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GUIDE
JANUARY 2021
THE HEARTWARMING STORY COMES TO LIFE.
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TWO NIGHTS OF TELEVISED AUCTION FUN
Thursday, JAN 28 and Friday, JAN 29 | 8:00PM–10:00 PM
PREMIERE TELEVISED &
ONLINE AUCTION EVENT
During this time of limited in-person celebrations,
WQPT PBS is turning back the clock 37 years to present
its original fund-raising celebration!
Join Lora Adams and a variety of special guest hosts
as they present a variety of items—everything from artwork to
gift cards, staycations to Isabel Blooms and much more.
Preview the Auction Items
All of the items may be viewed online, beginning
on Tuesday, January 19 at wqpt.org/auction
How to Bid
Register at wqpt.org/auction before January 28,
then bid online or via telephone.
Auction items will be auctioned on-air in various time-periods,
so be sure to tune-in and bid during the televised auction!
EVENT SPONSORS
Quad Cities Community Foundation—Bob and Blenda Ontiveros Fund
Flooring America | Legat Architects | Modern Woodmen of America | JTM Concepts
BITCO Insurance Companies
JANUARY 2021
HIGHLIGHTS
AMERICAN
EXPERIENCE
FREEDOM RIDERS
Deliberately violating Jim Crow laws in
order to test and challenge a segregated
interstate travel system, the Freedom
Riders met with bitter racism and mob
violence along the way, sorely testing
their belief in nonviolent activism.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 17 | 10:00 PM
ELIZABETH
IS MISSING
Glenda Jackson stars
as Maud, a woman
determined to find her
missing friend Elizabeth. DECODING THE
But can she solve DRIFTLESS
the mystery of her friend’s Buckle-up for a wild ride of science-
disappearance before adventure, above, on, and within the
her dementia erases amazing Driftless Region of North America.
all the clues? Directed by Jonas Stenstrom of
WED JANUARY 20 9:00PM Untamed Science.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 10 | 7:00 PM
wqpt.org
POV
306 HOLLYWOOD
This magical realist documentary
of two siblings who undertake an
archaeological excavation of their
late grandmother’s house. They
embark on a journey from her
home in New Jersey to ancient
Rome, from fashion to physics,
in search of what life remains
in the objects we leave behind.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 7 | 10:00 PM
CYCLING
AROUND
JAPAN
Bicycle through the
scenery of Japan,
stay with locals and
discover hidden traditions
in a Japan you didn’t
know existed.
TUESDAYS | 9:00 PM
ALL CREATURES
GREAT & SMALL
James Herriot’s adventures as a
veterinarian in 1930’s Yorkshire
get a glorious new adaptation
in a seven-part series based
on his beloved books. Exciting
newcomer Nicholas Ralph will
make his television debut as
the iconic vet who became
renowned for his inspiring humor,
compassion and love of life.
BEGINS MONDAY
JANUARY 18 | 8:00 PM
JANUARY 2021
PRIMETIME
1 FRIDAY 8:00 Canyons & Ice: The
Last Run of Dick Griffith 5 TUESDAY
7:00 America’s Test Kitchen 7:00 Rick Steves’ Europe
The Most Important Meal Austrian and Italian Alps
7:30 Cook’s Country 7:30 Great Scenic
8:00 Jacques Pepin’s Railway Journeys
Heart and Soul Just Ducky! 8:00 Samantha Brown’s
8:30 Pati’s Mexican Table Places to Love
Budapest, Hungary
9:00 Christopher Kimball’s
Milk Street Television 8:30 Born to Explore
Over his life, he has crossed 6,000 with Richard Wiese
Middle East Favorites miles of the Arctic solo. Starvation,
9:30 Lidia’s Kitchen drowning, bears, foxes, blinding
10:00 Ask This Old House storms, frostbite - the list of what
Happy Holidays from Asktoh! has tried to kill Dick is long. All of it
has failed. Now, at 89, he takes one
10:30 This Old House last white water-rafting trip through
Back to Narragansett the Grand Canyon.
11:00 Austin City Limits 10:00 Ottaway:
A River Reborn
Explore the history and future Dancing with the World
of humanity’s relationship with 9:00 Cycling Around Japan
the Boardman River.
9:30 Illinois Adventure
11:00 Toward the Source:
An Arctic Odyssey 10:00 Finding Your Roots
11:00 Ottaway:
A River Reborn
Gary Clark Jr. Explore the history and future
of humanity’s relationship with
2 SATURDAY
the Boardman River.
7:00 Classic Gospel
Gospel Bluegrass Homecoming
6 WEDNESDAY
7:00 Antiques Roadshow
8:00 Austin City Limits A journey of self-discovery and New Orleans, Hour 1: A diamond
Gary Clark Jr.: Grammy & Blues spiritual awakening, as a filmmaker bracelet and a Van Cleef & Arpels
Music Award-winner Gary Clark Jr. sets out on a solo canoe journey ring, Mardi Gras Comus Krewe
performs songs off his album across the Northwest Territories parade float watercolors from 1892,
“This Land.” of Canada. and Keith Haring subway graffiti art
9:00 Song of the Mountains from around 1980.
Johnny Counterfit, The VW Boys
10:00 Backstage Pass
4 MONDAY 8:00 New Tricks
The Truth Is Out There: The team
Brother Elsey 7:00 New Tricks find themselves at the center of a
The War Against Drugs: A chance conspiracy when they reopen the
11:00 Oh, What A Night! remark leads most of the UCOS
The Best of Under the case of a dead journalist to protect
team to join him as they re- a dead officer’s reputation.
Streetlamp investigate the death of a heroin
addict at the clinic nine years earlier. 9:00 Wuthering Heights
3 SUNDAY 8:00 The Woman in White
Episode 4: Count Fosco and
7:00 NOVA Sir Percival set their sinister plan
into motion with tragic results.
Marian and Walter make a
horrifying discovery.
9:00 Poldark
on Masterpiece
Season 2, Episode 4: As the law Heathcliff and Cathy’s fiery romance
cracks down on smugglers, the in this adaptation of Emily Bronte’s
Warleggans tighten the screws classic novel. The adopted gypsy
Arctic Ghost Ship: An astonishing on Ross. boy Heathcliff finds his soulmate in
find could solve the mystery of Sir 10:00 The Forsyte Saga Cathy, but unable to have her, he
John Franklin’s lost expedition. Episode 5: Irene leaves Soames seeks vengeance on those who
for good, leaving behind everything, come between them.
including her wedding ring.
DEWITT BISHOP HILL LECLAIRE GENESEO WALCOTT VIOLA CLINTON GALVA
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10:00 Jamestown
9 SATURDAY 11 MONDAY
7:00 Classic Gospel 7:00 New Tricks
Bradley Walker, Call Me Old- The Truth Is Out There
Fashioned 8:00 The Woman in White
8:00 Austin City Limits Episode 5: Sir Percival’s secret
Austin City Limits Hall of Fame: is exposed, and Walter risks
The First Six Years everything for the woman he loves.
9:00 Song of the Mountains 9:00 Poldark
Episode 5: Governor Yeardley falls ill The Dillards & Mayberry Deputy on Masterpiece
and Farlow is quick to seize power, 10:00 Backstage Pass Season 2, Episode 5: The threat
but Redwick sees an opportunity. Joshua Powell: Psychedelic Indie rock of debtor’s prison looms for Ross.
11:00 Antiques Roadshow that blends with American folk music. Could a missing person hold the
New Orleans, Hour 2 key to his freedom?
11:00 Rick Steves’ Europe
Austrian and Italian Alps 10:00 The Forsyte Saga
7 THURSDAY 11:30 Great Scenic
Railway Journeys
7:00 The Cities
7:30 Whitney Reynolds
What Now
8:00 Legacy List
10 SUNDAY
7:00 Decoding the Driftless
with Matt Paxton
Anne Manley, Richmond, Virginia
9:00 Legacy List Episode 7: Soames continues to
with Matt Paxton be obsessed with Irene and wants
to resume their marriage since she
won’t grant a divorce, but she leaves
for Paris to escape his harassment.
11:00 The Forsyte Saga
Episode 8: Soames learns that
A wild adventure through the air, Irene and young Jolyon are
across rugged landscapes, on together at Robin Hill.
and under water, through a secret
12 TUESDAY
underworld, and across time itself
Lenis Northmore, Newark, Delaware to explore and decipher ancient
10:00 POV clues of the Driftless Region.
7:00 Rick Steves’ Europe
306 Hollywood: After the owner of 8:00 The Illinois River Swiss Alps
the house at 306 Hollywood Avenue Wetlands for Wildlife: Learn about
dies, her two grandchildren begin an the environmental changes on the 7:30 Great Scenic
epic excavation of her belongings. Illinois River and efforts to establish Railway Journeys
a healthy environment for fish 8:00 Samantha Brown’s
8 FRIDAY and waterfowl.
9:00 Glaciers of the Winds
Places to Love
The Florida Keys & Key West
8:30 Born to Explore
7:00 America’s Test Kitchen
7:30 Cook’s Country with Richard Wiese
Horse Power
8:00 Jacques Pepin’s
Heart and Soul 9:00 Cycling Around Japan
Cuisine Economique 9:30 Illinois Adventure
8:30 Pati’s Mexican Table 10:00 Finding Your Roots
9:00 Christopher Kimball’s
Milk Street Television
Vietnamese Every Day Explore how receding alpine
glaciers will affect the ecosystem,
9:30 Lidia’s Kitchen municipalities, farmers, and
10:00 Ask This Old House ranchers downstream.
Reclaim Beam Mantel, Geothermal 10:00 American Experience
10:30 This Old House The Swamp: The story of Florida’s
Upgrading Old School Everglades and the repeated efforts
to conquer what was once seen Hollywood Royalty: Isabella Rossellini,
11:00 Austin City Limits Anjelica Huston, and Mia Farrow.
Austin City Limits Hall of Fame: as a useless wasteland and the
The First Six Years passionate efforts to preserve it. 11:00 The Illinois River
Solutions for Sediment
STERLING/ROCK FALLS MUSCATINE SAVANNA
13 WEDNESDAY 14 THURSDAY 15 FRIDAY
7:00 Antiques Roadshow 7:00 The Cities 7:00 America’s Test Kitchen
American Stories: A Navajo belt, 7:30 Whitney Reynolds 7:30 Cook’s Country
bracelet & basket, a WWI peach
can label letter, and James McNeill 8:00 Legacy List 8:00 Jacques Pepin’s
Whistler artwork. with Matt Paxton Heart and Soul
8:00 New Tricks 9:00 Shattered Dreams:
Sex Trafficking in America
A look at the pervasive, dark under-
world of sex trafficking in America.
10:00 POV
Wonders of the Sea
Fresh Starts: The UCOS team 8:30 Pati’s Mexican Table
exhumes the body of car crash 9:00 Christopher Kimball’s
victim Victoria Fleeting after her Milk Street Television
husband David claims to have All-New Italian
seen her at a local playground The Apology: Meet three of the 9:30 Lidia’s Kitchen
18 months after her death. 200,000 former “comfort women”
kidnapped and forced into military 10:00 Ask This Old House
9:00 Wuthering Heights Landscape Lights, Brick Walkway
sexual slavery by the Imperial
10:00 Jamestown Japanese Army during World War II. 10:30 This Old House
Episode 6: As the settlers mark Outside Details
the harvest, an arrival in town 11:30 Decoding the Driftless
disrupts the celebrations. Buckle-up for a wild ride of science- 11:00 Austin City Limits
adventure, above, on, and within Foo Fighters perform classics and
11:00 Antiques Roadshow the amazing Driftless region of new songs from their record &
New Orleans, Hour 3 North America. documentary series Sonic Highways.
DAYTIME SCHEDULE SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
6:00AM Autoline Dinosaur Train
6:30AM America’s Heartland Pinkalicious & Peterrific
7:00AM Hero Elementary Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum
7:30AM Xavier Riddle Daniel Tiger
8:00AM Curious George Daniel Tiger
8:30AM Daniel Tiger Let's Go Luna
9:00AM Daniel Tiger Daniel Tiger
9:30AM Arthur Elinor Wonders Why
10:00AM Woodsmith Shop Sesame Street
10:30AM American Woodshop Pinkalicious & Peterrific
11:00AM Ask This Old House Am. Test Kitchen Nick Stellino Milk Street Moveable Fea
11:30AM This Old House Cook’s Country Jacques Pepin Pati's Mexican Table Lidia’s Kitche
12:00PM Rick Steves Europe Motorweek Love of Quilting Garden Smart Paint This
12:30PM Illinois Adventure Fishing... Lines It’s Sew Easy A Greener World Joy of Paintin
1:00PM Milk Street Chicago Tonight
Chicago Tonight
1:30PM Lidia’s Kitchen The Cities
2:00PM Am. Test Kitchen Sesame Street
2:30PM Cook’s Country Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum
3:00PM Jaques Pepin Odd Squad
3:30PM Nick Stellino Wild Kratts
4:00PM The Cities Curious George
4:30PM Whitney Reynolds Nature Cat
5:00PM Arthur
Antiques Roadshow
5:30PM Chicago Tonight
Chicago Tonight
6:00PM The Cities
Finding Your Roots
6:30PM BBC World News
WQPT KIDS PROGRAMS
16 SATURDAY 17 SUNDAY 10:00 American Experience
Freedom Riders: A courageous
group of African American and white
7:00 Classic Gospel 7:00 NOVA civil rights activists who in 1961
Circuit Rider rode together on buses throughout
8:00 Austin City Limits the American South to challenge
Foo Fighters perform classics and segregation.
new songs from their record &
documentary series Sonic Highways.
9:00 Song of the Mountains
Wayne Henderson & Jeff Little, Joe
18 MONDAY
7:00 New Tricks Fresh Starts
Mullins & The Radio Ramblers 8:00 All Creatures Great
10:00 Backstage Pass Secrets of Noah’s Ark: A 3,700- and Small on Masterpiece
Eliza Neals year-old inscribed clay tablet reveals
11:00 Rick Steves’ Europe a surprising new version of the
Swiss Alps Biblical flood story, complete with
how-to instructions for assembling
11:30 Great Scenic an ark. Following the directions,
Railway Journeys expert boat builders assemble
and launch a massive reed boat.
8:00 With Infinite Hope:
MLK and the Civil Rights
Movement Episode 1: James Herriot interviews
Follow King’s career from his hiring for a job with harried Yorkshire
at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church veterinarian Siegfried Farnon.
and leadership of the Montgomery His first day is full of surprises.
Bus Boycott, through his death. 9:00 Poldark
Head to West Virginia riding on two 9:00 Ripple of Hope on Masterpiece
of their most historic steam railroads. Explore the impact of Robert Season 2, Episode 6: Ross finally
Then travel back out west on the Kennedy’s speech the night finds the answers he’s been after,
Durango and Silverton. of MLK Jr.’s assassination. but the trap has already been set.
AY FRIDAY SATURDAY
Mister Rogers
Wild Kratts
Hero Elementary
Xavier Riddle
SPORTS LIFE
Curious George
Speak the Global
Daniel Tiger Language of Sport
Daniel Tiger Sports Life presents sports stories, interviews
Elinor with stars and reports from around the world.
It’s Sew Easy The new magazine covers one topic a week
Fons and Porter and shows you how sport changes people’s
ast Simply Ming
Antiques Roadshow lives. Everything we know about life can be
en New Orleans Kitchen
found in sports.
Ask This Old House
Watch Sports Life every weekend on DW.
ng This Old House
Masterpiece
& Mysteries
Lawrence Welk
Lawrence Welk wqpt.org/schedule
Schedule subject to change without notice.
10:00 The Forsyte Saga
Episode 9: The Forsyte family,
including Soames and Annette’s
21 THURSDAY 10:00 Backstage Pass
Willy Tea Taylor & The Harmed
Brothers
daughter, Fleur, gathers in London 7:00 The Cities
11:00 Rick Steves’ Europe
when June arrives with her 7:30 Whitney Reynolds French Alps and Lyon
half-brother Jon. Longhaulers
11:30 Great Scenic
11:00 The Forsyte Saga 8:00 Legacy List Railway Journeys
Episode 10: Fleur visits a farm with Matt Paxton Climb onboard the Alberta Prairie
where Jon is working. Young Jolyon, 9:00 10 Towns That Railway in Canada, then the Boone
who is ill, asks Soames to stop Fleur Changed America and Scenic Valley Railroad, and
seeing his son, but Soames was the Heber Valley Railroad in Utah.
unaware of their friendship.
19 TUESDAY 24 SUNDAY
7:00 NOVA
7:00 Rick Steves’ Europe
French Alps and Lyon
7:30 Great Scenic Railway
Journeys
Ten towns designed from the
8:00 Samantha Brown’s ground up by visionary architects,
Places to Love corporations, and citizens.
Top of the South Island,
New Zealand 10:00 NOVA
Secrets of Noah’s Ark: A team
8:30 Two for the Road attempts to build the flood boat Cuba’s Cancer Hope: Can Cuba’s
Adventure In Bolivia, Part 1 using inscriptions from an ancient innovative lung cancer vaccines
9:00 Cycling Around Japan clay tablet. give new hope to patients across
9:30 Illinois Adventure 11:00 POV the world?
10:00 Finding Your Roots 8:00 No Asylum:
Breaking The Silences: Guests The Untold Chapter
include Jordan Peele and Issa Rae. of Anne Frank’s Story
Anne Frank’s father, Otto struggled
11:00 Ripple of Hope to obtain visas to save his family
from the Holocaust, an unknown
chapter of Anne’s life now revealed
through Otto’s letters.
9:00 Dreams of Hope
Whose Streets?: When unarmed The story of a historic concert at the
teenager Michael Brown is killed by Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in
police and left lying in the street for Birmingham, Alabama, more than
hours, it marks a breaking point. 50 years after a hate crime there
killed four African American girls.
Robert F. Kennedy
22 FRIDAY 10:00 My Survivor
20 WEDNESDAY 7:00 America’s Test Kitchen
7:30 Cook’s Country
Witness life-changing experiences
of students who forged intimate
relationships with Holocaust
7:00 Antiques Roadshow
Vintage Baltimore 2021, Hour 1: 8:00 Jacques Pepin’s Heart survivors through an innovative
Plains & Prairie American Indian art, and Soul Menu Memories internship program.
a presentation sword with a Lincoln- 8:30 Pati’s Mexican Table 11:00 What Will
signed appointment and an 1885 Become of Us
Opening Day baseball program. 9:00 Christopher Kimball’s
Milk Street Television
8:00 New Tricks The Greek Kitchen
Shadow Show
9:30 Lidia’s Kitchen
9:00 Elizabeth is Missing
on Masterpiece 10:00 Ask This Old House
Garden Upgrade, Adirondack Chair
10:30 This Old House
Design Elements
11:00 Austin City Limits Follow six Armenian Americans,
The War and Treaty, Ruthie Foster famous and otherwise, as they
navigate the 100th anniversary
23 SATURDAY of the Genocide, forging identities
for the next 100 years.
7:00 Classic Gospel
25 MONDAY
A woman desperately tries to solve Mark Lowry, Dogs Go to Heaven
two mysteries as she declines ever
deeper into dementia. 8:00 Austin City Limits
The War and Treaty, Ruthie Foster 7:00 New Tricks
11:00 Jamestown 9:00 Song of the Mountains Shadow Show: UCOS re-open an
Henry presents his newfound riches Hillary Klug, David Childers, investigation when violent clips
to the townsfolk and soon acquires Steve Gulley and Tim Stafford. of an actress are posted online.
himself an array of eager friends.
DEWITT GALESBURG FRUITLAND SAVANNA8:00 All Creatures Great 9:00 Miss Scarlet and 8:00 Austin City Limits
and Small on Masterpiece the Duke on Masterpiece Sarah Jarosz, Ray Wylie Hubbard
Episode 2: Fresh from veterinary 9:00 Song of the Mountains
college, Siegfried’s fun-loving The Seldom Scene
brother, Tristan, arrives to help
out. Mrs. Pumphrey throws 10:00 35 Years: Celebration
a swanky party. of Mississippi Blues Festival
9:00 Poldark
on Masterpiece
Inheritance: Thrown onto her own,
Eliza goes to work as a private
detective to get out of debt.
Luckily, a family friend known as the
Duke, is a policeman willing to help.
A look back at one of the Midwest
10:00 Jamestown region’s most renowned festivals—
Episode 8: A boat from England the annual Mississippi Valley Blues
Season 2, Episode 7: Elizabeth arrives. Yeardley receives instructions Festival held in Davenport.
takes her future into her own heralding a political change.
hands, while Ross reaches 10:30 Baba Wain: A Musical
11:00 Antiques Roadshow Note in the Key of Beauty
a breaking point. Orlando, Hour 3
10:00 The Forsyte Saga 11:00 Rick Steves’ Europe
28 THURSDAY
Episode 11: Jon and Fleur meet Germany’s Fascist Story: Traveling
at Robin Hill and Fleur relates across Germany, we learn how
their parents’ history. fascism rose and then fell, taking
7:00 The Cities millions of people with it.
11:00 The Forsyte Saga 7:30 Whitney Reynolds
Episode 12: Irene, who has told 11:30 Great Scenic
Ordinary People Railway Journeys
her son Jon about her relationship
with Soames, wants to thwart Ride the White Pass and Yukon
8:00PM
Jon and Fleur’s love affair. Route Railroad in Alaska; the
The Auction Tennessee Valley Railroad; plus the
is at Your House
26 TUESDAY
Strasburg Railroad in Pennsylvania.
Lights! Camera! Auction!
7:00 Rick Steves’ Europe
Germany’s Fascist Story
Don’t miss the first night of our
televised auction event featuring
a variety of unique items.
31 SUNDAY
7:00 NOVA
7:30 Great Scenic Secrets in Our DNA: The value
Railway Journeys 10:00 NOVA of DNA testing and the risks of
8:00 Samantha Brown’s Cuba’s Cancer Hope entrusting this private data to
Places to Love 11:00 No Evidence of commercial enterprises and
Disease Follow a unique rock online databases.
band made up of six gynecologic 8:00 The Gene:
oncology surgeons from across An Intimate History
the country who are taking healing
and the arts to a new level.
29 FRIDAY
Sonoma County, California 7:00 America’s Test Kitchen
8:30 Two for the Road 7:30 Cook’s Country
Adventure in Bolivia, Part 2 8:00PM
9:00 Cycling Around Japan Episode 1: A fascinating history of
The Auction the human genome weaves together
9:30 Illinois Adventure is at Your House science and personal stories.
10:00 Finding Your Roots The fun continues tonight! Patients with rare genetic diseases
Coming to America: Guests include More great items! Don’t miss your and their doctors seek to discover
Nancy Pelosi, Norah O’Donnell, chance to bid & win a variety of cures, often in a race against time.
and Zac Posen. items and services. 10:00 NOVA
11:00 My Survivor The Truth About Fat: Scientists
The realities of the Holocaust 10:00 Ask This Old House are coming to understand fat as a
are being passed onto the Radiator Paint, Load Bearing Wall dynamic organ. Could it be that body
next generation. 10:30 This Old House fat has more to do with biological
Pizza Time processes than personal choices?
27 WEDNESDAY 11:00 Austin City Limits
Sarah Jarosz, Ray Wylie Hubbard
11:00 Living with
Alzheimer’s and Dementia
7:00 Antiques Roadshow Explore personal stories of those
30 SATURDAY
Vintage Baltimore 2021 who are living with dementia,
8:00 New Tricks insight from their care partners,
Death of a Timeshare Salesman and commentary from leading
7:00 Classic Gospel experts in dementia.
Best of the Martins
JOSLIN DEWITT HILLSDALE BETTENDORF WOODHAUL MONTPELIER SHERRARDOUTREACH WITH MICHAEL CARTON
WQPT Director of Educational Outreach
With COVID-19 and whose work remains deeply influential
keeping us home a around the world to this day.
lot more this winter, In April, Ken Burns will release Hemingway
many people are – a three-part, six-hour documentary
turning to more series that will explore the life and work of
traditional ways Ernest Hemingway. The film will paint an
to pass the time. intimate picture of the legendary writer
Families are playing and his enduring influence on literature
more board games, and culture, so now is a great time to pull
trying out new recipes, and doing puzzles. some of his classic stories off the shelf and
Some people are taking up hobbies like get reacquainted.
knitting and building model cars, while
By the time spring comes around and the
others are rediscovering their favorite
film is released on WQPT, Hemingway’s
books.
stories will be fresh in your mind. That’ll
All of these safe, indoor activities are be good, because we’re planning some
great ways to pass the time, but I think exciting outreach around the film – and I
this particular winter is perfectly suited for can’t wait to talk to you about your favorite
reading with a purpose. We have a unique Hemingway stories! If you want to learn
opportunity this winter to rediscover the more about the outreach we’re planning,
works of a legendary writer who captured please email me at mt-carton@wiu.edu.
on paper the complexities of the human
condition in sparse and profound prose,
wqpt.org/kids
This animated series for preschoolers aims
to encourage children to follow their curiosity,
ask questions when they don’t understand
and find answers using science inquiry skills.
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Kate Phillips (Peaky Blinders)
stars in a six-part mystery
as the headstrong, first-ever
female detective in
Victorian London, who
won’t let any naysayers
stop her from keeping
her father’s business
running. Stuart Martin
(Jamestown) plays her
childhood friend, professional
colleague, and potential love
interest, Scotland Yard
Detective Inspector
William Wellington,
a.k.a., The Duke.
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