OCT 27-28 8 PM
October 2025
On WFMT, a new season of Live from WFMT features performances by oboist Oliver Talukder, the winner of the Cedille Records Emerging Artist Competition; the Miró Quartet; and the popular vocal group Chanticleer.
Dear Member,
As fall arrives in Chicago, WTTW begins a new season of exceptional programming. This month, we premiere four new documentaries in our award-winning Chicago Stories series, each exploring a defining moment in our city’s history. Join us on Friday evenings to go behind the still-unsolved Tylenol murder case, trace the rise and fall of Rod Blagojevich, explore the origins of Chicago’s iconic foods, and journey back in time to the legendary Marshall Field & Company.
Also on WTTW in October, American Experience offers a revealing two-part portrait of former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger. We have an interview with the film’s producer Barak Goodman on page 4. The lineup also features Brian and Maggie , which revisits the charged 1989 television conversation between Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and journalist Brian Walden. Viewers can look forward to the debut of Maigret, a detective drama adapted from Georges Simenon’s classic novels, and The Gold , the gripping true story of one of Britain’s most notorious robberies, starring Hugh Bonneville. Rounding out the month are Rick Steves’ new treks across Europe and an American Masters profile of the Academy Award–winning actor Marlee Matlin.
On WFMT, a new season of Live from WFMT features performances by Oliver Talukder, the winner of the Cedille Records Emerging Artist Competition; the Miró Quartet; and the vocal group Chanticleer. Throughout the month, Fiesta! and Introductions will highlight Hispanic Heritage Month. We’ll bring you more “best of” performances from this summer’s Ravinia Festival, including the debut concert by star guitarist Plínio Fernandes and a blazing set by the Grammy-winning Baroque orchestra Apollo’s Fire. And, finally, a new season from the Los Angeles Philharmonic kicks off with an all-Brahms program.
On behalf of all of us at WTTW and WFMT, we invite you to enjoy the fall season of outstanding public media programming, made possible by your support. We hope you’ll share the benefits of membership with a friend and, if you’re not already a monthly sustainer, consider becoming one today. Thank you.
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Rick Steves Poland
Rick Steves takes us on a one-hour special tour of Poland with stops in Krakow, Warsaw, Gdansk, and more. It’s a chance to learn about Poland’s past and present, while experiencing its beauty, complexity, and spirit.
Monday, October 6, 8:00 pm
In the fall of 1982, seven Chicagoans died after unknowingly taking Tylenol laced with cyanide. Recall this infamous unsolved murder case with investigators, journalists, medics, and victims’ family members – an event that has lasting repercussions on our everyday lives. Audio-narrated descriptions are available.
Friday, October 3 8:00 pm
Wednesday 1
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Raleigh 2025, Part 1 [R]
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Orlando, Part 1 [R]
2:00 Voces American Historia: The Untold History of Latinos – Threads in the American Tapestry (Part 2 of 3) [R]
3:00 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: Death on the Vine [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
Kitchen Curious with Vivian Howard
Chef Vivian Howard is back with a new series inviting viewers to rethink what they cook, why it matters, and how a little knowledge and a lot of joy can transform everyday meals.
Saturday, October 11, 3:30 pm
Lorna Watson returns as Sister Boniface for a fourth season of crime solving. The casecracking, moped-riding nun investigates more strange and deadly deeds in the quaint village of Great Slaughter.
Saturday, October 11, 7:00 pm
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Indianapolis
2:00 NOVA: Human – Journeys (Part 2 of 5) [R]
3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: French Chicken and Potatoes
3:30 Cook’s Country: Beef Kebabs and Cheese Bread
4:00 The Madame Blanc Mysteries [R]
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
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6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Big Cats 24/7: New Beginnings (Season 2, Part 5 of 6) The core of the Xudum Pride has fled south, but a group of its young females surprises the team in the north.
8:00 NOVA: Human – Neanderthal Encounters (Part 3 of 5) Discover how Homo sapiens outlasted Neanderthals, and how they helped make us who we are today.
9:00 Sacred Planet with Gulnaz Khan: Reclaiming Peru’s Glaciers (Part 4 of 4) Gulnaz follows the ancient Inca and modern Catholic paths, confronting the Andes deglaciation.
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Thursday 2
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Finding Your Roots: Latin Roots [R]
1:00 Hard Hat Riot: American Experience [R]
2:30 The American Revolution: An Inside Look [R]
3:00 This Old House: Asheville –Asheville Rebuilds [R]
3:30 Ask This Old House: NOLA Lantern, Rusty Patio Set [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage San Diego
2:00 Finding Your Roots: Latin Roots [R]
3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Prime Rib and Popovers
3:30 Cook’s Country: Grilled Chicken, Two Ways
4:00 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: Death on the Vine [R]
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Chicago Stories: Legendary Blizzards
8:00 The Brokenwood Mysteries: The Dark Angel Mike faces a challenge when a body is found in an abandoned mental health facility.
9:30 Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope: Berlin and Western Poland – Over the Borderline Joseph travels along the GermanPolish border region and is captivated by the beautiful structures, historic traditions, and respected customs.
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Friday 3
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Big Cats 24/7: New Beginnings (Season 2, Part 5 of 6) See Wed. Oct. 1 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 NOVA: Human – Neanderthal Encounters (Part 3 of 5) See Wed. Oct. 1 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Sacred Planet with Gulnaz Khan: Reclaiming Peru’s Glaciers (Part 4 of 4) See Wed. Oct. 1 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Voces: Omara – Cuba’s Legendary Diva [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Orlando, Part 1 [R]
2:00 Professor T: The Warrior Gene (Season 4, Part 6 of 6) [R]
3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Bulgogi and Bokkeumbap
3:30 Cook’s Country: Tacos Two Ways
Stow away with travel expert Rick Steves as he savors some of his favorite European destinations, showcasing the continent’s remarkable art and architecture, stunning scenery, and rich heritage. The season kicks off in Iceland and follows Rick as he proceeds to Poland, Italy, Burgundy, Paris, Istanbul, and London.
Saturdays beginning October 4, 5:00 pm
by DANIEL HAUTZINGER
THIS MONTH, WTTW presents a new American Experience documentary, the sweeping two-part film Kissinger. The film explores the life and career of Nobel Prize–winning diplomat Henry Kissinger, whose influence shaped events from the opening of China and the end of the Vietnam War to the secret bombing of Cambodia, the beginning of détente with the USSR, and the overthrow of a democratically elected government in Chile.
We spoke with acclaimed filmmaker Barak Goodman about his work on Kissinger.
The Guide: Why did you want to make a documentary about Kissinger?
Barak Goodman: I’m always interested in figures who hold up a mirror to who we are as Americans and as a country, but also who themselves are very murky, contradictory, gray figures. Kissinger certainly typifies that, as somebody who did great things in the world and somebody who also, it can be argued, did things that were less great. And his power, and the scope of his reach, were extraordinary.
He became a bit of a caricature or Rorschach test for people who either love America’s role in the world or detest it. That flattened him as a character and obscured who he really was, and that’s an opportunity for a filmmaker or biographer to bring him back into focus as a flesh and blood human being with great positive traits and also weaknesses.
The Guide: Why now?
Goodman: There were a lot of people who would talk now who wouldn’t talk before he died. But also, the world that he engineered, in which we’ve lived for decades, is now being challenged. Before we leave the world that Kissinger created, we ought to understand it and why it exists; why he and those who followed him – many of whom he trained – believed that America needs to occupy such an important role in the world.
The Guide: What made him such a towering figure?
Goodman: There has never been a foreign policy figure like him, certainly not in the last 100 years of American history. He seized the reins of American foreign policy unlike any non-elected person ever has. He and Nixon were more activist in American foreign policy in a non-World War situation than any other figures.
It wasn’t that long before Kissinger’s tenure that the United States was an isolationist country. We wanted nothing to do with the world, essentially. Kissinger had a vision of a role for the United States as a force for good, a way to check our enemies’ rapacious desire to expand, and to do it in a peaceful context. Now that’s being challenged.
The Guide: What do you think was his signature achievement?
Goodman: It's not something people appreciate as much because
it’s hard to illustrate a negative, but Kissinger kept us from a world war involving nuclear weapons. That was not a given at the time –quite the opposite. We were
democracy. You act like a dictatorship yourself. You start to behave in the way that you most decry in your enemy, and that was what they did. Some of that was more
armed to the teeth with nuclear weapons. We had this insoluble difference with the Soviet Union. And Kissinger used his skill to essentially disarm that threat. That’s what he was obsessed by, and he would say that pretty much everything that he did flowed from that original imperative, including things on the negative side of the ledger.
The Guide: As a talented diplomat, do you think he could have done better, as some people in the film suggest?
Goodman: Yeah, I do. I think it’s incontrovertible. [The end of the Vietnam War] was a failure, unquestionably. I believe that the effort to undermine the democratically elected government of [Salvador] Allende in Chile was a step too far. The problem with this worldview that they had – “us versus them,” “communism versus the United States and democracy” – is that it’s a slippery slope. You start to do the things that you’re against. You undermine
Goodman: Certainly. I would say that the danger of Realpolitik [Kissinger’s pragmatic approach to world affairs] is that you forget why you’re fighting, who you are, what you’re about. You can fall victim to your own chess-playing machinations. Kissinger had this blind loyalty or belief in the United States as a force for good in the world. Therefore, if you maximize U.S. power, you’re maximizing good. But if you do that in such a way that you’re essentially undermining the very values that you are ostensibly pursuing, then it starts to call into question the whole enterprise. I think he crossed the line, and that’s where I think the critics have a point.
The Guide: What do we lose if American Experience stops producing new programs?
“Before we leave the world that Kissinger created, we ought to understand it and why it exists; why he…believed that America needs to occupy such an important role in the world.”
passive, [like] the failure to stop the massacres in East Pakistan. But that was terrible as well.
So yes, I do agree with Kissinger’s critics, but I also agree with his defenders that he did amazing things. His energy was incredible. His passion was incredible. His love of America was bottomless. He’s a mix, and that’s what makes him so interesting.
The Guide: Do you think there are lessons from Kissinger’s life and career for today?
Goodman: I’ve worked in a lot of places in this business, and this group of people care more about filmmaking and accuracy and depth and nuance than any group I’ve ever worked with. History is so important for us now. Everything has its precedent, and you can see how we navigated through them, and how we ended up maybe changed for the better in the long run. It gives you a sense of grounding and also a deep well of wisdom and knowledge. American Experience is an important source of reflection for everybody who watches it and for the whole country, for the culture. To lose that is such a shame; there are very few sources of good history around. Hopefully, it won’t be gone forever.
Watch Kissinger: American Experience on Monday, October 27 and Tuesday, October 28 at 8:00 pm on WTTW, wttw.com, and the PBS app.
This interview has been condensed and edited for length and clarity.
After Action
Sunday, October 12, 7:00 pm
Hosted by Air Force Veteran Stacy Pearsall, this series of captures the raw experiences of veterans around military training, deployment and, most of all, life after action.
Watch on WTTW Prime, wttw.com/watch, or the PBS app.
Kitchen Curious with Vivian Howard
Friday, October 3, 8:00 pm
Chef Vivian Howard uncovers the secrets and shortcuts of everyday cooking – with an exclusive sneak preview of her new series, Kitchen Curious, before its national debut.
Watch on WTTW Create, wttw.com/watch, or the PBS app.
Maigret on Masterpiece
Sunday, October 5
Watch all six episodes of this series starting on the premiere night with your WTTW Passport membership. The first contemporary adaptation of Georges Simenon’s novels reframes Maigret as a relentless young detective with something to prove.
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It’s 1989, and two old friends –politician-turned-journalist Brian Walden (Steve Coogan) and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (Harriet Walter) – sit down for one of the most famous political exchanges of all time, one that would end a political era and a long-term friendship as it reshaped national opinion and famously triggered the downfall of The Iron Lady.
Sundays, October 5 and 12, 7:00 pm
4:00 The Marlow Murder Club on Masterpiece (Season 2, Part 6 of 6) [R]
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R]
7:30 Washington Week with the Atlantic
8:00 Chicago Stories: Inside the Tylenol Murders
9:00 Chicago Stories: Deadly Alliance – Leopold and Loeb Kenwood teens Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb challenged themselves to commit “the perfect crime,” But it was far from perfect. Audio-narrated descriptions are available.
10:00 POV: Porcelain War As war ravages Ukraine, three artists choose to stay, armed with art, cameras, and for the first time…guns.
11:30 BBC News
Saturday 4
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Amanpour and Company
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage New York [R]
2:00 Antiques Roadshow:
Vintage Indianapolis [R]
3:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage San Diego [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 Washington Week with the Atlantic [R]
5:30 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R]
MORNING
6:00 Great Lakes Now
6:30 Living West Michigan
7:00 No Passport Required: Las Vegas
8:00 The Great American Recipe: A Taste Down Memory Lane (Season 4, Part 5 of 6) [R]
9:00 Jay’s Chicago: On the Water
9:30 John McGivern’s Main Streets: Long Grove, Illinois
10:00 This Old House: Asheville –Rising Out of the Muck
10:30 Ask This Old House: Seashell Driveway, Radon System
11:00 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire: Maryland Crab Feast
11:30 Sara’s Weeknight Meals
AFTERNOON
12:00 Cook’s Country: Smoky Barbecue Favorites
12:30 Cook’s Country: Italian American Feast
1:00 Lidia’s Kitchen: Sit Down Together
1:30 Jacques Pépin: Heart & Soul – Cooking for the President
2:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Back to Basics
2:30 America’s Test Kitchen: Corn Cakes and Chowder
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Hong Kong Classics
3:30 A Chef’s Life: King Cornbread
4:00 Pati’s Mexican Table: Colors of Creativity
4:30 Check, Please! Gundis Kurdish Kitchen, The English Room, L’patron
5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Iceland’s Reykjavik and the Golden Circle
5:30 PBS News Hour Weekend
EVENING
6:00 Chicago Stories: Inside the Tylenol Murders See Fri. Oct. 3 at 8:00 pm. [R]
7:00 Father Brown: The Lepidopterist’s Companion When Mrs. McCarthy takes over the running of the mobile library, Father Brown discovers a shocking secret lurking among the bookshelves.
8:00 The Madame Blanc Mysteries Jean and Dom help Caron solve a murder in a remote country mansion.
9:00 Death in Paradise A passenger boards a flight to Dominica but then seemingly vanishes mid-flight, only to be found back on Saint Marie soil...shot dead.
10:00 Velvet: Glory Days Rita asks for Clara’s help to prepare for her hotel date. Patricia teaches her mother a lesson she won’t forget.
11:30 The Brokenwood Mysteries: The Dark Angel [R]
Sunday 5
EARLY MORNING
1:00 POV: Porcelain War See Fri. Oct. 3 at 10:00 pm. [R]
2:30 Finding Your Roots: Latin Roots [R]
3:30 Chicago Stories: Deadly Alliance – Leopold and Loeb See Fri. Oct. 3 at 9:00 pm. [R]
4:30 Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope: Berlin and Western Poland – Over the Borderline See Thurs. Oct. 2 at 9:30 pm. [R]
5:00 Happy Yoga with Sarah Starr: Summer on the Farm
5:30 Yoga in Practice: It’s Not What You Do, But How You Do It
MORNING
6:00 How Are We Today? ADHD and Life Systems
6:30 Joy of Painting with Nicholas Hankins: View from Home
7:00 This Old House: Asheville –Rising Out of the Muck [R]
7:30 Ask This Old House: Seashell Driveway, Radon System [R]
8:00 Simply Ming: Broccoli and Beef
8:30 New Scandinavian Cooking: Hiker’s Food
9:00 America the Bountiful: Pumpkin in Illinois
9:30 Flavor of Poland with Aleksandra August: Warsaw
10:00 Kevin Belton’s Cookin’ Louisiana: Lafourche Parish –Belton Family Home Place
10:30 Steven Raichlen’s Planet Barbecue: Argentine Fire
11:00 Northwest of Chicago: From Farm Fields to Boomtown Geoffrey Baer takes a journey through the Northwest suburbs.
AFTERNOON
12:45 Remembering Chicago: The Boomer Years Revisit Chicago through the eyes of 20 local Baby Boomers as they recount the stories and events of their youth.
2:30 To be announced
5:30 PBS News Hour Weekend
EVENING
6:00 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: Dead Air There’s murder on the airwaves when Dot’s favorite radio show is interrupted by an on-air panic.
7:00 Brian and Maggie (Part 1 of 2)
8:00 Maigret on Masterpiece: Maigret and the Lazy Burglar, Part 1 (Part 1 of 6)
9:00 The Gold on Masterpiece:
To Be King (Part 1 of 6)
10:00 Astrid: Gold Blood (Season 3, Part 5 of 8) A fashion photographer is found dead with a stake through his heart. The police don’t believe in vampires, and yet the victim’s blood seems a key factor in the case.
11:00 Austin City Limits: Finneas
Monday 6
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Father Brown: The Lepidopterist’s Companion See Sat. Oct. 4 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 The Madame Blanc Mysteries See Sat. Oct. 4 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Death in Paradise See Sat. Oct. 4 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Velvet: Glory Days See Sat. Oct. 4 at 10:00 pm. [R]
4:30 John McGivern’s Main Streets: Long Grove, Illinois [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
A new adaptation of Georges Simenon’s beloved novels about the streetwise Parisian Chief Inspector Jules Maigret, played by Benjamin Wainwright. Follow Maigret as he investigates a series of bank robberies plaguing Paris. Ignoring his superior’s orders, he turns his attention to the brutal murder of a burglar, but Maigret’s choice to juggle both cases puts his career in jeopardy.
Sundays beginning October 5, 8:00 pm
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AFTERNOON
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1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Raleigh 2025, Part 1 [R]
2:00 Rick Steves: Art of Ancient Rome [R]
3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Jewish Baking
3:30 Cook’s Country: Bread, Cheese, and Meat Can’t Be Beat
4:00 Father Brown: The Lepidopterist’s Companion [R]
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Raleigh 2025, Part 2 Revised finds include a Gibson Double 12 electric guitar circa 1960, an 1812 needlework sampler, and a French couture dress circa 1925.
8:00 Rick Steves Poland Rick tours Krakow, Warsaw, Torun, and finishes in Gdañsk.
9:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Orlando, Part 2 Revised finds include a Fern Isabel Coppedge oil, a Tiffany Studios mosaic glass inkwell, and an 1844 Presidential election political banner.
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Tuesday 7
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Brian and Maggie (Part 1 of 2) See Sun. Oct. 5 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 Maigret on Masterpiece: Maigret and the Lazy Burglar, Part 1 (Part 1 of 6) See Sun. Oct. 5 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 The Gold on Masterpiece: To Be King (Part 1 of 6) See Sun. Oct. 5 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Astrid: Gold Blood (Season 3, Part 5 of 8) See Sun. Oct. 5 at 10:00 pm. [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Miami
2:00 Big Cats 24/7: New Beginnings (Season 2, Part 5 of 6) [R]
3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Shrimp, Fast and Slow
3:30 Cook’s Country: Herbaceous Chicken and Potatoes
4:00 Death in Paradise [R]
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
6:00 Arthur
6:30 Nature Cat
7:00 Wild Kratts
7:30 Weather Hunters
8:00 Lyla in the Loop
8:30 Carl the Collector
9:00 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood
9:30 Rosie’s Rules 10:00 Sesame Street
10:30 Work it Out Wombats! 11:00 Donkey Hodie
11:30 Elinor Wonders Why
12:00 Alma’s Way
12:30 Molly of Denali
Molly of Denali • 12:30 PM
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6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Finding Your Roots: Family Recipes Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the ancestry of celebrity chefs José Andres and Sean Sherman.
8:00 Finding Your Roots: Anchormen Henry Louis Gates introduces journalists Jim Acosta and Van Jones to the ancestors who blazed a trail for them.
9:00 Frontline: Born Poor Frontline examines the realities of growing up poor in America. Filmed across a span of 14 years with kids from three families, from adolescents to adults with kids of their own, this film follows people who must navigate an economy with more obstacles than opportunities.
10:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
11:00 BBC News
11:30 Amanpour and Company
Wednesday 8
EARLY MORNING
12:30 Jay’s Chicago: On the Water [R]
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Raleigh 2025, Part 2 See Mon. Oct. 6 at 7:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Orlando, Part 2 See Mon.
Oct. 6 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: Dead Air See Sun. Oct. 5 at 6:00 pm. [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Boston
2:00 NOVA: Human – Neanderthal Encounters (Part 3 of 5) [R]
3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Italian-Inspired Dinners
3:30 Cook’s Country: Italian Comfort Food
4:00 The Madame Blanc Mysteries [R]
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Big Cats 24/7: Succession (Season 2, Part 6 of 6) A new generation of big cats rises in the Okavango Delta.
8:00 NOVA: Human – Into the Americas (Part 4 of 5) Follow ancient humans’ perilous journey into the Americas, where a frigid Ice Age landscape, mammoths, and other fearsome beasts
Rod Blagojevich
Rod Blagojevich used his many gifts to be elected governor of Illinois. But poor decisions fueled by greed and ambition led to his shocking downfall. Follow “Blago’s” trajectory from triumph to disgrace to incarceration to his attempts to rise again. Audio-narrated descriptions are available.
Friday, October 10
8:00 pm
tested their resilience.
9:00 Secrets of the Dead: The Rise and Fall of the Colosseum The Colosseum was the jewel of Ancient Rome. But just as the structure embodied Rome’s power, so too did it contribute to the Empire’s downfall.
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Thursday 9
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Finding Your Roots: Family Recipes See Tues. Oct. 7 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 Finding Your Roots: Anchormen See Tues. Oct. 7 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Frontline: Born Poor See Tues. Oct. 7 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:30 Rick Steves’ Europe: Iceland’s Reykjavik and the Golden Circle [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage St. Louis
2:00 Finding Your Roots:
Family Recipes [R]
3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Irish Staples
3:30 Cook’s Country: Chicken and Biscuits
4:00 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: Dead Air [R]
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00
PBS News Hour
7:00 Chicago Stories: Inside the Tylenol Murders [R]
8:00 The Brokenwood Mysteries: The Power of Steam Mike and his team are drawn into a world of Victorian dress-up and escapism when they investigate a murder at a steam punk event.
9:30 Table for All with Buki Elegbede: Italian – The Next Generation
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Friday 10
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Big Cats 24/7: Succession (Season 2, Part 6 of 6) See Wed. Oct. 8 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 NOVA: Human – Into the Americas (Part 4 of 5) See Wed. Oct. 8 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Secrets of the Dead: The Rise and Fall of the Colosseum See Wed. Oct. 8 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Rick Steves Poland See Mon. Oct. 6 at 8:00 pm. [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Orlando, Part 2 [R]
2:00 Rick Steves Poland [R]
3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Shareable Spanish Fare
3:30 Cook’s Country: Pennsylvania Dutch Country
4:00 Maigret on Masterpiece: Maigret and the Lazy Burglar, Part 1 (Part 1 of 6) [R]
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R]
7:30 Washington Week with the Atlantic
8:00 Chicago Stories: Rod Blagojevich
9:00 Chicago Stories: The Boss & the Bulldozer Chicago mayor Richard J. “Boss” Daley’s urban renewal initiatives may have enhanced
the city’s appearance and infrastructure, but they displaced the poor and people of color. Audio-narrated descriptions are available.
10:00 King of Them All: The Story of King Records
This film explores the groundbreaking legacy of Cincinnati’s King Records.
11:00 BBC News
11:30 Amanpour and Company
Saturday 11
EARLY MORNING
12:30 Northwest of Chicago: From Farm Fields to Boomtown See Sun. Oct. 5 at 11:00 am. [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 Washington Week with the Atlantic [R]
5:30 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R]
MORNING
6:00 Great Lakes Now
6:30 Living West Michigan
7:00 No Passport Required: Boston
8:00 The Great American Recipe: The Grand Finale (Season 4, Part 6 of 6) [R]
9:00 Jay’s Chicago: Great Discoveries
9:30 John McGivern’s Main Streets: Indianapolis’s Mass Ave
10:00 This Old House
10:30 Ask This Old House: Houseplant Soil, Spot Point Brick
11:00 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire: Raichlen’s Rules – Desserts
11:30 Sara’s Weeknight Meals
AFTERNOON
12:00 Cook’s Country: Smothered and Dowdied
12:30 Cook’s Country: Chips on the Menu
1:00 Lidia’s Kitchen: Enjoy the Journey
1:30 Jacques Pépin: Heart & Soul – Tastebud Temptations
2:00 America’s Test Kitchen: New England Classics
2:30 America’s Test Kitchen: Turkey Lasagna and Chocolate Sorbet
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Milk Street Pizza Party
3:30 Kitchen Curious with Vivian Howard: Cast Iron
4:00 Pati’s Mexican Table: Living Legacy
4:30 Check, Please! Peppercorns, Pacific Standard Time, Finom Coffee
5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Iceland’s Ring Road
5:30 PBS News Hour Weekend
EVENING
6:00 Chicago Stories: Rod Blagojevich See Fri. Oct. 10 at 8:00 pm. [R]
7:00 Sister Boniface Mysteries As season 4 begins, Great Slaughter’s pantomime rehearsals are disrupted when a cast member ends up mysteriously dead.
8:00 The Madame Blanc Mysteries Jean is visited by honeymooning friends from England, whose “happily-everafter” may be curtailed by a cursed pack of tarot cards.
9:00 Father Brown: The Alchemist’s Secret Father Brown is called upon by Professor Ambrose expressing concern over being followed after he came in possession of a diary.
10:00 Velvet: Sewing and Singing After Rita secretly enters Luisa into a singing contest on the radio, Mateo helps her learn English for her performance.
11:30 The Brokenwood Mysteries: The Power of Steam See Thurs. Oct. 9 at 8:00 pm. [R]
Sunday 12
EARLY MORNING
1:00 Maigret on Masterpiece: Maigret and the Lazy Burglar, Part 1 (Part 1 of 6) [R]
2:00 Finding Your Roots: Family Recipes [R]
3:00 Chicago Stories: The Boss & the Bulldozer See Fri. Oct. 10 at 9:00 pm. [R]
4:00 King of Them All: The Story of King Records See Fri. Oct. 10 at 10:00 pm. [R]
5:00 Happy Yoga with Sarah Starr: Majestic Desert
5:30 Yoga in Practice: The Delight of Freedom
MORNING
6:00 How Are We Today? Panic Attacks and Grounding
6:30 Joy of Painting with Nicholas Hankins: Smuggler’s Moon
7:00 This Old House [R]
7:30 Ask This Old House: Houseplant Soil, Spot Point Brick [R]
8:00 Simply Ming: Ravioli Two Ways
8:30 New Scandinavian Cooking: Bergen Food Renaissance
9:00 America the Bountiful: Olives in California
9:30 Flavor of Poland with Aleksandra August: Rzeszow
10:00 Kevin Belton’s Cookin’ Louisiana: St. Martin Parish – Crawfish Capital
10:30 Steven Raichlen’s Planet Barbecue: East Meets West
11:00 Curious Traveler: Curious Krakow
11:30 Curious Traveler: Curious Poznan, Poland
AFTERNOON
12:00 Troubled Water As tensions build surrounding a particularly threatening oil pipeline in Northern Michigan, two friends embark on an epic standup paddle journey and join a fight to shut down the most threatening oil pipeline in the country.
1:00 World Series of Bocce: A Celebration of Sport, Family and Community This documentary short captures the intense competition at the annual World Series of Bocce tournament in Rome, New York.
1:30 Potentially Dangerous During World War II, the U.S Government restricted the actions and freedoms of 600,000 Italian residents of the United States. Examine how this event altered what it means to be Italian in America today.
2:30 Independent Lens: Cracking The Code – Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution Trace Phil Sharp’s rise from being a rural Kentucky farm boy who battled dyslexia to a Nobel Prize-winning scientist.
4:00 Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink Hedge fund Alden Global Capital is quietly gobbling up newspapers nationwide and gutting them, but no one knows why – that is, until journalist Julie Reynolds begins to investigate.
5:30 PBS News Hour Weekend
EVENING
6:00 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: Unnatural Habits After the tragic death of an escaping teenager from a convent, Phryne and Jack realize the threads of this crime lead higher up and closer to home than they ever suspected.
7:00 Brian and Maggie (Part 2 of 2)
8:00 Maigret on Masterpiece: Maigret and the Lazy Burglar, Part 2 (Part 2 of 6) Despite being demoted, Maigret continues to pursue justice for Honore Cuendet and his loved ones.
9:00 The Gold on Masterpiece: There’s Something Going On in Kent (Part 2 of 6) The criminals create a system to smelt the Brink’s-Mat gold and sell it back into the market with the profits being laundered.
10:00 Astrid: The Flowers of Evil (Season 3, Part 5 of 8) The lifeless body of a biologist with a passion for plant intelligence is found inside a tropical greenhouse.
11:00 Austin City Limits:
The Marias
Monday 13
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Sister Boniface Mysteries See Sat. Oct. 11 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 The Madame Blanc Mysteries See Sat. Oct. 11 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00
Father Brown: The Alchemist’s Secret See Sat. Oct. 11 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Velvet: Sewing and Singing See Sat. Oct. 11 at 10:00 pm. [R]
4:30 John McGivern’s Main Streets: Indianapolis’s Mass Ave [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Raleigh 2025, Part 2 [R]
2:00 Finding Your Roots: Anchormen [R]
3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Holiday Dessert and Salad
3:30 Cook’s Country: Motor City Favorites
4:00 Father Brown: The Alchemist’s Secret [R]
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Phoenix 2025, Part 1 Revised finds include Art Deco lapel watches, a Lakota Sioux doctor’s bag circa 1895, and a 1905 Tiffany Studios peacock mirror.
8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Spokane, Part 1 Revised finds include a 1905 Spokane bird’s-eye view lithograph, Abraham Lincoln letters and signed carte-de-visite, and a yellow diamond and platinum ring.
9:00 Voces American Historia: The Untold History of Latinos – Solidarity in a New Era (Part 3 of 3) Host John Leguizamo discovers that Latinos made profound contributions to the nation and that Latino history is the history of the United States.
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Tuesday 14
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Brian and Maggie (Part 2 of 2) [R]
1:00 Maigret on Masterpiece: Maigret and the Lazy Burglar,
Part 2 (Part 2 of 6) See Sun. Oct. 12 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 The Gold on Masterpiece: There’s Something Going On in Kent (Part 2 of 6) See Sun. Oct. 12 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Astrid: The Flowers of Evil (Season 3, Part 5 of 8) See Sun. Oct. 12 at 10:00 pm. [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Charleston
2:00 Big Cats 24/7: Succession (Season 2, Part 6 of 6) [R]
3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Vindaloo and Chana Masala
3:30 Cook’s Country: Never Enough Chocolate
4:00 Death in Paradise [R]
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Finding Your Roots: The Butterfly Effect Henry Louis Gates, Jr. introduces actors
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore –American Masters
Take an intimate look at the life and career of Oscar-winning actress Marlee Matlin (the first Deaf actor to win) as she shares her story in American Sign Language. With credits that include Children of a Lesser God, The West Wing, and CODA , Matlin continues to champion for more inclusivity and accessibility in entertainment.
Tuesday, October 14
8:00 pm
Debra Messing and Melanie Lynskey to their roots.
8:00 Marlee Matlin: Not Alone
Anymore – American Masters
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Wednesday 15
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Phoenix 2025, Part 1 See Mon. Oct. 13 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Spokane, Part 1 See Mon. Oct. 13 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Voces American Historia: The Untold History of Latinos – Solidarity in a New Era (Part 3 of 3) See Mon. Oct. 13 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Potentially Dangerous See Sun. Oct. 12 at 1:30 pm. [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Denver
2:00 NOVA: Human – Into the Americas (Part 4 of 5) [R]
3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Springtime Feast
3:30 Cook’s Country: Spring Feast
4:00 The Madame Blanc Mysteries [R]
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Nature: Dracula’s Hidden Kingdom
8:00 NOVA: Human – Building Empires (Part 5 of 5) Explore how the rise of agriculture and writing leads to an explosion in the human population.
9:00 Secrets of the Dead: Cleopatra’s Last Temple A French explorer discovers vital new information about Cleopatra’s reign and her connection with the goddess Isis.
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Thursday 16
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Finding Your Roots: The Butterfly Effect See Tues. Oct. 14 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 Marlee Matlin: Not Alone
Anymore – American Masters See Tues. Oct. 14 at 8:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: Unnatural Habits See Sun. Oct. 12 at 6:00 pm. [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Tulsa
2:00 Finding Your Roots: The Butterfly Effect [R]
3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Ode to Armenia
3:30 Cook’s Country: Fried Bites
4:00 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: Unnatural Habits [R]
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Chicago Stories: Rod Blagojevich [R]
8:00 The Brokenwood Mysteries: A Real Page-Turner A famous crime author arrives in Brokenwood to give a reading of his latest novel, and ends up falling victim to a murder portrayed in his book.
9:30 Dream of Italy: Tuscan Sun Special Host Kathy McCabe travels to the hilltop town of Cortona to meet bestselling author Frances Mayes (Under the Tuscan Sun)
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Nature: Dracula’s Hidden Kingdom See Wed. Oct. 15 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 NOVA: Human – Building Empires (Part 5 of 5) See Wed. Oct. 15 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Secrets of the Dead: Cleopatra’s Last Temple See Wed. Oct. 15 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Maigret on Masterpiece: Maigret and the Lazy Burglar, Part 2 (Part 2 of 6) [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Spokane, Part 1 [R]
2:00 Secrets of the Dead: Cleopatra’s Last Temple [R]
3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Breakfast with a Kick
3:30 Cook’s Country: Carne Guisada and Enchiladas
4:00 Maigret on Masterpiece: Maigret and the Lazy Burglar, Part 2 (Part 2 of 6) [R]
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review
Chicago Stories: Iconic Foods
Chicago is one of the greatest and most diverse food cities in the world. Watch as chefs, restaurateurs, food writers, and historians explore the origins of deep-dish pizza, hot dogs, Italian beef, and many more foods, and why they remain so popular. Audionarrated descriptions are available.
Friday, October 17 8:00 pm
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R]
7:30 Washington Week with the Atlantic
8:00 Chicago Stories: Iconic Foods
9:00 Chicago Stories: The Real Mad Men of Chicago Chicago’s Mad Men were the local executives who created iconic figures like the Marlboro Man, Charlie Tuna, and the Pillsbury Dough Boy.
10:00 Art21: Art in the TwentyFirst Century: Between Worlds Four artists reveal the complex ties between the communities and cultures they move between.
11:00 BBC News
11:30 Amanpour and Company
Saturday 18
EARLY MORNING
12:30 POV: A Mother Apart Jamaican-American poet and LGBTQ+ activist Staceyann Chin embarks on a journey across Brooklyn, Montreal, Cologne, and Jamaica to find her mother.
2:00 Why Dinosaurs? This documentary follows dinosaur-obsessed youth James Pinto and his filmmaker father on a journey around the
This new local documentary narrated by actor Edward Norton tells the story of one of the most unlikely social movements in American history: the struggle to convert thousands of miles of private, abandoned railways into public trails for cycling and walking.
Monday, October 20 9:00 pm
world, encountering dinosaur fanatics of all walks of life.
3:00 Troubled Water See Sun. Oct. 12 at 12:00 pm. [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 Washington Week with the Atlantic [R]
5:30 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R]
MORNING
6:00 Great Lakes Now
6:30 Living West Michigan
7:00 Real Rail Adventures: Swiss International Hubs
8:00 Dream of Italy: Tuscan Sun Special See Thurs. Oct. 16 at 9:30 pm. [R]
8:30 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: The Real Spaghetti and Meatballs
9:00 John McGivern’s Main Streets: Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin
9:30 Fork & Hammer: It Started with a Crêpe
10:00 This Old House
10:30 Ask This Old House: Washer-Dryer Relocation
11:00 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire: Wine Country Grill
11:30 Sara’s Weeknight Meals
AFTERNOON
12:00 Cook’s Country: BBQ Thighs and Fried Peach Pies
12:30 Cook’s Country: Bar Snacks, Perfected
1:00 Lidia’s Kitchen: A Warm Welcome
1:30 Jacques Pépin: Heart & Soul – Global Gastronomy
2:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Italian Vegetarian
2:30 America’s Test Kitchen: Farmer’s Brunch
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Apple Strudel and Schnitzel
3:30 Kitchen Curious with Vivian Howard: Pasta
4:00 Pati’s Mexican Table: Building the Future
4:30 Check, Please! Giant, Blossom Café, Saucy Porka
5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Krakow – Poland’s Historic Capital
5:30 PBS News Hour Weekend
EVENING
6:00 Chicago Stories: Iconic Foods See Fri. Oct. 17 at 8:00 pm. [R]
7:00 Sister Boniface Mysteries: Biff! Pow! Zap! Sister Boniface probes a deadly incident after a TV actress falls to her death during a tampered stunt on the show Foxman
8:00 The Madame Blanc Mysteries A musician is found dead with a head injury and a strange symbol drawn on his face.
9:00 Father Brown: The Sins of Others After being released from prison for assault, Sid Carter sets out to get revenge on the lawyer who failed to keep him out of jail.
10:00 Velvet: Who Gives the Most? Someone has discovered that Blanca and Max are having an affair, and both must bear the consequences.
11:30 The Brokenwood Mysteries: A Real Page-Turner See Thurs. Oct. 16 at 8:00 pm. [R]
Sunday 19
EARLY MORNING
1:00 Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink See Sun. Oct. 12 at 4:00 pm. [R]
2:30 Independent Lens: Cracking The Code – Phil Sharp and the Biotech Revolution See Sun. Oct. 12 at 2:30 pm. [R]
4:00 Art21: Art in the TwentyFirst Century: Between Worlds See Fri. Oct. 17 at 10:00 pm. [R]
5:00 Happy Yoga with Sarah Starr: Lake Forest
5:30 Yoga in Practice: Seeking Balance
MORNING
6:00 How Are We Today? Thinking Traps and Sticky Thoughts
6:30 Joy of Painting with Nicholas Hankins: Crisp Day in the Valley
7:00 This Old House [R]
7:30 Ask This Old House: Washer Dryer Relocation [R]
8:00 Simply Ming: Crab Cakes
8:30 New Scandinavian Cooking: Mountain Riches
9:00 America the Bountiful: Beef in Texas
9:30 Flavor of Poland with Aleksandra August: Bialystok
10:00 Kevin Belton’s Cookin’ Louisiana: Sugar Cane Country
10:30 Steven Raichlen’s Planet Barbecue: Grilling from Across the Pond
11:00 Why Dinosaurs? See Sat. Oct. 18 at 2:00 am. [R]
AFTERNOON
12:00 Art & Science Collide This new documentary weaves together compelling stories of artists and explores how they collaborate with science and technology in unexpected ways.
1:00 The Magic of Grace Bumbry: Great Performances Discover Grace Bumbry’s inspiring rise to global opera fame and explore the racial barriers she overcame to triumph in her 1966 performance as Carmen.
2:00 Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore – American Masters [R]
4:00 Marcella: American Masters Discover how celebrated writer Marcella Hazan shaped Italian cuisine in America.
5:30 PBS News Hour Weekend
EVENING
6:00 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: A Christmas Murder Phryne, Dot, and Dr. Mac happily accompany Aunt Prudence to a picturesque chalet to celebrate a white Christmas in July. But one of the residents was electrocuted while hanging festive lights.
7:00 Miss Austen on Masterpiece (Part 1 of 4) In 1830, Cassandra Austen arrives in Kintbury after hearing of her friend Eliza’s husband’s impending death. But Cassandra is searching for the letters her sister Jane wrote to Eliza.
8:00 Maigret on Masterpiece: Maigret’s Failure, Part 1 (Part 3 of 6) Maigret’s search for a missing social media influencer is derailed when he’s ordered to investigate death threats against billionaire Ferdinand Fumal.
9:00 The Gold on Masterpiece: The Consequences Are Mine (Part 3 of 6) The task force sets up surveillance on Noye and is led to Palmer and more of the suspects.
10:00 Astrid: Underground (Season 3, Part 6 of 8) While investigating the murder of a homeless man, Astrid finds herself face to face with the very criminal her father was pursuing
when he was murdered.
11:00 Austin City Limits: ACL 11th Annual Hall of Fame Honors My Morning Jacket
Monday 20
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Sister Boniface Mysteries: Biff! Pow! Zap! See Sat. Oct. 18 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 The Madame Blanc Mysteries See Sat. Oct. 18 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Father Brown: The Sins of Others See Sat. Oct. 18 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Velvet: Who Gives the Most? See Sat. Oct. 18 at 10:00 pm. [R]
4:30 John McGivern’s Main Streets: Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Raleigh 2025, Part 1 [R]
2:00 Rick Steves Rome
3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Quick Fish Dinners
3:30 Cook’s Country: One-Pot Meals
4:00 Father Brown: The Sins of Others [R]
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Phoenix 2025, Part 2 Revised finds include a 1956 David Klein TWA poster, a 1921 Lyonel Feininger watercolor, and an enamel and rock crystal pendant watch circa 1910. 8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Spokane, Part 2 Antique and vintage finds include a Jon Stefansson landscape oil, a Lonny Frey pro baseball collection, and a Rolex Bubbleback watch.
9:00 From Rails to Trails
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Tuesday 21
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Miss Austen on Masterpiece (Part 1 of 4) See Sun. Oct. 19 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 Maigret on Masterpiece: Maigret’s Failure, Part 1 (Part 3 of 6) See Sun. Oct. 19 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 The Gold on Masterpiece: The Consequences Are Mine (Part 3 of 6) See Sun. Oct. 19 at 9:00 pm. [R]
6:30 Living West Michigan
7:00 No Passport Required
8:00 Great American Recipe
9:00 Jay's Chicago
9:30 John McGivern’s Main Streets
10:00 This Old House
10:30 Ask This Old House
11:00 Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire
11:30 Sara's Weeknight Meals
12:00 Cook’s Country
12:30 Cook’s Country
1:00 Lidia’s Kitchen
1:30 Jacques Pépin: Heart & Soul
2:00 America’s Test Kitchen
2:30 America’s Test Kitchen
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television
3:30 Kitchen Curious with Vivian Howard
4:00 Pati’s Mexican Table
4:30 Check, Please!
3:00 Astrid: Underground (Season 3, Part 6 of 8) See Sun. Oct. 19 at 10:00 pm. [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Las Vegas
2:00 Nature: Dracula’s Hidden Kingdom [R]
3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Italian Bites [R]
3:30 Cook’s Country: Italian American Comforts
4:00 Sister Boniface Mysteries [R]
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Finding Your Roots: Moving On Up Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores the long-lost roots of actor Sheryl Lee Ralph and historian Lonnie Bunch.
8:00 Breaking the Deadlock: A Power Play Experts participate in a hypothetical story of executive power by a pair of rival U.S. Presidents.
9:00 Frontline: The Rise of RFK Jr. The dramatic and controversial rise of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. How the scion of a storied dynasty endured
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Nature: Walrus – Life on Thin Ice
8:00 NOVA: Ancient Desert Death Trap Archaeologists investigate dozens of strange Stone Age megastructures in the Arabian desert. They’re so big that their true form is visible only from the air, yet these giant structures were built by a mysterious people 9000 years ago.
9:00 Secrets of the Dead: Cracking the Queen’s Code Secret messages from Mary, Queen of Scots, are finally decoded, with 57 encrypted letters detailing the tragic monarch’s efforts to free herself from imprisonment and gain an advantage over her rival, Queen Elizabeth I.
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Thursday 23
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Finding Your Roots: Moving On Up See Tues. Oct. 21 at 7:00 pm. [R]
tragedy and scandal, broke with the Democratic Party and his family, stoked conspiracy theories, and is reshaping government and public health.
10:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
11:00 BBC News
11:30 Amanpour and Company
Wednesday 22
EARLY MORNING
12:30 Fork & Hammer: It Started with a Crêpe [R]
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Phoenix 2025, Part 2 See Mon. Oct. 20 at 7:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Spokane, Part 2 See Mon. Oct. 20 at 8:00 pm. [R]
3:00 From Rails to Trails See Mon. Oct. 20 at 9:00 pm. [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Madison
2:00 NOVA: Human – Building Empires (Part 5 of 5) [R]
3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Perfectly Fried Seafood
3:30 Cook’s Country: Regional Sandwich Roundup
4:00 The Madame Blanc Mysteries [R]
1:00 Breaking the Deadlock: A Power Play See Tues. Oct. 21 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Frontline: The Rise of RFK Jr. See Tues. Oct. 21 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:30 Curious Traveler: Curious Poznan, Poland [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Sacramento
2:00 Finding Your Roots: Moving On Up [R]
3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Chinese Noodles and Meatballs
3:30 Cook’s Country: Paprikash and Stroganoff
4:00 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: A Christmas Murder See Sun. Oct. 19 at 6:00 pm. [R]
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Chicago Stories: Iconic Foods [R]
8:00 The Brokenwood Mysteries: Dead Men Don’t Shoot Ducks Mike and the team try to determine if the killing of an animal activist on the first day of duck-hunting season was accidental or something more sinister.
9:30 Rick Steves’ Europe: Poland Rediscovered Krakow, with its bubbly Baroque and cobbled charm, is emerging as the exciting “next Prague.” Nearby, a visit to Auschwitz teaches a timeless, soul-searching lesson.
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Friday 24
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Nature: Walrus – Life on Thin Ice See Wed. Oct. 22 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 NOVA: Ancient Desert Death Trap See Wed. Oct. 22 at 8:00 pm. [R] 2:00 Secrets of the Dead:
5:00 Happy Yoga
5:30 Yoga in Practice
6:00 How Are We Today?
6:30 Joy of Painting with Nicholas Hankins
7:00 This Old House
7:30 Ask This Old House
8:00 Simply Ming 8:30 New Scandinavian Cooking
9:00 America the Bountiful
9:30 Flavor of Poland
10:00 Cookin' Louisiana with Kevin Belton
10:30 Steven Raichlen's Planet Barbecue
Chicago Stories:
Marshall Field’s
Explore the rise and fall of Chicago’s longtime legendary shopping institution: Marshall Field & Company, a famed department store that catered to women and famous for its whimsical holiday windows. Take a nostalgic look back at a place lost to time. Audionarrated descriptions are available.
Friday, October 24 8:00 pm
Cracking the Queen’s Code See Wed. Oct. 22 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: A Christmas Murder [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Spokane, Part 2 [R]
2:00 Secrets of the Dead: Cracking the Queen’s Code [R]
3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Breakfast Baking
3:30 Cook’s Country: Chicken Soup and Cheesy Bread
4:00 Maigret on Masterpiece: Maigret’s Failure, Part 1 (Part 3 of 6) [R]
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R]
7:30 Washington Week with the Atlantic
8:00 Chicago Stories: Marshall Field’s
9:00 Chicago Stories: The
Rise and Fall of the Mail Order Giants Trace the histories of Sears, Roebuck and Montgomery Ward, and explore how they influenced the multitudes of retailers who came after them. Audio-narrated descriptions are available.
10:00 Great Performances: Now Hear This - Chopin's Polish Heart
11:00 BBC News
11:30 Amanpour and Company
Saturday 25
EARLY MORNING
12:30 Real Rail Adventures: Swiss International Hubs [R]
1:30 Marcella: American Masters See Sun. Oct. 19 at 4:00 pm. [R]
3:00 The Magic of Grace Bumbry: Great Performances See Sun. Oct. 19 at 1:00 pm. [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 Washington Week with the Atlantic [R]
5:30 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R]
MORNING
6:00 Great Lakes Now
6:30 Living West Michigan
7:00 Family Travel with Colleen Kelly: Poland
7:30 Curious Traveler: Curious Warsaw
8:00 Table for All with Buki Elegbede: Italian – The Next Generation [R]
8:30 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: In Search of Cacio E Pepe
9:00 John McGivern’s Main Streets: Cedar Rapids, Iowa
9:30 Fork & Hammer: 4 Years in the Making
10:00 This Old House
10:30 Ask This Old House: Planting Arborvitaes, Storage Rack
11:00 My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas
11:30 Sara’s Weeknight Meals
AFTERNOON
12:00 Cook’s Country: Ribs and Mashed Potatoes Revisited
12:30 Cook’s Country
1:00 Lidia’s Kitchen: Cook Together
1:30 Jacques Pépin: Heart & Soul – Offal Good
2:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Seafood Supper
2:30 America’s Test Kitchen: Ice Cream Cake
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Coconut Curry & Stir-Fried Chicken
3:30 Kitchen Curious with Vivian Howard: Fat
4:00 Pati’s Mexican Table: A Sense of Beauty
4:30 Check, Please! Virtue, Qulinarnia, Longman & Eagle
5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe:
Poland’s Warsaw and Gdañsk
5:30 PBS News Hour Weekend
EVENING
6:00 Chicago Stories: Marshall Field’s See Fri. Oct. 24 at 8:00 pm. [R]
7:00 Sister Boniface Mysteries
8:00 The Madame Blanc Mysteries When Raffy Ozanne is found lying dead in his own perfumery, Cooper falls under suspicion. But who was really behind the killer’s clown mask?
9:00 Father Brown: The Theatre of the Invisible Father Brown investigates the murder of a landlady and begins to suspect one of her residents.
10:00 Velvet: New York, New York Ana and Alberto arrive in New York only to discover a disaster when they are preparing to present to Sara and her father.
11:30 The Brokenwood Mysteries: Dead Men Don’t Shoot Ducks See Thurs. Oct. 23 at 8:00 pm. [R]
EARLY MORNING
1:00 Maigret on Masterpiece: Maigret’s Failure, Part 1 (Part 3 of 6) [R]
2:00 Finding Your Roots: Moving On Up [R]
3:00 Chicago Stories: The Rise and Fall of the Mail Order Giants See Fri. Oct. 24 at 9:00 pm. [R]
4:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Sacramento [R]
5:00 Happy Yoga with Sarah Starr: Flowering Sunset
5:30 Yoga in Practice: Interdependence
MORNING
6:00 How Are We Today? Social Anxiety and Exposures
6:30 Joy of Painting with Nicholas Hankins: Nolichucky Summertime
7:00 This Old House [R]
7:30 Ask This Old House: Planting Arborvitaes, Storage Rack [R]
8:00 Simply Ming: Sausage and Peppers
8:30 New Scandinavian Cooking: Farmer’s Food
9:00 America the Bountiful: Taro in Hawaii
9:30 Flavor of Poland with Aleksandra August: Olsztyn
10:00 Kevin Belton’s Cookin’ Louisiana: Lafayette Parish –Epicenter of Cajun Cuisine
10:30 Steven Raichlen’s Planet Barbecue: San Antonio Grill
11:00 Dream of Italy: Travel, Transform, and Thrive World-famous celebrities help Kathy present the 10 essentials of the Italian
lifestyle: connections to land, food, beauty, art and culture, family, passion, community, movement, celebrations, and sense of home.
AFTERNOON
12:00 Great Performances at the Met: Il Barbiere Di Siviglia In this production of Rossini’s effervescent comedy, baritone Andrey Zhilikhovsky stars as Figaro, the inimitable barber of Seville, and mezzo-soprano Aigul Akhmetshina plays the feisty heroine, Rosina.
3:00 From Rails to Trails [R]
4:00 Independent Lens: Ratified Led by Black women and with the support of a multiracial, multi-generational coalition, this documentary traces the fight to enshrine gender equality in the U.S. Constitution nearly a century after the ERA was first proposed.
5:30 PBS News Hour Weekend
EVENING
6:00 Rick Steves Poland [R]
7:00 Miss Austen on Masterpiece (Part 2 of 4) Cassandra’s determination to keep Jane’s letters private is joined by a second objective: securing a home for Isabella.
8:00 Maigret on Masterpiece: Maigret’s Failure, Part 2 (Part 4 of 6) As Maigret reels from his failure to protect Fumal, he also suffers a personal blow.
9:00 The Gold on Masterpiece: Vengeance Is Easy, Justice Is Hard (Part 4 of 6) In Tenerife, Palmer discovers that he is wanted by the police. Cooper and Parry have successfully moved the cash across Europe.
10:00 Astrid: Global Plan (Season 3, Part 1 of 8) A well-known astrophysicist is found dead, struck by lightning, with no storm. Soon a conspiracy theory circulates that the victim was about to divulge a state secret.
11:00 Austin City Limits: Charley Crockett/Waxahatchee
Monday 27
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Sister Boniface Mysteries [R]
1:00 The Madame Blanc Mysteries See Sat. Oct. 25 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Father Brown: The Theatre of the Invisible See Sat. Oct. 25 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Velvet: New York, New York See Sat. Oct. 25 at 10:00 pm. [R]
4:30 John McGivern’s Main Streets: Cedar Rapids, Iowa [R]
5:00 BBC News
Henry Kissinger talking with journalists aboard Air Force 1.
Kissinger: American Experience
In this two-part documentary from Barak Goodman, explore the life of Henry Kissinger, from his childhood in Germany to his early life in America, from his stint in the Army to his rise to the top echelons of American foreign policy during Vietnam, through the voices of numerous historians and colleagues.
Monday and Tuesday, October 27 and 28 8:00 pm
5:30 Firing Line with Margaret Hoover MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Vintage Phoenix 2025, Part 2 [R]
2:00 Breaking the Deadlock [R]
3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Pork Chops and Blondies
3:30 Cook’s Country: Pork and Pierogi
4:00 Father Brown: The Theatre of the Invisible [R]
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Antiques Roadshow: Kooky & Spooky Celebrate Halloween with thrilling and chilling finds.
8:00 Kissinger: American Experience (Part 1 of 2)
9:30 The American Revolution: An Inside Look In advance of the film’s November premiere, learn about the process of creating this landmark documentary by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt.
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Tuesday 28
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Miss Austen on Masterpiece (Part 2 of 4) See Sun. Oct. 26 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 Maigret on Masterpiece: Maigret’s Failure, Part 2 (Part 4 of 6) See Sun. Oct. 26 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 The Gold on Masterpiece: Vengeance Is Easy, Justice Is Hard (Part 4 of 6) See Sun. Oct. 26 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Astrid: Global Plan (Season 3, Part 1 of 8) See Sun. Oct. 26 at 10:00 pm. [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Wadsworth Mansion (Part 1 of 3)
2:00 Nature: Walrus – Life on Thin Ice [R]
3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Flavor-Packed Chicken Dinner [R]
3:30 Cook’s Country: Spicy and Sour for Dinner
4:00 Sister Boniface Mysteries [R]
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Finding Your Roots: Finding My Roots Cutting-edge DNA detective work solves longstanding family mysteries for actor Laurence Fishburne and scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., who is a guest on his own show for the first time.
8:00 Kissinger: American Experience (Part 2 of 2)
9:30 The American Revolution: An Inside Look See Mon. Oct. 27 at 9:30 pm. [R]
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Wednesday 29
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Antiques Roadshow: Kooky & Spooky See Mon. Oct. 27 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 Kissinger: American Experience (Part 1 of 2) See Mon. Oct. 27 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:30 Independent Lens: Ratified See Sun. Oct. 26 at 4:00 pm. [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Wadsworth Mansion (Part 2 of 3)
2:00 NOVA: Ancient Desert Death Trap [R]
3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Starring Tomatoes
3:30 Cook’s Country: Smoky Barbecue Favorites
4:00 The Madame Blanc Mysteries [R]
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Nature: Willow – Diary of a Mountain Lion
8:00 NOVA: Superfloods
9:00 Secrets of the Dead: Chasing the Plague Scientists track down the earliest known bubonic plague victims and study the virus in hopes of preventing future outbreaks.
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Finding Your Roots: Finding My Roots See Tues. Oct. 28 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 Kissinger: American Experience (Part 2 of 2) See Tues. Oct. 28 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:30 The American Revolution: An Inside Look [R]
3:00 Antiques Roadshow: Wadsworth Mansion (Part 1 of 3) [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Wadsworth Mansion (Part 3 of 3)
2:00 Finding Your Roots: Finding My Roots [R]
3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Summer Decadence
3:30 Cook’s Country: Smothered and Dowdied [R]
4:00 Dream of Italy: Travel, Transform, and Thrive See Sun. Oct. 26 at 11:00 am. [R]
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Chicago Stories: Marshall Field’s [R]
8:00 The Brokenwood Mysteries: Dead and Buried Mike and the team get reacquainted with several women they’ve locked up in past cases when they investigate a suspicious suicide at Brokenwood
Women’s Prison.
9:30 Curious Traveler: Curious Gdañsk Christine explores Gdañsk’s history as a Baltic seaport, and how its medieval trade with Holland resulted in its Dutch architecture.
10:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
10:30 BBC News
11:00 Amanpour and Company
Friday 31
EARLY MORNING
12:00 Nature: Willow – Diary of a Mountain Lion See Wed. Oct. 29 at 7:00 pm. [R]
1:00 NOVA: Superfloods See Wed. Oct. 29 at 8:00 pm. [R]
2:00 Secrets of the Dead: Chasing the Plague See Wed. Oct. 29 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:00 Antiques Roadshow: Wadsworth Mansion (Part 2 of 3) [R]
4:00 PBS News Hour [R]
5:00 BBC News
5:30 Chicago Tonight [R]
MORNING
6:00-1:00 WTTW Kids
AFTERNOON
1:00 Antiques Roadshow: Sands Point Preserve (Part 1 of 3) [R]
2:00 Secrets of the Dead: Chasing the Plague [R]
3:00 America’s Test Kitchen: Pupusas and Yuca
3:30 Cook’s Country: BBQ Thighs and Fried Peach Pies
4:00 Maigret on Masterpiece: Maigret’s Failure, Part 2 (Part 4 of 6) [R]
5:00 BBC News America
5:30 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review
EVENING
6:00 PBS News Hour
7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Week in Review [R]
7:30 Washington Week with the Atlantic
8:00 Chicago Stories: Legendary Blizzards Two deadly Chicago snowstorms in 1967 and 1979 stopped the city in its tracks, and the city’s inadequate response ruined one political career and jumpstarted another. Audio-narrated descriptions are available.
9:00 Chicago Stories: Candy Capital At the time of the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair, the area boasted more than 100 candy companies whose brands included Baby Ruth, Tootsie Roll, Lemonheads, and Juicy Fruit gum. Audio-narrated descriptions are available.
10:00 Antiques Roadshow: Kooky & Spooky [R] 11:00 BBC News 11:30 Amanpour and Company
Arts • Performance
Austin City Limits
Sundays, 11:00 pm
Great Performances
Sunday, 1:00 pm (10/19)
Friday, 10:00 pm (10/24)
Saturday, 3:00 am (10/25)
Great Performances at the Met
Sunday, 12:00 pm (10/26)
Drama • Mystery
Astrid
Sundays, 10:00 pm
Tuesdays, 3:00 am
Brian and Maggie
Sundays, 7:00 pm (10/5, 10/12)
Tuesdays, 12:00 am (10/7, 10/14)
Brokenwood Mysteries
Thursdays, 8:00 pm
Sundays, 12:00 am
Death in Paradise
Saturday, 9:00 pm (10/4)
Monday, 2:00 am (10/6)
Tuesday, 4:00 pm (10/7)
Father Brown
Saturday, 7:00 pm (10/4)
Mondays, 4:00 pm
Monday, 12:00 am (10/6)
Saturdays, 9:00 pm (10/11, 10/18, 10/25)
Gold on Masterpiece
Sundays, 9:00 pm
Tuesdays, 2:00 am
Madame Blanc Mysteries
Wednesdays, 4:00 pm
Saturdays, 8:00 pm
Mondays, 1:00 am
Maigret on Masterpiece
Sundays, 8:00 pm
Tuesdays, 1:00 am
Fridays, 4:00 pm (10/10, 10/17, 10/24, 10/31)
Sundays, 1:00 am (10/12, 10/26)
Friday, 3:00 am (10/17)
The Marlow Murder Club on Masterpiece
Friday, 4:00 pm (10/3)
Miss Austen on Masterpiece
Sundays, 7:00 pm (10/19, 10/26)
Tuesdays, 12:00 am (10/21, 10/28)
Miss Fisher Murder Mysteries
Thursdays, 4:00 pm (10/2, 10/9, 10/16, 10/23)
Sundays, 6:00 pm (10/5, 10/12, 10/19)
Wednesday, 3:00 am (10/8)
Thursday, 3:00 am (10/16)
Friday, 3:00 am (10/24)
Professor T Friday, 2:00 pm (10/3)
Sister Boniface Mysteries
Saturdays, 7:00 pm (10/11, 10/18, 10/25)
Mondays, 12:00 am (10/13, 10/20, 10/27) Tuesdays, 4:00 pm (10/14, 10/21, 10/28) Velvet
Saturdays, 10:00 pm Mondays, 3:00 am
Food • Travel • How to America the Bountiful
Sundays, 9:00 am
America’s Test Kitchen
Saturdays, 2:00 pm, 2:30 pm
Mondays-Fridays, 3:00 pm Antiques Roadshow
Mondays-Fridays, 1:00 pm
Saturday, 1:00 am, 2:00 am, 3:00 am (10/4)
Monday, 9:00 pm (10/6)
Wednesdays, 1:00 am (10/8, 10/15, 10/22)
Wednesdays, 2:00 am (10/8, 10/22)
Mondays, 8:00 pm (10/13, 10/20)
Mondays, 7:00 pm (10/13, 10/20, 10/27)
Sunday, 4:00 am (10/26)
Wednesday, 12:00 am (10/29)
Thursday, 3:00 am (10/30)
Friday, 3:00 am, 10:00 pm (10/31)
Ask This Old House
Saturdays, 10:30 am
Sundays, 7:30 am
Thursday, 3:30 am (10/2)
Check, Please!
Saturdays, 4:30 pm
Chef’s Life
Saturday, 3:30 pm (10/4)
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street
Television Saturdays, 3:00 pm
Saturdays, 8:30 am (10/18, 10/25)
Cook’s Country
Saturdays, 12:00 pm, 12:30 pm
Mondays-Fridays, 3:30 pm
Curious Traveler
Sunday, 11:00 am, 11:30 am (10/12)
Thursday, 3:00 am, 3:30 am (10/23)
Saturday, 7:30 am (10/25)
Thursday, 9:30 pm (10/30)
Dream of Italy: Travel, Transform and
Thrive
Sunday, 11:00 am (10/26)
Thursday, 4:00 pm (10/30)
Dream of Italy: Tuscan Sun Special
Saturday, 8:00 am (10/18)
Family Travel with Colleen Kelly
Saturday, 7:00 am (10/25)
Flavor of Poland with Aleksandra
August
Sundays, 9:30 am
Fork and Hammer
Saturdays, 9:30 am (10/18, 10/25)
Wednesday, 12:30 am (10/22)
Great American Recipe
Saturdays, 8:00 am (10/4, 10/11)
Happy Yoga with Sarah Starr
Sundays, 5:00 am
How Are We Today?
Sundays, 6:00 am
Jacques Pepin: Heart & Soul
Saturdays, 1:30 pm
John McGivern’s Main Streets
Saturdays, 9:30 am (10/4, 10/11)
Mondays, 4:30 am
Saturdays, 9:00 am (10/18, 10/25)
Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope
Thursday, 9:30 pm (10/2)
Sunday, 4:30 am (10/5)
Joy of Painting with Nicholas Hankins
Sundays, 6:30 pm
Kevin Belton’s Cookin’ Louisiana
Sundays, 10:00 am
Kitchen Curious with Vivian Howard
Saturdays, 3:30 pm (10/11, 10/18, 10/25)
Lidia’s Kitchen
Saturdays, 1:00 pm
Living West Michigan
Saturdays, 6:30 pm
My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas
Saturday, 11:00 am (10/25)
New Scandinavian Cooking
Sundays, 8:30 am
No Passport Required
Saturdays, 7:00 am (10/4, 10/11)
Pati's Mexican Table
Saturdays, 4:00 pm
Real Rail Adventures: Swiss International Hubs
Saturday, 7:00 am (10/18)
Saturday, 12:30 am (10/25)
Rick Steves’ Europe
Saturdays, 5:00 pm
Wednesdays, 12:00 am (10/8, 10/22)
Thursday, 3:30 am (10/9)
Thursday, 9:30 pm (10/23)
Rick Steves Poland
Monday, 8:00 pm (10/6)
Friday, 3:00 am, 2:00 pm (10/10)
Sunday, 6:00 pm (10/24)
Rick Steves Rome
Monday, 2:00 pm (10/20)
Sara’s Weeknight Meals
Saturdays, 11:30 am
Simply Ming
Sundays, 8:00 am
Steven Raichlen’s Planet Barbecue
Sundays, 10:30 am
Steven Raichlen’s Project Fire
Saturdays, 11:00 am (10/4, 10/11, 10/18)
Table for All with Buki Elegbede
Thursday, 9:30 pm (10/9)
Saturday, 8:00 am (10/25)
This Old House
Saturdays, 10:00 am
Sundays, 7:00 am
Thursday, 3:00 am (10/2)
Yoga in Practice
Sundays, 5:30 am
American Experience
Thursdays, 1:00 am (10/2, 10/30)
Monday, 8:00 pm (10/27)
Tuesday, 8:00 pm (10/28)
Wednesday, 1:00 am (10/29)
American Masters
Tuesday, 8:00 pm (10/14)
Thursday, 1:00 am (10/16)
Sunday, 2:00 pm, 4:00 pm (10/19)
Saturday, 1:30 am (10/25)
American Revolution: An Inside Look
Thursday, 2:30 am (10/2)
Monday, 9:30 pm (10/27)
Tuesday, 9:30 pm (10/28)
Thursday, 2:30 am (10/29)
Art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century Friday, 10:00 pm (10/17)
Sunday, 4:00 am (10/19)
Chicago Stories: The Boss & the Bulldozer
Friday, 9:00 pm (10/10)
Sunday, 3:00 am (10/12)
Chicago Stories: Candy Capital Friday, 9:00 pm (10/31)
Chicago Stories: Deadly Alliance; Leopold and Loeb Friday, 9:00 pm (10/3)
Sunday, 3:30 am (10/5)
Chicago Stories: Iconic Foods Friday, 8:00 pm (10/17)
Saturday, 6:00 pm (10/18) Thursday, 7:00 pm (10/23)
Chicago Stories: Inside the Tylenol Murders
Friday, 8:00 pm (10/3)
Saturday, 6:00 pm (10/4)
Thursday, 7:00 pm (10/9)
Chicago Stories: Legendary Blizzards Thursday, 7:00 pm (10/2) Friday, 8:00 pm (10/31)
Chicago Stories: Marshall Field’s Friday, 8:00 pm (10/24) Saturday, 6:00 pm (10/25) Thursday, 7:00 pm (10/30)
Chicago Stories: The Real Mad Men of Chicago Friday, 9:00 pm (10/17)
Chicago Stories: The Rise and Fall of the Mail Order Giants Friday, 9:00 pm (10/24) Sunday, 3:00 am (10/26)
Chicago Stories: Rod Blagojevich Friday, 8:00 pm (10/10) Saturday, 6:00 pm (10/11) Thursday, 7:00 pm (10/16) Finding Your Roots Tuesdays, 7:00 pm Thursdays, 4:00 pm, 12:00 am Sunday, 2:30 am (10/5)
Tuesday, 8:00 pm (10/7) Thursday, 1:00 am (10/9) Sundays, 2:00 am (10/12, 10/26) Monday, 2:00 pm (10/13) From Rails to Trails Monday, 9:00 pm (10/20)
Wednesday, 3:00 am (10/22) Sunday, 3:00 pm (10/26) Frontline
Tuesdays, 9:00 pm (10/7, 10/21) Thursdays, 2:00 am (10/9, 10/23) Independent Lens
Sunday, 2:30 pm (10/12)
Sunday, 2:30 am (10/19)
Sunday, 4:00 pm (10/26)
Wednesday, 2:30 am (10/29)
Jay’s Chicago
Saturdays, 9:00 am (10/4, 10/11)
Wednesday, 12:30 am (10/8)
Thursday, 3:00 am (10/9)
King of Them All: The Story of King Records
Friday, 10:00 pm (10/10)
Sunday, 4:00 am (10/12)
Northwest of Chicago: From Farm Fields to Boomtown
Sunday, 11:00 am (10/5)
Saturday, 12:30 am (10/11)
Potentially Dangerous
Sunday, 1:30 pm (10/12)
Wednesday, 3:00 am (10/15)
POV
Friday, 10:00 pm (10/3)
Sunday, 1:00 am (10/5)
Saturday, 12:30 am (10/18)
Remembering Chicago: The Boomer Years
Sunday, 12:45 pm (10/5)
Saturday, 2:15 am (10/11)
Rick Steves Art of Ancient Rome
Monday, 2:00 pm (10/6)
Secrets of the Dead
Wednesdays, 9:00 pm (10/8, 10/15, 10/22, 10/29)
Fridays, 2:00 am (10/10, 10/17, 10/24, 10/31)
Fridays, 2:00 pm (10/17, 10/24, 10/31)
Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink
Sunday, 4:00 pm (10/12)
Sunday, 1:00 am (10/19)
Troubled Water
Sunday, 12:00 pm (10/12)
Saturday, 3:00 am (10/18)
Voces American Historia: The Untold History of Latinos
Monday, 9:00 pm (10/13)
Wednesday, 2:00 am (10/15)
Voces: Omara, Cuba’s Legendary Diva Friday, 3:00 am (10/3)
World Series of Bocce: A Celebration of Sport, Family and Community Sunday, 1:00 pm (10/12)
News • Public Affairs
Amanpour and Company
Mondays-Fridays, 11:00 pm
Tuesdays, 11:30 pm (10/7, 10/21)
BBC News
Mondays-Fridays, 10:30 pm, 5:00 am
Tuesdays, 11:00 pm (10/7, 10/21)
BBC News America
Mondays-Fridays, 5:00 pm
Breaking the Deadlock
Tuesday, 8:00 pm (10/21)
Thursday, 1:00 am (10/23)
Monday, 2:00 pm (10/27)
Chicago Tonight
Mondays-Thursdays, 5:30 pm, 10:00 pm
Tuesdays, 10:30 pm (10/7, 10/21)
Tuesdays-Fridays, 5:30 am
Chicago Tonight: Week in Review
Fridays, 5:30 pm, 7:00 pm
Saturdays, 5:30 am
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover Mondays, 5:30 am
PBS News Hour
Mondays-Fridays, 6:00 pm
Tuesdays-Saturdays, 4:00 am
PBS News Weekend
Saturdays-Sundays, 5:30 pm
Washington Week with the Atlantic Fridays, 7:30 pm
Saturdays, 5:00 am
Art & Science Collide
Sunday, 12:00 pm (10/19)
Big Cats 24/7
Wednesdays, 7:00 pm (10/1, 10/8)
Fridays, 12:00 am (10/3, 10/10)
Tuesdays, 2:00 pm (10/7, 10/14)
Great Lakes Now
Saturdays, 6:00 am
Nature
Wednesdays, 7:00 pm (10/15, 10/22, 10/29)
Fridays, 12:00 am (10/17, 10/24, 10/31) Tuesdays, 2:00 pm (10/21, 10/28)
NOVA
Wednesdays, 2:00 pm, 8:00 pm Fridays, 1:00 am
Sacred Planet with Gulnaz Khan
Wednesday, 9:00 pm (10/1)
Friday, 2:00 am (10/3)
Why Dinosaurs?
Saturday, 2:00 am (10/18)
Sunday, 11:00 am (10/19)
Ravinia Festival
The 2025 season concludes with favorite performances by the a cappella octet VOCES8, Brazilian guitarist Plínio Fernandes, and Apollo’s Fire baroque orchestra. Sundays, 3:00 pm
Mornings at 6:00 am
With news and weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 9:00 am; and Carl’s Almanac at 7:30 am.
Midday with Lisa Flynn at 10:00 am
With Daily Excursion at 11:00 am, and Music in Chicago at 12:00 pm ( Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert on Wednesdays at 12:15 pm).
Afternoon Music with Candice Agree at 3:00 pm
With The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm and Friday Afternoon at the Movies on Fridays at 4:30 pm.
Wednesday 1
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Tchaikovsky Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33 – Antonio Meneses, vc; Royal Northern Sinfonia/Claudio Cruz. Avie AV-2373. [18:07]
11:00 Michael Daugherty Reflections on the Mississippi: III. Prayer – Carol Jantsch, tba; Albany Sym/David Alan Miller. Naxos 8.559807. [6:43]
12:15 Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts Cellist Lydia Rhea
A blockbuster new season begins with performances by the Miró Quartet, Chanticleer, and oboist Oliver Talukder, winner of Cedille’s 2025 Emerging Artist Competition.
Mondays, 8:00 pm
and pianist Amber Scherer perform music by Debussy, Andrea Casarrubios, Philip Laser, and Brahms, live from Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.
1:00 Smetana Tábor – Czech Phil/Jirí Belohlávek. Decca 4833187. [12:34]
2:00 Corelli Concerto grosso in D, Op. 6, No. 1 – Berlin Academy for Ancient Music/ Mayumi Hirasaki. Pentatone PTC-5187234. [12:05]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Clara Schumann Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 7 –Tasmanian Sym Orch/ Howard Shelley, p. Hyperion CDA-68240. [20:36]
4:00 Robert Nathaniel Dett in the Bottoms – Clipper Erickson, p. Navona NV-6013. [15:33]
5:00 Robert Schumann Kinderszenen, Op. 15 –András Schiff, p. ECM 2122/23 (2). [15:44]
6:00 Eric Coates Cinderella Phantasy – Royal Liverpool Phil Orch/Charles Groves. Arabesque Z-8036. [15:13]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Franz Schubert and The Friends He Never Got to Meet, Part 2 Bill continues his tribute by sharing the works of Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann, and Franz Liszt with performances by Arthur Rubinstein alone, Charles Rosin and Richard Goode accompanied by orchestras, plus Yo-Yo Ma, Evgeny Kissin, the Juilliard Quartet with Leonard Bernstein, Dawn Upshaw, George Szell, Emanuel Ax, and Van Cliburn.
8:00 Evening Music
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Candice Agree: Sacred Bridges The multicultural ensemble Sarband , joined by The King’s Singers, present Sacred Bridges, an exploration of the complex intertwining between Judaism, Islam, and Christianity, as seen through settings of the timeless Psalms of David. The program features polyphonic psalm settings by Claude Goudimel and Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, paired with Alî Ufkî’s powerful Turkish lyrics and monophony.
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Mozart Piano Sonata No. 11 in A, K. 331 –Alfred Brendel, p. Philips 446921-2 (5). [19:01]
11:00 Hamilton Harty in Ireland –Colin Fleming, f; Denise Kelly, h; Ulster Orch/ Bryden Thomson. Chandos CHAN-6583. [9:14]
12:00 Nancy Dalberg Capriccio in B minor – Danish Phil Orch/Frans Rasmussen. Dacapo 8.224138. [8:09]
1:00 Purcell Dioclesian: Instrumental Suite – Le Concert des Nations/ Jordi Savall. Fontalis ES-8583. [14:07]
2:00 Richard Strauss Der Rosenkavalier, Op. 59: Suite – Vienna Phil/André Previn. DG 437790-2. [21:36]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Saverio Mercadante Flute Concerto in E minor, Op. 57 – Jean-Pierre Rampal, f; English Chamber Orch/ Claudio Scimone. Erato ECD-55012. [19:33]
4:00 Berlioz Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17: Love Scene (Adagio) – Chicago Sym Orch/Carlo Maria Giulini. Seraphim 69020-2. [16:52]
5:00 Lucien-Léon Guillaume Lambert Prelude, Fugue and Postlude (1924) – Jia An, p. Naxos 8.559037. [5:34]
6:00 Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet,
Op. 64: Introduction, Young Juliet, Street Awakens, Dance of the Knights –Timothy Ridout, vi; Frank Dupree, p. Harmonia Mundi HMN-916118. [12:45]
With leadership from former CSO Mead Composer-in-Residence Jessie Montgomery, the Young Composers Initiative engages youth from across the Chicago region and empowers them to create new pieces of chamber music. Last spring, the 2024-25 Young Composers Initiative culminated in a performance of these new works by musicians of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago at Symphony Center. Among this year’s six fellows were violinist-composer Sylvia Pine, who performed on Live from WFMT earlier this year; and violinist, composer, arranger, and conductor Clara Frantzen. As a member of Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras, Frantzen has previously been featured on two Introductions episodes last summer: as a violinist and composer in July, and giving testimony about the orchestra’s breakout performance at Lollapalooza in August. Frantzen is currently in their first year studying violin performance at Boston University.
Saturday, October 4 11:00 am
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Franz Schubert and The Friends He Never Got to Meet, Part 2 See Wednesday’s listing.
8:00 Evening Music
10:00 The New York Philharmonic This Week. Mahler Symphony No. 7; Gustavo Dudamel, conductor.
Friday 3
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Bartók Romanian Folk Dances – Les Violons du Roy/Jean-Marie Zeitouni. Atma ACD2-2576. [7:07]
The Ravinia audience (at capacity in the Martin Theatre) was delighted to welcome VOCES8 in their festival debut last August. Celebrating their twentieth anniversary season, the internationally acclaimed British vocal ensemble presented signature selections that have built their reputation for exquisite blend, technical precision, and heartfelt musicality. This program included all “the hits” – choice Renaissance polyphony, some American Songbook, a little jazz, and favorite contemporary works and arrangements that have become synonymous with their brand. The sunny afternoon concert concluded with an announcement from the stage that this would be the last U.S. performance of first soprano Andrea Haines, who has sung with VOCES8 for 17 years and has been integral in shaping the ensemble’s sound.
Sunday, October 5
3:00 pm
11:00 Wagner Götterdämmerung: Dawn and Siegfried’s Rhine Journey – Chicago Sym Orch/Fritz Reiner. RCA 63301-2. [13:12]
12:00 Vivaldi Violin, Two-Oboe, Two-Horn & Bassoon Concerto in F, R. 569 –Freiburg Baroque Orch/ Gottfried von der Goltz. Naïve OP-30283. [12:16]
1:00 Teresa Carreño Waltz, Corbeille de fleurs, Op. 9 –Clara Rodríguez, p. Fundación MMG FD-2522002237. [7:53]
2:00 Gershwin Porgy and Bess: Suite, Catfish Row – Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel. Telarc CD-80086. [25:56]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Lars-Erik Larsson Pastoral Suite, Op. 19 – CBC Vancouver Orch/Mario Bernardi. Radio Canada Int’l SMCD-5157. [13:17]
4:00 Rimsky-Korsakov Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34 – New York Phil/Leonard Bernstein. Sony SMK-60737. [15:04]
5:00 Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 – Yuja Wang, p; Mahler Chamber Orch/ Claudio Abbado. DG B0015338-02. [32:46]
6:00 Haydn String Quartet in D, Op. 71, No. 2 – Takács Quartet. Hyperion CDA-67793. [16:56]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Franz Schubert and The Friends He Never Got to Meet, Part 2 See Wednesday’s listing.
8:00 Evening Music
11:00 Best of Studs Terkel: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Part 1 (1/30/1970) Studs Terkel welcomed the lyrical and powerful German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925–2012) for an extended two – hour program of music and conversation. This week, we hear the first half of that treasured archive broadcast.
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
7:00 Weekend Mornings with news at 7:00 am. Tchaikovsky Swan Lake, Op. 20: Suite –London Sym/André Previn. EMI CDM4-89485-2. [23:08]
8:00 Saturday Morning Listener’s Choice
9:00 Soundtrack
10:00 Shostakovich October, Op. 131 – Gothenburg Sym Orch/Neeme Järvi. DG 427616-2. [12:28]
11:00 Introductions Chicago Symphony Orchestra Young Composers Initiative. Marilyn Gans Fantasy for Piano and Strings; Malik Muhammad
Last spring, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra was one of five internationally acclaimed ensembles — and the only North American orchestra — invited to participate in the third Mahler Festival at the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. The ten-day festival featured all the composer’s symphonies and songs. Led by Jaap van Zweden, the CSO was selected to present the Sixth (with its famous hammer “blows of fate”) and Seventh Symphonies. According to local press accounts, audiences were eager to hear the CSO inside the Main Hall and outside in the Vondelpark where a livestream was projected to an overflow crowd. The Dutch newspaper NRC praised the performances: “Drifting woodwinds, lightning-tight percussion. The brass is a dream, so radiant and sharp, and the entire string section forms a well-oiled machine with one big hyper-concentrated sound. The CSO is a beast of an orchestra with a mighty sound and Mahler in its blood.” Enjoy the CSO’s performance of the Symphony No. 6 from a concert last May.
Sunday, October 5
6:00 pm
Prayer Through Trial; Sylvia Pine War for Wind Quintet; Gloria Kravchenko Theme and Variations on a Ukrainian Folk Melody; Christopher Mertz Asylum; Clara Frantzen American Theme
12:00 From LA Opera: Mozart’s Così fan tutte Erica Petrocelli (Fiordiligi); Rihab Chaieb (Dorabella); Ana María Martínez (Despina); Anthony León (Ferrando); Justin Austin (Guglielmo); Rod Gilfry (Don Alfonso); LA Opera Chorus & Orchestra; James Conlon, conductor. Sung in Italian.
3:30 Afternoon Music including Luigi Cherubini Etude No. 2 for Horn and Strings – Barry Tuckwell, hn; St Martin’s Academy/ Neville Marriner. Decca B0006249-02 (2). [6:20]
4:00 Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho An interview with tenor Matthew Polenzani in advance of his return to Lyric Opera in Cherubini’s Medea.
5:00 Music with Jan Weller including Dvorák Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53: III. Finale, Allegro giocoso, ma non troppo – Augustin Hadelich, v; Bavarian Radio Sym Orch/Jakub Hruša. Warner 0190295274764. [9:53]
6:00 Marc Mellits Black Moon –Black Moon Trio. Black Moon Trio BMT-01. [18:46]
7:00 Tchaikovsky String Quartet in B-Flat, Op. posth (1865) – Dudok Quartet. Rubicon RCD-1124. [12:35]
8:00 Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer From the archives: The powerhouse that is BettySoo filled the airwaves with her rich vocals and uncompromising songs, recorded live at WFMT in 2009.
9:00 The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer Animals are folks, too, and there are oodles of folk songs about our furry, finned, and feathered friends from which to choose.
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 With Heart and Voice World Communion Sunday. Host Peter DuBois shares music that reflects on the sacrament of Holy Communion, and on Christian unity around the world, even as we mark the Feast of St. Francis.
7:00 Weekend Mornings including Felix Mendelssohn Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage Overture, Op. 27 – London Sym Orch/Claudio Abbado. DG 471467-2 (4). [13:06]
8:00 William Grant Still Folk Suite No. 3 – Sierra Winds; Carol Urban-Stivers, p. Cambria CD-1083. [5:43]
9:00 Giovanni Battista Pergolesi Flute Concerto in G –James Galway, f; I Solisti Veneti/Claudio Scimone. RCA 61164-2. [12:04]
10:00 Price Ethiopia’s Shadow in America – New York Youth Sym/Michael Repper. Avie AV-2503. [13:39]
11:00 Barber Violin Concerto, Op. 14 – Vadim Gluzman, v; São Paulo Sym Orch/ John Neschling. BIS SACD-1662. [23:45]
12:00 Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis including Nicole Chamberlain Moxie – Chamber Winds of South Dakota/Don Linn. Aerocade AM-017. [4:05]
1:00 Poulenc Gloria – B Hendricks, s; Radio France Choir, French National Orch/G Prêtre. EMI CDC7-49851-2. [27:17]
2:00 Beach Violin Sonata in A minor, Op. 34 – Duo FAE. Albany TROY-2006. [36:56]
3:00 Ravinia Festival 2025: VOCES8 The Grammynominated British vocal ensemble celebrates their twentieth anniversary and Ravinia debut with a program of favorites drawn from their latest album TWENTY. Recorded August 14, 2025 in the Martin Theatre.
5:00 Ryan Opera Center Recital Series Soprano Adia Evans, baritone Finn Sagal, and pianist Michael Banwarth perform a program of songs and arias. Recorded in the Fay and Daniel Levin Performance Studio. Hosted by Candice Agree.
6:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts. Mahler Songs of a Wayfarer; Yvonne Minton, soprano; Georg Solti, conductor; Symphony No. 6; Jaap van Zweden, conductor.
8:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: Romantic Music from Brazil and Mexico A survey of beautiful and melodic music including works by Brazilian composers Alexandre Levy and Alberto Nepomuceno, and Mexican composers Melesio Morales and Gustavo Campa.
9:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: Historic New York Philharmonic Broadcasts – Program 3 of 3 Brahms Violin Concerto; Debussy Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun; Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3; Wagner Götterdämmerung, Immolation Scene; Strauss Salome, Dance of the Seven Veils.
11:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
Monday 6
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin, Op. 24: Polonaise and Waltz – Radio France Phil/Paavo Järvi. Virgin 45609-2. [10:58]
11:00 Joaquín Turina Mujeres de Sevilla, Op. 89 – Sara Davis Buechner, p. Connoisseur CD-4186. [13:29]
12:00 William Boyce Overture No. 5 in F – Cantilena/ Adrian Shepherd. Chandos CHAN-6531. [8:17]
1:00 Agathe Backer Grøndahl in the Blue Mountains (A Fairy Tale Suite), Op. 44 –Natalia Strelchenko, p. Arena AR-07015. [14:12]
2:00 Daniel-François Auber The Bronze Horse: Overture – BBC Phil/Yan Pascal Tortelier. Chandos CHAN-9765. [7:20]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Copland Appalachian Spring: Suite – Music@ Menlo Ensemble. Music@ Menlo 2012 (6). [23:19]
4:00 William Dawson Negro Folk Symphony: III. Finale, O, Le’ Me Shine, Shine like a Morning Star! – Seattle Sym/Roderick Cox. Seattle Symphony Media SSM-1027. [7:37]
5:00 Howard Hanson Symphony No. 7, A Sea Symphony – Seattle Sym & Cho/Gerard Schwarz. Delos DE-3130. [18:08]
6:00 Brahms Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-Flat, Op. 83: I. Allegro non troppo – Hélène Grimaud, p; Vienna Phil/Andris Nelsons. DG B0019046-02 (2). [18:49]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Latin Carnival Latin America has a rich musical history that spans five centuries, shaped by the interactions between indigenous peoples and the ambitious colonial powers of Spain and Portugal. Having conducted music from Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina, Bill emphasizes that ‘we can hear the echoes of cultural collisions’ in many of the featured works. Bill highlights compositions from Mexico by Padilla and Ponce, then moves to South America to explore pieces by Ginastera, Villa-Lobos, and Piazzolla.
8:00 Live from WFMT The season premiere features a special performance by the Miró Quartet live from the Levin Performance Studio.
10:00 The WFMT Orchestra Series: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Bartók Violin Concerto No. 2; Bach Allemande, from Partita No. 1, BWV 1002; Christian Tetzlaff, violin; Berlioz Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14; Edward Gardner, conductor.
Tuesday 7
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Handel Oboe Concerto No. 3 in G
Andreas Scholl, one of the world’s most popular countertenors, recorded his first solo album at age 26 for Harmonia Mundi. Deutsche Barocklieder, an anthology of German Baroque song, covered much chronological and stylistic ground, and revealed a fully formed artist of remarkable versality and intelligence with the consummate ease and understanding of a singer already at the top of his game. Scholl’s mastery of intonation, coloratura passagework, language, and phrasing have been trademarks of his performances and recordings ever since. His discography now includes more 40 titles with more than 20 recordings on the Harmonia Mundi label alone. To celebrate the 30-year anniversary of Deutsche Barocklieder, Harmonia Mundi has reissued six of his iconic recitals as a glorious tribute to a singer at the summit of his art. Andreas Scholl joins WFMT to retrace the high points of his career to date.
Saturday, October 11
4:00 pm
minor – Malcolm Messiter, ob; Guildhall String Ensemble/Robert Salter. RCA 60224-2-RC. [9:19]
11:00 Herbert Clarke Valse Brillante, Sounds from the Hudson – Wynton Marsalis, cornet; Eastman Wind Ensemble/Donald Hunsberger. CBS MK-42137. [8:07]
12:00 Britten The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34 – Kansas City Sym/ Michael Stern. Reference RR-120. [17:02]
1:00 Vítezslava Kaprálová Legenda – Dawn Wohn, v; Esther Park, p. Delos DE-3547. [6:16]
2:00 Robert Schumann Symphony No. 1 in B-Flat, Op. 38, Spring – Chamber Orch of
Europe/Yannick Nézet-Séguin. DG 4792437 (2). [29:25]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F Major, BWV 1046 – Academy of Ancient Music/Richard Egarr. Harmonia Mundi HMU-807461.62 (2). [21:38]
4:00 Falla Seven Popular Spanish Songs – Anne Gastinel, vc; Pablo Márquez, g. Naïve V-5182. [13:40]
5:00 John Jenkins Fantasia Suite in A minor – Rachel Podger, v; Brecon Baroque. Channel Classics CCS-46234. [11:11]
6:00 Clara Schumann Three Romances, Op. 22 –Isabelle van Keulen, v; Ronald Brautigam, p. Koch 3-6554-2. [8:52]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Latin Carnival See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evening Music
10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Korngold Much Ado About Nothing incidental music, Op. 11; Danbi Um, violin; Orion Weiss, piano; Prokofiev Romeo and Juliet selections; Matthew Lipman, viola; Henry Kramer, piano; Lutoslawski Dance Preludes; Sebastian Manz, clarinet; Danae Dörken, piano; Adams Road Movies; Kristin Lee, violin; Michael Stephen Brown, piano.
11:00 Evening Music
Wednesday 8
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Falla The Three-Cornered Hat: Suite – Simón Bolívar Sym Orch/Eduardo Mata. Dorian DOR-90210. [12:46]
11:00 Ola Gjeilo The Lake Isle –Tenebrae/Nigel Short; Ola Gjeilo, p; Kristian Kvalvaag, g; str quartet. Decca B0024646-02. [6:18]
12:15 Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts Violist Laura Liu and pianist Victor Santiago Asunción perform music by Price, William Bergsma, and Brahms, live from Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.
1:00 Glazunov The Seasons, Op. 67: Autumn – Royal Phil Orch/Vladimir Ashkenazy. Decca 433000-2. [12:00]
2:00 Saint-Saëns Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op. 61 –Renaud Capuçon, v; Radio France Phil/Lionel Bringuier. Erato 934134-2. [28:53]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including
Liszt Années de pèlerinage: 2nd Year, Italy: No. 7, Après une lecture du Dante –Daniel Barenboim, p. Warner 69785-2. [17:14]
4:00 Debussy Images, Set 1 –Seong-Jin Cho, p. DG 4798308. [16:19]
5:00 Respighi The Fountains of Rome – Philadelphia Orch/Riccardo Muti. EMI CDR5-69831-2. [15:20]
6:00 William Grant Still Violin and Piano Suite – Randall Goosby, v; Zhu Wang, p. Decca B0033878-02. [14:17]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Latin Carnival See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evening Music
10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree: Bach’s Mass in B minor Nicholas Kraemer leads the Czech Philharmonic, Collegium Vocale 1704, and vocal soloists in Bach’s monumental masterpiece. Recorded live in concert January 24, 2025, in Dvorák Hall, Rudolfinum, Prague.
Thursday 9
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Johann Friedrich Fasch Sinfonia in B-flat Major – Tempesta di Mare. Chandos CHAN-0829. [9:59]
11:00 Josef Lanner Die Neapolitaner Waltzes, Op. 107 – Ensemble Wien. Sony SK-57974. [8:49]
12:00 Beethoven Coriolan Overture, Op. 62 – Vienna Phil/Claudio Abbado. DG 429762-2 (2). [8:04]
1:00 Beach Four Sketches, Op. 15: No. 3, Dreaming –Alan Feinberg, p. Argo 436752-2. [6:25]
2:00 Mozart Clarinet Quintet in A, K. 581 – Eduard Brunner, cl; Hagen Quartet. DG 419600-2. [31:06]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Josef Suk String Serenade in E-Flat, Op. 6 – Polish Radio Chamber Orch/ Agnieszka Duczmal. ASV CDQS-6094. [23:19]
4:00 Grace Williams Ave Maris Stella – Richard Hickox Singers/Richard Hickox. Chandos CHAN-9617. [11:17]
5:00 Felix Mendelssohn Piano Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25 – Cyprien Katsaris, p; Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur. Warner 62769-2 (5). [17:30]
6:00 Dvorák Czech Suite, Op. 39 –Milwaukee Sym Orch/Zdenek Macal. Koss KC-1002. [24:16]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill
McGlaughlin: Latin Carnival See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evening Music
10:00 The New York Philharmonic This Week. Please visit wfmt. com for more information.
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Paul Dukas Villanelle – Hermann Baumann, hn; Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur. Philips 416380-2. [6:03]
11:00 Virgil Thomson The Plow That Broke the Plains: Suite – Los Angeles Chamber Orch/Neville Marriner. EMI CDM7-64306-2. [12:29]
12:00 Liszt Mephisto Waltz No. 1 (Dance in the Village Inn) – Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur. EMI
The Dangling Participles are a Lansing, Michigan-based band with a diverse song set ranging from indie folk and Americana to jazz and pop. The soulful vocals of the band’s core duo (guitarist Austin Kaufmann and Tamiko Rothhorn on cornet and ukulele) give the group its signature sound, rich in harmonies. The Dang Ps (as their fans call them) have been performing genre-hopping originals and covers throughout midMichigan since 2015. They pair their love for songwriting, harmonizing, and arranging with a lively on-stage experience. Marilyn Rea Beyer welcomes Austin and Tamiko to their Folkstage debut, live from St. Tim’s Coffeehouse in Evanston.
Saturday, October 11 8:00 pm
Mozart’s Viola Quintet in C Major
Wednesday, November 12 / 7:30PM
Brandenburg Concertos
Thursday, December 4 / 7:30PM
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Mornings News and weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 9:00 am
Carl’s Almanac at 7:30 am
Midday with Lisa Flynn Daily Excursion at 11:00 am Music in Chicago at 12:00 pm
with Candice Agree The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm.
Mornings News and weather on the hour between
6:00 am and 9:00 am
Carl’s Almanac at 7:30 am
Midday with Lisa Flynn Daily Excursion at 11:00 am Music in Chicago at 12:00 pm
Afternoon Music with Candice Agree The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm.
Mornings News and weather on the hour between
6:00 am and 9:00 am
Carl’s Almanac at 7:30 am
Midday with Lisa Flynn Daily Excursion at 11:00 am
Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert at 12:15 pm.
Afternoon Music with Candice Agree The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm
Mornings News and weather on the hour between
6:00 am and 9:00 am
Carl’s Almanac at 7:30 am
Midday with Lisa Flynn Daily Excursion at 11:00 am Music in Chicago at 12:00 pm
Afternoon Music with Candice Agree The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm
Mornings News and weather on the hour between 6:00 am and 9:00 am
Carl’s Almanac at 7:30 am
Midday with Lisa Flynn Daily Excursion at 11:00 am Music in Chicago at 12:00 pm
Afternoon Music with Candice Agree Friday Afternoon at the Movies at 4:30 pm The Unrush Hour at 5:00 pm
Through the Night … With Heart & Voice
Weekend Mornings … Weekend Mornings
Listener’s Choice
Soundtrack
Music …
The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel 10
CDFB5-68595-2 (2). [11:00]
1:00 Fauré Barcarolle No. 3 in G-Flat, Op. 42 – Charles Owen, p. Avie AV-2240. [7:17]
2:00 Stravinsky The Firebird: Suite – St. Petersburg Phil Orch/Vladimir Ashkenazy. Decca 448812-2. [24:42]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Sibelius Symphony No. 7 in C, Op. 105 – Gothenburg Sym Orch/Neeme Järvi. BIS CD-622/24 (4). [21:10]
4:00 Mozart Piano Sonata No. 17 in D, K. 576 –Andreas Haefliger, p. Avie AV-0025. [14:35]
5:00 Franz Krommer Oboe Concerto No. 2 in F, Op. 52 – Alex Klein, ob; Czech National Sym Orch/ Paul Freeman. Cedille CDR-90000045. [19:35]
6:00 Brahms Violin Sonata No. 2 in A, Op. 100 – Christian Tetzlaff, v; Lars Vogt, p. EMI CDC5-57525-2. [18:52]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Latin Carnival
See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evening Music
11:00 Best of Studs Terkel: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Part 2 (1/30/1970) Studs Terkel welcomed the lyrical
and powerful German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (1925–2012) for an extended two – hour program of music and conversation. This week, we hear part two of that treasured archive broadcast.
Saturday 11
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
7:00 Weekend Mornings with news at 7:00 am. Schubert Wanderer Fantasy in C, D 760 – Murray Perahia, p. CBS MK-42124. [21:48]
8:00 Saturday Morning Listener’s Choice
9:00 Soundtrack
10:00 Saint-Saëns Morceau de concert in G, Op. 154 – Isabelle Moretti, h; Southwest German Radio Sym Orch/Klaus Arp. Koch 3-1142-2. [12:02]
11:00 Introductions: Highlights for Hispanic & Latin American Heritage Month Music by Leo Brouwer, Alberto Ginastera, Carlos Guastavino, Belford Hernandez, Heitor VillaLobos, and Astor Piazzolla.
12:00 From Salzburg Festival: Handel’s Giulio Cesare Christophe Dumaux (Giulio Cesare); Olga
Kulchynska (Cleopatra); Lucile Rechardot (Cornelia); Federico Florio (Sesto); Yurly Mynenko (Tolomeo); Adrey Zhilikhovsky (Achilla); Jake Ingbar (Nireno); Salzburg Bach Choir & Le Concert d’Astrée; Emmanuelle Haïm, conductor. Sung in Italian.
3:30 Afternoon Music including Christopher Tin The Lost Birds: I. Flocks A Mile Wide –Royal Phil Orch/Christopher Tin. Decca 4858030. [5:16]
4:00 Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho An interview with the acclaimed German countertenor Andreas Scholl who marks his 30th anniversary as recording artist for Harmonia Mundi in 2025.
5:00 Music with Jan Weller including Ravel La valse –Orch de Paris/Klaus Mäkelä. Decca 4870959. [12:47]
6:00 Bach Prelude and Fugue in E-Flat, BWV 552, St Anne (orchestrated by Davis) – BBC Phil/Sir Andrew Davis. Chandos CHAN20400. [15:08]
7:00 Jacques-Féreol Mazas Le Songe: Élégie sur La Favorite de Donizetti, Op. 92 –Antoine Tamestit, vi; Cédric Tiberghien, p. Harmonia
Mundi HMM-902277. [11:58]
8:00 Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer Live from St. Tim’s Coffeehouse in Skokie : Watch your language! The Dangling Participles, a witty duo from Lansing, Michigan, make their Folkstage debut.
9:00 The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer Celebrate National Coming Out Day with musical doors, windows, and other ways to be open and honest about who we are and who we love.
Sunday 12
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 With Heart and Voice Autumn Reverie. Sacred choral and organ music for reflection will be the focus of this episode, with music both old and new. Join host Peter DuBois for this devotional program.
7:00 Weekend Mornings including Richard Strauss Wind Serenade in E-flat, Op. 7 –Netherlands Wind Ensemble. Philips 438748-2 (2). [8:50]
8:00 Leoš Janácek The Fiddler’s Child – Royal Stockholm Phil Orch/Andrew Davis. Finlandia 21449-2. [11:43]
The WFMT Orchestra Series presents a new season of performances from the Los Angeles Philharmonic — a broadcast series that begins after the news of the appointment of Esa-Pekka Salonen to the newly established position of Creative Director. Beginning with the 2026-27 season, Salonen will conduct and curate approximately six weeks of concerts with the LA Phil, focusing on multi-disciplinary projects, festivals, and the innovative programming for which the orchestra is renowned. The LA Phil has also formed an artistic partnership with Salonen and the Philharmonie de Paris that will include a new conducting fellowship, co-commissions, and a collaborative festival in the fall of 2027. This month, LA Phil broadcasts include performances led by Zubin Mehta, Philippe Jordan, and Eun Sum Kim with concerto soloists Leonidas Kavakos, Yefim Bronfman, and Alexandre Kantorow. Check listings for more.
Mondays beginning October 13, 10:00 pm
9:00 Domenico Scarlatti Clavier Sonata in D minor, Kk. 213 (L 108) – Béla Fleck, banjo; Chris Thile, m. Sony SK-89610. [3:16]
10:00 Elena Kats-Chernin Wild Swans Suite: Eliza’s Aria – La Pietà/Angèle Dubeau, v. Analekta AN2-8754. [3:24]
11:00 Berlioz Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 – Boston Sym Orch/Charles Munch. RCA 68979-2. [46:36]
12:00 Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis including Rossini La scala di seta: Overture – Santa Cecilia Orch/Antonio Pappano. Warner 24344. [6:17]
1:00 Philip Glass Select Piano Etudes – Vanessa Wagner, p. Infiné IF-1099. [14:57]
2:00 Brahms Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 – Chicago Sym Orch/Sir Georg Solti. Decca 414458-2. [49:01]
3:00 Ravinia Festival 2025: Plínio Fernandes Acclaimed for his masterful fusion of classical guitar with Brazilian folk music, Plínio Fernandes takes audiences on a captivating journey through Bach and his echoes in Brazilian music His program Bach in Brazil features works by Villa-Lobos and Bach, and popular Brazilian songs. Recorded August 26, 2025 in Bennett Gordon Hall.
5:00 Joel Puckett There Was a Child Went Forth –Nicholas Phan, t; London Sym Orch/Joseph Young. Avie AV-2751. [19:37]
6:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts. Britten The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra, Op. 34; Seiji Ozawa, conductor; Jessie Montgomery Banner; Einojuhani
Rautavaara Canticus Arcticus; Orff Carmina burana; Joélle Harvey, soprano; Reginald Mobley, countertenor; Hugh Russell, baritone; Chicago Symphony Chorus; Uniting Voices; Osmo Vänskä, conductor.
8:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: Eduardo Alonso-Crespo, Máximo Diego Pujol & Martín Matalón Fiesta celebrates the music of three Argentine living composers practicing a wide variety of styles. We’ll hear a Double Concerto for Oboe and Clarinet, tango chamber music, and a work inspired by the writings of Jorge Luis Borges.
9:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: Historic Bruckner Recordings Bruckner Symphony No. 9; Symphony No. 7.
11:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
Monday 13
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Telemann Viola Concerto in G – Antoine Tamestit, vi; Berlin Academy for Ancient Music. Harmonia Mundi HMM-902342. [11:32]
11:00 Andrew York Pacific Coast Highway – Los Angeles Guitar Quartet. Delos DE-3163. [5:04]
12:00 Korngold Much Ado About Nothing, Op. 11: Orchestral Suite (Five Pieces) –Northwest German Phil/ Werner Andreas Albert.
CPO 999046-2. [17:00]
1:00 Beethoven Andante favori in F, WoO 57 – Alfred Brendel, p. Philips 438472-2. [9:02]
2:00 Prokofiev Cinderella, Op. 87: Court Dance; Mazurka & Entrance of the Prince; Cinderella’s Arrival; Grand Waltz – St. Louis Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin. RCA RCD1-5321. [13:27]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Felix Mendelssohn The Hebrides (Fingal’s Cave) Overture, Op. 26 – Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Riccardo Chailly. Decca 4781525. [11:25]
4:00 Fauré Piano Trio in D minor, Op. 120 – Renaud Capuçon, v; Gautier Capuçon, vc; Nicholas Angelich, p. Virgin 070875-2 (5). [20:20]
5:00 Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue – Michael Boriskin, p; Eos Orch/Jonathan Sheffer. Conifer 51342-2. [17:19]
6:00 Ernest Chausson Poème, Op. 25 – Aaron Rosand, v; Southwest German Radio Orch/Rolf Reinhardt. Vox CDX-5116 (2). [17:17]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Top Shelf, Part II Closing in on twenty years, Bill has been collecting and programming music for Exploring Music. However, many of his favorite recordings don’t find their way into a thematic week and end up orphaned on a top shelf in his back room. This is the second week featuring these special recordings that have become a theme of colorful, great performances that Bill adores.
8:00 Live from WFMT A performance by the world-renowned, Grammy Awardwinning vocal ensemble Chanticleer live from the Levin Performance Studio. Recorded March 17, 2025. Hosted by Kerry Frumkin.
10:00 The WFMT Orchestra Series: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Brahms Violin Concerto; Leonidas Kavakos, violin; Symphony No. 2; Zubin Mehta, conductor.
Tuesday 14
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Carl Stamitz Clarinet Concerto No. 3 in B-Flat – Sabine Meyer, cl; St Martin’s Academy/Iona Brown. EMI CDC7-54842-2. [14:20]
11:00 Arthur Bliss Overture, Edinburgh – City of Birmingham Sym Orch/ Vernon Handley. EMI ASD-3878. [10:04]
12:00 Granados Goyescas (piano suite): No. 4, Quejas, o La Maja y el ruiseñor – Xiayin Wang, p. Chandos CHAN-10995. [5:42]
1:00 Coleridge-Taylor Ballade in D minor, Op. 4 – Curtis Stewart, v; National Phil/Michael Repper. Avie AV-2763. [12:55]
2:00 Felix Mendelssohn String Symphony No. 8 in D –Orpheus Chamber Orch. DG 437528-2. [25:45]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks – Le Concert des Nations/Jordi Savall. Alia Vox AVSA-9860. [23:05]
Grand Prize winner of the 2025 Fischoff Chamber Music Competition, the Katarina String Quartet has quickly distinguished itself as one of North America’s most compelling young ensembles. The tightly knit and community-focused ensemble currently serves as the Graduate Resident String Quartet at The Juilliard School, where they explore all chamber music from contemporary and canonized works to folk tunes. Founded in 2022 at McGill University, the quartet takes its name from luthier Katarina Guarneri, wife of violin maker Giuseppe Guarneri del Gesu. Scholars believe that she worked on her husband’s violins during the most productive years of his career. Inspired by Katarina, the KSQ celebrates the countless people and communities behind the canonized figureheads of classical music. For their Dame Myra Hess debut, the quartet presents Kevin Puts’s Credo and Hadyn’s String Quartet in C major, Op. 50/2.
Wednesday, October 15 12:15 pm
4:00 Verdi Aida: Chorus, Gloria all’Egitto (Triumphal Scene) – Chicago Sym Cho & Orch/Sir Georg Solti. Decca 430226-2. [11:48]
5:00 Josef Strauss Four Waltzes from Old Vienna –Jenny Lin, p. Steinway & Sons 30074. [5:58]
6:00 Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34: I. Allegro non troppo – Tokyo String Quartet; Jon Nakamatsu, p. Harmonia Mundi HMU-807558. [14:48]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Top Shelf, Part II See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evening Music
10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Andrew Norman Light Screens; Tara Helen O’Connor, flute; Kristin Lee, violin; Richard O’Neill, viola; Mihai Marica, cello; Barber Summer Music; Tara Helen O’Connor, flute; Stephen Taylor, oboe; Romie de Guise-Langlois, clarinet; Peter Kolkay, bassoon; Eric Reed, horn; Copland Sextet; David Shifrin, clarinet; AnneMarie McDermott, piano; Amphion String Quartet.
11:00 Evening Music
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Vaughan Williams The Wasps: Overture – BBC Sym Orch/Sir Andrew Davis. Warner 256469667-7. [9:22]
11:00 Ron Nelson Sonoran Desert Holiday – Dallas Wind Sym/Jerry Junkin. Reference RR-76. [9:39]
12:15 Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts. Katarina String Quartet (violinists Jeanel Liang and J érôme Chiasson, violist Celia Morin, and cellist Maya Enstad) performs music by Kevin Puts and Haydn, live from Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.
1:00 Mozart Symphony No. 38 in D, K. 504, Prague – London Mozart Players/Jane Glover. ASV CDDCA-647. [28:19]
2:00 François Couperin Concert royal No. 1 in G – Les Talens Lyriques/Christophe Rousset. Aparté AP-196. [11:36]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22 – Philippe Entremont, p; Philadelphia Orch/ Eugene Ormandy. CBS MYK-37805. [22:12]
4:00 Coleridge-Taylor Romance, Op. 39 – Rachel Barton Pine, v; Encore Chamber Orch/Daniel Hege. Cedille
CDR-90000035. [12:33]
5:00 Richard Strauss Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks, Op. 28 – Boston Sym Orch/Andris Nelsons. DG 4862040. [16:08]
6:00 Handel (Oboe) Concerto No. 1 in B-flat – Alison Balsom, tr; English Concert/Trevor Pinnock. EMI 40329-2. [7:28]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Top Shelf, Part II See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evening Music
10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree Harpsichordist Christophe Rousset performs selections from Couperin’s L’Art de toucher le clavecin. Recorded live in concert January 8, 2025, in Madrid’s Fundación Juan March.
Thursday 16
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Henri Vieuxtemps Violin Concerto No. 5 in A minor, Op. 37 – Itzhak Perlman, v; Orch de Paris/ Daniel Barenboim. EMI CDC7-47165-2. [20:47]
11:00 Hugo Alfvén Swedish Rhapsody No. 2, Op. 24, Uppsala Rhapsody – Royal Stockholm Phil/Neeme Järvi. BIS CD-725. [9:52]
12:00 Purcell Abdelazer: Suite – Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood. L’Oiseau-Lyre 433523-2 (5). [12:41]
1:00 Ravel Le tombeau de Couperin – Cleveland Orch/Pierre Boulez. DG B0002121-02. [17:46]
2:00 Rachmaninoff Etudestableaux, Op. 39: No. 2 in A minor – Nikolai Lugansky, p. Harmonia Mundi HMM-902297. [7:08]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Smetana Vltava (The Moldau) – RCA Victor Sym Orch/Leopold Stokowski. RCA 62601-2. [12:21]
4:00 Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson String Sinfonietta No. 1 –Chicago Sinfonietta/ Paul Freeman. Cedille CDR-90000087. [15:16]
5:00 Eric Whitacre Little Tree –Elora Festival Singers/Noel Edison; Leslie De’Ath, p. Naxos 8.559677. [5:37]
6:00 Beethoven Leonore Overture No. 3 in C, Op. 72b –Leipzig Gewandhaus Orch/Kurt Masur. Philips 416281-2 (3). [14:03]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Top Shelf, Part II See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evening Music
10:00 The New York Philharmonic This Week. Please visit wfmt. com for more information.
Friday 17
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Price String Quartet in G (unfinished) –Catalyst Quartet. Azica ACD-71346. [16:16]
11:00 Richard Addinsell Warsaw Concerto – Jean-Yves Thibaudet, p; BBC Sym Orch/Hugh Wolff. Decca 460503-2. [8:53]
12:00 Johann David Heinichen Dresden Concerto in G, S 217 – Musica Antiqua Cologne/Reinhard Goebel. Archiv 437549-2 (2). [14:49]
1:00 Dvorák in Nature’s Realm Overture, Op. 91 – Czech Phil/Libor Pešek. Virgin 90791-2. [14:01]
2:00 Luigi Boccherini Symphony in C, Op. 37, No. 1 (G 515) –London Festival Orch/ Ross Pople. Hyperion CDA-66904. [13:50]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Ravel Piano Concerto in G – Yundi Li, p; Berlin Phil/Seiji Ozawa. DG B0010175-02. [20:51]
4:00 Rimsky-Korsakov Russian Easter Overture, Op. 36 –Baltimore Sym Orch/ David Zinman. Telarc CD-80378. [14:26]
5:00 Mozart Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K. 550 – Apollo’s Fire/Jeannette Sorrell. Avie AV-2159. [31:02]
6:00 Richard Strauss Aus Italien, Op. 16: III. Am Strande von Sorrent (On the Shores of Sorrento) – Berlin Phil/ Riccardo Muti. Philips 422399-2. [11:51]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Top Shelf, Part II See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evening Music
11:00 Best of Studs Terkel: Brother John Sellers (7/2/1982) Brother John Sellers (1924 –1999) was a friend of Big Bill Broonzy, godson of Mahalia Jackson, and an inspired singer of gospel, folk, and work songs. This conversation with Studs Terkel dates from 1982 and includes many recordings and remembrances.
Saturday 18
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
7:00 Weekend Mornings with news at 7:00 am. Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-Flat, Op. 73,
Emperor: I. Allegro – Stewart Goodyear, p; BBC National Orchestra of Wales/Andrew Constantine. Orchid Classics ORC-100127. [20:11]
8:00 Saturday Morning Listener’s Choice
9:00 Soundtrack
10:00 Sofiane Pamart Chicago; Paris – Sofiane Pamart, p. Urban PIASU-166D. [7:48]
11:00 Introductions Edie Park, 15, piano. Scarlatti Keyboard Sonata in D, K.29; Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 3 in C, 1st mvt; Chopin Scherzo No. 2 in B-flat minor, Op. 31; Jean Ahn Ongheya
12:00 From Salzburg Festival: Charpentier’s Louise Elsa Dreisig (Louise); Adam Smith (Julien); Sophie Koch (Mother); Nicolas Courjal (Father); Grégoire Mour (Un Marchand d’habits); Annick Massis (Balayeuse); Marianne Croux (Irma); Carol Garcia (Gertrude); Karolina Bengtsson (Camille); Marie Thérèse Keller (Madeleine); Julie Pasturaud (Marguerite); Marion Bergez-Pascal (Élise); Marion Lebègue (Suzanne); Jennifer Courceir (Blanche); Lyon Opera Children’s Chorus, Opera Chorus, and Orchestra; Giacomo Sagripanti, conductor. Sung in French.
2:30 Afternoon Music including Bizet The Pearl Fishers: Aria, Je crois entendre encore –Célia Oneto Bensaid, p. Bru Zane BZ-1059. [3:10]
3:00 Damien Geter String Quartet No. 1, Neo-Soul: I. Bop – I Voglar Belgique & R Chen, v’s; J Arnold, vi; N Ives, vc. Navona NV-6625. [5:22]
4:00 Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho A bicentennial celebration of Johann Strauss, Jr. , born October 25, 1825 with favorite recordings of Die Fledermaus, “Voices of Spring,” and other operettas and songs.
5:00 Music with Jan Weller including Helene Liebmann Piano Trio in A, Op. 11 –Gernot Süßmuth, v; Ramon Jaffé, vc; Monica Gutman, p. CPO 555638-2. [19:58]
6:00 Joel Puckett Short Stories – Soloists; London Sym Orch/Joseph Young. Avie AV-2751. [22:51]
7:00 Stravinsky Petrushka: Suite – Chicago Sym Orch/ Carlo Maria Giulini. EMI 85974-2 (4). [24:29]
8:00 Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer From the archives: Phil Ochs Song Night featuring Sonny Ochs, Josh White, Jr., Bonnie Koloc, Greg Greenway, and more recorded at the Old Town School of Folk Music in 2009.
9:00 The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer The Great Northward Migration from the American South brought so much music with it that we will only be able to scratch the surface during this three-hour show.
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 With Heart and Voice Birthdays. October is a stellar month for composer birthdays. Host Peter DeBois marks the birthdays of a number of choral and organ composers, including Schutz, Vaughan Williams, Willan, Howells, and others.
7:00 Weekend Mornings including Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 in F minor, Op. 36 –Colorado Sym/Marin Alsop. Naxos 8.555714. [44:05]
8:00 Anatol Liadov The Enchanted Lake, Op. 62 – Cincinnati Pops Orch/Erich Kunzel. Telarc CD-80657. [8:08]
9:00 Bach Viola da gamba Sonata No. 2 in D, BWV 1028 – Sarah Cunningham, viga; Richard Egarr, hc. Avie AV-2491. [14:18]
10:00 Engelbert Humperdinck Hansel and Gretel: Overture –Vienna Phil/Christoph Eschenbach. Sony Classical 88985425932. [8:50]
11:00 Coleridge-Taylor Four African Dances, Op. 58 –Samuel Nebyu, v; Bethany Brooks, p. BCM+D Records 888295594394. [19:01]
12:00 Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis including Bernstein West Side Story: Variants – Richard Stoltzman, cl; London Sym Orch/ Michael Tilson Thomas. RCA 61790-2. [12:45]
1:00 Rebecca Clarke Dumka –Hélène Collerette, v; Vinciane Béranger, vi; Dana Ciocarlie, p. Aparté AP-289. [9:30]
2:00 Schubert Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat, D. 485 – Dresden Staatskapelle/Sir Colin Davis. RCA 68546-2. [29:16]
3:00 Ravinia Festival 2025: Apollo’s Fire The Grammywinning Baroque orchestra Apollo’s Fire, under the direction of renowned conductor Jeannette Sorrell, with a red-hot program of fiery musical “duels.” Highlights include Bach’s beloved Concerto for Two Violins and René Schiffer’s thrilling “Tango” Concerto for Two Violas da Gamba. Recorded June 25, 2025, in the Martin Theatre.
5:00 Philip Glass Piano Etude No. 11 – Vanessa Wagner, p. Infiné IF-1099. [9:30]
6:00 Chicago Symphony
Orchestra Radio Broadcasts. Carlos Simon Amen; Rachmaninov Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43; Stravinsky The Rite of Spring; Marin Alsop, conductor; Borodin Polovtsian Dances; Mussorgsky A Night on Bare Mountain; Stravinsky Fireworks; Seiji Ozawa, conductor.
8:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: Heroes and Liberators The stories of South American heroes and liberators are set to music in this special episode of Fiesta. We will hear music inspired by the Mexican hero Emiliano Zapata and the first attempt at Brazilian independence, led by revolutionary Tiradentes. Compositions by Venezuelan super-star Gustavo Dudamel, Spanish composer Leonaro Balada, and Brazilian composer Guerra Peixe.
9:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: Verdi’s Il trovatore A major restoration of a classic recording of Il trovatore conducted by Renato Cellini featuring Zinka Milanov (Leonora), Jussi Björling (Manrico), Fedora Barbieri (Azucena), and Leonard Warren (Count di Luna).
11:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Rossini La gazza ladra: Overture –London Classical Players/ Roger Norrington. EMI CDC7-54091-2. [9:26]
11:00 Tchaikovsky Capriccio italien, Op. 45 – St. Louis Sym Orch/Leonard Slatkin. RCA 60433-2. [16:26]
12:00 Nicola Matteis Sett of Ayres in G – Musica Pacifica. Solimar 101. [9:25]
1:00 Schubert Arpeggione Sonata in A minor, D. 821 – David Finckel, vc; Wu Han, p. ArtistLed 10401-2. [26:13]
2:00 Michael Torke Javelin –Atlanta Sym Orch/Yoel Levi. Argo 452101-2. [8:30]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Albert Roussel Symphony No. 4 in A, Op. 53 – Suisse Romande Orch/Ernest Ansermet. Decca 433719-2. [22:37]
4:00 Mozart Bassoon Concerto in B-Flat, K. 191 – Frank Morelli, bn; Orpheus Chamber Orch. DG 423623-2. [18:55]
5:00 Scott Hiltzik Spirals – Bay Brass. Harmonia Mundi
HMU-807556. [5:28]
6:00 Vivaldi L’estro armonico Concerto No. 10 in B minor, R. 580 – Avi Avital, m; Il Giardino Armonico/Giovanni Antonini. DG 4865228. [8:43]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Symphonies Numbered Nine Bill takes a cross-section of the art form with symphonies numbered “nine.” These are varied works by seasoned composers, ranging from the young Mozart to the older Beethoven and into the nineteenth century, with compositions by Roger Sessions and Roy Harris. And for fun, we’ll hear Papa Haydn’s Symphonies Nos. 9 and 99.
8:00 Live from WFMT Violinist Paul Huang and pianist Helen Huang share selections from their recent album Mirrors, recorded in the Levin Studio. Originally broadcast April 24, 2025.
10:00 The WFMT Orchestra Series: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5, Emperor; Yefim Bronfman, piano; Bach Air from Orchestral Suite No.3 in D major, BWV 1068; Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6, Pathétique; Philippe Jordan, conductor.
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Domenico Cimarosa Il matrimonio segreto: Overture – Royal Scottish National Orch/Lance Friedel. Naxos 8.573418. [6:43]
11:00 Albéniz Suite española, Op. 47: Asturias; Sevilla –Emerald Brass Quintet. Albany TROY-1839. [11:33]
12:00 Handel Water Music Suite No. 2 in D – Berlin Academy for Ancient Music. Harmonia Mundi HMC-902216. [11:07]
1:00 Beach Ballade, Op. 6 –Alan Feinberg, p. Argo 430330-2. [10:10]
2:00 Debussy Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun – Orch de Paris/Klaus Mäkelä. Decca 4870146. [10:44]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Franz Krommer Oboe Concerto No. 1 in F, Op. 37 – Alex Klein, ob; Czech National Sym Orch/ Paul Freeman. Cedille CDR-90000045. [21:54]
4:00 Wagner Die Walküre : Wotan’s Farewell & Magic Fire Music –Vienna Phil/Sir Georg Solti. Decca 4758525 (5). [15:04]
5:00 Mel Bonis Ophélie, Op. 165,
No. 1 – María García, p. Navona NV-6456. [5:31]
6:00 Beethoven The Consecration of the House Overture, Op. 124 – Philadelphia Orch/ Riccardo Muti. Warner 0825646278299. [10:06]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Symphonies Numbered Nine See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evening Music
10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Ravel Le tombeau de Couperin; Sooyun Kim, flute; James Austin Smith, oboe; Romie de Guise-Langlois, clarinet; Marc Goldberg, bassoon; Eric Reed, horn; Schubert Quartet in A minor, D. 804, Op. 29, No. 1, Rosamunde; Escher String Quartet.
11:00 Evening Music
Wednesday 22
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
10:00 Midday with Lisa Flynn including Gershwin Three Preludes (1926) – Romain Leleu, tr; Julien Gernay, p. Harmonia Mundi HMM-905381. [6:40]
11:00 Jens Kruger Roan Mountain Suite: VI. Slow Clouds –Kruger Brothers; Kontras Quartet. Double Time Music DTM-027. [5:37]
12:15 Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concerts Pianist Linda Lea performs music by Brahms and Scriabin, live from Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago.
1:00 Vivaldi Sinfonia in G, R. 146 – Venice Baroque Orch/ Andrea Marcon. Archiv B0006728-02. [7:16]
2:00 Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 5 in F, Op. 103, Egyptian –Stephen Hough, p; City of Birmingham Sym Orch/ Sakari Oramo. Hyperion CDA-67331/2 (2). [26:51]
3:00 Afternoon Music with Candice Agree including Bologne Violin Concerto in D, Op. 3, No. 1 – Qian Zhou, v; Toronto Chamber Orch/Kevin Mallon. Naxos 8.557322. [18:16]
4:00 Robert Schumann Märchenbilder, Op. 113 –Matthew Lipman, vi; Henry Kramer, p. Cedille CDR-90000184. [14:57]
5:00 Joan Baptista Pla Two-Flute Concerto in D – Claudi Arimany, f; Franz Liszt Chamber Orch/ Jean-Pierre Rampal, f. Sony SK-58918. [14:40]
6:00 Prokofiev Symphony No. 1 in D, Op. 25, Classical –Chicago Sym Orch/
Oliver Talukder, a Philadelphia-based oboist of Mexican and Bengali heritage, brings a unique blend of cultural influences to the world of classical music. Born and raised in the suburbs of Chicago. Oliver’s musical journey began at age 10. He credits programs like the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras, People’s Music School, and Chicago Musical Pathways Initiative with shaping his path. Oliver currently serves as the Second Oboist in the Opera Philadelphia Orchestra. His versatility and artistry have led him to appear as a guest musician with illustrious ensembles such as the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Princeton Symphony Orchestra, and Symphony in C. Last May, Oliver was named the winner of the Cedille Records Emerging Artist Competition, earning a recording contract and the opportunity to release his debut solo album on the internationally acclaimed label. For his Live from WFMT recital, he is joined by Philadelphi-based pianist Moriah Trenk, the same collaborator who bolstered the oboist to his triumphant competition win.
Monday, October 27
8:00 pm
Carlo Maria Giulini. DG 4779628. [14:30]
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Symphonies Numbered Nine See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evening Music
10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree: The Brandenburg Concertos Swiss recorder player and conductor Maurice Steger and Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra present Bach’s six
Brandenburg Concertos. Recorded in concert March 27, 2025, at Broadcasting Hall, Frankfurt, Germany.
Thursday 23
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
7:00 WFMT Membership Drive until 7:00 pm. Enjoy the best classical music through the day with your favorite WFMT personalities and special guests, and support the music you love by calling (773) 2792100 or by visiting wfmt.com.
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Symphonies Numbered Nine See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evening Music
10:00 The New York Philharmonic This Week. Please visit wfmt. com for more information.
Friday 24
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
7:00 WFMT Membership Drive until 7:00 pm. Enjoy the best classical music through the day with your favorite WFMT personalities and special guests, and support the music you love by calling (773) 2792100 or by visiting wfmt.com.
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Symphonies Numbered Nine See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evening Music
11:00 Best of Studs Terkel: Music of the Great Depression (2/27/1992) October 29, 1929 – Black Tuesday – the day of the colossal crash of the stock market which preceded the worldwide, decade-long, economic financial crisis known as the Great Depression. Studs first presented this hour of music from the era in 1992.
Saturday 25
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 WFMT Membership Drive until 12:00pm.
12:00 From Aix-en-Provence Festival: Bizet’s Pearl Fishers Elsa Benoit (Leïla); Pene Pati (Nadir); Florian Sempey (Zurga); Edwin Crossley-Mercer (Nourabad); Grand Avignon Opera Chorus & Les Musiciens du Louvre; Marc Minkowski, conductor. Sung in French.
2:30 Afternoon Music Johann Strauss II Die Fledermaus Quadrille, Op. 363 – Berlin Phil/Herbert von Karajan.
DG 410027-2. [5:08]
3:00 Johann Strauss II Waltz, Frühlingsstimmen (Voices of Spring), Op. 410 – Sumi Jo, s; Vienna Volksoper Orch/Rudolf Bibl. Erato 25500-2. [7:22]
4:00 Listening to Singers with Oliver Camacho An interview with VOCES8 artistic director Barnaby Smith and alto Katie Jeffrie-Harris on the ensemble’s twentieth anniversary season.
5:00 Music with Jan Weller including Johann Strauss II Waltz, Wine, Women and Song, Op. 333 – Diabolicus/ Dietrich Henschel. Naïve AM-137. [12:36]
6:00 Johann Strauss II Waltz, On the Beautiful Blue Danube, Op. 314 – Vienna Phil/Carlos Kleiber. CBS MK2-45564 (2). [9:45]
7:00 Johann Strauss II Waltz, Wiener Blut, Op. 354 –Rachel Willis-Sørensen, s; Jonas Kaufmann, t; Vienna Phil/Ádám Fischer. Sony 19075950412. [8:53]
8:00 Folkstage hosted by Marilyn Rea Beyer From the archives: Charming, powerful and modest, Californian Jackson Emmer came to WFMT in 2023, enthusiastically recommended by Tom Paxton with sideman Martin Gilmore, a 2025 Kerrville New Folk winner.
9:00 The Midnight Special with Marilyn Rea Beyer Made in Chicago: a cavalcade of Windy City folksinger and songs about our hometown to accompany WFMT’s on-air membership drive.
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 With Heart and Voice Reformation Sunday. The Reformation was something of a seismic event in the evolution of the Church. Host Peter DuBois shares music from the time of the Reformation, as well as music that resulted from the creative expression that has blossomed since.
7:00 Weekend Mornings including Mozart Symphony No. 35 in D, K. 385, Haffner – Orch Mozart/Claudio Abbado. Archiv 4777598 (2). [20:54]
8:00 Sting Saint Agnes and the Burning Train – Soweto String Quartet; Johan Laas, syn. RCA 26865-2. [2:42]
9:00 Maddalena Sirmen String Quartet No. 5 in F minor –Allegri String Quartet. Cala CACD-1019. [12:30]
10:00 Howard Shore The Forest: Movement I – Miloš, g; National Arts Centre
Orch/Alexander Shelley. Decca 4851597. [7:00]
11:00 Saint-Saëns Danse macabre, Op. 40 – French National Orch/Lorin Maazel. CBS MDK-45530. [6:37]
12:00 Sunday Afternoons with Robbie Ellis including Edmund Thornton Jenkins Charlestonia - Folk Rhapsody – Prague Radio Sym Orch/Julius Williams. Albany TROY-1971. [15:20]
1:00 Dietrich Buxtehude Trio Sonata in B-Flat, Op. 1, No. 4 –Filament. Bridge 9603. [8:04]
2:00 Prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 in C, Op. 26 – Behzod Abduraimov, p; RAI National Sym Orch/Juraj Valcuha. Decca 4785360. [28:28]
3:00 Vivaldi Cello Concerto in G, R. 413 – Lynn Harrell, vc; English Chamber Orch/ Pinchas Zukerman. EMI CDM7-64326-2. [10:13]
4:00 Franck Violin Sonata in A – Lisa Batiashvili, v; Giorgi Gigashvili, p. DG 4860462. [27:25]
5:00 Alessandro Stradella Exultate in Deo fideles – Gabriele Lombardi, b; Concerto Italiano/Rinaldo Alessandrini. Naïve OP-7192. [9:28]
6:00 Chicago Symphony Orchestra Radio Broadcasts. Symphonic excerpts of operas by Glinka, Beethoven, Strauss, Copland, Mascagni, Rossini, and Wagner conducted by Fritz Reiner, Artur Rodzinski, and Daniel Barenboim.
8:00 Fiesta! with Elbio Barilari: Visions of Mexico One of the powerhouses of Latin American music, Mexico is home to some of the great composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. Elbio shares many different musical visions of Mexico starting with the composer of the famous Huapango, José Pablo Moncayo, and including recent works by Emilio Toussaint and Hebert Vázquez.
9:00 Collectors’ Corner with Henry Fogel: Wilhelm Furtwängler Conducts Repertoire Not Usually Associated with Him. Ravel Rapsodie espagnole; Daphnis et ChloeSuite No. 2; Franck Symphony in D; Sibelius Violin Concerto.
11:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
Monday 27
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
7:00 WFMT Membership Drive until 7:00 pm. Enjoy the best classical music through the
day with your favorite WFMT personalities and special guests, and support the music you love by calling (773) 2792100 or by visiting wfmt.com.
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Schubertiade, Part II The title refers to home music-making among Franz Schubert’s wide circle of friends, who sang his songs and played his piano pieces and chamber music during house parties. These were evenings among semi-Bohemians, rich with music and conversations. This week, Bill explores the chamber-music compositions of Schubert.
8:00 Live from WFMT Winner of Cedille Records’ Emerging Artist Competition, oboist Oliver Talukder, who originally appeared on Introductions returns to the Levin Studio with pianist Moriah Trenk for a solo recital.
10:00 The WFMT Orchestra Series: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Nico Muhly Concerto Grosso (World Premiere, LA Phil Commission); Denis Bouriakov, flute; David Rejano Cantero, trombone; Matthew Howard, percussion; Robert deMaine, cello; Rachmaninoff Symphony No. 3; Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini; Alexandre Kantorow, piano;
Tuesday 28
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
7:00 WFMT Membership Drive until 7:00 pm. Enjoy the best classical music through the day with your favorite WFMT personalities and special guests, and support the music you love by calling (773) 2792100 or by visiting wfmt.com.
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Schubertiade, Part II See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evening Music
10:00 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Tchaikovsky Les saisons, Op. 37b; Inon Barnatan, piano; Crumb Three Early Songs; Tony Arnold, soprano; Gilbert Kalish, piano; Joan Tower Red Maple; Peter Kolkay, bassoon; Jeffrey Myers, Ryan Meehan, violins; Jeremy Berry, viola; Estelle Choi, cello; Brahms Sonata in E-flat major, Op. 120, No. 2; Paul Neubauer, viola; Inon Barnatan, piano.
11:00 Evening Music
Wednesday 29
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
7:00 WFMT Membership Drive until 7:00 pm. Enjoy the best classical music through the day with your favorite WFMT personalities and special guests, and support the music you love by calling (773) 2792100 or by visiting wfmt.com.
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Schubertiade, Part II See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evening Music
10:00 Baroque&Before with Candice Agree: Il gusto Italiano Early music specialist Andrea Marcon leads the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra with countertenor Valer Sabadus in arias by Handel and Vivaldi. Recorded live in concert November 15, 2024, at Broadcasting Hall, Frankfurt, Germany.
Thursday 30
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
7:00 WFMT Membership Drive until 7:00 pm. Enjoy the best classical music through the day with your favorite WFMT personalities and special guests, and support the music you love by calling (773) 279-2100 or by visiting wfmt.com.
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Schubertiade, Part II See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evening Music
10:00 The New York Philharmonic This Week. Please visit wfmt. com for more information.
Friday 31
12:00 Through the Night with Peter Van De Graaff
6:00 Morning Program
7:00 WFMT Membership Drive until 7:00 pm. Enjoy the best classical music through the day with your favorite WFMT personalities and special guests, and support the music you love by calling (773) 2792100 or by visiting wfmt.com.
7:00 Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Schubertiade, Part II See Monday’s listing.
8:00 Evening Music
11:00 Best of Studs Terkel: Tom Paxton (1/30/1976) born in Chicago on October 31, 1937, Tom Paxton has been praised for his perceptive and clever musical voice for more than six decades. in this program from 1976, the American folk legend and topical songwriter shared some conversation and tunes with Studs Terkel.
