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5:30 Wild Kratts 6:00 Arthur 6:30 Nature Cat 7:00 Molly of Denali 7:30 Hero Elementary 8:00 Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum 8:30 Wild Kratts 9:00 Curious George 9:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 10:00 Donkey Hodie 10:30 Elinor Wonders Why 11:00 Sesame Street 11:30 Pinkalicious
12:00 Dinosaur Train 12:30 Clifford the Big Red Dog 1:00 Sesame Street 1:30 Donkey Hodie 2:00 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 2:30 Nature Cat 3:00 Let’s Go Luna 3:30 Molly of Denali 4:00 Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum 4:30 Odd Squad 5:00 Arthur
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MORNING 5:30 Suze Orman’s Ultimate Retirement Guide [R] 7:30 This Land is Your Land [R] 9:00 A History of Christianity: The First Christianity (Part 1 of 6) Diarmaid MacCulloch goes in search of Christianity’s forgotten origins, overturning the familiar story that it all began when the apostle Paul took Christianity from Jerusalem to Rome. 10:30 A History of Christianity: Catholicism – The Unpredictable Rise of Rome (Part 2 of 6) More than one billion Christians look to Rome, more than half of all Christians on the planet. But how did a small Jewish sect from the backwoods of first-century Palestine become the established religion of Western Europe?
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12:00 A History of Christianity: Orthodoxy – from Empire to Empire (Part 3 of 6) MacCulloch charts Orthodoxy’s extraordinary fight for survival. 1:30 A History of Christianity: Reformation – The Individual Before God (Part 4 of 6) The Amish today are peaceable folk, but five centuries ago their ancestors were seen as some of the most dangerous people in Europe. MacCulloch reveals how a faith based on obedience and authority gave birth to one based on individual conscience. 3:00 A History of Christianity: Protestantism – The Evangelical Explosion (Part 5 of 6) MacCulloch traces the growth of an exuberant expression of faith that has spread across the globe – Evangelical Protestantism. 4:30 A History of Christianity: God in the Dock (Part 6 of 6) MacCulloch explores a distinctive feature about Western Christianity – skepticism – that has transformed both Western culture and Christianity.
EVENING 6:00 Chicago Tonight: Black Voices 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 7:00 In Their Own Words: Princess Diana 8:00 Unforgotten Season 4 On Masterpiece (Part 5 of 6) Cassie and Sunny interview two of the suspects again and get closer to the truth. Balcombe believes she knows the cause of Walsh’s
Diarmaid MacCulloch
A History of Christianity Marathon The first truly global history of Christianity, this six-part series is presented by Diarmaid MacCulloch, an Oxford history professor whose books about Thomas Cranmer and the Reformation have been acclaimed as masterpieces. Discover Christianity’s true origins.
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death. Things take an unexpected and devastating turn for Cassie. 9:00 Professor T: Sophie Knows (Part 5 of 13) Professor T befriends a vulnerable girl and is convinced she is the key witness to a murder. 10:00 The Great British Baking Show: Masterclass 2 Mary and Paul tackle challenges they set the bakers in dessert and pie weeks. 11:00 Austin City Limits: Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenue
Monday 9 EARLY MORNING 12:00 Father Brown: The Face of Death See Sat. Aug. 7 at 7:00 pm. [R] 1:00 Death in Paradise (Season 10, Part 8 of 8) See Sat. Aug. 7 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:00 Shakespeare & Hathaway – Private Investigators: The Play’s the Thing See Sat. Aug. 7 at 9:00 pm. [R] 3:00 Icon: Music Through the Lens: On the Cover See Fri. Aug. 6 at 10:00 pm. [R] 4:00 Classic Albums: Pink Floyd – The Dark Side of the Moon See Fri. Aug. 6 at 11:00 pm. [R]
MORNING-AFTERNOON 5:00-5:30 WTTW Kids
