterpiece Mystery! (TV-PG) (DVS) Inspector Lewis, Series IV: Old, Unhappy, Far Off Things. A reunion at Oxford’s remaining all-female college ends with the murder of a prominent student, which may be connected to a similar, decade-old case.

10:00 Rick Steves’ Hidden Europe (TV-G) In select and intriguing segments taken from recent seasons of his popular travel program, Steves reveals a dozen of his favorite overlooked European destinations. Repeated 3 am Wednesday; and 2 pm Saturday.

4Monday

1:00 Kathy Smith Ageless Energy Repeated from 12:30 pm Saturday.

6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Roadshow Remembers. This retrospective edition features 10 years of treasures.

8:00 Pa’s Fiddle (TV-G) See article page 3. Repeated midnight Tuesday; and 3:30 am Saturday.

9:30 Chris Isaak Live! Beyond The Sun (TV-G) Live from the Austin City Limits stage, Isaak performs his hits, as well as songs from his latest release, Beyond the Sun, and welcomes special guest Wanda Jackson. Repeated 1:30 am Tuesday.

11:00 Charlie Rose

5Tuesday 1:00 Blood Sugar Solution with Dr. Mark Hyman 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Kathy Smith’s Ageless Energy (TV-G) See article page 2. Repeated midnight Wednesday.

8:30 Blood Sugar Solution with Dr. Mark Hyman (TV-G) See article page 2. Repeated 1:30 am Wednesday.

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

11:00 Charlie Rose

6Wednesday

1:00 Ed Slott’s Retirement Rescue 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Nature (TV-PG) (DVS) My Life As A Turkey. Based on naturalist Joe Hutto’s book, Illuminations in the Flatlands, this documentary tells his story of raising wild turkeys and the difficulty of letting them go for lives on their own.

8:30 Il Volo Takes Flight (TV-G) See article page 1. Repeated midnight Thursday.

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

11:00 Charlie Rose

7Thursday

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PBS NewsHour Mid-American Gardener (TV-G) Oscar Hammerstein II—Out of My Dreams (TV-G) See article page 10. Repeated midnight Friday.

9:30 Under The Streetlamp (TV-G) A concert of classic 1960s hits—including doo-wop, Motown, old time rock ’n’ roll and favorites from The Drifters, The Four Seasons, The Beach Boys, the Beatles and others— performed by leading cast members of the Tony Award-winning musical Jersey Boys.

Repeated 1:30 am Friday.

11:00 Charlie Rose

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8Friday

Kid Concoctions—Wacky & Wild PBS NewsHour Washington Week Great Performances (TV-G) Tony Bennett: Duets II. To celebrate his 85th birthday, Bennett recorded duets of Great American Songbook classics with contemporary stars including Queen Latifah, Aretha Franklin, Willie Nelson, Sheryl Crow, Andrea Bocelli, and Michael Buble. Repeated midnight Saturday.

9:30 Jazz Icons (TV-G) Repeated 2 am Saturday.

11:00 Charlie Rose

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9Saturday

pm 12:30 ADD and Loving It?!

2:00 Rick Steves’ Hidden Europe 4:00 John Sebastian Presents: Folk Rewind 6:00 Big Band Vocalists 8:00 As Time Goes By Reunion Special (TV-PG) 10:00 Audience Favorite from the Pledge Drive

10Sunday

am 10:00 Moyers & Company pm 1:00 Trains Around North America 4:00 Love Never Dies Repeated from 7 pm Saturday, 6/2.

7:00 Audience Favorite from the Pledge Drive

11Monday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Philadelphia, Pa. Part 2 of 3. Repeated 7 pm Saturday; and 4 am Monday.

8:00 Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work (TVPG) The State Visit. Part 1 of 6. Follow the elaborate preparations as four United States locations anticipate a visit from Britain’s Queen Elizabeth. Repeated midnight Tuesday; 3 am Wednesday; and 3 am Saturday.

9:00 Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work (TV-PG) The State Visit, Part 2 of 6. Repeated 1 am Tuesday; 4 am Wednesday; and 4 am Saturday.

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

11:00 Charlie Rose

am 9:30 Kid Concoctions—Wacky & Wild 11:00 Ed Slott’s Retirement Rescue

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12Tuesday 7:00 History of Science (TV-G) What Is Out There? Part 1 of 6. The story of one of the great upheavals in human history — how we came to understand that our planet was not at the center of everything in the cosmos, but just one of billions of bodies in a vast and expanding universe. See article page 17.

8:00 History of Science (TV-G) What Is The World Made of? Part 2 of 6. Learn how our society is built on the search to find the answer to what makes up everything in the material world, from gold to the invention of the transistor. See article page 17.

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

11:00 Charlie Rose

13Wednesday

7:00 Nature (TV-PG) (DVS) Moment of Impact: Jungle. From ninja ants to flying snakes, take an innovative look at the bio-engineering of animals in an environment where survival depends on highly tuned senses and ingenious defenses. Repeated midnight Thursday; and 2:30 am Friday.

8:00 NOVA (TV-PG) (DVS) Crash of Flight 447. Using expert testimony, messages from the doomed plane’s computer system and CGI weather reconstructions, NOVA pieces together events leading up to the 2009 plane crash. Repeated 1 am Thursday; and 3:30 am Friday.

9:00 CSI On Trial (TV-G) Through a case in Nebraska, a look at criminal convictions across the nation that are being overturned due to incompetence or deliberate misconduct in crime labs.

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

11:00 Charlie Rose

14Thursday

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

7:30 This Old House (TV-G) 8:00 Hustle (TV-PG) The Fall of Railton FC. Ash sees a local football club go bust due to a dodgy football agent who is willing to do anything for money.

Repeated 5 pm Sunday.

9:00 Sherlock Holmes (TV-G) The Master Blackmailer. Part 1 of 2. Holmes is on a campaign to thwart one of London’s most evil men, the king of all blackmailers.

Repeated 4 pm Sunday.

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

11:00 Charlie Rose

15Friday

7:00 Friday Night Public Affairs See page 12.

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8:00 Great Performances (TV-G) Harry Connick, Jr. In Concert On Broadway.

After 20 years, three-time Grammy Award-winner Harry Connick Jr. returns to Broadway in a program of favorites, performed in Connick’s trademark New Orleans style. Repeated 1 am Saturday; and 2 am Monday.

9:30 Independent Lens (TV-PG) We Were Here. See article page 10. Repeated 2 am Sunday.

11:00 Charlie Rose

16Saturday

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

8:00 BritCom Saturday Night See page 12.

11:30 Live from the Artists Den (TV-PG) Amos Lee with special guests Calexico.

17Sunday 7:00 Finding Your Roots (TV-PG) Barbara Walters and Geoffrey Canada. Part 3 of 10. Repeated 2 am Tuesday.

8:00 Masterpiece Mystery! (TV-PG) (DVS) Zen: Cabal. Working with the case of a disgraced aristocrat who jumped or was pushed from a bridge, Zen is caught between his scheming bosses—the Ministry of Justice and a powerful prosecutor—who each want evidence in support of opposing theories.

Repeated midnight Monday; and 3 am Tuesday.

9:30 Official Best of Fest (TV-G) Love III. 10:00 Globe Trekker Special: World War II in the Pacific.

11:00 Woodsongs (TV-G) Sierra Hull and Highway 111 & Pokey Lafarge.

18Monday

7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Vintage Phoenix. See article page 11.

Repeated 1 am Tuesday; 4 am Wednesday; and 7 pm Saturday.

8:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Atlantic City, N.J. Part 1 of 3.

9:00 Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work (TVPG) Headquarters. Part 3 of 6. Learn how Buckingham Palace’s 650 rooms host heads of state, royal dinners, the queen’s birthday celebration and much more while also welcoming tours from 40,000 public visitors. Repeated midnight Tuesday; and 3 am Wednesday.

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

11:00 Charlie Rose

19Tuesday 7:00 History of Science (TV-G) How Did We Get Here? Part 3 of 6. The story of how scientists came to explain the beauty and diversity of life on earth, and how its evolution is connected to the long and violent history of our planet. See article page 17.

WILL-TV 8:00 History of Science (TV-G) Can We Have Unlimited Power? Part 4 of 6.

Explore how power has been harnessed— from wind, steam and from inside the atom.

See article page 17.

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

11:00 Charlie Rose

20Wednesday

7:00 Nature (TV-PG) Superfish. Emmy award-winning filmmaker and biologist Rick Rosenthal showcases marlin, sailfish, spearfish and swordfish—the largest and most highly prized of all gamefish. Repeated midnight Thursday; and 2 am Friday.

8:00 NOVA Hunting The Edge of Space: The Mystery of the Milky Way. Part 1 of 2. Learn how the telescope has fundamentally changed our understanding of our place in the universe.

Repeated 1 am Thursday; and 3 am Friday.

9:00 Inside Nature’s Giants (TV-PG) (DVS) Giant Squid. The team travels to New Zealand to examine a squid’s three hearts, razor sharp beak, tooth-covered tentacles and bizarre reproductive system. Repeated 2 am Thursday; and 4 am Friday.

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

11:00 Charlie Rose

21Thursday

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

7:30 This Old House (TV-G) 8:00 Hustle (TV-PG) The Delivery. Mickey and the gang find themselves trying to recover diamonds for the mafia to help an old friend, but soon discover the diamonds are underneath a police station.

Repeated 5 pm Sunday.

9:00 Sherlock Holmes (TV-G) The Master Blackmailer. Part 2 of 2. In Holmes’ effort to bring London’s notorious blackmailer to justice, he impersonates a plumber to get inside the criminal’s gated estate. Repeated 4 pm Sunday.

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

11:00 Charlie Rose

22Friday

7:00 Friday Night Public Affairs See page 12.

8:00 American Masters (TV-PG) Judy Garland: By Myself. With access to the MGM library, including vaulted screen tests and rehearsal footage, this program tells Garland’s story in her own words.

10:00 POV (TV-PG) My Reincarnation. See article page 11.

11:30 Charlie Rose

23Saturday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Vintage Phoenix. Repeated from 7 pm Monday.

8:00 BritCom Saturday Night See page 12.

11:30 Live from the Artists Den (TV-PG) Iron and Wine.

24Sunday 7:00 Finding Your Roots (TV-PG) Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick. Part 4 of 10.

Repeated 2 am Tuesday.

8:00 Masterpiece Mystery! (TV-PG) (DVS) Zen: Ratking. When a wealthy industrialist and political party funder is kidnapped, Zen is asked to get the hostage back alive at any cost. Repeated midnight Monday; and 3 am Tuesday.

9:30 Official Best of Fest (TV-G) Love VIII. 10:00 Globe Trekker Amsterdam City Guide 2.

11:00 Woodsongs (TV-G) Carolyn Wonderland & The David Mayfield Parade.

25Monday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Vintage Secaucus. Repeated 1 am Tuesday; 4 am Wednesday; and 7 pm Saturday.

8:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Atlantic City, N.J. Part 2 of 3.

9:00 Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work (TVPG) Head of State. Part 4 of 6. Attend the elaborate state opening of Parliament, the weekly private audience between Her Majesty and the British prime minister and a historic visit to the newly democratic Republic of Estonia. Repeated midnight Tuesday; and 3 am Wednesday.

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

11:00 Charlie Rose

26Tuesday

7:00 History of Science (TV-G) What Is The Secret of Life? Part 5 of 6. The story of how the secret of life has been examined through the human body, from attempts to save the lives of gladiators in ancient Rome to today’s microscopic world of cells and DNA. See article page 17.

8:00 History of Science (TV-G) Who Are We? Part 6 of 6. Explore how the twin sciences of brain anatomy and psychology have offered different visions of who we are as humans. See article page 17.

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

11:00 Charlie Rose

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As You Like It Othello Comedy of Errors

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27Wednesday 7:00 Nature (TV-PG) (DVS) Cloud: Challenge of the Stallions. An updated look at Cloud, a wild stallion, and his two sons, Bolder and Flint, vying to challenge their father as the next stallion leader. Repeated midnight Thursday; and 2 am Friday.

8:00 NOVA Hunting The Edge of Space: The Ever Expanding Universe. Part 2 of 2. Now at the center of an international space race, a new generation of ever-larger telescopes is poised to reveal answers to longstanding questions about our universe. Repeated 1 am Thursday; and 3 am Friday.

9:00 Inside Nature’s Giants (TV-PG) (DVS) Camel. Experts reveal the secret of the camel’s hump and investigate how the animal’s elastic legs, stretchy lips and pedestal enable it to thrive in a dry and hostile environment.

Repeated 2 am Thursday; and 4 am Friday.

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

11:00 Charlie Rose

28Thursday

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

7:30 This Old House (TV-G) 8:00 Hustle (TV-PG) Return of the Prodigal. Posing as city traders, Mickey and Ash offer a property developer the chance to join an insider dealing scam.

9:00 Sherlock Holmes (TV-G) The Last Vampyre. Part 1 of 2. When a small village believes they have a vampire in their midst, Holmes and Watson are brought in to find a rationale explanation for several sudden deaths in the village.

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

11:00 Charlie Rose

29Friday

7:00 Friday Night Public Affairs See page 12.

8:00 PBS Summer Arts Festival (TV-G) Mariachi High. See article page 11. Repeated 1 am Saturday.

9:00 POV (TV-PG) Granito: How to Nail A Dictator. The story of how a 1983 documentary helped a Guatemalan court charge former dictator Efrai-n Rios Montt with genocide for his brutal war against the country’s Mayan people.

10:30 Are You Being Served?

11:00 Charlie Rose

30Saturday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Vintage Secaucus. Repeated from 7 pm Monday.

8:00 BritCom Saturday Night See page 12.

11:30 Front Row Center (TV-G) T-Bone Burnett Presents: The Secret Sisters w/ Elvis Costello and Jakob Dylan.

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Simple questions prompt science revelations A new BBC series, History of Science, shows how the political upheavals of history combine with iconic inventions and discoveries, along with the ideas of great thinkers, to create the advances that have transformed our lives. At 7 pm Tuesdays, June 12, 19 and 26, two episodes on each of the evenings will begin with a disarmingly simple question and then delve into the past, uncovering human stories and recreating the great experiments of the men and women who sought answers. Discover how science has found out what we are made of; where we came from; and what exists beyond Earth. Find out how science revealed the hidden secrets of nature; how it provided the force to topple kings and emperors; and how it unleashed untold power from within our planet. It’s the story of how history made science, and science made history, and how the ideas that emerged made the modern world.

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s From left: Sean Powers, Jeff Bossert, Pam Demsey, Jim Meadows and Lisa Bralts. Not pictured: Dave Dickey.

WILL wins 6 Associated Press Awards WILL’s reporters and contributors won six awards in the downstate radio division of the 2011 Illinois Associated Press Broadcasters Association Journalism Excellence Contest, including best investigative report, best documentary series and best sports story.

Sean Powers and CU-CitizenAccess reporter Pam Dempsey won best investigative story for their report on landlords at the Cherry Orchard apartment complex near Rantoul who stood trial for code violations.

“It’s exciting that the awards recognized our collaboration with CU-CitizenAccess, which has expanded WILL’s coverage of in-depth issues in central Illinois,” Sean said. CU-CitizenAccess is a community journalism project of the University of Illinois College of Media with student and professional journalists.

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Sean also won for best sports report with his story about the Farmer City Raceway, won second place for best spot news for his account about the anonymous online posting of a police video showing the arrest of a man in the U of I’s campustown, and won second place in the hard news feature category for his story about how audio recording in public places can be a serious crime in Illinois.

The entire news team, including Sean, Jeff Bossert, Jim Meadows, Dave Dickey and former news and public affairs director Tom Rogers won best series/documentary for their “Life on Route 150” series.

WILL-AM 580 commentator Lisa Bralts and her editor, Dave Dickey, won in the best light feature category for her commentary on “DIY Smokerpalooza.”

The awards were presented on April 28 at the Illinois News Broadcasters Association convention in Macomb, Ill.

News Bureau

Signing off When I arrived at WILL in 1976, I had a bachelor’s degree in psychology and no plan for the rest of my life. As an undergraduate I had worked at WNIU-FM, the public radio station of Northern Illinois University. I saw that WILL had an opening and I drove down for an interview. I don’t know what he saw in me, but Don Mullally, the General Manager at the time, offered me a job. Radio was something I knew I could do and I thought the job would pay the rent while I figured out what I really wanted to do.

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I will be forever grateful to Don and to WILL for giving me the opportunity to learn so much, to engage my curiosity and to talk with a host of fascinating people.

Many listeners have said some very kind things about me and my program in our three decades together and I want to thank them as well. I also want to say a word of thanks to all of the people I have worked with. Had they not been such a fine bunch of folks, I would not have stayed so long.

s Pictured from left are Morgan Siever of Carlyle and contest MC Ted Lemen with Kevin Kelly.

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By David Inge, Focus host

I was asked recently what I had learned over all these years. The questioner was looking for a pearl of wisdom and I had none to offer at that moment. Forced to respond, I would offer this thought: there are no simple answers. Whatever the topic of conversation, it is always more complicated than you think it is. To my many failings you may add the tendency to be sympathetic with whomever I am talking with at the time.

One thing I have learned is that I am not a big-city kind of guy. I have become rooted in the rich black soil of central Illinois and do not expect to leave anytime soon.

Besides, I have the same problem I had when I came here more than 35 years ago.

I have to come up with a plan for the rest of my life.

Toes were doing some serious tapping when Kevin Kelly hosted a group of oldtime piano players on WILL-FM’s Live and Local on May 17 in advance of the OldTime Piano Playing Contest in Peoria May 24-28. “We asked five contestants and former contestants to play for us at The Blind Pig in April and we recorded it.”

Old-time is a style used in public venues like drinking establishments and ragtime competitions between 1890 and 1929.

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Andrea Seabrook at Uni High NPR congressional correspondent Andrea Seabrook said she loves having an excuse to ask “the inappropriate question.”

Covering Congress for NPR is the best job in journalism, she said as she interacted with the students in Chris Butler’s class of seniors at Urbana University Laboratory High School.

Illinois Public Media brought Seabrook to central Illinois for a two-day visit that included the appearance at Uni High.

Seabrook told the students that although the news media often like to focus on what lawmakers say and what happens each day on the floor, she likes to pay attention to what members of Congress don’t say and on the meaning of the congressional action or non-action. She’s recently been investigating fundraising by members of Congress. “Your average member of Congress spends two to three hours a day raising money,” she said. “Pretty much every member wakes up every day saying, ‘Today I have to raise $10,000-$15,000.’ It is a huge part of what they do.” They’re raising money for their parties and for reelection, she said.

Seabrook doesn’t believe that lobbyists or members of Congress who make

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themselves accessible to lobbyists are corrupt. “The relationship between members of Congress and lobbyists is corrupt. It’s the system that is diseased.

It pushes members of Congress toward corruption,” she said.

There has been a noticeable dip in civility and bi-partisanship in Congress, she said.

“People ask me if this is the worst that it’s ever been,” she said. “But if no one’s beating anyone with a cane then it’s not the worst it’s ever been, although in some ways beating someone with a cane is more functional than nothing happening at all.”

Uni class member Sarah Yockey said students were impressed with Seabrook’s blunt assessment of the state of Congress.

It spurred a good class discussion the next day. “We talk a lot in class about why good ideas aren’t going anywhere in Washington,” she said. After Seabrook’s visit, students talked about how people go in to Congress with good intentions, but get sucked into the system. “We talked about what could be done to change that,” she said.

Seabrook also appeared on WILL-AM’s Focus and spoke to an audience at Campbell Hall during her visit.

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