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APRIL 5-7 | 8 PM
April 2021
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On WFMT, on the Saturday morning before the premiere
of Hemingway on WTTW, listen to Soundtrack – featuring
the film’s original music score produced by Burns/Novick
collaborator and award-winning producer and violinist
Johnny Gandelsman.
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Over three consecutive nights, Burns tells the story, as
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April also brings Earth Day, and WTTW will present
The Power of Us: Confronting Our Climate Crisis, a
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documentary that follows a local couple educating youth Anne Gleason
about climate change; Frozen Obsession, a profile of a Art Director
Tom Peth
research expedition to the Canadian Arctic Archipelago; The West is Burning, an WTTW Contributors
exploration of the root causes of the California wildfires; Troubled Waters: A Turtle’s Julia Maish
Lisa Tipton
Tale, a look at people who rehabilitate sick sea turtles; and a three-part documentary WFMT Contributors
on the crusading teen climate activist and three-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee Andrea Lamoreaux
Greta Thunberg. On wttw.com, learn about “zero-waste” lifestyles and composting
in Chicago with tips on how to compost at home. Advertising and Underwriting
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composer Adam Schoenberg, a work evoking the effects of climate change in musical WFMT
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2 APRIL 2021
Programming Subject to Change Without Notice Daily Television Programming •
Programmer’s Picks on WTTW11
Diana, 7 Days Philly D.A. Frontline: The Virus
This landmark documentary tells the inside Radical civil rights attorney Larry Krasner leads that Shook the World
story of the tumultuous and unprecedented week a band of activists attempting to end mass This film, using personal video and local footage
that followed the death of Diana, Princess of incarceration by taking over the district attorney’s from around the world, chronicles COVID-19 from
Wales, exploring how she came to have such an office. When Krasner wins the election, a novel lockdowns to funerals to protests, revealing the
extraordinary effect on the nation and criminal justice experiment unfolds. Can outsiders differing struggles, beliefs, and responses across
people around the world. reform a system from within? cultures, races, faiths, and privilege.
Thursday, April 15, 8:00 pm Tuesday, April 20, 9:00 pm Monday, April 26, 9:00 pm
See page 6 for information about WTTW Prime listings.
MORNING-AFTERNOON 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 9:00 Baby Makes 3: Run for the
6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids Roses This home improve-
In the Spotlight MORNING-AFTERNOON ment series hosted by Melissa
EVENING 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids Lozoff focuses exclusively
Photo: Tem eicia qui aut magnit eaquaer umquassedi unt eatecea
6:00 PBS NewsHour on creating nurseries for
7:00 Chicago Tonight EVENING first-time parents-to-be.
8:00 Rick Steves’ European 6:00 PBS NewsHour 9:30 J. Schwanke’s Life in Bloom
Easter Taking you on a 7:00 Chicago Tonight: The 10:00 This Old House: Return
spring journey through Week in Review to Dorchester
Spain, Slovenia, Italy, and 7:30 Washington Week 11:00 Lidia’s Kitchen
Greece, Rick celebrates this 8:00 The Great Chicago Quiz 10:30 Ask This Old House: Power
2,000-year-old story in a Show with Geoffrey Baer Washing, Deck Lights
variety of cultures, explor- (Part 2 of 4) You think you 11:30 My Greek Table with Diane
ing a rich and fascinating know Chicago? Geoffrey Baer Kochilas: The World’s
mix of traditions. does, and in this new series, Most Famous Olive
9:00 Rick Steves’ Egypt: he gives a group of so-
Yesterday & Today Rick sails cially distanced Chicagoans AFTERNOON
beyond Europe, exploring a chance to prove that they 12:00 Cook’s Country:
the historic and cultural do, too. Visit wttw.com/quiz Pennsylvania Dutch Country
wonders of Egypt. in Cairo, to take the quiz yourself! 12:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project
Rick climbs to the center of a 8:30 Check, Please! Heritage, Fire: Gulf Coast Grill
pyramid, greets the Sphinx El Solazo, Fulton Market
and marvels at King Tut’s Kitchen Alpana welcomes
Doc Severinsen gold. in Alexandria, Rick West Town resident and
journeys into a wonderland esthetician Nanda Wait, who
of back lanes and introduces recommended Heritage In the Spotlight
American Masters: a traditional shisha (hookah) Restaurant and Caviar Bar
experience. And on the Nile, in Humboldt Park; teacher
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Never Too Late - after sailing on a timeless Michael Konkoleski of West
Doc Severinsen felucca, Rick kicks back on Lawn, who picked El Solazo
Explore the groundbreaking a riverboat while enjoying in the West Elsdon neighbor-
career of the colorful master iconic views of palm trees, hood; and performing arts
trumpeter Doc Severinsen, from minarets, and rustic villages. center director Tommy
his three decades as the colorful Finally, Rick shares a tour Hensel from Berwyn, who
bandleader to The Tonight Show of Ramesses II’s magnificent loves Fulton Market Kitchen.
Starring Johnny Carson to his temple ruins at Abu Simbel. 9:00 American Masters: Never
relentless schedule of touring and 10:00 Baseball: The Faith of 50 Too Late - Doc Severinsen
performing into his nineties. Million People (Part 3 of 9) 10:30 Beyond the Canvas:
The Black Sox scandal The Greats
Friday, April 2 reveals how eight members 11:00 BBC World News
9:00 pm of the Chicago White Sox, 11:30 Amanpour and Company
including the incomparable
“Shoeless” Joe Jackson,
“played with the faith of 50
Saturday 3
million people,” as F. Scott EARLY MORNING
Fitzgerald later wrote, by tak- 12:30 Baseball: The Faith
Thursday 1 ing money from gamblers to
throw the 1919 World Series.
of 50 Million People
(Part 3 of 9) See Thurs. Ralf Little
EARLY MORNING Apr. 1 at 10:00 pm. [R]
12:30 Finding Your Roots:
Freedom Tales [R]
Friday 2 2:30 Independent Lens:
’Til Kingdom Come Death in Paradise
1:30 American Experience: EARLY MORNING - The Debate [R] (New Season!)
The Blinding of Isaac 12:00 BBC World News 4:00 Austin City Limits:
Woodard [R] 12:30 Amanpour and Company St. Vincent [R] Detective Inspector Neville Parker
3:30 Leah Chase: The Queen 1:30 Extinction: The Facts [R] 5:00 Chicago Tonight: The (Ralf Little) and his team are back
of Creole Cuisine [R] 2:30 Climate Change: Week in Review [R] for a tenth season of all-new
4:30 BBC World News The Facts [R] 5:30 Yoga in Practice episodes to solve a new series of
5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 3:30 NOVA: Mystery baffling murders on the fictional
Beneath the Ice [R] MORNING Caribbean island of Saint Marie.
4:30 BBC World News 6:00-9:00 WTTW Kids Saturdays at 8:00 pm
2021 APRIL 3
Photo: Ernest Hemingway Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.
Ernest Hemingway
and first wife, Hadley
Richardson, in Chamby,
Switzerland, 1922, the
year after they left
Chicago for Europe.
Ernest
Hemingway’s
Youth in Oak Park and Chicago
by Daniel Hautzinger
E
rnest Hemingway’s life and fiction were filled with extraordinary experiences and
locales: World War I in Italy, Paris at the height of the Jazz Age, bullfighting in Spain,
safaris and plane crashes in Africa, drinking and fishing in Cuba. It’s a life explored
in detail in the new three-part documentary Hemingway from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick,
premiering April 5-7 at 8:00 pm.
But Hemingway was born in the solidly middle-class, Midwestern, middlebrow Chicago
suburb of Oak Park – a place he liked to portray as staid and stuffy. (The description “wide
lawns and narrow minds” is frequently attributed, seemingly incorrectly, to Hemingway.)
“Turn-of-the-century, affluent suburban life is basically the world that he was born into,”
says Verna Kale, the author of a biography of Hemingway, a co-editor of his letters, and
an editor of Teaching Hemingway and Gender. “His father was a physician and his mother
gave music lessons, and she earned quite a bit of money as a music teacher.”
Hemingway’s mother ensured her children had a background in the arts. Hemingway
learned to play the cello, was encouraged in the visual arts, and wrote for his high school
paper as well as creating his own stories. “He had a really nice childhood,” Kale says.
4 APRIL 2021
of Heming way’s
Photo: Ernest Hemingway Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.
Hemingway family goal. Liesl Olson,
portrait. From left of the Newberry,
to right: Ursula, argues in her book
Clarence, Ernest,
Chicago Renais-
Grace, and Marcelline
Hemingway.
sance: Literature
October 1903. and Art in the Mid-
west Metropolis
that Heming way
But Heming way was addressing
was eager to leave middle-class Mid-
Oak Park behind, western women as
going first to Kan- epitomized by the
sas City to work as popular Chicago
a reporter and then Tribune critic Fan-
to Italy to drive an ny Butcher in his
ambulance during early work, wanting
World War I. He to scandalize them
was wounded early in his service and spent nothing like the one from which he came. but also enjoy the conventional approval as
several months convalescing in Milan be- well as mass-market success they offered.
fore returning to Oak Park around the age Hemingway’s sojourn in Chicago also
of 20. helped launch him on one of the most cel- Hemingway even struck up a correspon-
ebrated – and integral – parts of his life. He dence with Butcher, whose recommen-
“When he comes back from the war, he has wanted to return to Italy with his new wife dations offered access to a large audience.
definitely changed,” says Kale. “He wants Hadley Richardson, but Sherwood Ander- “Hemingway is always full of these con-
to get out into the world and see a little bit son convinced him to instead go to Paris tradictions,” says Kale, “because I think
more. Going back home is always so hard after a year and a half in Chicago, giving he wanted those good reviews, he wanted
when you’re that age. We have to extrapo- him letters of introduction to such import- that acceptance, but at the same time he felt
late a little bit from the fiction here” – sto- ant influences and connections as Gertrude like he was doing something beyond their
ries like “Big Two-Hearted River” and “Sol- Stein and Ezra Pound. understanding. If they liked his stuff, some-
W
dier’s Home” – “but he may have felt that times he would say it was for the wrong rea-
no one really understood what he had been hile Hemingway never re- sons, or they didn’t really understand what
through. I imagine that he got home from turned to Chicago or Oak Park he was trying to do.
the war and felt like he didn’t fit in anymore.” for any significant portion of
the rest of his life, he did maintain con- “There’s definitely a conflict there between
Hemingway also seems to have felt that nections to his birthplace when he went Hemingway the conservative Midwestern
his ambitions had outgrown his suburban to Paris. “When he first gets to Paris, he’s guy and Hemingway the modernist expa-
birthplace. “He wanted to do something writing back home and telling his parents triate world traveler. There is still a certain
great,” says Kale. about his success and about the people he’s amount of the suburban Chicago guy even
meeting,” says Kale. “He’s doing a little bit when he is in the Latin Quarter of Paris.”
Soon he had moved to Chicago, earning of name-dropping and possibly even exag-
money by writing for a Toronto newspaper. gerating his early success because he wants Those contradictions are one of the main at-
It was in the city that he first began to expe- his parents to be proud of him.” tractions of Hemingway for Kale. “There are
rience a literary life. “I think that meeting just limitless ways to read him. And they’re
Carl Sandburg and Sherwood Anderson, “I think it’s so sweet that his father ordered not necessarily all the ways that he would
and getting a glimpse of that Chicago lit- multiple copies of his first book,” she con- maybe want us to read him, but his work
erary scene, opened up his mind a little bit tinues. “People tend to focus on the fact that is incredibly elastic, and it just holds up to
and made him realize that, ‘This is a dif- his father hated the kind of obscene stories anything you want to bring to it personally,”
ferent world than the one that I’m coming that Hemingway was writing. But you have she says. “He wasn’t really writing for a par-
from.’ ” to kind of cut them some slack, because the ticular purpose. He was just trying to write
stuff that he was writing was really inno- as well as he could and put the real world
That sentiment might explain more than vative.” into his work in a way that would last.
anything else Hemingway’s distancing
from his Oak Park childhood: he had found Shocking – and perhaps also titillating – “He just crafted the work so that it will hold
the world he wanted to be in, and it was people like his parents may have been part anything that you want to bring to it.” n
2021 APRIL 5
WTTW Digital Channel Highlights
These digital channels are available with digital cable or over the air with a digital receiver. For more information
about digital television and for complete schedules, visit wttw.com/schedule.
Photo: © 2021 Shaftesbury Films Inc.
Frankie Drake Mysteries
Thursday, April 1 at 9:00 pm
Set in 1920s Toronto, this popular series follows the adventures
of Frankie Drake (Lauren Lee Smith) and her partner Trudy Clarke
(Chantel Riley) at Drake Private Detectives, the city’s only all-
WTTW Prime female detective agency, as they find themselves fighting crime in
WTTW Prime is our “prime time all the the age of flyboys, gangsters, rum-runners, and speakeasies.
time” channel. Free TV, over-the-air antenna Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules
viewers can tune to channel 11-2 to find WTTW Pictured: Lauren Lee Smith as Frankie Drake
Prime. WTTW Prime is on Comcast digital
cable channel 370 and on RCN channel 37.
Photo: Courtesy of ©Timothy Greenfield-Sanders /
Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures
American Masters: Toni Morrison –
The Pieces I Am
Saturday, April 10 at 8:00 pm
Toni Morrison leads an assembly of her peers and critics on an
WTTW Prime exploration of the powerful themes she confronted throughout her
WTTW Prime is our “prime time all the literary career in this artful and intimate meditation that examines
time” channel. Free TV, over-the-air antenna the life and work of the legendary storyteller.
viewers can tune to channel 11-2 to find WTTW
Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules
Prime. WTTW Prime is on Comcast digital
Pictured: Toni Morrison
cable channel 370 and on RCN channel 37.
Photo: Courtesy of Hortus, Ltd.
Earth Day
Sunday, April 18 at 11:00 am
WTTW Create goes green in honor of Earth Day to highlight
WTTW Create sustainable living – from energy-efficient home improvements to
WTTW Create is our how-to and lifestyle
earth-friendly gardening – to show how small lifestyle changes
programming channel. Free TV, over-the-air antenna can yield long-term benefits for the environment.
viewers tune to channel 11-3. WTTW Create is on Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules
Comcast digital cable channel 369 and on RCN Pictured: P. Allen Smith
channel 38. WTTW Create programming airs from
6:00 am to 6:00 pm.
The West is Burning
Thursday, April 22 at 7:00 pm
This documentary focuses on the state of forests in the western
United States and examines the history of forest management and
litigation that has contributed to the current conditions and the
WTTW World catastrophic fires plaguing the region. The film also explores the
WTTW World features public media’s signature critical need for interdisciplinary approaches to forest restoration,
documentary, science, and news programming
and looks at how local stakeholders are coming together to better
complemented by original content from emerging
manage and steward the land.
producers. Free TV, over-the-air antenna viewers
tune to channel 11-3. WTTW World is on Comcast Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules
digital cable channel 369 and on RCN channel Pictured: A helicopter drops water
38. WTTW World airs from 6:00 pm to 6:00 am.
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Company. All Rights Reserved.
Dinosaur Train: Adventure Island
Friday, April 16 at 6:00 pm
Join the Pteranodon family on a trip to Adventure Island! The day
is packed with fun until an earthquake erupts, causing the theme
park robots to malfunction. It’s up to Buddy, Tiny, Shiny, and Don
WTTW PBS Kids 24/7 to navigate safely across the island and reunite with their parents.
Free TV, over-the-air antenna viewers can tune Full schedule online at wttw.com/schedules
to channel 11-4. The WTTW PBS Kids 24/7 is Pictured: Dinosaur Train
on Comcast digital channels 368 and on RCN
channel 39.
6 APRIL 2021
In the Spotlight In the Spotlight
Photo: Courtesy of Wild Pictures
Photo: Courtesy of Ernest Hemingway Photograph Collection
1:00 Simply Ming: Ming Tsai with Margaret Hoover
guest Andrew Zimmern 11:30 Chavis Chronicles
1:30 New Scandinavian Cooking:
Flavors of the Eternal Forest AFTERNOON
2:00 America’s Test Kitchen 12:00 Pritzker Military Presents:
from Cook’s Illustrated: Peter Shinkle, Ike’s Mystery
Summertime Staples Man Peter Shinkle reveals
2:30 America’s Test Kitchen Bobby Cutler’s full story,
from Cook’s Illustrated showing how valued he was
3:00 Christopher Kimball’s by Eisenhower as a trusted
Milk Street Television: friend and advisor on security
Cake and Scones and Cold War policy.
3:30 Christopher Kimball’s 1:00 To Dine For with Kate
Milk Street Television: Sullivan: Michael Tubbs
Beirut Fast Food 1:30 To Dine For with Kate
4:00 A Chef’s Life: Sweet Corn Sullivan: Phil Rosenthal
and Expensive Tea 2:00 To be announced
4:30 Check, Please! Heritage, 3:00 Finding Your Roots:
El Solazo, Fulton Market Freedom Tales [R]
Kristin Scott Thomas Kitchen See Fri. Apr. 2 4:00 American Experience: Ernest Hemingway
at 8:30 pm. [R] The Blinding of Isaac
5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Woodard [R]
My Grandparents’ War Swiss Alps
EVENING
Hemingway
5:30 Samantha Brown’s
In this new four-part series, follow Places to Love 6:00 Chicago Tonight: This three-part, six-hour
leading Hollywood actors Helena Black Voices documentary film by Ken Burns and
Bonham Carter, Mark Rylance, EVENING 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend Lynn Novick examines the visionary
Kristin Scott Thomas, and Carey 6:00 Chicago Tonight: 7:00 My Grandparents’ War: work and the turbulent life of Ernest
Mulligan as they retrace the Latino Voices Helena Bonham Carter Hemingway, one of the greatest
footsteps of their grandparents, 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend Follow actress Helena and most influential writers America
uncover their dramatic stories, and 7:00 Father Brown: The Hammer Bonham Carter as she has ever produced. Interweaving
learn how World War II changed the of God Father Brown must explores the heroism of both his eventful biography - a life lived
lives of their families and the world. find a killer before an innocent sets of her grandparents at the ultimately treacherous nexus
woman is sent to the gallows. during World War II - her of art, fame, and celebrity - with
Sundays, 7:00 pm carefully selected excerpts from
8:00 Death in Paradise (Season grandmother, an air warden
10, Part 1 of 8) When a TV and outspoken politician, and his iconic short stories, novels, and
news presenter is found her grandfather, a diplomat non-fiction, the series reveals the
strangled in her pool, who saved hundreds brilliant, ambitious, charismatic,
Neville is sure that her from the Holocaust. and complicated man behind the
myth, and the art he created.
Photo: Courtesy of Masterpiece, Julie Vrabelová
popular co-host is guilty. But 8:00 Atlantic Crossing on
given that he was live on air Masterpiece (Part 1 of 8) Monday-Wednesday,
at the time of the murder, Norwegian Crown Princess
how could he have done it? Martha and her husband April 5-7 at 8:00 pm
9:00 Mallorca Files: Honour Prince Olav visit U.S. and 10:00 pm
Among Thieves (Part 1 of 10) President Franklin Roosevelt
British police officer Miranda in 1939. A year later, they
Blake is in Mallorca to escort must flee the Nazi inva-
a known criminal back to the sion of their country.
UK. When things don’t go ac- 9:00 World on Fire on spot in the quarterfinals.
cording to plan, she conducts Masterpiece (Part 1 of 7) 11:30 Austin City Limits:
her own investigation. Follow the intertwining Brandi Carlile The Seattle
10:00 Rick Steves’ European fates of ordinary people singer-songwriter per-
Easter See Thurs. Apr. 1 as they grapple with the forms highlights from her
at 8:00 pm. [R] effects of World War II on critically lauded album By
11:00 Rick Steves’ Egypt: their everyday lives. Set in the Way, I Forgive You.
Yesterday & Today See Britain, Poland, France and
Thurs. Apr. 1 at 9:00 pm. [R] Germany, the events take
place during the first year
Monday 5
Kyle MacLachlan Sunday 4 of the war. When war breaks
out, young translator Harry
EARLY MORNING
12:30 Father Brown: The
EARLY MORNING vows to help his Polish lover Hammer of God See Sat.
Atlantic Crossing on 12:00 American Masters: Never Kasia flee Warsaw, but how Apr. 3 at 7:00 pm. [R]
Too Late - Doc Severinsen will he explain this to his 1:30 Death in Paradise (Season
Masterpiece See Fri. Apr. 1 at 9:00 pm. [R] sweetheart Lois, waiting for 10, Part 1 of 8) See Sat.
(New Series!) 1:30 Antiques Roadshow: him at home in Manchester? Apr. 3 at 8:00 pm. [R]
Vintage Louisville 2021 10:00 Great Chicago Quiz with 2:30 Mallorca Files: Honour
A princess steals the heart of the (Part 2 of 2) [R] Geoffrey Baer (Part 2 of 4) Among Thieves (Part
president of the United States 2:30 Antiques Roadshow: See Fri. Apr. 2 at 8:00 pm. [R] 1 of 10) See Sat. Apr. 3
in an epic drama based on the Meadow Brook Hall 10:30 The Great British Baking at 9:00 pm. [R]
World War II relationship of (Part 2 of 3) [R] Show: Pastries (Part 7 of 10) 3:30 Rick Steves’ European
Franklin Roosevelt and Norwegian 3:30 Bombshell: The Hedy Lamarr The bakers create Signature Easter [R]
Crown Princess Martha. Kyle Story – American Masters [R] savory parcels, ranging from 4:30 BBC World News
MacLachlan stars as Roosevelt. pasties to samosas. The 5:00 Chicago Tonight:
The eight-part series co-stars MORNING Technical challenge throws Black Voices [R]
Tobias Santelmann as Crown Prince 5:00-10:30 WTTW Kids them into uncharted terri- 5:30 Chicago Tonight:
Olav and Harriet Sansom Harris 10:30 Family Travel with tory with the kouign amann. Latino Voices [R]
as First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. Colleen Kelly Finally, Showstopper éclairs
Sundays, 8:00 pm 11:00 Firing Line with will give five lucky bakers a
2021 APRIL 7
Kid Grid
Monday-Friday Mornings 5:00 Odd Squad
MORNING-AFTERNOON
6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids
EVENING
6:00 PBS NewsHour
7:00 Chicago Tonight
8:00 Hemingway: The Blank
Page (1944-1961) (Part 3
of 3) Hemingway follows
the Army as they advance
through Europe. Afterwards,
he tries to start a life with
5:30 Arthur 8:00 Hemingway: A Writer Mary Welsh, but is beset with
6:00 Pinkalicious (1899-1929) (Part 1 of 3) tragedies. He publishes The
6:30 Nature Cat Saturday Mornings Hemingway, yearning for Old Man and the Sea to ac-
7:00 Molly of Denali adventure, volunteers for claim, but is overcome by his
7:30 Wild Kratts 6:00 Sesame Street the Red Cross during World declining mental condition.
8:00 Hero Elementary 6:30 Pinkalicious & Peterrific War I. He marries Hadley 10:00 Hemingway: The Blank Page
8:30 Xavier Riddle and the 7:00 Elinor Wonders Why Richardson and moves (1944-1961) (Part 3 of 3) [R]
Secret Museum 7:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood to Paris, publishes The
9:00 Curious George 8:00 Curious George
Sun Also Rises and finds
critical and commercial
Thursday 8
9:30 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood 8:30 Clifford the Big Red Dog
success with his second 12:00 BBC World News
10:00 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood
novel, A Farewell to Arms. 12:30 Amanpour and Company
10:30 Elinor Wonders Why Sunday Mornings 10:00 Hemingway: A Writer 1:30 Hemingway: The Avatar
11:00 Sesame Street (1899-1929) (Part 1 of 3) [R] (1929-1944) (Part 2 of 3) [R]
11:30 Pinkalicious 5:00 Cat in the Hat 3:30 My Grandparents’ War:
Afternoons
5:30 Arthur
6:00 Let’s Go Luna Tuesday 6 Helena Bonham Carter [R]
4:30 BBC World News
6:30 Wild Kratts EARLY MORNING 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
12:00 Dinosaur Train 7:00 Nature Cat 12:00 BBC World News
12:30 Clifford the Big Red Dog 7:30 Nature Cat 12:30 Amanpour and Company MORNING-AFTERNOON
1:00 Sesame Street 8:00 Molly of Denali 1:30 My Grandparents’ War: 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids
1:30 Elinor Wonders Why 8:30 Molly of Denali Helena Bonham Carter See
Sun. Apr. 4 at 7:00 pm. [R] EVENING
2:00 Hero Elementary 9:00 Hero Elementary
2:30 Let’s Go Luna! 9:30 Xavier Riddle and the 2:30 Atlantic Crossing on 6:00 PBS NewsHour
3:00 Nature Cat Secret Museum Masterpiece (Part 1
3:30 Wild Kratts 10:00 Odd Squad of 8) See Sun. Apr. 4
at 8:00 pm. [R]
4:00 Molly of Denali
3:30 World on Fire on
4:30 Xavier Riddle and the
Secret Museum
Masterpiece (Part 1
of 7) See Sun. Apr. 4
In the Spotlight
at 9:00 pm. [R]
Photo: Courtesy of American Public Television
4:30 BBC World News
5:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
Dinosaur Train MORNING-AFTERNOON
6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids
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EVENING
6:00 PBS NewsHour
7:00 Chicago Tonight
8:00 Hemingway: The Avatar
(1929-1944) (Part 2 of 3)
Hemingway, having achieved
a level of fame rarely seen
in the literary world, settles
in Key West with Pauline
Pfeiffer but can’t stay put
for long. He reports on the
Spanish Civil War and begins
a tempestuous romance
with Martha Gellhorn. Rachel and Kaelyn
10:00 Hemingway: The Avatar
(1929-1944) (Part 2 of 3) [R]
My Survivor
Wednesday 7 Who will tell the story of the
Holocaust when the last survivor is
EARLY MORNING gone? This film documents the life-
12:00 BBC World News changing experiences of some of
12:30 Amanpour and Company the 500 University of Miami students
1:30 Hemingway: A Writer who forge intimate relationships
(1899-1929) (Part 1 of 3) [R] with Holocaust survivors through
3:30 Rick Steves’ Egypt: an innovative internship program.
Yesterday & Today [R] Building powerful intergenerational
4:30 BBC World News [R] bonds, students listen to
5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] survivors’ first-hand accounts
and come to embrace their
MORNING-AFTERNOON cause to preserve the memory
Mondays-Fridays at 12:00 pm 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids and lessons of the Holocaust.
EVENING Thursday, April 8
6:00 PBS NewsHour 8:00 pm
7:00 Chicago Tonight
8 APRIL 2021
Mondays-Fridays at 10:30 am and 1:30 pm
and Saturdays at 7:00 am
2021 APRIL 9
In the Spotlight
Photo: Courtesy of Ken Shung, MPTV
film examines a secret child- Apr. 4 at 11:30 pm. [R] Miranda and Max investigate.
hood trauma that resurfaces, 3:30 The Great British Baking 10:00 Atlantic Crossing on
60 years later, to unravel the Show: Pastries (Part 7 Masterpiece (Part 1 of 8) [R]
life of Holocaust survivor of 10) See Sun. Apr. 4 11:00 My Grandparents’ War:
Sonia Reich. The documenta- at 10:30 pm. [R] Helena Bonham Carter [R]
ry examines late-onset Post 4:30 Check, Please! See Fri.
Traumatic Stress Disorder
and its devastating effect
Apr. 9 at 8:30 pm. [R]
5:00 Chicago Tonight: The
Sunday 11
on families, but also shows Week in Review [R] EARLY MORNING
programs that are aiding 5:30 Yoga in Practice 12:00 My Survivor See Thurs.
young trauma survivors Apr. 8 at 8:00 pm. [R]
of Hurricane Katrina, in MORNING 1:00 Stories of Survival:
New Orleans, and how such 6:00-9:00 WTTW Kids Final Transports - The
early interventions may have 9:00 Baby Makes 3: Holocaust Stories of Magda
helped Howard’s mother. Kentucky Roots and George See Thurs.
11:00 Baseball: A National 9:30 J. Schwanke’s Life in Bloom Apr. 8 at 9:00 pm. [R]
Heirloom (Part 4 of 9) Babe 10:00 This Old House: 1:30 Stories of Survival:
Ruth, the Baltimore saloon- 3-Decker Heaven Childhood Lost - The
keeper’s son who became 10:30 Ask This Old House: Move Holocaust Stories
Oliver Sacks the best-known and best- Baseboard, Cooler Bench of George and Steen See
loved athlete in American 11:00 Lidia’s Kitchen Thurs. Apr. 8 at 9:30 pm. [R]
history, was described by 11:30 My Greek Table with 2:00 Prisoner of Her Past See
American Masters: sportswriter Jimmy Cannon Diane Kochilas: Flavors Thurs. Apr. 8 at 10:00 pm. [R]
as a “national heirloom.” This of Longevity - Ikaria 3:00 American Masters: Oliver
Oliver Sacks - inning details how Ruth’s Sacks - His Own Life See
His Own Life phenomenal performance AFTERNOON Fri. Apr. 9 at 9:00 pm. [R]
American Masters dives into the thrilled the nation throughout 12:00 Cook’s Country: Motor
the 1920s and rescued the City Favorites MORNING
life and work of the legendary
neurologist and beloved author game from the scandal that 12:30 Steven Raichlen’s Project 5:00-11:00 WTTW Kids
(Awakenings, The Man Who threatened to destroy it. Fire: Chino-Latino 11:00 Firing Line with
Mistook His Wife for a Hat) who 1:00 Simply Ming: Ming Tsai Margaret Hoover
was a fearless explorer of the Friday 9 with guest Jacques Pépin
1:30 New Scandinavian
11:30 Chavis Chronicles
brain and mind. Sacks redefined
EARLY MORNING Cooking: King Crab Hotel
our understanding of the
diversity of human experience, 1:00 BBC World News 2:00 America’s Test Kitchen
and of our shared humanity. 1:30 Amanpour and Company from Cook’s Illustrated:
Friday, April 9
2:30 Hemingway: The Blank Page
(1944-1961) (Part 3 of 3) [R]
Pork and Greens
2:30 America’s Test Kitchen
In the Spotlight
9:00 pm 4:30 BBC World News from Cook’s Illustrated
Photo: Courtesy of Uprising LLC
5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 3:00 Christopher Kimball’s
Milk Street Television:
MORNING-AFTERNOON Weeknight Italian
7:00 Chicago Tonight 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids 3:30 Christopher Kimball’s
8:00 My Survivor Milk Street Television:
9:00 Stories of Survival: Final EVENING Tuesday Night Italian
Transports - The Holocaust 6:00 PBS NewsHour 4:00 A Chef’s Life: Strawberry
Stories of Magda and 7:00 Chicago Tonight: The Stay at Home
George in early summer Week in Review 4:30 Check, Please! Ema,
1944, at the height of the 7:30 Washington Week Passero, Whisk [R]
deportation of Hungarian 8:00 The Great Chicago Quiz 5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe:
Jewry, Magda Brown and Show with Geoffrey French Alps and Lyon
George Brent arrived as Baer (Part 3 of 4) 5:30 Samantha Brown’s
teenagers to the notorious 8:30 Check, Please! Ema, Places to Love
Auschwitz-Birkenau killing Passero, Whisk Alpana
center. Through their eyes, welcomes Villa Park resident EVENING
take a compelling journey and medical science liaison 6:00 Chicago Tonight:
across multiple countries and Monica Timmerman, who Latino Voices
camps to reveal the intensely recommended the River 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend
human aspects of survival, North eatery EMA; writer 7:00 Father Brown: The Flying Women in STEM fields
resistance, chance, and luck Helen Weiner, who loves Stars Father Brown becomes
in the face of Nazi tyranny. Passero in Arlington Heights; embroiled with a theatrical
9:30 Stories of Survival: and South Loop business family when he discovers that NOVA: Picture a Scientist
Childhood Lost - The development executive a supposed tragic drown- This episode reveals how women
Holocaust Stories Carlos Vasquez, who chose ing was actually murder. make up less than one-quarter of
of George and Steen Within Whisk in West Town. 8:00 Death in Paradise (Season all those employed in STEM, and
hours of the Nazi invasion 9:00 American Masters: Oliver 10, Part 2 of 8) The team the numbers are worse for women
and occupation of Western Sacks - His Own Life are baffled when an of color. Science is supposed to be
Europe, George Mueller 11:00 BBC World News archaeologist is poisoned built on objectivity, but these bleak
and Steen Metz had their 11:30 Amanpour and Company during a dig but there is no numbers are evidence of deep bias.
childhoods engulfed by war. evidence to prove how it was
Wednesday, April 14
Their innocence lost as
prejudice and persecution
Saturday 10 done. Meanwhile, Neville
tests his skills in an island 9:00 pm
spread, this film details their EARLY MORNING crab-cooking competition.
gripping fight for survival 12:30 Baseball: A National 9:00 Mallorca Files: King of the
within the Nazi camp system, Heirloom (Part 4 of 9) See Mountains (Part 2 of 10)
and the endurable spirit Thurs. Apr. 8 at 11:00 pm. [R] When cyclist Esteban
of family, courage, and hope. 2:30 Austin City Limits: Domenech disappears during
10:00 Prisoner of Her Past This Brandi Carlile See Sun. a routine training session,
10 APRIL 2021AFTERNOON Masterpiece (Part 2 of 7) Brooklyn housing project. MORNING-AFTERNOON
12:00 Hemingway: A Writer A month into the war and Suddenly, two marginal- 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids
(1899-1929) (Part 1 of 3) [R] with Warsaw destroyed, ized communities must
2:00 Hemingway: The Avatar Harry is desperate for navigate an uneven criminal EVENING
(1929-1944) (Part 2 of 3) [R] news, while Kasia joins justice system together. 6:00 PBS NewsHour
4:00 Hemingway: The Blank Page the Polish resistance. 11:30 BBC World News 7:00 Chicago Tonight
(1944-1961) (Part 3 of 3) [R] 10:00 Great Chicago Quiz with 8:00 Nature: The Leopard Legacy
EVENING
Geoffrey Baer (Part 3 of 4)
See Fri. Apr. 9 at 8:00 pm. [R]
Tuesday 13 Follow the story of a leopard
mother as she raises her
6:00 Chicago Tonight: 10:30 The Great British Baking EARLY MORNING cubs near the Luangwa River,
Black Voices Show: Advanced Dough 12:00 Amanpour and Company facing a constant battle to
6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend (Part 8 of 10) The com- 1:00 My Grandparents’ War: hunt successfully, defend
7:00 My Grandparents’ War: petitors must make enriched Mark Rylance [R] her territory, and protect
Mark Rylance Follow actor sweet fruit loaves for their 2:00 Atlantic Crossing on her cubs against enemies.
Mark Rylance as he explores Signature, followed by a Masterpiece (Part 2 9:00 NOVA: Picture a Scientist
the extraordinary story of his Technical challenge that of 8) See Sun. Apr. 11 11:00 BBC World News
grandfather, who spent near- stretches them to the limit. at 8:00 pm. [R] 11:30 Amanpour and Company
ly four years as a Japanese Finally, the bakers must make 3:00 World on Fire on
prisoner of war during World
War II, and examines his
36 showstopping doughnuts.
11:30 Austin City Limits: Janelle
Masterpiece (Part 2
of 7) See Sun. Apr. 11
Thursday 15
own beliefs about war and Monae Progressive R&B at 9:00 pm. [R] EARLY MORNING
peace in the process. maverick Janelle Monae 4:00 Chicago Tonight: 12:30 Finding Your Roots: The
8:00 Atlantic Crossing on performs songs from her Latino Voices [R] New World See Tues.
Masterpiece (Part 2 of 8) acclaimed LP Dirty Computer. 4:30 BBC World News Apr. 13 at 8:00 pm. [R]
Olav and the king plan 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 1:30 Frontline: American
their escape. Meanwhile,
Martha and the children take
Monday 12 MORNING-AFTERNOON
Insurrection See Tues.
Apr. 13 at 9:00 pm. [R]
refuge with her Swedish EARLY MORNING 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids 2:30 American Experience:
royal relatives. But the 12:30 Father Brown: The Ruby Ridge See Tues.
Nazis threaten the king if he Flying Stars See Sat. EVENING Apr. 13 at 10:00 pm. [R]
harbors the crown princess. Apr. 10 at 7:00 pm. [R] 6:00 PBS NewsHour 3:30 Austin City Limits:
9:00 World on Fire on 1:30 Death in Paradise (Season 7:00 Chicago Tonight Janelle Monae See Sun.
10, Part 2 of 8) See Sat. 8:00 Finding Your Roots: The Apr. 11 at 11:30 pm. [R]
Apr. 10 at 8:00 pm. [R] New World Henry Louis 4:30 BBC World News
2:30 Mallorca Files: King of the Gates, Jr. traces ancestors 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
Mountains (Part 2 of 10) See of actor John Lithgow and
In the Spotlight Sat. Apr. 10 at 9:00 pm. [R]
3:30 My Grandparents’ War:
journalist Maria Hinojosa
who thrived in North
MORNING-AFTERNOON
6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids
Mark Rylance See Sun. America long before the
Photo: Courtesy of BBC
Apr. 11 at 7:00 pm. [R] birth of the United States. EVENING
4:30 BBC World News 9:00 Frontline: American 6:00 PBS NewsHour
5:00 Chicago Tonight: Insurrection Investigating 7:00 Chicago Tonight
Black Voices [R] the rising threat of far-right 8:00 Diana, 7 Days
5:30 Chicago Tonight: violence in America. With 9:30 Charles & Di: The Truth
Latino Voices [R] ProPublica, exposing the About Their Wedding
individuals and ideologies This documentary reveals
MORNING-AFTERNOON behind a wave of crimes, the shocking story of the
6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids culminating in the at- seven days that led up to
tack on the Capitol. Charles and Diana’s July
EVENING 10:00 American Experience: Ruby 1981 wedding, comparing
6:00 PBS NewsHour Ridge Examine the 1992 what the jubilant public
7:00 Chicago Tonight FBI siege at Ruby Ridge that saw with what was really
8:00 Antiques Roadshow: helped launch the modern going on with the individu-
Vintage Las Vegas 2021 militia movement through als behind the scenes.
(Part 1 of 2) Learn if Las eyewitness accounts, includ- 10:30 Baseball: Shadow Ball
Vegas appraisals still hit the ing Randy Weaver’s daughter (Part 5 of 9) Part five looks
jackpot 14 years after the and federal agents involved at baseball’s desperate
Roadshow’s visit. Catch an in the deadly confrontation. attempts to survive the
Diana, Princess of Wales antique Asscher-cut diamond 11:00 BBC World News Great Depression and Babe
ring, a 1923 Dempsey vs. 11:30 Amanpour and Company Ruth’s fading career, while
Gibbons fight bell, and a a new generation of stars,
Diana, 7 Days
This landmark documentary tells the
1970 Elvis Presley-signed
album and belt. One is now
Wednesday 14 including Joe DiMaggio and
Ted Williams, is on the rise.
inside story of the tumultuous and worth $165,000-$175,000! EARLY MORNING It also presents the parallel
unprecedented week that followed 9:00 Antiques Roadshow: 12:30 Antiques Roadshow: world of the Negro Leagues,
the death of Diana, Princess of Meadow Brook Hall (Part Vintage Las Vegas and the greatest showdown
Wales, exploring how she came to 3 of 3) Highlights include a 2021 (Part 1 of 2) [R] in its history: Satchel Paige,
have such an extraordinary effect Civil War presentation sword 1:30 Antiques Roadshow: arguably the best pitcher
on the nation and people around and portrait; Danny Lyon Civil Meadow Brook Hall ever, against Josh Gibson,
the world. The film features in-depth Rights posters; and a copy (Part 3 of 3) See Mon. “the black Babe Ruth,” in the
interviews with her sons William and of The First Men in the Moon Apr. 12 at 9:00 pm. [R] Negro League World Series.
Harry, who speak in detail about signed by Neil Armstrong. 2:30 Independent Lens: Down
that week’s events and reflect more
broadly on her life and what she
One is $40,000-$50,000.
10:00 Independent Lens: Down
a Dark Stairwell See Mon.
Apr. 12 at 10:00 pm. [R]
Friday 16
meant to them, then and now. A Dark Stairwell A Chinese 4:00 Chicago Tonight: EARLY MORNING
American cop shoots and Black Voices [R] 12:36 BBC World News
Thursday, April 15 kills an innocent Black man 4:30 BBC World News [R] 1:04 Amanpour and Company
8:00 pm in the dark stairwell of a 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 2:02 NOVA: Picture a
2021 APRIL 11In the Spotlight
Photo: Courtesy of The Library of Congress
Orchestra’s historic 1973 7:00 Father Brown: The Wrong 4:00 Finding Your Roots:
trip to China, offering a story Shape Leonard Quinton is The New World [R]
of cultural reversals and a found hanging in the conser- 5:00 Frontline: American
glimpse into the worldwide vatory. When Father Brown Insurrection [R]
future of classical music. realizes that he could not
10:30 Beyond the Canvas: have committed suicide, the EVENING
The Greats 2 search begins for a murderer. 6:00 Chicago Tonight:
11:00 BBC World News 8:00 Death in Paradise (Season Black Voices
11:30 Amanpour and Company 10, Part 3 of 8) Neville is left 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend
perplexed when a lottery 7:00 My Grandparents’ War:
Saturday 17 winner is found dead, but
her body then disappears.
Kristin Scott Thomas Follow
actress Kristin Scott Thomas
EARLY MORNING JP has an unruly new officer as she pieces together a lost
12:30 Baseball: Shadow Ball to train while preparing chapter of her family history,
(Part 5 of 9) See Thurs. for the birth of his twins. learning how her grandfather,
Apr. 15 at 10:30 pm. [R] 9:00 Mallorca Files: The a Royal Navy officer, saved
2:30 Diana, 7 Days See Thurs. Oligarch’s Icon (Part 3 thousands at Dunkirk and
Apr. 15 at 8:00 pm. [R] of 10) When the icon of St. survived some of World War
4:00 Charles & Di: The Truth Nicholas is stolen by a II’s most devastating battles.
L. Frank Baum About Their Wedding See masked assailant, Miranda 8:00 Atlantic Crossing on
Thurs. Apr. 15 at 9:30 pm. [R] and Max enter the world Masterpiece (Part 3 of 8)
5:00 Chicago Tonight: The of Russian oligarchs. While bombs fall on Olav
American Experience: Week in Review [R] 10:00 Atlantic Crossing on and the king in London,
5:30 Yoga in Practice Masterpiece (Part 2 of 8) [R] Martha and the children
American Oz 11:00 To be announced are in the U.S., where
American Experience explores MORNING President Roosevelt extends
the life of L. Frank Baum, the man
behind one of the most beloved,
6:00-9:00 WTTW Kids
9:00 Baby Makes 3: All Star Baby
Sunday 18
enduring, and quintessential 9:30 J. Schwanke’s Life in Bloom EARLY MORNING
American classics. The Wonderful 10:00 This Old House: House 12:00 To be announced
Wizard of Oz, published in Fire Reclamation
MORNING
In the Spotlight
1900, has been reinterpreted 10:30 Ask This Old House:
Photo: Courtesy of Ryan Collerd
through the generations in Flickering Lights, 5:00-10:30 WTTW Kids
films, books, and musicals. Brick Stairs 10:30 Family Travel with
11:00 Lidia’s Kitchen Colleen Kelly
Monday, April 19 11:30 My Greek Table with 11:00 Firing Line with
9:00 pm Diane Kochilas: Ancient Margaret Hoover
Grains for Modern Cooks 11:30 Chavis Chronicles
AFTERNOON AFTERNOON
12:00 Cook’s Country: Never 12:00 The Power of Us:
Scientist See Wed. Enough Chocolate Confronting Our Climate
Apr. 14 at 9:00 pm. [R] 12:30 Steven Raichlen’s Crisis Retired Chicagoland
4:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: Project Fire engineer Jim Goodman and
French Alps and Lyon [R] 1:00 Simply Ming: Ming Tsai his wife Annie work with
4:30 BBC World News with guest Kristen Kish Northwestern University
5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] 1:30 New Scandinavian students to help create an
Cooking: Fairytale Land exhibit that ensures children
MORNING-AFTERNOON 2:00 America’s Test Kitchen that they have the power
6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids from Cook’s Illustrated: and responsibility to make a
Chocolate Delights difference in climate change.
EVENING 2:30 America’s Test Kitchen 1:00 Frozen Obsession This Larry Krasner
6:00 PBS NewsHour from Cook’s Illustrated film follows the 2,000-mile
7:00 Chicago Tonight: The 3:00 Christopher Kimball’s Northwest Passage Project
Week in Review Milk Street Television: expedition through the Philly D.A.
7:30 Washington Week Mexican Favorites Canadian Arctic Archipelago
8:00 The Great Chicago Quiz 3:30 Christopher Kimball’s aboard the Swedish research (New Series!)
Show with Geoffrey Milk Street Television: icebreaker Oden to study In 2017, Larry Krasner, a civil rights
Baer (Part 4 of 4) Holiday Entertaining water chemistry, microbiol- attorney who sued the Philadelphia
8:30 Check, Please! Madison 4:00 A Chef’s Life: Pimp My Grits ogy, birds, mammals, and Police Department 75 times
Bar, Chicago Culinary 4:30 Check, Please! Madison physical oceanography. throughout his career, mounted
Kitchen, Chiya Chai Alpana Bar, Chicago Culinary 2:00 The West is Burning This a longshot campaign supported
welcomes three Chicagoans: Kitchen, Chiya Chai See documentary traverses the by activists and organizers, and
sales executive Julian Fri. Apr. 16 at 8:30 pm. [R] western U.S. to trace the ultimately won the District Attorney’s
Ferguson, who recommend- 5:00 Rick Steves’ Europe: history of forest management seat in a city that has the highest
ed the West Loop eatery Germany’s Fascist Story and litigation that has con- incarceration rate of any large
The Madison Bar; YouTuber Traveling across Germany, tributed to the catastrophic city in the United States. This new
Sean Ely, who picked Rick learns how fascism fires plaguing the region. eight-part docuseries goes inside
Chicago Culinary Kitchen rose and then fell, taking 3:00 Troubled Waters: A Turtle’s the emotional, high-stakes work
in Palatine; and special millions of people with it. Tale Narrated by award- that Krasner and an ensemble of
education teacher Christine 5:30 Samantha Brown’s winning actor Peter Coyote, idealistic outsiders from different
Beukema, who loves Chiya Places to Love this film features interviews walks of life take on as they
Chai in Logan Square. with marine biologists, ocean attempt a fundamental overhaul
9:00 Great Performances: EVENING conservation experts, and of an expansive, entrenched
Beethoven in Beijing 6:00 Chicago Tonight: volunteers who rehabilitate criminal justice system.
Experience the international Latino Voices injured, sick sea turtles and
impact of the Philadelphia 6:30 PBS NewsHour Weekend return them to the wild. Tuesdays beginning
April 20 at 9:00 pm
12 APRIL 2021In the Spotlight
Photo: Bioquest Studios, Nature Footage
a special invitation. debut LP When We All Fall in their family trees that
9:00 World on Fire on Asleep, Where Do We Go? may have led each of them
Masterpiece (Part 3 of 7) to find humor in adversity.
Tom faces the fight of his life
aboard HMS Exeter, while
Monday 19 9:00 Philly D.A. (Part 1 of 8)
in 2017, Krasner, a
Harry and Lois have a more EARLY MORNING civil rights attorney who
personal battle to fight. 12:30 Father Brown: The sued the Philadelphia
10:00 Great Chicago Quiz Wrong Shape See Sat. Police Department 75 times
with Geoffrey Baer Apr. 17 at 7:00 pm. [R] throughout his career, mount-
(Part 4 of 4) See Fri. 1:30 Death in Paradise (Season ed a longshot campaign
Apr. 16 at 8:00 pm. [R] 10, Part 3 of 8) See Sat. supported by activists and
10:30 The Great British Baking Apr. 17 at 8:00 pm. [R] organizers, and ultimately
Show: Patisserie (Part 9 2:30 Mallorca Files: The won the District Attorney’s
of 10) First, the semifinalists Oligarch’s Icon (Part 3 seat in a city that has the
take on Signature baklava. of 10) See Sat. Apr. 17 highest incarceration rate
Next is the tricky German at 9:00 pm. [R] of any large city in the United
schichttorte, cooked in 3:30 Troubled Waters: A States. This new eight-part
stages under a grill to create Turtle’s Tale See Sun. docuseries goes inside the
20 layers. The Showstopper Apr. 18 at 3:00 pm. [R] emotional, high-stakes work
requires the final four to cre- 4:30 BBC World News that Krasner and an en-
ate two elegant entremets. 5:00 Chicago Tonight: semble of idealistic outsiders
11:30 Austin City Limits: Billie Black Voices [R] from different walks of life
Eilish The L.A. singer/ 5:30 Chicago Tonight: take on as they attempt a NOVA: Reef Rescue
songwriter performs her Latino Voices [R] fundamental overhaul of an
hits and songs from her expansive, entrenched As climate change warms the
MORNING-AFTERNOON criminal justice system. oceans, coral reefs are dying, putting
6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids 11:00 BBC World News marine ecosystems and the billions
11:30 Amanpour and Company of humans that rely on them at grave
EVENING risk. To counteract this catastrophe,
scientists are scrambling to find
In the Spotlight
6:00 PBS NewsHour
7:00 Chicago Tonight
Wednesday 21 new ways to save the reefs using a
8:00 Antiques Roadshow: EARLY MORNING technique called assisted evolution.
Photo: Courtesy of Alex Werjefelt / © Thirteen Productions LLC & TMFS
Vintage Las Vegas 2021 12:30 Antiques Roadshow: Wednesday, April 21
(Part 2 of 2) Have the values Vintage Las Vegas 2021
of Vegas treasures – includ- (Part 2 of 2) [R] 9:00 pm
ing a 1943 Albert Einstein 1:30 American Experience:
letter, an early 20th-century American Oz See Mon.
gold signet ring collection, Apr. 19 at 9:00 pm. [R]
and a Louis Comfort Tiffany 3:30 The Power of Us:
seascape oil from around Confronting Our Climate
Promotional image: Courtesy of PBS NewsHour
1880 – gone up, down, or Crisis See Sun. Apr. 18
stayed the same since 2007? at 12:00 pm. [R]
9:00 American Experience: 4:30 BBC World News
American Oz 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R]
11:00 BBC World News
11:30 Amanpour and Company MORNING-AFTERNOON
6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids
Tuesday 20 EVENING
EARLY MORNING 6:00 PBS NewsHour
12:30 My Grandparents’ War: 7:00 Chicago Tonight
Tiger Shark Kristin Scott Thomas See 8:00 Nature: Sharks of Hawaii
Sun. Apr. 18 at 7:00 pm. [R] 9:00 NOVA: Reef Rescue
1:30 Atlantic Crossing on 10:00 Critical Care: America
Nature: Sharks of Hawaii Masterpiece (Part 3 vs. the World - PBS
of 8) See Sun. Apr. 18 NewsHour Presents
Under the waves and tropical sun, at 8:00 pm. [R] 11:00 BBC World News
each of Hawaii’s volcanic islands 2:30 Great Performances: 11:30 Amanpour and Company
host a unique ocean landscape Beethoven in Beijing See Thursday 22
teeming with biodiversity. But one Fri. Apr. 16 at 9:00 pm. [R]
predator reigns supreme – the 4:00 Beyond the Canvas: EARLY MORNING
shark. With 40 species of shark The Greats 2 [R] 12:30 Finding Your Roots:
calling these warm waters home, 4:30 BBC World News Laughing on the Inside See Critical Care: America
scientists are seeing new animal 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] Tues. Apr. 20 at 8:00 pm. [R] vs. the World: PBS
behavior around every corner. 1:30 Philly D.A. (Part 1 of 8) See
Whitetip reef sharks “sleep” in tight MORNING-AFTERNOON
NewsHour Presents
Tues. Apr. 20 at 9:00 pm. [R]
volcanic tunnels. in the deep water, 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids 3:30 Frozen Obsession See PBS NewsHour examines the
everything is on the menu for the Sun. Apr. 18 at 1:00 pm. [R] highs and lows of America’s
hunting Tiger shark, from birds to EVENING 4:30 BBC World News 67H health care system, and travels
Humpback whales. Hopping from 6:00 PBS NewsHour 5:00 Chicago Tonight [R] to four other nations to see how
island to island, uncover surprising 7:00 Chicago Tonight they provide health coverage
moments of cooperation, rarely 8:00 Finding Your Roots: MORNING-AFTERNOON affordably and thoroughly, even
seen hunting tactics and striking Laughing on the Inside 6:00-6:00 WTTW Kids in the face of the pandemic.
insights into these predators Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
of the world’s paradise. EVENING Wednesday, April 21
provides comedians Lewis
Black and Roy Wood, Jr. 6:00 PBS NewsHour 10:00 pm
Wednesday, April 21
with accounts of hardship 7:00 Chicago Tonight
8:00 pm
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