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Pictured: Mexican vaqueros cattle ranching in “Burning North” on August 15. Photo courtesy of Sophia Evans/BBC NHU 2017

series premiere

Wonders of MexicoAUGUST 1, 9pm

2 AUGUST 2018

primetime© Folk Films Ltd

The Ganges with Sue PerkinsJoin Sue as she undertakes an epic, personal journey spanning over 1,500 miles through some of the most extraordinary places on Earth. Traveling along India’s Ganges River from the Himalayas to the Bay of Bengal, she explores the lives and landscapes of modern India at a crucial point in its history.

Wednesday, August 1, 10pmOPB

6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Summer Arts 2 (R) | OPB+ Monet’s Palate: A Gastronom-ic View from the Gardens of Giverny

6:30 OPB Outdoor Idaho Where the Road Ends (R)

7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Sweet Dough (Also Sat 8/18 6pm) | OPB+ Outdoor Idaho Into the Pioneers (Also Tue 12am)

8:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 2, Pt 8. Demelza and Ross wage bitter war. (Also Tue 1am) | OPB+ Rick Steves Special European Christmas (Also Tue 1am)

9:00 OPB Masterpiece Sherlock, Season 4: The Six Thatchers. Sherlock Holmes is back on British soil. (Also Sat 11pm) | OPB+ Time Team America Topper, South Carolina (Also Tue 2am)

10:00 OPB+ Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies The Blind Men and the Elephant

10:30 OPB The Tunnel: Vengeance Ep 6. A gripping showdown begins. (Also Tue 3:30am)

11:30 OPB Shakespeare in the Shadows Mark Cohen performs Shakespeare’s most intriguing characters. (Also Tue 8/21 10:30pm OPB+)

6 MONDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Mon 11pm

OPB+) | OPB+ The Coroner The Beast of Lighthaven (R)

8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Vintage San Francisco (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ All-Star Orchestra Rhapsody in Blue (Also Wed 12am)

1 WEDNESDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 11pm

OPB+) | OPB+ West of the West: Tales from California’s Channel Island First People

8:00 OPB The Outback The Kimberley Comes Alive. Discover Australia’s diverse Kimberley region. (Also Sun 10am) | OPB+ 800 Words Season 2, Eps 5&6. George’s date with Katie is the only news in Weld. (Also Fri 12am)

9:00 OPB Wonders of Mexico Forests of the Maya. Take in the Yucatan Peninsula’s unique geology and wildlife. (Also Sun 11am)

9:30 OPB+ On Story Better Call Saul: A Conversation with Peter Gould (Also Fri 1:30am)

10:00 OPB The Ganges with Sue Perkins The Himalayas. See callout on this page.

(Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ A Place to Call Home Living in the Shadow. Rene remains cold to Sarah. (Also Fri 2am)

11:00 OPB Earth’s Natural Wonders Living Wonders. Examine natural wonders created by life itself. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ PBS NewsHour (R-Also Thu 12am OPB)

2 THURSDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu 11pm

OPB+) | OPB+ Father Brown The Devil You Know (R)

8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Summer Arts 2. Experience Oregon’s many summer arts festivals and events, complete with gorge

painters, outdoor aerialists and artists from across the country. (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ The Great Rift: Africa’s Wild Heart Water. See the colorful wildlife of East Africa’s lakes and rivers. (Also Sun 1pm)

8:30 OPB Outdoor Idaho Where the Road Ends. Journey to far-out places that preserve the feeling of the frontier. (Also Sun 6:30pm)

9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders Blood Wedding, Pts 1&2. The maid of honor at a high-society wedding is murdered. (Also Sun 2am) | OPB+ The Crowd & The Cloud Citizens4Earth (Also Sun 2pm)

10:00 OPB+ Genius by Stephen Hawking What are We? (Also Sat 2am)

10:35 OPB DCI Banks To Burn in Every Drop of Blood. A victim is found at a local shrine. (Also Sun 3:35am)

11:00 OPB+ PBS NewsHour (R-Also Fri 12:05am OPB)

3 FRIDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 11pm

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

8:00 OPB The Coroner The Beast of Lighthaven. A journalist seeks out a big cat. (Also Mon 7pm OPB+) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sun 4:30pm OPB)

8:30 OPB+ Breaking Big Christian Siriano (Also Mon 12:30am)

9:00 OPB Hinterland Night Music, Pts 1&2. The death of an elderly victim reveals a brutal past. (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+ American Experience Walt Disney, Pt 1. Discover the wonderful world of the iconic fi lmmaker. (Also Mon 1am)

10:35 OPB Masterpiece Mystery! Breathless, Pt 2. A procedure goes wrong. (Also Mon 3:35am)

11:00 OPB+ PBS NewsHour (R-Also Sat 12am OPB)

4 SATURDAY5:00 OPB This Old House Tommy’s Flair for

Flares (Also Mon 6pm) | OPB+ Marathon Picnic Programs, continued (until 8pm)

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend

6:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Pies (R)

7:00 OPB Art Wolfe’s Travels to the Edge Mexico: Baja (Also Sun 9:30am)

7:30 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe European Travel Skills, Pt 1 (Also Sun 9am)

8:00 OPB Globe Trekker Food Hour: Provence, France (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ The Kate John Oates (Also Sat 8/11 5am)

9:00 OPB Father Brown The Cat of Mastigatus. A girl is found left for dead. (Also Thu 8/16 7pm OPB+) | OPB+ Austin City Limits Dan Auerbach/Shinyribs (Also Sun 5am)

10:00 OPB Hillary Home. News of the successful Everest ascent gets out. (Also Tue 7pm OPB+) | OPB+ Movie Man in the Attic (1953). A landlady suspects her new tenant of murder. (Also Sat 11:30pm)

11:00 OPB Masterpiece Endeavour, Season 5: Requiem (R)

5 SUNDAY5:00 OPB Firing Line with Margaret Hoover

| OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions Making a Restaurant, Pt 1

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Rick Steves’ Europe The Best of West Ireland: Dingle, Galway, and the Aran Islands (Also Tue 8/28 1:30pm OPB)

3

weekdays

3 AUGUST 2018

MONDAY - FRIDAY 5:30 OPB BBC World News

6am OPB Classical Stretch (M/F); Sit & Be Fit (Tu/Th); Power Yoga (W) | OPB+ Lifestyles

6:30 OPB Kids Programs (until noon)

7am OPB+ Newsline (NHK from Japan)

7:30 OPB+ Sit & Be Fit (M/W/F); Priscilla’s Yoga (Tu/Th)

8am OPB+ Sewing, Knitting & Quilting

9am OPB+ Painting

10am OPB+ Woodworking

10:30 OPB+ Food & Cooking (until noon)

Noon OPB Painting | OPB+ Second Opinion (M); Garden Home (Tu); Articulate with Jim Cotter (W); Trails to Tsukiji (Th); Make it Artsy (F)

12:30 OPB Food & Cooking | OPB+ Re’fl ect: Successful Aging (M); iQ smartparent (Tu); Start Up (W); For Your Home (Th); Ask This Old House (F)

1pm OPB+ Travel (M/Tu); Home, Garden & Crafts (W/Th/F)

1:30 OPB & OPB+ Travel

2pm OPB Kids Programs (until 6pm) | OPB+ Newsline (NHK from Japan)

2:30 OPB+ BBC World News America

3pm OPB+ DW News

3:30 OPB+ Nightly Business Report

4pm OPB+ PBS NewsHour

5pm OPB+ Amanpour on PBS

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

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

6:30 OPB Nightly Business Report

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

9:00 OPB Animal House of Blues The making of the 1978 movie in Eugene, Oregon. (Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ All-Star Orchestra Arabian Nights (Also Wed 1am)

10:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Vintage Salt Lake City (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ America’s Ballroom Challenge (Also Wed 2am)

11:00 OPB POV Still Tomorrow. Breakout writer Yu Xihua, a woman with cerebral palsy, has become China’s most famous poet. (Also Wed 4am) | OPB+ PBS

NewsHour (R-Also Tue 12am OPB)

7 TUESDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Tue 11pm

OPB+) | OPB+ Hillary Home (R)

8:00 OPB Penelope Keith’s Coastal Villages Isle of Wight & West Sussex. Dive into stories of seafarers, smugglers and shipwrecks. (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ Heart of the World: Colorado’s National Parks Life. See how people connect to the parks. (Also Thu 12am)

9:00 OPB No Passport Required Miami. Taste the cuisine and culture of Miami’s Haitian community. (Also Thu 2am) | OPB+ John Paul II in Ireland: A Plea for Peace In 1979, Pope John Paul II made a dramatic visit to Northern Ireland. (Also Thu 1am)

10:00 OPB Frontline Documenting Hate: Charlottesville. Frontline exposes the white supremacists and neo-Nazis involved in the 2017 Charlottesville rally. (Also Thu 3am) | OPB+ Billy Connolly’s Tracks Across America Ep 2 (R-Also Thu 2am)

11:00 OPB Polytrauma Rehab in the VA: Compassionate Care Medical staff treat patients with traumatic brain injuries. (Also Thu 4am) | OPB+ PBS NewsHour (R-Also Wed 12am OPB)


OPB+) | OPB+ West of the West: Tales from California’s Channel Island Settlers

8:00 OPB The Outback The Dry Season. The Outback springs to life during the dry season.

(Also Sun 10am) | OPB+ 800 Words Season 2, Eps 7&8. The fi rst anniversary of his wife’s death looms large for George. (Also Fri 12am)

9:00 OPB Wonders of Mexico Mountain Worlds. An amazing diversity of life and culture resides in the Sierra Madre. (Also Sun 11am)

9:30 OPB+ On Story John Singleton’s Classic Infl uences (Also Fri 1:30am)

10:00 OPB The Ganges with Sue Perkins The Gangetic Plain. Sue arrives in the ancient city of Varanasi. (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ A Place to Call Home In the Heat of the Night. Sarah fears for her baby’s life. (Also Fri 2am)

11:00 OPB NOVA Making North America: Origins. Learn what forces gave birth to the continent. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ PBS NewsHour (R-Also Thu 12am OPB)


OPB+) | OPB+ Father Brown The Dance of Death (R)

8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Tell Me a Story. Visit fi lm composer Mark Orton in his studio.

(Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ The Great Rift: Africa’s Wild Heart Grass. In the savannas, grazers struggle to outwit their predators. (Also Sun 1pm)

8:30 OPB Outdoor Idaho Almost Canada. Explore northern Idaho’s lush landscapes. (Also Sun 6:30pm)

9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders Shot at Dawn, Pts 1&2. A rivalry turns violent. (Also Sun 2am) | OPB+ Koko: The Gorilla Who Talks In 1971, Penny Patterson began teaching sign language to a gorilla. (Also Sun 2pm)

10:00 OPB+ Genius by Stephen Hawking Where are We? (Also Sat 2am)

10:35 OPB DCI Banks A Little Bit of Heart. A de-voted father goes missing. (Also Sun 3:35am)

11:00 OPB+ PBS NewsHour (R-Also Fri 12am OPB)



8:00 OPB The Coroner The Captain’s Pipe. Mick’s rival landlord is found dead. (Also Mon 7pm OPB+) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sun 4:30pm OPB)

8:30 OPB+ Breaking Big Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (Also Mon 12:30am)

9:00 OPB Hinterland Penwyllt, Pts 1&2. A body is found in the hills above Aberystwyth. (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+ POV Koch. Get to know the larger-than-life politician, Ed Koch. (Also Mon 1am)

10:30 OPB+ Out of Order Examine the news media’s role in the decline in civil discourse. (Also Mon 2:30am)

10:35 OPB Masterpiece Mystery! Breathless, Pt 3. A swimsuit contest sparks a climactic series of events. (Also Mon 3:35am)


primetime

4 AUGUST 2018

Jackó van ‘t Hof

FrontlineOur Man in TehranIn a two-night special presentation, New York Times correspondent Thomas Erdbrink captures a fascinating and revealing view of life inside Iran. With humor and curiosity, he shares a rare journey into a private Iran often at odds with its conservative clerics and leaders.

Part 1: August 13, 10pmPart 2: August 14, 10pmOPB

11:00 OPB The Guilty Ep 1. DCI Maggie Brand reopens a case that destroyed her former boss’s career. (Also Tue 4am)


OPB+) | OPB+ The Coroner The Captain’s Pipe (R)

8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Cleveland, Hr 1 (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ All-Star Orches-tra A Hero’s Life in Music (Also Wed 12am)

9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Murder on the Southern Pacifi c. The infamous 1923 train holdup sparked the era’s largest manhunt. (Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ All-Star Orchestra Mozart (Also Wed 1am)

9:30 OPB Oregon Experience Massacre at Hells Canyon. In the 1880s, as many as 34 Chinese miners were murdered. (Also Wed 2:30am)

10:00 OPB Frontline Our Man in Tehran, Pt 1. See callout on this page. (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ America’s Ballroom Challenge (Also Wed 2am)

11:00 OPB+ PBS NewsHour (R-Also Tue 12am OPB)


OPB+) | OPB+ Hillary Race to the Pole (R)

8:00 OPB Penelope Keith’s Coastal Villages Northumberland & Scottish Borders. Enjoy coastal tales of epic heroism and intrepid horticulture. (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ American Home: Frank Lloyd Wright’s B. Harley Bradley House (Also Thu 12am)

9:00 OPB No Passport Required D.C. Dine and dance with the Ethiopian community in Washington D.C. (Also Thu 2am) | OPB+ Shelter Me Community Matters (Also Thu 1am)

10:00 OPB Frontline Our Man in Tehran, Pt 2 (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ Billy Connolly’s

Tracks Across America Ep 3 (R-Also Thu 2am)

11:00 OPB+ PBS NewsHour (R-Also Wed 12am OPB)


OPB+) | OPB+ West of the West: Tales from California’s Channel Island Return

8:00 OPB The Outback Return of the Wet. The Outback skies explode with thunder and rain. (Also Sun 10am) | OPB+ 800 Words Season 2, Eps 9&10. Robbie tries to save Fiona. (Also Fri 12am)

9:00 OPB Wonders of Mexico Burning North. Meet the animals of the Sonoran and Chihuahuan deserts. (Also Sun 11am)

9:30 OPB+ On Story Norman Lear: A Retrospective (Also Fri 1:30am)

10:00 OPB The Ganges with Sue Perkins The Delta. On the fi nal stretch of river, a new India is being built. (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ A Place to Call Home Sins of the Father. Rene de-cides to undergo brain surgery. (Also Fri 2am)

11:00 OPB NOVA Making North America: Life. Learn how life evolved in North America. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ PBS NewsHour (R-Also Thu 12am OPB)


OPB+) | OPB+ Father Brown The Cat of Mastigatus (R)

8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Put a Bird on It. For 20 years, White Bird has been bringing contemporary dance to Portland. (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ Wild Alaska Live Ep 1. Bears, wolves, whales and more converge for Alaska’s summer feast. (Also Sun 1pm)

11 SATURDAY5:00 OPB This Old House Time for Trim (Also

Mon 6pm) | OPB+ Marathon Samantha Brown’s Places to Love, continued (until 8pm)


6:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Puddings (R)

7:00 OPB Art Wolfe’s Travels to the Edge The Kingdom of Bhutan (Also Sun 9:30am)


8:00 OPB Globe Trekker Tough Boats: The Nile, Egypt (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ Brandi Carlile in Concert: A Bluegrass Underground Special

9:00 OPB Father Brown The Flower of the Fairway. A brash American opens a golf club. (Also Thu 8/23 7pm OPB+) | OPB+ Austin City Limits Angelique Kidjo (Also Sun 5am)

10:00 OPB Hillary Race to the Pole. Ed spends the winter in Antarctica. (Also Tue 7pm OPB+) | OPB+ Movie Nothing Sacred (1937). A woman feigns sickness when she meets a reporter. (Also Sat 11:30pm)

11:00 OPB Masterpiece Sherlock, Season 4: The Six Thatchers (R)


| OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions Making a Restaurant, Pt 2

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Rick Steves’ Europe Germany’s Romantic Rhine and Rothenburg

6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Tell Me a Story (R) | OPB+ Undiscovered Haiti with José Andrés Chef José Andrés is on a mission to help the people of Haiti.

6:30 OPB Outdoor Idaho Almost Canada (R)

7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Biscuits (Also Sat 8/25 6pm) | OPB+ Outdoor Idaho 30th Anniversary Celebration (Also Tue 12am)

8:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 2, Pt 9. An enraged mob threatens George and Elizabeth. (Also Tue 1am) | OPB+ Rick Steves Special European Easter (Also Tue 1am)

9:00 OPB Masterpiece Sherlock, Season 4: The Lying Detective. Sherlock faces a chilling enemy. (Also Sat 11pm) | OPB+ Time Team America New Philadelphia, Illinois (Also Tue 2am)

10:00 OPB+ Cancer: The Emperor of All Maladies Finding the Achilles Heel

5 AUGUST 2018 5NOVEMBER 2013

weekENDs

5 AUGUST 2018

SATURDAYS 6-10am OPB Kids Programs | OPB+

News, Politics & Business

10am OPB Gardening | OPB+ Marathons (until 8pm) Picnic Programs (8/4); Samantha Brown’s Places to Love (8/11); Weekend Explorer (8/18); Weekends with Yankee (8/25)

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 | OPB+ Father Brown The Hangman’s Demise (8/5); The Crackpot of the Empire (8/12); The Daughter of Autolycus (8/19); The Rod of Asclepius (8/26)

10am OPB The Outback (8/5, 8/12, 8/19); Nature (8/26) | OPB+ Movie The Inspector General (8/5); Impact (8/12); McLintock (8/19); Meet John Doe (8/26)

11am OPB Wonders of Mexico (8/5, 8/12, 8/19); NOVA (8/26)

Noon OPB Great Performances Cosi Fan Tutte (8/5); Chicago Voices (8/12); Luisa Miller (8/19); Vienna Philharmonic Summer Night Concert 2018 (8/26) | OPB+ DruidShakespeare (8/5); Harry Dean Stanton: Crossing Mulholland (8/12); Korla (8/19); Call of Story: An American Renaissance (8/26)

1pm OPB Live from Lincoln Center Kern & Hammerstein’s Show Boat (8/12); Great Performances Grammy Salute 2017 (8/26) | OPB+ The Great Rift: Africa’s Wild Heart (8/5, 8/12); Wild Alaska Live (8/19, 8/26)

2pm OPB+ The Crowd + The Cloud (8/5); Koko: The Gorilla Who Talks (8/12); America Revealed (8/19, 8/26)

3pm OPB News, Religion & Ethics (until 6pm) | OPB+ The Whole Truth

3:30 OPB+ Between the Lines

4pm OPB+ Travel (until 7pm)





8:30 OPB Outdoor Idaho Creative License. Follow artists on a journey to create and inspire. (Also Sun 6:30pm)

9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders Left for Dead, Pts 1&2. The village is shaken when a couple is murdered. (Also Sun 2am) | OPB+ Project Asteroid: Mapping Bennu In 2016, NASA embarked on a new mission to rendezvous with the asteroid Bennu. (Also Sat 1am)

9:30 OPB+ OSIRIS REx: Countdown to Launch Scientists build the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft. (Also Sat 1:30am)

10:00 OPB+ America Revealed Food Machine (Also Sun 2pm)

10:35 OPB DCI Banks Undertow. Banks searches for Annie’s killer. (Also Sun 3:35am)

11:00 OPB+ PBS NewsHour (R-Also Fri 12:05am OPB)



8:00 OPB The Coroner Life. Jane meets with a notorious killer. (Also Mon 7pm OPB+) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sun 4:30pm OPB)

8:30 OPB+ Breaking Big Lee Daniels (Also Mon 12:30am)

9:00 OPB Hinterland The Girl in the Water, Pts 1&2. Mathias struggles with his own demons. (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+ The Mayor: The Age of Riley For more than 40 years, Mayor Joseph Riley fought for inclusion and restoration in South Carolina. (Also Mon 1am)

10:00 OPB+ The Contenders: 16 for ‘16 Goldwater/Reagan: The Conservatives. Barry Goldwater’s visionary conservatism would infl uence the Republican Party for half a century. (Also Mon 2am)

10:40 OPB Northanger Abbey Felicity Jones stars in Jane Austen’s gentle parody of gothic fi ction. (Also Mon 3:40am)

11:00 OPB+ PBS NewsHour (R)

18 SATURDAY5:00 OPB This Old House Homeowners

Pitch In (Also Mon 6pm) | OPB+ Marathon Weekend Explorer, continued (until 8pm)


6:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Sweet Dough (R)

7:00 OPB Art Wolfe’s Travels to the Edge The Making of (Also Sun 9:30am)


8:00 OPB Globe Trekker Road Trip: Patagonia (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ The Songwriters Mac Davis

8:30 OPB+ The Songwriters Steve Cropper

9:00 OPB Father Brown The Two Deaths of Hercule Flambeau. Flambeau is found dead in Italy. (Also Thu 8/30 7pm OPB+) | OPB+ Austin City Limits Natalia Lafourcade/Grupo Fantasma (Also Sun 5am)

10:00 OPB Hillary Heartbreak. Louise helps with Ed’s recovery in Nepal. (Also Tue 7pm OPB+) | OPB+ Movie Pied Piper of Hamelin (1957). Overwhelmed by rats, a town hires a magical piper. (Also Sat 11:30pm)

11:00 OPB Masterpiece Sherlock, Season 4: The Lying Detective (R)


| OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions The Beach Vacation, Pt 1

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Rick Steves’ Europe Munich and the Foothills of the Alps

6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Put a Bird on It (R) | OPB+ Chesapeake Bay by Air

6:30 OPB Outdoor Idaho Creative License (R)

7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Pâtisserie | OPB+ Outdoor Idaho Salmon River Lodges & Legacies (Also Tue 12am)

8:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 3, Pt 1. After Caroline and Dwight elope, Dwight vanishes. (Also Tue 1am) | OPB+ Rick Steves Special Luther and the Reformation (Also Tue 1am)

9:00 OPB+ Time Team America Range Creek, Utah (Also Tue 2am)

10:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 3, Pt 2. Ross goes to revolutionary France. (Also Tue 3am) | OPB+ American Experience The Gilded Age. Meet the titans of the glittering late-19th century.

11:00 OPB The Guilty Ep 2. Brand unwittingly places herself in danger. (Also Tue 4am)


OPB+) | OPB+ The Coroner Life (R)

8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Cleveland, Hr 2 (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ First You Dream: The Music of Kander & Ebb (Also Wed 12am)

9:00 OPB Oregon Experience A Cuisine of Our Own. What is Northwest cuisine?

(Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ California Dreamin’: The Songs of the Mamas and the Papas (Also Wed 1am)

6 AUGUST 2018

primetimeOPB I.F.F.

10:00 OPB Independent

Lens Unrest. Follow fi lmmaker Jennifer Brea’s battle with Chronic Fatigue

Syndrome. (Also Mon 3am) | OPB+ The Caged Bird: The Life and Music of Florence B. Price (Also Mon 2am)


11:30 OPB You are Cordially Invited Ep 2. Tour the grounds of Blenheim Palace. (Also Mon 4:30am)

25 SATURDAY5:00 OPB This Old House Salvage Helps

the Bottom Line (Also Mon 6pm) | OPB+ Marathon Weekends with Yankee, continued (until 8pm)


6:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Biscuits (R)

7:00 OPB Art Wolfe’s Travels to the Edge Mongolia: Mountain to Steppe (Also Sun 9:30am)

7:30 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Western Turkey (Also Sun 9am)

8:00 OPB Globe Trekker Nigeria (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ The Songwriters Guy Clark

8:30 OPB+ The Songwriters Bill Anderson

9:00 OPB Father Brown The Mask of the Demon. A movie director dies on set. | OPB+ Austin City Limits Chris Stapleton/Turnpike Troubadours (Also Sun 5am)

10:00 OPB Agatha Christie’s ‘The Witness for the Prosecution’ A young man is accused of murdering an heiress. | OPB+ Movie Murder Once Removed (1971). A scheming doctor hatches the perfect crime.

(Also Sat 11:30pm)


| OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions The Beach Vacation, Pt 2

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Rick Steves’ Europe Switzerland’s Jungfrau Region: Best of the Alps

6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Seeing Things Differently (R) | OPB+ Slovakia: Treasures in the Heart of Europe An introduction to Slovakia’s culture and breathtaking landscapes.

6:30 OPB Outdoor Idaho The Outfi tters (R)

7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show The Final | OPB+ Outdoor Idaho My Excellent Adventure (Also Tue 12am)

9:30 OPB Oregon Experience The Oystermen. The Northwest’s oyster industry dates back to the gold rush. (Also Wed 2:30am)

OPB I.F.F. 10:00 OPB Independent Lens The

Art of the Shine. In the fi rst night of the OPB Independent Film Festival, meet the people who are turning shoe-shining into an art form. (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ America’s Ballroom Challenge (Also Wed 2am)

11:00 OPB POV Swim Team. Parents of teens on the autism spectrum form a swim team. (Also Wed 4am) | OPB+ PBS NewsHour (R)


OPB+) | OPB+ Hillary Heartbreak (R)

8:00 OPB Penelope Keith’s Coastal Villages East Anglia. Uncover tales of bravery, scandal and intrigue. (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ Still Dreaming Retired actors perform Shakespeare’s ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream.’ (Also Thu 12am)

9:00 OPB The Queen’s Favourite Animals Queen Elizabeth has bred 13 generations of corgis.

(Also Thu 2am)

9:30 OPB+ Shakespeare’s Tomb Explore the mysteries surrounding Shakespeare’s burial place. (Also Thu 1:30am)

OPB I.F.F. 10:00 OPB Independent Lens

Chasing Trane: The John Coltrane Documentary. Follow the life and music of jazz great John Coltrane. (Also Thu 3am)

10:30 OPB+ Shakespeare in the Shadows (R-Also Thu 2:30am)

11:00 OPB+ PBS NewsHour (R-Also Wed 12am OPB)

11:30 OPB Oregon Experience Jazz Town. After WWII, a vibrant jazz scene erupted in Portland. (Also Thu 4:30am)


OPB+) | OPB+ Ireland’s Wild Coast Pt 1. Journey along Ireland’s rugged Atlantic coast.

8:00 OPB Nature Raising the Dinosaur Giant. See the largest dinosaur bone ever unearthed. (Also Sun 10am) | OPB+ 800 Words Season 2, Eps 11&12. Fiona struggles in her new parenting role. (Also Fri 12am)

9:00 OPB NOVA Bigger than T. Rex. Paleontologists reconstruct the Spinosaurus. (Also Sun 11am)

9:30 OPB+ On Story Zombies and Groot: Bringing Comics to Life (Also Fri 1:30am)

OPB I.F.F. 10:00 OPB Independent Lens No

Man’s Land. An on-the-ground account of the 2016 standoff at Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ A Place to Call Home Till Death Do Us Part. Regina tries to keep George and Sarah apart. (Also Fri 2am)

11:00 OPB+ PBS NewsHour

11:30 OPB NOVA Making North America: Human. Humans take over the continent. (Also Fri 4:30am)


OPB+) | OPB+ Father Brown The Flower of the Fairway (R)

8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Seeing Things Differently. Every summer, scores of painters descend on the lavender fi elds of Oregon. (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ Wild Alaska Live Ep 2 (Also Sun 1pm)

8:30 OPB Outdoor Idaho The Outfi tters. These are the people you want on your side when things go wrong in the outdoors. (Also Sun 6:30pm)

9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders Midsomer Life, Pt 1. A magazine owner comes under scru-tiny when his ex-wife’s lover is found dead. (Also Sun 2am) | OPB+ Legacy in Stone Archaeologists demonstrate the art andscience of fl int-knapping. (Also Sat 1am)


Supergirl. A young girl navigates adolescence while attempting to succeed at powerlifting. (Also Sun 3am) | OPB+ America Revealed Nation on the Move (Also Sun 2pm)


11:30 OPB You are Cordially Invited Ep 1. Tour the extraordinary estate of Highclere Castle. (Also Sun 4:30am)



8:00 OPB The Coroner Perfect Pair. A window cleaner is found dead. (Also Mon 7pm OPB+) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sun 4:30pm OPB)

8:30 OPB+ Breaking Big Gretchen Carlson (Also Mon 12:30am)

9:00 OPB Hinterland Season 2, Ep 1. Troubled detective Tom Mathias returns to work after an arson attack. (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+ American Masters Jascha Heifetz: God’s Fiddler. Heifetz is considered the fi rst truly modern violin virtuoso. (Also Mon 1am)





7 AUGUST 2018

11:30 OPB Age Wise Where We Live. Explore a variety of living options for seniors. (Also Fri 4:30am)


OPB+) | OPB+ Father Brown The Two Deaths of Hercule Flambeau (R)

8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat The Natural World. Painter Irene Hardwicke Olivieri fi nds inspiration in the wilds of central Oregon. (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ Wild Alaska Live Ep 3 (Also Sat 12am)

8:30 OPB Outdoor Idaho Owyhee Adventures. Journey through the nearly inaccessible Owyhee Canyonlands. (Also Sun 6:30)

9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders Midsomer Life, Pt 2. Barnaby learns that someone might be trying to conceal their past. (Also Sun 2am) | OPB+ Thirsty Land Experts discuss the western U.S.’s water crisis. (Also Sat 1am)


Winnie. The complex life of Winnie Mandela and her decades-long struggle to bring down Apartheid. (Also Sun 3am) | OPB+ America Revealed Electric Nation (Also Sat 2am)


11:30 OPB Fannie Lou Hamer: Stand Up Get to know the activist and civil rights legend. (Also Sun 4:30am)


OPB+) | OPB+ This Old House Hour

8:00 OPB The Coroner The Foxby Affair. A reclusive woman dies suddenly. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Mon 12am)

8:30 OPB+ Breaking Big Carmen Yulin Cruz (Also Mon 12:30am)

9:00 OPB Hinterland Season 2, Ep 2. His reputation tattered, Mathias is pushed to the brink. (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+ American Masters Mike Nichols. Director, actor, writer and more, Nichols was an artistic trailblazer. (Also Mon 1am)


Served Like a Girl. Female veterans rebuild their lives with humor and heart. (Also Mon 3am) | OPB+ Mary Tyler Moore: A Celebration Enjoy a look back at TV’s fi rst career woman. (Also Mon 2am)

11:00 OPB+ PBS NewsHour (R)

11:30 OPB Storied Life of Millie Benson Benson wrote the fi rst Nancy Drew mysteries. (Also Mon 4:30am)

11:30 OPB Frontline American Patriot. See how a simmering fi ght over land in Nevada and Oregon turned deadly. (Also Thu 4:30am)


OPB+) | OPB+ Ireland’s Wild Coast Pt 2

8:00 OPB Nature India’s Wandering Lions. Asia’s last wild lions live dangerously close to villagers. (Also Fri 1am) | OPB+ 800 Words Season 2, Eps 13&14. George’s wayward brother blows into town. (Also Fri 12am)

9:00 OPB NOVA The Origami Revolution. Scientists reveal the power of origami. (Also Fri 2am)

9:30 OPB+ On Story Rodrigo Garcia on Writing Relationships (Also Fri 1:30am)

OPB I.F.F. 10:00 OPB POV Bill Nye: Science

Guy. Bill Nye seeks to change the world through science. (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ A Place to Call Home The Mourners’ Kaddish. George and Regina wed. (Also Fri 2am)

11:00 OPB+ PBS NewsHour (R-Also Thu 12am OPB)

Photo courtesy of Nanfu Wang from Independent Lens’ “I am Another You” on August 28

OPB Independent Film FestivalThis month, dive into a fresh lineup of standout fi lms with the return of the OPB Independent Film Festival. Each weeknight, enjoy a documentary specially selected from the Independent Lens and POV libraries to inspire, challenge and celebrate our shared human experience.

Weeknights starting August 20 at 10pmOPB

OPB I.F.F.

8:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 3, Pts 3–5. A failed harvest incites riots. (Also Tue 1am) | OPB+ Rick Steves Special European Festivals (Also Tue 1am)

9:00 OPB+ Time Team America Fort James, South Dakota (Also Tue 2am)

10:00 OPB+ The Great American Read Launch. Experience America’s 100 best-loved books.

11:00 OPB The Guilty Ep 3. Brand is unconvinced they’ve found the real killer. (Also Tue 4am)


OPB+) | OPB+ The Coroner Perfect Pair (R)

8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Austin, Hr 1 (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Great Performances at the Met Il Trovatore (Also Wed 12am)

9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Linus Pauling. Pauling made revolutionary discoveries in chemistry, physics, molecular biology and medicine. (Also Wed 2am)

OPB I.F.F. 10:00 OPB

Independent Lens I am Not Your Negro. The OPB Independent Film Festival continues with a documentary showcasing writer James Baldwin’s

crucial observations on American race relations. (Also Wed 3am)


11:30 OPB POV Nowhere to Hide. Follow fi ve years of dramatic change in central Iraq. (Also Wed 4:30am)


OPB+) | OPB+ Pioneers of Television Doctors and Nurses

8:00 OPB Mark Twain Pt 1. Trace Twain’s early days along the Mississippi River. (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ Living Dream: 100 Years of Rocky Mountain National Park (Also Thu 12am)

9:30 OPB+ Expeditions with Patrick McMillan Colorado’s Rocky Mountains: Challenges and Changes (Also Thu 1:30am)


I am Another You. A charismatic drifter leaves home for a cross-cultural road trip. (Also Thu 3am) | OPB+ Richard Bangs’ South America: Quest for Wonder (Also Thu 2am)


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OPB RADIOMONDAY-FRIDAY 12am BBC World Service 5am Morning Edition 9am The Takeaway 10am Here and Now 11am Here and Now | FRI Science Friday Noon Think Out Loud 1pm BBC Newshour 2pm The World 3pm All Things Considered 6pm The Daily 6:30 Marketplace 7pm Fresh Air | FRI It’s Been a Minute 8pm Think Out Loud (R) 9pm 1A with Joshua Johnson 10pm MON On the Media | TUE Reveal |

WED The Archive Project | THU Philosophy Talk | FRI The New Yorker Radio Hour

11pm BBC World Service

SATURDAY 12am BBC World Service 5am Weekend Edition 10am Planet Money & How I Built This 11am Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me! Noon State of Wonder 1pm The New Yorker Radio Hour (R) 2pm Radiolab 3pm Live Wire! 4pm This American Life 5pm All Things Considered 6pm Live from Here with Chris Thile 8pm The Moth 9pm Snap Judgement 10pm Sound Opinions 11pm BBC World Service

SUNDAY 12am BBC World Service 5am Weekend Edition 10am State of Wonder (R) 11am Freakonomics Noon TED Radio Hour 1pm Innovation Hub 2pm Wait Wait … Don’t Tell Me! (R) 3pm Radiolab (R) 4pm The Splendid Table 5pm All Things Considered 6pm Fresh Air Weekend 7pm Travel with Rick Steves 8pm On Being 9pm Hidden Brain 10pm OPB Presents 11pm BBC Weekend

COMING IN SEPTEMBER

THE AMAZING HUMAN BODYYour body is the most sophisticated organism on Earth, but much about it remains a mystery. With cutting-edge graphics, explore the surprisingly beautiful biological processes that keep you alive.

OPB Independent Film FestivalAugust 20 - 31

Photo courtesy of Michael Shade from Independent Lens’ “I am Another You” on August 28

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