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from The Guide | May 2021
by WTTW | WFMT
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American Experience: Billy Graham
Explore the life of one of the bestknown and most influential Christian leaders of the 20th century. An international celebrity by age 30, he built a media empire, preached to millions worldwide, and had the ear of tycoons, presidents, and royalty.
Monday, May 17 9:00 pm
Switzerland and Denmark to investigate potential solutions to limit climate change. She looks for lessons from the world’s response to COVID-19.
9:00 NOVA: The Great Electric Airplane Race 10:00 Human: The World Within -
Fuel (Part 3 of 6) Through the worlds of a religious faster, an ultra-marathon runner, a farmer, and a young girl beating allergies, go deep into the world of the human gut, which processes the fuel our bodies need to keep going.
11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company
Thursday 13
EARLY MORNING 12:30 Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer: Vaccines
(Part of 4) See Tues. May 11 at 8:00 pm. [R] 1:30 Philly D.A. (Part 5 of 8) See Tues. May 11 at 9:00 pm. [R] 2:30 Frontline: Plastic Wars See Tues. May 11 at 10:00 pm. [R]
3:30 Mallorca Files: To Kill
a Stag See Sat. May 8 at 9:00 pm. [R] 4:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING-AFTERNOON 5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids 5:30 BBC World News America
EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight 8:00 Downton Abbey Season 1 On Masterpiece (Part 3
of 4) Growing into his role as heir, Matthew brings out the bitter rivalry between sisters Mary and Edith.
10:00 Baseball: A Whole New
Ball Game (Part 8 of 9) This episode, which takes place against the backdrop of the turbulent 1960s, opens with the improbable last-inning home run by the Pittsburgh Pirates’ Bill Mazeroski that wins the 1960 World Series.
Friday 14
EARLY MORNING 12:00 BBC World News 12:30 Amanpour and Company 1:30 Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World
(Part 3 of 3) See Wed. May 12 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:30 NOVA: The Great Electric
Airplane Race See Wed. May 12 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:30 Human: The World Within -
Fuel (Part 3 of 6) See Wed. May 12 at 10:00 pm. [R] 4:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING-AFTERNOON 5:30-5:30 WTTW Kids 5:30 BBC World News America
EVENING 6:00 PBS NewsHour 7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review 7:30 Washington Week 8:00 Chicago Stories: Great
Chicago Fire Chicago Stories brings to life the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 as never before with vivid animations and dramatic re-enactments. This special explores the disaster through eyewitness accounts of the city’s mayor, a newspaper publisher, a heroic janitor, and a successful businesswoman named Catherine O’Leary. 9:00 PBS for the Arts This special edition of Great Performances celebrates and spotlights the performing arts during the COVID-19 pandemic.
10:00 We Are Family: Songs of Hope and Unity 11:00 BBC World News 11:30 Amanpour and Company
Saturday 15
EARLY MORNING 12:30 Baseball: A Whole New Ball Game (Part 8
of 9) See Thurs. May 13 at 10:00 pm. [R]
2:30 Fire in the Heartland: The
Kent State Story See Sun. May 9 at 5:00 pm. [R]
3:30 Roadtrip Nation: Do
It Differently See Sun. May 9 at 1:00 pm. [R]
4:30 Chicago Tonight: The
Week in Review [R]
5:00 Yoga in Practice: Nature and the Cycle of Creation 5:30 Yoga in Practice: What Makes You Come Alive?
MORNING 6:00-9:00 WTTW Kids 9:00 Baby Makes 3: Baby Makes 4 9:30 J. Schwanke’s Life in Bloom 10:00 This Old House: Finish Work Begins 10:30 Ask This Old House: Dishwasher Retrofit, Rolling Pin 11:00 Lidia’s Kitchen 11:30 My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas: The Lesvos Spirit
AFTERNOON 12:00 Cook’s Country: Tacos Two Ways 12:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire 1:00 Simply Ming 1:30 New Scandinavian Cooking: Danish Influences 2:00 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated: The Perfect Cookie 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated 3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Milk Street Bakes! 3:30 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Cooking with Chilies 4:00 A Chef’s Life: Muscatine Time
4:30 Check, Please! [R]
5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Why We Travel 5:30 Samantha Brown’s Places to Love: Rhine River Cruise
EVENING 6:00 Chicago Tonight: Latino Voices 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend 7:00 Father Brown: The Devil’s
Dust Father Brown joins the search when a girl believed to be radioactive goes missing overnight. But just who is responsible for her disappearance?
8:00 Death in Paradise
(Season 10, Part 7 of 8) A stag party goes awry when the host of their fishing trip is found harpooned on a beach the next morning. But as their boat never moved, how could any of them have done it?
9:00 Mallorca Files: Friend
Henry (Part 7 of 10) Miranda and Max investigate the death of a world-famous DJ after he plays at Mallorca’s most popular nightclub.
10:00 Atlantic Crossing on Masterpiece: The Giant
Awakes (Part 6 of 8) [R]
11:00 Downton Abbey Season 1 on Masterpiece (Part 3
of 4) See Thurs. May 13 at 8:00 pm. [R]
Sunday 16
EARLY MORNING 1:00 To be announced
MORNING 5:00 Chicago Tonight:
Latino Voices [R]
5:30-10:30 WTTW Kids 10:30 Family Travel with Colleen Kelly: Best Food – Coastto-Coast Cuisine 11:00 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover 11:30 The Chavis Chronicles
AFTERNOON 12:00 Asian Americans: Breaking
Ground (Part 1 of 5) Learn how new immigrants from China, Japan, and beyond, despite anti-Asian laws, build railroads, dazzle in Hollywood,
In the Spotlight
M. Sanjayan
Life at the Waterhole
Explore the daily drama as African wildlife flock to a manmade waterhole rigged with cameras. In this three-part series, Dr. M. Sanjayan and his team uncover the complex dynamic of this bustling oasis where elephants, lions, leopards, and more meet and compete for water. In part one: Meet the first animal visitors. Using state-of-the-art cameras, scientists watch as warthogs and elephants discover the new oasis. But things become dangerous when leopards and lions close in.
