 A program guide for members of Prairie Public Broadcasting January 2018
January Prime Time Television Programs Visit www.prairiepublic.org for the most up-todate schedules, including Prairie Public’s multicast schedules.Programming may change with little or no notice. Programs are listed in Central Time. Prairie Public local television productions are highlighted in blue.
1 Monday
7:00 Antiques Roadshow Knoxville, Hour One fi 8:00 Great Performances From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2018 fi 9:30 Prairie Mosaic Jeweler Cathy Sutton, Storyteller Mary Louise Defender Wilson, Singer and Songwriter Brenda Weiler, and Pickwick Mills fi 10:00 My Family › 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Amanpour on PBS 11:30 Tavis Smiley
2 Tuesday 7:00 Beatrix Potter with Patricia Routledge fi 8:00 Influenza 1918: American Experience ⁄ 9:00 Frontline 10:00 My Family › 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Amanpour on PBS 11:30 Tavis Smiley
6 Saturday 7:00 Keeping Up Appearances › 7:30 Moone Boy › 8:00 Waiting for God › 8:30 To the Manor Born › 9:00 Austin City Limits Father John Misty/ The Black Angels ⁄ 10:00 Infinity Hall Live Los Lonely Boys fi 11:00 Bluegrass Underground Marty Stuart fi 11:30 Sun Studio Sessions Hope Clayburn’s Soul fi
7 Sunday 7:00 Lawrence Welk Show Broadway Musicals fi 8:00 Masterpiece To Walk Invisible: The Bronte Sisters ™ 10:00 Sherlock on Masterpiece: The Abominable Bride œ 11:30 In the Americas with David Yetman ABC Islands: The Dutch Legacy in the Caribbean fi
8 Monday
7:00 Nature Snow Monkeys ⁄ 8:00 NOVA Invisible Universe Revealed 9:00 The Royal Good Guys fi 10:00 My Family › 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Amanpour on PBS 11:30 Tavis Smiley
7:00 Antiques Roadshow Harrisburg, Hour One fi 8:00 Alzheimer’s: The Caregiver’s Perspective ⁄ 9:00 Prairie Mosaic Artist Tim Ray, Poetry Out Loud, Author/Illustrator S.D. Nelson, and Trio Lorc fi 9:30 Built to Last: The Legacy of the CCC in Minnesota fi 10:00 My Family › 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Amanpour on PBS 11:30 Tavis Smiley
4 Thursday
9 Tuesday
7:00 This Old House Hour fi 8:00 Doc Martin › 9:00 Father Brown ⁄ 10:00 My Family › 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Amanpour on PBS 11:30 Tavis Smiley
7:00 Balancing the Scales fi 8:00 Into the Amazon: American Experience ™ 10:00 My Family › 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Amanpour on PBS 11:30 Tavis Smiley
5 Friday
7:00 Nature Yosemite fi 8:00 NOVA Black Hole Apocalypse (part 1 and 2 of 2) fi 10:00 My Family › 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Amanpour on PBS 11:30 Tavis Smiley
3 Wednesday
7:00 Washington Week 7:30 Prairie Pulse Maureen Kelly Jonason, Executive Director of the Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County fi 8:00 Great Performances Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga—Cheek to Cheek Live! ⁄ 9:00 The Last Dukes ⁄ 10:00 My Family › 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Amanpour on PBS 11:30 Tavis Smiley
10 Wednesday
11 Thursday 7:00 This Old House Hour fi 8:00 Doc Martin › 9:00 Father Brown ⁄ 10:00 My Family ›
10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Amanpour on PBS 11:30 Tavis Smiley
12 Friday
10:00 My Family › 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Amanpour on PBS 11:30 Tavis Smiley
7:00 Washington Week 7:30 Prairie Pulse uCodeGirl Founder Betty Gronneberg fi 8:00 Tony Bennett: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song fi 9:30 Indian Motorcycle Memories fi 10:00 My Family › 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Amanpour on PBS 11:30 Tavis Smiley
17 Wednesday
13 Saturday
18 Thursday
7:00 Keeping Up Appearances › 7:30 After You’ve Gone › 8:00 Waiting For God › 8:30 To the Manor Born › 9:00 Austin City Limits Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit/Amanda Shires ⁄ 10:00 Live from the Artists Den The Revivalists ⁄ 11:00 Bluegrass Underground Parker Millsap fi 11:30 Sun Studio Sessions Margo Price fi
7:00 This Old House Hour fi 8:00 Doc Martin › 9:00 Father Brown ⁄ 10:00 My Family › 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Amanpour on PBS 11:30 Tavis Smiley
14 Sunday 7:00 Lawrence Welk Show 200 Years of American Music (part 1 of 2) fi 8:00 Victoria Season 2 on Masterpiece (part 1 of 7) ⁄ 10:00 Queen Victoria and the Crippled Kaiser ⁄ 11:00 In the Americas with David Yetman Bahian Reconcavo of Brazil: Quilombos, Candomble, and the Mata Atlantica fi 11:30 In the Americas with David Yetman Colombia: Capital & Coffee fi
15 Monday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow Harrisburg, Hour Two fi 8:00 Independent Lens I Am Not Your Negro ¬ 9:30 Prairie Mosaic Western Minnesota Steam Threshers Reunion, a Duet by Pop Wagner and Bob Bovee, Lawrence Welk’s Legacy, and the Pipe Organ of Moorhead’s Trinity Lutheran Church fi 10:00 My Family › 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Amanpour on PBS 11:30 Tavis Smiley
16 Tuesday 7:00 Independent Lens The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin 8:30 The Education of Harvey Gantt fi 9:00 Frontline
7:00 Nature Arctic Wolf Pack ⁄ 8:00 NOVA Building Wonders: Hagia Sophia— Istanbul’s Ancient Mystery Arctic 9:00 Understanding the Opioid Epidemic ⁄ 10:00 The Opioid Epidemic: Seeking Solutions in North Dakota fi 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Amanpour on PBS 11:30 Tavis Smiley
19 Friday 7:00 Washington Week 7:30 Prairie Pulse UND Professor of Philosophy Jack Russell Weinstein fi 8:00 Lorraine Hansberry: American Masters ⁄ 10:00 My Family › 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Amanpour on PBS 11:30 Tavis Smiley
20 Saturday 7:00 Keeping Up Appearances › 7:30 After You’ve Gone › 8:00 Waiting for God › 8:30 To the Manor Born › 9:00 Austin City Limits Herbie Hancock ⁄ 10:00 Front and Center The Weight Band ⁄ 11:00 Bluegrass Underground Rhonda Vincent & The Rage fi 11:30 Sun Studios Sessions Reverend John Wilkins ⁄
21 Sunday 7:00 Lawrence Welk Show 200 Years of American Music (part 2 of 2) fi 8:00 Victoria Season 2 on Masterpiece (part 2 of 7) ⁄ 10:00 Castle Builders Masters & Masons: Meet the Castle Builders fi 11:00 In the Americas with David Yetman Sierra Nevada and The Making of California 11:30 In the Americas with David Yetman Brazil’s Land of Sand fi
22 Monday
7:00 Antiques Roadshow Harrisburg, Hour Three fi 8:00 Autism: Coming of Age fi 9:00 Prairie Mosaic Judy Garland Museum; Fort Ridgely State Park; NDSU Brass Quintet; Lloyd Wiese Wooden Trunks and Chests fi 9:30 Richard Bresnahan: The Taste of the Clay fi 10:00 My Family › 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Amanpour on PBS 11:30 Tavis Smiley
23 Tuesday 7:00 We’ll Meet Again Children of WWII (part 1 of 6) ⁄ 8:00 Frontline 10:00 My Family › 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Amanpour on PBS 11:30 Tavis Smiley
24 Wednesday 7:00 Nature Animal Misfits fi 8:00 NOVA Petra: Lost City of Stone fi 9:00 Secrets of the Dead Scanning the Pyramids ⁄ 10:00 My Family › 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Amanpour on PBS 11:30 Tavis Smiley
25 Thursday 7:00 This Old House Hour fi 8:00 Doc Martin › 9:00 Father Brown ⁄ 10:00 My Family › 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Amanpour on PBS 11:30 Tavis Smiley
26 Friday 7:00 Washington Week 7:30 Prairie Pulse Concordia College Film Professor Greg Carlson fi 8:00 Bob Hope: American Masters ⁄ 10:00 My Family › 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Amanpour on PBS 11:30 Tavis Smiley
27 Saturday 7:00 Keeping Up Appearances › 7:30 After You’ve Gone › 8:00 Waiting For God › 8:30 Fawlty Towers › 9:00 Austin City Limits Run the Jewels ⁄ 10:00 Infinity Hall Live Snarky Puppy ⁄ 11:00 Bluegrass Underground Conor Oberst fi 11:30 Sun Studio Sessions Farwell Angelina ⁄
28 Sunday 7:00 Lawrence Welk Show The Italian Show fi 8:00 Victoria Season 2 on Masterpiece (part 3 of 7) ⁄ 9:00 Queen Elizabeth’s Secret Agents (part 1 of 3) ⁄ 10:00 Castle Builders Siege & Storm fi 11:00 Castle Builders Dreams & Decorations fi
29 Monday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow New Orleans, Hour One fi 8:00 Newspaper Pioneers: The Story of the North Dakota Press 9:00 Prairie Mosaic Sausage in GermanRussian country; Artist Andrew Stark; The Life of MN Novelist Sinclair Lewis; and Music from Connie Gjermundson fi 9:30 Prairie Musicians Lines & Notes— Moorhead, MN fi 10:00 My Family › 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Amanpour on PBS 11:30 Tavis Smiley
30 Tuesday 7:00 We’ll Meet Again Rescued for Mount St. Helens (part 2 of 6) ⁄ 8:00 Triangle Fire: American Experience 9:30 Frontline 10:00 My Family › 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Amanpour on PBS 11:30 Tavis Smiley
31 Wednesday 7:00 Animals with Cameras, A Nature Miniseries (part 1 of 3) fi 8:00 NOVA Solar Impulse fi 10:00 My Family › 10:30 Nightly Business Report 11:00 Amanpour on PBS 11:30 Tavis Smiley
Overnight Schedule Programs are listed in Central Time. ACL Hall of Fame New Year’s Eve 2017 1/2, 4 am After You’ve Gone Mondays, 1:30 am, except 1/1, 1/8 Alzheimer’s: The Caregiver’s Perspective 1/10, 2 am American Forum Tuesdays, 12:30 am America’s Heartland Sundays, 5 am Antiques Roadshow Wednesdays, 1 am Asia Insight Fridays, 12:30 am Austin City Limits Mondays, 3 am Autism: Coming of Age 1/24, 2 am Balancing the Scales 1/11, 1 am
Beatrix Potter with Patricia Routledge 1/4, 1 am Bob Hope: American Masters 1/28, 2 am Built to Last: The Legacy of the CCC in Minnesota 1/10, 3:30 am Consuelo Mack Wealthtrack Wednesdays, 12:30 am Doc Martin Saturdays, 2 am The Education of Harvey Gantt 1/19, 2:30 am Father Brown Saturdays, 3 am Fawlty Towers 1/29, 2:30 am Focus on Europe Thursdays, 12:30 am Frontline 1/4, 1/18, 3 am; 1/25, 2 am Globe Trekker Sundays, 4 am Great Performances From Vienna: The New Year’s Celebration 2018 1/3, 2 am Great Performances Tony Bennett & Lady Gaga—Cheek to Cheek Live! 1/7, 2 am Independent Lens I am Not Your Negro 1/17, 2 am Independent Lens The Untold Tales of Armistead Maupin 1/18, 1 am Indian Motorcycle Memories 1/14, 3:30 am Infinity Hall Live Mondays, 4 am Influenza 1918: American Experience 1/4, 2 am Into the Amazon: American Experience 1/11, 2 am Keeping Up Appearances Mondays, 1 am The Last Dukes 1/7, 3 am Lawrence Welk Show Tuesdays, 1 am Live from Lincoln Center NY Philharmonic New Year’s Eve: Bernstein on Broadway 1/2, 2 am Lorraine Hansberry: American Masters 1/21, 2 am
Moone Boy 1/1, 1/8, 1:30 am Nature Fridays, 1 am Newspaper Pioneers: The Story of the North Dakota Press 1/31, 2 am NOVA Fridays, 2 am The Open Mind Mondays, Midnight, 12:30 am PBS NewsHour Tuesday through Saturday, 4 am, except 1/2 PBS NewsHour Weekend Sundays, 6 am Prairie Mosaic Wednesdays, 3 am, except 1/3, 1/17; 1/3, 1/17, 3:30 am Prairie Musicians 1/31, 3:30 am Prairie Pulse Sundays, 1:30 am, 6:30 am Queen Elizabeth’s Secret Agents 1/30, 3 am Richard Bresnahan: The Taste of the Clay 1/24, 3:30 am The Royal Good Guys 1/5, 3 am Scully/The World Show Sundays, 5:30 am Secrets of the Dead 1/26, 3 am This Old House Hour Saturdays, 1 am To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe Saturdays, 12:30 am To the Manor Born Mondays, 2:30 am, except 1/29 To Walk Invisible: The Bronte Sisters on Masterpiece 1/9, 2 am Tony Bennett: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song 1/14, 2 am Understanding the Opioid Epidemic 1/19, 3 am Victoria Season 2 on Masterpiece Tuesdays, 2 am, except 1/1, 1/9 Waiting For God Mondays, 2 am Washington Week Sundays, 1 am We’ll Meet Again 1/25, 1 am
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January Daytime Television Programs Saturdays 5:00 am Market to Market 5:30 Almanac 6:30 American Forum 7:00 Asia Insight 7:30 Focus on Europe 8:00 Consuelo Mack Wealthtrack 8:30 To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe 9:00 Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television fi 9:30 Simply Ming fi 10:00 Martha Bakes fi 10:30 Moveable Feast with Fine Cooking fi Taste the Islands begins 1/13 11:00 Lidia’s Kitchen fi 11:30 Julie Taboulie’s Lebanese Kitchen fi My Greek Table with Diane Kochilas begins 1/27 Noon Market to Market 12:30 Almanac 1:30 Baby Makes 3 fi 2:00 Sewing with Nancy fi 2:30 Fresh Quilting fi Quilting Arts begins 1/13 3:00 Rough Cut—Woodworking with Tommy Mac fi 3:30 Painting with Paulson fi 4:00 A Craftsman’s Legacy fi 4:30 This Old House fi 5:00 America’s Heartland fi 5:30 Scully/The World Show 6:00 PBS NewsHour Weekend 6:30 Prairie Pulse fi Sundays 7:00 am Sesame Street æ 7:30 1001 Nights æ 8:00 Bob the Builder æ 8:30 Splash and Bubbles æ 9:00 WordGirl Æ 9:30 The Zula Patrol æ 10:00 Martha Speaks æ 10:30 Ruby’s Studio fiHands on Crafts for Kids begins 1/14 11:00 Curious Crew fi 11:30 SciGirls fiexcept 1/21 11:30 Odd Squad: World Turned Odd æ (1/21) (1 hr) Noon Odd Squad æ except 1/21 12:30 IQ: Smartparent ⁄ 1:00 POV Cameraperson ™ (1/7) (1½ hrs) 1:00 POV Almost Sunrise § (1/14) (2 hrs) 1:00 Independent Lens Shadow World ™ (1/21) (1½ hrs) 1:00 Independent Lens Supergirl ⁄ (1/28) (1½ hrs) 2:30 Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope fi except 1/14 3:00 Globe Trekker ⁄ 4:00 Doc Martin › 5:00 Antiques Roadshow fi 6:00 Antiques Roadshow fi Weekdays 5:00 am Prairie Public Instructional Resources 6:30 Maya & Miguel æ 7:00 WordWorld æ
7:30 The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! æ 8:00 Clifford the Big Red Dog æ 8:30 WordGirl Æ 9:00 Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood æ 9:30 SciGirls fi (1/1-1/10, 1/18-1/31) 9:30 Biz Kid$ æ (1/11-1/17) 10:00 Dinosaur Train æ 10:30 Peg + Cat æ 11:00 Sesame Street æ 11:30 Super WHY! æ Noon Splash and Bubbles æ 12:30 Martha Speaks æ 1:00 Curious George æ 1:30 WordGirl Æ 2:00 Sid the Science Kid æ 2:30 Nature Cat æ 3:00 Ready Jet Go! æ 3:30 Arthur æ 4:00 Wild Kratts æ except 1/15, 1/17, 1/19 4:00 Odd Squad: World Turned Odd æ (1/15, 1/17, 1/19) (1 hr) 4:30 Odd Squad æ except 1/15, 1/17, 1/19 5:00 BBC World News America 5:30 PBS NewsHour 6:30 My Family › Symbol Key fi General audience æ Suitable for all children Æ Directed to children age 7 and older ⁄ Parental guidance suggested due to moderate violence (V), some sexual situations (S), infrequent coarse language (L), or some suggestive dialogue (D).
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A Festival of Films On Sundays at 1 pm CT, Prairie Public’s hosts its own film festival! POV is television’s longest-running showcase of independent nonfiction films, and Independent Lens documentaries are presented by a roster of edgy and creative filmmakers. This month: thoughts from behind the camera, a cross-country trek with veterans, shocking realities of the global arms trade, and a preteen from New Jersey whose world powerlifting records turn her into an international phenomenon.
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January Television Highlights Lorraine Hansberry’s “A Raisin in the Sun” (1959) changed the face of American theater. Now, American Masters and awardwinning filmmaker Tracy Heather Strain examine Hansberry’s life and work using a remarkable collection of archival footage, home movies, rare photos, and unpublished documents. New! Friday, January 19, 8 pm CT In 1914, President Theodore Roosevelt made a perilous journey into the dark and deadly heart of the Amazon rainforest to chart an unknown river in one of the wildest places on earth. What was anticipated to be a relatively tranquil journey turned out to be brutal, claiming the lives of three men and almost killing the president. New! Tuesday, January 9, 8 pm CT This month on Prairie Mosaic, meet jeweler Cathy Sutton, see the art of Tim Ray and Lloyd Wises’ wooden trunks and chests, hear some Poetry Out Loud and music from the NDSU Brass Quintet and Connie Gjermundson, tour the Judy Garland Museum and Fort Ridgely State Park, and learn about sausage in German-Russian country. Mondays at 9 pm CT Ever since they were revealed to the world as quaint country women and not the notorious Bell brothers of their pseudonyms, the Brontë sisters have fascinated legions of devoted readers. Masterpiece brings these remarkable literary geniuses to life with a beautifully filmed and acted two-hour drama, To Walk Invisible: The Brontë Sisters. Sunday, January 7, 8 pm CT Many Prairie Public local television productions are funded in part by the following: Minnesota Arts & Cultural Heritage Fund with money from the voters on November 4, 2008, North Dakota Council on the Arts, North Dakota Humanities Council, and by the members of Prairie Public. Thank you!
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Subscribe to Prairie Public’s podcasts! Did you hear? Many of Prairie Public’s favorites are now available as podcasts! Conversations with Chef Rosey, your daily dose of North Dakota history with Dakota Datebook, tours in the wild with Natural North Dakota, movie reviews with Matt Olien, essays from Plains Folk, and selected Main Street interviews are available to download and listen whenever you choose! Subscribe!
Prairie Public program guides through the years Prairie Public has been mailing monthly program guides, once known as In the Public Eye and more recently known as WAVES, to our members for decades, but state funding cuts have seriously impacted our budget, and mailing a publication every month is no longer possible. We’re replacing this program guide with new communications tools, but first let’s take a nostalgic look back with these “classic” Prairie Public member newsletters. How many do you remember? We’ll be greener!
Dakota Datebook Millions of Americans served in World War I—soldiers, sailors, nurses—and many at home provided support, suffered scarcities, and grieved for loved ones lost. The United States entered the Great War 100 years ago on April 6, and Dakota Datebook is commemorating this anniversary with stories from North Dakota, thanks to historian Jim Davis and other Dakota Datebook writers. Dakota Datebook radio features air weekdays at 8:35 am, 3:50 pm, 6:30 pm and 7:50 pm CT on Prairie Public. The Great War features will air weekly throughout the year and are available online at prairiepublic.org.
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This is an early program cover that Prairie Public’s graphic designer, Les Skoropat, created in February 1975. Les created this illustration with an airbrush he scrounged from the shelves of the art department and an air compressor borrowed from the engineers.
This fun cover was a “puppet” that members could use to encourage their friends and neighbors to join in support of Prairie Public— a membership pitch from general manager Dennis Falk!
This art was the result of a scarcity of suitable photos to promote the program “All Creatures Great and Small.” Les’ original drawing and design was honored with PBS promotional awards and was used on posters and coffee mugs.
The producers of this program about photography provided only one promotional image, so Les used photos taken from his personal collection of found images and from his family albums.
Color! The evolution of printing processes made color program guides possible on a tight budget. For this superhero cover, Les chose a comic book style to make a cover that has a pop art quality to it.
This “Downtown Abbey” cover seems like a straightforward treatment using one of the photos from the program, but we dressed it up with an actual vintage paper frame from that era.
Member News Board of Directors to meet The Prairie Public Radio Council will meet Friday, January 19, and the Board of Directors will meet Friday, January 26. All meetings are open to Prairie Public members and to the public. For further information, please contact Kirstin Lindbery at 800-359-6900.
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And get your imagination in gear, because Prairie Public is hosting the PBS Kids Writers Contest to promote reading and writing skills through hands-on, active learning. Children in grades K-3 can submit their own original stories. Visit prairiepublic.org to find the contest rules and entry forms. There you’ll also find a writer’s guide that discusses brainstorming, plots, setting character development, word choices, and more! The deadline for submissions is March 23. We will award “First Place” and “Red Ribbon Favorite” prizes to children in each grade level, and every child who submits a story will receive a certificate of participation and personal, positive feedback from our story evaluators.
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