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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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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.
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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
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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
29 SUNDAY 6 AM TV Nature Cat NC Closer to Truth Why Philosophy of Physics & Cosmology? EX History Detectives Dylan’s Fender Stratocaster? 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 Top 10 South American Adventures 7:30 TV Bob the Builder DV NC Consuelo Mack WealthTrack 8:00 TV Curious George NC Carolina Business Review EX Finding Your Roots Immigrant Nation with Scarlett Johansson, Paul Rudd & John Turturro 8:30 TV Wild Kratts NC Market to Market 9:00 TV This Old House Charleston: Good Wood NC Washington Week EX Changing Face of... the Queen The Queen’s evolving image and wardrobe help tell the royal family’s story. 9:30 TV Ask This Old House Painting a Metal Door/ Matching Mortar for Repointing Jobs 22 | April
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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