October 2018 - WETA Magazine

OCTOBER 2018 MAGAZINE FOR MEMBERS

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ETA has much to offer in October television broadcasts, presenting a stellar array of drama, nature, history and arts programming. From new seasons of popular Masterpiece series Poldark and The Durrells in Corfu, to an adaptation of Wilkie Collins’ The Woman in White and classic Inspector Lynley and Poirot mysteries, exciting tales unfold this month, which also features the announcement of America’s best-loved novel by popular vote on The Great American Read.

The series Shakespeare Uncovered illuminates the Bard’s great works, and an American Masters biography spotlights renowned violinist Itzhak Perlman. Rounding out October are engaging Nature and NOVA explorations of the natural world, intriguing histories of Native America and the American circus phenomenon, and a special two-part Frontline investigation, The Facebook Dilemma. Enjoy these superb offerings on WETA TV 26/HD, and find many additional viewing options on WETA UK. Tune in as well to acclaimed WETA news and public affairs series PBS NewsHour and Washington Week, which will keep you informed during this election season. Learn about the issues, the candidates and news developments on these programs that WETA produces on behalf of viewers nationwide. We are very proud that WETA journalists Robert Costa of Washington Week and Judy Woodruff, Amna Nawaz and Lisa Desjardins of PBS NewsHour have been honored with selection as moderators of U.S. senatorial debates in October. Robert will preside over a U.S. Senate candidates’ debate in Virginia that will be televised on WETA TV 26/HD. Find details on page 3.

Thank you for your support.

Sharon Percy Rockefeller, President & CEO, WETA

Nature: Super Cats

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he award-winning Wednesday-night series Nature leads off its 37th season with a three-part BBC program spotlighting cats, who are among the world’s most diverse and successful predators. Filmed over 600 days in 14 countries and featuring 31 species of cat, these programs narrated by F. Murray Abraham uncover the secret lives of big cats and introduce behaviors captured on film for the first time, using the latest camera technology. From the solitary snow leopard in the Himalayas, to the elusive swamp tiger of South Asia, to a remarkably efficient California bobcat, Super Cats reveals how cats thrive in all corners of the globe. Nature uncovers their social sides, complex communication, devoted parental care, courtship rituals, hunting patterns and more. “Extreme Lives” (October 24) features cheetahs, snow leopards, Canada lynx, prides of African lions, and more. “Cats in Every Corner” (October 31) follows fishing cats, jaguars, margays, bobcats, swamp tigers and Africa’s deadly black-footed cat. “Science and Secrets” (November 7) relates how scientists are using new approaches to study cats.

Support for Nature was made possible in part by the Arnhold Family in memory of Clarisse Arnhold; Sue and Edgar Wachenheim III; the Kate W. Cassidy Foundation; the Lillian Goldman Charitable Trust; the Anderson Family Fund; the Filomen M. D’Agostino Foundation; Rosalind P. Walter; the Halmi Family in memory of Robert Halmi, Sr.; Sandra Atlas Bass; by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; and by the nation’s public television stations.

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October Highlights on WETA TV 26/HD Masterpiece on WETA TV 26/HD

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eginning Sunday, September 30, WETA premieres new eight-part seasons of ongoing popular Masterpiece family drama The Durrells in Corfu and swashbuckler-romance Poldark. The Durrells in Corfu, based on the memoirs of Gerald Durrell, the youngest member of the bohemian clan, returns for a third series of eccentric adventures on the Greek isle in the 1930s. The series stars Keeley Hawes as the plucky widowed mother to eldest son, novelist Lawrence; Poldark hapless sportsman Leslie; lovelorn teen Margo; and animal-loving Gerald. A death, a pregnancy scare, and a series of moral dilemmas make for a lively season. Poldark also returns on September 30 with a new season of Napoleonic-era adventures starring Aidan Turner as the flawed populist hero Ross Poldark and Eleanor Tomlinson as his fiery bride Demelza. In the new episodes, opening in 1796, to defend Cornwall and those he loves from his empowered archenemy George Warleggan, Poldark must play the political game on a journey that takes him to the nation’s capital and into new perils. At home, he must work hard to repair his marriage. These Masterpiece productions also air on WETA UK.

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Mystery Dramas on WETA TV 26/HD

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries airs Thursdays at 8 p.m.

The Woman in White airs Sundays at 10 p.m. starting Oct. 21

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ETA presents Seasons 4-6 — ten 90-minute episodes — of the classic detective series The Inspector Lynley Mysteries on Thursdays at 8 p.m. throughout October (with a 9 p.m. start on October 18). In the BBC series based on bestselling books by Elizabeth George, Nathaniel Parker and Sharon Small star as Scotland Yard sleuths Thomas Lynley, an aristocrat, and Barbara Havers, his working-class investigative partner. The episodes pick up from the shooting of Havers in Series 3 and follow the professional and personal challenges facing the detectives, who bring very different perspectives to bear in their cases.

Also in October, WETA presents The Woman in White, a new five-part BBC adaptation of the classic 1859 Wilkie Collins novel, considered one of the first mystery novels. Jessie Buckley, Ben Hardy, Olivia Vinall, Dougray Scott and Charles Dance star in Inspector Lynley the drama, which follows a young art teacher as he employs sleuthing techniques to come to the aid of a woman he loves who is caught up in a complex intrigue that changes the course of their lives.

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Native America

Tuesdays, October 23-November 13 at 9 p.m. on WETA TV 26/HD

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new four-part series weaves history and science with living indigenous traditions to bring to life the world created

by First Peoples in the Americas. Narrated by musician (and Mohawk) Robbie Robertson, Native America spotlights a land of cities connected by social networks spanning two continents, with unique and sophisticated systems of science, art and writing — and a shared foundational belief system. Made with the active participation of Native American communities and filmed throughout the hemisphere, the series illuminates the splendor of a past whose story has been largely untold. From America’s Southwest to the Amazon, from Mexico City to the Pacific Northwest and in many other locations, episodes highlight Native American traditions and follow field archaeologists using 21st-century tools to uncover narratives of the past. October programs are “From Caves to Cosmos” (October 23) and “Nature to Nations” (October 30); November programs are “Cities of the Sky” (November 6) and “New World Rising” (November 13).

Funding for Native America is provided by Anne Ray Foundation and PBS.

AutumnWatch New England

Wednesday-Friday, October 17-19 on WETA TV 26/HD

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n a new three-part television event created by PBS and BBC, travel journalist Samantha Brown, BBC presenter Chris Packham and wildlife cinematographer Bob Poole host a nature show celebrating fall in New England. The live television experience — airing Wednesday-Thursday, October 17-18 at 8 p.m. and Friday, October 19 at 8:30 p.m.

— broadcasts from alongside Squam Lake, New Hampshire.

Similar in format to previous summer spectacles Big Blue Live and Wild Alaska Live, the new series includes a mix of live feeds and pre-taped footage from across New England. The programs focus on cultural traditions and historical sites in addition to local wildlife (moose, turkeys, owls, bats, bears and more) and colorful gold and red landscapes in the region that’s best known for them.

The Circus: American Experience

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new two-part American Experience film, The Circus, explores the colorful history of a popular, influential and distinctly American form of entertainment. The four-hour documentary spotlights the American circus concept from the first one-ring show in the 18th century to 1956, when the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey big top was pulled down for the last time. Featuring an array of performers, historians and aficionados, the programs bring to life an era when Circus Day would shut down a town; its stars were among the most famous people in the country; and multitudes gathered to see the improbable and the impossible, the exotic and the spectacular. As the film examines the sociology of the circus phenomenon, it presents the stories of famed impresarios, including P.T. Barnum, James Bailey and the five Ringling Brothers.

Major funding for American Experience provided by Liberty Mutual Insurance, Consumer Cellular and by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Major funding for The Circus provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the Human Endeavor.

Additional funding for American Experience provided by the Robert David Lion Gardiner Foundation, The Documentary Investment Group: Gretchen Stone Cook Charitable Foundation, Burton D. and Gloria Rose, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and public television viewers.

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NOVA: Volatile Earth

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he Virunga mountains in central Africa’s Democratic Republic of Congo are home to two of the most dangerous, spectacular and least-understood volcanoes in the world: Nyiragongo and Nyamuragira. In a one-night, two-part NOVA special, an intrepid international team of volcano experts climbs up to the summits and perilously close to their gigantic craters to deploy innovative imaging and remote sensing technology. The scientists are seeking clues to the forces at work deep beneath the volcanoes that are splitting apart East Africa. Learning what feeds frequent eruptions may help the team to predict when the next devastating eruptions could occur and save the lives of the large number of people who live in the shadow of these perils.

National corporate funding for NOVA is provided by Draper. Major funding for NOVA is provided by the David H. Koch Fund for Science, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and PBS viewers.

Shakespeare Uncovered, Series 3

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final season of the series Shakespeare Uncovered continues explorations of William Shakespeare’s greatest plays, with six new background history stories airing in Friday-night double features. Hosts Helen Hunt, F. Murray Abraham, Romola Garai, Brian Cox, Simon Russell Beale and Sir Antony Sher — who have each starred in acclaimed performances of the works they examine — weave their personal passions with history, biography, iconic performances, and analysis to tell the stories behind the stories of Shakespeare works “Much Ado About Nothing,” “The Merchant of Venice,” “Measure for Measure,” “Julius Caesar,” “The Winter’s Tale” and “Richard III.” What sparked the creation of each of these works? Where did Shakespeare find his plots? What influenced his writing? Why have these works endured?

Major funding for Shakespeare Uncovered, Series 3 is provided by The Joseph & Robert Cornell Memorial Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Polonsky Foundation, Dana and Virginia Randt, Elaine & W. Weldon Wilson, the Lillian Goldman Programming Endowment, the LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust, Jody and John Arnhold, and PBS.

Washington Week and PBS NewsHour Journalists Selected to Moderate Debates

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s the November 6 midterm elections approach, journalists from two WETA productions — Washington Week and PBS NewsHour — have been selected to moderate congressional candidate debates in five states around the country.

Washington Week moderator and Washington Post national political reporter Robert Costa will moderate a Richmond debate in October between the candidates in Virginia’s U.S. Senate race — incumbent Democratic Sen. Tim Kaine and Republican Corey Stewart, a Chairman of the Prince William County Board of Supervisors. The Virginia senatorial contest between Kaine, a former vice-presidential candidate, and Stewart, a one-time state chairman of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign, is one of the key races in this year’s Judy Woodruff midterm elections. WETA TV 26/HD will broadcast Virginia Senatorial Debate on October 2 at 11 p.m.

Distinguished journalist Judy Woodruff, the anchor and managing editor of PBS NewsHour, will Robert Costa moderate both the North Dakota U.S. senatorial debate in Fargo on October 5 and the Missouri U.S. senatorial debate on October 18 in St. Louis. PBS NewsHour national correspondent Amna Nawaz will moderate an Indiana U.S. senatorial debate in Indianapolis on October 30; and correspondent Lisa Desjardins will moderate a New Jersey U.S. senatorial debate in Newark on October 24.

PBS NewsHour presents expanded election coverage on the website pbs.org/newshour, which includes an election map and page dedicated to the midterm elections. Washington Week is also broadening its reporting and analysis of the 2018 midterm elections with reports on races in battleground states from local public media correspondents on the broadcast and webcast and online at pbs.org/washingtonweek. Tune in to PBS NewsHour nightly and to Washington Week every Friday night on WETA TV 26/HD, and next month watch for a PBS NewsHour Election Night special report on November 6 at 8 p.m.

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WETA TV 26 & WETA HD October primetime simulcast listings.

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The Great American Read (Ep 5 of 8. Villains & Monsters)

Frontline: Trump’s Showdown (to 11pm) & Virginia Senatorial Debate (to 12m)

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Nature: Animal Misfits

NOVA: Operation Bridge Rescue

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The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Series 4 (Eps 1-3 of 4) (to 12:30am)

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(from 7pm) Doc Martin, Series 3 (Pts 5-7 of 9) (to 9:32pm)

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The Durrells in Corfu, Series 3 on Masterpiece (Pt 2 of 8)

Poldark, Series 4 on Masterpiece (Pt 2 of 8)

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Antiques Roadshow: New York City

The Circus: American Experience (Pt 1 of 2)

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The Great American Read (Ep 6 of 8. What We Do for Love)

The Circus: American Experience (Pt 2 of 2)

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Nature: Animal Reunions

NOVA: Volatile Earth (Pt 1 of 2. Volcano on Fire)

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The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Series 4 (Ep 4 of 4) & 5 (Eps 1 & 2 of 4) (to 12:30am)

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(from 7pm) Doc Martin, Series 3 (Pts 7-9 of 9) (to 9:33pm)

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The Durrells in Corfu, Series 3 on Masterpiece (Pt 3 of 8)

Poldark, Series 4 on Masterpiece (Pt 3 of 8)

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Antiques Roadshow: Santa Clara, CA

Midsomer Murders, Series 10 (Ep 3 of 8. King’s Crystal)

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The Great American Read (Ep 7 of 8. Other Worlds)

The Eugenics Crusade: American Experience

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AutumnWatch New England (Pt 1 of 3)

NOVA: Addiction

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AutumnWatch New England (Pt 2 of 3)

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Series 5 (Eps 3 & 4 of 4) (to 12m)

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Agatha Christie’s Poirot: Five Little Pigs

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The Durrells in Corfu, Series 3 on Masterpiece (Pt 4 of 8)

Poldark, Series 4 on Masterpiece (Pt 4 of 8)

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Antiques Roadshow: Santa Clara, CA

Midsomer Murders, Series 10 (Ep 4 of 8. The Axeman Cometh)

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The Great American Read (Ep 8 of 8. Grand Finale)

Native America (Pt 1 of 4. From Caves to Cosmos)

Frontline: The Pension Gamble

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Nature: Super Cats (Pt 1 of 3. Extreme Lives)

NOVA: Flying Supersonic

Neanderthal (Pt 2 of 2) (to 11pm) & Blue Planet (to 12m)

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The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Series 6 (Eps 1-2 of 2) (to 11pm) & Secrets of the Tower of London (to 12m)

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The Durrells in Corfu, Series 3 on Masterpiece (Pt 5 of 8)

Poldark, Series 4 on Masterpiece (Pt 5 of 8)

The Woman in White (Pt 2 of 5)

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Antiques Roadshow: Kooky & Spooky

Secrets of Selfridges

Frontline: The Facebook Dilemma (Pt 1 of 2)

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Secrets of the Dead: Teotihuacan’s Lost Kings

Native America (Pt 2 of 4. Nature to Nations)

Frontline: The Facebook Dilemma (Pt 2 of 2)

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Nature: Super Cats (Pt 2 of 3. Cats in Every Corner)

NOVA: Ghosts of Murdered Kings

Sinking Cities (Ep 1 of 4. New York) (to 11pm) & Blue Planet (to 12m)

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Upstart Crow, Series 1 (Pt 1 of 6)

Upstart Crow, Series 1 (Pt 2 of 6) (Pt 3 at 11pm)

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POV: Dark Money (to 12m)

Secrets of the Dead: Woman in the Iron Coffin (to 11pm) & Blue Planet (to 12m)

Great Performances: Grammy Salute to Music Legends 2018 The WETA Movie: Doctor Zhivago (to 1am) The Brokenwood Mysteries, Series 3 (The Black Widower) (to 11:30pm)

NOVA: Volatile Earth (Pt 2 of 2. Volcano on the Brink)

Shakespeare Uncovered, Series 3 (Ep 1 of 6. “Much Ado About Nothing” with Helen Hunt & Ep 2 of 6. “The Merchant of Venice” with F. Murray Abraham) The WETA Movie: A Streetcar Named Desire (to 11:39pm)

AutumnWatch New England (Pt 3 of 3)

PBS NewsHour airs weeknights at 7 p.m.

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Midsomer Murders, Series 10 (Ep 2 of 8. The Animal Within)

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Antiques Roadshow: New York City

Itzhak Perlman: American Masters (to 11:30pm) God Knows Where I Am (to 12:30am)

Neanderthal (Pt 1 of 2) (to 11pm) & Blue Planet (to 12m)

Shakespeare Uncovered, Series 3 (Ep 3 of 6. “Measure for Measure” with Romola Garai & Ep 4 of 6. “Julius Caesar” with Brian Cox) (to 11:30pm)

The WETA Movie: Julie & Julia (to 11:36pm) The Woman in White (Pt 1 of 5) POV: The Apology (to 12m)

Shakespeare Uncovered, Series 3 (Ep 5 of 6. “The Winter’s Tale” with Simon Russell Beale & Ep 6 of 6. “Richard III” with Antony Sher) The WETA Movie: Close Encounters of the Third Kind (to 12m)

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WETA TV 26 & WETA HD October simulcast primetime listings, plus weekends for WETA TV 26

• Programming on WETA TV 26 and WETA HD is the same — simulcast — Monday through Friday from 6 p.m. through primetime programs, and weekends beginning at 6 p.m. on Saturdays and 10 a.m. Sundays.

• Please note that Saturday daytime listings that follow are for WETA TV 26 only unless otherwise indicated.

For complete 24-hour schedules of programs on WETA TV 26 and WETA HD, visit weta.org/tv.

• The weeknight primetime schedule on WETA TV 26 often repeats the next weekday afternoon on WETA TV 26.

• WETA TV 26 is devoted to children’s programming 5 a.m.–noon weekdays and 6–9 a.m. Sundays. For 24 hours of children’s programming each day, tune in to the WETA Kids channel. See page 13 for schedule information.

Program Key ■ — WETA productions, co-productions or presentations. R — Aired within the month.

Listings are accurate as of press time. For late-breaking program updates, visit weta.org/tv or call 703-998-2724.

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7:00 PBS NEWSHOUR 8:00 THE GREAT AMERICAN READ — A journey through America introduces a list of the country’s 100 bestloved books and explores the many ways in which these novels affect, reflect and connect us all. Meredith Vieira hosts. Episode 5 of 8. Villains & Monsters. Learn why literature’s most notorious villains began behaving badly. Many weren’t born evil but became that way when faced with some of the same choices we make

Wednesday, October 3 at 10 p.m. on WETA TV 26/HD Secrets of the Dead: Woman in the Iron Coffin uncovers the story of early America’s free black communities via discovered remains.

Thursdays at 8 p.m. (9 p.m. on Oct. 18) on WETA TV 26/HD WETA reprises The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, Series 4-6, starring Nathaniel Parker and Sharon Small as Scotland Yard investigators.

every day. See what these villains can teach us about our own dark impulses. Repeats Wed 10/3, 2pm; Thur 10/4, noon 9:00 FRONTLINE: TRUMP’S SHOWDOWN — Frontline spotlights President Trump’s fight against the investigation of his campaign and whether he obstructed justice. With the threat of impeachment growing, Trump wages an unprecedented war against the Special Counsel, the FBI, and his own Attorney General.

11:00 VIRGINIA SENATORIAL DEBATE — Senator Tim Kaine, D-Va., and GOP challenger Corey Stewart, Chairman of the Prince William County Board of Supervisors, debate in Richmond. Washington Week moderator Robert Costa moderates the debate.

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7:00 PBS NEWSHOUR — WETA production PBS NewsHour provides in-depth analysis of current events with a news summary, live studio interviews and discussions of domestic and international issues. Judy Woodruff anchors. Visit pbs.org/newshour.

8:00 ANTIQUES ROADSHOW: NEW YORK CITY — Repeats Tue 10/2, 1pm; Wed 10/3, noon; Thur 10/4, 1pm 9:00 MIDSOMER MURDERS, SERIES 10 — DCI Tom Barnaby (John Nettles) and DS Jones (Jason Hughes) investigate crimes in the fictional English county of Midsomer.

Episode 2 of 8. The Animal Within. The body of a notorious trickster and mischief-maker is found floating below the weir in Midsomer Deverell. The extent of his double life emerges when three family friends and a long-lost niece produce wills claiming his fortune.

Repeats Tue 10/2, 3pm 10:33 POV: DARK MONEY — Follow an investigative reporter through a political thriller to expose the shadowy world of unlimited, anonymous campaign contributions threatening to upend Montana’s government and the very integrity of American democracy.

12M AMANPOUR AND COMPANY — Christiane Amanpour leads conversations with global thought leaders on contemporary issues.

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3 Wednesday 7:00 PBS NEWSHOUR 8:00 NATURE: ANIMAL MISFITS — Life on Earth is incredibly diverse, but it’s not always what you might expect.

Alongside the strongest and smartest animals are a group of implausible misfits with unusual looks and behaviors, from a flightless parrot to a cool Arctic caterpillar. Repeats Thur 10/4, 4pm 9:00 NOVA: OPERATION BRIDGE RESCUE — Follow the rebuilding of the 19th-century Blenheim Covered Bridge.

Watch elite craftsmen raise this engineering icon under grueling time pressure and witness traditional artisans in China restoring ancient covered bridges to ensure their survival. Repeats Thur 10/4, 3pm 10:00 SECRETS OF THE DEAD: WOMAN IN THE IRON COFFIN — Follow a team of forensic experts as they investigate the preserved remains of a young African American woman from 19th-century New York and reveal the little-known story of early America’s free black communities. Repeats Thur 10/4, 5pm; Mon 10/8, noon 11:00 BLUE PLANET — A eight-part BAFTA-winning, Emmynominated BBC documentary, narrated by David Attenborough, presents a natural history of the oceans and an

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exploration of the marine world. Episode 1 of 8. The Blue Planet. This first episode demonstrates the sheer scale, power and complexity of biological and physical forces governing the Blue Planet, exploring how the oceans are an integral part of our lives, dominate the world’s weather systems, and support an enormous range of life.

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4 Thursday 7:00 PBS NEWSHOUR 8:00 THE INSPECTOR LYNLEY MYSTERIES, SERIES 4 — Nathaniel Parker and Sharon Small star as aristocratic DI Thomas Lynley and his streetwise colleague Barbara Havers in murder-mysteries set in contemporary England and based on the novels by Elizabeth George. In Divine Proportion. The Scotland Yard duo investigates a shotgun murder, unraveling the secrets of a rural village. Repeats Fri 10/5, 1:30pm, midnight 9:30 THE INSPECTOR LYNLEY MYSTERIES, SERIES 4 — In the Guise of Death. A hanging near Lynley’s family estate draws Lynley and Havers into the world of horse breeding and leads Lynley to consider his future with the police. Repeats Fri 10/5, 3pm 11:00 THE INSPECTOR LYNLEY MYSTERIES, SERIES 4 — The Seed of Cunning. A body found floating in the Thames leads Lynley and Havers to investigate suspects in the lofty corridors of political power. Repeats Fri 10/5, 4:30pm 12:30AM AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

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5 Friday 7:00 PBS NEWSHOUR 8:00 WASHINGTON WEEK — In WETA’s long-running weekly production, join moderator Robert Costa for a robust roundtable discussion with award-winning journalists who provide reporting and analysis of the major news stories emanating from the nation’s capital. Visit pbs.org/washingtonweek. Repeats Sat 10/6, 6:30pm 8:30 UPSTART CROW, SERIES 1 — A BBC sitcom from the writer of Blackadder spotlights William Shakespeare’s fictional early life. David Mitchell stars as the Bard, just at the beginning of his career as he is being undermined by a rival and copes with badly behaved parents.

Part 1 of 6. Star Crossed Lovers. Will struggles to find inspiration for Romeo while at the same time having to deal with an angry actor, a very annoying house guest, and his family’s unhelpful script suggestions.

9:00 GREAT PERFORMANCES: GRAMMY SALUTE TO MUSIC LEGENDS 2018 — Enjoy an all-star concert honoring Neil Diamond, Tina Turner, Queen, film composer John Williams, New Orleans funk band The Meters and other recipients of the Grammy Lifetime Achievement, Trustee and Music Educator awards.

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ON WETA TV 26, 6AM-6PM. See weta.org/hd for WETA HD. 6AM NEW SCANDINAVIAN COOKING

Saturdays at 9:30 p.m. on WETA TV 26/HD The WETA Movie features popular films Doctor Zhivago, above (October 6); A Streetcar Named Desire (October 13); Julie & Julia (October 20) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (October 27).

Sundays at 9 p.m. starting September 30 on WETA TV 26/HD Masterpiece features a new season of 18th-century action-romance Poldark, starring Aidan Turner, on Sunday nights at 9 p.m. after new episodes of the drama series The Durrells in Corfu at 8 p.m.

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JULIE TABOULIE’S LEBANESE KITCHEN CIAO ITALIA HUBERT KELLER: SECRETS OF A CHEF JOANNE WEIR’S COOKING CONFIDENCE RICK STEVES’ EUROPE SECRETS OF… Highclere Castle (10/6); Chatsworth (10/13); Althorp (10/20); Tower of London (10/27) 10:00 THE THIS OLD HOUSE HOUR 11:00 A CHEF’S LIFE 11:30 PATI’S MEXICAN TABLE 12N YAN CAN COOK: SPICE KINGDOM 12:30 SARA’S WEEKNIGHT MEALS 1:00 BAKING WITH JULIA 1:30 LIDIA’S KITCHEN 2:00 IN JULIA’S KITCHEN WITH MASTER CHEFS 2:30 JACQUES PÉPIN: MORE FAST FOOD MY WAY! 3:00 MARTHA STEWART’S COOKING SCHOOL 3:30 MARTHA BAKES 4:00 COOK’S COUNTRY FROM AMERICA’S TEST KITCHEN 4:30 AMERICA’S TEST KITCHEN FROM COOK’S ILLUSTRATED 5:00 CHRISTOPHER KIMBALL’S MILK STREET TELEVISION 5:30 CHECK, PLEASE! DC SIMULCAST ON WETA TV 26 & WETA HD, 6PM-1AM: 6:00 PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND 6:30 WASHINGTON WEEK — R 7:00 DOC MARTIN, SERIES 3 — Part 5 of 9. R 7:59 DOC MARTIN, SERIES 3 — Parts 6 & 7 of 9.

9:33 THE WETA MOVIE: DOCTOR ZHIVAGO — Alec Guinness, Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin, Rod Steiger and Tom Courtenay star in David Lean’s blockbuster 1965 film adaptation of Boris Pasternak’s novel, which follows a Moscow poet/doctor, his wife and his lover during the turmoil of Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution. The film earned five Academy Awards. (3:12)

7 Sunday ON WETA TV 26, 6AM-12N. See weta.org/hd for WETA HD. 6AM-9AM WETA KIDS PROGRAMMING 9:00 WHITE HOUSE CHRONICLE 9:30 TO THE CONTRARY WITH BONNIE ERBE 10:00 THIS IS AMERICA AND THE WORLD WITH DENNIS WHOLEY 10:30 DEFENSE NEWS WEEKLY 11:00 THE OPEN MIND 11:30 FIRING LINE WITH MARGARET HOOVER SIMULCAST ON WETA TV 26 & WETA HD, 12N-12M: 12N GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET: EXTERMINATING ANGEL — See Thomas Adès’ opera, a surreal fantasy of a dinner party from which the guests can’t escape, based on Luis Buñuel’s 1962 film. John Tomlinson and Alice Coote star, Adès conducts, and Susan Graham hosts.

2:30 GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET: SEMIRAMIDE — Rossini’s masterpiece of vocal fireworks makes a rare Met appearance — its first in nearly 25 years — with Maurizio Benini on the podium. The all-star bel canto cast features Angela Meade in the title role of the murderous Queen of Babylon, who squares off in breathtaking duets with Arsace, a trouser role sung by Elizabeth DeShong. Javier Camarena, Ildar Abdrazakov, and Ryan Speedo Green complete the cast.

6:00 PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND 6:30 ARTICULATE WITH JIM COTTER, SERIES 2 — Hosted by journalist Jim Cotter, the Emmy Award-winning

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7:00 PBS NEWSHOUR 8:00 ANTIQUES ROADSHOW: NEW YORK CITY — Repeats Tue 10/9, 1pm; Wed 10/10, noon; Thurs 10/11, 1pm 9:00 THE CIRCUS: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE — Explore the colorful history of this distinctly American form of entertainment, from the first one-ring show at the end of the 18th century to 1956, when the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey big top was pulled down for the last time. Part 1 of 2. Travel back to 1793 Philadelphia, when America’s first circus was established, and witness its crash into American culture. The arrival of P. T. Barnum in 1871 transformed the trade, and the five Ringling brothers created a spectacle of their own.

Repeats Tue 10/9, 3pm; Sat 10/13, midnight; Mon 10/15, noon 11:00 SECRETS OF CHATSWORTH — A program surveys the 500-year history of Britain’s Chatsworth estate and

Monday-Tuesday, October 8 & 9 at 9 p.m. on WETA TV 26/HD Two-part film The Circus: American Experience explores the colorful history of this popular American form of entertainment.

Above: A group of circus clowns, early 20th century.

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Wednesday, October 10 at 9 & 10 p.m. on WETA TV 26/HD A two-part NOVA miniseries follows volcano experts as they probe two dangerous craters in Congo in Central Africa. Above: Filming the world’s largest lava lake in the volcano Nyiragongo.

explores its American connections. Chatsworth has been home to an array of interesting notables.

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9 Tuesday 7:00 PBS NEWSHOUR 8:00 THE GREAT AMERICAN READ — Meredith Vieira hosts.

Episode 6 of 8. What We Do for Love. Fall in love with some of literature’s most beautiful romances and explore the many forms of love, from family to passion to the unrequited type. Learn how America’s best-loved novels reflect the things we do for love. Repeats Wed 10/10, 2pm; Thur 10/11, noon 9:00 THE CIRCUS: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE — Explore the colorful history of this popular and distinctly American form of entertainment. Part 2 of 2. See how Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey merged to create a circus of more than 1,100 people and 1,000 animals, only to limp through the Great Depression against competition from radio and movies. In 1956, the big top was pulled down for good. Repeats Wed 10/10, 3pm; Sat 10/13, 2am; Tue 10/16, noon 11:00 ANTIQUES ROADSHOW: BISMARCK, ND — Repeats Wed 10/10, 1pm; Thur 10/11, 2pm 12M AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

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magazine show highlights how our shared humanity is expressed through arts and culture. Repeats Tue 10/9, 12:30pm 7:00 DOWNTON ABBEY, SERIES 4 ON MASTERPIECE — WETA reprises the drama’s fourth season. Part 2 of 8. The fates of several characters converge at a glittering house party. Gregson impresses Robert, and Anna faces trouble.

8:00 THE DURRELLS IN CORFU, SERIES 3 ON MASTERPIECE — Season 3 of the series continues, based on the memoirs of Gerald Durrell, following his eccentric English family as it experiences life on a Greek isle during the 1930s. Keeley Hawes stars. Part 2 of 8. When Aunt Hermione dies suddenly, Louisa must accompany her body back to England. Leslie may have gotten a girlfriend pregnant. Repeats Mon 10/8, 2pm 9:00 POLDARK, SERIES 4 ON MASTERPIECE — Aidan Turner and Eleanor Tomlinson star in a new season of the drama, set in 18th-century Cornwall. It is 1796, and to defend Cornwall and those he loves from George Warleggan, Ross Poldark must play the political game on a journey that takes him to the nation’s capital and into new perils. Part 2 of 8. The Poldarks determine to get their relationship on track, and the Enyses announce they’re expecting a child. Hugh’s health prevents him for standing in the election, so the candidacy is offered to Ross, but will he accept? Repeats Mon 10/8, 3pm 10:00 THE BROKENWOOD MYSTERIES, SERIES 3 — Detective Senior Sergeant Mike Shepherd (Neill Rea), his colleague Detective Kristin Sims (Fern Sutherland), and eager young DC Sam Breen (Nic Sampson) investigate crimes in small-town New Zealand. The Black Widower.

When the wife of a local tourist trap business owner is discovered dead, the other local tourism operators are not particularly sad about her demise. Her cause of death is revealed to be from New Zealand’s only native venomous spider — the Katipo. But how could one spider administer ten times the lethal dose? Repeats Mon 10/8, 4pm; Fri 10/12, noon 11:30 FILM SCHOOL SHORTS

10 Wednesday 7:00 PBS NEWSHOUR 8:00 NATURE: ANIMAL REUNIONS — Feel the emotion as keepers and carers reunite with the wild animals that were once in their care to learn whether the close interspecies bonds that developed over years in refuges and orphanages have stood the test of time.

9:00 NOVA: VOLATILE EARTH — Follow a team of volcano experts who climb up to the summits of two of the world’s most dangerous volcanoes, located in the Virunga Mountains in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, in order to study and better understand them. Part 1 of 2. Volcano on Fire. Climb up the cone of Nyiragongo, one of the world’s least studied volcanoes, and join volcanologists as they descend into its crater, down towards its bubbling and seething lava lake, to discover when it will erupt next. Repeats Thur 10/11, 3pm 10:00 NOVA: VOLATILE EARTH — Part 2 of 2. Volcano on the Brink. Join a team of volcanologists as they explore one of the world’s most active and mysterious volcanoes in central Africa: Nyamuragira. Learn what feeds it frequent eruptions and learn about the region’s other hidden volcanic dangers. Repeats Thur 10/11, 4pm 11:00 BLUE PLANET — Episode 2 of 8. The Deep. The series voyages into the ocean deep, a place of mountain ranges, perpetual night, pressure extremes and cold — and the weirdest life forms on our planet.

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7:00 PBS NEWSHOUR 8:00 WASHINGTON WEEK — In WETA’s long-running weekly production, join moderator Robert Costa for a robust roundtable discussion with award-winning journalists who provide reporting and analysis of the major news stories emanating from the nation’s capital. Visit pbs.org/washingtonweek. Repeats Sat 10/13, 6:30pm 8:30 UPSTART CROW, SERIES 1 — Part 2 of 6. The Play’s the Thing. Will’s controversial new play is about to be presented to Queen Elizabeth when it goes missing. As the finger of suspicion points at his best friend Marlowe, can Will come up with a way to recover his stolen masterpiece? Part 3 airs at 11 p.m. tonight.

9:00 SHAKESPEARE UNCOVERED, SERIES 3 — Join six famous hosts to learn the stories behind Shakespeare’s greatest plays. Episode 1 of 6. “Much Ado About Nothing” with Helen Hunt. Explore the history and themes of this romantic comedy of comparison and contrast, as well as what the ultimate “ado” about “nothing” really means, with Academy Award-winning actress Helen Hunt. “Much Ado About Nothing” is one of 15 plays that Shakespeare set in Italy. Repeats Tue 10/16, 4pm; Fri 10/19, 12:30pm 10:00 SHAKESPEARE UNCOVERED, SERIES 3 — Episode 2 of 6.

“The Merchant of Venice” with F. Murray Abraham. Abraham untangles the controversies surrounding “The Merchant of Venice,” addressing the ubiquitous antiSemitism that characterized Europe in Shakespeare’s time. Repeats Tue 10/16, 5pm 11:00 UPSTART CROW, SERIES 1 — Part 3 of 6. The Apparel Proclaims the Man. Will hopes to move up in the world when he is invited to Lord Southampton’s party. Part 4 airs September 19 at 11:30 p.m.

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Sunday, October 14 at 10 p.m. on WETA TV 26/HD Itzhak Perlman: American Masters explores the life of the Grammywinning, world-renowned violinist, a transcendent performer and polio survivor. Above: Perlman practices at his home.

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8:00 THE INSPECTOR LYNLEY MYSTERIES, SERIES 4 — Nathaniel Parker and Sharon Small star as aristocratic Scotland Yard sleuth DI Thomas Lynley and his streetwise colleague Barbara Havers. Episode 4 of 4. The Word of God. The discovery of a body frozen inside a meat truck leads Lynley and Havers into the world of struggling immigrants. Repeats Fri 10/12, 1:30pm 9:30 THE INSPECTOR LYNLEY MYSTERIES, SERIES 5 — Episode 1 of 4. Natural Causes. While Lynley is suspended from duty awaiting the outcome of a disciplinary hearing, Havers teams with Detective Inspector Fiona Knight to investigate the drowning of a young woman in a car. Lynley lends a hand on the case. Repeats Fri 10/12, 3pm 11:00 THE INSPECTOR LYNLEY MYSTERIES, SERIES 5 — Episode 2 of 4. One Guilty Deed. Lynley is reinstated to his post in the second episode. He and Havers pursue crime boss Shand, but their star witness is found dead on the tidal flats of the Essex marshes, Havers’ childhood holiday retreat. When she learns of a 20-year-old unsolved case involving a murdered child, Havers is convinced that solving the case will provide the answers they need to catch Shand. Repeats Fri 10/12, 4:30pm 12:30 AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

Tuesday, October 16 at 9 p.m. on WETA TV 26/HD The Eugenics Crusade: American Experience uncovers the story of a campaign to breed a “better” American race, tracing the rise of the movement that turned the science of heredity into an instrument of social control in the decades before World War II.

13 Saturday ON WETA TV 26, 6AM-6PM. See weta.org/hd for WETA HD. 6AM-6PM See the Saturday, October 6 listings.

SIMULCAST ON WETA TV 26 & WETA HD, 12N-4AM: 6:00 PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND 6:30 WASHINGTON WEEK — R 7:00 DOC MARTIN, SERIES 3 — Part 7 of 9. R 7:59 DOC MARTIN, SERIES 3 — Part 8 & 9 of 9.

9:33 THE WETA MOVIE: A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE — Elia Kazan’s powerful 1951 adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ Pulitzer Prize-winning play, set in New Orleans, stars Marlon Brando as brutish Stanley Kowalski and Vivien Leigh as a neurotic belle, Kowalski’s visiting sister-inlaw Blanche DuBois, whose reality begins to crumble.

Kim Hunter and Karl Malden co-star. Leigh, Malden and Hunter earned Oscars for their performances. (2:05) 11:39 BBC ANTIQUES ROADSHOW 12M THE CIRCUS: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE — Parts 1 & 2 of 2. R (4 hrs.)

14 Sunday ON WETA TV 26, 6AM-12N. See weta.org/hd for WETA HD. 6AM-12N See the Sunday, October 7 listings.

SIMULCAST ON WETA TV 26 & WETA HD, 12N-12M: 12N GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET: L’ELISIR D’AMORE — Pretty Yende debuts a new role at the Met as the feisty Adina, opposite Matthew Polenzani in Bartlett Sher’s production of Donizetti’s opera. Domingo Hindoyan conducts.

2:30 GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET: COSI FAN TUTTE — A winning cast comes together for Phelim McDermott’s vision of Mozart’s comedy about the sexes, set in a carnival-esque environment inspired by 1950s Coney Island. Manipulating the action are the Don Alfonso of Christopher Maltman and the Despina of Tony Awardwinner Kelli O’Hara, with Amanda Majeski, Serena Malfi, Ben Bliss, and Adam Plachetka as the pairs of young lovers who test each other’s faithfulness. David Robertson conducts.

6:00 PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND 6:30 BBC ANTIQUES ROADSHOW 7:00 DOWNTON ABBEY, SERIES 4 ON MASTERPIECE — Love is in the air at Downton Abbey, and darker emotions too.

Part 3 of 8. Mary, Edith, Tom and Anna each struggle with a dilemma.

8:00 THE DURRELLS IN CORFU, SERIES 3 ON MASTERPIECE — Part 3 of 8. Louisa and Larry arrive in England for Aunt Hermione’s burial while the rest of the family keeps things running not so smoothly in Corfu. Repeats Mon 10/15, 2:30pm 9:00 POLDARK, SERIES 4 ON MASTERPIECE — Part 3 of 8.

Ross makes his maiden speech in Parliament and finds some notoriety. Demelza contends with a failing mine and fixing Drake’s broken heart. The Enyses welcome a baby daughter. George hosts a party in the hope of buying his way back into Parliament. Repeats Mon 10/15, 3:30pm 10:00 ITZHAK PERLMAN: AMERICAN MASTERS — Explore the life of violinist Itzhak Perlman, a polio survivor whose parents emigrated from Poland to Israel. Conversations with musicians, friends and his wife of 50 years

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tell the story of this transcendent performer. Repeats Mon 10/15, 4:30pm 11:30 FILM SCHOOL SHORTS

15 Monday 7:00 PBS NEWSHOUR 8:00 ANTIQUES ROADSHOW: SANTA CLARA, CA — Repeats Tue 10/16, 2pm; Wed 10/17, noon 8:58 MIDSOMER MURDERS, SERIES 10 — Episode 3 of 8.

King’s Crystal. When a family glassware business collapses following the death of one of its partners, detective Barnaby investigates allegations of financial irregularities, love triangles and a string of murders.

Lapsed Freemason Jones uses his inside knowledge to explore the ceremonial aspects of two killings, but it is Cully’s production of “Hamlet” that provides answers.

10:33 GOD KNOWS WHERE I AM — Discover the story of Linda Bishop, a New Hampshire mother who suffered from severe bipolar disorder with psychosis. She imprisoned herself in an abandoned farmhouse and remained there, a prisoner of her own mind, eventually starving to death.

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8:00 AUTUMNWATCH NEW ENGLAND — Travel to the colorful landscapes of New England, meet a cast of wildlife characters, and experience some of the best that autumn has to offer, including leaf gazing, pumpkin carving and cranberry harvesting, in this live production. Part 1 of 3. Repeats Thur 10/18, 4pm 9:00 NOVA: ADDICTION — Delve into America’s opioid crisis.

In a world in which many other diseases can be traced to addictive behavior, how do addictions work, and what can the science of addiction tell us about how we can resolve this dire social issue? Repeats Thur 10/18, 3pm 10:00 NEANDERTHAL — Learn about ancient Neanderthals, whose genes helped shape modern humans and continue to affect us. The series reveals discoveries about their appearance, anatomy, movement, brain function, child development, diet, health and culture. Part 1 of 2. Follow Andy Serkis, the master of performance capture, Ella Al-Shamahi, a rising star in Neanderthal research, and a group of experts who create a scientifically accurate 3D Neanderthal.

11:00 BLUE PLANET — Episode 3 of 8. Open Ocean. How does life exist in open waters? The series explores the denizens of the open seas and examines how they survive.

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7:00 PBS NEWSHOUR 8:00 AUTUMNWATCH NEW ENGLAND — Experience a live New England autumn with a cast of wildlife characters.

Part 2 of 3. Repeats Fri 10/19, 4:30pm 9:00 THE INSPECTOR LYNLEY MYSTERIES, SERIES 5 — Nathaniel Parker and Sharon Small star as Scotland Yard sleuths Lynley and Havers. Episode 3 of 4. Chinese Walls. The duo is catapulted into the bizarre world of Internet vice when they investigate the mysterious, brutal death of Emily Proctor, a young lawyer, who has been moonlighting for an online porn channel. Meanwhile, Lynley rekindles his relationship with his ex-wife, Helen. Repeats Fri 10/19, 1:30pm 10:30 THE INSPECTOR LYNLEY MYSTERIES, SERIES 5 — Episode 4 of 4. In the Blink of an Eye. Lynley and Havers investigate the death of paparazzo photographer Peter Rooker, who is found beaten and shot in Soho, London.

The mystery leads them to a 1995 massacre in Bosnia and brings trauma for Lynley when events take a tragic turn. Repeats Fri 10/19, 3pm 12M AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

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7:00 PBS NEWSHOUR 8:00 THE GREAT AMERICAN READ — Meredith Vieira hosts.

Part 7 of 8. Other Worlds. Take a magical journey to another world through some of America’s best-loved novels. From Middle Earth to Lilliput, the trials and tribulations of these alternate universes help us to better understand our own world. Repeats Wed 10/17, 2pm 9:00 THE EUGENICS CRUSADE: AMERICAN EXPERIENCE — Learn the story of the unlikely — and largely unknown — campaign to breed a “better” American race, tracing the rise of the movement that turned the fledgling science of heredity into a powerful instrument of social control. Repeats Wed 10/17, 4pm; Thur 10/18, 1pm; Sat 10/20, midnight 11:00 ANTIQUES ROADSHOW: NEW YORK CITY — R 12M AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

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19 Friday 7:00 PBS NEWSHOUR 8:00 WASHINGTON WEEK — In WETA’s long-running weekly production, join moderator Robert Costa for a robust roundtable discussion with award-winning journalists who provide reporting and analysis of the major news stories emanating from the nation’s capital. Visit pbs.org/washingtonweek. Repeats Sat 10/20, 6:30pm 8:30 AUTUMNWATCH NEW ENGLAND — Experience a live New England autumn with a cast of wildlife characters.

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9:30 SHAKESPEARE UNCOVERED, SERIES 3 — Join famous hosts to learn the stories behind the Bard’s greatest plays. Episode 3 of 6. “Measure for Measure” with Romola Garai. Garai explores one of Shakespeare’s most provocative plays that presents a surprisingly timely drama of sexual morality, hypocrisy and harassment. Repeats Tue 10/23, 4pm 10:30 SHAKESPEARE UNCOVERED, SERIES 3 — Episode 4 of 6. “Julius Caesar” with Brian Cox. Cox looks at Shakespeare’s most revered political play to analyze what can be learned about freedom and tyranny today. Repeats Tue 10/23, 5pm 11:30 UPSTART CROW, SERIES 1 — Part 4 of 6. Love Is Not Love. Will has completed his final sonnet and senses literary immortality just around the corner. But will the fair youth and the dark lady like them as much as he hopes? And is Anne likely to be impressed that her husband’s 154 new love poems don’t contain much about her?

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20 Saturday ON WETA TV 26, 6AM-6PM. See weta.org/hd for WETA HD. 6AM-6PM See the Saturday, October 6 listings.

SIMULCAST ON WETA TV 26 & WETA HD, 6PM-12M: 6:00 PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND 6:30 WASHINGTON WEEK — R 7:00 DOC MARTIN, SERIES 3 — Part 8 of 9. R 7:58 AGATHA CHRISTIE’S POIROT: FIVE LITTLE PIGS — Poirot (David Suchet) must bring a fresh perspective to a notorious 14-year-old murder case. Caroline Crane (Rachael Stirling) was hanged for the murder of her flamboyant artist husband in an apparent crime of passion after he flaunted yet another extramarital affair.

Their 21-year-old daughter returns from Canada and persuades Poirot to re-examine the case. Toby Stephens, Gemma Jones and Marc Warren co-star.

9:33 THE WETA MOVIE: JULIE & JULIA — In Nora Ephron’s 2009 drama, a woman in Queens, New York, sets a deadline of one year to prepare all 524 recipes in Julia Child’s famous cookbook, “Mastering the art of French Cooking.” Amy Adams and Meryl Streep star. (2:03) 11:36 BBC ANTIQUES ROADSHOW

21 Sunday ON WETA TV 26, 6AM-12N. See weta.org/hd for WETA HD. 6AM-12N See the Sunday, October 7 listings.

22 Monday 7:00 PBS NEWSHOUR 8:00 ANTIQUES ROADSHOW: SANTA CLARA, CA — Repeats Tue 10/23, noon; Thur 10/25, 2pm 8:58 MIDSOMER MURDERS, SERIES 10 — Episode 4 of 8. The Axeman Cometh. Barnaby is delighted that his music heroes Hired Gun are reuniting to play at the Midsomer Rocks festival — minus their drummer, who disappeared 30 years before. However, a string of bizarre warnings convinces the paranoid lead singer that someone is trying to stop the reunion, and his fears are confirmed. Repeats Tue 10/23, 2pm 10:33 POV: THE APOLOGY — Meet three of the 200,000 former “comfort women” kidnapped and forced into military sexual slavery by the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II. Seventy years after their imprisonment, they give their first-hand accounts of the truth.

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Saturdays, October 20 & 27 at 8 p.m. on WETA TV 26/HD Agatha Christie’s Poirot features David Suchet in his signature role as the famed crime novelist’s great Belgian sleuth in the two cases “Five Little Pigs” and “Sad Cypress.”

SIMULCAST ON WETA TV 26 & WETA HD, 12N-12M: 12N BBC ANTIQUES ROADSHOW 12:30 GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET: LA BOHÈME — Puccini’s opera — the world’s most popular — returns in Franco Zeffirelli’s classic production starring Sonya Yoncheva as Mimi and Michael Fabiano as the poet Rodolfo. Marco Armiliato conducts.

3:00 GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET: LUISA MILLER — Plácido Domingo adds yet another role to his legendary Met career in this rarely performed Verdi gem, a tragedy of fatherly love. Sonya Yoncheva sings the title role opposite Piotr Beczala in the first Met performances of the opera in more than 10 years. Bertrand de Billy conducts. Repeats Wed 10/24, noon 5:30 BBC ANTIQUES ROADSHOW 6:00 PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND 6:30 BBC ANTIQUES ROADSHOW 7:00 DOWNTON ABBEY, SERIES 4 ON MASTERPIECE — Part 4 of 8. Can Bates learn what’s troubling Anna? Thomas installs a new ally and Alfred takes up cooking.

8:00 THE DURRELLS IN CORFU, SERIES 3 ON MASTERPIECE — Part 4 of 8. Larry’s friend Gigi comes to visit, as does Captain Creech, who has fallen on hard times. Louisa wants Gerry to go to school, and Leslie must decide whether to report someone to the police for smuggling.

Repeats Mon 10/22, 2:30pm 9:00 POLDARK, SERIES 4 ON MASTERPIECE — Part 4 of 8.

While George continues plotting his return to Westminster, Ross is reunited with his family at home. Then tragedy strikes in Cornwall, forcing him from the quiet life into action again. Repeats Mon 10/22, 3:30pm 10:00 THE WOMAN IN WHITE — When Walter Hartright, a young drawing master, encounters a spectral woman dressed all in white on a moonlit road on Hampstead Heath, he is drawn into a web of intrigue that will transform his life forever. Part 1 of 5. Walter Hartright encounters Anne and learns she escaped from a nearby asylum. Walter falls in love with his pupil, Laura Fairlie, but she’s set to marry Sir Percival Glyde, who put Anne in the asylum. Repeats Mon 10/22, 4:30pm 11:00 FILM SCHOOL SHORTS — (two episodes)

Sundays at 10 p.m. starting October 21 on WETA TV 26/HD The Woman in White, adapted from the Wilkie Collins novel, stars Ben Hardy as a man who encounters a distressed, ghostly woman and is drawn into a web of intrigue that changes his life.

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of quieter, greener and cheaper supersonic passenger planes. Repeats Thur 10/25, 3pm 10:00 NEANDERTHAL — Find out more about ancient Neanderthals, whose genes helped shape modern humans and continue to affect us. Part 2 of 2. Join Ella Al-Shamahi, assisted by Hollywood actor Andy Serkis, as she explores the fate of the Neanderthals, asking why they became extinct and discovering how they live on inside us today.

11:00 BLUE PLANET — Episode 4 of 8. Frozen Seas. Life in a frozen sea is tough. Pack-ice at both poles is constantly on the move, and in winter freezes solid. Only in spring, with the retreating ice and light reaching the water, does life begin again. The series spotlights life at the edge of the ice.

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25 Thursday Tuesdays at 8 p.m. though October 23 on WETA TV 26/HD The Great American Read continues in October, leading up to the finale on October 23 as America’s best-loved novel is unveiled.

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7:00 PBS NEWSHOUR 8:00 THE GREAT AMERICAN READ — A journey through America introduces a list of the country’s 100 bestloved books and explores the many ways in which these novels affect, reflect and connect us all. Meredith Vieira hosts. Part 8 of 8. Grand Finale. And the winner is? After millions of votes, find out which of the 100 nominated books is crowned America’s best-loved novel. Repeats Wed 10/24, 3pm 9:00 NATIVE AMERICA — Discover the cities, science, art and beliefs that connected Native Americans through millennia. Learn about some of the most advanced cultures in human history, and the people who created them and whose legacy continues to this day. Part 1 of 4. From Caves to Cosmos. Combine ancient wisdom and modern science to answer a 15,000-year-old question: who were America’s First Peoples? The answer hides in Amazonian cave paintings, Mexican burial chambers, New Mexico’s Chaco Canyon and waves off California’s coast. Repeats Wed 10/24, 5pm 10:00 FRONTLINE: THE PENSION GAMBLE — Frontline examines how state governments and Wall Street led America’s public pensions into a $4-trillion hole.

Correspondent Martin Smith investigates the consequences for teachers, police, firefighters, and other public servants. Who will be held accountable?

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7:00 PBS NEWSHOUR 8:00 THE INSPECTOR LYNLEY MYSTERIES, SERIES 6 — Scotland Yard sleuths Lynley (Nathaniel Parker) and Havers (Sharon Small) collaborate on two last cases in the drama’s final episodes. Episode 1 of 2. Limbo. Six months have passed since the death of Lynley’s wife, and Havers believes her partner is drowning in his sorrows. Lynley is drawn into the 15-year-old unsolved abduction of his godson and lands in trouble. Repeats Fri 10/26, 1:30pm, 12:30am 9:30 THE INSPECTOR LYNLEY MYSTERIES, SERIES 6 — Episode 2 of 2. Know Thine Enemy. In their final case, Lynley is back in action as he and Havers try to solve the murder of one schoolgirl and the disappearance of another.

Is a serial killer on the loose in suburban London?

Honeysuckle Weeks (Foyle’s War) and James D’Arcy (Mansfield Park) co-star. Repeats Fri 10/26, 3pm 11:00 SECRETS OF THE TOWER OF LONDON — Standing guard over the city of London for nearly 1,000 years, the Tower of London has been a royal castle, a prison, a place of execution and torture, an armory and the Royal Mint. This program unlocks the doors to secret rooms, visits with the people who do the jobs no one sees and reveals surprising facts about one of England’s most famous icons. Repeats Thur 10/25, 5pm 12M AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

7:00 PBS NEWSHOUR 8:00 NATURE: SUPER CATS — Explore the mysterious world of big cats. Filmed over 600 days in 14 countries, featuring 31 species of cats, this series introduces behaviors captured on film for the first time, using the latest camera technology and scientific research. Part 1 of 3. Extreme Lives. Meet the planet’s ultimate cats.

Cheetahs are the fastest animal on land. A snow leopard searches for a mate in the Himalaya. The Canada lynx lives farther north than any cat. An African leopard fights to raise a cub in the worst drought in decades.

Repeats Thur 10/25, 4pm 9:00 NOVA: FLYING SUPERSONIC — Uncover the history of the Concorde, the passenger plane that flew from the late 1970s until 2003 at twice the speed of sound.

Today, scientists are working to build a new generation

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Tuesdays at 9 p.m. starting October 23 on WETA TV 26/HD Four-part miniseries Native America explores the world created by America’s First Peoples 15,000 years ago, spotlighting ancient cultures and the communities that still thrive today. Above: Comanche tribal members outside Lawton, Oklahoma.

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Fridays, Oct. 12 & 26, 9 p.m.; Oct. 19, 9:30 p.m. on WETA TV 26/HD Six-part miniseries Shakespeare Uncovered, Series 3 airs in double features, exploring more of the Bard’s greatest plays with hosts including Sir Antony Sher, above, who unveils “Richard III.”

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26 Friday 7:00 PBS NEWSHOUR 8:00 WASHINGTON WEEK — In WETA’s long-running weekly production, join moderator Robert Costa for a robust roundtable discussion with award-winning journalists who provide reporting and analysis of the major news stories emanating from the nation’s capital. Visit pbs.org/washingtonweek. Repeats Sat 10/27, 6:30pm 8:30 UPSTART CROW, SERIES 1 — Part 5 of 6. What Bloody Man Is That? The plague leads Will and his friends to escape to the family home in Stratford. On the way they meet three witches who have some surprising predictions to make about Will’s future, leading to a very serious case of house envy. Part 6 airs at 11 p.m. tonight.

9:00 SHAKESPEARE UNCOVERED, SERIES 3 — Learn the stories behind the Bard’s greatest plays. Episode 5 of 6. “The Winter’s Tale” with Simon Russell Beale. Beale uncovers the romance and betrayals of “The Winter’s Tale” and shows that in this play Shakespeare offers something for which everyone longs: the ability to make amends for an irreversible mistake. Repeats Tue 10/30, 4pm 10:00 SHAKESPEARE UNCOVERED, SERIES 3 — Episode 6 of 6. “Richard III” with Antony Sher. Sir Antony Sher unveils the life of Shakespeare’s “Richard III,” comparing the historical king’s reputation with the play’s enduring portrait of ruthless ambition and vengeance. Repeats Tue 10/30, 5pm 11:00 UPSTART CROW, SERIES 1 — Part 6 of 6. The Quality of Mercy. There’s money to be made investing in cargos from the New World, but Will would rather invest in building a new theater. When his savings go missing he’s forced to make a bargain with his rival, Greene.

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27 Saturday ON WETA TV 26, 6AM-6PM. See weta.org/hd for WETA HD. 6AM-6PM See the Saturday, October 6 listings.

SIMULCAST ON WETA TV 26 & WETA HD, 6PM-1AM: 6:00 PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND 6:30 WASHINGTON WEEK — R 7:00 DOC MARTIN, SERIES 3 — Part 9 of 9. R 7:58 AGATHA CHRISTIE’S POIROT: SAD CYPRESS — As Poirot (David Suchet) watches a judge sentence socialite Elinor Carlisle to death for poisoning both her aunt and her rival in love, he can’t help feeling something’s wrong. He races against the clock to save her life.

Diana Quick, Kelly Reilly, Paul McGann and Rupert Penry-Jones co-star.

9:33 THE WETA MOVIE: CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND — In Steven Spielberg’s 1977 drama, an Indiana lineman (Richard Dreyfuss) and other UFO sighters, beleaguered by earlier incidents, seek to have documented contact with space aliens. François Truffaut and Teri Garr co-star. (2:14) 12M BORN TO EXPLORE: NAMIBIA: LAND OF THE CHEETAH — Travel to Namibia for an in-depth look at the most endangered cat in Africa — the cheetah. Explorer Richard Wiese meets Dr. Laurie Marker, founder of the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF), to see what’s being done to save these cats from extinction. (60 min.)

ON WETA TV 26, 6AM-12N. See weta.org/hd for WETA HD. 6AM-12N See the Sunday, October 7 listings.

SIMULCAST ON WETA TV 26 & WETA HD, 12N-12M: 12N GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET: TOSCA — Sir David McVicar’s production of Puccini’s classic stars Sonya Yoncheva, Vittorio Grigolo and Zeljko Lucic.

Opera diva Tosca must rescue her revolutionary lover Cavaradossi from the depraved police chief Scarpia.

Isabel Leonard hosts. Repeats Wed 10/31, noon 2:30 GREAT PERFORMANCES AT THE MET: CENDRILLON — Massenet’s take on the Cinderella story comes to the Met. Joyce DiDonato stars in the title role, with mezzosoprano Alice Coote in the trouser role of Prince Charming, Kathleen Kim as the Fairy Godmother, and Stephanie Blythe as the imperious Madame de la Haltiere. Bertrand de Billy conducts Laurent Pelly’s storybook production.

5:00 BORN TO EXPLORE: NAMIBIA: LAND OF THE CHEETAH —R 6:00 PBS NEWSHOUR WEEKEND 6:30 BBC ANTIQUES ROADSHOW 7:00 DOWNTON ABBEY, SERIES 4 ON MASTERPIECE — Part 5 of 8. Rose’s surprise party for Robert risks scandal. Mary meets an old suitor, and Edith gets troubling news.

8:00 THE DURRELLS IN CORFU, SERIES 3 ON MASTERPIECE — Part 5 of 8. A new Italian family takes up residence in Corfu, taking up more of Spiro’s time than Louisa would like. They seem to have left Italy in a hurry and everyone wants to find out why. Repeats Mon 10/29, 2:30pm 9:00 POLDARK, SERIES 4 ON MASTERPIECE — Part 5 of 8.

To his frustration, Ross faces successive failures in Westminster, and he is advised to take a slier approach.

Back in Cornwall, Demelza continues her matchmaking efforts. Repeats Mon 10/29, 3:30pm 10:00 THE WOMAN IN WHITE — Part 2 of 5. Walter is sent away before he can learn the truth about Anne. Laura confesses her feelings about Walter to Sir Percival, who in turn moves up their wedding. Anne’s mother visits the newlyweds’ home in search of her daughter, who’s been seen nearby. Repeats Mon 10/29, 4:30pm 11:00 FILM SCHOOL SHORTS — (two episodes)

29 Monday 7:00 PBS NEWSHOUR 8:00 ANTIQUES ROADSHOW: KOOKY & SPOOKY — Celebrate Halloween with thrilling and chilling finds, like a rag doll nicknamed Chucky, a nightmarish Leonora Carrington painting and an eye-catching “Bride of Frankenstein” pressbook. Which macabre and magnificent treasure is $250,000-$350,000? Repeats Tue 10/30, noon 9:00 SECRETS OF SELFRIDGES — Two words are synonymous with Selfridges: luxury and London. However, the department store was the brainchild of an American — Harry Gordon Selfridge — who coined the expression, “The customer is always right,” and brought about a revolution in the way Londoners shopped. This program reveals the grandiose store’s hidden stories and delves into the mind of its ambitious creator.

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Monday, October 29 at 8 p.m. on WETA TV 26/HD An Antiques Roadshow special, Kooky & Spooky, celebrates thrilling and chilling treasures during the Halloween season. Above: A Lanier Meaders face jug, circa 1975, in Baltimore, Maryland.

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The WETA Kids channel offers a safe haven for young viewers, presenting educational broadcasts 24 hours each day, seven days a week.

WETA KIDS ON WEEKDAYS

Monday-Tuesday, October 29-30 at 10 p.m. on WETA TV 26/HD Two-part Frontline special The Facebook Dilemma presents a year-long investigation spotlighting the truth and consequences of Facebook’s rise as a global power. Above: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg listens while testifying before Congress, 2018.

30 Tuesday 7:00 PBS NEWSHOUR 8:00 SECRETS OF THE DEAD: TEOTIHUACAN’S LOST KINGS — A team of scientists explores royal tombs beneath the ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacán. After decades of research, these burial chambers may reveal clues about long-lost Teotihuacán culture and its mysterious people. Repeats Wed 10/31, 3pm 9:00 NATIVE AMERICA — Part 2 of 4. Nature to Nations.

Explore the rise of great American nations. Investigate lost cities in Mexico, a temple in Peru, a potlatch ceremony in the Pacific Northwest and a tapestry of shell beads in upstate New York whose story inspired our own democracy. Repeats Wed 10/31, 5pm 10:00 FRONTLINE: THE FACEBOOK DILEMMA — Part 2 of 2.

Frontline examines Facebook’s response to charges of promoting “fake news” and disrupting American politics. Dozens of interviews and rare footage explore the company’s role sowing division worldwide and the challenges facing the powerful social media platform.

11:00 ANTIQUES ROADSHOW; BIRMINGHAM, AL 12M AMANPOUR AND COMPANY

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10:00 FRONTLINE: THE FACEBOOK DILEMMA — Part 1 of 2. Frontline explores early warnings about Facebook’s impact on privacy and democracy in the U.S. and around the world. Dozens of original interviews and rare footage show how the company faced claims of misuse while becoming an unprecedented global power.

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WETA KIDS AIRINGS IN BLACK; WETA TV 26 IN BLUE • Sid the Science Kid, 5am • Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, 5:30am • Sesame Street, 6am • Wild Kratts, 6:30am, 7am (6am, 6:30am) • Ready Jet Go!, 7:30am (7am) • The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!, 8am (7:30am) • Nature Cat, 8:30am (8am) • Curious George, 9am (8:30am) • Pinkalicious & Peterrific, 9:30am (9am) • Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, 10am, 10:30am (9:30am, 10am) • Splash and Bubbles, 11am (10:30am) • Sesame Street, 11:30am (11am) • Super WHY!, 12N (5am, 11:30am) • Dinosaur Train, 12:30pm • Peg + Cat, 1pm • Sesame Street, 1:30pm • Splash and Bubbles, 2pm • Curious George, 2:30pm • Pinkalicious & Peterrific, 3pm • Nature Cat, 3:30pm Visit weta.org/kids • Wild Kratts, 4pm, 4:30pm for full listings of • Odd Squad, 5pm, 5:30pm children’s programs • Arthur, 6pm, 6:30pm • Ready Jet Go!, 7pm on WETA Kids • WordGirl, 7:30pm & WETA TV 26.

• Sesame Street, 8pm, 8:30pm • Cyberchase, 9pm (5:30am) • Bob the Builder, 9:30pm • SciGirls, 10pm • Maya & Miguel, 10:30pm • Bob the Builder, 11pm • Ready Jet Go!, 11:30pm • Arthur, 12M

7:00 PBS NEWSHOUR 8:00 NATURE: SUPER CATS — Part 2 of 3. Cats in Every Corner.

Discover how cats have conquered the world, thriving in almost every landscape on Earth, from fishing cats in the wetlands of Asia, to a pregnant jaguar in Costa Rica, to margays in Central American treetops, to a swamp tiger on the Indian shore. Repeats 9/27, 5pm 9:00 NOVA: GHOSTS OF MURDERED KINGS — Hunt for clues to the identity of a Bronze Age corpse found in a bog in the hills of Ireland’s County Tipperary. A CAT scan reveals a very violent demise. Repeats 9/27, 4pm 10:00 SINKING CITIES — A four-part miniseries explores how a warming earth, rising sea levels, and more intense and frequent superstorms will impact coastal cities.

Learn how New York, London, Tokyo and Miami are preparing groundbreaking solutions aimed at securing their future. Part 1 of 4. New York.

11:00 BLUE PLANET — Episode 5 of 8. Seasonal Seas. Light is the vital source of energy used by the countless billions of plankton which grow every spring and summer in the world’s temperate sea, the richest of all habitats.

The series explores the creatures that live in this cool, rich water.

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Watch for WETA Kids Halloween specials this month, including Wild Kratts: Creepy Creatures (above), airing Oct. 22, 26 and 31 at 6:30 a.m. and 8:30 a.m. on the WETA Kids channel (6 a.m. and 8 a.m. on WETA TV 26); Curious George: A Halloween Boofest, airing Oct. 19 & 30 at 9 a.m. on WETA Kids (8:30 a.m. on WETA TV 26); and The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About Halloween!, airing Oct. 19, 8 a.m./Oct. 29, 7:30 a.m. on WETA Kids (7:30/7 a.m. on WETA TV 26).

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British Television at Its Best The WETA UK channel is devoted to the best in British television programming, presenting beloved classics and contemporary series around the clock, seven days a week. WETA UK offers a full schedule of great entertainment programming — featuring drama, mystery, comedy and documentary series — all delivered with an accent from the Isles. Visit wetauk.org for a complete schedule and program descriptions.

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Doctor Blake Mysteries, Series 3 & 4

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• Decline and Fall (10/6) • Happy Valley, Series 1 (starts 10/13)

Midsomer Murders, Series 10

• I Want My Wife Back • Cold Feet, S7 (as of 10/24)

Midsomer Murders, Series 10

Father Brown, Series 5

• Grantchester, Series 2 on Masterpiece • Poldark, Series 4 (starts 10/13)

Pie in the Sky, Series 4

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• Grantchester, Series 2 on Masterpiece (10/6) • Pie in the Sky, Series 4

Doc Martin, Series 2

Cold Feet, Series 7

• I Want My Wife Back (6pm, 10/6; 6:30pm, 10/13) • BBC Antiques Roadshow (6pm as of 10/13) • Downton Abbey, Series 5 (6:30pm, 10/6; 7pm as of 10/13)

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• Penelope Keith’s Hidden Villages • Mekong River with Sue Perkins (starts 10/8)

The Coroner, Series 2

Secrets of Great British Castles, Series 2

Silent Witness, Series 2 & 3

• Penelope Keith’s Hidden Villages • Mekong River with Sue Perkins (starts 10/9)

• Penelope Keith’s Hidden Villages • Mekong River with Sue Perkins (starts 10/14)

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The Doctor Blake Mysteries, Series 3 (Series 4 starts 10/16)

Midsomer Murders, Series 10

Father Brown, Series 5

• Agatha Christie’s Partners in Crime, Series 1 • Ordinary Lies, Series 1 (starts 10/26)

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• Decline and Fall Downton Abbey, (10/4) Series 5 (to 10:30pm on 10/3) • Happy Valley, Series 1 (starts 10/11)

• Grantchester, Series 2 on Masterpiece • Poldark, Series 4 on Masterpiece (starts 10/12)

Shetland, Series 4 (starts 10/6)

• Raised by Wolves, Series 2 • Upstart Crow, (starts 10/14)

Silent Witness, Series 2 (Series 3 starts 10/22)

• I Want My Wife Back • The Heart Guy (starts 10/23)

The Brokenwood Mysteries, Series 3 & 4 (10:30pm on 10/3)

• Grantchester, Series 2 on Masterpiece (10/5) • The Durrells in Corfu, Series 3 on Masterpiece (starts 10/12)

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Vera, Series 4 (starts 10/4)

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ouglas Henshall reprises his BAFTA Scotland Award-winning role as Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez in a new season of acclaimed crime drama Shetland, based on the characters of novelist Ann Cleeves. Alison O’Donnell portrays Detective Sergeant Alison “Tosh” MacIntosh and Steven Robertson is Detective Constable Sandy Wilson, also of the Shetland archipelago’s police force. Like Series 3 before it, the new season features a single storyline across six episodes. In the new programs, when Shetlander Thomas Malone has his conviction overturned after 23 years behind bars, D.I. Perez must re-open an old murder investigation. Malone’s return coincides with a new murder, the killing of local journalist Sally McColl.

With two cases to solve, the pressure is on Perez and his team to learn the truth.

Happy Valley

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AFTA-winning crime thriller Happy Valley — from writer Sally Wainwright, creator of Last Tango in Halifax and Scott & Bailey — stars Sarah Lancashire (Last Tango in Halifax) in a drama that revolves around the personal and professional life of a hardworking, dedicated police sergeant, Catherine Cawood. As she serves the public in a small West Yorkshire town, Cawood has her world turned upside down when criminal Tommy Lee Royce (James Norton of Grantchester), whom she believes is responsible for her daughter’s suicide, is released from prison. As Royce becomes embroiled in a new crime involving an accountant’s plan to kidnap a local girl and hold her for ransom, Cawood becomes obsessed with him. How far will she go to get Royce off the streets?

The Heart Guy

ustralian comic drama series The Heart Guy comes to WETA UK, starring Rodger Corser as Hugh Knight, a promising young Sydney heart surgeon and hedonist who experiences a spectacular professional fall from grace. Gifted, charming and infallible, Knight believes he can live outside the rules, but he is knocked off his pedestal by a medical tribunal for personal misconduct. Knight must serve as a general practitioner in a rural community under-resourced with medical personnel and equipment: his own former hometown of Whyhope, which previously he couldn’t wait to escape. There he must reconnect with family and friends, mature, and work under the eagle eye of his supervisor in the local clinic. The series repeats Tuesdays at 10 p.m. starting October 23.

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hat happens when an apparently simple lie spirals out of control and leads to life-shattering consequences? Written by BAFTA and International Emmy award-winning screenwriter Danny Brocklehurst and starring an ensemble cast, the six-part drama series Ordinary Lies shows how desperation can lead to drastic solutions, even in an everyday workplace. The programs follow colleagues and friends at a car dealership near Manchester. Beneath the fun and banter, each employee harbors dark personal secrets and as episodes unfold, their lies escalate. The gradual unraveling of each character’s tangled web results in revelations, shocks and stunning confessions that could change their lives forever.

Also this month: Cold Feet, Series 7 continues Tuesdays at 10:30/11 p.m.; Downton Abbey on Masterpiece enters Series 5, Wednesdays at 9 p.m.; The Brokenwood Mysteries enters Series 4 on Wednesdays at 10 p.m.; Vera continues into Series 4, Thursdays at 10 p.m.; Masterpiece series Poldark, Series 4 and The Durrells in Corfu, Series 3 air Fridays at 9 and 10 p.m., starting October 12; and Mekong River with Sue Perkins airs Sundays at 9 p.m.

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he month of October promises a wealth of music on Classical WETA 90.9 FM’s program Choral Showcase, beginning October 7 with a program devoted to music from 16th-century Tudor England. From a recording by the Washington-based ensemble The Thirteen — who will be performing a series of concerts this month commemorating the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day — we’ll hear a hymn from the Eton Choirbook alongside a series of partsongs by Robert The Thirteen Fayrfax, William Cornysh and Henry VII. William Byrd’s modest, refined Mass for Three Voices provides a contrast to Thomas Tallis’ more intricate 40-part motet, Spem in Alium. We’ll also explore an early-20th century take on 16th-century English church music: the Mass in g minor for double choir by Ralph Vaughan Williams, whose love of Tudor-era liturgical music resulted in a number of beautiful sacred works of his own.

The following week, October 14, Choral Showcase offers the Magnificat, Mary’s ecstatic and very human canticle of praise from the Gospel of St Luke. There have been a number of musical treatments of this heartfelt prayer down through the centuries, with perhaps its most famous setting by Johann Sebastian Bach, which we will hear alongside renditions by Herbert Howells, John Tavener, Arvo Pärt and Bach’s own son, Johann Christian Bach. On Sunday, October 21, we have a new recording of an old favorite: Ein Deutsches Requiem, a German Requiem by Johannes Brahms, in a chamber ensemble orchestration by Iain Farrington performed by the Yale Schola Cantorum.

We’ll close the month with a rarely heard work from the mid-20th century inspired by the Book of Revelation of St John the Divine: The Book of the Seven Seals, by Austrian composer Franz Schmidt. This dramatic oratorio for soloists, chorus, organ and orchestra was Schmidt’s last great work and testament, and it had its world premiere in 1938 just one year before his death. Our performance on October 28 features the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus led by Franz Welser-Most, an ardent proponent of Schmidt’s music, and of this work in particular. Join us for Choral Showcase, Sunday nights at 9 p.m. on Classical WETA.

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Bellini’s Norma LA Opera Orchestra and Chorus James Conlon conducts

Plácido Domingo, Gianni Schicchi

Oct. 13: Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi With Plácido Domingo Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci Plácido Domingo conducts LA Opera Orchestra and Chorus

Oct. 27: Giordano’s Andrea Chenier With Yonghoon Lee Nicola Luisotti conducts San Francisco Opera

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his month on Classical WETA 90.9 FM’s Monday-night program Front Row Washington, we feature a star lineup of string soloists, the preeminent Parker Quartet, and part two of a concert series given

by Shai Wosner. Starting on October 1, we have solo music by J.S. Bach for cello and violin separated by a 21st-century work of English composer Monty Adkins. The concert begins with cellist Seth Parker Woods, giving an inspirational performance of Bach’s Cello Suite No. 1 in G Major. Parker Woods is on a mission to change how we experience music; he does this in part in his concert programming.

In this performance he shifts from 18th-century Bach to 21st-century Adkins, performing the latter’s Winter Tendrils for Cello and Tape.

Although composed centuries later and sounding completely different, the work still embodies principles set out by Bach. Parker Woods says that Winter Tendrils “Encapsulates the process of one idea that evolves over 10 minutes…the kind of expansion you find in the Bach Suites between the Prelude and the last movements.”

It paints a dreamy landscape of a winter stroll through West Yorkshire, where Parker Woods went to University of Huddersfield and received his PhD. Also on this program, we present a selection from another Phillips Collection concert. The award-winning violinist Isabelle Faust takes us back to the time of Bach for one of his most remarkable works, the Partita for Solo Violin No. 2 in D minor. Brahms said of this work: “On one stave, for a small instrument, Bach writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings.” Faust conveys this brilliantly to close the October 1 program.

The rest of the month features a contrasting range of works and musicians. Anne Akiko Meyers performs a variety of music on October 8, from Morten Lauridsen’s O Magnum Mysterium Presenting Classical Music All Day, Every Day to a rendition of With Linda Carducci, mornings • Bill Bukowski, middays • Arvo Pärt’s Fratres.

Isabelle Faust Nicole Lacroix, afternoons • John Banther and James On October 15 the Jacobs, evenings • And hosting on the weekend: Trey Grammy award-winning Parker Quartet performs an all-Russian Graham, Jay Roberts, Rich Kleinfeldt, Chip Brienza program of Shostakovich, Prokofiev and Stravinsky called Special Programming: “Composing the Revolution!”. Shai Wosner returns on October 22 Monday–Friday at 7 p.m.: PBS NewsHour for part two of his survey of the final six piano sonatas by Schubert.

Mondays at 9 p.m.: Front Row Washington Finishing where he left off with part one, his performance is just Saturdays at 1 p.m.: Classical WETA Opera House as passionate, exciting and inspiring. We end the month with viola Sundays at 6 p.m.: From the Top Sundays at 9 p.m.: Choral Showcase soloist Lawrence Power on October 29. You have never heard the First Wednesday of the month at 9 p.m.: viola in such a commanding and powerful solo voice as Power’s; NSO Showcase (November–July) with works by Georges Hue and Shostakovich, York Bowen and Mark-Anthony Turnage, it’s a concert that places the viola in the spotlight it deserves!

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2018–2019 SEASON

Dusk and Dawn

Living the Dream…Singing the Dream

Saturday, October 20, 2018 | 4:00 pm & 8:00 pm

Sunday, February 17, 2019 | 7:00 pm

Music of Light and Dark Live! at 10 th & G

Benjamin Britten: War Requiem

Thursday, November 29, 2018 | 7:00 pm Saturday, December 1, 2018 | 8:00 pm

Guest Appearance with the National Symphony Orchestra Gianandrea Noseda, conductor

Songs of the Season Christmas with Choral Arts

December 16, 17, & 24, 2018 Esther Heideman, soprano

A Family Christmas

Saturday, December 22, 2018 | 1:00 pm

Rachel M. Schlesinger Concert Hall and Arts Center - Alexandria, VA

Monday, December 24, 2018 | 11:00 am Kennedy Center Concert Hall

Thank you to our generous supporters:

31st Annual Choral Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Co-presented with Washington Performing Arts

Philip Glass: Itaipu

Thursday, March 28, 2019 | 7:00 pm

Guest Appearance with the National Symphony Orchestra Teddy Abrams, conductor

Into the Light

Music. Space. Resonance.

April 5–6, 2019

Dupont Underground

Gabriel Fauré: Requiem

Florent Schmitt: Psalm 47 Lili Boulanger: Psalm 24 “La Terre appartient à l’Éternel”

Sunday, May 19, 2019 | 5:00 pm

Laura Choi Stuart, soprano Alexandria Shiner, soprano Trevor Scheunemann, baritone This performance is generously supported by Suzanne S. Brock.

Tickets at choralarts.org/weta or 202.244.3669

All performances are in the Kennedy Center Concert Hall and conducted by Artistic Director Scott Tucker unless otherwise noted.

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