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march 2011 Volume XXXVIII, Number 9 Sharing new digital resources with educators By Molly Delaney, Educational Outreach Director Education has always been central to the mission of public broadcasting. From the early days of Sesame Street to the creation of cell phone apps that help children learn literacy skills, public broadcasting has been on the cutting edge of educational media. As changes in technology redefine the field of education, we continue to be at the forefront, helping parents and teachers navigate the buzz of educational (and not so educational) resources. As a veteran educator and technology immigrant (meaning I didn’t grow up with today’s technology), I know that the digital teaching tools emerging today can be both exciting and overwhelming. Most teachers want to find videos and interactives to support student learning, but they don’t have time to search through thousands of online resources for just the right asset or tool. That is why I have been following the development of two new digital media libraries with great interest—WGBH’s Teachers’ Domain and PBS’s Digital Learning Library. Both contain free multimedia resources that are designed for classroom use and professional development. They include a variety of media types (video and audio files, interactive games, photographs and primary source documents) from trusted sources such as NOVA, the National Archives, NASA, Frontline and Nature. These resources are aligned to national and local curriculum standards and are tagged for easy searching and sharing. The libraries contain purpose-built content and include lesson plans designed for targeted instruction both in and out of the classroom. In the coming months, Illinois Public Media will be working with the Illinois Public Broadcasting Council and other public media stations across the state to create Illinois Edition, an online learning environment featuring resources from both the WGBH and PBS digital libraries. This spring, our station plans to launch a pilot project with local teachers to learn how they use these assets in the classroom and what impact it has on their students. The information we gather through this project will be combined with similar information from other public stations, and we will use it to inform our work as we create a plan to support educators across the state. As we learn more, we’ll share it with you. It will be exciting to watch this unfold!
Celebrate the world’s longest-running musical with a new PBS special, Les Misérables 25th Anniversary Concert at the O2, at 7:20 pm Sunday, March 6, on WILLTV. Since the musical opened on Oct 8., 1985, at London’s Barbican Theatre, it has played in 42 countries to a total audience of nearly 60 million.
to fame while starring in Baz Luhrmann’s La Bohème on Broadway. He is joined by Matt Lucas (Thenardier), Jenny Galloway (Madame Thenardier), Tony Awardwinner Lea Salonga (Fantine), Norm Lewis (Javert), Katie Hall (Cosette) and Nick Jonas (Marius), one-third of the successful pop music artists the Jonas Brothers.
To mark the 25th anniversary in October 2010, producer Cameron Mackintosh staged the concert at the O2 in London with more than 500 actors and musicians, including the current cast and members of the original 1985 production.
Based on Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel of the same name and set in early 19th-century France, Les Misérables features the stories of individuals struggling for redemption and revolution. The magnificent score includes the songs “I Dreamed a Dream,” “On My Own,” “Stars,” “Bring Him Home,” “Do You Hear the People Sing?,” “One Day More,” “Empty Chairs at Empty Tables,” “Master of the House” and many more.
Heading the group is Alfie Boe (Jean Valjean), one of Britain’s leading tenors and best-selling recording artists, who shot t Ramin Karimloo and Nick Jonas All Les Miz photos courtesty of Dan Wooller
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Who needs the box office? The best concert lineup is on WILL-TV! Get comfortable and enjoy great music right at home. Great Performances captured three-time Grammy Award-winner Harry Connick Jr.’s July 2010 performance at New York’s Neil Simon Theater for a new program airing at 8:30 pm Wednesday, March 2. Harry Connick Jr. in Concert on Broadway features the singer’s big band and a 12-piece string section with Connick on both a Steinway grand and upright honky-tonk piano. Then at 8 pm Monday, March 7, rock and pop legends Jon “Bowzer” Bauman of ShaNaNa and Ronnie Spector of the Ronettes present Rock, Pop and Doo Wop, a special recorded in May 2010. It features new live renditions and never-before-available performances of the best songs from the late 1950s and early 1960s. Chosen as the last rock act to play the venue, Billy Joel bids historic Shea Stadium farewell shortly before its demolition with two star-packed 2008 concerts. Great Performances presents the best of Joel’s performances, along with those of special guests Tony Bennett, Garth Brooks
Let’s get cooking! Quick and healthy recipes are the subject of a new WILL-TV cooking show in June, so send us your favorites now. You might even be asked to appear on the show to help host Jay Pearce learn to prepare your special dish. Plus, we’ll use many of the recipes submitted in a new cookbook we’re putting together.
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s Above left, Harry Connick Jr; above, Billy Joel
and Paul McCartney, in a special at 7 pm Wednesday, March 9. David Foster returns to Great Performances with a stellar lineup of his favorite artists—including Seal, Martina McBride, Michael Bolton, Natalie Cole and many others—in Hitman Returns: David Foster & Friends at 7 pm Wednesday, March 16. The new program, filmed in October 2010 at Mandalay Bay Hotel in Las Vegas, is a follow-up to Foster’s original, highly successful 2008 Hitman special.
Mail recipes to: Jay Pearce Illinois Public Media 300 N. Goodwin Ave. Urbana, IL 61801-2316 Or email them to will-tv@illinois.edu and put “healthy cooking” in the subject line.
Learn how great Britcoms are made
t Sarah Alexander and Ben Miller
It’s time for Great Britcom Vote XII Three new programs join this year’s contest at 7 pm Saturday, March 5, when your votes determine which of the following five British comedies you’d like to see join BritCom Saturday Night on WILL-TV. First up at 7 pm is May to December, the ongoing adventures of middle-aged widower Alec Callendar and 27-year-old physical education teacher Zoe Angell as they fall in love. At 7:40 pm, it’s time for the first new entry, Worst Week of My Life, which follows the story of Howard Steel (Ben Miller) and Mel Cook (Sarah Alexander) in the week leading up to their wedding. This is a rollercoaster journey through Howard’s bizarre and chaotic world as he consistently fails in his attempts to impress his future in-laws while trying to piece together a life that is constantly collapsing around him. Outnumbered is on at 8:20 pm, focusing on the battle of wills between two parents
Join hosts Moira Brooker (Judith) and Philip Bretherton (Alastair) from the popular situation comedy As Time Goes By when they take you inside the hearts and minds of the writers, producers and actors of your favorite British comedies. In Behind the Britcom: From Script to Screen, you’ll hear from writer/director Richard Curtis and the cast of Vicar of Dibley and Blackadder; writer Roy Clarke and the cast of Keeping Up Appearances and Last of the Summer Wine; writer Bob Larbey and the cast of As Time Goes By, Good Neighbors and Mulberry; Jeremy Lloyd, co-creator of Are You Being Served?, as well other Britcom insiders. If you’ve ever wondered how the British comedies you enjoy on WILL-TV are written, cast and filmed, don’t miss this new program at 8 pm Saturday, March 12.
(Hugh Dennis and Claire Skinner) and their three young children as they’re seemingly locked into a never-ending contest to see whose patience will run out first. Then at 9 pm, the last of our new programs is Rev, which premiered on the BBC in 2010. Adam Smallbone (Tom Hollander) is a Church of England vicar, newly promoted from a sleepy rural parish to the busy, inner-city world of a church in East London. Last up at 9:45 pm is Waiting for God. Come along as Tom (Graham Crowden) and Diana (Stephanie Cole) fight growing old gracefully while living at Bayview Retirement Village.
Round up those Vintage Vinyl donations! Busey Bank will once again be accepting your donations of gently used records, CDs, DVDs, stereo equipment, CD players, video games and video game players at their locations in Urbana, Champaign, Savoy and Mahomet for our annual Vintage Vinyl Sale.
This year’s sale is Saturday, April 30, at the former Altman’s Billiards and Patio Supply, 301 W. Marketview Dr. in Champaign, and will benefit WILL’s Illinois Radio Reader service, which provides news and information to blind and visually-impaired residents of central Illinois.
Drop-off dates are from Monday, April 4, to Friday, April 22. Please be sure your donations are in sturdy boxes.
For more information or to volunteer before or during the sale, please contact Deane Geiken, director of Illinois Radio Reader, at 217-333-6503. PATTERNS •• MARCH MARCH 2011 2011 3 3 PATTERNS
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 Julie Amacher, Lynn Warfel and Mindy Ratner keep you company throughout the afternoon. Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac is at 1:01. NPR News Headlines at 3:01.
5 pm NPR All Things Considered with Robert Siegel, Melissa Block and Michele Norris
7 pm The Evening Concert Great orchestras from the great concert venues. Listings are subject to change.
Monday: New Jersey Symphony 3/7
3/14 3/21 3/28
Neeme Jarvi, cond; Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano POULENC; RAVEL; SAINT-SAENS Andrew Grams; Neeme Jarvi, conds TCHAIKOVSKY; SVENDSEN; HAYDN James Gaffigan, cond; Arnaldo Cohen, piano SMETANA; BEETHOVEN; DVORAK Neeme Jarvi, cond; Per Tengstrand, piano BEETHOVEN; BRUCKNER
Tuesday: The New York Philharmonic This Week 3/1 3/8
Alan Gilbert, cond; Lang Lang, piano All-TCHAIKOVSKY program Andris Nelsons, cond; Jonathan Biss, piano BEETHOVEN; SHOSTAKOVICH
3/15 3/22 3/29
Edo de Waart, cond; Joyce Yang, piano BEETHOVEN; R. STRAUSS Robin Ticciati, cond; Lars Vogt, piano SIBELIUS; GRIEG; ELGAR Gustavo Dudamel, cond; DVORAK; TCHAIKOVSKY
Los Angeles Philharmonic
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Wednesday: San Francisco Symphony 3/2 3/9 3/16 3/23 3/30
James Conlon; Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano BERLIOZ; LISZT; SHOSTAKOVICH/CONLON Bernard Labadie; Dan Smiley, violin HAYDN; MOZART Donato Cabrera, cond MOZART; MUSSORGSKY/RAVEL Yan Pascal Tortelier; Nadya Tichman, violin BIZET; POULENC; VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Alexander Barantschik, violin and cond VIVALDI; MOZART; TCHAIKOVSKY
Thursday: Women's History Month Specials: First Ladies of Music 3/3 3/10 3/17 3/24 3/31
Music of the Salon Period FANNY MENDELSSOHN, ET AL European Women Composers CLARA SCHUMANN, ET AL Pioneer Pianists GINA BACHAUER, ET AL Strings and Percussion Performers JACQUELINE DU PRE; EVELYN GLENNIE Impressionism and Ragtime LILI BLOULANGER; MAY AUFDERHEIDE, ET AL
The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center 3/3 3/10 3/17 3/24 3/31
Youthful Beethoven All-BEETHOVEN program Baroque Virtuosity BACH; BIBER; CORELLI Eastern Romantics DVORAK; TCHAIKOVSKY Classical Transition MOZART; BEETHOVEN Introduction to a Crime RAVEL; MARTINU; JANACEK
Friday: Prairie Performances
Illinois Symphony (11/12/10) Karen Lynne Deal, cond Fiery Fun Lidia Kaminska, bandoneon Jason Vieaux, guitar GINASTERA; PIAZZOLLA; GADE; STRAVINSKY 3/11 Eastern Symphony Orchestra (11/14/10) Richard Robert Rossi, cond Ovations VARIOUS WORKS featuring EIU faculty artists Rebecca Johnson, flute; Magie Smith, clarinet; Anna Cromwell, violin; Jay Ivey, baritone; Derek Maninfior, piano 3/18 U of I Wind Symphony (12/2/10) Robert W. Rumbelow, cond CHANG; GRAINGER; GANDOLFI; STRAVINSKY; BOLCOM 3/25 TBA 3/4
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
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saturdays & sundays
7 am NPR Weekend Edition with Scott Simon
9 am Classics By Request John Frayne plays requests for two hours at this time each Saturday. Submit requests at classreq@illinois. edu or 217-265-5084. Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac at 9:01.
11 am Classics of the Phonograph John Frayne’s weekly exploration of memorable recordings from the 20th century. 3/5 Great Women Musicians 3/12 The Ten Greatest Composers, Revisited 3/19 The Asian Wave: Seiji Ozawa 3/26 The Baroque Revival: Georg Philipp Telemann
s Renee Fleming (noon 3/5)
sundays 7 am NPR Weekend Edition with Liane Hansen
Noon Afternoon at the Opera
Live from the Metropolitan Opera in New York *Note: Early start at 11 am on 3/12. 3/5 ARMIDA (Rossini). Riccardo Frizza, cond, with Renee Fleming and Lawrence Brownlee. 3/12 BORIS GODUNOV (Mussorgsky). Valery Gergiev, cond, with Rene Pape, Ekaterina Semenchuk and Alexsandrs Antonenko. 3/19 LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR (Donizetti). Patrick Summers, cond, with Natalie Dessay and Joseph Calleja. 3/26 THE QUEEN OF SPADES (Tchaikovsky). Andris Nelsons, cond, with Karita Mattila, Vladimir Galouzine and Dolora Zajick.
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.
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
Community journalists, U of I students join the newsroom
Community and University of Illinois College of Media journalists from CUCitizenAccess.org have set up a working office in the Illinois Public Media newsroom as part of a new collaboration that includes journalism students from the college. Students and CU-Citizen Access staffers Pam Dempsey, Dan Petrella and Acton Gordon will report and research stories in the community, and WILL news staffers will help them produce and edit some of their stories for broadcast on WILL and for the Web. The project is funded by the Stevick Foundation of Champaign, a matching grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and the U of I. It is overseen by journalism faculty members Brant Houston and Rich Martin, who have extensive newsroom experience. Houston said the project is part of a Knight Foundation initiative to encourage community support of news and information efforts. The CU-Citizen Access Project began two years ago, and its staff and journalism students have produced dozens of stories on poverty and other socio-economic issues in Champaign County. 6 PATTERNS • MARCH 2011
s CU-Citizen Access reporter Pam Dempsey consults with Tom Rogers
WILL and CU-Citizen Access expect to see both formal and informal collaborations that will provide a two-way benefit, said Illinois Public Media director of news and public affairs Tom Rogers. “We can collaborate with the project’s reporters and students on a whole new level of investigative journalism, and students can get a feel for the dynamics of a newsroom and the demands of editors in a number of platforms, from audio to online.” But, he said, the audience may be the biggest beneficiary. “They’ll have easier access to deeper stories that affect their own neighborhoods,” he said.
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Saturday
Sunday
5:00
BBC Overnight Continued
City Club Forum
6:00
Commodity Week
Inside Europe
6:30
Illinois Gardener
Monday–Friday NPR Morning Edition with Jim Meadows
7:00
NPR Weekend Edition
BBC World Briefing
9:00
Car Talk
Focus with David Inge NPR News 10:01/11:01
10:00
Wait Wait ... Don’t Tell Me
Says You
11:00
State Week in Review
Car Talk
11:30
Commodity Week
The Afternoon Magazine with Celeste Quinn NPR News 12:01
Noon
Travel with Rick Steves
Fresh Air
1:00
This American Life
The Closing Market Report NPR News 2:01
2:00
The Midnight Special
BBC Business Daily
2:36
The World All Things Considered with Jeff Bossert
3:00
NPR Weekend Edition
On the Media
Media Matters with Bob McChesney The Tavis Smiley Show
Wait Wait ...
4:00
NPR All Things Considered
All Things Considered
5:00
The People’s Pharmacy
Keepin’ the Faith with Steve Shoemaker
6:00
Commonwealth Club
This American Life
Fresh Air
7:00
Living on Earth
BBC World Service
8:00
Latino USA
To the Best of Our Knowledge
8:30
World Vision Report
9:00
Alternative Radio
New Dimensions
10:00
Bookworm
Le Show
10:30
New Letters on the Air
11:005 am
BBC World Service
On Point BBC World Service
BBC World Service
Bold Listing = National/International News
10:07 am
3/2 Cooking 3/8 Lawn & Garden Care 3/9 Diet & Nutrition 3/18 Personal Finance 3/21 Home Care
11:07
Focus monthly guests
3/3 Computers 3/4 Dog Behavior & Care 3/28 Women's Health
Weather Monday-Friday Weather Forecast: 5:33, 6:33, 7:33, 8:33 am; 12:35, 4:33, 5:33 pm Saturday and Sunday Occasional updates
Agriculture Dave Dickey, agriculture director; Todd Gleason, host, Closing Market Report & Commodity Week
Pre-Opening Market Report: 8:49 am; Opening Market Report: 9:49 am; Market Update: 10:58 and 11:58 am; Ag and Stock Market Report: 12:55 pm; Settlements: 1:58 pm; Closing Market Report: 2:06 pm. To listen to archived ag reports, sign up for the Illinois Public Media Ag E-newsletter, or download our agricultural podcasts, visit www.willag.org. Call 217-333-3434 for market analysis, updated at 9:15 am and 3:15 pm daily.
Illinois Public Media News Tom Rogers, news and public affairs director
The news from Illinois Public Media’s award-winning staff of reporters — Tom Rogers, Jim Meadows, Jeff Bossert and Sean Powers—can be heard during Morning Edition, The Afternoon Magazine and All Things Considered. PATTERNS • MARCH 2011 7
12.3 Cooking
(midnight-2 am; 6-8 am; noon-2 pm; 6-8 pm) Sun and Wed: Cook’s Country; Lidia’s Italy; Joanne Weir’s Cooking Class; New Scandinavian Cooking with Andreas Viestad Mon and Fri: Simply Ming; Lidia’s Italy; Ciao Italia; Caprial and John’s Kitchen Tue and Thur: Gourmet’s Adventures with Ruth; Julia and Jacques Cooking at Home; Martin Yan’s Hidden China; Avec Eric
Travel
(2-3 am; 8-9 am; 2-3 pm; 8-9 pm) Sun and Wed: Rick Steves’ Europe; The Seasoned Traveler/Equitrekking (begins 3/30) Mon and Fri: Rick Steves’ Europe; Travelscope Tue and Thu: Globe Trekker; Globe Trekker
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: Woodworking with Tommy Mac/Hometime (begins 3/28); Paint, Crafting at the Spotted Canary Tue and Thu: Victory Garden; Woodwright’s Shop; Woodsmith Shop; Winemakers/Uncorked: Wine Made Simple (begins 3/10) Wed and Sun: Garden Smart/Garden Home (S); Ask This Old House; For Your Home; Katie Brown Workshop
Primetime Schedule Monday-Friday
9:00 PBS NewsHour 10:00 Nightly Business Report 10:30 Journal
Mondays
7:00 John Wooden: Values, Victory and Peace of Mind (3/7); Secret Files of the Inquisition (3/14) 7:30 Yellowstone: Land to Life (3/28) 8:00 Nature (3/14, 3/21, 3/28) 8:30 Rick Steves’ European Insights (3/7) 11:00 Secret Files of the Inquisition (3/7, 3/14); Adirondacks (3/21); No Tomorrow (3/28)
Tuesdays
7:00 American Experience: Triangle Fire (3/1); Rick Steves’ Viva Espana! (3/8); Broadside (3/22) 8:00 Damrell’s Fire (3/1); Zora’s Roots (3/15); The Struggle for North America (3/22); Virginia Lee Burton (3/29) 11:00 Idaho’s Trial of the Century (3/1); Chasing Churchill (3/8); Novel Reflections (3/15); Broadside (3/22); Erma Bombeck (3/29) 11:30 American Masters (3/29)
Wednesdays
7:00 Independent Lens (3/2, 3/23) 7:30 The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio (3/9) 8:00 Frontline (3/2, 3/23, 3/30); Who Does She Think She Is? (3/16) 11:0 0 The Doha Debates (3/2); Independent Lens (3/9); Erma Bombeck (3/16); Wilderness (3/23); Alma’s Jazzy Marriage (3/30) 11:30 Independent Lens (3/16, 3/30)
Thursdays
7:00 ADD and Loving It?! (3/10); NOVA (3/17, 3/24, 3/31) 8:00 Mysterious Human Heart (3/3, 3/17); The Making of a Scientist (3/24); NOVA ScienceNOW (3/31)
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Arts and Crafts
(5-6 am; 11-noon; 5-6 pm; 11-midnight) Sun and Wed: Knit and Crochet Now/Lap Quilting with Georgia Bonsteel (begins 3/13); Grand View Mon and Fri: Martha’s Sewing Room; Donna Dewberry Show/One Stroke Painting with Donna Dewberry (begins 3/14) Tue and Thu: Gary Spetz’s Watercolor Quest; Best of the Joy of Painting
Saturday Marathons in March
A six-hour block of themed programming March 5: Let the Good Times Roll Celebrate Mardi Gras with recipes from chefs Steve Raichlen, John Folse, Paul Prudhomme and John Shields. March 12: Top o’ the Morning Rick Steves, Rudy Maxa and Burt Wolf are your tour guides for the churches, pubs and castles of Ireland. March 19: Spring is in the Air Burt Wolf, P. Allen Smith and Katie Brown help you get ready for spring! March 26: California Dreamin’ From San Francisco to Napa Valley and Los Angeles to Catalina, experience the Golden State like never before.
Note: Programming will vary March 5-13 during the pledge drive. See the full Create and World schedules at will.illinois.edu
12.2 8:30 Rick Steves’ Europe with Abandon! 11:00 Music Instinct (3/3); NOVA (3/24); NOVA ScienceNOW
Fridays
6:00 Chesapeake Bay by Air (3/11) 7:00 In Search of Myths and Heroes (3/25) 7:30 Art Wolfe’s Travels to the Edge (3/11) 8:00 Secrets of the Dead (3/25) 8:30 Never Too Old for Gold (3/18) 11:00 Baseball; In Search of Myths and Heroes (3/25)
Saturdays
7:00 Rick Steves’ Viva Espana! (3/5); DuSable to Obama: Chicago’s Black Metropolis (3/12); Making Sense of Place: Cleveland (3/19); American Wilderness (3/26) 8:00 Making Sense of Place: Portland (3/19); Wilderness (3/26) 9:00 Waterbuster (3/5); POV (3/12); Land of Destiny (3/19); America’s Religious Movement (3/26) 10:00 Living in the Big Empty (3/5) 10:30 New Mexico’s High Desert (3/12); Yellowstone: Land to Life (3/19); Western Everglades (3/26) 11:00 National Park-to-Park Highway (3/5); A Wetlands Park in Las Vegas (3/12); Neighborhood at the Crossroads (3/19); Global Voices (3/26)
Sundays
7:00 DuSable to Obama: Chicago’s Black Metropolis (3/6); Rick Steves’ Viva Espana! (3/13); Washington Week 7:30 McLaughlin Group (3/20, 3/27) 8:00 Need to Know (3/20, 3/27) 9:00 Global Voices 10:00 Global Voices 10:30 Alma’s Jazzy Marriage (3/27) 11:00 Washington Week 11:30 McLaughlin Group
WILL-TV daytime
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Monday - Friday
Saturday
Sunday
Market to Market (M) Nightly Business Report (T-F)
5:00
Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood
French in Action
Body Electric (M, W, F) Sit and Be Fit (T, Th)
5:30
Angelina Ballerina
Destinos
Between the Lions
Curious George
Curious George
The Cat in the Hat Super WHY!
The Cat in the Hat Super WHY!
Dinosaur Train
Dinosaur Train
Thomas & Friends
Cyberchase
Bob the Builder
Fetch!
Sid the Science Kid
Electric Company
Sid the Science Kid
6:00 6:30 7:00 7:30 8:00 8:30 9:00 9:30 10:00
A Place of Our Own Growing a Greener World
Word Girl Woodsmith Shop
WordWorld
10:30 Around the House with Matt
Clifford Curious George The Cat in the Hat Super WHY! Dinosaur Train Sesame Street
Motorweek
Super Why!
and Shari 11:00 Illinois Gardener
Barney & Friends
11:30 Victory Garden
Market to Market
The Cat in the Hat
Noon America’s Test Kitchen
The McLaughlin Group
A Place of Our Own
12:30 Cook's Country
Sewing Programs
1:00
Simply Ming
eligion + Ethics R Newsweekly Specials
1:30
Avec Eric
2:00
Martin Yan’s Hidden China
2:30 3:00 3:30 4:00
Lidia’s Italy
Electric Company/ Fetch! (F)
4:30
This Old House Hour
BBC World News
5:00
Nightly Business Report
5:30
Rick Steves’ Europe
PBS NewsHour
6:00
Lawrence Welk
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Martha Speaks Arthur WordGirl Wild Kratts Design Squad Nation (F)
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Painting and How To Programs
Illinois Adventure Heartland Highways Hometime
America’s Heartland
3/6 1:00, Rick Steves’ Europe with Abandon! 1:30, Eat & Cook Healthy! 3:00, Kickstart Your Health 4:30, Forever Plaid 3/13 1:00, Qi Gong: Deeper Flow 2:00, Rick Steves’ Viva Espana! 4:00, ADD and Loving It?! 5:30, Doctor Who Special 3/20 Schedule TBA 3/27 1:00, Cleveland Orchestra in Performance 2:30, Sherlock Holmes 3:30, Hustle 4:30, Doctor Who Special 5:30, Doctor Who Special
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1:00 pm Sewing M: Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting Tu: Sewing with Nancy W: Quilting Arts Th: Martha’s Sewing Room F: Knitting Daily
1:30 pm Painting and How To M: Best of Joy of Painting Tu: Paint This with Jerry Yarnell W: Artist Toolbox Th: B Organic F: Painting and Travel with Roger & Sarah Bansemer
2:00 pm How Tos M: Woodturning Workshop Tu: Wai Lana Yoga W: Garden Smart Th: For Your Home F: Woodwright’s Shop
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Will they sing “My Guy?”
The East Room of the White House is the setting for an all-star tribute to the legendary Motown sound as President and Mrs. Obama host musical stars from the record label’s golden age as well as young performers influenced by its powerful legacy. In Performance at the White House: The Motown Sound airs at 7 pm Tuesday, March 1.
Photo: Courtesy of Martin Schoeller
Photo: Courtesy of Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson
Capturing the world’s best photos
National Geographic Magazine is known for its eye-opening and evocative images. Now editor in chief Chris Johns compares hundreds of exceptional photos from the magazine’s 2010 issues to select the best 10—while sharing the stories behind those photographs and interviews with the dedicated photographers whose creativity lands their shots in the magazine. Don’t miss National Geographic’s Top 10 Photos of 2010 at 11 pm Sunday, March 6.
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Suze Orman’s new financial advice
Based on her new book to be released concurrently with the show premiere, Suze Orman’s Money Class will reveal her expert take on what actions people need to take in light of the new economy. After the upheavals of the economic downturn, Orman advises rethinking many of our traditional financial strategies for saving and investing, building a career, planning for retirement and more. The all-new special airs at 7 pm Tuesday, March 8.
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WILL-TV Those were the days!
The Rat Pack: Live and Swingin’ (5:30 pm Saturday, March 12) features Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. and Dean Martin dazzling an audience with their dynamic chemistry, comic camaraderie and unforgettable melodies. The live black-tie benefit performance in June 1965—the first and only time cameras fully captured a proper “Rat Pack Summit”— was emceed by Johnny Carson at the Kiel Opera House in St. Louis.
There is the legendary Chicago that emerged from hardship and misfortune on the prairie to attain world-class status. There is also a less known, but remarkable aspect of Chicago’s history—the essential contributions of African Americans to the city’s vitality. DuSable to Obama: Chicago’s Black Metropolis (8:30 pm Thursday, March 17) reveals the lives of the celebrated and the unsung—from the establishment of the first black community in the 1840s by free men of color and enslaved Africans seeking freedom to the election of the nation’s first black president, Chicago’s own Barack Obama.
Photo: Courtesy of WTTW/Chicago
African-Americans enrich Chicago’s history
s Harold Washington campaigning for mayor
Photo: Courtesy of © Tindale Road Films
Effects of a 10-year rain
The Australian outback is the driest place on the driest inhabited continent on the planet. It is a place you might expect to see kangaroos, but certainly not waterbirds. Yet once every 10 years, rains flood dusty river beds and head inland to create the largest lake in Australia with water twice as salty as the Dead Sea. Soon, 100,000 pelicans—a third of their total number in Australia—arrive for the event. Leaving their homes on coasts and harbors, they come to feed on fish washed in on the floods, along with billions of brine shrimp and other crustaceans that hatch and grow to adulthood in a few days. Nature: Outback Pelicans (7 pm Sunday, March 27) documents the entire process as the pelicans mate and raise as many families as possible before the water and the food disappear once more.
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BritCom Saturday Night 8:00 As Time Goes By 8:30 The Old Guys 9:00 Keeping Up Appearances 9:30 Chef! 10:00 Red Green Show 10:30 Doctor Who 11:15 Doctor Who Confidential
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1Tuesday 7:00 In Performance at the White House (TV-G) The Motown Sound. See article page 10. Repeated 1 am Wednesday; and 4 am Thursday. 8:00 Frontline TBA 9:00 Independent Lens Me Facing Life: Cyntoia’s Story. Can biology and family history doom a young person to a life of violence? This film explores the concept through the experiences of Cyntoia Brown, who at age 16 kills a man who had picked her up for sex. Repeated 2 am Thursday; and 2 am Sunday. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose
2Wednesday
7:00 American Masters (TV-PG) Troubadours: James Taylor, Carole King and the California Scene. Experience the bond created when a group of young singers/songwriters began gathering at the Troubadour in LA to create a new musical sound. Repeated 2 am Friday; 2 am Monday; midnight 3/9; and 3 am 3/10. 8:30 Great Performances (TV-G) Harry Connick, Jr. In Concert On Broadway. See article page 2. Repeated midnight Thursday; 3:30 am Monday; and 7:30 pm 3/18. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose
3Thursday
7:00 Illinois Gardener 7:30 Illinois Pioneers Parkland College. Explore the history of Champaign’s community college, started in vacant downtown storefronts in 1966. 8:00 Hustle (TV-14) The Lesson. As the team gets started with a new scam against a ruthless Nigerian billionaire, they must reluctantly accept a new member being mentored by Danny. 9:00 This Old House Hour (TV-G) 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose 12 PATTERNS • MARCH 2011
4Friday 7:00 Friday Night Public Affairs See left. 8:30 Ebert Presents at the Movies (TV-PG) 9:00 Friday Night Mystery (TV-G) Sherlock Holmes: The Man with the Twisted Lip. When Holmes is hired by Mrs. St. Clair to investigate her husband’s disappearance, he discovers the man’s daily routine is not what it appears. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose
5Saturday am 10:00 Painting the Wyland Way: Live in Studio noon America’s Home Cooking: From the Garden pm 3:00 Rick Steves’ Viva Espana! 5:00 Lawrence Welk’s Big Band Splash 7:00 Great Britcom Vote XII See article page 3. 10:30 Best of Laugh-In (TV-PG) Revisit the NBC comedy that changed television and became an important training ground for a generation of young writers and comedians. Repeated 11:15 pm Friday.
6Sunday Rick Steves’ Europe with Abandon! Eat & Cook Healthy! With Dr. John LaPuma Kickstart Your Health with Dr. Neal Barnard Forever Plaid Doctor Who The End of Time. Part 1 of 2. 7:20 Les Miserables 25th Anniversary Concert at the O2 See article page 1. Repeated 7 pm 3/19. 11:00 National Geographic Magazine’s Top 10 Photos of 2010 (TV-PG) See article page 10. Repeated 7:30 pm Friday; and 7 pm 3/13.
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7Monday 1:00 Painting the Wyland Way: Live in Studio 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Roadshow Remembers. 8:00 Rock, Pop and Doo Wop (TV-G) See article page 2. Repeated 10 pm Sunday; and 9 pm 3/16. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose
8Tuesday 1:00 Eat & Cook Healthy! With Dr. John LaPuma 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Suze Orman’s Money Class (TV-G) See article page 10. Repeated 1 pm Thursday; noon Saturday; 7 pm Monday; and 1 pm 3/18.
WILL-TV 9:00 John Wooden: Values, Victory and Peace of Mind (TV-G) Special guests Los Angeles Lakers coach Phil Jackson and Hall of Fame members Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Bill Walton reflect on John Wooden’s approach to teaching players practical life skills. 10:30 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose
9Wednesday
1:00 Kickstart Your Health with Dr. Neal Barnard 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Great Performances (TV-G) Billy Joel: Live at Shea Stadium See article page 2. Repeated 11 pm Saturday; and 8 pm 3/22. 8:50 Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughan— In Session (TV-G) The famous 1983 live jam session by two of the greatest musicians ever to have played the blues on electric guitar. Repeated 8:50 pm Tuesday. 10:20 Last of the Summer Wine 10:50 Are You Being Served? 11:20 Charlie Rose
10Thursday 1:00 Suze Orman’s Money Class 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Illinois Gardener 8:00 Hustle (TV-14) Missions. Bar owner Eddie must choose between his friends and his livelihood when dodgy detective Sam decides to blackmail him. Meanwhile, Sam wants in on Mickey and Danny’s big scam. 9:15 Airplay: The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio Through interviews, archival footage and airchecks, famous musicians and disc jockeys weave the history of rock radio, from its early days in the 1960s to the promise of rebirth on satellite radio. 11:00 Charlie Rose
11Friday 1:00 Gifts of Imperfection: Living with Courage, Connection and Compassion 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Washington Week 7:30 National Geographic Magazine’s Top 10 Photos of 2010 (TV-PG) Repeated from 11 pm Sunday. 8:30 Ebert Presents at the Movies (TV-PG) 9:10 Friday Night Mystery (TV-G) Sherlock Holmes: The Priory School. Holmes is called in to investigate the abduction of the 9-year-old only son of the Duke of Holdernesse from the Priory School. 10:15 Friday Night Mystery (TV-G) Sherlock Holmes: The Six Napoleons. Six matching plaster busts of Napoleon are being destroyed one by one, but the case gets more dire when there is also a murder involved. 11:15 Best of Laugh-In (TV-PG) Repeated from 10:30 pm Saturday.
12Saturday am 10:00 New Play Piano in a Flash: 3 Steps to Success noon Suze Orman’s Money Class pm 2:00 Gifts of Imperfection: Living with Courage, Connection and Compassion 3:30 Art Wolfe’s Travels to the Edge 5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe with Abandon! 5:30 The Rat Pack: Live and Swingin’ See article page 11. 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Palm Springs, Calif. Part 1 of 3. 8:00 Behind The Britcom: From Script to Screen (TV-G) See article page 3. Repeated 9 pm Monday; and 3 pm 3/19. 9:50 Red Green Show (TV-PG) 10:30 Red Green Show (TV-PG) 11:00 Great Performances (TV-G) Billy Joel: Live at Shea Stadium. Repeated from 7 pm Wednesday.
13Sunday Qi Gong: Deeper Flow with Lee Holden Rick Steves’ Viva Espana! ADD and Loving It?! Doctor Who The End of Time. Part 2 of 2. 7:00 National Geographic Magazine’s Top 10 Photos of 2010 (TV-PG) Repeated from 7:30 pm Friday. 8:00 Masterpiece Mystery! (TV-PG) (DVS) Sherlock: A Study In Pink. This 21st century version of the Victorian-era sleuth finds Holmes using the science of deduction to catch the killer of a woman found in an abandoned building. 10:00 Rock, Pop and Doo Wop (TV-G) Repeated from 8 pm 3/7.
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14Monday 1:00 America’s Home Cooking: From the Garden 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Suze Orman’s Money Class (TV-G) Repeated from 7 pm 3/8. 9:00 Behind The Britcom: From Script to Screen (TV-G) Repeated from 8 pm Saturday. 11:00 Charlie Rose
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Qi Gong: Deeper Flow with Lee Holden Easy Yoga for Arthritis with Peggy Cappy PBS NewsHour John Sebastian Presents: Folk Rewind (TV-G) The best of archival folk era classics, along with a new live reunion of folk singers, including Barry McGuire, Roger McGuinn of The Byrds, The Chad Mitchell Trio, Chad & Jeremy, Jesse Colin Young of The Youngbloods and more. Repeated 1 pm and 11 pm Saturday.
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8:50 Albert King with Stevie Ray Vaughn— In Session (TV-G) Repeated from 8:50 pm Wednesday. 10:20 Last of the Summer Wine 10:50 Are You Being Served? 11:20 Charlie Rose
16Wednesday 1:00 New Play Piano in a Flash: 3 Steps to Success 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Great Performances (TV-G) The Hitman Returns: David Foster & Friends. See article page 2. Repeated 8 pm 3/28. 9:00 Rock, Pop and Doo Wop (TV-G) Repeated from 8 pm 3/7. 11:00 Charlie Rose
17Thursday 1:00 ADD and Loving It?! 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 All-Star Bluegrass Celebration Live from the historic Ryman Auditorium, the legends of bluegrass come together with the stars of traditional country music and a new generation of bluegrass performers, including C-U native Alison Krauss. Repeated 11:30 pm Friday. 8:30 DuSable to Obama: Chicago’s Black Metropolis See article page 11. 10:30 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose
18Friday
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Suze Orman’s Money Class PBS NewsHour Washington Week Great Performances (TV-G) Harry Connick Jr. In Concert On Broadway. Repeated from 8:30 pm 3/2.
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9:30 The Weavers: Wasn’t That a Time! (TV-G) This 1982 documentary captures a reunion performance at Carnegie Hall featuring the Weavers, a group that gave rise to the folk music revival of the late 1950s and early 1960s. 11:30 All-Star Bluegrass Celebration
19Saturday am 10:00 11:30 pm 1:00 3:00 5:00 7:00
Kickstart Your Health with Dr. Neal Barnard Eat & Cook Healthy! With Dr. John LaPuma
John Sebastian Presents: Folk Rewind Behind the Britcom: From Script to Screen Lawrence Welk’s Big Band Splash Les Miserables 25th Anniversary Concert at the O2 11:00 John Sebastian Presents: Folk Rewind (TV-G)
20Sunday 7:00 Festival Favorites Popular programs from Festival will be repeated.
21Monday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Palm Springs, Calif. Part 3 of 3. Repeated 4 am Wednesday; 3 am and 7 pm Saturday. 8:00 American Experience (TV-PG) (DVS) A Class Apart. An in-depth look at a 1951 murder case from Edna, Tex., that went to the Supreme Court, creating the landmark civil rights case, Hernandez v. Texas. Repeated midnight Tuesday; and 2 am Wednesday. 9:00 Who Does She Think She Is? 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose
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22Tuesday 7:00 A Walk in the Park with Nick Molle—Rivers of the Rockies The latest installment of this nature series explores a section of the Rocky Mountains responsible for the Colorado, Big Thompson, Cache la Poudre and St. Vrain rivers. 8:00 Great Performances (TV-G) Billy Joel: Live at Shea Stadium. Repeated from 7 pm 3/9. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose
23Wednesday 7:00 400 Years of the Telescope (TV-G) (DVS) The world’s leading astronomers, cosmologists and observatories provide a look at past and potential future discoveries of new worlds in the infinite universe. Repeated 4 am Friday. 8:00 NOVA (TV-G) Hunting The Edge of Space: The Mystery of the Milky Way. Part 1 of 2. A look at how the telescope has fundamentally changed our understanding of our place in the universe. Repeated midnight Thursday; and 2 am Friday. 9:00 NOVA (TV-G) Hunting The Edge of Space: The Ever Expanding Universe. Part 2 of 2. 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 and, in turn, to raise new questions. Repeated 1 am Thursday; and 3 am Friday. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose
24Thursday 7:00 Illinois Gardener Repeated 11 am Saturday. 7:30 Illinois Pioneers Athletics. Join host Rick Atterberry for a look at the history of sports in Champaign.
Listen to Susan the second Wednesday of every month in the 10 a.m. hour on WILL AM, or visit her from 11-1 every Wednesday at Strawberry Fields.
8:00 Hustle (TV-14) Old Acquaintance. The gang vows to scam Stacie’s husband Max, who took everything she owned when he left her five years ago, and is now on the professional poker circuit. Repeated 3:30 pm Sunday. 9:00 This Old House Hour (TV-G) Repeated 4:30 pm Saturday. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose
25Friday 7:00 Friday Night Public Affairs See page 12. 8:30 Ebert Presents at the Movies (TV-PG) Repeated 9:30 pm Sunday. 9:00 Friday Night Mystery (TV-G) Sherlock Holmes: The Devil’s Foot. Holmes is pressed into service while on holiday against his will, but on the advice of his physician. Repeated 2:30 pm Sunday. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose
26Saturday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Palm Springs, Calif. Part 3 of 3. Repeated from 7 pm Monday. 8:00 BritCom Saturday Night See page 12.
27Sunday 7:00 Nature (TV-PG) Outback Pelicans. See article page 11. Repeated 4 am Tuesday. 8:00 Masterpiece Classic (TV-PG) (DVS) The 39 Steps. Rupert Penry-Jones stars as a mining engineer caught up in a conspiracy following the death of a British spy in this adaptation of the John Buchan adventure novel set on the eve of World War I. Repeated midnight Monday; and 2 am Tuesday. PATTERNS • MARCH 2011 15
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The 2010–2011 Season
Ian Hobson, music director
Play It Again! Hour Long Rush Hour concert Mozart Dukas Korngold Gounod Liszt
Symphony No. 25, K. 183 in G Minor: Allegro con brio The Sorcerer’s Apprentice Film music from The Sea Hawk 5:30 p.m. Funeral March of a Marionette Thursday Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 April 7
After the concer t the Edison Middle School Jazz Ensemble plays in the lobby as you enjoy the hot pizza from Garcia’s Pizza in a Pan. For more information contact the Krannert Center Ticket Office, call 217/333-6280 or 800/kcpatix or visit www.krannertcenter.com
9:30 Ebert Presents at the Movies (TV-PG) Repeated from 8:30 pm Friday. 10:00 Globe Trekker (TV-G) Mongolia. 11:00 Woodsongs (TV-G) Peter Yarrow.
28Monday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G) Dallas, Tex. Part 1 of 3. Repeated 4 am Wednesday. 8:00 Great Performances (TV-G) The Hitman Returns: David Foster & Friends. Repeated from 7 pm 3/16. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose
29Tuesday
7:00 Secrets of the Dead (TV-PG) Herculaneum Uncovered. New archeological digs in Herculaneum are revealing insights into the day when pyroclastic flows roared through the town, destroying buildings, people and an entire way of life. Repeated 1 am Wednesday; and 4 am Thursday. 8:00 Frontline TBA. 9:00 Independent Lens Pushing The Elephant. See article page 18. Repeated 2:30 am Thursday. 10:30 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose
30Wednesday 7:00 Nature (TV-PG) (DVS) Birds of the Gods. David Attenborough introduces a young team of New Guinean scientists on a grueling expedition to find and film the island’s native Birds of Paradise. 8:00 NOVA (TV-G) (DVS) The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies. Join NOVA on the monarch butterfly’s annual journey, visiting the spectacular locations they call home and meeting the dangers they encounter along the way. Repeated midnight Thursday. 9:00 Journey to Planet Earth (TV-PG) Plan B: Mobilizing to Save Civilization. Based on the book by Lester Brown, this film focuses on confronting the realities of climate change. Repeated 1 am Thursday. 10:30 Are You Being Served? Again! 11:00 Charlie Rose
31Thursday 7:00 Illinois Gardener Repeated 11 am Saturday. 7:30 Illinois Pioneers History of African-Americans. 8:00 Hustle (TV-14) Eye of the Beholder. Mickey has a plan to steal the Crown Jewels, but will he be able to get the others to join him on such a dangerous mission? 9:00 This Old House Hour (TV-G) Repeated 4:30 pm Saturday. 10:00 Last of the Summer Wine 10:30 Are You Being Served? Again! 11:00 Charlie Rose
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membership news & events
s Sonie and Gabby work on the history project together.
Youth Media Project creates Champaign pioneer slide show When the City of Champaign wanted to engage young people in the city’s 150th anniversary celebration, project manager LaEisha Meaderds turned to the Youth Media Workshop at Illinois Public Media to create a multimedia presentation for the anniversary’s final event coming this spring. Part of the city’s “Letters to the Future” project, the slide show will highlight people who helped make Champaign what it is today. “We wanted to bridge the gap between young and old, and this project is a great way to do that,” she said. Youth Media participants had already been doing oral histories of older people in the community, so it seemed like a natural progression to hire them to do the slide show, she said. Producing the project are 14-year-old Jefferson Middle School student Sonie Toe, a participant in the Youth Media Workshop during the 2009-2010 school year, and Urbana High School senior Gabby Parsons, who is interning at WILL this year as part of the UHS Executive Internship Program. Sonie, whose family immigrated to the U.S. from Liberia when she was 3, interviewed 10 people and is editing their stories and photos into a five-minute presentation that will be shown at the city’s event. Gabby is
transcribing interviews and running the audio board during recording sessions. They’ll edit the slide show together. Among the interviewees are Ernie Westfield, George Chin, Sylvia Ronsvalle, Erma Bridgewater, Jerry Schweighart, Robert Toalson and Larry Kanfer. Extra portions of the interviews and more photos will be available on the city’s 150th anniversary website and on the Illinois Youth Media website. Sonie and Gabby are blogging about their project at illinoisyouthmedia. org/projects/letters-to-the-future. Gabby said she’s enjoyed listening to the interviews. “I really respect these older people in the community who can give a different perspective,” she said. Sonie agreed. “I’ve learned a lot from the people I’ve interviewed,” she said. “They have a lot to share about what they have been through.” Meaderds said she has been impressed with Sonie’s efforts to contact a diverse group of people for the interviews. “We couldn’t have picked a better youth partner to work with,” she said. Kimberlie Kranich, IPM’s director of community engagement, and Henry Radcliffe, outreach producer, are mentoring the students as they work on the project. PATTERNS • MARCH 2011 17
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Pushing the Elephant When civil war came to Rose’s Congolese village, she was separated from her 5-yearold daughter, Nangabire. Rose managed to escape with nine of her 10 children and was eventually resettled in Phoenix, Ariz. The Independent Lens documentary, Pushing the Elephant, the third in Illinois Public Media’s Community Cinema series, shows mother and daughter reuniting in the U.S. where they must come to terms with the past and build a new future. Join us Thursday, March 17, for a screening of the film and a discussion of how issues raised in the film affect people in the Champaign-Urbana community. The event
takes place at 6:30 pm in Robeson Rooms A&B at the Champaign Public Library, 200 W. Green St. It is free and open to the public. All of our Community Cinema films will be shown with closed captions and a sign language interpreter. Every month through June, Illinois Public Media will join with the Independent Television Service to sponsor screenings of independent documentaries, followed by discussions facilitated by community groups with an interest in the topic. Pushing the Elephant will air at 9 pm Tuesday, March 29, on WILL-TV.
Red Green’s Wit and Wisdom Tour coming to Champaign The May 15 Wit and Wisdom performance at The Virginia Theater is the final stop for Red’s tour that began May 1, 2010, with a sold-out show in Boise, Idaho. If you enjoy The Red Green Show (10 pm Saturdays on WILL-TV) as part of the Saturday night lineup, you’ll love Red’s live show of humor and observations on everything from domestic life to the way men think—or in some cases, don’t. Watch The Red Green Show during our fundraising drive (9:50 pm Saturday, March 12) for information on how you can win tickets to the May 15 performance. Let’s show Red that he saved the best stop for last. 18 PATTERNS • MARCH 2011
Come aboard the Civil War Train! Hosted by retired TV station manager Carl Caldwell, this new eight-day WILL Learning Tour departs July 16. Travel in one of four private vintage rail cars with Carl, fellow Friends of WILL and American military historian Albert A. Nofi. You’ll enjoy expert-guided sightseeing, exhibits and park admission to numerous Civil War and Abraham Lincoln historic sites in Washington, D.C., Gettysburg and the Virginia battlefields of Fredericksburg, Chancellorsville, The Wilderness and Spotsylvania. Visit www.civilwartrain.com to see the detailed trip itinerary, learn more about this travel adventure in restored 1950s first-class rail cars—complete with superb cuisine, comfortable appointments and sleeping berths—and get departure point and pricing information. If you have questions or would like to make a reservation, contact Judy McElfresh or Bill Owen with TourGroupPro in Decatur, at 877-386-4777.
2011 All Day Agricultural Outlook Growing the Farm 2011 and Beyond—Strategies for Sustainability The Beef House in Covington, Ind., is the venue Tuesday, March 8, for our 21st annual All Day Agriculture Outlook Meeting for producers and agribusiness leaders. Illinois Public Media agriculture director Dave Dickey said, “We hope to moderate ideas from our panelists and presenters throughout the day to help producers—many of whom are in the 500to 1,000-acre class—cope with changing economic and world conditions to ensure their success over the next decade.” We’ve invited Murray Wise of Murray Wise Associates, as well as Stephen Wright and Dennis Hoyt from Farmers National Company, to discuss strategies for land acquisition and other ideas to make the
small- to mid-sized farm operation more profitable. That theme will be explored throughout the day, including with our other keynote panelists—Joe Vaclavic of MF Global, Roy Huckaby of Lind Group and Tom Fritz of EFG. We also will offer our popular corn, soybean and cash grain panels with our 2011 marketing outlooks. Pre-register (through March 1 or until sell out) by calling 800-528-7980 for tickets—$20 each which includes a light continental breakfast and Beef House lunch. We accept all major credit cards. Last year we sold out well before the event. Full details are on our website at will. atlas.uiuc.edu/index.php/agriculture/ blog. PATTERNS • MARCH 2011 19
A gift in tribute to
a life well lived Harriet Attaway, the mother of a longtime WILL volunteer who died in January 2010, describes her daughter as “complex and determined.” The two words seem to aptly express Carol Attaway Lyke’s career of teaching music, enjoying extensive travel in the United States and abroad, gardening (including completing the Master Gardener program), skiing, ice dancing, classical music performances and volunteering in the WILL membership department. “She told me that WILL was the best place she had ever volunteered,” Harriet said. “We really came to think of Carol as a member of our department,” said Danda Beard, WILL’s director of major gifts. Member services manager Brenda Zimmerman agrees. “Carol was so meticulous and conscientious — she would always brighten my day when she would pop into my office to announce that she was here to work!” She was equally enthusiastic about public broadcasting in general, along with the programs and services WILL brings to the communities it serves. “Although Carol supported both WILL-TV and WILL Radio, I think her first love was the music on FM,” said member relations manager Heather Miller. “She was a huge fan of public media and that came through in her dedication as a volunteer,” she added. Carol grew up in Susanville, Calif., a former logging community 85 miles northwest of Reno, Nev. After earning a bachelor’s degree in music at the University of the Pacific, she completed a master’s in music education at Indiana University. Her first teaching position was in Michigan, and she later taught in New York before moving to Herford, Germany, as a piano and flute teacher in the public school system.
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“She thoroughly enjoyed teaching in Germany and traveled by train or in her little Volkswagen wherever and whenever the opportunity arose, seeing much of Europe and Scandinavia,” Harriet recalled. “One day while she and I were sightseeing in Oslo, Norway, she said ‘let’s see if we can get tickets to the opera tonight!’ I protested that we weren’t dressed properly to attend the opera, but she went to the box office, bought tickets for excellent seats and, since jeans and sweaters were the fashion, that’s how we went!” Carol’s sense of adventure never waned. At the time of her death, she was rehabilitating after heart surgery and looking forward to an upcoming reunion in Germany with her many friends there. She was also planning to take part in a sailing experience with her sister, Linda, in New Zealand. In memory of Carol and her nearly 20 years of volunteer commitment to WILL, her family has made a gift to the Future Fund at WILL. This quasi-endowment will provide interest payments in perpetuity to help fund WILL general operating expenses. “This is a wonderful tribute to Carol,” said Danda. “She lived a life that exemplified what’s best about public broadcasting and we are grateful for a gift that will help keep WILL moving forward for generations to come.”
This familiar song lyric underscores our Illinois Public Media approach to working with the business friends who support great programs on WILL-TV and WILL Radio.
It’s gratifying when new businesses join us in the public-private partnership that powers public media. These companies begin to understand what our longtime business underwriters have found—that combining corporate support with donations from individual members, along with federal, state and University contributions, benefits all of central Illinois by providing high-quality local and national programs to residents of our communities. Thank you to these businesses with 25 or more years of support to WILL:
• Archer Daniels Midland — 29 years
• Champaign-Danville Overhead Doors — 25 years
• John T. Phipps Law Office — 38 years
• Tate & Lyle (formerly A. E. Staley) — 32 years
Whether your business has been underwriting for years or you just joined us last month, we salute your generosity and thank you for being part of our public media partnership!
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march 3
Krannert Uncorked with the Traditional Jazz Orchestra
3-5, 10-13 A Midsummer Night’s Dream— It’s a Bacchanal! 4
Pygmalion Afterglow
4-5
Mark Morris Dance Group
4, 18
Dance for People with Parkinson’s
5, 13
Dessert and Conversation: A Midsummer Night’s Dream— It’s a Bacchanal!
8
Blues at the Crossroads: 17 The Robert Johnson Centennial Concerts
10
Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
10-12
Studiodance I
29
Kashu-juku Noh Theater
10, 31
Krannert Uncorked
31
Misalliance
12
Sinfonia da Camera: Nature’s Majesty
13
Narek Hakhnazaryan, cello, and Charlie Albright, piano
15-16
Cirque Éloize: ID
Krannert Uncorked with Diwese/Loda/Strizek, show tunes
St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra
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