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PRIMETIME

MAY 2020

American Experience

Mr. TornadoMay 19, 9pm

Photo courtesy of Anthony Boccaccio/NG Image Collection

PRIMETIME

MAY 2020

primetime

2 MAY 2020

K-12 Educational Programming: Weekdays on OPBOPB has adjusted our television schedules to support K-12 students with grade-level and subject-based programs during the coronavirus outbreak. This provides thousands of children access to educational lessons while Oregon schools are closed. OPB’s primary broadcast television channel now focuses on educational content from 6am to 6pm, Monday through Friday.

Look for the education schedule in the ‘Weekdays’ section on page 3.

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5 TUESDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu 12am) |

OPB+ Shelter Me In Times of Need (Also Wed 5am OPB+)

8:00 OPB The Queen at War Follow Queen Elizabeth II’s experiences during World War II and learn how she was shaped by the war. (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ Gorilla Family and Me Eps 1&2. Gordon Buchanan gains the trust of a gorilla family. (Also Sun 3pm)

9:00 OPB American Experience George W. Bush, Pt 2. War in Iraq ensues as President Bush begins his second term. (Also Thu 2am)

10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Wed 4am)

11:00 OPB Pacific Heartbeat Anote’s Ark (R-Also Thu 4am) | OPB+ Skindigenous Kahnawake/New Mexico (Also Thu 2am)

6 WEDNESDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am) |

OPB+ History of Christianity God in the Dock (Also Thu 5am)

8:00 OPB Spy in the Wild: A Nature Miniseries The North. Spy creatures learn how animals move, feed and fight. (Also Sun 10am)

1 FRIDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Tue 12am) |

OPB+ Arab American Stories Eps 10&11. People organize to uphold the rights of American citizens. (Also Sun 10am)

8:00 OPB Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators Nothing Will Come of Nothing. Lu and Frank delve into the world of high-stakes gambling. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sun 4:30pm OPB)

8:30 OPB+ Norman Mineta and His Legacy: An American Story Mineta rose to become the first Asian American to serve in a presidential cabinet. (Also Sun 1pm)

9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders The Dagger Club. A festival is upended after a manuscript disappears. (Also Mon 2am)

9:30 OPB+ Reconnecting Roots Travel: Migration to Mobility (Also Sun 2pm)

10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Mon 4am)

10:30 OPB Modus Season 2, Ep 3. Swedish police clash with the FBI. (Also Mon 3:30am)

11:00 OPB+ Frontline Coronavirus Pandemic (R-Also Mon 2am)

11:30 OPB On Story On Writing Chernobyl (Also Mon 4:30am)

2 SATURDAY5:00 OPB This Old House Cape Ann/Tiling

is a Family Affair (Also Mon 6pm) | OPB+ Marathon Lucky Chow, continued (until 7pm)

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend

6:00 OPB Somewhere South It’s a Greens Thing

7:00 OPB Art Wolfe’s Travels to the Edge Patagonia: Mount Fitz Roy (Also Sun 9:30am) | OPB+ No Passport Required Philadelphia

7:30 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Helsinki and Tallinn: Baltic Sisters (Also Sun 9am)

8:00 OPB A Place To Call Home Reaching Home. Sarah and George prepare to leave for Israel. (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ Country Music The Sons and Daughters of America (1964–1968) (Also Sun 2am)

9:00 OPB Death in Paradise Season 3, Ep 8. Humphrey’s wife returns.

10:00 OPB Jamestown Season 2, Ep 6. Ghostly happenings reveal Samuel’s true murderer. | OPB+ POV Farmsteaders. The Nolans try to resurrect their family’s dairy farm. (Also Sun 12am)

11:00 OPB Last Tango in Halifax Ep 4. Police search for Alan and Celia. |

OPB+ POV Grit. A community demands reparations after being submerged by a tsunami of mud. (Also Sun 1am)

3 SUNDAY5:00 OPB Firing Line With Margaret Hoover

| OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels and Traditions Have a Healthy Trip

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Rick Steves’ Europe North Wales: Feisty and Poetic

6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Ceramics Special (R) | OPB+ South Pacific Castaways (R)

6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Adaptive Skiing (R)

7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Masterclass 2 (Also Sun 5/10 12am) | OPB+ Pilgrimage: The Road to Rome Ep 3 (R)

8:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 9, Ep 6. Fred attempts to reinstate a cancelled horticulture show. (Also Tue 1am) | OPB+ NOVA Back to the Moon. Governments and private industry prepare for a new age in space travel. (Also Tue 12am)

9:00 OPB Masterpiece World on Fire, Ep 5. Harry and his unit reach Dunkirk.

(Also Tue 2am) | OPB+ NOVA The Planets: Inner Worlds/Mars (Also Tue 1am)

10:00 OPB Masterpiece Baptiste, Ep 4. Edward makes a reckless move. (Also Tue 3am)

11:00 OPB Spies of Warsaw Ep 4. Mercier decides to help France and Poland. (Also Tue 4am) | OPB+ Secrets of the Dead Galileo’s Moon. Galileo’s ‘Sidereus Nuncius’ changed our understanding of the cosmos.

4 MONDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 12am) |

OPB+ A Wider World Season 10, Eps 7&8. A veterans group gives medical goods a second life. (Also Tue 5am)

8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow McNay Art Museum, Hr 3 (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ South Pacific Endless Blue (Also Sun 6pm)

9:00 OPB Fire in the Heartland: Kent State, May 4th, and Student Protest in America The story of students who lost their lives protesting at Kent State University. (Also Fri 8:30pm OPB+) | OPB+ Penelope Keith’s Hidden Villages East Anglia (Also Sun 7pm)

10:00 OPB American Experience George W. Bush, Pt 1. Explore the life and tumultuous presidency of George W. Bush. (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Tue 4am)

11:00 OPB+ Pacific Heartbeat Mele Murals (Also Wed 2am)

weekdaysMONDAY - FRIDAY

5:30 OPB BBC World News

6am OPB Natural Science (Grades K-3) | OPB+ Lifestyles

6:30 OPB History (Grades K-3)

7am OPB Math (Grades K-3) | OPB+ NHK Newsline

7:30 OPB+ Fitness

8am OPB Science (Grades K-3) | OPB+ Sewing & Knitting

8:30 OPB Financial Literacy (Grades K-3) | OPB+ Painting

9am OPB Science (Grades 4-8) | OPB+ Woodworking

10am OPB History (Grades 4-8) | OPB+ Food & Cooking (until noon)

11am OPB Local: Natural Science, Arts & Culture

11:30 OPB Local History

Noon OPB Social Studies & Science (Grades 4-8) | OPB+ Second Opinion (M); Gardening (Tu); Travel (W/Th); Make it Artsy (F)

12:30 OPB+ Aging (M); GZero World (Tu); Start Up (W); Journeys in Japan (Th); Ask This Old House (F)

1pm OPB Science (Grades 4-8) | OPB+ News & Public Affairs (until 5pm)

2pm OPB Literature & Liberal Arts (Grades 4-12)

3pm OPB World History (Grades 9-12)

4pm OPB U.S. History (Grades 9-12 until 6pm)

5pm OPB+ Travel

5:30 OPB+ Food & Cooking (until 7pm)

6pm OPB Home Repair (M/Tu); Travel (W/Th/F)

6:30 OPB BBC Outside Source (M–Th); BBC Today (F)

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weekdays

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OPB = Comcast 10 or 710; antenna XX.1OPB+ = Comcast 310; antenna XX.2KIDS = Comcast 311; antenna XX.3Full channel list at opb.org/tvchannels

R = Repeat within a weekRepeats are on original channel unless notedFull schedule and VOD at opb.org/schedules

= Program premiere = Watch online at watch.opb.org

Programs are subject to change

| OPB+ Story of China Ancestors/Silk Roads and China Ships (Also Sun 11am)

9:00 OPB H20: The Molecule That Made Us Crisis. People are forced to adapt to Earth’s changing water cycle and more. (Also Sun 11am)

10:00 OPB Expedition With Steve Backshall Mexico: Maya Underworld. See callout on page 4. (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 4am)

11:00 OPB Power Trip: The Story of Energy Wealth. Energy has changed the way wealth is concentrated. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ The Day the ‘60s Died Revisit the turbulent spring of 1970. (Also Fri 2am)

7 THURSDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am) |

OPB+ This Old House Hour (Also Sun 9am)

8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Paper Arts. The paper mosaic work of Mary Wells is the story of her life. (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World The Rocket (Also Sat 1am)

8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Losing Our Dark Skies. Light pollution is hurting people and wildlife more than you might think. (Also Sun 6:30pm)

9:00 OPB Inspector Morse Absolute Conviction. A man convicted of a large financial swindle dies in prison. (Also Sun 2am) | OPB+ Niall Ferguson’s Networld Disruption

10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Fri 4am)

11:00 OPB Masterpiece Grantchester: Season 3, Ep 2. Sidney and Geordie investigate the appearance of a dead bird. (Also Sun 4am) | OPB+ DW Global 3000 (Also Sat 2am)

11:30 OPB+ Articulate With Jim Cotter Beyond the Status Quo (Also Sat 2:30am)

8 FRIDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour | OPB+ Arab

American Stories Eps 12&13. Meet indi-viduals who have made lasting contributions to American institutions. (Also Sun 10am)

8:00 OPB Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators In My Memory Lock’d. A wounded man can’t remember who he is. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sun 4:30pm OPB)

8:30 OPB+ Fire in the Heartland: Kent State, May 4th, and Student Protest in America (R-Also Sun 1pm)

9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders Murder by Magic, Pts 1&2. A woman suffers a crushing fate. (Also Mon 2am)

9:30 OPB+ Reconnecting Roots Hunting: Field to Fork (Also Sun 2pm)


10:30 OPB Modus Season 2, Ep 4. Ingvar and Inger’s private lives are put to the test. (Also Mon 3:30am)

11:00 OPB+ Frontline Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia, Pt 1. Examine the rivalry that plunged the Middle East into sectarian war. (Also Mon 2am)

11:30 OPB In This Together: A PBS American Portrait Story (Also Mon 4:30am)

9 SATURDAY5:00 OPB This Old House (Also Mon 6pm)

| OPB+ Marathon Pati’s Mexican Table, continued (until 7pm)


6:00 OPB Somewhere South How Do You Cue?

7:00 OPB Art Wolfe’s Travels to the Edge The Southwest: Zion and Canyon de Chelly (Also Sun 9:30am) | OPB+ Somewhere South American as Hand Pie

7:30 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Galicia and the Camino de Santiago (Also Sun 9am)

8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries The Old Switcheroo. An old rival peddles antiquities.

(Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ Country Music Will the Circle Be Unbroken? (1968–1972) (Also Sun 2am)

9:00 OPB Hinterland Season 3, Ep 1. Mathias returns to Aberystwyth.

10:00 OPB Jamestown Season 2, Ep 7. Maria runs away. | OPB+ POV Blowin’ Up. A team works to help women arrested for prostitution. (Also Sun 12am)

11:00 OPB Last Tango in Halifax Ep 5. Caroline throws herself into her new relationship.

11:30 OPB+ POV Shorts Water Warriors (Also Sun 1:30am)


| OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels and Traditions Tea for Two

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Rick Steves’ Europe Edinburgh

6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Paper Arts (R) | OPB+ South Pacific Endless Blue (R)

6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Losing Our Dark Skies (R)

7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Masterclass 3 (Also Sun 5/17 12am) |

primetime

4 MAY 2020

True to Nature Ltd.

Expedition With Steve Backshall New EpisodesHead into the unknown with explorer Steve Backshall as he journeys to the world’s last unexplored places and faces challenges around the globe, encountering extraordinary wildlife and meeting remarkable people along the way.

Wednesdays at 10pm OPB

9:00 OPB+ Nature Natural Born Hustlers: Staying Alive. Meet the cheats and sneaks of the animal world. (Also Sun 4pm)

10:00 OPB Asian Americans Breaking Through. At the turn of the millennium, Asian Americans were empowered by rising influence. (Also Thu 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Wed 4am)

11:00 OPB Pacific Heartbeat Power Meri (R-Also Thu 4am) | OPB+ Skindigenous India/Taiwan (Also Thu 2am)

13 WEDNESDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am) |

OPB+ Vanished Dream: Wartime Story of My Japanese Grandfather (Also Thu 5am)

8:00 OPB Spy in the Wild: A Nature Miniseries The Islands. Discover the islands of the South Pacific with a spy koala and crab.

(Also Sun 10am) | OPB+ Story of China Golden Age/The Ming (Also Sun 11am)

9:00 OPB NOVA Eagle Power. Researchers put one eagle to the test to reveal her incredible strength, eyesight and flying skills. (Also Sun 11am)

10:00 OPB Expedition With Steve Backshall Greenland: Ice Mountain.

Steve attempts to summit a remote and unclimbed mountain. (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 4am)

11:00 OPB Power Trip: The Story of Energy Cities. Explore the connected futures of cities and energy. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ Hayao Miyazaki: 10 Years With the Master Ponyo is Here. Miyazaki dreams up his hit movie ‘Ponyo on the Cliff By the Sea.’ (Also Fri 2am)



8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Cosmic Design. William Hernandez’s paintings capture the surprising and the surreal. (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ Breakthrough: The Ideas That Changed the World The Smartphone (Also Sat 12am)

8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Discovery on Mount St. Helens. Join Field Guide on one of their most dangerous expeditions. (Also Sun 6:30pm)

9:00 OPB Inspector Morse Cherubim and Seraphim. Morse experiences a family tragedy.

(Also Sun 2am) | OPB+ Niall Ferguson’s Networld Winner Takes All (Also Sat 1am)


11:00 OPB Masterpiece Grantchester: Season 3, Ep 3. Villagers become ill at a cricket match. (Also Sun 4am) | OPB+ DW Global 3000 (Also Sat 2am)

11:30 OPB+ Articulate With Jim Cotter By the Horns (Also Sat 2:30am)

15 FRIDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Tue 12am)

| OPB+ Live Art: Family Artists celebrate inclusion and ability with a concert. (Also Sun 10am)

8:00 OPB Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators The Envious Court. Frank and Lu go undercover at a tennis club.

(Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sun 4:30pm OPB)

8:30 OPB+ Finding Your Roots Hollywood Royalty (Also Sun 1pm)

9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders The Ballad of Midsomer County, Pts 1&2. A folk ballad inspires violence. (Also Mon 2am)

9:30 OPB+ Reconnecting Roots Native Americans: An Uncommon History (Also Sun 2pm)


OPB+ Penelope Keith’s Hidden Villages East Anglia (R)

8:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 9, Ep 7. Kevin’s newest patient has a troubled home life.

(Also Tue 1am) | OPB+ NOVA The Planets: Jupiter/Saturn/Ice Worlds (Also Tue 12am)

9:00 OPB Masterpiece World on Fire, Ep 6. Paris falls to the Nazis. (Also Tue 2am)

10:00 OPB Masterpiece Baptiste, Ep 5. Julien plots an audacious move. (Also Tue 3am)

11:00 OPB Before We Die Ep 1. Police detective Hanna Svensson handles a mysterious informant when her colleague and lover goes missing. (Also Tue 4am) | OPB+ NOVA Wonders What’s the Universe Made of?


OPB+ A Wider World Season 10, Eps 9&10. Follow an arts program for people with intellectual disabilities. (Also Tue 5am)

8:00 OPB Asian Americans Breaking Ground/A Question of Loyalty. The first generation of U.S.-born Asian Americans had their loyalties tested during World War II. (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ South Pacific Ocean of Volcanoes

(Also Sun 6pm)

9:00 OPB+ Penelope Keith’s Hidden Villages South-West England (Also Sun 7pm)

10:00 OPB Oregon Experience Oregon’s Japanese Americans. Discover the history of Oregon’s Japanese Americans, from their early pioneer beginnings to their forced incarceration during WWII and beyond.

(Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Tue 4am)

11:00 OPB+ Pacific Heartbeat Power Meri. See life within Papua New Guinea’s first national women’s rugby league team. (Also Tue 11pm)

11:05 OPB Independent Lens Rewind. A family home video archive reveals cycles of abuse. (Also Wed 4:05am)

12 TUESDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu 12am)

| OPB+ Troubled Waters: A Turtle’s Tale Examine how human-made problems endanger sea turtles. (Also Wed 5am)

8:00 OPB Asian Americans Good Americans/Generation Rising. Learn how Asian Americans were targeted during the Cold War. (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ Nature’s Greatest Dancers The Dance for Love. Animals make moves in pursuit of romance. (Also Sun 3pm)

SATURDAYS 6-10am OPB Kids Programs | OPB+

News, Politics & Business

10am OPB Gardening | OPB+ Marathons (until 7pm) Lucky Chow (5/2); Mexican Cooking (5/9); Journeys in Japan/Travelogue China (5/16); Steve Raichlen’s Project Smoke (5/23); Member Drive Programs (5/30)

11am OPB Sewing & Quilting

1pm OPB Cooking

3pm OPB Motorweek

3:30 OPB Woodworking

4:30 OPB Home Repair

SUNDAYS 6-9am OPB Kids Programs | OPB+

Lifestyles

9am OPB Travel (5/3, 5/10, 5/17, 5/24); Member Drive Programs (5/31 until 12am) | OPB+ This Old House Hour (5/3, 5/10, 5/17, 5/24); Member Drive Programs (5/31 until 12am)

10am OPB Spy in the Wild | OPB+ Arab American Stories (5/3, 5/10); Live Art Family (5/17); Touching the Sound (5/24)

11am OPB H20: The Molecule (5/3, 5/10); NOVA (5/17) | OPB+ Rising From the Rails (5/3); Story of China (5/10, 5/17, 5/24)

Noon OPB Dishing With Julia Child (5/3 until 3pm); Great Performances LA Phil 100 (5/10); Leonard Bernstein (5/17); American Masters Sammy Davis Jr. (5/24) | OPB+ Journey to Promontory (5/3)

1pm OPB+ Norman Mineta and His Legacy (5/3); Fire in the Heartland (5/10); Finding Your Roots (5/17, 5/24)

1:30 OPB Great Performances Birgit Nilsson (5/10)

2pm OPB Great Performances In the Heights (5/17); Nas Live: Classical Hip Hop (5/24) | OPB+ Reconnecting Roots

2:30 OPB+ Between the Lines

3pm OPB News & Public Affairs (until 6pm) | OPB+ Nature & Wildlife Programs (5/3, 5/10, 5/17, 5/24 until 5pm)

weekENDs

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10:30 OPB Modus Season 2, Ep 5. Swedish police search for a mole. (Also Mon 3:30am)

11:00 OPB+ Frontline Bitter Rivals: Iran and Saudi Arabia, Pt 2. Saudi Arabia makes a stand in Yemen. (Also Mon 2am)

11:30 OPB On Story A Conversation With David Benioff and D.B. Weiss (Also Mon 4:30am)

16 SATURDAY5:00 OPB This Old House (Also Mon

6pm) | OPB+ Marathon Travelogue China, continued (until 7pm)


6:00 OPB Shelter Me Partners for Life

7:00 OPB Art Wolfe’s Travels to the Edge India: Varanasi to Bandhavgarh (Also Sun 9:30am) | OPB+ Somewhere South Porridge for the Soul

7:30 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Basque Country (Also Sun 9am)

8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries Last Dance. The team investigates a kidnapping gone wrong. (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ Country Music Are You Sure Hank Done it This Way? (1973–1983) (Also Sun 2am)

9:00 OPB Hinterland Season 3, Ep 2. Mathias struggles as two cases collide.

10:00 OPB Jamestown Season 2, Ep 8. Jocelyn learns what it means to lose everything.

10:30 OPB+ POV Bill Nye: Science Guy. Bill Nye seeks to change the world through science. (Also Sun 12am)

11:00 OPB Last Tango in Halifax Ep 6. Celia and Alan’s relationship falters.


| OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels And Traditions The Road to Ruin

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Rick Steves’ Europe Naples and Pompeii

6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Cosmic Design (R) | OPB+ South Pacific Ocean of Volcanoes (R)

6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Discovery on Mount St. Helens (R)

7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Masterclass 4 (Also Sun 5/24 12am) | OPB+ Penelope Keith’s Hidden Villages South-West England (R)

8:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 9, Ep 8. Petra must move up her wedding. (Also Tue 1am) | OPB+ 8 Days: To the Moon and Back See a stunning recreation of the first moon landing. (Also Tue 12am)

9:00 OPB Masterpiece World on Fire, Ep 7. Harry has a second chance at saving Kasia.

(Also Tue 2am)

9:30 OPB+ When We Were Apollo Meet the builders of the Apollo Space Program. (Also Tue 1:30am)

10:00 OPB Masterpiece Baptiste, Ep 6. Julien discovers the inside source. (Also Tue 3am)

11:00 OPB Before We Die Ep 2. Attempts to rescue Sven are foiled. (Also Tue 4am) | OPB+ Space Chase USA See how Cocoa Beach, Florida, transformed into a center for the U.S. space program.


OPB+ A Wider World Season 11, Eps 1&2. An NHL coach includes his son with Down Syndrome in his professional life. (Also Tue 5am)

8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Little Rock, Hr 3 (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ South Pacific Strange Islands (Also Sun 6pm)

9:00 OPB Broken Places Explore why adversity affects some children differently. (Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ Penelope Keith’s Hidden Villages Devon and Cornwall (Also Sun 7pm)

10:00 OPB Created Equal: Clarence Thomas in His Own Words Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas discusses his life and legacy. (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Tue 4am)

11:00 OPB+ Pacific Heartbeat Born This Way: Awa’s Story and the Rogers. A transgender teen overcomes hurdles at college. (Also Tue 11pm OPB)


OPB+ Untamed Bears/Turtles (Also Wed 5am)

8:00 OPB NOVA Deadliest Tornadoes. In 2011, tornadoes left a trail of destruction across the U.S. (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ Nature’s Greatest Dancers The Dance for Life. Animals perform dance-like moves to survive.

(Also Sun 3pm)

9:00 OPB American Experience Mr. Tornado. Pioneering meteorologist Ted Fujita transformed our understanding of tornadoes. (Also Thu 2am) | OPB+ Nature Natural Born Hustlers: The Hunger Hustle. Animals employ clever tactics to trap food. (Also Sun 4pm)

10:00 OPB Frontline Inside Italy’s COVID War. Go inside a hospital battling COVID-19 cases in northern Italy. (Also Fri 11pm OPB+) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Wed 4am)

6 MAY 2020

primetime

OPB Program Schedules Online AnytimeYou can download OPB’s most current TV and radio programming schedules anytime on our website.

Find them at opb.org/guide.

11:30 OPB+ Articulate With Jim Cotter Wayfinders (Also Sat 2:30am)

22 FRIDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Tue 12am)

| OPB+ Touching the Sound Pianist Nobuyuki Tsujii is undeterred by lifelong blindness. (Also Sun 10am)

8:00 OPB Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators Too Cold for Hell. Frank and Lu track down stolen goods. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sun 4:30pm OPB)

8:30 OPB+ Finding Your Roots Off the Farm. Featuring actors Melissa McCarthy and Eric Stonestreet. (Also Sun 1pm)

9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders A Vintage Murder, Pts 1&2. A poisoner targets a wine tasting event. (Also Mon 2am)

9:30 OPB+ Reconnecting Roots Trains: Tracking Progress (Also Sun 2pm)


10:30 OPB Modus Season 2, Ep 6. Helen Tyler does not want to be found. (Also Mon 3:30am)

11:00 OPB+ Frontline Inside Italy’s COVID War (R-Also Mon 2am)

11:30 OPB On Story On Writing ‘To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before’ (Also Mon 4:30am)

23 SATURDAY5:00 OPB This Old House (Also Mon 6pm)

| OPB+ Marathon Steven Raichlen’s Project Smoke, continued (until 7pm)


6:00 OPB Shelter Me Hearts & Paws

7:00 OPB Art Wolfe’s Travels to the Edge The Southern Ocean: South Georgia Island (Also Sun 9:30am) | OPB+ Somewhere South Dumpling Dilemma

7:30 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Rome: Ancient Glory (Also Sun 9am)

8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries Radio Daze. A radio show serves as a cover for a heist. (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ Country Music Don’t Get Above Your Raisin (1984–1996) (Also Sun 2am)

9:00 OPB Hinterland Season 3, Ep 3. Mathias unearths shocking secrets.

10:00 OPB Jamestown Season 3, Ep 1. Banished Silas is devoted to the Pamunkey. | OPB+ POV Almost Sunrise. Friends haunted by combat experiences trek across America. (Also Sun 12am)

11:00 OPB Last Tango in Halifax Ep 7. Gillian spirals into a dark place.

11:00 OPB Pacific Heartbeat Born This Way: Awa’s Story and the Rogers (R-Also Thu 4am) | OPB+ Skindigenous Lebret/Nimkii

(Also Thu 2am)

20 WEDNESDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am)

| OPB+ Reaching West: Dreams of China’s New Generation (Also Thu 5am)

8:00 OPB Spy in the Wild: A Nature Miniseries The Poles. Get an up-close look at penguins, wolf cubs and polar bears. (Also Sun 10am) | OPB+ Story of China The Last Empire/The Age of Revolution (Also Sun 11am)

9:00 OPB NOVA Decoding COVID-19. Join doctors fighting against COVID-19 as they strategize to stop the spread, and meet the researchers racing to find treatments and vaccines. Photo: Zigres/Shutterstock

(Also Fri 2am)

10:00 OPB Expedition With Steve Backshall Suriname: Ghost River. Steve and his team kayak an unnamed river. (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 4am)

11:00 OPB Power Trip: The Story of Energy Transportation. See how energy brought us modern transportation. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ Hayao Miyazaki: 10 Years With the Master Drawing What’s Real. Miyazaki weaves memories of his late mother into a film. (Also Fri 2am)



8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat One Skill Informs Another. Andiel Brown is the gospel choir director at University of Oregon. He’s also a bodybuilder and former Ducks football player.

(Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ H20: The Molecule That Made Us Flow (R-Also Sat 12am)

8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Hit the Trail. Experience Oregon’s first hut-to-hut biking route. (Also Sun 6:30pm)

9:00 OPB Inspector Morse Deadly Slumber. After an operation goes wrong, the doctor is murdered. (Also Sun 2am) | OPB+ Niall Ferguson’s Networld Networld War (Also Sat 1am)


11:00 OPB Masterpiece Grantchester: Season 3, Ep 4. Sidney investigates several post office robberies. (Also Sun 4am) | OPB+ DW Global 3000 (Also Sat 2am)


| OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels and Traditions Visiting a Great Museum Can Reduce Stress

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Rick Steves’ Europe Italy’s Amalfi Coast

6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat One Skill Informs Another (R) | OPB+ South Pacific Strange Islands (R)

6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Hit the Trail (R)

7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Cakes (Also Sun 5/31 12am) | OPB+ Penelope Keith’s Hidden Villages Devon and Cornwall (R)

8:00 OPB National Memorial Day Concert Celebrate America’s men and women in uniform with performances by the National Symphony Orchestra. (Also Sun 9:30pm) | OPB+ Oregon Experience Oregon at War. Oregonians share their World War II stories.

(Also Tue 12am)

9:00 OPB+ Debt of Honor: Disabled Veterans in American History An unflinching look at warfare and disability. (Also Tue 1am)

9:30 OPB National Memorial Day Concert (R-Also Tue 1am)

10:00 OPB+ Lifeline: Pearl Harbor’s Unknown Hero In 1941, U.S. Navy sailor Joe George became an unlikely hero.

11:00 OPB Before We Die Ep 3. Christian is threatened. (Also Tue 4am)

11:30 OPB+ The Last Ring Home A soldier’s ring returns home.


OPB+ A Wider World Season 11, Eps 3&4. Adaptive technology helps people find meaningful employment. (Also Tue 5am)

8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Charleston, Hr 1 (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ South Pacific Fragile Paradise (Also Sun 6pm)





7 MAY 2020

9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Searching for York. Learn about an unofficial member of the Lewis and Clark Expedition: William Clark’s slave, York. (Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ Penelope Keith’s Hidden Villages Cumbria (Also Wed 1am)

9:30 OPB Oregon Experience Lola Baldwin. In 1908, Baldwin became the nation’s first policewoman. (Also Wed 2:30am)

10:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Charleston, Hr 2 (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Tue 4am)

11:00 OPB Independent Lens Eating Up Easter. Climate change and tourism threaten the fragile

economy of Rapa Nui. (Also Wed 4am) | OPB+ Going to War A revealing look at the experiences of soldiers in battle. (Also Wed 2am)


OPB+ Untamed Owls/Opossums (Also Wed 5am)

8:00 OPB Finding Your Roots Beyond the Pale. Featuring Jeff Goldblum, radio host Terry Gross and comedian Marc Maron. (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ Reel South See the Keepers (Also Thu 12am)

9:00 OPB Viral: Antisemitism in Four Mutations Examine the infectiousness of hate and violence. (Also Thu 2am) | OPB+ Nature Natural Born Hustlers: Sex, Lies & Dirty Tricks. Witness artful illusions and blatant cheating. (Also Thu 1am)

10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Wed 4am)

10:30 OPB Frontline The Last Survivors. Elderly Holocaust survivors reflect on how childhood trauma has affected their lives. (Also Fri 11pm OPB+)

11:00 OPB+ Skindigenous New Zealand/Philippines: Wang Od Oggay and Grace Palica (Also Thu 2am)

11:30 OPB On Story A Conversation With Catherine Reitman (Also Thu 4:30am)

27 WEDNESDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am)

| OPB+ Remembering Vietnam: The Telling Project

8:00 OPB Nature Sex, Lies and Butterflies. Follow one of the greatest migrations on Earth. (Also Fri 1am) | OPB+ Greatest Bond Inmates, veterans and service dogs unite in a story of redemption and hope. (Also Fri 12am)

8:30 OPB+ Finding Your Roots Homecomings (Also Mon 12:30am)

9:00 OPB Maigret Maigret Sets a Trap. Maigret seeks the killer of four women. (Also Sun 2am)

9:30 OPB+ Reconnecting Roots (Also Mon 1:30am)


10:30 OPB Modus Season 2, Ep 7. Ingvar must cooperate with the FBI. (Also Sun 3:30am)

11:00 OPB+ Frontline The Last Survivors (R-Also Mon 2am)

11:30 OPB On Story A Conversation with Felicia Henderson (Also Sun 4:30am)

30 SATURDAY5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+

Wild Travels

6:00 OPB & OPB+ Rick Steves Fascism in Europe Rick travels back a century to learn how fascism rose and then fell in Europe.

7:30 OPB & OPB+ Rick Steves’ Tasty Europe See how food defines cultures all across Europe. (Also Sun 11:30pm)

8:00 OPB & OPB+ John Sebastian Presents: Folk Rewind A reunion of folk singers includes Barry McGuire, Roger McGuinn and The Chad Mitchell Trio.

10:00 OPB & OPB+ The Best of Celtic Woman Get transported to Ireland to celebrate magical moments and memories from 15 years of making music.

11:30 OPB & OPB+ Rick Steves’ Festive Europe Experience Paris on Bastille Day and the royal pageantry of London. (Also Sun 6pm)

31 SUNDAY5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+

Rick Steves’ Europe Milan and Lake Como

6:00 OPB & OPB+ Rick Steves’ Festive Europe (R)

6:30 OPB & OPB+ Oregon Field Guide Special Oregon Revealed. Discover exquisite views many Oregonians have never seen.

8:00 OPB & OPB+ Nitty Gritty Dirt Band: 50 Years and Circlin’ Back Vince Gill, Jackson Browne and more celebrate the groundbreaking band’s milestones and hits.

9:30 OPB & OPB+ Downton Abbey Returns! Join Jim Carter for a celebration of the beloved hit series.

11:30 OPB & OPB+ Rick Steves’ Tasty Europe (R)

9:00 OPB NOVA Last B-24. Archaeologists investigate a bomber that crashed into the sea in 1940. (Also Fri 2am)

10:00 OPB Expedition With Steve Backshall Oman: Desert Fortress. Steve climbs unexplored cliffs in Oman. (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 4am)

11:00 OPB Power Trip: The Story of Energy War. Discover how energy can lead to either peace or conflict. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ Hayao Miyazaki: 10 Years With the Master Go Ahead: Threaten Me. Sparks fly as Miyazaki and his son work on a film. (Also Fri 2am)

28 THURSDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am)

| OPB+ This Old House Hour (Also Fri 5am)

8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Intuitive Voices. Artist Claudia Marchini bases much of her artwork on the observations she collects as a psychologist. (Also Sun 1am) | OPB+ H20: The Molecule That Made Us Civilizations (Also Sat 12am)

8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Escape to the Coast. Journey through the wilderness section of the Olympic Peninsula coastline.

(Also Sun 1:30am)

9:00 OPB Inspector Morse The Day of the Devil. Morse becomes caught in a deadly battle of wits. (Also Sun 2am) | OPB+ Follow the Water Adventurers on the North Platte River follow the water from the mountains to the plains. (Also Sat 1am)


11:00 OPB Masterpiece Grantchester: Season 3, Ep 5. A woman’s death is covered up. (Also Sun 4am) | OPB+ DW Global 3000 (Also Sat 2am)

11:30 OPB+ Articulate With Jim Cotter The Roots of Creativity (Also Sat 2:30am)

29 FRIDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour | OPB+

Empowered By Parkinson’s People mitigate their symptoms of Parkinson’s and reclaim their lives.

7:30 OPB+ Chef Darren: The Challenge of Profound Deafness Born deaf, Darren Weiss became a teacher and chef.

8:00 OPB Father Brown The Celestial Choir. A mysterious saboteur infiltrates a choir competition. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sat 6am)

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