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Coming Friday, April 21, 7-9 PM, to Rootle...
PBS KIDS FAMILY NIGHT! Grab your family, some healthy snacks and tune in to Rootle, UNC-TV’s Kids Channel, every Friday night, from 7 to 9 (encoring weekend evenings), starting April 21, for the PBS KIDS Family Night! Enjoy such movie favorites as Odd Squad: The Moving, Splash & Bubbles: One Big Ocean and Sesame Street: The Cookie Thief, as well as world premiere movies including Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood: Tiger Family Trip, Ready Jet Go! Return to Bortron 7 and Arthur & the Haunted Treehouse!
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HAPPY READ-A-ROO DAY! 10th Annual Big Birthday Bash, Saturday, June 3
Orson Scott Card, Greensboro Culley C. Carson IV, Raleigh Jack Clayton, Raleigh Mandy Cohen, Raleigh J. Donald Coleman, Hickory Joseph H. Ely, Winston-Salem Susi Hamilton, Raleigh Mark Johnson, Raleigh Megan G. Lebda, Charlotte Adam Loftin, Raleigh William W. Mance, Jr., Asheville Travis Mitchell, Raleigh Margaret Spellings, Chapel Hill Cullie M. Tarleton, Blowing Rock
Read-a-roo’s birthday party is our biggest Kids Club event of the year! Join us as we celebrate her big day in an extra big way, Saturday, June 3, at the North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher in Kure Beach! And Read-a-roo Friends Level Members are invited to an exclusive birthday celebration, including access to a private party room with refreshments and activities. Best of all, Roo will be there, along with a surprise PBS KIDS Guest Star, for hugs and high fives!
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GET EARTHY Celebrate Earth Day with new outdoor adventures from Nature Cat and Wild Kratts, April 10-14, on Rootle!
ROO’S BLOCK PARTY WELCOMES ARTHUR Weekends, at 7 AM & 1 PM
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This month, Arthur is Roo’s special guest on the Block Party, weekends at 7 AM and 1 PM. The erudite aardvark kicks things off on World Autism Awareness Day, Sunday, April 2, with an enlightening episode about a young character with Asperger’s Syndrome. Then get ready for more lively looks at the trials, tribulations and triumphs of Arthur and all his family and friends.
SID SAYS... Meet and greet Sid the Science Kid at two 2017 North Carolina Science Festival sites: Wilmington’s Azalea Festival, April 8, and Fayetteville’s Dogwood Festival, April 30. Visit unc.tv/meetsid for the scoop!
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evening&weekend listings 1 SATURDAY 6 AM TV Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood DV EX Expeditions with Patrick McMillan Catalina Island— Jewel of the Pacific NC Biographical Conversations with Terry Sanford Part 1 of 3 The NC governor, senator and Duke University president shares his life story. 6:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV EX Exploring North Carolina Stuck in Clay 7:00 TV Sesame Street DV EX Carolina Outdoor Journal Classics NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Classics 7:30 TV Sesame Street DV EX Carolina Outdoor Journal Tough Morning Crappie NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Tough Morning Crappie 8:00 TV Splash & Bubbles EX North Carolina Weekend Deborah Holt Noel shows what’s up across NC this weekend. NC Exploring North Carolina Colors of the Earth 8:30 TV Curious George EX Southern Accents American Queen Steamboat/Barnsley Resort NC Exploring North Carolina On the Border 9:00 TV Nature Cat EX Great Continental Railway Journeys Barcelona to Mallorca NC North Carolina Weekend 9:30 TV Dinosaur Train DV NC Our State Letters from Home/ What It Was Football/ Virginia Johnson 10:00 TV North Carolina Weekend EX New Scandinavian Cooking Rich Farmland NC Folkways Spinning/Dyeing/Weaving 10:30 TV Southern Accents Chattanooga EX Mexico— One Plate at a Time Cooking Like a Local NC A Craftsman’s Legacy The Weave Master 4 | April
Join former Royal Marine Arthur Williams for adventure on Flying to the Ends of the Earth, premiering Saturday, April 1, at 9 PM, on The Explorer Channel.
11:00 TV Growing a Greener World A Year in the Life of the Garden Farm EX Taste of History Charles Thomson’s Great Seal of the United States NC The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Plain Pine Box DV 11:30 TV P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home Embrace Your Space DV EX From the Vineyard Duplin/Raffaldini NC The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Mary Rose Tankard Noon TV The Best of Almanac Gardener Season Premiere! Spring Carrots/Backyard Chickens EX Smart Travels— Pacific Rim with Rudy Maxa Queensland, Australia NC Growing a Greener World Creating an Edible Fruit Garden 12:30 TV America’s Heartland Early Season Blueberries/ Tulip Farming EX Desert Speaks Gadsden Purchase, Part 1 NC The Best of Almanac Gardener Spring Carrots/ Backyard Chickens 1:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Albuquerque, Part 3 EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope San Miguel de Allende, Celebrating in the Heart of Mexico DV NC Down River Eastern North Carolinians pull together and prepare for post-hurricane flooding. Mike Gray brings you The Best of Almanac Gardener, Saturday, April 1, at noon, on UNC-TV.
1:30 EX Family Travel with Colleen Kelly The Palm Beaches—Lions & Turtles & Polo Ponies 2:00 TV Rick Steves’ Europe England’s Cornwall EX Globe Trekker North East England NC POV Getting Back to Abnormal New Orleans, rebuilds after disaster. 2:30 TV Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Taiwan’s Penghu Islands DV 3:00 TV A Craftsman’s Legacy The Soap Maker EX Changing Seas Grand Cayman’s Famous Stingrays 3:30 EX Wonder of Animals Bats TV American Woodshop Picnic Basket NC NC Now Agriculture 4:00 TV The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Firewood Carrier DV EX Nature Saving Otter 501 DV NC Front Row National media strategist Marc Rotterman discusses state and national politics and policy.
visit unctv.org 4:30 TV This Old House Rebuilding Motor City NC Charlie Rose— The Week Get a retrospective of the acclaimed interviewer’s nightly program. 5:00 TV Carolina Outdoor Journal Divers Rock Bonito EX Nature Leave It to Beavers DV NC PBS NewsHour Weekend Gain insights about the week’s issues. 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Weekend NC Washington Week Leading journalists analyze major news and events. 6:00 TV Lawrence Welk Show America at Play EX Mountain Gorilla Safe in Our Hands NC Echo Sessions The New MasterSounds 6:30 NC Backstage Pass Good Cookies 7:00 TV As Time Goes By Misunderstandings EX Rick Steves’ Europe Germany’s Frankfurt & Nürnberg NC Shakori Hills Concert Series Black Lillies 7:30 TV As Time Goes By The Cruise EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese Scotland: Vikings, Puffins & Ponies 8:00 TV Midsomer Murders Death & Dust, Part 2 EX Globe Trekker Rust Belt Highway, USA NC North Carolina Music Hall of Fame 2016 Induction Ceremony Celebrate our state’s homegrown music stars. 9:00 TV Coroner Dirty Dancing EX Flying to the Ends of the Earth Premiere! The Himalayas 10:00 TV Death in Paradise Season Premiere! Erupting in Murder EX Great Continental Railway Journeys Tula to St. Petersburg 11:00 TV Tunnel A killer seeks to purge European society of its ills. EX Globe Trekker Mumbai City Guide NC Austin City Limits Ed Sheeran/Valerie June
Death in Paradise erupts with an explosive season premiere, Saturday, April 1, at 10 PM, on UNC-TV.
2 SUNDAY 6 AM TV Nature Cat EX Stephen Fry in Central America Mexico NC Closer to Truth Can Metaphysics Discern God II 6:30 TV Wild Kratts NC Education Matters Learn about key issues affecting education in NC. 7:00 TV Thomas & Friends DV EX Globe Trekker Food Hour: The Story of Tea NC The Truth About Money with Ric Edelman Beating Inflation 7:30 TV Bob the Builder DV NC Consuelo Mack WealthTrack Get advice for managing investments. 8:00 TV Curious George DV EX Finding Your Roots Maps of Stars with Dustin Hoffman & Mia Farrow DV NC Carolina Business Review Chris William and his guests discuss business news in the Carolinas.
8:30 TV WordGirl DV NC Common Ground Kelly McCullen discusses current issues with top NC policymakers. 9:00 TV This Old House Rebuilding Motor City EX Stephen Fry in Central America Costa Rica to Panama NC Washington Week 9:30 TV Ask This Old House Kentucky Lawn/Chandelier NC Front Row 10:00 TV Exploring North Carolina Maine to Florida in 1 Day EX Wildside with Nick Molle—Costa Rica Spider Monkeys, Crocodiles & Humpback Whales DV
NC North Carolina Bookwatch Renée Ahdieh— The Rose & the Dagger 10:30 TV SciTech Now North Carolina The Digging Show— Dinosaurs! NC Well Read Ian Rankin— Rather Be the Devil 11:00 TV Carolina Outdoor Journal Divers Rock Bonito EX Ecuador: The Royal Tour Amazon Rainforest/ Whale Watching DV NC Novels Sounds: American Fiction in the Age of Rock & Roll Keynote Roundtable: Rock & Literature I
Good things come in small horses on Born To Explore with Richard Wiese, Saturday, April 1, at 7:30 PM, on The Explorer Channel. April | 5
evening&weekend listings 3:30 TV Lidia’s Kitchen Sweet & Savory 4:00 TV Pati’s Mexican Table Izamal—Gold & God EX Father Brown The Missing Man NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Classics 4:30 TV Steven Raichlen’s Project Smoke Raichlen on Ribs NC Our State Dirt to Shirt/Fins & Feathers 5:00 TV Charlie Rose— The Week EX Secrets of the Keep an eye out for Dragons Alive Tower of London Ruling Reptiles, Sunday, April 2, Go behind the ancient walls at 8 PM, on The Explorer Channel. of this nearly 1000-year-old formidable fortress. 11:30 TV Black Issues Forum NC PBS NewsHour Day to Day Dads Weekend Noon TV North Carolina 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Bookwatch Weekend Renée Ahdieh— NC BBC Newsnight The Rose & the Dagger Get comprehensive cover EX Joseph Rosendo’s age of international news Travelscope and current events. Peru—The Amazon 6:00 TV Doc Martin & Beyond DV Nowt So Queer NC Novels Sounds: EX Victoria on American Fiction in the Masterpiece Age of Rock & Roll An Ordinary Woman Rock & Race NC Black Issues Forum 12:30 TV Flavor, NC Day to Day Dads Vegetables from the 6:30 NC Black America Greenhouse The Power of the Docu EX Born To Explore mentary with June Cross with Richard Wiese 7:00 TV A Place To Call Home Scotland: Vikings, The Things We Do for Love Puffins & Ponies EX Rick Steves Special 1:00 TV Ellie’s Real Good Food A Symphonic Journey Join Say Yes to Chocolate the Cascade Symphony for EX A Place To Call Home a visit to seven countries. I Do, I Do NC A Chef’s Life NC Senator Sam Sweet Corn & Take a look at the life of Expensive Tea NC’s legendary Senator 7:30 NC Flavor, NC Sam Ervin. Bison 1:30 TV Martha Bakes 8:00 TV Call the Midwife Mid-Atlantic Season Premiere! All is not 2:00 TV America’s Test well at Nonnatus House. Kitchen from Cook’s EX Dragons Alive Illustrated Ruling Reptiles Outsmarting Thanksgiving EX Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries Framed for Murder NC Eisenhower’s Secret War From Warrior to President DV
2:30 TV Cook’s Country Badger State Favorites 3:00 TV Sara’s Weeknight Meals Best of Summer EX Rosemary & Thyme Enter Two Gardeners NC Eisenhower’s Secret War Building Weapons, Talking Peace DV 6 | April
Home Fires Season 2 on Masterpiece, premieres Sunday, April 2, at 9 PM, on UNC-TV.
NC Dr. Frank: The Life & Times of Dr. Frank Porter Graham Discover the story of the UNC president, U.S. senator and UN mediator. 9:00 TV Home Fires Season 2 on Masterpiece Season Premiere! Pat befriends a Czech soldier as Britain faces invasion. EX Dragons Alive Smart Reptiles NC Crossroads on the Hill Explore two First Amendment controversies that rocked UNC-Chapel Hill. 10:00 TV Wolf Hall on Masterpiece Episode 1 Failing to annul King Henry’s marriage, Cardinal Wolsey loses power. EX America’s Wildest Refuge Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge 10:30 NC Journey Down the Blue Ridge Parkway Grandfather Mountain to Mt. Mitchell 11:00 TV EastEnders EX Globe Trekker Food Hour: Ireland NC Our State Letters from Home/ What It Was Football/ Virginia Johnson 11:30 TV EastEnders NC Native Report Lacrosse DV
3 MONDAY 6:00 TV PBS NewsHour Get in-depth analyses of current events. EX Ecuador: The Royal Tour Amazon Rainforest/ Whale Watching DV NC BBC World News America Katty Kay shares unique global perspectives. 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report Seasoned reporters review financial news. 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report EX Rick Steves’ Europe Amsterdam NC Charlie Rose This native Tar Heel interviews fascinating personalities. 7:30 TV A Chef’s Life The Fish Episode, Y’all EX Family Travel with Colleen Kelly Wales—The Land of Storybook Adventures
visit unctv.org 8:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Salt Lake City, Part 1 EX Secrets of Great British Castles Edinburgh Castle NC Exploring North Carolina Maine to Florida in 1 Day 8:30 NC Exploring North Carolina Knowing Your Estate (Your State Parks That Is) 9:00 TV Independent Lens Newtown Assess the 2012 mass shooting’s aftermath. DV
EX Victoria on Masterpiece The Queen’s Husband NC Expeditions with Patrick McMillan Blue Ridge, the Heart of the Eastern Forest 9:30 NC SciTech Now North Carolina The Digging Show— Dinosaurs! 10:00 EX Castles: Britain’s Fortified History Instruments of Invasion NC The Crowd & the Cloud Series Premiere! Even Big Data Starts Small Explore citizen science. 10:30 TV POV Listening Is an Act of Love: A StoryCorps Special Regular people share animated memories and musings. 11:00 TV Film School Shorts Aspirations EX In Search of Shakespeare For All Time NC PBS NewsHour 11:30 TV BBC World News Get comprehensive coverage of international news and current events.
4 TUESDAY 6:00 TV PBS NewsHour EX A Taste of Louisiana with Chef John Folse & Co. Native America: Sportsman’s Paradise NC BBC World News America 6:30 EX Mexico— One Plate at a Time A Place of Deeply Rooted Innovation NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report EX Rick Steves’ Europe Prague NC Charlie Rose
6:30 NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report EX Rick Steves’ Europe Berlin NC Charlie Rose 7:30 TV SciTech Now North Carolina Seismic Fish Meet The Crowd & the Cloud‘s EX Born To Explore citizen scientists Mondays, at 10 PM, with Richard Wiese on the North Carolina Channel. Tanzania: Remote Tribes 8:00 TV Nature 7:30 TV Flavor, NC Maple View Dairy/Panciutto Owl Power Strigiformes sway tech and design. DV EX Smart Travels— EX Pati’s Mexican Table Europe with Rudy Maxa Chachi’s Champoton Venice Kitchen 8:00 TV Last Days of Jesus Dramatic sequences filmed NC REEL SOUTH The State of Eugenics in Israel and Italy reveal leNC tries to make amends thal Roman power politics. for thousands of forced EX Africa’s Great sterilizations over 40 years. Civilizations 8:30 EX New Scandinavian Origins/The Cross Cooking & the Crescent DV Historical Garden NC Between 9:00 TV NOVA Hope & Fear: Islam Himalayan Megaquake in North Carolina See dramatic footage of the Delve deeply into the Musdevastating 2015 quake. lim experience in our state. EX Lucky Chow 9:00 EX Flying to the Ramen Mania Ends of the Earth NC Independent Lens The Himalayas No Mas Bebes (No More NC Musings of Babies) Learn why a an Iraqi Patriot Southern California medical Trace one man’s journey center sterilized Mexicanfrom accomplished artist American women. DV to reluctant refugee. 9:30 EX Family Ingredients 9:30 NC Visa Dream An elderly couple in Mexico Hawai’i—Poi DV 10:00 TV Secrets of the Dead seeks tourist visas to visit Leonardo, the Man Who their children in the U.S. Saved Science DV 10:00 TV FRONTLINE Secret State of North Korea EX Great British Baking Show See what lies beyond the Masterclass 4 propaganda. NC Independent Lens EX Harry’s Trapped Explore TRAP Arctic Heroes laws that are closing clinics Witness the first unsupthat perform abortions. ported trek by wounded 11:00 TV Are You soldiers to the North Pole. Being Served? NC Afropop: The Ulti Big Brother mate Cultural Exchange EX Stephen Fry Days of Hope DV in Central America 11:00 TV Waiting for God Mexico After the Operation 11:30 TV BBC World News EX Travelscope NC PBS NewsHour Fiji—Island Hopping DV NC PBS NewsHour 6 THURSDAY 11:30 TV BBC World News EX Desert Speaks Treasures of the Galapagos 6:00 TV PBS NewsHour EX Cooking Odyssey Marathonas 5 WEDNESDAY NC BBC World News America 6:00 TV PBS NewsHour 6:30 EX New Scandinavian EX Secrets of Cooking Great British Castles Coastal Express Edinburgh Castle NC Nightly Business NC BBC World News Report America April | 7
evening&weekend listings 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report EX Rick Steves’ Europe Germany’s Hamburg & the Luther Trail NC Charlie Rose 7:30 TV Our State Roanoke River/Old Stone House/Fragile Canvas EX Smart Travels— Europe with Rudy Maxa Genoa & the Italian Riviera 8:00 TV NC Now Economic Development EX Curious Traveler Curious Paris NC High Point University Presents: Condoleezza Rice HPU President Nido Qubein interviews the former U.S. Secretary of State. 8:300 TV Exploring North Carolina Knowing Your Estate (Your State Parks That Is) EX Two for the Road Magic of the Galapagos 9:000 TV North Carolina Weekend EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese Tanzania: Remote Tribes NC An Evening with Gwen Ifill Reflect on the late journalist’s childhood and development as a TV news correspondent. 9:30 TV A Craftsman’s Legacy The Goldsmith Susan McDonough works in a small studio on her family’s farm in the NC mountains. EX Travels with Darley Maryland, Virginia & Beyond 10:00 TV REEL SOUTH Can’t Stop the Water A Louisiana NativeAmerican community fights to save its culture. EX Dream of Italy Tuscany NC Makers Women in Politics 10:30 TV REEL SOUTH Counter Histories: Rock Hill The “Friendship 9” fought segregation laws in 1961. EX Painting the Town with Eric Dowdle Charleston, SC DV 11:00 TV Keeping Up Appearances The Three-Piece Suite EX Travelscope Alberta, Canada— The Canadian Rockies DV NC PBS NewsHour 11:30 TV BBC World News EX Desert Speaks Ancient Secrets of the Galapagos 8 | April
NC Biographical Conversations with Terry Sanford Part 2 of 3 6:00 TV PBS NewsHour 6:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s EX Inspector Morse Neighborhood DV The Daughters of Cain EX Exploring NC BBC World News North Carolina America Fossil Fields 6:30 NC Nightly Business 7:00 TV Sesame Street DV Report EX Carolina Outdoor 7:00 TV Nightly Business Journal Classics Report Joe Albea and John Moore EX Inspector Morse share top moments from The Daughters of Cain this long-running series. NC Charlie Rose NC Carolina Outdoor 7:30 TV North Carolina Journal Classics Weekend 7:30 TV Sesame Street DV 8:00 TV Washington Week EX Carolina EX Doc Martin Outdoor Journal The Practice Around Jetty Trout the Corner NC Carolina NC North Carolina Outdoor Journal Weekend Jetty Trout 8:30 TV Front Row 8:00 TV Splash & Bubbles NC North Carolina EX North Carolina Bookwatch Weekend Tim Tyson— NC Exploring The Blood of Emmett Till North Carolina 8:50 EX NC Weekend—Shorts Maine to Florida in 1 Day Zuma Coffee 8:30 TV Curious George DV 9:00 TV Great Performances EX Southern Accents Young Men This dance film portrays soldiers trying Chestatee Wildlife Preserve NC Exploring to keep their humanity North Carolina through WWI’s brutality. Knowing Your Estate EX Miss Fisher’s (Your State Parks That Is) Murder Mysteries 9:00 TV Nature Cat Blood & Money EX Stephen Fry in NC Front Row Central America 9:30 NC Washington Week Mexico 10:00 EX Father Brown The Crackpot of the Empire NC North Carolina Weekend NC Common Ground 9:30 TV Dinosaur Train DV 10:30 TV POV Listening Is an Act of Love: NC Our State A StoryCorps Special Reg- Keeper of the Vine/ A Defiant Spirit/ ular people share animated A Muse in Wilmington memories and musings. 10:00 TV North Carolina NC Carolina Business Weekend Review 10:50 EX NC Weekend—Shorts EX New Scandinavian Cooking Turnage Theater Popular Sausage 11:00 TV British Antiques NC Folkways Roadshow Fire & Forge Royal Ballet School 10:30 TV Southern Accents EX Travelscope Atlanta Chile—From Seaside EX Mexico— to Mountaintop DV One Plate at a Time NC PBS NewsHour Love of Live Fire Cooking 11:30 TV BBC World News NC A Craftsman’s Legacy EX Desert Speaks The Blacksmith Meet Life Along the Rio Sonora Lorelei Sims, who works in a male-dominated trade. 8 SATURDAY 11:00 TV Growing a Greener World 6:00 TV Mister Rogers’ Gardening in the Desert Neighborhood DV Southwest EX Expeditions with EX Taste of History Patrick McMillan George Washington West Texas— in Barbados The Trans Pecos
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visit unctv.org 6:30 NC Backstage Pass Tony Monaco & The Fareed Haque Trio Featuring Randy Gelispie 7:00 TV As Time Goes By The Book Signing EX Rick Steves’ Europe Bulgaria NC Shakori Hills Concert Series Lanzallamas 7:30 TV As Time Goes By We’ll Always Have Paris EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese Steep Canyon Rangers star in the season premiere of David Holt’s State of Indonesia: Orangutans— Music, Saturday, April 8, at 9 PM, on the North Carolina Channel. People of the Forest 8:00 TV Midsomer Murders NC The Woodwright’s NC Independent Lens Picture of Innocence, Part 1 Shop with Roy Underhill No Mas Bebes (No More EX Globe Trekker Taming the Timber Bench Babies) Learn why a Rust Belt Highway, USA DV Southern California medical NC Song of the 11:30 TV P. Allen Smith’s center sterilized MexicanMountains Garden Home American women. DV Black Mountain Shine/ Thank You for Sharing DV 2:30 TV Joseph Rosendo’s Redhead Express EX From the Vineyard Travelscope 9:00 TV Coroner Woodmill/Windsor Run Portugal—From Porto to The Drop Zone NC The Woodwright’s Salamanca DV EX Flying to the Shop with Roy Underhill 3:00 TV A Craftsman’s Legacy Ends of the Earth The Dominy Shop The Cooper Jim Gaster Australia & Papua Noon TV The Best of keeps the craft of making NC David Holt’s Almanac Gardener handmade wooden buckets State of Music Planting an Early Season alive and well. Season Premiere! Vegetable Garden/Space EX Changing Seas Steep Canyon Rangers Saving Herb Gardening Billfish: Battle on the Line 9:30 NC David Holt’s EX Smart Travels— NC Independent Lens State of Music Pacific Rim with Little White Lie An affluent Bryan Sutton/ Rudy Maxa woman unlocks a powerful Rhiannon Giddens New Zealand’s South Island family secret. 10:00 TV Death in Paradise NC Growing a 3:30 EX Wonder of Animals Secret of the Flame Tree Greener World Snakes EX Great Continental Behind the Scenes TV American Woodshop Railway Journeys 12:30 TV America’s Heartland Scrolled Corner Shelf Rome to Taormina Cattle Waste Energy/Farm 4:00 TV The Woodwright’s NC Infinity Hall Live to Form Mushroom Pasta Shop with Roy Underhill Rhiannon Giddens EX Desert Speaks Double Casement Window 11:00 TV Tunnel The Gadsden Purchase, DV The killer’s moral crusade Part 2 EX Dragons Alive targets an elderly victim. NC The Best of Ruling Reptiles EX Globe Trekker Almanac Gardener NC Front Row Central Japan Planting an Early Season 4:30 TV This Old House NC Austin City Limits Vegetable Garden/Space Detroit—Ready for Rehab The Avett Brothers/ Saving Herb Gardening NC Charlie Rose— Nickel Creek 1:00 TV Antiques Roadshow The Week Salt Lake City, Part 1 5:00 TV Carolina 9 SUNDAY EX Joseph Rosendo’s Outdoor Journal Travelscope Winter Stripers on Top 6 AM TV Nature Cat Ontario, Canada’s Niagara EX Dragons Alive EX Stephen Fry in Peninsula—Toronto & Smart Reptiles Central America Beyond DV NC PBS NewsHour Belize to Guatemala NC REEL SOUTH Weekend NC Closer to Truth The State of Eugenics NC 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour What Is God’s Own Being? tries to make amends for Weekend 6:30 TV Wild Kratts thousands of forced steril NC Washington Week NC Education Matters izations over 40 years. 6:00 TV Lawrence Welk Show 7:00 TV Thomas & Friends DV 1:30 EX Family Travel Backstage with Our EX Globe Trekker with Colleen Kelly Musical Family Rust Belt Highway, USA Boston—One if by Land, EX America’s NC The Truth About Two if by Sea Wildest Refuge Money with Ric Edelman 2:00 TV Rick Steves’ Europe Arctic National Wildlife Underwater Mortgage Rome: Ancient Glory Refuge, Alaska EX Globe Trekker NC Echo Sessions Mumbai City Guide The Filthy Six April | 9
evening&weekend listings 5:00 TV Charlie Rose— The Week EX Secrets of Great British Castles Edinburgh Castle NC PBS NewsHour 7:30 TV Bob the Builder DV Weekend NC Consuelo Mack 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour WealthTrack Weekend 8:00 TV Curious George DV NC BBC Newsnight EX Greeks 6:00 TV Doc Martin Cavemen to Kings Happily Ever After NC Carolina Business 12:30 TV Flavor, NC EX Victoria on Review Heritage Turkey Masterpiece 8:30 TV WordGirl DV EX Born To Explore The Queen’s Husband NC Common Ground with Richard Wiese NC Black Issues Forum 9:00 TV This Old House Indonesia: Orangutans— Cuba—James Ford Detroit—Ready for Rehab People of the Forest 6:30 NC Black America EX Africa’s Great NC To Be a Dr. Roscoe C. Brown Jr. & Civilizations North Carolinian Honorable David N. Dinkins Origins/The Cross & Celebrate the best of 7:00 TV A Place To Call Home the Crescent DV our state’s history, places L’chaim, To Life NC Washington Week and people. 9:30 TV Ask This Old House 1:00 TV Ellie’s Real Good Food EX Rick Steves Special The Holy Land, Israelis & Passage Set/Landscape Carbo-Diem Palestinians Today Explore NC Front Row EX A Place To Call Home Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Bethle 10:00 TV Exploring Unforgettable hem, Ramallah and more. North Carolina NC Dr. Frank: NC A Chef’s Life Knowing Your Estate The Life & Times of Strawberry Stay at Home (Your State Parks That Is) Dr. Frank Porter Graham 7:30 NC Flavor, NC EX Flying to the Discover the story of the Well Fed Garden Ends of the Earth UNC president, U.S. sena 8:00 TV Call the Midwife The Himalayas tor and UN mediator. The Nonnatus team NC North Carolina 1:30 TV Martha Bakes prepares for the birth of a Bookwatch Midwest baby who may not survive. Tim Tyson— 2:00 TV America’s Test EX Dragons Alive The Blood of Emmett Till Kitchen from Cook’s Future Reptiles 10:30 TV SciTech Now Illustrated NC Senator No: North Carolina Korean Feast Jesse Helms Seismic Fish EX Miss Fisher’s Take a look at the life of the NC Well Read Murder Mysteries controversial senator. Viet Thanh Nguyen— Death on the Vine The Refugees NC Crossroads on the Hill 9:00 TV Home Fires Season 2 on Masterpiece 11:00 TV Carolina Explore two First Amend Pat and Marek’s attraction Outdoor Journal ment controversies that grows, as does the risk of Winter Stripers on Top rocked UNC-Chapel Hill. acting on their feelings. EX Harry’s 2:30 TV Cook’s Country EX Nature’s Treasure Arctic Heroes Picnic Game Changers Islands: A Journey to the Witness the first unsup 3:00 TV Sara’s Weeknight UK Overseas Territories ported trek by wounded Meals Atlantic Arks: Ascension, soldiers to the North Pole. Jewish Holidays Saint Helena & Tristan NC Novels Sounds: EX Rosemary & Thyme da Cunha American Fiction in the Cup of Silence 9:30 NC Umstead Age of Rock & Roll 3:30 TV Lidia’s Kitchen An Island in an Urban Sea Popular Culture/ Vegetable Favorites Discover a green refuge in High Culture Nexus NC Journey Down the NC’s Triangle. 11:30 TV Black Issues Forum Blue Ridge Parkway 10:00 TV Wolf Hall on Cuba—James Ford Grandfather Mountain to Masterpiece Noon TV North Carolina Mount Mitchell Episode 2 Cromwell’s Bookwatch 4:00 TV Pati’s Mexican Table relationship with Henry Tim Tyson— Valladolid— deepens. The Blood of Emmett Till A Day To Explore EX Someplace EX Joseph Rosendo’s EX Father Brown with a Mountain Travelscope The Resurrectionists Meet Lapita Navigators, Armenia—Ancient History NC Carolina Outdoor proud forefathers of many & Modern Traditions, Part 1 Journal Classics Pacific cultures. DV 4:30 TV Steven Raichlen’s NC Olmsted & NC Novels Sounds: Project Smoke America’s Urban Parks American Fiction in the Seafood Gets Smoked See the impact left by the Age of Rock & Roll NC Our State visionary designer of New Rock Against HB2—Forma- Hunt Library/Lockwood York City’s Central Park. tion, Heroes, Controversy Folly River/One Moment, One Meeting
Encounter amazing things on Nature’s Treasure Islands: A Journey to the UK Overseas Territories, Sunday, April 9, at 9 PM, on The Explorer Channel.
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visit unctv.org 1:00 TV EastEnders 1 EX Globe Trekker Mumbai City Guide NC Our State Keeper of the Vine/ A Defiant Spirit/ A Muse in Wilmington 11:30 TV EastEnders NC Native Report Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Vice Chief DV
10 MONDAY 6:00 TV PBS NewsHour EX Harry’s Arctic Heroes Witness the first unsupported trek by wounded soldiers to the North Pole. NC BBC World News America 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report EX Rick Steves’ Europe Germany’s Dresden & Leipzig NC Charlie Rose 7:30 TV A Chef’s Life Obviously, It’s Pecans EX Family Travel with Colleen Kelly Lake of the Ozarks— Family Fun Lake 8:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Salt Lake City, Part 2 EX Secrets of Great British Castles Cardiff Castle NC Exploring North Carolina In Perfect Harmony— Fort Bragg: Woodpeckers & Parachutes 8:30 NC Exploring North Carolina In Perfect Harmony— Camp Lejeune: Leathernecks & Leatherbacks 9:00 TV The Great War: American Experience Premiere! Follow the nearly three-year journey to war.
EX Victoria on Masterpiece Engine of Change NC Expeditions with Patrick McMillan Blue Ridge: A Crucible of Life 9:30 NC SciTech Now North Carolina Seismic Fish 10:00 EX Castles: Britain’s Fortified History Kingdom of Conquest NC The Crowd & the Cloud Citizens + Science 11:00 TV Film School Shorts Crossed Stars EX Fake or Fortune? LS Lowry Art detectives probe three small pictures. NC PBS NewsHour 11:30 TV BBC World News
11 TUESDAY 6:00 TV PBS NewsHour EX Taste of Louisiana with Chef John Folse & Co. Native America: Native Plant Foods NC BBC World News America 6:30 EX Mexico— One Plate at a Time Chocolate Dreams, Cacao Fantasies NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report EX Rick Steves’ Europe Bulgaria NC Charlie Rose 7:30 TV Flavor, NC Old Mill of Guilford/ J. Peppers EX Smart Travels— Europe with Rudy Maxa Hill Towns of Tuscany & Umbria 8:00 TV Nazi Mega Weapons Super Fortress— Channel Island
EX Africa’s Great Civilizations The Cross & the Crescent DV
NC Facing Alzheimer’s: An African-American Perspective Consider unique challenges dealing with this debilitating disease. 8:30 NC Black Issues Forum Center for Alzheimer’s Caregivers 9:00 TV The Great War: American Experience Chart America’s entry into the conflict EX Flying to the Ends of the Earth Australia & Papua NC Alzheimer’s: Every Minute Counts Explore the devastating disease’s public health threat. 10:00 EX Right To Risk: A 15-Day Journey Through Arizona’s Grand Canyon Individuals with disabilities raft the Colorado River. DV NC Living with Alzheimer’s & Dementia See the diseases’ effects on individuals, families and communities. 11:00 TV North Carolina & the Great War Explore our state’s role in WWI. EX Travelscope Chile—The Driest Place on Earth DV NC PBS NewsHour 11:30 TV BBC World News EX Desert Speaks Bats Among Us
12 WEDNESDAY 6:00 TV PBS NewsHour EX Secrets of Great British Castles Cardiff Castle NC BBC World News America 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report EX Rick Steves’ Europe Romania NC Charlie Rose 7:30 TV SciTech Now North Carolina NC’s Solar Eclipse EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese Turkey: Journey to Love Valley
Right to Risk: A 15-Day Journey Through Arizona’s Grand Canyon follows intrepid adventurers, Tuesday, April 11, at 10 PM, on The Explorer Channel. April | 11
evening&weekend listings 8:00 TV Nature Viva Puerto Rico Charismatic scientists strive to save enchanting animals. DV EX Pati’s Mexican Table Merida—Exploring with the Locals NC REEL SOUTH Soul City In the 1970s, civil rights activists tried building a multiracial utopia in NC. 8:30 EX Julie Taboulie’s Lebanese Kitchen Meet Me at the Market NC Independent Lens Welcome to Leith A town’s residents struggle against a white supremacist. 9:00 TV The Great War: American Experience See how WWI forever changed the U.S. EX Lucky Chow Koreatown USA 9:30 EX Family Ingredients Okinawa—Soki Soba DV 10:00 EX Great British Baking Show Masterclass 1 NC The Editor & the Dragon: Horace Carter Fights the Klan This Tabor City paper won a Pulitzer for its publisher’s coverage of the KKK in the pre-Civil Rights era. 11:00 TV Are You Being Served? Hoorah for the Holidays EX Stephen Fry in Central America Belize to Guatemala NC PBS NewsHour 11:30 TV BBC World News
13 THURSDAY 6:00 TV PBS NewsHour EX Cooking Odyssey American Farm School NC BBC World News America 6:30 EX New Scandinavian Cooking Fire in the Belly NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report EX Rick Steves’ Europe Assisi & Italian Country Charm NC Charlie Rose 7:30 TV Our State Charlie Poole/Vanishing Links/Bamboo Country EX Smart Travels— Europe with Rudy Maxa Provence
11:00 TV Keeping Up Appearances A Picnic for Daddy EX Travelscope West Virginia— Wild & Wonderful DV NC PBS NewsHour 11:30 TV BBC World News EX Desert Speaks Grand Canyon— The Human Touch Julie Taboulie’s Lebanese Kitchen serves up flavorful food, starting Wednesday, April 12, at 8:30 PM, on The Explorer Channel.
6:00 TV PBS NewsHour EX Inspector Morse Death Is Now My Neighbour 8:00 TV NC Now NC BBC World News Overcoming Adversity America EX Curious Traveler 6:30 NC Nightly Business Curious Rome Report NC High Point University 7:00 TV Nightly Business Presents: Carol Folt Report Nido Qubein speaks EX Inspector Morse with the UNC-Chapel Hill Death Is Now My chancellor. Neighbour 8:30 TV Exploring NC Charlie Rose North Carolina 7:30 TV North Carolina In Perfect Harmony— Weekend Fort Bragg: Woodpeckers 8:00 TV Washington Week & Parachuters EX Doc Martin EX Family Travel Hazardous Exposure with Colleen Kelly NC North Carolina The Palm Beaches: Lions & Weekend Turtles & Polo Ponies 8:30 TV Front Row 9:00 TV North Carolina NC North Carolina Weekend Bookwatch EX Born To Explore Nancy Peacock—Life & with Richard Wiese Times of Persimmon Wilson Turkey: Journey to 8:50 EX NC Weekend—Shorts Love Valley Sylvan Heights Bird Park NC Service: When 9:00 TV Great Performances Women Come at the Met Marching Home Roméo et Juliette Vittorio Learn the raw truths Grigolo and Diana Damrau of our women warriors star in this new production. fighting in the battle EX Miss Fisher’s field called “home.” Murder Mysteries 9:30 TV A Craftsman’s Legacy Death & Hysteria The Potter Akira Satake NC Front Row discusses the serendipity 9:30 NC Washington Week that leads to one’s craft. EX Travels with Darley Guadeloupe Islands Caribbean Escape 10:00 TV REEL SOUTH Bending Sticks Celebrate the career of renowned environmental artist Patrick Dougherty. EX Dream of Italy Rome NC Makers Women in War 10:30 EX Painting the Town with Eric Dowdle Chattanooga DV See Shakespeare’s Roméo et Juliette on Great Performances at the Met Friday, April 14, at 9 PM, on UNC-TV.
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visit unctv.org EX New Scandinavian Cooking It All Starts with Kids NC Folkways Face Jugs & Folk Pots 10:30 TV Southern Accents Louisville EX Mexico— One Plate at a Time Baking Up Comfort NC A Craftsman’s Legacy The Potter Akira Satake discusses the serendipity that leads to one’s craft. 11:00 TV Growing a Greener World The Giving Garden: 15 SATURDAY Ample Harvest Helps 6:00 TV Mister Rogers’ Share the Bounty Neighborhood DV EX Taste of History EX Expeditions with Dr. Benjamin Rush: Father Patrick McMillan of American Psychiatry The Trans-Pecos— NC The Woodwright’s A Changing Landscape Shop with Roy Underhill NC Biographical Conver Pinch Rod & Squeezy sations with Terry Sanford Blocks DV Part 3 of 3 11:30 TV P. Allen Smith’s 6:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s Garden Home Neighborhood DV Healthy for Generations DV EX Exploring EX From the Vineyard North Carolina Cypress Bend/Surry Fishy Science Community College 7:00 TV Sesame Street DV NC The Woodwright’s EX Carolina Outdoor Shop with Roy Underhill Journal Classics A Spring Pole Lathe NC Carolina Outdoor Noon TV The Best of Journal Classics Almanac Gardener 7:30 TV Sesame Street DV Growing Spring Greens… EX Carolina Lettuce, Spinach, Beets/ Outdoor Journal Ornamental Grasses Drifting for Catfish EX Smart Travels— NC Carolina Pacific Rim with Outdoor Journal Rudy Maxa Drifting for Catfish New Zealand’s North Island 8:00 TV Splash & Bubbles NC Growing a EX North Carolina Greener World Weekend Solitary Bees: The NC Exploring Unsung Heroes in the North Carolina World of Pollinators In Perfect Harmony: 12:30 TV America’s Heartland Fort Bragg Summer Herding with 8:30 TV Curious George DV City Slickers EX Southern Accents EX Desert Speaks High Hampton Inn & Beyond the Asphalt, Part 1 Country Club, Cashiers NC The Best of NC Exploring Almanac Gardener North Carolina Growing Spring Greens… In Perfect Harmony— Lettuce, Spinach, Beets/ Camp Lejeune: LeatherOrnamental Grasses necks & Leatherbacks 1:00 TV Antiques Roadshow 9:00 TV Nature Cat Salt Lake City, Part 2 EX Stephen Fry EX Joseph Rosendo’s in Central America Travelscope Belize to Guatemala Cruising the Mediterranean DV NC North Carolina NC REEL SOUTH Weekend Soul City In the 1970s, civil 9:30 TV Dinosaur Train DV rights activists tried building NC Our State a multiracial utopia in NC. Dirt to Shirt/Fins & Feathers 10:00 TV North Carolina Weekend 0:00 EX Father Brown 1 The Daughter of Autolycus NC Common Ground 10:30 NC Carolina Business Review 10:50 EX NC Weekend—Shorts Serafina Experience 11:00 EX Travelscope Austria—Celebrating the Vine in Vienna & the Burgenland DV NC PBS NewsHour 11:30 EX Desert Speaks Grand Canyon: Floating Through Time
1:30 EX Family Travel with Colleen Kelly Saguenay-Lac St. Jean— A Whale of a Good Time on the Fjord NC Independent Lens Welcome to Leith A town’s residents struggle against a white supremacist. 2:00 TV Rick Steves’ Europe Rome: Baroque Brilliance EX Globe Trekker Rust Belt Highway, USA 2:30 TV Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Easter Island— Mysteries & Myths DV 3:00 TV A Craftsman’s Legacy The Master Penman Meet Jake Weidmann, the youngest ever master penman. EX Changing Seas The Secret Sex Life of Fish NC The Editor & the Dragon: Horace Carter Fights the Klan This Tabor City paper won a Pulitzer for its publisher’s coverage of the KKK in the pre-Civil Rights era. 3:30 EX Wonder of Animals Birds of Prey TV American Woodshop A Tool Bench for Every Home 4:00 TV The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Tool Chest Hinges & Latch DV
EX Dragons Alive Future Reptiles NC Front Row 4:30 TV This Old House Detroit—Down the Rehab Rabbit Hole NC Charlie Rose— The Week 5:00 TV Carolina Outdoor Journal Tough Morning Crappie EX Nature’s Treasure Islands: A Journey to the UK Overseas Territories Atlantic Arks: Ascension, Saint Helena & Tristan da Cunha NC PBS NewsHour Weekend 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Weekend NC Washington Week 6:00 TV Lawrence Welk Show Easter EX Someplace with a Mountain Meet Lapita Navigators, proud forefathers of many Pacific cultures. NC Echo Sessions Jon Stickley Trio
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evening&weekend listings 6:30 NC Backstage Pass Tony Monaco/Fareed Haque Trio Featuring Randy Gelispie 7:00 TV As Time Goes By Rocky’s Wedding Day EX Rick Steves’ Europe Romania NC Shakori Hills Concert Series Big Mean Sound Machine 7:30 TV As Time Goes By Living Together, But Where? EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese Canada: The Mighty Polar Bear Migration 8:00 TV Midsomer Murders Picture of Innocence, Part 2 EX Globe Trekker Rust Belt Highway 2, USA NC Song of the Mountains Virginia Remnants/ Wise Old River/ Hogslop String Band 9:00 TV Coroner Perfectly Formed EX Flying to the Ends of the Earth The Great Northern Wilderness NC David Holt’s State of Music Glencoe Mill—Alice Gerrard, Rayna Gellert & Laurelyn Dossett 9:30 NC David Holt’s State of Music Josh Goforth & The Branchettes 10:00 TV Death in Paradise The Impossible Murder EX Great Continental Railway Journeys Warsaw to Krakow NC Live from the Artists Den Sturgill Simpson 11:00 TV Tunnel Detectives try to find an elderly soldier before he freezes to death. EX Globe Trekker Rust Belt Highway, USA NC Austin City Limits Spoon/White Denim
16 SUNDAY 6 AM TV Nature Cat EX Stephen Fry in Central America El Salvador to Nicaragua NC Closer to Truth Huston Smith: Tribute to a Religious Visionary 6:30 TV Wild Kratts NC Education Matters 7:00 TV Thomas & Friends DV EX Globe Trekker Rust Belt Highway 2, USA 14 | April
Sail away with Martin Clunes: Islands of Australia, Sunday, April 16, at 8 PM, on The Explorer Channel.
11:30 TV Black Issues Forum Safety Within Walls— Immigrant Communities & Safety NC Novels Sounds: American Fiction in the Age of Rock & Roll The Contemporary Novel Noon TV North Carolina Bookwatch Nancy Peacock—Life & Times of Persimmon Wilson EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Armenia—Ancient History & Modern Traditions, Part 2 DV
2:30 TV Flavor, NC 1 NC The Truth About Pine Knot Farms—Collards Money with Ric Edelman EX Born To Explore Sexier Stocks with Richard Wiese 7:30 TV Bob the Builder DV Canada: The Mighty Polar NC Consuelo Mack Bear Migration WealthTrack NC Highway 64: 8:00 TV Curious George DV A Passing View EX Greeks Discover the scenic route The Good Strife through NC. NC Carolina Business 1:00 TV Ellie’s Real Good Food Review Cheese-Crazy Daddy 8:30 TV WordGirl DV EX A Place To Call Home NC Common Ground The Things We Do for Love 9:00 TV This Old House NC Senator No: Detroit—Down the Rehab Jesse Helms Rabbit Hole Take a look at the life of the EX Africa’s Great controversial senator. Civilizations 1:30 TV Martha Bakes The Cross & the Crescent Northwest DV 2:00 TV America’s Test NC Washington Week Kitchen from Cook’s 9:30 TV Ask This Old House Illustrated Water Heater, Storm Door Big Easy Favorites NC Front Row EX Miss Fisher’s 10:00 TV Exploring Murder Mysteries North Carolina Dead Air In Perfect Harmony— 2:30 TV Cook’s Country Fort Bragg: Woodpeckers Sweet Indulgences & Parachuters NC Umstead EX Flying to the An Island in an Urban Sea Ends of the Earth Discover a green refuge Australia & Papua nestled in NC’s Triangle. NC North Carolina 3:00 TV Sara’s Weeknight Bookwatch Meals Nancy Peacock—Life & Mexican Cocina Times of Persimmon Wilson EX Agatha Christie’s 10:30 TV SciTech Now Poirot North Carolina The Adventure of the NC’s Solar Eclipse Clapham Cook NC Well Read NC Olmsted & America’s George Saunders— Urban Parks Lincoln in the Bardo See the impact left by the 11:00 TV Carolina visionary designer of New Outdoor Journal York City’s Central Park. Tough Morning Crappie 3:30 TV Lidia’s Kitchen EX Right To Risk: A Cheese 15-Day Journey Through 4:00 TV Pati’s Mexican Table Arizona’s Grand Canyon Isla Mujeres Inspired Individuals with disabilities EX Father Brown raft the Colorado River. DV The Sins of the Father NC Novels Sounds: NC Carolina Outdoor American Fiction in the Journal Classics Age of Rock & Roll Rock & Literature II
visit unctv.org 4:30 TV Steven Raichlen’s Project Smoke Smoked in Four Courses NC North Carolina & the Great War Explore our state’s role in WWI. 5:00 TV Charlie Rose— The Week EX Secrets of Great British Castles Cardiff Castle NC PBS NewsHour Weekend 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Weekend NC BBC Newsnight 6:00 TV Doc Martin Better the Devil EX Victoria on Masterpiece Engine of Change NC Black Issues Forum Safety Within Walls—Immigrant Communities & Safety 6:30 NC Black America Education in Black America with Jahana Hayes 7:00 TV A Place To Call Home Somewhere Beyond the Sea EX Rick Steves Special European Easter NC A Chef’s Life Pimp My Grits 7:30 NC Flavor, NC Lettuce 8:00 TV Call the Midwife New legislation and Sister Ursula cause problems. EX Martin Clunes: Islands of Australia Premiere Lord Howe Island NC Holy Week at Duke Chapel Reverend Dr. William H. Willimon is your host. 9:00 TV Home Fires Season 2 on Masterpiece There’s more to Peter’s affair than Frances realized. EX Nature’s Treasure Islands: A Journey to the UK Overseas Territories Southern Ocean: Falklands, British Antarctic Territory, Elephant Island, Deception Island & South Georgia NC Ruth & Billy Graham: What Grace Provides Walter Cronkite narrates the couple’s life story. 10:00 TV Wolf Hall on Masterpiece Episode 3 Cromwell orchestrates the marriage of the king and Anne Boleyn. EX Master Plan Explore radical, life-changing designs for cities. FRONTLINE probes Last Days of Solitary, Tuesday, April 18, at 9 PM, on UNC-TV.
NC George Beverly Shea: The Wonder of It All Learn about the life and music of “America’s most beloved gospel singer.” 11:00 TV EastEnders EX Globe Trekker Central Japan NC Our State Dirt to Shirt/Fins & Feathers 11:30 TV EastEnders NC Native Report Artist Dyani White Hawk DV
17 MONDAY 6:00 TV PBS NewsHour EX Right To Risk: A 15-Day Journey Through Arizona’s Grand Canyon Individuals with disabilities raft the Colorado River. DV NC BBC World News America 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report EX Rick Steves’ Europe Siena & Tuscany’s Wine Country NC Charlie Rose 7:30 TV A Chef’s Life Turnips—The Roots EX Family Travel with Colleen Kelly The Palm Beaches—Lions & Turtles & Polo Ponies 8:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Salt Lake City, Part 3 EX Secrets of Great British Castles York Castle NC Exploring North Carolina History & Future of Water in North Carolina 8:30 NC Exploring North Carolina Salamanders As Canaries 9:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Chicago, Part 2 EX Victoria on Masterpiece Young England NC Expeditions with Patrick McMillan Grandfather Mountain, Island in the Sky 9:30 NC SciTech Now North Carolina NC’s Solar Eclipse
0:00 TV Independent Lens 1 Seed: The Untold Story Witness efforts to protect humanity’s 12,000-year-old food legacy. DV EX Castles: Britain’s Fortified History Defense of the Realm NC The Crowd & the Cloud Viral vs. Virus 11:00 TV Film School Shorts Somebody To Love EX Fake or Fortune? Renoir NC PBS NewsHour 11:30 TV BBC World News
18 TUESDAY 6:00 TV PBS NewsHour EX A Taste of Louisiana with Chef John Folse & Co. France: New World Exploration NC BBC World News America 6:30 EX Mexico— One Plate at a Time Dreaming of Sustainable Agriculture NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report EX Rick Steves’ Europe Southeast England NC Charlie Rose 7:30 TV Flavor, NC Brinkley Farms/ Nana’s EX Smart Travels— Europe with Rudy Maxa London 8:00 TV Grand Coulee Dam: American Experience After the Great Depression, this dam helped transform the Northwest. DV EX Africa’s Great Civilizations Empires of Gold/Cities DV NC North Carolina State Parks: Environmental Jewels See how park officials, scientists and the public work to save our most environmentally sensitive areas. 9:00 TV FRONTLINE Last Days of Solitary Newlyreleased prisoners go from solitary to the streets. EX Flying to the Ends of the Earth The Great Northern Wilderness NC Saving the Best: North Carolina State Parks at 100 Celebrate our state’s parks and the people who work, volunteer and visit them. April | 15
evening&weekend listings 10:00 EX Red Dot on the Ocean: The Matthew Rutherford Story Follow an attempt to sail alone and nonstop around North and South America. NC Blue Ridge Parkway: A Long & Winding Road Travel all 469 miles of the most visited segment of the National Park Service. 11:00 TV Waiting for God A Royal Visit? EX Travelscope Papua New Guinea— Cultural Encounters in an Ancient World DV NC PBS NewsHour 11:30 TV BBC World News EX Desert Speaks Pilgrimage to a Party
19 WEDNESDAY 6:00 TV PBS NewsHour EX Secrets of Great British Castles York Castle NC BBC World News America 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report EX Rick Steves’ Europe England’s Cornwall NC Charlie Rose 7:30 TV SciTech Now North Carolina Half Earth EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese Namibia: Wild Cheetah 8:00 TV Nature Hotel Armadillo Lizards, and more creatures spend time in a giant armadillo’s burrow. DV EX Pati’s Mexican Table Celestun—Coastal Cooking NC REEL SOUTH Private Violence Two survivors share complex realities of intimate partner violence. 8:30 EX Julie Taboulie’s Lebanese Kitchen Garden of Dreams 9:00 TV NOVA Holocaust Escape Tunnel Probe the ruins of a Nazi execution site in the heart of Lithuania. EX Lucky Chow Northern Thai Cuisine NC Enough Is Enough Examine common traits of abusive relationships and challenges victims face in seeking help. 9:30 EX Family Ingredients Tahiti—Poisson Cru DV
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Think about My Love Affair with the Brain: The Life & Science of Dr. Marian Diamond, Thursday, April 20, at 9 PM, on the North Carolina Channel.
NC POV Tough Love Having lost custody, two parents fight to win back their children and the trust of the courts. 10:00 TV Escape from a Nazi Death Camp Jewish prisoners staged a bloody escape from the Nazi death camp of Sobibor during WWII. EX Great British Baking Show Masterclass 2 11:00 TV Are You Being Served? Hand of Fate EX Stephen Fry in Central America El Salvador to Nicaragua NC PBS NewsHour 11:30 TV BBC World News
20 THURSDAY 6:00 TV PBS NewsHour EX Cooking Odyssey Kalamata NC BBC World News America 6:30 EX New Scandinavian Cooking Captain Haddock NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report EX Rick Steves’ Europe The Majesty of Madrid NC Charlie Rose 7:30 TV Our State Land Beneath His Feet/ Mount Mitchell/ Barns Reborn EX Smart Travels— Europe with Rudy Maxa Out of London 8:00 TV NC Now Feed Your Neighbor EX Curious Traveler Curious Copenhagen NC High Point University Presents: Carol Dweck HPU President Nido Qubein interviews the motivation expert and author.
8:30 TV Exploring North Carolina In Perfect Harmony— Camp Lejeune: Leathernecks & Leatherbacks EX Family Travel with Colleen Kelly Florida Keys & Key West 9:00 TV North Carolina Weekend EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese Namibia: Wild Cheetah NC My Love Affair with the Brain: The Life & Science of Dr. Marian Diamond Meet the academic and founder of modern neuroscience. 9:30 TV A Craftsman’s Legacy The Wood Turner Alan Hollar turns a bowl in the Appalachian Mountains. EX Travels with Darley Martinique Adventures 10:00 TV Craft in America Teachers EX Dream of Italy Umbria NC Makers Women in Business 10:30 EX Painting the Town with Eric Dowdle Baltimore DV 11:00 TV Keeping Up Appearances Early Retirement EX Travelscope Italy—Friuli Venezia Giulia: Italy’s Hidden Region DV NC PBS NewsHour 11:30 TV BBC World News EX Desert Speaks Wines of the Desert
21 FRIDAY 6:00 TV PBS NewsHour EX Inspector Morse The Wench Is Dead NC BBC World News America 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report
visit unctv.org 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report EX Inspector Morse The Wench Is Dead NC Charlie Rose 7:30 TV North Carolina Weekend 8:00 TV Washington Week EX Doc Martin Listen with Mother NC North Carolina Weekend 8:30 TV Front Row NC North Carolina Bookwatch Rich Rosen & Joe Mosnier—Julius Chambers 8:50 EX NC Weekend—Shorts River Forest Manor 9:00 TV Craft in America Nature—Patrick Dougherty EX Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries Death at the Grand NC Front Row 9:30 NC Washington Week 10:00 TV Craft in America Music EX Father Brown The Rod of Asclepius NC Common Ground 10:30 NC Carolina Business Review 10:50 EX NC Weekend—Shorts New River State Park 11:00 TV British Antiques Roadshow Norwich Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Part 1 EX Travelscope Guatemala—The Maya of the Western Highlands DV NC PBS NewsHour 11:30 TV BBC World News EX Desert Speaks Boom & Bust in a Desert Town
22 SATURDAY 6:00 TV Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood DV EX Expeditions with Patrick McMillan Colorado’s Rocky Mountains—The Rooftop of America NC Biographical Conversations with Jesse Helms Part 1 NC’s long-serving senator shares his story. 6:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV EX Exploring North Carolina Climate Changes in the Carolinas 7:00 TV Sesame Street DV EX Carolina Outdoor Journal Classics NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Classics
11:00 TV Growing a Greener World Regenerating Detroit Through Urban Gardening EX Taste of History The Water of Life: Cognac NC The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Tapered Tail Tripod Table, Part 1 DV 11:30 TV P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home The Local Life DV EX From the Vineyard Sanctuary Vineyard/ Hanover Park NC The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Ball & Claw Feet Noon TV The Best of Craft in America profiles NC Almanac Gardener stickwork artist Patrick Dougherty, Friday, April 21, at 9 PM, on UNC-TV. Variety of Ways To Use Herbs/Deer Resistant Plants EX Smart Travels— 7:30 TV Sesame Street DV Pacific Rim with EX Carolina Rudy Maxa Outdoor Journal Guadalajara/Puerto Vallarta Light for White Perch NC Growing a NC Carolina Greener World Outdoor Journal Setting Up a Garden Light for White Perch 12:30 TV America’s Heartland 8:00 TV Splash & Bubbles Traveling Ag School/ EX North Carolina Learning Blacksmithing Weekend EX Desert Speaks NC Exploring Beyond the Asphalt, Part 2 North Carolina NC The Best of History & Future of Water Almanac Gardener in North Carolina Variety of Ways To Use 8:30 TV Curious George DV Herbs/Deer Resistant Plants EX Southern Accents 1:00 TV Antiques Roadshow SAW’s BBQ Salt Lake City, Part 3 NC Exploring EX Joseph Rosendo’s North Carolina Travelscope Salamanders as Canaries Christmas in Switzerland DV 9:00 TV Nature Cat NC REEL SOUTH EX Stephen Fry Private Violence Two surviin Central America vors share complex realities El Salvador to Nicaragua of intimate partner violence. NC North Carolina 1:30 EX Family Travel Weekend with Colleen Kelly 9:30 TV Dinosaur Train DV Chicago—My Kind of Town NC Our State for the Holidays Hunt Library/Lockwood 2:00 TV Rick Steves’ Europe Folly River/One Moment, Rome: Backstreet Riches One Meeting EX Globe Trekker 10:00 TV North Carolina Rust Belt Highway 2, USA Weekend NC Enough Is Enough EX New Scandinavian Examine the problem of Cooking domestic violence in NC Oil Adventure from the perspectives of NC Folkways victims and abusers. Toys From the Fields 2:30 TV Joseph Rosendo’s 10:30 TV Southern Accents Travelscope Birmingham Hong Kong— EX Mexico— Asia’s World City DV One Plate at a Time NC POV The Splendor of Yucatan’s Tough Love Having lost Enchanting Markets custody, two parents must NC A Craftsman’s Legacy win back the court’s trust. The Primitive Bowmaker Greg Anderson is a naturalist and wilderness survivor April | 17
evening&weekend listings 3:00 TV A Craftsman’s Legacy The Ceramist David MacDonald shares his magnificent talents. EX Changing Seas Sponges: Oldest Creatures in the Sea? 3:30 TV American Woodshop Ultimate Outdoor Chair EX This Wild Life Elephant Baby Boom 4:00 TV The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Tool Chest from Bristol DV EX Martin Clunes: Islands of Australia Lord Howe Island NC Front Row 4:30 TV This Old House Windows of Detroit NC Charlie Rose— The Week 5:00 TV Carolina Outdoor Journal Jetty Trout EX Nature’s Treasure Islands: A Journey to the UK Overseas Territories Southern Ocean: Falklands, British Antarctic Territory, Elephant Island, Deception Island & South Georgia NC PBS NewsHour Weekend 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Weekend NC Washington Week 6:00 TV Lawrence Welk Show Keep a Song in Your Heart EX Master Plan The Congress for New Urbanism promotes ways to design cities in radical life-changing ways. NC Echo Sessions stephanies˘ıd 6:30 NC Backstage Pass Donald Kinsey with the Dewaynes 7:00 TV As Time Goes By Covering Up EX Rick Steves’ Europe Assisi & Italian Country Charm NC Shakori Hills Concert Series Elastic Bond 7:30 TV As Time Goes By Moving In EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese Tanzania: Summit on Mt. Kilimanjaro 8:00 TV Midsomer Murders They Seek Him Here, Part 1 EX Globe Trekker Tough Trains: the Transcontinental Railroad, USA NC Song of the Mountains Annabelle Watts/Joe Mullins & the Radio Ramblers 18 | April
9:00 TV Coroner Those in Peril After a hoax, a lifeboat volunteer drowns. EX Martin Clunes: Islands of Australia Lord Howe Island NC David Holt’s State of Music Wayne Henderson/ Jeff Little 9:30 NC David Holt’s State of Music Bruce Molsky/ Balsam Range 10:00 TV Death in Paradise Stumped in Murder EX Great Continental Railway Journeys A Coruña, Spain to Lisbon, Portugal NC Infinity Hall Live Melissa Etheridge 11:00 TV Tunnel Benji carries out his Samurai mission. EX Globe Trekker Rust Belt Highway 2, USA NC Austin City Limits Cassandra Wilson
EX Flying to the Ends of the Earth The Great Northern Wilderness NC North Carolina Bookwatch Rich Rosen & Joe Mosnier—Julius Chambers 10:30 TV SciTech Now North Carolina Half Earth NC Well Read Mohsin Hamid—Exit West 11:00 TV Carolina Outdoor Journal Jetty Trout EX Red Dot on the Ocean: The Matthew Rutherford Story Follow an attempt to sail alone and nonstop around North and South America. NC Novels Sounds: American Fiction in the Age of Rock & Roll Rock, Literature & the Folk 11:30 TV Black Issues Forum The DNA project at UNCW NC Novels Sounds: American Fiction in the Age of Rock & Roll 23 SUNDAY Rock, Literature, 6 AM TV Nature Cat Technology EX Stephen Fry in Noon TV North Carolina Central America Bookwatch Costa Rica to Panama Rich Rosen & Joe Mos NC Closer to Truth nier—Julius Chambers Observing Physics, EX Joseph Rosendo’s Observing Nature? Travelscope 6:30 TV Wild Kratts France—Following the NC Education Matters Rhone DV 7:00 TV Thomas & Friends DV 12:30 TV Flavor, NC EX Globe Trekker Car Classic Catfish Tough Trains: The Transcon- EX Born To Explore tinental Railroad, USA with Richard Wiese NC The Truth About Tanzania: Summit on Money with Ric Edelman Mt. Kilimanjaro Basic (Financial) Training 1:00 TV Ellie’s Real Good Food 7:30 TV Bob the Builder DV No Brainer Breakfasts NC Consuelo Mack EX A Place To Call Home WealthTrack L’chaim, To Life 8:00 TV Curious George DV NC Holy Week at EX Greeks Duke Chapel Chasing Greatness Rev. Dr. William H. Willimon NC Carolina Business is your host. Review 1:30 TV Martha Bakes 8:30 TV WordGirl DV Southern Classics NC Common Ground 2:00 TV America’s Test 9:00 TV This Old House Kitchen from Cook’s Windows of Detroit Illustrated EX Africa’s Great Pantry Pastas Civilizations EX Miss Fisher’s Empires of Gold/Cities DV Murder Mysteries NC Washington Week Unnatural Habits 9:30 TV Ask This Old House NC Ruth & Billy Graham: Build It, Cable Lighting What Grace Provides NC Front Row Walter Cronkite narrates 10:00 TV Exploring the couple’s life story. North Carolina 2:30 TV Cook’s Country In Perfect Harmony— Surf & Turf Goes Regional Camp Lejeune: Leathernecks & Leatherbacks
visit unctv.org 3:00 TV Sara’s Weeknight Meals Hot Day, Cool Kitchen EX Agatha Christie’s Poirot Murder in the Mews NC George Beverly Shea: The Wonder of It All Learn about the life and music of “America’s most beloved gospel singer.” 3:30 TV Lidia’s Kitchen My Favorite Braises 4:00 TV Pati’s Mexican Table Cancun: We Meet Again EX Father Brown The Wrath of Baron Samdi NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Classics 4:30 TV Steven Raichlen’s Project Smoke Ham Sessions NC Our State Unconditional Love/ Atlantic Beach Pie/ Dressed for Success 5:00 TV Charlie Rose— The Week EX Secrets of Great British Castles York Castle NC PBS NewsHour Weekend 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Weekend NC BBC Newsnight 6:00 TV Doc Martin Uneasy Lies the Head EX Victoria on Masterpiece Young England NC Black Issues Forum The DNA project at UNCW 6:30 NC Black America Church Ladies with Dr. Martia Goodson 7:00 TV A Place To Call Home Too Old to Dream EX Rick Steves Special Luther & the Reformation NC A Chef’s Life Cracklin’ Kitchen 7:30 NC Flavor, NC Mushrooms 8:00 TV Call the Midwife Tom is moved by a woman who buckles under the strains of pregnancy. EX Martin Clunes: Islands of Australia Tiwi Islands NC Mr. Civil Rights: Thurgood Marshall & the NAACP Explore Justice Marshall’s life in the years leading up to the Brown v. Board of Education ruling. 9:00 TV Home Fires Season 2 on Masterpiece Teresa is asked on a date.
Mel Brooks has The Last Laugh on Independent Lens, Monday, April 24, at 10 PM, on UNC-TV.
7:30 TV A Chef’s Life Turnips—The Greens EX Family Travel with Colleen Kelly Boston—One if by Land, Two if by Sea 8:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Virginia Beach, Part 1 EX Secrets of Great British Castles EX Nature’s Treasure Lancaster Castle Islands: A Journey to the NC Exploring UK Overseas Territories North Carolina To the Ends of the Earth: North Carolina’s Two The Chagos Archipelago Coasts, Part 1 & Pitcairn 8:30 NC Exploring NC Change Comes North Carolina Knocking North Carolina’s Two Discover the story of the Coasts, Part 2 anti-poverty North Carolina 9:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Fund (NCF) that confronted Chicago, Part 3 race, class and politics dur EX Princes of the Palace ing the turbulent 1960s. Meet three generations of 10:00 TV Wolf Hall on British royal princes. Masterpiece NC Expeditions with Episode 4 Cromwell makes Patrick McMillan nobility and church swear The Ace Basin: that Anne is lawful queen. A Coastal Treasure EX Globe Trekker 9:30 NC SciTech Now Isolated Islands: St. Helena North Carolina NC Chairman Jones: The Science of Coffee An Improbable Leader 10:00 TV Independent Lens A farmer became a trail The Last Laugh Mel Brooks blazer for equal educational and others discuss opportunities as well as comedic limits. NC’s first African-American NC The Crowd school board chair. & the Cloud 11:00 TV EastEnders Citizens4Earth EX Globe Trekker 10:30 EX Last Dukes Rust Belt Highway, USA Do British dukes retain his NC Our State torical power and wealth? Hunt Library/Lockwood 11:00 NC PBS NewsHour Folly River/One Moment, 11:30 TV BBC World News One Meeting EX Rick Steves’ Europe 11:30 TV EastEnders England’s Bath & York NC Native Report Violinist Karen Durfee DV
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24 MONDAY 6:00 TV PBS NewsHour EX Red Dot on the Ocean: The Matthew Rutherford Story Follow an attempt to sail alone and nonstop around North and South America. NC BBC World News America 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report EX Rick Steves’ Europe Highlights of Castile: Toledo & Salamanca NC Charlie Rose
6:00 TV PBS NewsHour EX A Taste of Louisiana with Chef John Folse & Co. France: Fort St. Jean Baptiste & the Colonial Frontier NC BBC World News America 6:30 EX Mexico— One Plate at a Time Pit Cooking, Sacred & Smoky NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report EX Rick Steves’ Europe Belfast & the Best of Northern Ireland NC Charlie Rose April | 19
evening&weekend listings 7:30 TV Flavor, NC Seaview Crab Company/ Port Land Grille EX Smart Travels— Europe with Rudy Maxa Amsterdam & the Netherlands 8:00 TV Command & Control: American Experience Learn the terrifying truth of one of America’s most dangerous nuclear accidents. DV EX Africa’s Great Civilizations Cities DV NC America’s First Forest: Carl Schenck & the Asheville Experiment This pioneering educator founded the first school of forestry in America. 9:00 EX Egypt’s Treasure Guardians Determined individuals strive to safeguard the country’s heritage. NC Longleaf: The Heart of Pine Explore the history of this ancient primeval forest and how it might be saved. 10:00 TV FRONTLINE The Fish on My Plate Paul Greenberg eats only fish for a year and investigates the health of the ocean. EX Richard Bangs’ Adventures with Purpose Egypt: Quest for the Lord of the Nile Uncover ancient history, myths and culture on this great river. NC Mystery of George Masa What happened to a Japanese immigrant who made a lasting impact on the Appalachian Mountains? 11:00 EX Travelscope Guatemala—Seeking the Past in Tikal & Yaxha DV NC PBS NewsHour 11:30 TV BBC World News EX Desert Speaks Saving Australia’s Wild West
26 WEDNESDAY 6:00 TV PBS NewsHour EX Secrets of Great British Castles Lancaster Castle NC BBC World News America 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report EX Rick Steves’ Europe London: Mod & Trad NC Charlie Rose 20 | April
Catch Nature Forest of the Lynx, Wednesday, April 26, at 8 PM, on UNC-TV.
7:30 TV SciTech Now North Carolina The Moving Show EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese India: Good Karma 8:00 TV Nature Forest of the Lynx EX Pati’s Mexican Table Sunday Family Food NC REEL SOUTH 120 Days A family man must make a tough choice when a judge orders him to self-deport to Mexico. 8:30 EX Julie Taboulie’s Lebanese Kitchen It’s Taboulie Time 9:00 TV NOVA Building Chernobyl’s Megatomb Engineers race to contain lingering radioactive materials. EX Lucky Chow Filipino Entrepreneurs NC Harvest of Dignity Fifty years on, issues about immigration policies and food safety persist. 9:30 EX Family Ingredients California—Pipi Kaula DV NC POV Don’t Tell Anyone Meet the only advice columnist for undocumented youth. 10:00 TV Wild Weather Brave, ambitious experiments illustrate how weather works. EX Great British Baking Show Masterclass 3 11:00 TV Are You Being Served? Coffee Morning EX Stephen Fry in Central America Costa Rica to Panama NC PBS NewsHour 11:30 TV BBC World News
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6:30 EX New Scandinavian Cooking Rain & Rainbows NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report EX Rick Steves’ Europe Highlights of Paris: Eiffel & Monet to Crème Brûlée NC Charlie Rose 7:30 TV Our State William Ivey Long/ Natural Connections with Doug Elliott EX Smart Travels— Europe with Rudy Maxa Copenhagen & Denmark 8:00 TV NC Now Music Preservation EX Curious Traveler Curious Vancouver NC Courthouse Premiere! Pittsboro rebuilds its 1881 courthouse, destoyed by fire in 2010. 8:30 TV Exploring North Carolina History & Future of Water in NC EX Family Travel with Colleen Kelly Pennsylvania Camping— Lancaster, Gettysburg & Hershey NC Executive Mansion— The Mansion at 200 North Blount Tour the Queen Anne style residence of NC’s governor. 9:00 TV North Carolina Weekend EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese India: Good Karma NC Passion for Place North Carolina Architecture 9:30 TV A Craftsman’s Legacy The Stained Glassmaker Ekaterina Reier creates art with glass and light. EX Travels with Darley Hong Kong Urban Adventures 10:00 TV Craft in America Nature EX Dream of Italy Naples/Amalfi Coast NC Saving the Hansen House See how a college professor saved a dilapidated 250-year-old farmhouse. 10:30 EX Painting the Town with Eric Dowdle San Antonio, TX DV 11:00 TV Keeping Up Appearances Iron Age Remains
visit unctv.org Celebrate Saving the Hansen House, Thursday, April 27, at 10 PM, on the North Carolina Channel.
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NC Terry Sanford: Life & Legacy The NC governor, senator and Duke University president shares his story. 10:00 TV Wolf Hall on Masterpiece Episode 5 With Anne again pregnant and away, Henry notices Jane Seymour. EX Globe Trekker Caribbean Islands: St. Lucia, Martinique & Montserrat NC State of Mine: The Jim Hunt Story Take an in-depth look at the life and legacy of NC’s only four-term governor. 11:00 TV EastEnders EX Globe Trekker Rust Belt Highway 2, US NC Our State Mineral City/ Becoming Clyde 11:30 TV EastEnders NC Native Report Change the Mascot Movement DV
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