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05/2017 Majestic Life of Queen Elizabeth • Curious George • Song of the Mountains

JAMES BEARD AMERICA’S

FIRST FOODIE

Premieres Friday, May 19, 9 PM

Enjoy a “Chef’s Flight” of four documentaries about our most iconic chefs—James Beard: America’s First Foodie, Julia! America’s Favorite Chef, Jacques Pépin: The Art of Craft and Alice Waters & Her Delicious Revolution—this month from American Masters and member-supported UNC-TV.

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CELEBRATE READ-A-ROO’S BIG BIRTHDAY! 10th Annual Big Birthday Bash, Saturday, June 3 Read-a-roo’s birthday party is our biggest Kids Club event of the year! Celebrate her big day in an extra big way, Saturday, June 3, at the North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher in Kure Beach! And Read-a-roo Friends Level Members are invited to an exclusive birthday celebration, including access to a private party room with refreshments and activities. Best of all, Roo will be there, along with a surprise PBS KIDS Guest Star, for hugs and high fives!

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UNC-TV’s Kids Channel ALL DAY & ALL NIGHT 6 AM Fetch! With Ruff Ruffman 6:30 Cyberchase 7:00 Read-a-roo’s Block Party—Curious George (weekends, until 10 AM) DV 7:30 WordGirl 8:00 Arthur 9:00 Peg + Cat 9:30 The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That 10:00 Super WHY! 10:30 Clifford the Big Red Dog 11:00 Thomas & Friends DV Noon Caillou 12:30 Sid the Science Kid 1:00 Bob the Builder DV

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

CURIOUS GEORGE SWINGS INTO SPRING! Weekends, at 7 AM & 1 PM This month, Read-a-roo welcomes Curious George back to the Block Party with the seasonal special Curious George Swings into Spring, Saturday, May 6, at 7 AM and 1 PM! Catch your favorite answer-seeking simian every weekend this month on Read-a-roo’s Block Party!

BRING ON THE STEM WITH NATURE CAT Connect to the natural world and join PBS KIDS “backyard explorer extraordinaire” Nature Cat for a fun day of nature excursions and discovery! Come meet and greet Nature Cat, participate in fun science activities and more! Visit unc.tv/kidsevents for details.

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evening&weekend listings Londoners give up all their mod cons on Victorian Slum House, premiering Tuesday, May 2, at 8 PM, on UNC-TV .

1 MONDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour Get in-depth analyses of current events.

EX Richard Bangs’ Adventures with Purpose Egypt: Quest for the Lord of the Nile

NC BBC World News America Get comprehensive coverage of international news and current events.

6:30 NC Nightly Business Report Seasoned reporters review financial news.

7:00 TV Nightly Business Report EX Rick Steves’ Europe Belgium: Bruges & Brussels NC Charlie Rose This native Tar Heel interviews fascinating personalities.

7:30 TV A Chef’s Life Chicken Lickin EX Family Travel with Colleen Kelly Saguenay-Lac St. Jean— A Whale of a Good Time on the Fjord 8:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Virginia Beach, Part 2 EX Secrets of Great British Castles Leeds Castle NC Exploring North Carolina Native Intelligence 8:30 NC Exploring North Carolina Highway to the Future 9:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Corpus Christi, Part 1 EX Majestic Life of Queen Elizabeth II

Biographers and historians share how a young princess became a great queen.

NC Expeditions with Patrick McMillan The Ace Basin: A Conservation Miracle 9:30 NC SciTech Now North Carolina

The Moving Show 10:00 TV Independent Lens National Bird Learn about the U.S. drone war. DV NC Genius by Stephen Hawking Can We Time Travel?

10:30 EX Changing Face of...

The Queen Changes of the Queen’s image and wardrobe reveal the royal family’s story.

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1:00 NC PBS NewsHour 1 11:30 TV BBC World News EX Rick Steves’ Europe North Wales: Feisty & Poetic

8:00 TV Victorian Slum House Premiere! The 1860s History comes alive as 21st-century Londoners live as Victorian poor in an East End tenement.

EX Africa’s Great 2 TUESDAY Civilizations 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour The Atlantic Age/ EX Taste of Louisiana Commerce and the with Chef John Folse Clash of Civilizations DV & Co. NC Moving North Carolina France: The Ursulines Follow the story of trans NC BBC World News portation in our state.

America 9:00 TV Ripley: Katty Kay shares unique Believe It or Not— global perspectives.

American Experience 6:30 EX Mexico—

See how the eccentric One Plate at a Time entrepreneur created an with Rick Bayless entertainment empire. DV Examining the Yucatan’s EX Gorongosa Park— Abundant Natural Rebirth of Paradise Resources Lion Mystery/ NC Nightly Business Elephant Whisperer Report NC City in the Sky 7:00 TV Nightly Business Departure Report 10:00 TV FRONTLINE EX Rick Steves’ Europe Second Chance Kids What French Riviera: does a landmark Supreme Uniquely Chic Court ruling mean for juve NC Charlie Rose niles in prison for murder?

7:30 TV Flavor, NC EX Operation Wild Walking Fish CSF—Beaufort A clever idea may help save EX Smart Travels— giant pandas; a gorilla gets Europe with Rudy Maxa a life-changing operation.

Greek Islands NC America Revealed Food Machine 11:00 TV Waiting for God

Trouble With Men EX Travelscope Madhya Pradesh— India’s Rural Heart DV NC PBS NewsHour 11:30 TV BBC World News EX Desert Speaks On the Trail of a Living Fossil

Follow the Majestic Life of Queen Elizabeth II, Monday, May 1, at 9 PM, on The Explorer Channel.

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3 WEDNESDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour EX Secrets of Great British Castles Leeds Castle NC BBC World News America 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report EX Rick Steves’ Europe Poland Rediscovered: Krakow, Auschwitz & Warsaw NC Charlie Rose 7:30 TV SciTech Now North Carolina

The Green Plant Show See how plants determine what is a shadow.

EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese

Scotland: Vikings, Puffins & Ponies 8:00 TV Nature Dolphins: Spy in the Pod, Part 1 EX Pati’s Mexican Table Campeche— Tale of a Pirate City NC Reel South Deep Run A teen finds the courage to emerge as a strong-willed transgender man.

8:30 EX Julie Taboulie’s Lebanese Kitchen

Eggplant Extravaganza 9:00 TV NOVA Super Tunnel See the construction of a massive, new London subway.

EX Lucky Chow

Bay Area’s Pacific Rim Cuisine NC Independent Lens Kumu Hina A transgender teacher in Hawaii inspires a tomboy to lead a male hula troupe.

9:30 EX Family Ingredients Japan: Miso Soup DV 10:00 TV Plants Behaving Badly Murder & Mayhem Examine the behavior of carnivorous plants.

EX The Great British Baking Show Masterclass 4 NC POV From this Day Forward Join a family as a parent comes out as transgender.

11:00 TV Are You Being Served?

Up Captain Peacock Cunning carnivorous flora star on Plants Behaving Badly, Wednesday, May 3, at 10 PM, on UNC-TV.

EX Martin Clunes: Islands of Australia Lord Howe Island 11:30 TV BBC World News NC PBS NewsHour

4 THURSDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour EX Cooking Odyssey Ermioni NC BBC World News America 6:30 EX Julie Taboulie’s Lebanese Kitchen Garden of Dreams DV NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report EX Rick Steves’ Europe Budapest: The Best of Hungary NC Charlie Rose 7:30 TV Our State Mule Rider/Bodie Island Lighthouse EX Smart Travels— Europe with Rudy Maxa French Riviera 8:00 TV My Home, NC

Mama Dip/Coming of the Shad/Land of Oz/ Banjo Earth/Glass Artist Ronnie Hughes EX Curious Traveler Curious Loire Valley NC Folkways: An Overview of Folklife 1997 Special 8:30 TV Exploring North Carolina Fort Bragging Rights EX Family Travel with Colleen Kelly

Frankenmuth— Michigan’s Little Bavaria 9:00 TV North Carolina Weekend Deborah Holt Noel shows what’s up across NC this weekend.

EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese Scotland: Vikings, Puffins & Ponies

See Nature Dolphins: Spy in the Pod, Part 1, Wednesday, May 3, at 8 PM, on UNC-TV.

NC The Last One

Late colorful character Popcorn Sutton shares the craft of liquor distillation.

9:30 TV Craftsman’s Legacy The Duck Decoy Maker Durham’s Ben Heinemann showcases exquisite work.

EX Travels with Darley Wyoming National Forests 10:00 TV Ultimate Restorations The Schooner Coronet: Racing Into History EX Dream of Italy Piedmont/Lake Iseo NC Prince of Dark Corners

Learn about Appalachian outlaw Lewis Redmond.

10:30 EX Painting the Town with Eric Dowdle

Explore Hawaii’s North Shore and natural Oahu. DV 11:00 TV Keeping Up Appearances

Violet’s Country Cottage EX Travelscope Crossing the Swiss Alps DV NC PBS NewsHour 11:30 TV BBC World News EX Desert Speaks Kickin’ West on Route 66

5 FRIDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour EX Taste of History George Washington’s Tent NC BBC World News America 6:30 EX Pati’s Mexican Table Chachi’s Champoton Kitchen NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report EX Rick Steves’ Europe Sevilla NC Charlie Rose 7:30 TV North Carolina Weekend EX Smart Travels— Europe with Rudy Maxa France’s Burgundy & Loire Regions May | 5

evening&weekend listings 8:00 TV Washington Week EX Doc Martin Rescue Me NC North Carolina Weekend 8:30 TV Front Row Media strategist Marc Rotterman discusses state and national politics and policy.

NC North Carolina Bookwatch

Randall Kenan— The Carolina Table 8:50 EX North Carolina Weekend—Shorts Chocolates 9:00 TV Latin Music USA The Chicano Wave/ Divas & Superstars EX Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries Death Do Us Part NC Front Row 9:30 NC Washington Week Leading journalists analyze major news and events.

10:00 EX Father Brown The Resurrectionists NC Common Ground Kelly McCullen discusses current issues with top NC policymakers.

10:30 NC Carolina Business Review Chris William and his guests discuss business news in the Carolinas.

10:50 EX North Carolina Weekend—Shorts Tattoo Archive 11:00 TV British Antiques Roadshow Scone Palace EX Travelscope Victoria, Australia DV NC PBS NewsHour 11:30 TV BBC World News EX Desert Speaks Cruising on the Mother Road

6 SATURDAY 6:00 TV Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood EX Expeditions with Patrick McMillan South Texas— A Hint of the Tropics NC Biographical Conversations with Jesse Helms Part 1 of 3 6:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV EX Exploring North Carolina Story in Quarries 7:00 TV Sesame Street DV EX Carolina Outdoor Journal Classics Joe Albea and John Moore share top moments from this long-running series.

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NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Classics 7:30 TV Sesame Street DV EX Carolina Outdoor Journal Summer Black Drum NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Summer Black Drum 8:00 TV Splash & Bubbles EX North Carolina Weekend NC Exploring North Carolina Living Collections 8:30 TV Curious George DV EX Southern Accents Asheville NC Exploring North Carolina Cafeteria Line 9:00 TV Nature Cat EX Flying to the Ends of the Earth The Himalayas NC North Carolina Weekend 9:30 TV Dinosaur Train DV NC Our State Unconditional Love/ Atlantic Beach Pie/ Dressed for Success 10:00 TV North Carolina Weekend EX New Scandinavian Cooking Fire in the Belly NC Folkways Traditions of the Cherokee Indians 10:30 TV Southern Accents Pine Mountain, GA EX Mexico— One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless Chocolate Dreams, Cacao Fantasies NC Craftsman’s Legacy The Flute Maker Meet Asheville’s Geri Littlejohn.

11:00 TV Growing a Greener World The 50-Mile Bouquet: Why Local Matters EX Taste of History The Moravians of Bethlehem NC The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Viceless Devices DV 11:30 TV P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home No Passport Necessary DV EX From the Vineyard Gregory/Yadkin Valley Bus Tour NC The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Tool Boxes & Chests

Noon TV The Best of Almanac Gardener Pollinator Paradise Garden/Controlling Rose Rosette Disease EX Rudy Maxa’s World Delhi & Agra, India NC Growing a Greener World In the Garden with Margaret Roach: New York 12:30 TV America’s Heartland Michael Martin Murphey EX Desert Speaks Jaguars & Vaqueros NC The Best of Almanac Gardener Pollinator Paradise Garden/Controlling Rose Rosette Disease 1:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Virginia Beach, Part 2 EX Rick Steves’ Europe: Great German Cities Hamburg, Dresden, Leipzig, Frankfurt & Nürnberg NC Reel South Deep Run A teen finds the courage to emerge as a strong-willed transgender man.

2:00 TV Rick Steves’ Europe Florentine Delights & Tuscan Side Trips NC Independent Lens Kumu Hina A transgender teacher in Hawaii inspires a tomboy to lead a male hula troupe.

2:30 TV Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Southern Ethiopia—Tribal Lands & Primeval People DV

3:00 TV Craftsman’s Legacy The Metal Shaper EX Andre Rieu: Waltzing Forever Enjoy enchanting music in a stunning medieval town square in the Netherlands.

NC Independent Lens Wilhemina’s War A grandmother helps her family through HIV and AIDS. 3:30 TV American Woodshop Home Trims 4:00 TV The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Staked Furniture DV NC Front Row 4:30 TV This Old House Detroit—Fixing the Fascia EX Daniel O’Donnell: Back Home Again Ireland’s classic crooner performs signature hits and traditional tunes in Dublin.

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Mary Chapin Carpenter, Indigo Girls and Joan Baez are Four Voices, part of Great Performances: Joan Baez 75th Birthday Celebration, Saturday, May 6, at 6 PM, on The Explorer Channel.

NC Charlie Rose— The Week Get a retrospective of the acclaimed interviewer’s nightly program.

5:00 TV Carolina Outdoor Journal Light for White Perch NC PBS NewsHour Weekend Gain insights about the week’s issues.

5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Weekend NC Washington Week 6 PM TV Lawrence Welk Show 25th Anniversary EX Great Performances: Joan Baez 75th Birthday Celebration Join Indigo Girls, Jackson Browne, David Crosby, Paul Simon, Emmylou Harris and more.

NC Folkways Music of Surry County 6:30 NC Shakori Hills Concert Series Southern Culture on the Skids 7:00 TV As Time Goes By A Trip to Los Angeles 7:30 TV As Time Goes By Dealing With Sally 8:00 TV Midsomer Murders Death in a Chocolate Box, Part 1 EX Magic Moments— The Best of ‘50s Pop The McGuire Sisters, The Lennon Sisters, The Chordettes, The Four Aces and more take the stage.

NC Song of the Mountains Lost Creek Band/ April Verch 8:50 TV My Home, NC—Shorts The Original Collard Sandwich 9:00 TV Coroner The Captain’s Pipe NC David Holt’s State of Music The Krüger Brothers

9:30 NC Sun Studio Sessions South Memphis String Band: Luther Dickinson, Jimbo Mathus & Alvin Youngblood Hart 9:50 TV SciTech—Shorts Biltmore Science 10:00 TV Death in Paradise Man Overboard, Part 2 EX Roy Orbison: Black & White Night 30 This special 30th anniversary edition features Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, k.d. lang, Elvis Costello and more.

NC Live from the Artists Den Zac Brown Band 11:00 TV Tunnel Police may have a lead, as the killer’s actions escalate in his fifth and final “truth.”

NC Austin City Limits Robert Plant & the Sensational Space Shifters 11:30 EX Rick Steves’ Europe: Remote, Sacred, Wild Celebrate the great outdoors and religious sites in Europe and beyond.

7 SUNDAY 6 AM TV Nature Cat EX Martin Clunes: Islands of Australia North & West NC Closer to Truth What Exists?

6:30 TV Wild Kratts NC Education Matters Learn about key issues affecting education in NC. 7:00 TV Thomas & Friends DV EX Globe Trekker Food Hour: Provence, France NC Truth About Money with Ric Edelman The financial advisor says “not yet” to a couple about to say “I do.”

7:30 TV Bob the Builder DV NC Consuelo Mack WealthTrack Get advice for managing investments.

8:00 TV Curious George DV EX Egypt Beyond the Pyramids Cairo, Undercover DV NC Carolina Business Review 8:30 TV WordGirl DV NC Common Ground 9:00 TV This Old House Detroit—Fixing the Fascia EX Africa’s Great Civilizations The Atlantic Age/ Commerce & the Clash of Civilizations DV NC Washington Week 9:30 TV Ask This Old House Alaska Generator/ Wood Floor NC Front Row 10:00 TV Exploring North Carolina Fort Bragging Rights EX Gorongosa Park— Rebirth of Paradise Lion Mystery/ Elephant Whisperer NC North Carolina Bookwatch Randall Kenan— The Carolina Table 10:30 TV SciTech Now North Carolina

The Green Plant Show See how plants determine what is a shadow.

NC Well Read Mohsin Hamid—Exit West 11:00 TV Carolina Outdoor Journal Light for White Perch EX Operation Wild

A clever idea may help save giant pandas; a gorilla gets a life-changing operation.

NC Poetry Live Reynolds Price/ Cathy Smith Bowers 11:30 TV Black Issues Forum Science of Race NC Poetry Live Robert Morgan/ Shelby Stephenson Noon TV North Carolina Bookwatch Randall Kenan— The Carolina Table EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope France—Bordeaux DV NC Novel Sounds: American Fiction in the Age of Rock Keynote Roundtable: Rock & Literature I

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evening&weekend listings Postman Spencer Wilson gives Noah Lakin a lift on the final episode of Home Fires Season 2 on Masterpiece, Sunday, May 7, at 9 PM, on UNC-TV.

2:30 TV Flavor, NC 1 Bakers Peanuts EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese Chile: Flowering of the Llamas 1:00 TV Ellie’s Real Good Food The Goods on Gluten Free EX A Place to Call Home Too Old to Dream Olivia dreams about her encounter with Lloyd.

NC Generation of Change Emerging from the Great Depression and WWII, new leaders shaped NC’s future.

1:30 TV Martha Bakes Gulf 2:00 TV America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated Baked Alaska Showstopper EX Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries Death Defying Acts NC Terry Sanford: Life & Legacy The NC governor, senator and Duke University president shares his story.

2:30 TV Cook’s Country A Taste of Tennessee 3:00 TV Sara’s Weeknight Meals Vegan with Adam Sobel EX Agatha Christie’s Poirot Four & Twenty Blackbirds NC State of Mine: The Jim Hunt Story Take an in-depth look at the life and legacy of NC’s only four-term governor.

3:30 TV Lidia’s Kitchen More Italian American Favorites 4:00 TV Pati’s Mexican Table Alan Goes to College EX Father Brown The Standing Stones NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Classics 4:30 TV Steven Raichlen’s Project Smoke Smoke in a Hurry NC Our State Surrounded by Silence/ What Say You 5:00 TV Charlie Rose— The Week EX Miss Fisher Uncovered Go behind the scenes of the highly acclaimed mysteries.

NC PBS NewsHour Weekend 8­ | May

5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Weekend NC BBC Newsnight Get comprehensive coverage of international news and current events.

6 PM TV Doc Martin Do Not Disturb EX Salute to Vienna Frederica von Stade hosts this lavish music and dance gala from the Konzerthaus.

NC Black Issues Forum Science of Race 6:30 NC Black America Social Media with Marcus Mabry 6:50 TV SciTech—Shorts Biltmore Science 7:00 TV A Place to Call Home Somewhere Beyond the Sea Sarah goes to Sydney; Jack keeps an eye on Rene.

NC A Chef’s Life The World Is Your Oyster 7:30 NC Flavor, NC Hybrid Striped Bass 7:50 TV My Home, NC Shorts The Original Collard Sandwich 8:00 TV Call the Midwife The Nonnatus family unites to provide the best care for Sister Mary Cynthia.

EX Andre Rieu: Waltzing Forever Enjoy enchanting music in a stunning medieval town square in the Netherlands.

NC Voices of North Carolina NCSU professor Walt Wolfram examines our state’s diverse dialects.

9:00 TV Home Fires Season 2 on Masterpiece Everyone prepares for a wedding.

NC Carolina Brogue Take a lively tour of the dialect and culture of the Outer Banks.

9:30 EX Rick Steves Special A Symphonic Journey Join the Cascade Symphony for a visit to seven countries.

NC Indian by Birth The Lumbee Dialect 10:00 TV Wolf Hall on Masterpiece Episode 6 Cromwell must do away with Henry’s second queen, Anne Boleyn.

NC Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi The Lumbee Dance of the Spring Moon DV 10:30 NC Equitrekking Carolinas 11:00 TV EastEnders EX National Park Symphony—The Mighty Five The Utah Symphony serenades the state’s five majestic national parks.

NC Our State Unconditional Love/ Atlantic Beach Pie/ Dressed for Success 11:30 TV EastEnders NC Native Report Landscape Photographer DV

8 MONDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour EX Operation Wild

A clever idea may help save giant pandas; a gorilla gets a life-changing operation.

NC BBC World News America 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report EX Rick Steves’ Europe Lisbon & the Algarve NC Charlie Rose 7:30 TV A Chef’s Life Ramp-ing Up to Spring EX Family Travel with Colleen Kelly

Florida Keys & Key West

visit unctv.org 8:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Virginia Beach, Part 3 EX Secrets of Great British Castles Arundel Castle NC Exploring North Carolina Where Rivers Are Born 8:30 NC Exploring North Carolina Living Collections 9:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Corpus Christi, Part 2 EX Secrets of the Tower of London

Go behind the ancient walls of this nearly 1,000-year-old formidable fortress.

NC Expeditions with Patrick McMillan The Hidden Side of Table Rock 9:30 NC SciTech Now North Carolina

The Space Travel Show: Jim Lovell The astronaut returns to the site of his training in the 1960s.

10:00 TV Independent Lens The Prison in Twelve Landscapes Explore places where prisons affect lives.

EX Secrets of Henry VIII’s Palace

Discover the ultimate Royal pleasure palace— unique Hampton Court.

NC Genius by Stephen Hawking Are We Alone?

11:00 TV Film School Shorts Reality Bites Look at life on a Bachelor-style reality television program.

EX Art in the Twenty-first Century Investigation DV NC PBS NewsHour 11:30 TV BBC World News

9 TUESDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour EX Taste of Louisiana with Chef John Folse & Co. Cajun: Expulsion from Nova Scotia NC BBC World News America 6:30 EX Mexico— One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless A Seafood Dream NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report EX Rick Steves’ Europe England’s Bath & York NC Charlie Rose

1:00 TV Waiting for God 1

Harvey the Priest EX Travelscope Tasmania, Australia DV NC PBS NewsHour 11:30 TV BBC World News EX Desert Speaks Desert Treasures

10 WEDNESDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour EX Secrets of Great British Castles Arundel Castle NC BBC World News America 6:30 NC Nightly Business Medieval arms expert Tobias Capwell Report wields swords with host Dan Jones at 7:00 TV Nightly Business Arundel Castle on Secrets of Great Report British Castles, Monday, May 8, EX Rick Steves’ Europe at 8 PM, on The Explorer Channel.

North Wales: Feisty & Poetic 7:30 TV Flavor, NC NC Charlie Rose State Farmers Market— 7:30 TV SciTech Now Raleigh North Carolina EX Smart Travels—

The Space Travel Show: Europe with Rudy Maxa Jim Lovell The astronaut Berlin returns to the site of his 8:00 TV Victorian Slum House training in the 1960s.

The 1870s The slum dwell- EX Born To Explore ers toil to fulfill their factory with Richard Wiese work expectations.

Indonesia: Orangutans— EX Africa’s Great People of the Forest Civilizations 8:00 TV Nature Commerce & the Dolphins: Spy in the Pod, Clash of Civilizations DV Part 2 NC Great Smoky EX Pati’s Mexican Table Mountains Railways Ancient Yucatan with

Travel the beautiful counMy Boys tryside of Western NC. NC February One 8:30 NC Chasing the Clouds:

Experience events at a The Story of Smith Greensboro Woolworth’s Reynolds Airport that changed history.

Learn about Winston 8:30 EX Julie Taboulie’s Salem’s beloved airport.

Lebanese Kitchen 9:00 TV Bonnie & Clyde: Street Food Star, Shawarma American Experience DV

Follow the true story of the 9:00 TV NOVA most famous outlaw couple Arctic Ghost Ship Explore in U.S. history. DV the Franklin Expedition, EX Gorongosa Park— 160 years after vanishing Rebirth of Paradise while charting the North Elephant Whisperer west Passage.

NC City in the Sky EX Lucky Chow Airborne Explore what it Chinatown, Reimagined takes to keep planes func NC Reel South tioning and safe.

Counter Histories: Rock Hill 10:00 TV FRONTLINE SC’s “Friendship 9” fought

Poverty, Politics & Profit segregation laws in 1961.

Probe the billions spent on 9:30 EX Family Ingredients housing the poor.

Puerto Rico: EX Operation Wild Arroz con Gandule DV

Pioneering medicine NC An Unlikely Friendship transforms ways to tend to See how a Klan leader and animals. an outspoken black activist NC America Revealed develop a friendship.

Nation on the Move Yul Kwon journeys across the country by air, road and rail.

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evening&weekend listings 10:00 TV Plants Behaving Badly Sex & Lies Revel in the beauty of orchids and examine their shapely pollinator-attracting flowers.

EX The World’s Most Expensive Food

Part 1 NC Independent Lens Accidental Courtesy An African-American musician attempts to change the minds of KKK members.

11:00 TV Are You Being Served?

Cold Store EX Martin Clunes: Islands of Australia

North & West 11:30 TV BBC World News NC PBS NewsHour

11 THURSDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour EX Cooking Odyssey Loutraki NC BBC World News America 6:30 EX Julie Taboulie’s Lebanese Kitchen It’s Taboulie Time DV NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report EX Rick Steves’ Europe Edinburgh NC Charlie Rose 7:30 TV Our State Lighter than Air/Mrs. Hanes’ Moravian Cookies EX Smart Travels— Europe with Rudy Maxa Munich & Bavaria 8:00 TV My Home, NC

The Courage of Chris Rosati/Salem Street Drum Company/Highland Brewing Company/Hospital to Home/Villa Verde EX Curious Traveler Curious Venice NC The Outer Banks NC’s Coastal Treasure 8:30 TV Exploring North Carolina Two Lakes & a Pond EX Family Travel with Colleen Kelly

Beach Camping in Florida NC Lumina: Remembering the Light Discover Wrightsville Beach’s legendary, but long lost site for summer fun.

9:00 TV North Carolina Weekend EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese Indonesia: Orangutans— People of the Forest 10­ | May

DG Martin welcomes Donna Everhart to North Carolina Bookwatch, Friday, May 12, at 8:30 PM, on the North Carolina Channel.

9:30 TV Craftsman’s Legacy The Tool Maker: Seth Gould EX Travels with Darley Illinois: Route 66 & Midewin NC Ribbon of Sand

Meryl Streep narrates this look at the Cape Lookout National Seashore.

10:00 TV Ultimate Restorations The Lysander: Canada’s Unsung Hero Visit Ottawa’s Vintage Wings Museum.

EX Dream of Italy Puglia NC Fort Fisher Hermit: The Life & Death of Robert E. Harrill

Explore the life and suspicious death of a man who became a tourist attraction.

10:30 EX Painting the Town with Eric Dowdle

St. Thomas, USVI DV 11:00 TV Keeping Up Appearances

How To Go on Holiday Without Really Trying EX Travelscope Swiss Roots DV NC PBS NewsHour 11:30 TV BBC World News EX Desert Speaks Peru’s Amazon Desert

12 FRIDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour EX Taste of History When America Spoke French Learn the history of ice cream in Philadelphia.

NC BBC World News America 6:30 EX Pati’s Mexican Table Merida—Exploring with the Locals NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report

EX Rick Steves’ Europe

Italy’s Amalfi Coast NC Charlie Rose 7:30 TV North Carolina Weekend EX Smart Travels— Europe with Rudy Maxa Salzburg & the Lakes District 8:00 TV Washington Week EX Doc Martin The Shock of the New NC North Carolina Weekend 8:30 TV Front Row NC North Carolina Bookwatch Donna Everhart—The Education of Dixie Dupree 8:50 EX North Carolina Weekend—Shorts Virgils Taqueria 9:00 TV Bill Murray: The Mark Twain Prize Celebrate the enduring career of this comedic actor.

EX Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries Cocaine Blues NC Front Row 9:30 NC Washington Week 10:00 EX Father Brown The Sins of the Father NC Common Ground 10:30 TV Vicious

Wedding

NC Carolina Business Review 10:50 EX North Carolina Weekend—Shorts Muddy Creek Bistro 11:00 TV British Antiques Roadshow WWI Special EX Travelscope New Brunswick’s Acadian Festival DV NC PBS NewsHour 11:30 TV BBC World News EX Desert Speaks Costal Civilizations of Ancient Peru

13 SATURDAY 6:00 TV Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood DV EX Expeditions with Patrick McMillan South Texas—The Border NC Biographical Conversations with Jesse Helms Part 2 of 3 6:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV EX Exploring North Carolina Buffers 7:00 TV Sesame Street DV EX Carolina Outdoor Journal Classics NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Classics

visit unctv.org 7:30 TV Sesame Street DV EX Carolina Outdoor Journal Stripers Deep NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Stripers Deep 8:00 TV Splash & Bubbles EX North Carolina Weekend NC Exploring North Carolina North Carolina’s Two Coasts, Part 1 8:30 TV Curious George DV EX Southern Accents Chattanooga, TN NC Exploring North Carolina North Carolina’s Two Coasts, Part 2 9:00 TV Nature Cat EX Flying to the Ends of the Earth Australia & Papua NC North Carolina Weekend 9:30 TV Dinosaur Train DV NC Our State The Sweetest Sound/ Gause Tomb 10:00 TV North Carolina Weekend EX New Scandinavian Cooking Captain Haddock NC Folkways Coastal Carvers 10:30 TV Southern Accents Kentucky’s Bourbon Trail EX Mexico— One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless Dreaming of Sustainable Agriculture NC Craftsman’s Legacy The Duck Decoy Maker Durham’s Ben Heinemann showcases exquisite work.

11:00 TV Growing a Greener World Dominica: Island Ingenuity in Sustainability EX Taste of History James K. Polk: The Dark Horse President NC The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Daring Diagonal Dovetails DV

11:30 TV P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home Super Foods, Super Recipes DV EX From the Vineyard Hinnant/Lu Mil Winery NC The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Chip Carving

Noon TV The Best of Almanac Gardener Gardening in the Shade/ Growing Asparagus EX Rudy Maxa’s World Rajasthan NC Growing a Greener World The Weekend Farmer: Beyond the Garden— The Basics of Starting a Small Farm 12:30 TV America’s Heartland Successful Florida Woman Rancher EX Desert Speaks Utah’s Slick Rock Country NC The Best of Almanac Gardener Gardening in the Shade/ Growing Asparagus 1:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Virginia Beach, Part 3 EX Rick Steves’ Hidden Europe The Alpine’s Hallstatt/ Hydra, Greece NC February One

Experience events at a Greensboro Woolworth’s that changed history.

2:00 TV Rick Steves’ Europe Paris: Regal & Intimate NC Reel South Counter Histories: Rock Hill SC’s “Friendship 9” fought segregation laws in 1961.

2:30 TV Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Northern Ethiopia— Ancient History & Spiritual Present DV NC Independent Lens Accidental Courtesy An African-American musician attempts to change the minds of KKK members.

3:00 TV Craftsman’s Legacy The Woodworker: John Wilson EX National Park Symphony—The Mighty Five The Utah Symphony serenades the state’s five majestic national parks.

3:30 TV American Woodshop Recycled Trestle Table 4:00 TV The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Rocky Bentwood Cradle Show DV EX Ken Burns: America’s Storyteller Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and others salute the acclaimed filmmaker.

NC Front Row 4:30 TV This Old House Detroit—A Mason Steps Up NC Charlie Rose— The Week

5:00 TV Carolina Outdoor Journal Lake James Smallmouth NC PBS NewsHour Weekend 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Weekend NC Washington Week 6 PM TV Lawrence Welk Show Tribute to Bing EX Best of Trains Around North America Experience unforgettable stories of historic and scenic tourist railroads.

NC Music City Roots Live from the Factory Shemekia Copeland/ Whitehorse/Mavericks 7:00 TV As Time Goes By Problems, Problems NC Live from the Dennison Lodge Donna Hughes 7:30 TV As Time Goes By A House Full of Women 8:00 TV Midsomer Murders Death in a Chocolate Box, Part 2 Barnaby’s scandal-plagued former colleague turns up bludgeoned to death.

EX Hamilton’s America Explore the creation of this pop culture Broadway phenomenon and its backstory.

NC Song of the Mountains Slim Pickins/Hackensaw Boys 8:50 TV My Home, NC—Shorts The Call of the Stache 9:00 TV Coroner Life NC David Holt’s State of Music Doyle Lawson/ St. John Unity Choir 9:30 NC Folkways Gospel Music 9:50 TV SciTech—Shorts Mystery of Carolina Bays 10:00 TV Death in Paradise In the Footsteps of a Killer EX Blue Suede Shoes: A Rockabilly Session with Carl Perkins George Harrison, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton and Rosanne Cash pay tribute to Carl Perkins in 1983.

NC Infinity Hall Live Tedeschi Trucks Band 11:00 TV Tunnel French police capture, then lose the prime suspect.

NC Austin City Limits Gary Clark Jr./ Courtney Barnett 11:30 EX Rick Steves’ Delicious Europe Savor classic cuisine in Galicia, Rome and Greece, and sip wine in Burgundy.

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evening&weekend listings 14 SUNDAY 6 AM TV Nature Cat EX Martin Clunes: Islands of Australia South NC Closer to Truth How Did the Universe Begin?

6:30 TV Wild Kratts NC Education Matters 7:00 TV Thomas & Friends DV EX Globe Trekker Tough Boats: The Nile, Egypt NC Truth About Money with Ric Edelman Creditworthy Advice 7:30 TV Bob the Builder DV NC Consuelo Mack WealthTrack 8:00 TV Curious George DV EX Egypt Beyond the Pyramids The Gathering Storm DV NC Carolina Business Review 8:30 TV WordGirl DV NC Common Ground 9:00 TV This Old House Detroit—A Mason Steps Up EX Africa’s Great Civilizations Commerce & the Clash of Civilizations DV NC Washington Week 9:30 TV Ask This Old House Clogged Pipe/ Convection Heat NC Front Row 10:00 TV Exploring North Carolina Two Lakes & a Pond EX Gorongosa Park— Rebirth of Paradise Elephant Whisperer NC North Carolina Bookwatch Donna Everhart—The Education of Dixie Dupree 10:30 TV SciTech Now North Carolina

The Space Travel Show: Jim Lovell The astronaut returns to the site of his training in the 1960s.

NC Well Read Laurie Frankel— This Is How It Always Is 11:00 TV Carolina Outdoor Journal Lake James Smallmouth EX Operation Wild

Pioneering medicine transforms ways to tend to animals.

NC Poetry Live Gerald Barrax/ Rebecca McClanahan

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Tim Pigott-Smith stars in King Charles III on Masterpiece, exploring the Prince of Wales’ ascent to the throne, Sunday, May 14, at 9 PM, on UNC-TV.

11:30 TV Black Issues Forum Images of Black Dads in Life & Pictures NC Poetry Live Kathryn Stripling Byer/ Chuck Sullivan Noon TV North Carolina Bookwatch Donna Everhart—The Education of Dixie Dupree EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Taiwan’s Penghu Islands DV NC Novel Sounds: American Fiction in the Age of Rock Rock & Race 12:30 TV Flavor, NC Topo Distillery EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese South Africa: Saving the Mighty Rhino 1:00 TV Ellie’s Real Good Food

Sweet Tooth Satisfiers EX A Place to Call Home Living in the Shadow Rene remains cold to Sarah following the revelation that she’s carrying George’s baby.

NC Voices of North Carolina NCSU professor Walt Wolfram examines North Carolina’s diverse dialects.

1:30 TV Martha Bakes Pennsylvania Dutch 2:00 TV America’s Test Kitchen from Cook’s Illustrated Italian Chicken EX Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries Murder & the Maiden NC Carolina Brogue Take a lively tour of the dialect and culture of the Outer Banks.

2:30 TV Cook’s Country The Devil Made Me Do It NC Indian by Birth The Lumbee Dialect 3:00 TV Sara’s Weeknight Meals Just 5 Ingredients EX Agatha Christie’s Poirot The Third Floor Flat NC Bare Feet with Mickela Mallozzi The Lumbee Dance of the Spring Moon Mickela joins a Native-American Pow Wow with the Lumbee Tribe and learns about their challenges. DV 3:30 TV Lidia’s Kitchen Olive Oil NC Equitrekking Carolinas 4:00 TV Pati’s Mexican Table Jose Andres EX Father Brown The Paradise of Thieves NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Classics 4:30 TV Steven Raichlen’s Project Smoke Tropical Smoke NC Our State Edenton/Bonsai/Balloons 5:00 TV Charlie Rose— The Week EX Midsomer Conversation with John Nettles The show’s star reflects upon his 13 seasons playing Tom Barnaby.

NC PBS NewsHour Weekend 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Weekend NC BBC Newsnight 6 PM TV Doc Martin The Wrong Goodbye EX Rick Steves’ Italy: Cities of Dreams Tour the ancient glories and back-street riches of Rome, Venice and Florence.

NC Black Issues Forum Images of Black Dads in Life & Pictures 6:30 NC Black America #blackperspectivesmatter with Tonya Pinki 6:50 TV SciTech—Shorts Mystery of Carolina Bays 7:00 TV A Place to Call Home Too Old To Dream Olivia dreams about her encounter with Lloyd.

NC A Chef’s Life Muscadine Time 7:30 NC Flavor, NC Table Grapes 7:50 TV My Home, NC—Shorts The Call of the Stache

visit unctv.org 0:00 TV Independent Lens 1 Forever Pure EX Tales of Irish Castles The Normans Are Coming NC Genius by Stephen Hawking Why Are We Here?

11:00 EX Art in the Twenty-first Century Secrets DV NC PBS NewsHour 11:30 TV BBC World News

16 TUESDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour EX Taste of Louisiana with Chef John Folse & Co. Cajun: Louisiana’s Cajuns NC BBC World News 15 MONDAY America 6:30 EX Mexico— 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour One Plate at a Time EX Operation Wild with Rick Bayless

Pioneering medicine A Chef’s Path transforms ways to tend NC Nightly Business to animals.

Report NC BBC World News 7:00 TV Nightly Business America Report 6:30 EX Rick Steves’ Europe EX Rick Steves’ Europe Naples & Pompeii Milan & Lake Como NC Nightly Business NC Charlie Rose Report 7:30 TV Flavor, NC 7:00 TV Nightly Business Apple Brandy Beef— Report North Wilkesboro, NC NC Charlie Rose EX Smart Travels— 7:30 TV A Chef’s Life Europe with Rudy Maxa Eggs a Dozen Ways Vienna &the Danube EX Family Travel 8:00 TV Victorian Slum House with Colleen Kelly The 1880s Upper-class

Pennsylvania Camping— visitors visit the slum and Lancaster, Gettysburg & the participants realize how Hershey precarious their situation is.

8:00 TV Antiques Roadshow EX Life on the Reef Orlando, Part 1 Episode 1 Tourists enjoy EX Secrets of Great perfect weather; humpBritish Castles back whales give birth; fire Dover Castle, Kent destroys a yacht.

NC Exploring NC Speedbird: The HisNorth Carolina tory of Piedmont Airlines Cafeteria Line Former employees, family 8:30 NC Exploring members and historians North Carolina recall our state’s once Long Parks great airline.

9:00 TV Antiques Roadshow 9:00 TV American Epic Corpus Christi, Part 3 The Big Bang The Carter EX Secrets of Family and others record the Six Wives the first R&B songs and Divorced Examine Henry modern country music in VIII’s happy marriage to first the 1920s. wife, Katherine of Aragon.

EX Gorongosa Park— NC Expeditions with Rebirth of Paradise Patrick McMillan New Blood/Hidden Worlds The Longleaf Empire— NC City in the Sky Apalachicola National Arrival Complex global Forest networks and amazing tech 9:30 NC SciTech Now get passengers safely back North Carolina on the ground.

Microscopic Creatures A new type of UV light may help fight drug-resistant bacterial infections.

Rapper Nas joins Jack White and band for On the Road Again, recreating the 1928 Memphis Jug Band recording, on American Epic The Big Bang, Tuesday, May 16, at 9 PM, on UNC-TV.

8:00 TV Call the Midwife Dr. Turner helps the Mullucks with the stresses of caring for a disabled child.

EX Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: 50 Years & Circlin’ Back Vince Gill, Jackson Browne and more salute the band’s musical milestones and hits.

NC North Carolina’s Mountain Treasures Visit some of our state’s most beautiful and magical peak destinations 8:30 NC Old Salem: Keeping the Faith Discover the Moravians and their influence in our state.

9:00 TV King Charles III on Masterpiece In this adaptation of the Tony-nominated play, Tim Pigott-Smith stars as the prince who would be king.

9:30 EX Highwaymen Live at Nassau Coliseum Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson shine in this 1990 performance.

NC The Outer Banks North Carolina’s Coastal Treasure 10:00 NC Lumina: Remembering the Light Discover Wrightsville Beach’s legendary, but long lost site for summer fun.

11:00 TV EastEnders EX Transatlantic Sessions Resophonic guitar great Jerry Douglas and fiddle virtuoso Aly Bain perform with Alison Krauss and James Taylor.

NC Our State The Sweetest Sound/ Gause Tomb 11:30 TV EastEnders NC Native Report

Sixth Generation Master Quilt-Maker

May | 13

evening&weekend listings 0:00 TV FRONTLINE 1 American Patriot See how the Bundy family’s fight against the government invigorated armed militias.

EX Operation Wild

Witness an elephant’s extreme dentistry and a giant tortoise’s keyhole surgery.

NC Traveling in the ‘70s

Explore the changes in travel over the past 50 years.

11:00 TV Waiting for God

Bungee Jumping EX Travelscope Germany’s Winter Carnival DV

NC PBS NewsHour 11:30 TV BBC World News EX Desert Speaks The People of Peru’s Cloud Forest

17 WEDNESDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour EX Castle Builders Masters & Masons: Meet the Castle Builders DV NC BBC World News America 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report EX Rick Steves’ Europe Tuscany’s Dolce Vita NC Charlie Rose 7:30 TV SciTech Now North Carolina

Microscopic Creatures A new type of UV light may help fight drug-resistant bacterial infections.

EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese Canada: The Mighty Polar Bear Migration 8:00 TV Nature

Animal Misfits Discover odd creatures that seem ill-equipped for survival. DV EX Pati’s Mexican Table Izamal—Gold & God NC Reel South Tommy! The Dreams I Keep Inside Me A 60-year-old man with an autism spectrum disorder, dreams of singing in a big band.

8:30 EX Julie Taboulie’s Lebanese Kitchen Stop & Smell the Roses DV NC Spectrum: A Story of the Mind Travel into the rich sensory experience of autism and sensory perception.

See how the Bundy family energized militias on FRONTLINE, Tuesday, May 16, at 10 PM, on UNC-TV.

9:00 TV NOVA Chinese Chariot Revealed Archaeology enables ancient chariots to be rebuilt.

EX Lucky Chow Japan: Food as Fetish NC Independent Lens Autism in Love Four adults on the autism spectrum navigate romance. DV 9:30 EX Kitchen Wisdom of Cecilia Chiang A Legend Is Born DV 10:00 TV Food— Delicious Science We Are What We Eat EX The World’s Most Expensive Food

Part 2 10:30 NC Dreamers Theater

Cognitively-challenged teens and young adults stage an original musical.

11:00 TV Are You Being Served?

Wedding Bells EX Martin Clunes: Islands of Australia

South NC PBS NewsHour 11:30 TV BBC World News

7:30 TV Our State Orchids/Scenes from 64/ The Southern Wild EX Smart Travels— Europe with Rudy Maxa Milan & Lake Como 8:00 TV My Home, NC

Endurance Seafood/Connor Stroud/Kings BBQ, FARM Cafe/The Avett Brothers: Joe Kwon EX Curious Traveler Curious Kotor NC Voices of North Carolina

NCSU professor Walt Wolfram examines North Carolina’s diverse dialects.

8:30 TV Exploring North Carolina Invaders Among Us EX Family Travel with Colleen Kelly

Amelia Island—Turtle Escapades, Shrimping Adventures & Petanque Play 9:00 TV North Carolina Weekend EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese Canada: The Mighty Polar Bear Migration NC First Language—The Race to Save Cherokee

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians fights to revitalize its native language.

9:30 TV Craftsman’s Legacy The Chocolatiers Dan and Jael Rattigan show off their Asheville chocolate factory.

EX Travels with Darley Illinois: Ottawa & Beyond 10:00 TV Let There Be Light

Artists create stained glass windows for the Washington National Cathedral.

EX Destination Craft with Jim West

Bali—Crafting with Spirit

18 THURSDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour EX Cooking Odyssey Ancient Olympia NC BBC World News America 6:30 EX Julie Taboulie’s Lebanese Kitchen

Meet Me at the Market NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report EX Rick Steves’ Europe Italy’s Great Hill Towns NC Charlie Rose Sink your teeth into Food—Delicious Science, Wedesday, May 17, at 10 PM, on UNC-TV.

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visit unctv.org NC Biographical Conversations with John Hope Franklin Part 1 of 3 6:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV EX Exploring North Carolina Long-bellied Friends 7:00 TV Sesame Street DV EX Carolina Outdoor Journal Classics NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Classics 7:30 TV Sesame Street DV EX Carolina Outdoor Journal Popping Cork Specs Explore the stunning stained glass art of the Washington National Cathedral NC Carolina on Let There Be Light, Thursday, May 18, at 10 PM, on UNC-TV. Outdoor Journal Popping Cork Specs 8:30 TV Front Row NC Rising Voices/ 8:00 TV Splash & Bubbles NC North Carolina Hothaninpi EX North Carolina Bookwatch

The Lakota’s disappearing Weekend

John Claude Bemis— native tongue shows how NC Exploring Out of Abaton: languages die.

North Carolina The Wooden Prince 10:30 EX Weekends Native Intelligence 8:50 EX North Carolina with Yankee 8:30 TV Curious George Weekend—Shorts The Coast Discover the EX Southern Accents Historic Halifax beach town of Ogunquit, Atlanta 9:00 TV American Masters: ME, boat building in New NC Exploring James Beard— port, RI, and more.

North Carolina America’s First Foodie 11:00 TV Keeping Up On the Border Premiere! Meet the man Appearances 9:00 TV Nature Cat who started it all and set

Richard’s New Hobby EX Flying to the the standard by which all EX Travelscope Ends of the Earth fine chefs are judged.

Thailand—Rediscovering The Great Northern EX Miss Fisher’s Bangkok DV Wilderness Murder Mysteries NC PBS NewsHour NC North Carolina Murder on the Ballarat Train 11:30 TV BBC World News Weekend NC Front Row EX Desert Speaks 9:30 TV Dinosaur Train DV 9:30 NC Washington Week Medieval Drought in the NC Our State 10:00 TV American Masters: Southwest Surrounded by Silence/ Julia! America’s What Say You Favorite Chef 10:00 TV North Carolina 19 FRIDAY EX Father Brown Weekend The Wrath of Baron Samdi EX New Scandinavian 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour

N C Common Ground EX Taste of History Cooking 10:30 NC Carolina Business Orchids, Herbs & Rum Rain & Rainbows Review in Jamaica NC Folkways 10:50 EX North Carolina NC BBC World News Workers in Wood Weekend—Shorts America 10:30 TV Southern Accents Umstead Tea 6:30 EX Pati’s Mexican Table American Queen Celestun—Coastal Cooking 11:00 TV British Antiques Steamboat Roadshow NC Nightly Business EX Mexico— Royal Agriculture University Report One Plate at a Time Cirencester, Part 2 7:00 TV Nightly Business with Rick Bayless EX Travelscope Report Pit Cooking, Sacred Thailand—From Golden EX Rick Steves’ Europe & Smoky Triangle to White Sands DV NC Craftsman’s Legacy Salzburg & Surroundings NC PBS NewsHour NC Charlie Rose The Wood Turner Meet 11:30 TV BBC World News 7:30 TV North Carolina Avery County’s Alan Hollar.

EX Desert Speaks Weekend 11:00 TV Growing a

Of Drought & Fire EX Smart Travels— Greener World Europe with Rudy Maxa Beyond Organic Sicily Gardening: the Principles 20 SATURDAY 8:00 TV Washington Week of Permaculture 6 AM TV Mister Rogers’ EX Doc Martin EX Taste of History Neighborhood DV It’s Good to Talk George Washington’s Tent EX Expeditions with NC North Carolina NC The Woodwright’s Patrick McMillan Weekend Shop with Roy Underhill Frogs—Spring’s Shop Class Tabouret DV Symphony in Peril May | 15

evening&weekend listings “American Songster” Dom Flemons is the guest on David Holt’s State of Music, Saturday, May 20, at 9 PM, on UNC-TV.

11:30 TV P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home Leaders in the Field DV EX Pati’s Mexican Table Chachi’s Champoton Kitchen NC The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Good Fences Noon TV The Best of Almanac Gardener Moss Gardening/ Troubleshooting Houseplant Problems EX Rudy Maxa’s World 4:00 TV The Woodwright’s Istanbul, Turkey Shop with Roy Underhill NC Growing a Rocky Bentwood Cradle Greener World Show, Part 2 DV Bountiful Harvest: NC Front Row Birmingham, AL 12:30 TV America’s Heartland 4:30 TV This Old House Detroit—Stain Glass Revival Soybeans for NC Charlie Rose— Overseas Trade The Week EX Desert Speaks 5:00 TV Carolina Into the Swell: Utah’s Outdoor Journal High Desert Summer Black Drum NC The Best of EX Visions of Italy, Almanac Gardener Southern Style Moss Gardening/ Explore this beautiful Troubleshooting less-traveled region.

Houseplant Problems NC PBS NewsHour 1:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Weekend Orlando, Part 1 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour EX Rick Steves’ Italy: Weekend Cities of Dreams Tour the ancient glories and NC Washington Week back-street riches of Rome, 6 PM TV Lawrence Welk Show Songs From the Classics Venice and Florence.

NC Music City Roots Live NC Reel South From the Factory Tommy! The Dreams I Keep Larry Campbell & Teresa Inside Me A 60-year-old Williams/Blue Highway/ man with an autism specHot Rize trum disorder, dreams of 6:30 EX Il Volo Notte Magica singing in a big band.

Plácido Domingo performs 1:30 NC Independent Lens with the trio in Florence, Autism in Love Four adults Italy’s Santa Croce Square. on the autism spectrum 7:00 TV As Time Goes By navigate romance. DV Rewrites 2:00 TV Rick Steves’ Europe Paris: Embracing Life & Art NC Live from the Dennison Lodge 2:30 TV Joseph Rosendo’s Pierce Pettis Travelscope 7:30 TV As Time Goes By Land Without Limits—The Cariboo-Chilcotin Coast DV Getting Rid of Gwen 8:00 TV Midsomer Murders 3:00 TV Craftsman’s Legacy Blood Wedding, Part 1 The Glassblower The maid of honor at a EX Great Performances: posh wedding is murdered.

Andrea Bocelli—Cinema The terrific tenor salutes the EX Rhythm & Blues 40: A Soul Spectacular silver screen.

Join legends of the 1960s NC Independent Lens and ‘70s for this classic Best & Most Beautiful concert special.

Things A blind woman seeks love and freedom. DV NC Song of the Mountains Mayberry Deputy, David 3:30 TV Woodsmith Shop Browning/Dry Hill Dragger Details of Craftsmanship 8:50 TV My Home, NC—Shorts Napoleon Hill 16­ | May

9:00 TV Coroner Perfect Pair NC David Holt’s State of Music Dom Flemons/David Holt 9:30 NC Sun Studio Sessions Matt Stansberry & The Romance 9:50 TV SciTech—Shorts New Clues to Lost Colony 10:00 TV Death in Paradise Murder in the Polls EX Tom Jones: A Soundstage Special Event The icon performs Delilah, It’s Not Unusual and newer material with Alison Krauss.

NC Infinity Hall Live Joss Stone 11:00 TV Tunnel Things take a bad turn for Karl as police very nearly catch the killer.

NC Austin City Limits Tedeschi Trucks Band 11:30 EX Rock Rewind 1969 Relive the biggest hits from the summer of love!

21 SUNDAY 6 AM TV Nature Cat EX Penelope Keith’s Hidden Villages East Anglia NC Closer to Truth Is the Universe Theologically Ambiguous?

6:30 TV Wild Kratts NC Education Matters 7:00 TV Thomas & Friends DV EX Globe Trekker Road Trip: Patagonia NC Truth About Money with Ric Edelman The financial advisor gets a couple to rethink changes to retirement investments.

7:30 TV Bob the Builder DV NC Consuelo Mack WealthTrack

visit unctv.org 8:00 TV Curious George DV EX Greeks of the Sea Athens NC Carolina Business Review 8:30 TV WordGirl DV NC Common Ground 9:00 TV This Old House Detroit—Stain Glass Revival EX Life on the Reef Episode 1 Perfect weather; humpback whales give birth; fire destroys a yacht.

NC Washington Week 9:30 TV Ask This Old House Build It/Future House/Surge NC Front Row 10:00 TV Exploring North Carolina Invaders Among Us EX Gorongosa Park— Rebirth of Paradise New Blood/Hidden Worlds NC North Carolina Bookwatch

John Claude Bemis— Out of Abaton: The Wooden Prince 10:30 TV SciTech Now North Carolina

Microscopic Creatures A new type of UV light may help fight drug-resistant bacterial infections.

NC Well Read Gerda Saunders— Memory’s Last Breath 11:00 TV Carolina Outdoor Journal Summer Black Drum EX Operation Wild

Witness an elephant’s extreme dentistry and a giant tortoise’s keyhole surgery.

NC Poetry Live Fred Chappell/ Susan Ludvigson 11:30 TV Black Issues Forum Oberlin: Freedman’s Village NC Poetry Live Anthony Abbott/ Jaki Shelton Green Noon TV North Carolina Bookwatch

John Claude Bemis— Out of Abaton: The Wooden Prince EX Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Portugal—From Porto to Salamanca DV NC Novel Sounds: American Fiction in the Age of Rock Popular Culture-High Culture Nexus 12:30 TV Flavor, NC Cobblestone Farmers Market EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese England: The Queen’s Swan

NC Our State Grove Arcade/Kuhn Glass/ Grist Mills 5:00 TV Charlie Rose— The Week EX I Miss Downton Abbey!

Revisit treasured moments and behind-the-scenes clips from the indelible show.

NC PBS NewsHour Weekend 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Joanne Froggatt takes on a killer new Weekend role on Dark Angel on Masterpiece, NC BBC Newsnight Sunday, May 21, at 9 PM, on UNC-TV. 6 PM TV Doc Martin Preserve the Romance 1:00 TV Ellie’s Real NC Black Issues Forum Good Food Oberlin: Freedman’s Village Dueling Schedules 6:30 EX Dudu Fisher Dinner Challenge in Jerusalem EX A Place to Call Home Tour Jerusalem’s most In the Heat of the Night iconic songs and sites.

Sarah takes ill and fears NC Black America for her baby’s life; George Documenting Our wonders if he’s the father.

Existence in Photography NC North Carolina’s with Debo Mountain Treasures 6:50 TV SciTech—Shorts Visit some of our state’s New Clues to Lost Colony most beautiful and magical 7:00 TV A Place to Call Home peak destinations Living in the Shadow Rene 1:30 TV Martha Bakes remains cold to Sarah.

South Atlantic NC A Chef’s Life NC Old Salem: A Road Trip for Rice Keeping the Faith 7:30 NC Flavor, NC Discover the Moravians and

Spiny Dogfish their influence in our state.

7:50 TV My Home, NC—Shorts 2:00 TV America’s Test Napoleon Hill Kitchen from Cook’s 8:00 TV Call the Midwife Illustrated In the season finale, unex Autumn Desserts pected events lead to a EX Miss Fisher’s hasty wedding.

Murder Mysteries EX Summer, Surf & Murder & Mozzarella Beach Music We Love 2:30 TV Cook’s Country Celebrate sun-drenched Latin Heat surf guitar rock and pop NC The Outer Banks sounds by legendary artists.

North Carolina’s Coastal NC Blue Ridge Parkway: Treasure A Long & Winding Road 3:00 TV Sara’s Weeknight Take a historical 469-mile Meals trip on the National Park 15-Minute Sautés Service’s most visited park.

EX Agatha Christie’s 9:00 TV Dark Angel Poirot on Masterpiece Triangle at Rhodes Premiere! Joanne Froggatt NC Lumina: (Downton Abbey) stars as Remembering the Light Mary Ann Cotton, Britain’s Discover Wrightsville first female serial killer.

Beach’s legendary, but long NC Tour 64: North Carolost site for summer fun. lina’s Heritage Highway 3:30 TV Lidia’s Kitchen Travel our historic Best of Zucchini scenic byway.

4:00 TV Mexico— 10:00 EX California Dreamin’: One Plate at a Time The Songs of the Mamas with Rick Bayless & The Papas Hunt for Caribbean Lobster Celebrate 50 years of the EX Father Brown harmonious pop-folk-rock The Deadly Seal group that defined an era.

NC Carolina Outdoor NC Moving North Carolina Journal Classics Follow the story of trans 4:30 TV Steven Raichlen’s portation in our state.

Project Smoke Smokehouse Cocktail Party May | 17

evening&weekend listings 1:00 TV EastEnders 1 NC Our State Surrounded by Silence/ What Say You 11:30 TV EastEnders EX Rock Rewind 1969 Relive the biggest hits from the summer of love!

NC Native Report Indian College at Colonial Harvard

EX Tales of Irish Castles Don’t Mess with a Knight NC Genius by Stephen Hawking Where Did the Universe Come From?

11:00 EX Art in the Twenty-first Century Legacy DV NC PBS NewsHour 11:30 TV BBC World News

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23 TUESDAY

6 PM TV PBS NewsHour EX Operation Wild

Witness an elephant’s extreme dentistry and a giant tortoise’s keyhole surgery.

NC BBC World News America 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report EX Rick Steves’ Europe Vienna NC Charlie Rose 7:30 TV A Chef’s Life Eggs Two Dozen Ways EX Family Travel with Colleen Kelly

Pittsburgh—Heinz History, Awesome Aviary & Incline Views 8:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Orlando, Part 2 EX Secrets of Great British Castles Tower of London NC Exploring North Carolina Canals of North Carolina 8:30 NC Exploring North Carolina Report From the Birds 9:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Boston, Part 1 EX Secrets of the Six Wives Beheaded, Died Henry VIII breaks with the Roman Church to marry Anne Boleyn, but soon falls for Jane Seymour.

NC Expeditions with Patrick McMillan The Longleaf Empire— Francis Marion National Forest 9:30 NC SciTech Now North Carolina

The Medicine Show New 3-D printing takes regenerative medicine to a promising new level.

10:00 TV Independent Lens They Call Us Monsters Go behind the walls of a facility where Los Angeles houses violent juvenile criminals.

6 PM TV PBS NewsHour EX Taste of Louisiana with Chef John Folse & Co. Spanish Rule NC BBC World News America 6:30 EX Mexico— One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless Island Time NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report EX Rick Steves’ Europe The Making of... Follow the crew through Milan and around Lake Como.

NC Charlie Rose 7:30 TV Flavor, NC Carrigan Farms— Mooresville EX Smart Travels— Europe with Rudy Maxa Classical Europe: Ancient Greece & Rome 8:00 TV Victorian Slum House The 1890s A water shortage dashes hopes for a promising laundry business.

EX Life on the Reef Episode 2 Corals spawn; sea birds nest; thousands of turtle hatchlings erupt over the beaches.

NC Tour 64: North Carolina’s Heritage Highway Travel our historic scenic byway.

9:00 TV American Epic Blood + Soil Elder Burch, Charley Patton and others record blues, gospel and protest songs in the South.

EX Gorongosa Park— Rebirth of Paradise Hidden Worlds NC On the Tracks of Progress

Charlie Rose narrates this nostalgic look at the history of NC’s railway system.

10:00 TV FRONTLINE Inside Trump’s White House Probe power struggles and competing visions.

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EX Martin Clunes: Islands of Australia Lord Howe Island NC America Revealed Made in the U.S.A. Examines American industry.

11:00 TV Waiting for God

Double Wedding EX Travelscope Fredericksburg, TX DV NC PBS NewsHour 11:30 TV BBC World News EX Desert Speaks Giants on a Galapagos Island

24 WEDNESDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour EX Castle Builders Siege & Storm DV NC BBC World News America 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report EX Rick Steves’ Europe Burgundy: Profound France NC Charlie Rose 7:30 TV SciTech Now North Carolina

The Medicine Show New 3-D printing takes regenerative medicine to a promising new level.

EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese Tanzania: Summit on Mt. Kilimanjaro 8:00 TV Nature The Gathering Swarms Explore the planet’s most extraordinary swarms. DV EX Pati’s Mexican Table Valladolid—A Day to Explore NC Reel South Overburden The lives of a pro-coal right-winger and an environmentalist collide because of a mine disaster.

8:30 EX Julie Taboulie’s Lebanese Kitchen

It’s a Magnificent Morning With Manoush & Mama DV 9:00 TV NOVA Meteor Strike Scientists hunt for clues to the origin and makeup of a meteor that landed in Russia.

EX Lucky Chow Big Business in Little Saigon NC Independent Lens The Great Invisible See stories of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. DV 9:30 EX Kitchen Wisdom of Cecilia Chiang The Long Walk DV

visit unctv.org 11:00 TV Keeping Up Appearances

The Art Exhibition EX Travelscope Gathering in Scotland DV NC PBS NewsHour 11:30 TV BBC World News EX Desert Speaks Exploring Arizona’s Big Empty

26 FRIDAY High Point University Presents: Celia Sandys, Thursday, May 25, at 10 PM, on UNC-TV.

10:00 TV Food— Delicious Science A Matter of Taste EX Off the Menu: Asian America

Explore the kitchens, factories, temples and farms of the Asian Pacific American community.

10:30 NC Reel South Can’t Stop the Water Isle de Jean Charles, LA, and the Native-American community fight to save its culture.

11:00 TV Are You Being Served?

German Week EX Penelope Keith’s Hidden Villages East Anglia NC PBS NewsHour 11:30 TV BBC World News

25 THURSDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour EX Cooking Odyssey Livadia NC BBC World News America 6:30 EX Julie Taboulie’s Lebanese Kitchen

Eggplant Extravaganza NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report EX Rick Steves’ Europe France’s Dordogne NC Charlie Rose 7:30 TV Our State Elizabeth Keckly/Great American Photographer EX Smart Travels— Europe with Rudy Maxa Renaissance Europe 8:00 TV My Home, NC

The Original Collard Sandwich/The Last Patternmaker/Napoleon Hill/ The Chicken Lady/Newton Grove Drug Store/Brown Mountain Lights

EX Curious Traveler Curious Oslo NC Mighty Fine Memory

Meet fiddler Roger Howell, a western NC cultural treasure.

8:30 TV Exploring North Carolina Fords & Mills EX Family Travel with Colleen Kelly

The Wild Atlantic Way of Ireland from Galway to Donegal NC Folkways The Fiddle 9:00 TV North Carolina Weekend EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese Tanzania: Summit on Mt. Kilimanjaro NC Fiddler’s Grove: A Celebration of Old Time Music

Celebrate this legendary mainstay of old-time music.

9:30 TV Craftsman’s Legacy The Flute Maker Meet Asheville’s Jeri Littlejohn.

EX Equitrekking Alberta 10:00 TV High Point University Presents: Celia Sandys Premiere! HPU President Nido Qubein speaks with the author and granddaughter of Winston Churchill.

EX Destination Craft with Jim West

Ireland—Crafting with Passion NC Great American Music Company The Story of the Fiddle 10:30 EX Weekends with Yankee Adventure in the Wild Discover the Northeast’s highest peak, the Atlantic bay scallop and Maine’s Moosehead Lake.

6 PM TV PBS NewsHour EX Taste of History Eliza Powel’s Sinful Feast NC BBC World News America 6:30 EX Pati’s Mexican Table Sunday Family Food NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report EX Rick Steves’ Europe Little Europe: San Marino, Monaco, Vatican City, NC Charlie Rose 7:30 TV North Carolina Weekend EX Smart Travels— Europe with Rudy Maxa Europe’s Getaways 8:00 TV Washington Week EX Doc Martin Education, Education, Education NC North Carolina Weekend 8:30 TV Front Row NC North Carolina Bookwatch

John Semonche—Pick Nick!

8:50 EX North Carolina Weekend—Shorts Picnic 9:00 TV American Masters: Jacques Pépin— The Art of Craft Premiere! Meet the storied master chef!

EX Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries The Green Mill Murder NC Front Row 9:30 NC Washington Week 10:00 TV American Masters: Alice Waters & Her Delicious Revolution

This Berkeley hippie turned a gift for food into environmental and nutritional consciousness.

EX Father Brown The Mask of the Demon NC Common Ground 10:30 NC Carolina Business Review 10:50 EX North Carolina Weekend—Shorts Ava Gardner Museum

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evening&weekend listings In order to explain the sudden death of a recluse, Jane must solve two mysteries on Coroner The Foxby Affair, Saturday, May 27, at 9 PM, on UNC-TV.

11:00 TV British Antiques Roadshow Polesden Lacey, Part 2 EX Travelscope Cappadocia, Turkey DV NC PBS NewsHour 11:30 TV BBC World News EX Desert Speaks Tequila: Exploring the Legend

27 SATURDAY 6 AM TV Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood DV EX Expeditions with Patrick McMillan The Clemson Forest— A Backyard Bounty of Life NC Biographical Conversations with John Hope Franklin Part 2 of 3 6:30 TV Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood DV EX Exploring North Carolina Power in Nature 7:00 TV Sesame Street DV EX Carolina Outdoor Journal Classics NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Classics 7:30 TV Sesame Street DV EX Carolina Outdoor Journal Deep Water Bass NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Deep Water Bass 8:00 TV Splash & Bubbles DV EX North Carolina Weekend NC Exploring North Carolina Haw Revival 8:30 TV Curious George EX Southern Accents Louisville, KY NC Exploring North Carolina Life at the Top 9:00 TV Nature Cat EX Wildest Arctic Arctic: The Frozen Sea DV NC North Carolina Weekend 9:30 TV Dinosaur Train DV NC Our State Mule Rider/Bodie Island Lighthouse 10:00 TV North Carolina Weekend EX New Scandinavian Cooking Packed to Go NC Folkways The Banjo 20­ | May

0:30 TV Southern Accents 1 Chestatee Wildlife Preserve/Commodore Hotel EX Mexico— One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless Examining the Yucatan’s Abundant Natural Resources NC Craftsman’s Legacy The Furniture Maker 11:00 TV Growing a Greener World Know Your Farmer: Supporting Community Agriculture EX Taste of History When America Spoke French NC The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Campaign Furniture DV 11:30 TV P. Allen Smith’s Garden Home Facts of Life DV EX Pati’s Mexican Table Merida—Exploring with the Locals NC The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Kitchen Gifts Noon TV The Best of Almanac Gardener Xeriscaping, Drought Tolerant Landscaping/ Building French Double Dug Raised Beds EX Rudy Maxa’s World Turkey’s Turquoise Coast NC Growing a Greener World The Greening of Suburbia: Lake County, IL 12:30 TV America’s Heartland Traveling Cows/Harvesting Tupelo Honey EX Desert Speaks Dying Traditions in a Mexican Pueblo NC The Best of Almanac Gardener Xeriscaping, Drought Tolerant Landscaping/ Building French Double Dug Raised Beds

1:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Orlando, Part 2 EX Rick Steves’ Viva Espana!

Experience the joys of Andalucia, feast on paella and follow the pilgrim trail in northern Spain.

NC Reel South Overburden The lives of a pro-coal right-winger and an environmentalist collide because of a mine disaster.

2:00 TV Rick Steves’ Europe London: Historic & Dynamic NC Independent Lens The Great Invisible Explore the stories behind the disastrous Deepwater Horizon oil spill, from fallout to aftermath. DV 2:30 TV Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope Sechselauten—Switzerland’s Spring Festival DV 3:00 TV Craftsman’s Legacy The Guitar Maker EX Benise: Strings of Passion The virtuoso guitarist presents a global musical journey of salsa, tango, samba and more!

3:30 TV Woodsmith Shop Assembly & Joinery NC Reel South Can’t Stop the Water Isle de Jean Charles, Louisiana and the Native American community fight to save its culture.

4:00 TV The Woodwright’s Shop with Roy Underhill Stamp Out Cookie Carving!

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NC Front Row 4:30 TV This Old House Detroit—Going Old School for Tile & Molding EX Friar Alessandro: The Voice of Assisi The friar showcases his big tenor voice at the hilltop Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi in Italy.

NC Charlie Rose— The Week

visit unctv.org 5:00 TV Carolina Outdoor Journal Stripers Deep NC PBS NewsHour Weekend 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Weekend NC Washington Week 6 PM TV Lawrence Welk Show America’s Wonderland EX Bailamos!

Three charming, up-andcoming artists, Marc Devigne, Antonio Larosa and Michael Murphy, perform.

NC Music City Roots Live from the Factory The Doobie Brothers 7:00 TV As Time Goes By The Affair NC Live from the Dennison Lodge Eliza Gilkyson 7:30 TV As Time Goes By Welcome News EX Santana IV The original members of the band Santana perform on stage together for the first time since 1973.

8:00 TV Midsomer Murders Blood Wedding, Part 2 The maid of honor at a posh wedding is murdered.

NC Song of the Mountains Fiddlin’ Carson Peters/ Mark O’Connor 8:50 TV My Home, NC—Shorts Historic Beach Cottage Row 9:00 TV Coroner The Foxby Affair EX ‘70s Soul Superstars Patti LaBelle hosts an all-star reunion of 1970s Motown, R&B and soul legends.

NC David Holt’s State of Music Onstage!

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11:00 TV Tunnel Karl falls apart as the Truth Terrorist’s change of direction becomes unbearable.

NC Austin City Limits Iggy Pop 11:30 EX Rick Steves’ Europe: Remote, Sacred, Wild Celebrate the great outdoors and religious sites in Europe and beyond.

NC Poetry Live Alan Shapiro/ Carolyn Whitlow 6 AM TV Nature Cat Noon TV North Carolina EX Penelope Keith’s Bookwatch Hidden Villages

John Semonche—Pick Nick!

Southwest England EX Joseph Rosendo’s NC Closer to Truth Travelscope Science & the Future of Easter Island— Humanity Mysteries & Myths DV 6:30 TV Wild Kratts NC Novel Sounds: NC Education Matters American Fiction in the 7:00 TV Thomas & Friends DV Age of Rock EX Globe Trekker Rock Against HB2— Nigeria Formation, heroes, NC Truth About Money controversy with Ric Edelman 12:30 TV Flavor, NC Get tips for maximizing Busy Bee Apiaries your financial resources.

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Detroit—Going Old School NC Blue Ridge Parkway: for Tile & Molding A Long & Winding Road EX Life on the Reef Take a historical 469-mile Episode 2 Corals spawn; trip on the National Park sea birds nest; thousands of Service’s most visited part. turtle hatchlings erupt over 1:30 TV Martha Bakes the beaches.

West Blum’s coffee crunch NC Washington Week cake, gateau Basque, pine 9:30 TV Ask This Old House apple upside-down cakes, Rain Garden/ and date bars are served.

Cabinet Hardware 2:00 TV America’s NC Front Row Test Kitchen from 10:00 TV Exploring Cook’s Illustrated North Carolina Chinese Takeout, Revised Fords & Mills EX Miss Fisher’s EX Gorongosa Park— Murder Mysteries Rebirth of Paradise Blood & Money Hidden Worlds NC Tour 64: North Caro NC North Carolina lina’s Heritage Highway Bookwatch Travel our historic

John Semonche—Pick Nick! scenic byway.

10:30 TV SciTech Now 2:30 TV Cook’s Country North Carolina All Wrapped Up

The Medicine Show 3:00 TV Sara’s Weeknight New 3-D printing takes Meals regenerative medicine to a Fish in a Bag promising new level.

EX Agatha Christie’s NC Well Read Poirot Hari Kunzru—White Tears Problem at Sea 11:00 TV Carolina NC Moving North Carolina Outdoor Journal Follow the story of trans Stripers Deep portation in our state.

EX Martin Clunes: 3:30 TV Lidia’s Kitchen Islands of Australia Bolognese Lord Howe Island 4:00 TV Mexico— NC Poetry Live One Plate at a Time Dannye Romine Powell/ with Rick Bayless James Seay A Tour of Traditions 11:30 TV Black Issues Forum EX Father Brown Roundtable: Nuance, The Owl of Minerva Language & Race NC Carolina Outdoor Journal Classics

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9:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Boston, Part 2 EX Secrets of the Six Wives Divorced, Beheaded, Survived Consider Henry VII’s last three wives: Anne of Cleves, young Catherine Howard and Katherine Parr.

NC Expeditions with Patrick McMillan Frogs—Spring’s Symphony in Peril 9:30 NC SciTech Now North Carolina The Ocean Show 10:00 TV Independent Lens Farmer/Veteran After three combat tours in Iraq, War vet Alex Sutton tries a new life Alex Sutton forges a new on Independent Lens Farmer/ identity as a farmer in NC, Veteran, Monday, May 29, at 10 PM, beleaguered by lingering on UNC-TV. traumas of war. DV EX Tales of Irish Castles The Fightback EX Rhythm & Blues 40: NC Genius by A Soul Spectacular Stephen Hawking Join legends of the 1960s What Are We? and ‘70s for this classic 11:00 TV Film School Shorts concert special.

NC Thank You, Eddie Hart Behind Closed Doors Fridge foods come to See the touching story of a life to fight a zombie Dutch family who tends an apocalypse.

NC WWII soldier’s grave.

11:00 NC Nickles from Heaven EX Art in the Twenty-first Century Discover some of America’s Fiction DV least recognized military NC PBS NewsHour WWII pioneers.

11:30 TV BBC World News 11:30 TV EastEnders Photo: Jeremy M. Lange

4:30 TV Steven Raichlen’s Project Smoke The Big Smoke NC Our State Stars & Beyond/ Going Home/Fences 5:00 TV Charlie Rose— The Week EX National Park Symphony—The Mighty Five Celebrate the majesty of Utah’s five national parks set to glorious music from the Utah Symphony.

NC PBS NewsHour Weekend 5:30 TV PBS NewsHour Weekend NC BBC Newsnight 6:00 TV Doc Martin Dry Your Tears EX Hamilton’s America Explore the creation of this pop culture Broadway phenomenon and its backstory.

NC Black Issues Forum Roundtable: Nuance, Language & Race 6:30 NC Black America Economic & Racial Equality for Women & Girls 6:50 TV SciTech—Shorts What a Face—Wilmington 7:00 TV A Place to Call Home In the Heat of the Night Sarah takes ill and fears for her baby’s life; George wonders if he’s the baby’s father.

NC Marines of Montford Point: Fighting for Freedom Lou Gossett Jr. narrates this look at the Marine’s first African-American recruits.

7:50 TV My Home, NC—Shorts Historic Beach Cottage Row 8:00 TV National Memorial Day Concert Premiere! Don’t miss this year’s star-studded salute to those who have served.

EX Magic Moments— The Best of ‘50s Pop The McGuire Sisters, The Lennon Sisters, The Chordettes, The Four Aces and more take the stage.

NC North Carolina’s WWII Experience Hear gripping firsthand accounts of vets from the greatest generation.

9:30 TV PBS Previews: The Vietnam War Catch a sneak peek at Ken Burns’ latest epic documentary.

10:00 TV National Memorial Day Concert Don’t miss this year’s starstudded salute to those who have served.

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Frankenmuth— Michigan’s Little Bavaria 8:00 TV Antiques Roadshow Orlando, Part 3 EX Secrets of Great British Castles Warwick Castle, Warwickshire NC Exploring North Carolina On the Border 8:30 NC Exploring North Carolina Haw Revival

6 PM TV PBS NewsHour EX Taste of Louisiana with Chef John Folse & Co. Fort Los Adaes NC BBC World News America 6:30 EX Mexico— One Plate at a Time with Rick Bayless

Under the Influence (of Tacos) NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report EX Rick Steves’ Europe Great Swiss Cities: Luzern, Bern, Zurich & Lausanne NC Charlie Rose 7:30 TV Flavor, NC Carolina Distillery—Lenoir EX Smart Travels— Europe with Rudy Maxa Ireland’s West Coast 8:00 TV Victorian Slum House The 1900s Observe the social changes the slum dwellers face as they move into the 20th century.

visit unctv.org EX Life on the Reef

Episode 3 Humans and animals prepare as a category 5 cyclone bears down on the North Queensland coast.

NC Sing Behind the Plow: John C. Campbell Folk School Meet the charismatic couple responsible for bringing this Danish schooling concept to the U.S. 9:00 TV American Epic Out of the Many, the One Discover how America’s diverse cultures contribute to the country’s many different musical styles EX Gorongosa Park— Rebirth of Paradise Battle Lines/Roaring Back NC Craft in America Service Handmade crafts help inspire, motivate and heal American vets.

10:00 EX Martin Clunes: Islands of Australia

North & West NC Craftsman’s Legacy The Tool Maker: Seth Gould 10:30 TV FRONTLINE Being Mortal Writer and surgeon Atul Gawande examines how doctors care for terminally ill patients.

NC Craftsman’s Legacy The Goldsmith Susan McDonough works in a small studio on her family’s farm in the mountains.

11:00 EX Travelscope South Africa—on Safari! DV NC PBS NewsHour 11:30 TV BBC World News EX Desert Speaks Passions of the Pitaya

31 WEDNESDAY 6 PM TV PBS NewsHour EX Castle Builders Dreams & Decorations DV NC BBC World News America 6:30 NC Nightly Business Report 7:00 TV Nightly Business Report EX Rick Steves’ Europe Vienna & the Danube NC Charlie Rose 7:30 TV SciTech Now North Carolina The Ocean Show EX Born To Explore with Richard Wiese Morocco: The Last Nomads 8:00 TV Nature Touching the Wild Joe Hutto spent seven years with a herd of wild mule deer. DV

NC Craft in America Nature Celebrate the U.S. landscape’s beauty, inspiration and future.

9:30 EX Kitchen Wisdom of Cecilia Chiang The Best Chinese Restaurant in America DV 10:00 TV Food— Delicious Science Food on the Brain EX What’s Cookin’ in China?

Two Californian chefs learn to cook traditional Sichuan cuisine in China.

NC EARTHCASTER

Follow the life and work Follow Flint’s problems on NOVA Troubled Waters, Wednesday, May 31, of world-renowned NC at 9 PM, on UNC-TV. sculptor Thomas Sayre.

11:00 TV Are You Being Served?

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11:30 TV BBC World News 8:30 EX Julie Taboulie’s Lebanese Kitchen Magical Mezze Amidst the Moonlight DV 9:00 TV NOVA Troubled Waters Examine the chemistry and engineering that led to the water crisis in Flint, MI. EX Lucky Chow Made in Chinese America

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