PUBLIC TELEVISION KTEH.ORG K Q E D E D U C AT I O N
MAY 2011
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Midsomer Murders A new season begins. Friday, May 6, 9pm Pa g e 3
We have some exciting news to share. In July, we’ll be introducing a new publication that brings you program schedules for both KTEH and KQED Public Television as well as KQED Public Radio. Check back for more information in next month’s issue.
A New Twist for Spring Fund-Raiser Don’t turn off KQED—there’s a better way! satisfaction of giving without pledge break interruptions. Donate $45 before May 5, and you will receive special access to the pledge-free stream that will enable you to listen to KQED on your computer or mobile device without interruption for the duration of the spring fund-raiser. You must visit kqed.org/donate to sign up.
The Bay Area’s premier contemporary and modern art fair takes place May 19–22 at San Francisco’s Concourse Exhibition Center (south of Market at 7th and Brannan streets). Showcasing artwork from 65 galleries from around the globe,
artMRKT creates an ideal context for the discovery, exploration, and acquisition of art. For more information, visit art-mrkt.com. KTEH and KQED members: Show your Membercard and receive $5 off $20 admission, or enter promotional coupon code “KQED” when purchasing advance tickets online and pay just $12.
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Your favorite radio station, we suspect, is KQED. Your favorite program? Probably not the one that starts with “We need your support! Give!” This month, KQED is rolling out a history-making alternative to the classic pledge drive. The new pledge-free radio stream is the first of its kind, the first attempt by any public radio station to offer listeners the
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May 2011
Midsomer Murders Fridays at 9pm on KTEH.
A third season of Midsomer Murders returns this month to KTEH. The international hit has been on the air since 1997 in Britain, where 83 episodes have aired, in 14 series and two Christmas specials. (We’re working our way to 83 episodes. Stay tuned.) For those new to the program, a bit of background: The rural countryside of the fictional English county of Midsomer provides the backdrop for the crime series based on the novels of Caroline Graham. Quirky characters and ubiquitous red herrings recall classic British public television mysteries of the past, and at the center of the investigations is Detective Chief Inspector Tom Barnaby, played by actor John Nettles (pictured).
Did You Know? Midsomer Murders airs in more than 200 countries worldwide. • Popular filming locations are Brightwell Baldwin, Brightwell-cum-Sotwell, Chenies, Thame, Great Haseley, Haddenham, Hambleden, Latimer, Little Missenden, Long Crendon, Nether Winchendon, Nettlebed, Peppard, and Worminghall. • The haunting theme music is played on a theremin by Celia Sheen. • Celebrity fans are rumored to include British prime minister David Cameron and actors Joan Collins and Johnny Depp. • Each two-hour episode takes five weeks to film and averages three deaths. •
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Profiles in Service Community can be found in many places: among the people in your neighborhood, the people at your place of worship or even, think big, the people with whom you share the planet. This month a new This is Us profiles two remarkable individuals dedicated to serving their communities: Tibetan monk Thupten Donyo and Carol Ruth Silver (pictured above).
Befriended by the Grateful Dead, Thupten Donyo toured the United States and eventually settled in Milpitas. With the goal of preserving Tibetan culture, Donyo turned a suburban home into a temple, recently visited by the Dalai Lama. In 1961, Carol Ruth Silver joined the Freedom Riders in an inspiring nonviolent challenge to segregation, then spent 39 days in a Mississippi prison. As a San Francisco supervisor, she narrowly escaped assassination. Today she helps educate Afghan girls.
Comm This new episode of This is Us airs Wednesday, May 4, at 7pm on KTEH.
Community Film Screenings
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Join KQED for a screening and discussion of the Independent Lens film Welcome to Shelbyville—a glimpse of America at a crossroads. Set in the heart of America’s Bible Belt, the documentary focuses on the residents of a small Southern town as they grapple with rapid demographic change and issues of immigration integration. The film captures the complexity of its African American, Latino, white, and Somali subjects as their lives intertwine against the backdrop of a crumbling economy and the election of a new president.
Tuesday, May 24, 5:45pm San Francisco Public Library 100 Larkin Street, San Francisco Thursday, May 26, 6:30pm Oakland Asian Cultural Center 388 Ninth Street, Oakland For more information, visit kqed.org/events.
Photo (bottom): Students recite the Pledge of Allegiance during ESL class, Greg Poschman.
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In the Community
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New face joins Community Advisory Panel
Alfredo Pedroza C ity of residence
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Director of California Local Government Relations, Wells Fargo
Why is Alfredo Pedroza passionate about public media? Find out here, in the final Q&A with a new member of KQED’s Community Advisory Panel (CAP).
What public media program(s) do you try not to miss? I especially like PBS NewsHour and Nightly Business Report, simply because it’s so hard to find credible unsensationalized media reporting anywhere else! I also enjoy Check, Please! Bay Area, and, I have to admit, I still watch and enjoy Sesame Street.
munity Why did you want to be part of CAP? Growing up in San Francisco’s Mission District, KQED was an integral part of my childhood. Joining CAP for me was twofold. One, to give back to an organization that’s provided a lifetime of quality family programming to millions of Americans and two, to connect more people from my communities to the innovative content KQED creates. What special qualities/skills/ideas do you bring to the group? I am understanding of community and that access to information and quality media is essential to the development of those communities.
Who is your favorite Muppet? Kermit the Frog, because it’s not easy being green, and Elmo—I love that he speaks in the third person. Finish the sentence: “KQED is . . .” As much a part of the fabric of San Francisco as is the Golden Gate Bridge and Coit Tower and, in many ways, even more so because you have the opportunity to interact with KQED many more times a day!
Watch Online— Anytime Missed an episode of Antiques Roadshow? Wish you could experience a Nova program one more time? You can watch hundreds of programs from favorite series like Nova, Nature, Frontline, and Masterpiece as well as KQED’s Check, Please! Bay Area anytime. Go to http://video.kqed.org to revisit the iconic series you love and discover new favorites across all genres. 5
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Austin City Limits Alejandro Escovedo/Trombone Shorty.
1:00am The Lawrence Welk Show Grammy Award Songs.
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2:00am Antiques Roadshow Dallas, Hour 2 of 3. | R 6pm, 5/2 7pm, 5/3 1am 3:00am Lark Rise to Candleford #405. 4:00am Sherlock Holmes The Red Circle #310. | R 5/27 8pm, 5/28 2am, 5/29 4pm 5:00am Globe Trekker Globe Trekker Special: Pirates, Galleons, and Treasure.
** 6:00pm Antiques Roadshow Dallas, Hour 2 of 3. | R 5/2 7pm, 5/3 1am 7:00pm As Time Goes By # 104. | R 5/2 1am 7:30pm Waiting for God #140. | R 5/2 1:30am 8:00pm Keeping Up Appearances Carldon Hall #103. | R 5/2 2am 8:30pm One Foot in the Grave The Broke Reflection #115. | R 5/2 2:30am 9:00pm In Search of Myths and Heroes The Queen of Sheba. Intrepid historian Michael Wood goes in search of the world’s four most famous myths. The myth of the Queen of Sheba starts in Africa. | R 5/2 3am 10:00pm In Search of Myths and Heroes Arthur: The Once and Future King. The Irish coast provides part of the backdrop for Wood’s quest for the truth about King Arthur. Pictured below: Wood near St. Michael’s Chapel in Glastonbury, Somerset, United Kingdom. | R 5/2 4am
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12:30am This is Us | K | Latino Heritage. 1-6am Repeats the previous night’s 7pm to midnight schedule. 6:00pm BBC World News | H | 6:30pm Nightly Business Report 7:00pm Antiques Roadshow Dallas, Hour 2 of 3. | R 5/3 1am 8:00pm Doc Martin Out of the Woods #207. | R 5/3 2am, 5/5 7pm, 5/6 1am 9:00pm Agatha Christie’s Poirot Peril at End House, Part 1 #201. Poirot meets Nick Buckley, who has three near-fatal accidents that may in fact be murder attempts. | R 5/3 3am 9:52pm Agatha Christie’s Poirot Peril at End House, Part 2 #202. | R 5/3 3:52am 11:00pm Muhammad Ali: Made in Miami Rare footage and interviews chronicle the young Cassius Clay’s evolution into a boxing legend. | R 5/3 5am
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12:30am BBC World News 1-6am Repeats the previous night’s 7pm to midnight schedule. 6:00pm BBC World News 6:30pm Nightly Business Report 7:00pm This is Us | H | K | People in Service profiles two remarkable Bay Area residents: Tibetan monk Thupten Donyo and Freedom Rider Carol Ruth Silver. | R 5/5 1am, 5/7 1:30pm, 5/9 12:30am 7:30pm Roadtrip Nation | K | #609. Visit with an a capella musical director in New York City, a Boston inventor, and a sailor in Maine. | R 5/5 1:30am 8:00pm America’s Ballroom Challenge 2008 Grand Finale. The top four couples compete across all four dance styles for the title of “America’s Best.” | R 5/5 2am 9:00pm Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work The Queen and Us. Four guests savor each moment of meeting the queen during a garden party at Buckingham Palace. | R 5/5 3am 10:00pm History Detectives Iwo Jima Map/ Copperhead Cane/Theremin includes an investigation of a hand-drawn map taken from the body of a Japanese soldier during World War II. | R 5/5 4am 11:00pm Live from the Artists Den | H | Squeeze. | R 5/5 5am
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7:00pm This Old House | H | Los Angeles Project, Part 10 of 10. | R 5/4 1am, 5/7 11am
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7:30pm Ask This Old House | H | R 5/4 1:30am, 5/7 11:30am
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8:00pm Nova | H | Hunting the Edge of Space—The Mystery of the Milky Way. Witness how the telescope has fundamentally changed our understanding of our place in the universe. | R 5/4 2am
8:00pm Rosemary and Thyme A Simple Plot #105. | R 5/6 2am, 5/8 3pm
9:00pm Nova | H | Hunting the Edge of Space—The Ever-Expanding Universe is a look at how the telescope revolutionized human thought across science, philosophy, and religion. | R 5/4 3am 10:00pm Independent Lens | H | A Film Unfinished. Experience a Nazi propaganda movie used by historians to show life in the Warsaw ghetto in 1942. | R 5/4 4am 11:30pm ImageMakers | K | Lost and Found. | R 5/4 5:30am
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11:00pm Japanland Suburban Samurai. In a four-part journey exploring Japan’s ancient cultural heritage and modern ways, Karin Muller integrates herself into areas of society rarely seen by foreigners. | R 5/2 5am
7:00pm Doc Martin Out of the Woods #207. | R 5/6 1am
9:00pm Masterpiece Mystery! Inspector Lewis, Series II: The Point of Vanishing. The murder of a small-time criminal leads Lewis to a prominent Oxford don–turned-celebrity atheist. | R 5/6 3am 10:30pm Irena Sendler: In the Name of Their Mothers | H | K | Hear the inspiring story of how, during World War II, a group of Polish women outfoxed the Nazis and rescued thousands of Jewish children. | R 5/6 4:30am 11:30pm Safeguarding Memory: Commemorating Jewish Mass Graves in Poland | H | Polish citizens who witnessed brutal murders share their memories of the Holocaust. | R 5/6 5:30am
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** 6:00pm BBC World News | H | 6:30pm Nightly Business Report 7:00pm Agatha Christie’s Poirot The Tragedy at Marsden Manor #305. | R 5/7 1am, 5/8 5pm 8:00pm Sherlock Holmes The Three Gables #307. After losing his lover, a diplomat writes a manuscript of his life story and then dies mysteriously. | R 5/7 2am, 5/8 4pm
New episodes of the hit series Midsomer Murders begin tonight!
MYSTERY 9:00pm Midsomer Murders | H | Dead Man’s Eleven, Part 1 #301. When the wife of a local landowner is bludgeoned to death with a cricket bat, Barnaby and Troy find themselves investigating a string of calculated murders. | R 5/7 3am
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** 6:00pm Antiques Roadshow Orlando, Hour 1 of 3. | R 5/9 7pm, 5/10 1am 7:00pm As Time Goes By #105. | R 5/9 1am 7:30pm Waiting for God #141. | R 5/9 1:30am 8:00pm Keeping Up Appearances Going to Daisy’s #104. | R 5/9 2am 8:30pm One Foot in the Grave The Beat in the Cage #116. | R 5/9 2:30am 9:00pm In Search of Myths and Heroes Shangri-La. A trek through India, Nepal, and Tibet may reveal the truth of the secret paradise in the Himalayas. | R 5/9 3am 10:00pm In Search of Myths and Heroes Jason and the Golden Fleece. Travel from Greece to the wild mountains of the Caucasus to find the truth behind the legend of Jason and the Golden Fleece. | R 5/9 4am 11:00pm Japanland Spiritland. | R 5/9 5am
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9:49pm Midsomer Murders | H | Dead Man’s Eleven, Part 2 #302. | R 5/7 3:49am 10:37pm Life on Mars #206. | R 5/7 4:37am 11:30pm Ebert Presents At the Movies | H | | R 5/7 5:30am & 3pm, 5/8 2pm
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Austin City Limits K’naan/Mos Def.
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ImageMakers | K | Love and Philosophy. | R 5/26 11:30pm, 5/27 5:30am
12:30am This is Us | K | People in Service. | RR 5/4 7pm 1-6am Repeats the previous night’s 7pm to midnight schedule.
** 6:00pm BBC World News | H | 6:30pm Nightly Business Report 7:00pm Antiques Roadshow Orlando, Hour 1 of 3. | R 5/10 1am
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8:00pm Doc Martin Erotomania #208. | R 5/10 2am, 5/12 7pm, 5/13 1am
6:00pm Dudu Fisher: In Concert from Israel The Les Misérables star performs Broadway tunes and traditional and contemporary Israeli songs.
9:00pm Agatha Christie’s Poirot The Veiled Lady #203. Poirot gets to realize his criminal ambitions when he investigates a suspected blackmailer. | R 5/10 3am
7:00pm The Lawrence Welk Show California Show (Margaret Interview). | R 5/8 1am
10:00pm Nature The Venom Cure. Scientists are finding new drugs, new cures, and new ways to save lives using poisons, toxins, and venom. | R 5/10 4am
8:00pm Antiques Roadshow Orlando, Hour 1 of 3. | R 5/8 2am & 6pm, 5/9 7pm, 5/10 1am 9:00pm Lark Rise to Candleford | H | #406. | R 5/8 3am 10:00pm Sherlock Holmes The Final Problem #113. Holmes and his arch rival Moriarty come to their final reckoning at the Reichenbach Falls. | R 5/8 4am 11:00pm Globe Trekker | H | Tunisia and Libya. | R 5/8 5am
11:00pm Two Films by Tadashi Nakamura | H | Experience two of the three films in Nakamura’s trilogy on the Asian American movement: Pilgrimage and A Song for Ourselves. | R 5/10 5am
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7:00pm This Old House Auburndale Project, Part 1 of 16. | R 5/11 1am, 5/14 11am 7:30pm Ask This Old House | R 5/11 1:30am, 5/14 11:30am 8:00pm Great Lodges of the National Parks Canyon Lodges. Get a close look at El Tovar in Grand Canyon National Park (pictured) and Zion Lodge in Utah’s Zion National Park. | R 5/11 2am
8:00pm Visions of Israel Aerial photography of the country’s holy sites is set to regional music and informative narration. | R 5/12 2am
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7:30pm Rick Steves’ Europe Croatia: Adriatic Delights. Explore the Dalmatian Coast, Plitvice Lakes National Park, and the thriving capital city, Zagreb. | R 5/12 1:30am
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9:00pm Monarchy: The Royal Family at Work Inside the Firm. The queen of England’s children discuss the roles they were born into and the challenges of royal life. | R 5/12 3am
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10:00pm History Detectives Lauste Film Clip/Baker’s Gold/Transatlantic Cable includes an investigation of Gold Rush–era sketches of gold nuggets. | R 5/12 4am 11:00pm Live from the Artists Den | H | Daniel Merriweather, A Fine Frenzy, and Lisa Hannigan. Lose yourself in performances by three standout emerging artists. | R 5/12 5am
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12:30am BBC World News 1-6am Repeats the previous night’s 7pm to midnight schedule. 9:00pm Adventure Lodges of North America United States Adventure Lodges. Visit Alaska’s historic Winterlake, the Camelot on the Colorado River, and Tarpon on an island near Florida. | R 5/11 3am 10:00pm Bear Island Veteran tracker Vern Beier explores brown bears in the dark forests of Chichagof Island, Alaska. | R 5/11 4am
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11:00pm Journey of the Bonesetter’s Daughter | H | Witness the creation of the San Francisco Opera’s celebrated 2008 production of The Bonesetter’s Daughter, composed by Stewart Wallace with a libretto by Amy Tan and based on her best-selling book of the same name. | R 5/11 5am
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** 6:00pm BBC World News | H | 6:30pm Nightly Business Report 7:00pm Doc Martin Erotomania #208. | R 5/13 1am 8:00pm Rosemary and Thyme The Tree of Death #106. | R 5/13 2am 9:00pm Masterpiece Mystery! Inspector Lewis, Series III: Counter Culture Blues. The sudden reappearance of a musician thought to be dead may be connected to an orphan’s murder. | R 5/13 3am 10:30pm POV | H | The Judge and the General. In this gripping documentary, Chilean judge Juan Guzman uncovers the past during the case against ex-dictator Augusto Pinochet. | R 5/13 4:30am
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7:00pm This is Us | K | Valentines features Alacia Welsh and Gavin Emmons, who dangle on ropes hundreds of feet above the earth to peek into the nests of condors and falcons in Pinnacles National Park. | R 5/12 1am, 5/14 1:30pm, 5/16 12:30am
6:30pm Nightly Business Report 7:00pm Agatha Christie’s Poirot The Double Clue #306. Poirot falls in love with a Russian countess while investigating four high-society jewel robberies. | R 5/14 1am, 5/15 5pm
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8:00pm Sherlock Holmes The Dying Detective #308. Adelaide Savage is worried about her husband’s habit of smoking opium to help him write poetry. | R 5/14 2am, 5/15 4pm 9:00pm Midsomer Murders | H | Death of a Stranger, Part 1 #303. Barnaby returns from a holiday to learn an unidentified tramp has been beaten to death in the woods during a fox hunt. | R 5/14 3am
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Austin City Limits John Legend and the Roots.
1-6am Repeats the previous night’s 7pm to midnight schedule.
** 6:00pm Antiques Roadshow Billings, Hour 1 of 3. | R 5/16 7pm, 5/17 1am
9:49pm Midsomer Murders | H | Death of a Stranger, Part 2 #304. | R 5/14 3:49am
7:00pm As Time Goes By #106. | R 5/16 1am
10:37pm Life on Mars #207. | R 5/14 4:37am
7:30pm Waiting for God #142. | R 5/16 1:30am
11:30pm Ebert Presents At the Movies | H | | R 5/14 5:30am & 3pm, 5/15 2pm
8:00pm Keeping Up Appearances Ladies Luncheon #105. | R 5/16 2am 8:30pm One Foot in the Grave Beware the Trickster on the Road #117. | R 5/16 2:30am 9:00pm The Storm That Swept Mexico | H | tells the epic story of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. Fueled by the Mexican people’s growing dissatisfaction with an elitist ruling regime, the revolution was led by two of the most intriguing and mythic figures in 20th-century history— Emiliano Zapata and Francisco “Pancho” Villa. | R 5/16 3am 11:00pm Japanland Mountain Gods and Businessmen. | R 5/16 5am
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12:30am This is Us | K | Valentines. | RR 5/11 7pm
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** 6:00pm Eternal Cuba with Enrique Chia This personal memoir and musical journey celebrates the culture and character of the country. 7:00pm The Lawrence Welk Show Great Entertainers. | R 5/15 1am 8:00pm Antiques Roadshow | H | Billings, Hour 1 of 3. | R 5/15 2am & 6pm, 5/16 7pm, 5/17 1am 9:00pm Lark Rise to Candleford #101. | R 5/15 3am 10:00pm Sherlock Holmes The Empty House #201. Believed to be dead for years, Holmes returns and reunites with Dr. Watson to defeat their enemies. | R 5/15 4am 11:00pm Globe Trekker | H | Central China. | R 5/15 5am
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7:00pm Antiques Roadshow Billings, Hour 1 of 3. | R 5/17 1am 8:00pm Doc Martin On the Edge, Part 1 #301. | R 5/17 2am, 5/19 7pm, 5/20 1am 9:00pm Agatha Christie’s Poirot The Lost Mine #204. Poirot investigates the death of a man who possessed the map of a lost silver mine. | R 5/17 3am 10:00pm Airplay: The Rise and Fall of Rock Radio H | documents the history of rock radio, from the AM deejays to the FM pioneers who fanned the flames of the 1960s, to the silencing of rock radio by the government and bigbusiness interests, to its promise of rebirth on satellite radio. | R 5/17 4am 11:00pm POV | H | Standing Silent Nation recounts the legal struggles of a Lakota family who planted hemp after other crops had failed. | R 5/17 5am
Photo: Courtesy of U.S. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
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10:30pm ImageMakers | H | K | When Sparks Fly. | R 5/19 4:30am
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** 6:00pm BBC World News | H | 6:30pm Nightly Business Report 7:00pm This Old House Auburndale Project, Part 2 of 16. | R 5/18 1am, 5/21 11am
8:00pm Nature Oceans in Glass: Behind the Scenes of the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Learn the science behind the spectacular aquarium, which presents entire habitats—virtual slices of ocean. | R 5/18 2am 9:00pm Great Lodges of the National Parks Glacier Lodges showcases Glacier Park Lodge, Lake McDonald, Many Glacier Lodge, and Sperry Chalet in Montana. | R 5/18 3am 10:00pm Nature True Adventures of the Ultimate Spider Hunter. Join tarantula obsessive and arachnid guru Martin Nicholas as he travels the world in pursuit of exotic spiders. | R 5/18 4am 11:00pm Lessons from the Real World looks at K–12 schools that weave community and societal problem solving through their curriculum. | R 5/18 5am
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** 6:00pm BBC World News | H | 6:30pm Nightly Business Report 7:00pm Doc Martin On the Edge, Part 1 #301. | R 5/20 1am 8:00pm Rosemary and Thyme Memory of Water, Part 1 #201. | R 5/20 2am, 5/22 3pm 9:00pm Masterpiece Mystery! Inspector Lewis, Series III: The Dead of Winter. The discovery of a body on an Oxford bus leads Lewis and Hathaway to a sprawling Oxford estate. | R 5/20 3am 10:30pm POV | H | Up the Yangtze. China’s massive Three Gorges Dam is altering the landscape and the lives of people along the river. | R 5/20 4:30am
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** 6:00pm BBC World News 6:30pm Nightly Business Report 7:00pm This is Us | H | K | Female Astronomers profiles three women astronomers living in Northern California and influencing the world. | R 5/19 1am, 5/21 1:30pm, 5/23 12:30am 7:30pm Rick Steves’ Europe Dubrovnik and Balkan Side Trips. Venture into less-touristed corners of the former Yugoslavia and visit Mostar and Montenegro. | R 5/19 1:30am 8:00pm Fannie’s Last Supper | H | The America’s Test Kitchen team recreates a 12-course feast straight from the pages of Fannie Farmer’s Boston Cooking School Cook Book. A dozen food and media mavens, including Renee Montagne (NPR’s Morning Edition), José Andrés (Made in Spain), and Amy Dickinson (NPR’s Wait, Wait ... Don’t Tell Me!), judge the results. | R 5/19 2am
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7:30pm Ask This Old House | R 5/18 1:30am, 5/21 11:30am
11:00pm Steve Miller Band: Live in Chicago The classic rock legends perform “Take the Money and Run,” “Rockin’ Me,” and other timeless anthems. | R 5/19 5am
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9:00pm Masterpiece The Secret Life of Mrs. Beeton. Anna Madeley stars as the most famous cookbook author in British history. | R 5/19 3am
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** 6:00pm BBC World News | H | 6:30pm Nightly Business Report 7:00pm Agatha Christie’s Poirot The Mystery of the Spanish Chest #307. Only Poirot can uncover the truth when the body of a jealous husband is found in an ornate chest. | R 5/21 1am, 5/22 5pm 8:00pm Sherlock Holmes The Golden PinceNez #309. Holmes investigates when the secretary to Professor Coram is found dead clutching a pince-nez. | R 5/21 2am, 5/22 4pm 9:00pm Midsomer Murders | H | Blue Herrings, Part 1 #305. Barnaby investigates suspicious nursing home deaths that occurred after people changed their wills. | R 5/21 3am 9:49pm Midsomer Murders | H | Blue Herrings, Part 2 #306. | R 5/21 3:49am 10:37pm Life on Mars #208. | R 5/21 4:37am 11:32pm Ebert Presents At the Movies | H | | R 5/21 5:32am & 3pm, 5/22 2pm 11
Saturday 21 mid
Tavis Smiley | H |
12:30am BBC World News 1-6am Repeats the previous night’s 7pm to midnight schedule.
** 6:00pm Celtic Thunder Heritage A celebration of Celtic and Irish roots features “Whiskey in the Jar,” “Ireland’s Call,” and more. 7:00pm The Lawrence Welk Show Childhood Memories. | R 5/22 1am 8:00pm Antiques Roadshow | H | Billings, Hour 2 of 3. | R 5/22 2am & 6pm, 5/23 7pm, 5/24 1am 9:00pm Lark Rise to Candleford #102. | R 5/22 3am 10:00pm Sherlock Holmes The Abbey Grange #202. Sir Eustace has been bludgeoned to death. What appears to be a burglary has Holmes reconsidering. | R 5/22 4am 11:00pm Globe Trekker | H | Micronesia. | R 5/22 5am
Sunday 22 mid
Austin City Limits Sarah McLachlan/ Duffy. | R 5/27 11pm, 5/28 5am
6:00pm BBC World News | H | 6:30pm Nightly Business Report 7:00pm Antiques Roadshow Billings, Hour 2 of 3. | R 5/24 1am 8:00pm Doc Martin On the Edge, Part 2 #302. | R 5/24 2am, 5/26 7pm, 5/27 1am 9:00pm Agatha Christie’s Poirot The Cornish Mystery #205. Poroit arrives too late in Cornwall to stop Mrs. Pengelley’s death and sets out to find her killer. | R 5/24 3am 10:00pm Frontline Young and Restless in China. Young Chinese people from across the country scramble to keep pace with a rapidly changing society. | R 5/24 4am
Tuesday 24 mid
Tavis Smiley | H |
12:30am BBC World News 1-6am Repeats the previous night’s 7pm to midnight schedule.
** 6:00pm BBC World News | H | 6:30pm Nightly Business Report 7:00pm This Old House Auburndale Project, Part 3 of 16. | R 5/25 1am, 5/28 11am
1-6am Repeats the previous night’s 7pm to midnight schedule.
7:30pm Ask This Old House | R 5/25 1:30am, 5/28 11:30am
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8:00pm Nova | H | Power Surge reveals the latest and greatest innovations that may turn back the clock on climate change. | R 5/25 2am
6:00pm Antiques Roadshow Billings, Hour 2 of 3. | R 5/23 7pm, 5/24 1am 7:00pm As Time Goes By #107. | R 5/23 1am 7:30pm Waiting for God #143. | R 5/23 1:30am 8:00pm Keeping Up Appearances The Christening #106. | R 5/23 2am 8:30pm One Foot in the Grave The Worst Horror of All #118. | R 5/23 2:30am 9:00pm 1421: The Year China Discovered America? introduces the controversial theory of British author Gavin Menzies, who has devoted nine years to proving that Zheng He and his Ming fleet of more than 100 ships reached America before Columbus. | R 5/23 3am 11:00pm Japanland The Final Test. | R 5/23 5am
9:00pm Great Lodges of the National Parks Pacific Northwest Lodges. Visit Paradise Inn in Mount Rainier National Park and Timberline Lodge on Oregon’s Mount Hood. | R 5/25 3am 10:00pm Craft in America | H | Messages. New Mexico–based archaeologist and artist Charles Carillo evokes traditional Spanish colonial style. | R 5/25 4am 11:00pm My Vietnam Your Iraq | H | Vietnam veterans share their wartime experiences and those of their children, who served in Iraq. | R 5/25 5am
Wednesday 25 mid
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ImageMakers | K | Alone Again (Naturally).
12:30am This is Us | K | Female Astronomers. | RR 5/18 7pm 1-6am Repeats the previous night’s 7pm to midnight schedule.
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** 6:00pm BBC World News | H | 6:30pm Nightly Business Report 7:00pm This is Us | K | #211 includes profiles of Jean Harman, World War II WASP, and the San Jose Youth Symphony’s Lisa Fraboni. | R 5/26 1am, 5/28 1:30pm, 5/30 12:30am
10:30pm Global Voices Sumo East and West. This fascinating look at the past, present, and future of sumo illustrates an intersection of cultures. | R 5/27 4:30am
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8:00pm America’s Orchestra: Celebrating 125 Years of the Boston Pops | H | Craig Ferguson hosts this starstudded 125th anniversary celebration of the Boston Pops, with some of the greatest moments from the orchestra’s history and telling the story of its transformation from summertime entertainment for Bostonians to the national icon and beloved institution of today. | R 5/26 2am
11:30pm ImageMakers | K | Love and Philosophy. | R 5/27 5:30am
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Tavis Smiley | H |
12:30am BBC World News 1-6am Repeats the previous night’s 7pm to midnight schedule.
** 6:00pm BBC World News | H | 6:30pm Nightly Business Report
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7:30pm Rick Steves’ Europe The Best of Slovenia. Visit the prosperous capital of Ljubljana, the mountain resort of Lake Bled and the Julian Alps. | R 5/26 1:30am
7:00pm Agatha Christie’s Poirot The Theft of the Royal Ruby #308. When a gem belonging to the heir to the king of Egypt is stolen, Poirot teams up with colonel Lacey. | R 5/28 1am, 5/29 5pm 8:00pm Sherlock Holmes The Red Circle #310. | R 5/28 2am, 5/29 4pm 9:00pm Midsomer Murders | H | Judgement Day, Part 1 #307. Midsomer Mallow’s chances in a Perfect Village competition are derailed when a resident is murdered. | R 5/28 3am
Photo: Keith Lockhart, conductor of the Boston Pops, assumed leadership of the orchestra in 1995, courtesy of Stu Rosner.
9:49pm Midsomer Murders | H | Judgement Day, Part 2 #308. | R 5/28 3:49am 9:00pm American Masters Tony Bennett: The Music Never Ends. Explore the life of this musical icon at home and on the stage, with interviews from close friends. | R 5/26 3am 10:30pm ImageMakers | K | Not the Same Old Song and Dance. | R 5/26 4:30am 11:00pm POV The Last Conquistador. Controversy over a sculptor’s bronze statue divides El Paso, Texas, along race and class lines. | R 5/26 5am
Thursday 26 mid
Tavis Smiley | H |
12:30am BBC World News 1-6am Repeats the previous night’s 7pm to midnight schedule.
** 6:00pm BBC World News | H |
11:00pm Austin City Limits | H | Sarah McLachlan/Duffy. | R 5/28 5am
Saturday 28 mid
Tavis Smiley | H |
12:30am BBC World News 1-6am Repeats the previous night’s 7pm to midnight schedule.
** 6:00pm 4TROOPS: Live from the Intrepid A pop vocal group made up of Iraq and Afghanistan combat veterans performs uplifting songs. 7:00pm The Lawrence Welk Show Music of Irving Berlin (Ken Interview). | R 5/29 1am 8:00pm Antiques Roadshow | H | Billings, Hour 3 of 3. | R 5/29 2am & 6pm, 5/30 7pm
6:30pm Nightly Business Report
9:00pm Lark Rise to Candleford #103. | R 5/29 3am
7:00pm Doc Martin On the Edge, Part 2 #302. | R 5/27 1am
10:00pm Sherlock Holmes The Musgrave Ritual #203. | R 5/29 4am
8:00pm Rosemary and Thyme Memory of Water, Part 2 #202. | R 5/27 2am, 5/29 3pm
11:00pm Globe Trekker | H | Sri Lanka and Maldives. | R 5/29 5am
9:00pm Masterpiece Mystery! Inspector Lewis, Series III: Dark Matter. An amateur astronomer who works at Gresham College is found dead and suspicion falls on the staff. | R 5/27 3am 13
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Austin City Limits Steve Martin/Sarah Jarosz.
ImageMakers | K | Suburban Strange.
12:30am This is Us | K | #211. | RR 5/25 7pm
1-6am Repeats the previous night’s 7pm to midnight schedule.
1-6am Repeats the previous night’s 7pm to midnight schedule.
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6:00pm Antiques Roadshow Billings, Hour 3 of 3. | R 5/30 7pm 7:00pm As Time Goes By #108. | R 5/30 1am 7:30pm Waiting for God #144. | R 5/30 1:30am 8:00pm Keeping Up Appearances Emmet Arrives #107. | R 5/30 2am 8:30pm One Foot in the Grave The Pit and the Pendulum #119. | R 5/30 2:30am 9:00pm Medal of Honor The story of the Medal of Honor—the highest U.S. award for valor in combat—is told through personal accounts of bravery and daring. Pictured: Medal of Honor recipient Bud Day arriving home to greet his wife, Doris, after being released from a Vietnamese POW camp in 1967. | R 5/30 3am
6:00pm BBC World News | H | 6:30pm Nightly Business Report 7:00pm Antiques Roadshow Billings, Hour 3 of 3. | R 5/31 1am 8:00pm Doc Martin The Apple Doesn’t Fall #303. | R 5/31 2am 9:00pm Agatha Christie’s Poirot The Disappearance of Mr. Davenheim #206. When a wealthy banker vanishes, Poirot tries to solve the mystery without leaving his apartment. | R 5/31 3am 10:00pm History Detectives Andrew Jackson’s Mouth/Barton Letter/Spybook. Why did Clara Barton, founder of the American Red Cross, write a letter about a Civil War soldier? | R 5/31 4am 11:00pm Typeface | H | Modern graphic design and traditional technique converge at Wisconsin’s Hamilton Wood Type Museum. | R 5/31 5am
Tuesday 31 mid
Tavis Smiley | H |
12:30am BBC World News 1-6am Repeats the previous night’s 7pm to midnight schedule.
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7:00pm This Old House Auburndale Project, Part 4 of 16. 7:30pm Ask This Old House 8:00pm Nova Mount St. Helens Back from the Dead documents the dramatic return of plant and animal life to the disaster zone’s barren landscape. 10:30pm Last Ridge National Public Radio’s Scott Simon narrates the remarkable story of the 10th Mountain Division. | R 5/30 4:30am
9:00pm Great Lodges of the National Parks II Visit Death Valley’s Furnace Creek Inn and the Lake Quinault Lodge in the Olympic National Forest.
11:30pm ImageMakers | K | Amazing Animation. | R 5/30 5:30am
10:00pm Nature Silent Roar: Searching for the Snow Leopard. Journey to film this legendary elusive creature, the mysterious predator of the Himalayas. 11:00pm Bolinao 52 | K | After 37 days at sea on a crowded boat, Vietnamese refugees faced death and resorted to cannibalism.
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Freedom Riders: American Experience
Digital 54.2 & 25.1, Comcast 9 A complete lineup of programs from public broadcasting and KQED. (24 hours a day)
Don’t miss the powerful, harrowing, and truly inspirational story of six months in 1961 that changed America forever. Veteran filmmaker Stanley Nelson’s inspirational documentary is the first feature-length film about this courageous band of civil rights activists—the Freedom Riders. Monday, May 16, at 9pm on KQED 9/ Comcast 709.
America’s Test Kitchen
Digital 54.3, Comcast 189 The very best of public broadcasting prime-time programs as well as arts and entertainment, food, gardening, how-to, and travel. (24 hours a day)
In addition to the segments viewers love and trust—such as foolproof recipes, equipment reviews, and taste tests— the 10th season of the popular cooking program also has new features and fresh faces. Host Christopher Kimball is joined in the kitchen by cooks Bridget Lancaster (pictured with Kimball), Julia Collin Davison, Rebecca Hays, J. Kenji Alt, and newcomer Yvonne Ruperti. Weeknights at 6:30pm on KQED Life.
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Based on the book series by Norman Bridwell about the lovable oversized canine with his head in the clouds but four paws planted firmly on the ground, Clifford presents a larger-than-life view of the world. Join Clifford and his friends on a fun-filled journey through the dips and curves of childhood. Daily at 1:30pm on KQED Kids.
The American Road to Victory
Comcast 190, Digital 9.3 Thought-provoking television— public affairs, local and world events, nature, history, and science.
This trilogy is a series of engrossing battlefield tours that bring you into the action of World War II. Three unique films follow GIs to the actual locations of the blood-soaked battlefields of D-Day through Hell’s Highway in Holland to the frozen Ardennes forests of the Battle of the Bulge. Sunday, May 29, beginning at 8pm on KQED World.