CenterPiece April 2018

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Powerful Documentary Storytelling Rooted in the tradition of Southern storytelling, REEL SOUTH returns for its third season with new compelling stories and unforgettable characters. Join us for a reckoning of the past, present and future on a riveting journey through the REEL SOUTH on member-supported UNC-TV.


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EXPLORE WITH NATURE CAT! Weekends, at 7 AM & 1 PM This month, Read-a-roo welcomes Nature Cat to the Block Party! Everyone can be a superhero, but it takes caring enough to pursue your dreams. Take ordinary house cat Fred, for example. Fred dreams of the great outdoors, and when his family leaves for the day, Fred becomes Nature Cat! And although he has no real instincts for the natural world, this passionate and curious feline loves learning and experiencing all he can about nature. Join Nature Cat and his animal friends for action-packed adventures!

CELEBRATE THE NC SCIENCE FESTIVAL Read-a-roo’s Block Party— Special Earth Day Edition, Saturday & Sunday, April 21 & 22, at 7 AM & 1 PM! The NC Science Festival is going on all across our state this month and we’re celebrating with a special Earth Day Edition of Read-a-roo’s Block Party! Catch great Earth Day shows from Nature Cat, along with special original science content on Rootle, Saturday and Sunday, April 21 and 22!

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2:00 Sesame Street DV 2:30 Dinosaur Train DV 3:30 Splash & Bubbles 4:00 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV 5:00 Pinkalicious & Peterrific

6 PM Nature Cat 7:00 Wild Kratts 8:00 Odd Squad 9:00 Arthur DV 10:00 Sesame Street DV 10:30 Dinosaur Train DV 11:30 Splash & Bubbles 12 M Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV 1:00 Pinkalicious & Peterrific 2:00 Nature Cat 3:00 Wild Kratts 4:00 Odd Squad DV 5:00 Arthur DV

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evening&weekend listings 1 SUNDAY 6 AM  TV Nature Cat  NC  Closer to Truth Can Metaphysics Discern God, Part 2  EX History Detectives 1775 Almanac 6:30  TV Wild Kratts  NC  Education Matters Learn about key issues affecting education in NC. 7:00  TV Ready Jet Go! DV  NC  Truth About Money with Ric Edelman The financial advisor shares his insights.  EX Globe Trekker Food Hour: Provence, France 7:30  TV Bob the Builder DV  NC  Consuelo Mack WealthTrack Get advice for managing investments. 8:00  TV Curious George  NC  Carolina Business Review Chris William and his guests discuss business news in the Carolinas.  EX Finding Your Roots The Impression with Larry David & Bernie Sanders 8:30  TV Wild Kratts  NC  Market to Market Get solid reporting and analyses about agriculture and commodity markets. 9:00  TV This Old House Charleston: Southern Charm  NC  Washington Week Leading journalists analyze major news & events.  EX Inside the Tube: Going Underground World’s First Underground 9:30  TV Ask This Old House Installing Metal Railings/ Replacing Cracked Floor Tiles  NC  FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman The political analyst and his guests discuss public affairs and policy issues. 10:00  TV MUSE: The Arts Show Damian Stamer  NC  NC SPIN Join Tom Campbell and his guests for informative, balanced debate for the Old North State.  EX Penelope Keith’s Hidden Villages North Yorkshire 10:30  TV SciTech Now North Carolina New Lost Colony Discoveries 4­ | April

Meet creatures that have adapted through some super stretched parts as David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities premieres Sunday, April 1, at 9 PM, on The Explorer Channel.

NC  North Carolina Bookwatch Daniel Wallace— Extraordinary Adventures 11:00  TV North Carolina Bookwatch Daniel Wallace— Extraordinary Adventures  NC  Articulate with Jim Cotter Mark Mothersbaugh, 21st Century Renaissance Man  EX Hidden Killers The Edwardian Home 11:30  TV Black Issues Forum Cuba & the Black Connection  NC  MUSE: The Arts Show Rosalia Torres-Weiner, Artivist Noon  TV FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman  NC  Carolina Outdoor Journal Pee Dee Catfish  EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Peru—The Amazon & Beyond DV 12:30  TV NC SPIN  NC  Fishing Behind the Lines Spring Walleye— Dave Rocky Rockwell  EX Weekends with Yankee Lost & Found 1:00  TV Ellie’s Real Good Food Desserts with Benefits  NC  Song of the Mountains Jeff Little Trio/ Dale Ann Bradley  EX Doc Martin The Departed 1:30  TV Martha Bakes Rethinking Cake 2:00  EX Doc Martin & the Legend of the Cloutie Doc goes to great lengths to spook a family into leaving a property he loves.

TV America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated Modern Weeknight Meals  NC  Yep Roc Records Presents Mandolin Orange Celebrate 20 years of Hillsborough’s Yep Roc Records with Chapel Hill’s Emily Frantz and Andrew Marlin in concert. 2:30  TV Cook’s Country Badger State Favorites 3:00  TV Sara’s Weeknight Meals 5 Ingredients Spell Dinner  NC  Austin City Limits Band of Horses/ Parker Millsap  EX Father Brown The Fire in the Sky 3:30  TV Lidia’s Kitchen Family Brunch 4:00  TV Mexico— One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless Off the Beaten Path in Playa del Carmen  NC  First in Future Dr. Ken Dodge Leslie Boney of the Institute for Emerging Issues engages leaders in topics affecting our state.  EX Father Brown The Penitent Man 4:30  TV Pati’s Mexican Table More Than Just a Meal  NC  Situation Report Jeff Smith discusses topics and issues around the military and veterans. 5:00  TV Washington Week  NC  PBS NewsHour Weekend Gain insights about the week’s issues.  EX Midsomer Murders They Seek Him Here, Part 2 5:30  TV PBS NewsHour Weekend


visit unctv.org  NC  BBC Newsnight Get comprehensive coverage of international news & current events. 6 PM  TV Doc Martin Erotomania  NC  Black Issues Forum Cuba & the Black Connection  EX Samantha Brown’s Places to Love Oregon RV Trip 6:30  NC  Black America The Power of the Documentary with June Cross  EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese Africa: The Elephant Trunk Show 6:50 TV My Home, NC—Shorts Rescue Ranch, Statesville 7:00  TV A Place To Call Home No Other Love  NC  Graceful Voices In a Florida community, Bahamian and AfricanAmerican women share lifelong friendships.  EX Globe Trekker Tough Trains: Bolivia 7:30  NC  REEL SOUTH Soul City 7:50 TV My Home, NC—Shorts Villa Verde, Greenville 8:00  TV Call the Midwife A mother abandons her children at the clinic, devastating the family.  NC  Women Outward Bound Take an adventure with the first women to participate in the survival school course, in 1965.  EX Nature Leave It to Beavers DV 9:00  TV Child in Time on Masterpiece A moment of distraction triggers a crisis for a happy, successful British couple.  NC  Oceans of Pink Discover the growth of dragon boat racing among breast cancer survivors.  EX David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities Series Premiere! Stretched to the Limit 9:30  EX Nature’s Microworlds Premiere! Galapagos 10:00  NC  My Girlfriends Quilt Celebrate friendship and women’s healing power.  EX Exotic Invaders: Pythons in the Everglades See how this fragile ecosystem is under attack.

10:30  TV Little Women: A Timeless Story Go behind-the-scenes of the upcoming series featuring Emily Watson and Angela Lansbury. 11:00  TV EastEnders  NC  Our State Chinquapenn/Homeland Creamery/Land of Ahs  EX Globe Trekker North East England 11:30  TV EastEnders  NC  MUSE: The Arts Show Weaverville’s Master Puppeteer Hobey Ford

8:30  NC  Exploring North Carolina Green Gift 9:00  TV REEL SOUTH Season Premiere! Gip Alabama’s last, true juke joint faces a changing neighborhood.  NC  Changing Seas The Future of Seafood 9:30  NC  SciTech Now North Carolina Bug Museum  EX Downton Abbey Season 1 on Masterpiece Episode 2 10:00  TV Independent Lens When God Sleeps After hardline clerics issue a fatwa for his death, Iranian musician Shahin Najafi must go into hiding.  NC  NOVA The Great Math Mystery Math’s power across the centuries sheds light on how it works in our brains. 11:00  NC  PBS NewsHour  EX History Detectives 1775 Almanac 11:30  TV Amanpour on PBS Journalist Christiane Amanpour brings global issues into focus.

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6 PM  TV PBS NewsHour Get in-depth analyses of current events.  NC  BBC World News America Katty Kay shares unique global perspectives.  EX Hidden Killers The Edwardian Home 6:30  NC  Nightly Business Report Seasoned reporters review financial news. 7:00  TV Nightly Business Report  NC  PBS NewsHour  EX Rick Steves’ Europe Assisi & Italian Country Charm 7:30  TV A Chef’s Life R-E-S-P-E-C-T the Butterbean  EX Samantha Brown’s Places to Love Shanghai, China 8:00  TV Antiques Roadshow Portland, Part 1  NC  Exploring North Carolina For the Birds  EX Downton Abbey Season 1 on Masterpiece Episode 1 See the entire hit series this month on The Explorer Channel!

6 PM  TV PBS NewsHour  NC  BBC World News America  EX Taste of Louisiana with Chef John Folse & Co. Redfish/Snapper— Caminada Pass 6:30  NC  Nightly Business Report  EX Joanne Weir’s Plates & Places It’s All Greek to Me 7:00  TV Nightly Business Report  NC  PBS NewsHour  EX Rick Steves’ Europe West England 7:30  TV Flavor, NC Sweet Potatoes  EX Rudy Maxa’s World Istanbul, Turkey 8:00  TV Roads to Memphis: American Experience Follow the entwined stories of assassin James Earl Ray and his target Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. DV  NC  North Carolina Bookwatch Alex Harris & Margaret Sartor—Dream of a House  EX Inside the Tube: Going Underground The First Modern Tube Line 8:30  NC  First in Future

Keep an eye out for Nature’s Microworlds, premiering Sunday, April 1, at 9:30 PM, on The Explorer Channel.

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evening&weekend listings Exploring North Carolina premieres the first of a four-part look at Water in NC: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow, Thursday, April 5, at 8:30 PM, on UNC-TV.

9:00  TV Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise Out of the Shadows/ Move on Up DV  NC  MUSE: The Arts Show Frank Thompson: NC Silent Film  EX Penelope Keith’s Hidden Villages Pembrokeshire 9:30  NC  Comic Culture John Hambrock (The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee)

4 WEDNESDAY 6 PM  TV PBS NewsHour  NC  BBC World News America  EX Crowd & the Cloud Even Big Data Starts Small DV

6:30  NC  Nightly Business Report 7:00  TV Nightly Business Report  NC  PBS NewsHour  EX Rick Steves’ Europe Southeast England See Grammy-winner Sarah Jarosz 7:30  TV SciTech Now Live at the Charleston Music Hall, Tuesday, April 3, at 10:00 PM, on the North Carolina North Carolina Channel. Bug Museum  EX Born To Explore 10:00  NC  Live at the with Richard Wiese Charleston Music Hall Namibia: Painted Sarah Jarosz People of the Desert  EX Hidden Killers 8:00  TV Nature Hidden Killers of the Sex, Lies & Butterflies Postwar Home Follow one of the greatest 10:30  NC  Live at the migrations on earth. DV Charleston Music Hall  NC  Folkways Patrick Davis & Pottery Revival in His Midnight Choir Catawba Valley 11:00  TV Amanpour on PBS  EX Joanne Weir’s  NC  PBS NewsHour Plates & Places  EX Joseph Rosendo’s Cookies Travelscope 8:30  NC  Folkways Bhutan, Part 1—Gross Face Jugs & Folk Pots National Happiness DV  EX Mike Colameco’s 11:30  TV BBC World News Real Food  EX In the Americas Philippines with David Yetman 9:00  TV Black America Since Yakima: The Quest for Hops MLK: And Still I Rise Keep Your Head Up/ Touch the Sky DV  NC  The Hammocks Explore the history of one of NC’s most pristine coastal state parks.  EX How To Cook Well with Rory O’Connell Premiere! Grilled Pork Chops 9:30  NC  White Lake: Remembering the Nation’s Safest Beach This small lake town of How To Cook Well with Rory 800 once entertained over O’Connell premieres Wednesday, 10,000 visitors per day. April 4, at 9 PM, on The Explorer Channel.

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EX Kevin Belton’s New Orleans Kitchen Series Premiere! Crawfish Pie, Baked Stuffed Flounder with Herbsaint Butter & Banana Fritters 10:00  EX I’ll Have What Phil’s Having Hong Kong  NC  The Outer Banks: North Carolina’s Coastal Treasure Discover the beauty and diversity of our coastal jewels. 11:00  TV Amanpour on PBS  NC  PBS NewsHour  EX Two for the Road One Crazy Day in Bangkok 11:30  TV BBC World News  EX Travels with Darley Missouri’s Route 66 & St. Louis

5 THURSDAY 6 PM  TV PBS NewsHour  NC  BBC World News America  EX Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television The New Baking Bring a big appetite for Kevin Belton’s New Orleans Kitchen, premiering Wednesday, April 4, at 9:30 PM, on The Explorer Channel.


visit unctv.org Catch a new season of exotic places to visit on Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope, premiering Thursday, April 5, at 9 PM, on The Explorer Channel.

6:30  NC  Nightly Business Report  EX New Orleans Cooking with Kevin Belton Egg Dishes 7:00  TV Nightly Business Report  NC  PBS NewsHour  EX Rick Steves’ Europe England’s Cornwall 7:30  TV Our State Elizabeth City/Window Dressing/Pines & Needles  EX Rudy Maxa’s World Turkey’s Turquoise Coast 8:00  TV MUSE: The Arts Show Frank Thompson: NC Silent Film  NC  Flavor, NC Vineyards: Grandfather/ A Secret Garden/ Grapeful Sister  EX Two for the Road One Crazy Day in Bangkok 8:30  TV Exploring North Carolina Water in NC: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow, Part 1  NC  Cooking 80/20 with Robin Shea Meal Stacking at Its Best  EX Travels with Darley Santa Fe Arts & Culture 9:00  TV North Carolina Weekend  NC  A Chef’s Life Bourbon Country  EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Season Premiere! Mekong River Adventure, Part 1 DV 9:30  TV Flavor, NC Vineyard: Dobbins Creek, Laurel Gray, Baker Buffalo Creek & Rock of Ages  NC  From the Vineyard Cypress Bend/Surry Community College  EX Weekends with Yankee The End of the Line 10:00  TV REEL SOUTH Gip Alabama’s last, true juke joint faces a changing neighborhood.

NC  North Carolina Weekend Deborah Holt Noel shows what’s up this weekend.  EX Dream of Italy Umbria 10:30  NC  Southern Accents Gatlinburg, TN  EX Travel Detective with Peter Greenberg Alternatives to Commercial Jets DV 11:00  TV Amanpour on PBS  NC  PBS NewsHour  EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Ontario, Canada’s Niagara Peninsula—Toronto & Beyond DV 11:30  TV BBC World News  EX In the Americas with David Yetman Panama’s Wild West

6 FRIDAY 6 PM  TV PBS NewsHour  NC  BBC World News America  EX Taste of History Boston’s Famous Parker House 6:30  NC  Nightly Business Report  EX Kevin Belton’s New Orleans Kitchen Crawfish Pie, Baked Stuffed Flounder with Herbsaint Butter & Banana Fritters 7:00  TV Nightly Business Report  NC  PBS NewsHour  EX Rick Steves’ Europe South England: Dover to Lands’ End 7:30  TV NC SPIN  EX Rudy Maxa’s World Bangkok, Thailand 8:00  TV Washington Week Leading journalists analyze major news and events.  NC  North Carolina Weekend  EX A Place To Call Home Answer Me, My Love 8:30  TV FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman

NC  MUSE: The Arts Show Frank Thompson: NC Silent Film 8:50 EX North Carolina Weekend—Shorts Mystery Hill, Blowing Rock 9:00  TV Rise & Fall of the Brown Buffalo Examine the life of lawyer, author and countercultural icon Oscar Zeta Acosta.  NC  FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman  EX Call the Midwife A secret romance faces heartbreak. 9:30  NC  Washington Week 10:00  TV Richard Pryor: Icon Explore one of America’s greatest comics and his profound influence.  NC  NC SPIN  EX Father Brown The Hand of Lucia 10:30  NC  Carolina Business Review 10:50  EX North Carolina Weekend—Shorts Zoo 11:00  TV Amanpour on PBS  NC  PBS NewsHour  EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Thousand Islands— A Canadian Binational Adventure DV 11:30  TV BBC World News  EX In the Americas with David Yetman Argentina’s Route 40: From the Steppes to the Lake

7 SATURDAY 6 AM  TV Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood DV  NC  Biographical Conversations with Bob Timberlake Part 3 of 3  EX Carolina Outdoor Journal Tagging Expedition— Grey Trout 6:30  TV Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV  EX Carolina Outdoor Journal Classics Tidewater Puppy Drum 7:00  TV Sesame Street DV  NC  Carolina Outdoor Journal Classics Transition Bass  EX Exploring North Carolina Nature’s Classroom April | 7


evening&weekend listings 7:30  TV Dinosaur Train DV  NC  Carolina Outdoor Journal Pee Dee Catfish  EX Exploring North Carolina Fort Bragging Rights 8:00  TV Pinkalicious & Peterrific DV  NC  Exploring North Carolina Stuck in Clay  EX North Carolina Weekend 8:30  TV Splash & Bubbles  NC  Exploring North Carolina Fossil Fields  EX Southern Accents Atlanta 9:00  TV Curious George  NC  North Carolina Weekend  EX Travels with Darley Finger Lakes & Monongahela Forests 9:30  TV Nature Cat  NC  Our State Soldier’s Story/Trail of Trust  EX Dream of Italy Florence 10:00  TV North Carolina Weekend  NC  MUSE: The Arts Show Great Raleigh Acorn Drop  EX New Scandinavian Cooking A Taste of Winter 10:30  TV Exploring North Carolina Women in Science  NC  Craftsman’s Legacy The Sand Caster  EX How To Cook Well with Rory O’Connell Grilled Pork Chops 11:00  TV Growing a Greener World The Private Garden of a Public Gardener  NC  The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill The Venerable Bead DV  EX Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television From Thailand with Love 11:30  TV P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home Cotton All Around DV  NC  The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Corner Cupboard, Part 2 DV

EX Pati’s Mexican Table Tamaliza! Noon  TV Almanac Gardener Xeriscaping, Drought Tolerant Landscaping  NC  Searching for a Fix NC families who’ve lost loved ones to opioid deaths share their stories. 8­ | April

Don’t miss the season premiere of popular British whodunnit Midsomer Murders, Saturday, April 7, at 8 PM, on UNC-TV.

EX Rudy Maxa’s World Montreal & Quebec City 12:30  TV America’s Heartland Hawaii Farmers/ Farmer & Woodworker  EX In the Americas with David Yetman Brazil’s Pernambuco: The Forgotten Interior 1:00  TV Antiques Roadshow Portland, Part 1  NC  A Crisis: NC’s Opioid Battle State leaders describe their efforts to fight opioid addiction in our state.  EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Ontario, Canada’s Niagara Peninsula—Toronto & Beyond DV 1:30  EX Samantha Brown’s Places to Love Huntsville, AL 2:00  TV Rick Steves’ Europe Lisbon & the Algarve  NC  Understanding the Opioid Epidemic Follow stories of affected people and get the latest information from experts.  EX Globe Trekker Tough Trains: Bolivia 2:30  TV Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Ireland—Coast to Coast DV 3:00  TV Craftsman’s Legacy The Woodworker  NC  Situation Report  EX Secrets of the Dead Vampire Legend DV 3:30  TV American Woodshop Tripod Occasional Table  NC  Comic Culture John Hambrock (The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee) 4:00  TV The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Forging the Hold Fast DV  NC  FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman

EX History Detectives Belgian War Medal/ Women’s Suffrage Pennant 4:30  TV This Old House Charleston: Demo Time  NC  NC SPIN 5:00  TV Carolina Outdoor Journal Spring Top Water Bass  NC  PBS NewsHour Weekend  EX Antiques Roadshow Portland, Part 1 5:30  TV PBS NewsHour Weekend  NC  Washington Week 6 PM  TV Lawrence Welk Show April Showers (1967)  NC  Homegrown Music Fest The Executives/ Chairmen of the Board  EX Inside the Tube: Going Underground The First Modern Tube Line 7:00  TV As Time Goes By You Must Remember This  EX Two for the Road One Crazy Day in Bangkok 7:30  TV As Time Goes By Getting to Know You— Again  EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese Tanzania: The Last Stone Age Tribe 8:00  TV Midsomer Murders Season Premiere! Made-To-Measure Murders  NC  Song of the Mountains Kaitlyn Baker/ Reagan Boggs  EX Globe Trekker Food Hour: Southern China 8:50  TV My Home, NC—Shorts Frisco UFO 9:00  TV Doctor Blake Mysteries The Open Road  NC  Yep Roc Records Presents Stray Birds Premiere! Celebrate 20 years of Hillsborough’s Yep Roc Records with this Americana band from Nashville, TN.  EX Morocco to Timbuktu: An Arabian Adventure Premiere! Part 1 of 2 Writer/ explorer Alice Morrison travels ancient Salt Roads, once the world’s richest trading network. 9:30  NC  Live at the Charleston Music Hall Sarah Jarosz 10:00  TV Death in Paradise Stumped in Murder Man Overboard, Part 1  NC  Infinity Hall Live Galactic


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Join adventurer Alice Morrison (L) on the series premiere of Morocco to Timbuktu: An Arabian Adventure, Saturday, April 7, at 9 PM, on The Explorer Channel

EX Great American Railroad Journeys Manhattan: Grand Central to World Trade Center 11:00  TV Tunnel Sabotage A French couple is mysteriously abducted from the Eurotunnel.  NC  Austin City Limits Cyndi Lauper  EX Globe Trekker Tough Boats: The Arctic

NC  FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman 10:00  TV MUSE: The Arts Show Frank Thompson: NC Silent Film  NC  NC SPIN  EX Penelope Keith’s Hidden Villages Pembrokeshire 10:30  TV SciTech Now North Carolina Bug Museum  NC  North Carolina Bookwatch 8 SUNDAY Alex Harris & Margaret 6 AM  TV Nature Cat Sartor—Dream of a House  NC  Closer to Truth 11:00  TV North Carolina What Is God’s Own Being? Bookwatch  EX History Detectives Alex Harris & Margaret Belgian War Medal/ Sartor—Dream of a House Women’s Suffrage Pennant  NC  Articulate 6:30  TV Wild Kratts with Jim Cotter  NC  Education Matters Kyle Abraham: 7:00  TV Ready Jet Go! DV A Life in Motion  NC  Truth About Money  EX Hidden Killers with Ric Edelman Hidden Killers of the  EX Globe Trekker Postwar Home Tough Boats: 11:30  TV Black Issues Forum The Nile, Egypt Diagnosis Bias (Black Man 7:30  TV Bob the Builder DV in a White Coat)  NC  Consuelo Mack  NC  MUSE: The Arts Show WealthTrack Damian Stamer 8:00  TV Curious George Noon  TV FRONT ROW  NC  Carolina with Marc Rotterman Business Review  NC  Carolina  EX Finding Your Roots Outdoor Journal Unfamiliar Kin with Fred Tagging Expedition— Armisen, Christopher Grey Trout Walken & Carly Simon  EX Joseph Rosendo’s 8:30  TV Wild Kratts Travelscope  NC  Market to Market Armenia—Ancient History 9:00  TV This Old House & Modern Traditions DV Charleston: Demo Time 12:30  TV NC SPIN  NC  Washington Week  NC  Fishing  EX Inside the Tube: Behind the Lines Going Underground A Cornucopia of Catfish— The First Modern Tube Line Thomas Davis 9:30  TV Ask This Old House  EX Weekends Replacing a Water with Yankee Main Shutoff/ Icons of New England Waterproofing Brick

1:00  TV Ellie’s Real Good Food Keeping It Real  NC  Song of the Mountains Kaitlyn Baker/ Reagan Boggs  EX Doc Martin Midwife Crisis 1:30  TV Martha Bakes Wholesome Breakfast 2:00  TV America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated Vegan for Everyone  NC  Yep Roc Records Presents Stray Birds Celebrate 20 years of Hillsborough’s Yep Roc Records with this Americana band from Nashville, TN.  EX Downton Abbey Season 1 on Masterpiece Episode 1 2:30  TV Cook’s Country Picnic Game Changers  NC  Live at the Charleston Music Hall Sarah Jarosz 3:00  TV Sara’s Weeknight Meals Fish Around the World  NC  Infinity Hall Live Galactic 3:30  TV Lidia’s Kitchen Cocktail Party  EX Downton Abbey Season 1 on Masterpiece Episode 2 4:00  TV Mexico— One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless Ceviches Gone Wild  NC  First in Future Joy Potts 4:30  TV Pati’s Mexican Table Good Morning, Mexico  NC  Situation Report 5:00  TV Washington Week  NC  PBS NewsHour Weekend  EX Midsomer Murders Death in a Chocolate Box, Part 1 5:30  TV PBS NewsHour Weekend  NC  BBC Newsnight 6 PM  TV Doc Martin On the Edge, Part 1  NC  Black Issues Forum Diagnosis Bias (Black Man in a White Coat)  EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Mekong River Adventure, Part 1 DV 6:30  NC  Black America Dr. Roscoe C. Brown Jr. & Honorable David N. Dinkins  EX Weekends with Yankee The End of the Line April | 9


evening&weekend listings 7:00  TV A Place To Call Home Answer Me, My Love  NC  Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band Examine the life, career and legacy of the innovative, prolific jazz pianist and composer.  EX Globe Trekker Delhi & Agra 8:00  TV Call the Midwife Sister Julienne helps a family at a difficult time.  NC  Women’s List: American Masters Celebrate Madeleine Albright, Margaret Cho, Edie Falco, Alicia Keys, Nancy Pelosi and others.  EX Nature Sex, Lies & Butterflies Follow one of the greatest migrations on earth. DV 9:00  TV Unforgotten Season 1 on Masterpiece Premiere! Episode 1 A stone-cold murder case puts the team to the test.  NC  Makers Women in Comedy with Carol Burnett, Mo’Nique, Ellen DeGeneres & More  EX David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities A Curious Hoax? 9:30  EX Nature’s Microworlds Serengeti 10:00  NC  Makers Women in Hollywood with Jane Fonda, Zoe Saldana & Lena Dunham  EX Nature’s Miracle Orphans Second Chances 10:30  TV Vicious Freddie and Stuart host an awkward wake. 11:00  TV EastEnders  NC  Our State Chimney Rock/For the Birds/Hidden Treasure  EX Globe Trekker Food Hour: The Story of Chocolate 11:30  TV EastEnders  NC  MUSE: The Arts Show NC State Cypher: Rap & Spoken Word

9 MONDAY 6 PM  TV PBS NewsHour  NC  BBC World News America  EX Hidden Killers Hidden Killers of the Postwar Home 6:30  NC  Nightly Business Report

Nicola Walker and Sanjeev Bhaskar star as arresting crime-solvers on Unforgotten Season 1 on Masterpiece, premiering Sunday, April 8, at 9 PM, on UNC-TV.

7:00  TV Nightly Business Report  NC  PBS NewsHour  EX Rick Steves’ Europe Portugal’s Heartland 7:30  TV A Chef’s Life Don’t Tom Thumb Your Nose at Me! Part 1  EX Samantha Brown’s Places to Love Huntsville, AL 8:00  TV Antiques Roadshow Portland, Part 2  NC  Exploring North Carolina Form & Function  EX Downton Abbey Season 1 on Masterpiece Episode 3 8:30  NC  Exploring North Carolina Changing Sands 9:00  TV REEL SOUTH New! Alabama Bound Follow the roller-coaster ride for gay rights in the South.  NC  Changing Seas Toxic Algae: Complex Sources & Solutions 9:30  NC  SciTech Now North Carolina Orchid Farm  EX Downton Abbey Season 1 on Masterpiece Episode 4 10:00  TV Independent Lens The Art of the Shine Meet unforgettable people who turn shoeshine work into an art form. DV

NC  My Love Affair with the Brain: The Life & Science of Dr. Marian Diamond Meet this charming academic and a founder of modern neuroscience. 11:00  TV Amanpour on PBS  NC  PBS NewsHour  EX History Detectives Belgian War Medal/ Women’s Suffrage Pennant 11:30  TV BBC World News

10 TUESDAY 6 PM  TV PBS NewsHour  NC  BBC World News America  EX Taste of Louisiana with Chef John Folse & Co. Catfish—Lake des Allemand 6:30  NC  Nightly Business Report  EX Joanne Weir’s Plates & Places Tangia 7:00  TV Nightly Business Report  NC  PBS NewsHour  EX Rick Steves’ Europe Heart of England & South Wales 7:30  TV Flavor, NC JOLO Vineyards, Shelton Vineyards & Vineyards on the Scuppernong  EX Rudy Maxa’s World Thailand, Golden Triangle 8:00  TV Secrets of the Dead Hannibal in the Alps Experts study where Hannibal’s troops crossed the Alps to attack Rome.  NC  North Carolina Bookwatch Ed Haag—Charlie Soong  EX Mozart in London The composer’s pivotal and fruitful time is chronicled. Explore The Art of the Shine on Independent Lens, Monday, April 9, at 10 PM, on UNC-TV.

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visit unctv.org 8:30  NC  First in Future 9:00  TV The Perfect Crime: American Experience Thrill-seeking murderers Leopold and Loeb set off a crime and morality debate.  NC  MUSE: The Arts Show  EX Britain’s Outlaws: Highwaymen, Pirates & Rogues Highwaymen 9:30  NC  Comic Culture Valiant Entertainment Editor-in-Chief Warren Simons 10:00  TV FRONTLINE Trump’s Takeover Venture inside the high-stakes fight for the Republican Party.  NC  Articulate with Jim Cotter Tap into America  EX Secrets of Great British Castles Edinburgh Castle 10:30  NC  Make48 Follow real-life challenges of taking a product from sketch to store shelf. 11:00  TV Amanpour on PBS  NC  PBS NewsHour  EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Bhutan, Part 2—Land of the Thunder Dragon DV 11:30  TV BBC World News  EX In the Americas with David Yetman Heart of the Wilderness: Wyoming’s Wind River Range

11 WEDNESDAY 6 PM  TV PBS NewsHour  NC  BBC World News America  EX Crowd & the Cloud Citizens + Scientists DV 6:30  NC  Nightly Business Report 7:00  TV Nightly Business Report  NC  PBS NewsHour  EX Rick Steves’ Europe Germany’s Black Forest & Cologne 7:30  TV SciTech Now North Carolina Orchid Farm  EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese Scotland: Land of Loch Ness 8:00  TV Nature Moose: Life of a Twig Eater Experience a mother’s love and a calf’s first year. DV  NC  REEL SOUTH Gip Alabama’s last, true juke joint faces a changing neighborhood.

Get the story of GI Jews—Jewish Americans in WWII, premiering Wednesday, April 11, at 10 PM, on UNC-TV.

EX Joanne Weir’s Plates & Places You Say Tomato 8:30  EX Mike Colameco’s Real Food Aquavit 9:00  TV NOVA Holocaust Escape Tunnel Archaeologists probe ruins of a Nazi execution site in the heart of Lithuania.  NC  REEL SOUTH Shake ‘em on Down: The Blues According to Fred McDowell  EX How To Cook Well with Rory O’Connell Grilled T-Bone Steak 9:30  EX Kevin Belton’s New Orleans Kitchen My Kids’ Hands-Down Favorites 10:00  TV GI Jews—Jewish Americans in WWII Learn about the 550,000 brave Jewish Americans who served in WWII.  NC  Attakapas: The Cajun Story Trace one of America’s unique and influential immigrant populations.  EX I’ll Have What Phil’s Having Barcelona 11:00  NC  PBS NewsHour  EX Two for the Road Adventure in Peru’s Amazon Basin 11:30  TV Amanpour on PBS  EX Travels with Darley Tokyo, Japan

12 THURSDAY 6 PM  TV PBS NewsHour  NC  BBC World News America

EX Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television From Thailand with Love 6:30  NC  Nightly Business Report  EX New Orleans Cooking with Kevin Belton Classic Creole 7:00  TV Nightly Business Report  NC  PBS NewsHour  EX Rick Steves’ Europe Scotland’s Islands & Highlands 7:30  TV Our State Living with an Island/ Island Inspirations/ Nocturnal Visitors  EX Rudy Maxa’s World Thailand, Andaman Islands 8:00  TV MUSE: The Arts Show  NC  Flavor, NC Farm Raised Crawfish  EX Two for the Road Adventure in Peru’s Amazon Basin 8:30  TV Exploring North Carolina Water in NC: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow, Part 2  NC  Cooking 80/20 with Robin Shea Three in One  EX Travels with Darley Finger Lakes & Monongahela Forests 9:00  TV North Carolina Weekend  NC  A Chef’s Life Persimmon Style  EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Mekong River Adventure, Part 2 DV 9:30  TV Flavor, NC Sweet Potatoes  NC  From the Vineyard Sanctuary Vineyard/ Hanover Park  EX Weekends with Yankee Into the Wild 10:00  TV REEL SOUTH Alabama Bound Follow the roller-coaster ride for gay rights in the South.  NC  North Carolina Weekend  EX Dream of Italy Naples/Amalfi Coast 10:30  NC  Southern Accents Pine Mountain, GA  EX Travel Detective with Peter Greenberg Rating Your Tour Guide DV 11:00  TV Amanpour on PBS  NC  PBS NewsHour  EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Cruising the Mediterranean DV

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evening&weekend listings 11:30  TV BBC World News  EX In the Americas with David Yetman From Vaquejada to Jangada: Into Rural Ceara, Brazil

13 FRIDAY 6 PM  TV PBS NewsHour  NC  BBC World News America  EX Taste of History The Moravians of Bethlehem 6:30  NC  Nightly Business Report  EX Kevin Belton’s New Orleans Kitchen My Kids’ Hands-Down Favorites 7:00  TV Nightly Business Report  NC  PBS NewsHour  EX Rick Steves’ Europe The Best of Sicily 7:30  TV NC SPIN  EX Rudy Maxa’s World Estonia 8:00  TV Washington Week  NC  North Carolina Weekend  EX A Place To Call Home I Do, I Do 8:30  TV FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman  NC  MUSE: The Arts Show 8:50  EX North Carolina Weekend—Shorts Fun at the Zoo 9:00  TV GI Jews—Jewish Americans in WWII Learn about the 550,000 brave Jewish Americans who served in WWII.  NC  FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman  EX Call the Midwife Two pregnant old friends are brought together in an unexpected way. 9:30  NC  Washington Week 10:00  NC  NC SPIN  EX Father Brown The Eagle & the Daw 10:30  TV Discussions of War Jewish Americans in WWII Explore the war at home in NC and on the battlefield.  NC  In Principle Series Premiere! Michael Gerson and Amy Holmes explore today’s news and political conversations. 11:00  TV Amanpour on PBS  NC  PBS NewsHour  EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Northeast Ontario— Canada’s Canoe Culture & First Nations People DV 11:30  TV BBC World News

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EX In the Americas with David Yetman Bogotá to the Amazon: A Trip Across Columbia

14 SATURDAY 6 AM  TV Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood DV  NC  Biographical Conversations with Junior Johnson Part 1 of 3  EX Carolina Outdoor Journal Structured Bass 6:30  TV Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV  EX Carolina Outdoor Journal Classics Transition Bass 7:00  TV Sesame Street DV  NC  Carolina Outdoor Journal Classics September Doves  EX Exploring North Carolina Two Lakes & a Pond 7:30  TV Dinosaur Train DV  NC  Carolina Outdoor Journal Tagging Expedition— Grey Trout  EX Exploring North Carolina Invaders Among Us 8:00  TV Pinkalicious & Peterrific DV  NC  Exploring North Carolina Fishy Science  EX North Carolina Weekend 8:30  TV Splash & Bubbles  NC  Exploring North Carolina Climate Changes in the Carolinas  EX Southern Accents Louisville, KY 9:00  TV Curious George DV  NC  North Carolina Weekend  EX Travels with Darley French Riviera 9:30  TV Nature Cat

NC  Our State Roanoke River/Old Stone House/Fragile Canvas  EX Dream of Italy Abruzzo 10:00  TV North Carolina Weekend  NC  MUSE: The Arts Show Painter & Sculptor Cher Shaffer  EX New Scandinavian Cooking Fish on a Platter 10:30  TV Exploring North Carolina Basin Basics  NC  Craftsman’s Legacy The Yarn Spinner  EX How To Cook Well with Rory O’Connell Grilled T-Bone Steak 11:00  TV Growing a Greener World The Compost Pedallers  NC  The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Rachell’s Standing Desk DV  EX Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television Tahini Rules! 11:30  TV P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home Keep It Simple DV  NC  The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Rachell’s Standing Desk 2 DV

EX Pati’s Mexican Table Mexamericana Noon  TV Almanac Gardener Growing Crinum Lillies/ Training Young Apple Trees  NC  Growing a Greener World Know Your Farmer: Supporting Community Agriculture  EX Rudy Maxa’s World NOVA Scotia & Newfoundland 12:30  TV America’s Heartland Hotel Restaurant Sources Locally/Saving Honeybees  NC  Almanac Gardener Mulches: Straw Vs. Black Plastic  EX In the Americas with David Yetman The Mata Atlantica: Brazil’s Other Rainforest 1:00  TV Antiques Roadshow Portland, Part 2  NC  Exploring North Carolina Fishy Science  EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Cruising the Mediterranean DV

Amy Holmes and Michael Gerson talk issues as In Principle premieres, Friday, April 13, at 10:30 PM, on the North Carolina Channel.

1:30  NC  Exploring North Carolina Climate Changes in the Carolinas


visit unctv.org Enjoy Yep Roc Records Presents Jim Lauderdale, premiering Saturday, April 14, at 9 PM, on the North Carolina Channel.

7:00  TV Ready Jet Go! DV  NC  Truth About Money with Ric Edelman  EX Globe Trekker Road Trip: Patagonia 7:30  TV Bob the Builder DV  NC  Consuelo Mack WealthTrack 8:00  TV Curious George  NC  Carolina Business Review  EX Finding Your Roots Puritans & Pioneers with Mary Steenburgen, Ted Danson & William H. Macy 8:30  TV Wild Kratts 8:00  TV Midsomer Murders  NC  Market to Market Made-To-Measure Murders  NC  Song of the Mountains 9:00  TV This Old House Charleston: Brick & Mortar A Deeper Shade of Blue/  NC  Washington Week Cody Schuler &  EX Mozart in London Pine Mountain Road The composer’s pivotal and  EX Globe Trekker fruitful time is chronicled. Tough Trains: Bolivia 8:50  TV My Home, NC—Shorts 9:30  TV Ask This Old House Frozen Air Conditioner/ Conner Stroud Stair Railing End Cap 9:00  TV Doctor Blake  NC  FRONT ROW Mysteries with Marc Rotterman Golden Years 10:00  TV MUSE: The Arts Show  NC  Yep Roc Records  NC  NC SPIN Presents Jim Lauderdale  EX Britain’s Outlaws: Celebrate 20 years of Hills- Highwaymen, Pirates borough’s Yep Roc Records & Rogues with this NC native and Highwaymen roots music star.  EX Morocco to Timbuktu: 10:30  TV SciTech Now North Carolina An Arabian Adventure Orchid Farm Part 2 of 2  NC  North Carolina 9:30  NC  Live at the Bookwatch Charleston Music Hall Ed Haag—Charlie Soong Patrick Davis & 11:00  TV North Carolina His Midnight Choir Bookwatch 10:00  TV Death in Paradise Ed Haag—Charlie Soong Man Overboard, Part 2  NC  Articulate  NC  Infinity Hall Live with Jim Cotter Joss Stone Christian Scott aTunde  EX Great American Adjuah: 2nd Century Jazz Railroad Journeys  EX Secrets of Brooklyn to Montauk Great British Castles 11:00  TV Tunnel: Sabotage A surprising chain of events Edinburgh Castle brings Karl and Elise closer 11:30  TV Black Issues Forum Oberlin: Freedman’s Vilto the abductors. lage A historically black  NC  Austin City Limits neighborhood in Raleigh, is James Taylor undergoing major change.  EX Globe Trekker  NC  MUSE: The Arts Show Food Hour: Southern China Noon  TV FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman 15 SUNDAY  NC  Carolina Outdoor Journal 6 AM  TV Nature Cat Structured Bass  NC  Closer to Truth  EX Joseph Rosendo’s Huston Smith: Tribute to a Travelscope Religious Visionary Armenia—Ancient History  EX History Detectives & Modern Traditions DV Speakeasy Business Card 6:30  TV Wild Kratts  NC  Education Matters Photo: Alex Krohn

EX Samantha Brown’s Places to Love Vancouver, Canada 2:00  TV Rick Steves’ Europe Sevilla  NC  First in Future Rhett Mabry  EX Globe Trekker Delhi & Agra 2:30  TV Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope France—Bordeaux DV  NC  Conversation Ira David Wood 3:00  TV Craftsman’s Legacy The Glassblower  NC  Situation Report  EX Secrets of the Dead Cleopatra’s Lost Tomb DV 3:30  TV American Woodshop The Harvest Table  NC  Comic Culture Valiant Entertainment Editor-in-Chief Warren Simons 4:00  TV The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Brian Boggs, Chairmaker DV  NC  FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman  EX History Detectives Speakeasy Business Card 4:30  TV This Old House Charleston: Brick & Mortar  NC  NC SPIN 5:00  TV Carolina Outdoor Journal Live Baiting Spanish  NC  PBS NewsHour Weekend  EX Antiques Roadshow Portland, Part 2 5:30  TV PBS NewsHour Weekend  NC  Washington Week 6 PM  TV Lawrence Welk Show Hooray for Hollywood (1975)  NC  Homegrown Music Fest Athenaeum/ Marcy Playground  EX Penelope Keith’s Hidden Villages Cotswolds 7:00  TV As Time Goes By The Copper Kettle  EX Two for the Road Adventure in Peru’s Amazon Basin 7:30  TV As Time Goes By Surprise, Surprise  EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese Chile: Kissed by the Sea  NC  Yep Roc Records Presents Stray Birds Celebrate 20 years of Hillsborough’s Yep Roc Records with this Americana band from Nashville, TN.

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evening&weekend listings Liev Schreiber explores how art and the creative imagination on humanity as Civilizations The Second Moment of Creation, premieres Tuesday, April 17, at 8 PM, on UNC-TV.

2:30  TV NC SPIN 1  NC  Fishing Behind the Lines A Summer Salmon— Hailey DeRitis  EX Weekends with Yankee Land & Water 1:00  TV Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television Homecooking, Chinese Style  NC  Searching for a Fix NC families who’ve lost loved ones to opioid deaths share their stories.  EX Doc Martin Do Not Disturb 1:30  TV Martha Stewart’s Cooking School Chicken 2:00  TV America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated Just Add Apples  NC  A Crisis: NC’s Opioid Battle State leaders describe their efforts to fight opioid addiction in our state.  EX Downton Abbey Season 1 on Masterpiece Episode 3 2:30  TV Cook’s Country Sweet Indulgences 3:00  TV Sara’s Weeknight Meals Personal Pizza  NC  Understanding the Opioid Epidemic Follow stories of affected people and get the latest information from experts. 3:30  TV Lidia’s Kitchen Layering Italian Flavors  EX Downton Abbey Season 1 on Masterpiece Episode 4 4:00  TV Mexico— One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless Cooking Like a Local  NC  First in Future Rhett Mabry 4:30  TV Pati’s Mexican Table Adventures in San Miguel  NC  Situation Report 5:00  TV Washington Week  NC  PBS NewsHour Weekend  EX Midsomer Murders Death in a Chocolate Box, Part 2 5:30  TV PBS NewsHour Weekend  NC  BBC Newsnight 14­ | April

6 PM  TV Doc Martin On the Edge, Part 2  NC  Black Issues Forum Oberlin: Freedman’s Village A historically black neighborhood in Raleigh is undergoing major change.  EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Mekong River Adventure, Part 2 DV 6:30  NC  Black America Education in Black America with Jahana Hayes  EX Weekends with Yankee Into the Wild 7:00  TV A Place To Call Home I Do, I Do  NC  Everyone Has a Place Jazz, gospel and vocals star in this toe-tapping, handclapping musical tapestry.  EX Globe Trekker Tough Boats: The Amazon 7:30  NC  Great American Music Company From Spiritual to Freedom Song 8:00  TV Call the Midwife Lucille helps a woman face her fears of childbirth.  NC  All in the Same Boat: Stories of Breast Cancer Survivors An amazing team of breast cancer survivors train for an exciting dragon boat race.  EX Nature Moose: Life of a Twig Eater Experience a mother’s love and a calf’s first year. DV 8:30  NC  Klocked: Women with Horsepower Meet women motorcycle land speed record holder Laura Klock. 9:00  TV Unforgotten Season 1 on Masterpiece Episode 2  NC  Makers Women in Space

EX David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities Young Wrinkles 9:30  EX Nature’s Microworlds Amazon 10:00  NC  Makers Women in Politics with Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren & Olympia Snowe  EX Nature’s Miracle Orphans Wild Lessons 10:30  TV Vicious Stuart secretly raises some cash to help Freddie buy a coat for a fan club event. 11:00  TV EastEnders  NC  Our State Tryon Palace/David Holt/ Energy Xchange  EX Globe Trekker Road Trip: Rust Belt Highway, USA 11:30  TV EastEnders  NC  MUSE: The Arts Show Jim McDowell: Black Potter

16 MONDAY 6 PM  TV PBS NewsHour  NC  BBC World News America  EX Secrets of Great British Castles Edinburgh Castle 6:30  NC  Nightly Business Report 7:00  TV Nightly Business Report  NC  PBS NewsHour  EX Rick Steves’ Europe Eastern Turkey 7:30  TV A Chef’s Life Don’t Tom Thumb Your Nose at Me! Part 2  EX Samantha Brown’s Places to Love Vancouver, Canada 8:00  TV Antiques Roadshow Portland, Part 3  NC  Exploring North Carolina Currituck  EX Downton Abbey Season 2 on Masterpiece Episode 1 8:30  NC  Exploring North Carolina Natural Boundary 9:00  TV REEL SOUTH New! First Lady of the Revolution When her new husband is elected Costa Rica’s president, a Southern belle gets swept up in 1940s political upheaval.  NC  Changing Seas The Fate of Carbon 9:30  NC  SciTech Now North Carolina Organic Bait


visit unctv.org 0:00  TV Independent Lens 1 What Lies Upstream Learn the truth behind a chemical spill that affected 300,000 West Virginians. DV  NC  NOVA Holocaust Escape Tunnel Archaeologists probe ruins of a Nazi execution site in the heart of Lithuania.  EX Midsomer Murders Tainted Fruit, Part 1 11:00  NC  PBS NewsHour  EX History Detectives Speakeasy Business Card 11:30  TV Amanpour on PBS

17 TUESDAY 6 PM  TV PBS NewsHour  NC  BBC World News America  EX Taste of Louisiana with Chef John Folse & Co. Bass/Crappie—Toledo Bend Reservoir 6:30  NC  Nightly Business Report  EX Joanne Weir’s Plates & Places Cookies 7:00  TV Nightly Business Report  NC  PBS NewsHour  EX Rick Steves’ Europe Dublin & Mystical Sidetrips 7:30  TV Flavor, NC Beef Cattle  EX Rudy Maxa’s World St. Petersburg, Russia 8:00  TV Civilizations Premiere! The Second Moment of Creation  NC  North Carolina Bookwatch Heather Bell Adams— Maranatha Road  EX Edward & Wallis— A Story of Love & Destiny Get the real story of the British King who gave up his crown for a woman’s love. 8:30  NC  First in Future 9:00  TV Genius by Stephen Hawking Can We Time Travel?  NC  MUSE: The Arts Show Leaving Eden  EX Britain’s Outlaws: Highwaymen, Pirates & Rogues Pirates 9:30  NC  Comic Culture 10:00  TV FRONTLINE McCain Examine Senator John McCain’s relationship with the president and Republican Party.  NC  Articulate with Jim Cotter The Nature of Art

Follow a legend’s efforts to ignite a passion for science as POV premieres Bill Nye: Science Guy, Wednesday, April 18, at 10 PM, on UNC-TV.

EX Secrets of Great British Castles Cardiff Castle 10:30  NC  Make48 The teams get supplies from a hardware store and pitch initial product ideas. 11:00  TV Amanpour on PBS  NC  PBS NewsHour  EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope San Antonio Christmas DV 11:30  TV BBC World News  EX In the Americas with David Yetman Gift of the Andes: Mendoza, Argentina & Its Wines

8:30  EX Mike Colameco’s Real Food Sicily, Part 1 9:00  NC  REEL SOUTH Deep Run  EX How To Cook Well with Rory O’Connell Roast Leg of Lamb 9:30  EX Kevin Belton’s New Orleans Kitchen Java Jive 10:00  TV POV Premiere! Bill Nye: Science Guy  NC  Independent Lens Real Boy  EX I’ll Have What Phil’s Having Los Angeles 11:00  NC  PBS NewsHour  EX Two for the Road China Part 1: Journey to Shangri La 11:30  TV Amanpour on PBS  EX Travels with Darley Martinique Caribbean Culture

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6 PM  TV PBS NewsHour  NC  BBC World News America  EX Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television Tahini Rules! 6:30  NC  Nightly Business Report  EX New Orleans Cooking 18 WEDNESDAY with Kevin Belton Italian Influences 6 PM  TV PBS NewsHour 7:00  TV Nightly  NC  BBC World News Business Report America  NC  PBS NewsHour  EX Crowd & the Cloud  EX Rick Steves’ Europe Viral Vs. Virus DV The Best of West Ireland: 6:30  NC  Nightly Dingle, Galway & the Business Report Aran Islands 7:00  TV Nightly 7:30  TV Our State Business Report Trailmakers/Wild Friends/  NC  PBS NewsHour Wonders in Wood  EX Rick Steves’ Europe  EX Rudy Maxa’s World South Ireland: Waterford Buenos Aires, Argentina to the Ring of Kerry 8:00  TV MUSE: The Arts Show 7:30  TV SciTech Now Leaving Eden North Carolina  NC  Flavor, NC Organic Bait Sea Salt  EX Born To Explore  EX Two for the Road with Richard Wiese China Part 1: Journey South Africa: to Shangri La Amazing Encounters 8:30  TV Exploring 8:00  TV NOVA North Carolina Living with the Weather Water in NC: Yesterday, Machine Scientists study Today & Tomorrow, Part 3 the workings of the weather  NC  Cooking 80/20 and climate change. with Robin Shea  NC  REEL SOUTH Paula’s in the House Again Alabama Bound Follow the  EX Travels with Darley roller-coaster ride for gay French Riviera rights in the South.  EX Joanne Weir’s Plates & Places Olives April | 15


evening&weekend listings 9:00  TV North Carolina Weekend  NC  A Chef’s Life Chasing Trout  EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Taiwan Matsu Festival & Islands DV 9:30  TV Flavor, NC JOLO Vineyards, Shelton Vineyards & Vineyards on the Scuppernong  NC  From the Vineyard Treehouse Vineyard/ Biltmore  EX Weekends with Yankee Small Is Beautiful 10:00  TV REEL SOUTH First Lady of the Revolution When her new husband is elected Costa Rica’s president, a Southern belle gets swept up in 1940s political upheaval.  NC  North Carolina Weekend  EX Dream of Italy Piedmont/Lake Iseo 10:30  NC  The Hammocks Explore the history of one of NC’s most pristine coastal state parks.  EX Travel Detective with Peter Greenberg Decline & Fall of Air Service to U.S. Cities DV 11:00  TV Amanpour on PBS  NC  PBS NewsHour  EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Christmas in Switzerland DV 11:30  TV BBC World News  EX In the Americas with David Yetman Coffee & Culture in Oaxaca

20 FRIDAY 6 PM  TV PBS NewsHour  NC  BBC World News America  EX Taste of History James K. Polk: The Dark Horse President 6:30  NC  Nightly Business Report  EX Kevin Belton’s New Orleans Kitchen Java Jive 7:00  TV Nightly Business Report  NC  PBS NewsHour  EX Rick Steves’ Europe Munich & the Foothills of the Alps 7:30  TV NC SPIN  EX Rudy Maxa’s World Mendoza, Argentina 8:00  TV Washington Week  NC  North Carolina Weekend 16­ | April

Enjoy Black Eyed Peas favorites on Will.i.am—Landmarks Live in Concert: A Great Performances Special, Friday, April 20, at 10 PM, on UNC-TV.

EX A Place To Call Home Unforgettable 8:30  TV FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman  NC  MUSE: The Arts Show Leaving Eden 8:50 EX North Carolina Weekend—Shorts The F.A.R.M. Café, Boone 9:00  TV Live From Lincoln Center Sutton Foster in Concert  NC  FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman  EX Call the Midwife Trixie and Sister Mary Cynthia support a deaf mother-to-be. 9:30  NC  Washington Week 10:00  TV Will.i.am—Landmarks Live in Concert: A Great Performances Special The artist/producer rejoins The Black Eyed Peas at London’s Royal Albert Hall.  NC  NC SPIN  EX Father Brown The Smallest of Things 10:30  NC  In Principle 11:00  TV Amanpour on PBS  NC  PBS NewsHour  EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope San Antonio’s Fiesta—Olé! DV

11:30  TV BBC World News  EX In the Americas with David Yetman Favelas & Samba: Brazil

21 SATURDAY 6 AM  TV Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood DV  NC  Biographical Conversations with Junior Johnson Part 2 of 3  EX Carolina Outdoor Journal Pamlico Sound Mixed Bag

6:30  TV Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV  EX Carolina Outdoor Journal Classics September Doves 7:00  TV Sesame Street DV  NC  Carolina Outdoor Journal Classics Light Tackle Speckle Trout  EX Exploring North Carolina Fords & Mills 7:30  TV Dinosaur Train DV  NC  Carolina Outdoor Journal Structured Bass  EX Exploring North Carolina Cradle of Forestry 8:00  TV Pinkalicious & Peterrific DV  NC  Exploring North Carolina Natural Symbols of the State  EX North Carolina Weekend 8:30  TV Splash & Bubbles DV  NC  Exploring North Carolina Story in Quarries  EX Southern Accents Birmingham, AL 9:00  TV Curious George DV  NC  North Carolina Weekend  EX Travels with Darley Santa Fe Adventures 9:30  TV Nature Cat  NC  Our State Charlie Poole/Vanishing Links/Bamboo Country  EX Dream of Italy Basilicata with Francis Ford Coppola 10:00  TV North Carolina Weekend  NC  MUSE: The Arts Show Mary’s Gone Wild


visit unctv.org  EX New Scandinavian Cooking Land of Fish & Apples 10:30  TV Exploring North Carolina Flatland Lakes  NC  Craftsman’s Legacy The Puppet Maker.  EX How To Cook Well with Rory O’Connell Roast Leg of Lamb 11:00  TV Growing a Greener World Urban Farm, Country Town: The Spark in Sparta, GA  NC  The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill The Venerable Bead DV  EX Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television Mexico Every Single Day 11:30  TV P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home Add a Little Color DV  NC  The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Carving Away with Mary May DV  EX Pati’s Mexican Table Cooking with the Fans Noon  TV Almanac Gardener An Original NC Yard/ Growing Raspberries  NC  Growing a Greener World Beyond Veggies: Adding Fruit to Your Food Garden  EX Rudy Maxa’s World Food, Drink & Place 12:30  TV America’s Heartland Montana Ranch Welcomes Tourists/Bringing in the Hay  NC  Almanac Gardener Growing Colorful Cut Flowers/Identifying & Controlling Weeds  EX In the Americas with David Yetman Blackfeet & Bison 1:00  TV Antiques Roadshow Portland, Part 3  NC  Exploring North Carolina Natural Symbols of the State  EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Christmas in Switzerland DV 1:30  NC  Exploring North Carolina Story in Quarries  EX Samantha Brown’s Places to Love Hill Country, TX 2:00  TV Rick Steves’ Europe England’s Bath & York  NC  First in Future Grant Godwin  EX Globe Trekker Tough Boats: The Amazon

Discover Naples on Italy’s Invisible Cities, premiering Saturday, April 21, at 9 PM, on The Explorer Channel.

2:30  TV Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Taiwan’s Penghu Islands DV  NC  Conversation Dr. Assad Meymandi 3:00  TV Craftsman’s Legacy The Guitar Maker  NC  Situation Report  EX Secrets of the Dead The Alcatraz Escape DV 3:30  TV American Woodshop Apothecary Nine Drawer Wall Keep  NC  Comic Culture 4:00  TV The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Combination Planes DV  NC  FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman  EX History Detectives African-American Confederate? 4:30  TV This Old House Charleston: Southern Roots  NC  NC SPIN 5:00  TV Carolina Outdoor Journal Pee Dee Catfish  NC  PBS NewsHour Weekend  EX Antiques Roadshow Portland, Part 3 5:30  TV PBS NewsHour Weekend  NC  Washington Week 6 PM  TV Lawrence Welk Show Sights & Sounds of L.A. (1979)  NC  Homegrown Music Fest Preeesh!/Dillon Fence  EX Penelope Keith’s Hidden Villages Argyll & Bute 7:00  TV As Time Goes By Relationships  EX Two for the Road China Part 1: Journey to Shangri La 7:30  TV As Time Goes By The Picnic  EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese Iceland: Fire & Ice

NC  Yep Roc Records Presents Jim Lauderdale Celebrate 20 years of Hillsborough’s Yep Roc Records with this NC native and roots music star. 8:00  TV Midsomer Murders The Sword of Guillaume  EX Globe Trekker Delhi & Agra  NC  Song of the Mountains Michael & Jennifer McLain & The Banjocats/ The Rose Sisters 8:50  TV My Home, NC—Shorts Land of Oz 9:00  TV Doctor Blake Mysteries Lucky Numbers  NC  Yep Roc Records Presents Kim Richey Celebrate 20 years of Hillsborough’s Yep Roc Records with the alternative country star.  EX Italy’s Invisible Cities Naples 9:30  NC  Live at the Charleston Music Hall Drivin N Cryin 10:00  TV Death in Paradise In the Footsteps of a Killer  NC  Kate Nancy & Beth  EX Great American Railroad Journeys New York City to Albany 11:00  TV Tunnel: Sabotage Elise uncovers disturbing facts about a passenger.  NC  Austin City Limits Leon Bridges/Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats  EX Globe Trekker Tough Trains: Bolivia

22 SUNDAY 6 AM  TV Nature Cat  NC  Closer to Truth Observing Physics, Observing Nature?  EX History Detectives African-American Confederate? 6:30  TV Wild Kratts  NC  Education Matters 7:00  TV Ready Jet Go! DV  NC  Truth About Money with Ric Edelman  EX Globe Trekker Nigeria 7:30  TV Bob the Builder DV  NC  Consuelo Mack WealthTrack 8:00  TV Curious George  NC  Carolina Business Review  EX Finding Your Roots The Vanguard with Ta-Nehisi Coates, Ava DuVernay & Janet Mock April | 17


evening&weekend listings 8:30  TV Wild Kratts  NC  Market to Market 9:00  TV This Old House Charleston: Southern Roots  NC  Washington Week  EX Edward & Wallis— A Story of Love & Destiny Get the real story of the British king who gave up his crown for a woman’s love. 9:30  TV Ask This Old House Leaking Shower Valve/ Making a Bucket Stool  NC  FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman 10:00  TV MUSE: The Arts Show Leaving Eden  NC  NC SPIN  EX Britain’s Outlaws: Highwaymen, Pirates & Rogues Pirates 10:30  TV SciTech Now North Carolina Organic Bait  NC  North Carolina Bookwatch Heather Bell Adams— Maranatha Road 11:00  TV North Carolina Bookwatch Heather Bell Adams— Maranatha Road  NC  Articulate with Jim Cotter Allora & Calzadilla: Displacement & Defamiliarization  EX Secrets of Great British Castles Cardiff Castle 11:30  TV Black Issues Forum Wilmington on Fire  NC  MUSE: The Arts Show Noon  TV FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman  NC  Carolina Outdoor Journal Pamlico Sound Mixed Bag  EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope France—Following the Rhone DV 12:30  TV NC SPIN  NC  Fishing Behind the Lines Summer of the Muskie— LaQuan Smith  EX Weekends with Yankee Yankee Ingenuity 1:00  TV Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television The New Baking  NC  Song of the Mountains Michael & Jennifer McLain & The Banjocats/ The Rose Sisters  EX Doc Martin The Wrong Goodbye

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1:30  TV Martha Stewart’s Cooking School Onions 2:00  TV America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated Soup for Dinner  NC  Yep Roc Records Presents Kim Richey Celebrate 20 years of Hillsborough’s Yep Roc Records with the alternative country star.  EX Downton Abbey Season 2 on Masterpiece Episode 1 2:30  TV Cook’s Country Surf & Turf Goes Regional  NC  Live at the Charleston Music Hall Patrick Davis & His Midnight Choir 3:00  TV Sara’s Weeknight Meals Pasta in a Pan  NC  Kate Nancy And Beth 3:30  TV Lidia’s Kitchen Poached Egg 4:00  TV Mexico— One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless Love of Live Fire Cooking  NC  First in Future Grant Godwin  EX Father Brown The Mask of the Demon 4:30  TV Pati’s Mexican Table Taco Night  NC  Situation Report 5:00  TV Washington Week  NC  PBS NewsHour Weekend  EX Midsomer Murders Blood Wedding, Part 1 5:30  TV PBS NewsHour Weekend  NC  BBC Newsnight 6 PM  TV Doc Martin The Apple Doesn’t Fall  NC  Black Issues Forum Wilmington on Fire  EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Taiwan Matsu Festival & Islands DV 6:30  NC  Black America Church Ladies with Dr. Martia Goodson  EX Weekends with Yankee Small Is Beautiful 7:00  TV A Place To Call Home Unforgettable  NC  Singing Stream A Black Family Chronicle (1985)  EX Globe Trekker Tough Trains: Vietnam 8:00  TV Call the Midwife A furious mother objects to Lucille’s health class.

NC  Meet Mary Pleasant Discover California’s Mother of Civil Rights—an African-American woman from the 19th century.  EX Engadin— Switzerland’s Wilderness Founded in 1914, this Swiss national park is the country’s first and only wildlife reserve. 9:00  TV Unforgotten Season 1 on Masterpiece Episode 3  NC  Makers Women in Business with Martha Stewart, Sheryl Sandberg & Others  EX David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities A Curious Twist 9:30  EX Nature’s Microworlds Monterey Bay A giant kelp forest hosts a very diverse marine ecology off the coast of Monterey Bay, California. 10:00  NC  Makers Women in War  EX Nature’s Miracle Orphans Moyo & Robin 10:30  TV Vicious Freddie grows depressed when Ash secures an acting role after one audition. 11:00  TV EastEnders  NC  Our State Sand & Wood/Harper House/Puppet Masters  EX Globe Trekker Road Trip: Rust Belt Highway 2, USA 11:30  TV EastEnders  NC  MUSE: The Arts Show Lara Downes: Concert Pianist

23 MONDAY 6 PM  TV PBS NewsHour  NC  BBC World News America  EX Secrets of Great British Castles Cardiff Castle 6:30  NC  Nightly Business Report 7:00  TV Nightly Business Report  NC  PBS NewsHour  EX Rick Steves’ Europe Germany’s Romantic Rhine & Rothenburg 7:30  TV A Chef’s Life Apples  EX Samantha Brown’s Places to Love Hill Country, TX 8:00  TV Antiques Roadshow Green Bay, Part 1


visit unctv.org

Join the happy drama of Warsaw Cabaret on MUSE: The Arts Show, Tuesday, April 24, at 9 PM, on the North Carolina Channel, and Thursday, April 26, at 8 PM, on UNC-TV.

NC  Exploring North Carolina Logos Vs. Leaves  EX Downton Abbey Season 2 on Masterpiece Episode 2 8:30  NC  Exploring North Carolina New Beginnings 9:00 TV REEL SOUTH New! Divided City Explore deep divisions about Confederate monuments.  NC  Changing Seas Majestic Mantas  EX Downton Abbey Season 2 on Masterpiece Episode 3 9:30  TV REEL SOUTH New! Jonah Stands Up A New Orleans artist, comedian, disability-rights activist and mayoral candidate defies stereotypes.  NC  SciTech Now North Carolina Fit Bits for Herons 10:00  TV Independent Lens Look & See: Wendell Berry’s Kentucky  NC  Thin Ice—The Inside Story of Climate Science Scientists drive this awardwinning documentary.  EX Midsomer Murders Tainted Fruit, Part 2 11:00  TV Amanpour on PBS  NC  PBS NewsHour  EX History Detectives African-American Confederate? 11:30  TV BBC World News

EX Joanne Weir’s Plates & Places You Say Tomato 7:00  TV Nightly Business Report  NC  PBS NewsHour  EX Rick Steves’ Europe Switzerland’s Jungfrau Region: Best of the Alps 7:30  TV Flavor, NC Sheep Milk & Cheese  EX Rudy Maxa’s World Tokyo, Japan 8:00  TV Civilizations How Do We Look?  NC  North Carolina Bookwatch Phillip Gerard— The Dark of the Island  EX Changing Face of... the Queen The Queen’s evolving image and wardrobe help tell the royal family’s story. 8:30  NC  First in Future 9:00  TV Genius by Stephen Hawking Are We Alone?  NC  MUSE: The Arts Show Cabaret Warsaw  EX Britain’s Outlaws: Highwaymen, Pirates & Rogues Rogues 9:30  NC  Comic Culture Guy Gilchrist (Nancy & The Muppets) 10:00  TV FRONTLINE Trafficked in America

24 TUESDAY 6 PM  TV PBS NewsHour  NC  BBC World News America  EX Taste of Louisiana with Chef John Folse & Co. Fish Markets/Gaspergou— Baton Rouge 6:30  NC  Nightly What Are Animals Saying? Find out Business Report on NOVA Wonders, Wednesday,

NC  Articulate with Jim Cotter The Ghetto Potter  EX Secrets of Great British Castles York Castle 10:30  NC  Make48 The teams construct and test prototypes, then work on their pitch materials. 11:00  TV Amanpour on PBS  NC  PBS NewsHour  EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Taiwan Lantern Festival DV 11:30  TV BBC World News  EX In the Americas with David Yetman A Gaucho Gathering in Uruguay

25 WEDNESDAY 6 PM  TV PBS NewsHour  NC  BBC World News America  EX Crowd & the Cloud Citizens4earth DV 6:30  NC  Nightly Business Report 7:00  TV Nightly Business Report  NC  PBS NewsHour  EX Rick Steves’ Europe The Majesty of Madrid 7:30  TV SciTech Now North Carolina Fit Bits for Herons  EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese India: Incredible Land 8:00  TV Nature Natural Born Rebels Meet animals who will steal, cheat and fight to get food.  NC  REEL SOUTH First Lady of the Revolution When her new husband is elected Costa Rica’s president, a Southern belle gets swept up in 1940s political upheaval.  EX Joanne Weir’s Plates & Places For the Love of Figs 8:30  EX Mike Colameco’s Real Food Sicily Part 2 9:00  TV NOVA Wonders Series Premiere! What Are Animals Saying?  NC  REEL SOUTH Soul City  EX How To Cook Well with Rory O’Connell Boiled Oyster of Bacon 9:30  NC  REEL SOUTH Counter Histories: Rock Hill  EX Kevin Belton’s New Orleans Kitchen The Po-Boy Sandwich

April 25, at 9 PM, on UNC-TV.

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evening&weekend listings 0:00  TV NOVA 1 Bird Brain Discover how the genius of birds is leading us to rethink our basic notions of intelligence.  NC  Independent Lens Birth of a Movement Learn how D.W. Griffith’s 1915 film The Birth of a Nation unleashed a battle about race relations. DV  EX Undiscovered Haiti with José Andres Experience Haiti’s cuisine through its history and culture. 11:00  TV Amanpour on PBS  NC  PBS NewsHour  EX Two for the Road China Part 2: The Spectacle of Southern China 11:30  TV BBC World News  EX Travels with Darley New York’s Southern Finger Lakes

EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Myanmar Irrawaddy River Adventure DV 9:30  TV The Hammocks Explore the history of one of NC’s most pristine coastal state parks.  NC  From the Vineyard Gregory/Yadkin Valley Bus Tour  EX Weekends with Yankee Trade 10:00  TV REEL SOUTH 26 THURSDAY Divided City Explore deep 6 PM  TV PBS NewsHour divisions about Confeder  NC  BBC World News ate monuments. America  NC  North Carolina  EX Christopher Kimball’s Weekend Milk Street Television  EX Italy’s Invisible Cities Mexico Every Single Day Naples 6:30  NC  Nightly 10:30  TV REEL SOUTH Business Report Jonah Stands Up  EX New Orleans Cooking A New Orleans artist, with Kevin Belton comedian, disability-rights Gettin’ Crabby activist and mayoral candi 7:00  TV Nightly date defies stereotypes. Business Report NC  A Sweet Potato  NC  PBS NewsHour Tale: Exporting North  EX Rick Steves’ Europe Carolina’s Southern Spuds Highlights of Castile: Frank Graff yams it up Toledo & Salamanca abroad with a veritable 7:30  TV Our State bounty of the sweet taters! Grandfather Mountain/ 11:00  TV Amanpour on PBS Going Nuts/  NC  PBS NewsHour Vintage Vending  EX Joseph Rosendo’s  EX Rudy Maxa’s World Travelscope Kyoto, Japan Passage Through Chile’s 8:00  TV MUSE: The Arts Show Tierra del Fuego Around Cabaret Warsaw Cape Horn DV  NC  Flavor, NC 11:30  TV BBC World News Wines: Ragapple Lassie,  EX In the Americas Sanders Ridge, West Bend with David Yetman  EX Two for the Road Trinidad & Tobago: China Part 2: The Spectacle Where East Meets West of Southern China 8:30  TV Exploring 27 FRIDAY North Carolina Water in NC: Yesterday, 6 PM  TV PBS NewsHour Today & Tomorrow, Part 4  NC  BBC World News  NC  Cooking 80/20 America with Robin Shea  EX Taste of History Using Essential Oils George Washington’s Tent  EX Travels with Darley 6:30  NC  Nightly Santa Fe Adventures Business Report 9:00  TV North Carolina  EX Kevin Belton’s Weekend New Orleans Kitchen  NC  A Chef’s Life The Po-boy Sandwich Liver Lover 20­ | April

Enjoy an intimate concert by the remarkably talented Leslie Odom Jr. on Live from Lincoln Center, Friday, April 27, at 9 PM, on UNC-TV.

7:00  TV Nightly Business Report  NC  PBS NewsHour  EX Rick Steves’ Europe Belfast & the Best of Northern Ireland 7:30  TV NC SPIN  EX Rudy Maxa’s World South Africa: Safari 8:00  TV Washington Week  NC  North Carolina Weekend  EX A Place To Call Home The Things We Do for Love 8:30  TV FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman  NC  MUSE: The Arts Show Cabaret Warsaw 8:50  EX North Carolina Weekend—Shorts Bald Head Island Lighthouse & Nature Preserve 9:00  TV Live from Lincoln Center: Leslie Odom Jr. in Concert Premiere! Join the Tony Award winning Hamilton star for his solo jazz show.  NC  FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman  EX Call the Midwife Patsy is elated to find Delia fully recovered, but she may move to Wales. 9:30  NC  Washington Week 10:00  TV International Jazz Day from Cuba World-renowned artists get together for this celebration in Havana.  NC  NC SPIN  EX Father Brown The Crimson Feather 10:30  NC  In Principle 11:00  TV Amanpour on PBS  NC  PBS NewsHour  EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Following the Reformation Trail in Switzerland & Germany DV 11:30  TV BBC World News  EX In the Americas with David Yetman Mexico City’s Markets: A Millennium of Trade

28 SATURDAY 6 AM  TV Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood DV  NC  Biographical Conversations with Junior Johnson Part 3 of 3  EX Carolina Outdoor Journal Caddis Hatch Trout


visit unctv.org 6:30  TV Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV  EX Carolina Outdoor Journal Classics Light Tackle Speckle Trout 7:00  TV Sesame Street DV Make Your Garden DV  NC  Carolina Outdoor Journal Classics Float Trip Smallmouths  EX Exploring North Carolina Works in Progress 7:30  TV Dinosaur Train DV  NC  Carolina Outdoor Journal Pamlico Sound Mixed Bag  EX Exploring North Carolina First Lost Colony 8:00  TV Pinkalicious & Peterrific DV  NC  Exploring North Carolina Buffers  EX North Carolina Weekend 8:30  TV Splash & Bubbles  NC  Exploring North Carolina Long-Bellied Friends  EX Southern Accents Gatlinburg, TN 9:00  TV Curious George DV  NC  North Carolina Weekend  EX Italy’s Invisible Cities Naples 9:30  TV Nature Cat  NC  Our State Land Beneath His Feet/ Mount Mitchell/ Barns Reborn 10:00  TV North Carolina Weekend  NC  MUSE: The Arts Show River Hymns: Youngsville Poet  EX New Scandinavian Cooking The Taste of Trees 10:30  TV Exploring North Carolina Forgotten Kingdom  NC  Craftsman’s Legacy The Duck Decoy Maker— Durham’s Ben Heinemann  EX How To Cook Well with Rory O’Connell Boiled Oyster of Bacon 11:00  TV Growing a Greener World New Ways of Growing America’s Favorite Vegetable  NC  The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Swinging Saw Vise DV  EX Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television Milk Street Suppers 11:30  TV P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home Chef Vs. Chef DV

NC  The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Sharpen that Saw! DV  EX Pati’s Mexican Table Street Food Favorites Noon  TV Almanac Gardener Solving Tomato Problems/ Backyard Blue Birds  NC  Growing a Greener World The Edible Schoolyard: A Class Without Walls & a Love To Learn  EX Rudy Maxa’s World Four Great Cities of Asia 12:30  TV America’s Heartland Ranch Life Photographer/ Inmate Harvesters  NC  Almanac Gardener Special Summer Plants at JC Raulston Arboretum/ Growing Mustard Greens  EX In the Americas with David Yetman Chesapeake Bay: Of Clams & Oysters 1:00  TV Antiques Roadshow Green Bay, Part 1  NC  Exploring North Carolina Buffers  EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Passage Through Chile’s Tierra del Fuego Around Cape Horn DV 1:30  NC  Exploring North Carolina Long-Bellied Friends  EX Samantha Brown’s Places to Love Big Sur & Monterey, CA 2:00  TV Rick Steves’ Europe North Wales: Feisty & Poetic  NC  First in Future Tom Campbell  EX Globe Trekker Tough Trains: Vietnam 2:30  TV Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Portugal—From Porto to Salamanca DV  NC  Conversation Maestro William Henry Curry

Meet Captain Ernie Foster, of the Outer Banks’ first commercial fishing outfit, on My Home, NC—Shorts Albatross Fleet, Saturday, April 28, at 8:50 PM, on UNC-TV.

3:00  TV Craftsman’s Legacy The Stone Carver  NC  Situation Report  EX Secrets of the Dead Teotihuacan’s Lost Kings DV 3:30  TV American Woodshop Gentleman’s Organizer & Gallery  NC  Comic Culture Guy Gilchrist (Nancy & The Muppets) 4:00  TV The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill The Venerable Bead DV  NC  FRONT ROW with Marc Rotterman  EX History Detectives Dylan’s Fender Stratocaster? 4:30  TV This Old House Charleston: Good Wood  NC  NC SPIN 5:00  TV Carolina Outdoor Journal Tagging Expedition— Grey Trout  NC  PBS NewsHour Weekend  EX Antiques Roadshow Green Bay, Part 1 5:30  TV PBS NewsHour Weekend  NC  Washington Week 6 PM  TV Lawrence Welk Show Great Entertainers (1981)  NC  Swannanoa Gathering: The 25th Anniversary Show Join Tom Paxton, Janis Ian, Kathy Mattea, Ellis Paul and more top performers at Warren Wilson College.  EX Penelope Keith’s Hidden Villages North Yorkshire 7:00  TV As Time Goes By White Hunter  EX Two for the Road China Part 2: The Spectacle of Southern China 7:30  TV As Time Goes By A Weekend Away  NC  Yep Roc Records Presents Kim Richey Premiere! Celebrate 20 years of Hillsborough’s Yep Roc Records with the alternative country star.  EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese Africa: The Elephant Trunk Show 8:00  TV Midsomer Murders The Sword of Guillaume  NC  Song of the Mountains Scott Perry & Front Porch Swing/The Crowe Brothers  EX Globe Trekker Tough Boats: The Amazon 8:50  TV My Home, NC—Shorts Albatross Fleet April | 21


evening&weekend listings 9:00  TV Doctor Blake Mysteries Against the Odds  NC  Yep Roc Records Presents Tony Joe White Celebrate 20 years of Hillsborough’s Yep Roc Records with this hit songwriter/singer/guitarist.  EX Italy’s Invisible Cities Venice 9:30  NC  Live at the Charleston Music Hall Edwin McCain 10:00  TV Death in Paradise Murder in the Polls  NC  Kate Marc Broussard  EX Great American Railroad Journeys Schenectady to Niagara Falls 11:00  TV Tunnel: Sabotage Laura receives a disturbing package.  NC  Austin City Limits TV on the Radio/ The War on Drugs  EX Globe Trekker Delhi & Agra

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Iowan Lois Reichert milks one of the 15 goats at her microdairy on FarmHer the Documentary, Sunday, April 29, at 9 PM, on the North Carolina Channel.

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1:30  TV Martha Stewart’s Cooking School Roasting 2:00  TV America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated Pressure Cooker Perfection  NC  Yep Roc Records Presents Tony Joe White Celebrate 20 years of Hillsborough’s Yep Roc Records with this hit songwriter/ singer/guitarist.  EX Downton Abbey Season 2 on Masterpiece Episode 2 2:30  TV Cook’s Country Big Family Breakfast  NC  Live at the Charleston Music Hall Drivin N Cryin 3:00  TV Sara’s Weeknight Meals Leftovers: Use It or Lose It  NC  Kate Marc Broussard  EX Downton Abbey Season 2 on Masterpiece Episode 3 3:30  TV Lidia’s Kitchen All About Chicken 4:00  TV Mexico— One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless Baking up Comfort  NC  First in Future Tom Campbell  EX Father Brown The Brewer’s Daughter 4:30  TV Pati’s Mexican Table Summer Evening Party  NC  Situation Report 5:00  TV Washington Week  NC  PBS NewsHour Weekend  EX Midsomer Murders Blood Wedding, Part 2 5:30  TV PBS NewsHour Weekend  NC  BBC Newsnight 6 PM  TV Doc Martin Movement  NC  Black Issues Forum Pauli Murray: Sainted Activist


visit unctv.org  EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Myanmar Irrawaddy River Adventure DV 6:30  NC  Black America Black Women, Beauty & Power with Vanessa De Luca  EX Weekends with Yankee Trade 7:00  TV A Place To Call Home The Things We Do for Love  NC  Singing Stream Reunion: The Grandchildren (2016)  EX Globe Trekker Tough Trains: India’s Independence Railroads 8:00  TV Call the Midwife Dr. Turner and Shelagh help a man in a remand home.  NC  Trail Magic, the Grandma Gatewood Story At age 66, Emma Gatewood became the first woman to hike the Appalachian Trail alone.  EX Nature Natural Born Rebels Meet animals who will steal, cheat and fight to get food. 9:00  TV Unforgotten Season 2 on Masterpiece Episode 1 A waterlogged suitcase holds a man’s remains, 25 years after he disappeared.

NC  FarmHer the Documentary Explore the vital role of women in agriculture.  EX David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities Seeing the Pattern 9:30  EX Nature’s Microworlds Okavango 10:00  NC  Keeper of the Beat: A Woman’s Journey Into the Heart of Drumming Thrill to the life and music of drummer, composer and teacher Barbara Borden.  EX Nature’s Miracle Orphans Monster & Africa 10:30  TV Vicious Freddie, Stuart and the gang go clubbing. 11:00  TV EastEnders  NC  Our State Oak Island Light/ Hanging Rock State Park/ Heavy Metal  EX Globe Trekker Tough Trains: The Transcontinental Railroad, USA 11:30  TV EastEnders  NC  MUSE: The Arts Show ADF Dancers

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