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APRIL / MAY 2010

From the President’s Desk

Spring is one of the most exciting times of

year for PBS39!

The Great Online Auction kicks off on April

16th and is sure to be one of our best auc-

tions yet! Tune in for the Auction preview

shows starting April 12th at 7:30pm. Click,

bid and support PBS39 while getting won-

derful deals on travel, entertainment and

restaurants.

I am also excited to announce our new

Mother’s Day flower campaign. PBS39 and

Phoebe Floral have partnered to provide you

with a way to send flowers on Mother’s Day

while also contributing to the station. Please

see the back cover for details.

In addition to all of the wonderful things hap-

pening off-air, be sure to tune in to Globe

Trekker now airing on Thursdays at 8pm, and

new specials like The Buddha.

Best wishes for a wonderful Spring!

Patricia C. Simon

President & CEO, PBS39

APR.5 MONDAY8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Denver, CO

(hour 2)A Dodger’s game-used jersey, wornby pitcher Don Drysdale; an heir-loom 17th-century Massachusettsarmchair; and an heirloom 1817needlework family portrait.

9:00 The Mormons (part 1)The Church of Jesus Christ of Lat-ter-day Saints is one of America's

fastest-growing religions and, rela-tive to its size, one of the richest.

6 TUESDAY8:00 NOVA: Hunting the Edge of Space:

The Mystery of the Milky WayExamines how a simple instrument,the telescope, has fundamentallychanged our understanding of ourplace in the universe.

9:00 The Mormons (part 2)

7 WEDNESDAY8:00 The Buddha

This documentary by award-winningfilmmaker David Grubin tells thestory of his life, a journey especiallyrelevant in our own bewilderingtimes of violent change and spiritualconfusion. Richard Gere narrates.

10:00 The Adventists

8 THURSDAY8:00 Globe Trekker: Holy Lands:

Jerusalem and the West Bank9:00 Antiques Roadshow: Dener, CO

(hour 2)10:00 Masterpiece MYSTERY! Miss Marple:

At Bertram’s Hotel

9 FRIDAY8:00 See April 2 Lineup10:00 To Market, To Market to Buy A Fat

Pig

10 SATURDAY8:00 See April 3 Lineup12:00 Austin City Limits: Kings of Leon/

Roky Erickson

11 SUNDAY8:00 NATURE: Moment of Impact: Jungle9:00 Masterpiece CLASSIC: Diary of

Anne Frank

The most accurate-ever adaptationof Anne Frank’s moving account oflife hiding from the Nazis stars newcomer Ellie Kendrick (An Education )as a maturing teenager who under-goes an extraordinary ordeal.

12 MONDAY7:30 Auction Preview Show8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Denver, CO

(hour 3)Two circa 1958 prototype chairs de-signed by the guest’s father; a sales-man’s sample canoe; and a 1941 Martin guitar.

9:00 The Polio Crusade: An AmericanExperience

10:00 Among the Righteous: Lost StoriesFrom the Holocaust in Arab LandsThis new documentary chroniclesthe story of Robert Satloff, head ofa respected Washington, DC policycenter, and his search to find

an Arab, who in the face of the Ger-man and Fascist occupation ofNorth Africa, took action to save hisJewish neighbors during the Holo-caust.

13 TUESDAY7:30 Auction Preview Show8:00 NOVA: Hunting the Edge of Space

The Ever Expanding UniverseThis episode investigates the uni-verse’s distant past — and its future.

Weeknights on PBS39 6:00pm PBS Newshour 7:00pmNightly Business Report 7:30pm/11:00pm Tempo Signature Series

1 THURSDAY8:00 Globe Trekker: World War II

in Europe9:00 Antiques Roadshow: Denver, CO

(hour 1)A poster of the famous Wright Flyerairplane; a first edition copy ofWilliam Faulkner’s Sartoris ; and anheirloom collection of jewelry thatincludes a diamond ring crafted by“Jeweler to the Stars” Paul Flato.

10:00 Masterpiece MYSTERY! Miss MarpleNemesis

2 FRIDAY8:00 Washington Week8:30 NOW on PBS9:00 Bill Moyers Journal10:00 Secrets of the Dead:

Mumbai Massacre

3 SATURDAY8:00 Keeping Up Appearances9:00 As Time Goes By10:00 Are You Being Served?11:00 Waiting For God12:00 Austin City Limits: Wilco

4 SUNDAY8:00 NATURE: Moment of Impact:

Hunters & Herds

Using the latest HD camera lensesand computer graphics, “Moment ofImpact” takes the viewer inside theanimal to present an innovative andrevolutionary look at the bio-engi-neering of “how animals work.” Thisepisode focuses on savannahs andgrasslands,

9:00 Masterpiece CLASSIC:Sharpe’s PerilSharpe leads a ragtag party of civil-ians and soldiers on a march acrossIndia.

April

9:00 FRONTLINE: Obama’s DealFRONTLINE goes behind closeddoors at the White House, to exam-ine the political battles and costlycompromises that defined theObama administration’s efforts to-ward healthcare reform.

10:00 Swimming in Auschwitz: The Sur-vival Stories of Six Women

14 WEDNESDAY7:30 Auction Preview Show8:00 When Families Grieve

Katie Couric and the Sesame Street

Muppets help families cope withthe death of a parent, presentingstrategies that are child-appropri-ate and useful for the whole family.

9:00 Worse Than WarAn exploration of the nature ofgenocide, ethnic cleansing andlarge-scale mass murder in ourtime.

15 THURSDAY7:30 Auction Preview Show8:00 Globe Trekker: Senegal and

Cape Verde9:00 Antiques Roadshow: Dener, CO

(hour 2)10:00 Mystery! Miss Marple: Ordeal By

Innocence

16 FRIDAY7:30 Auction Preview Show8:00 See April 2 Lineup10:00 A Cemetery Special

17 SATURDAY8:00 See April 3 Lineup12:00 Austin City Limits: My Morning Jacket

18 SUNDAY8:00 NATURE: Frogs: Thin Green Line

The large-scale die-offs of frogs.

9:00 Masterpiece CLASSIC:Small IslandThe moving saga of two couples —one Jamaican, one English — whose

lives intertwine in both friendship andtragic misunderstanding in post-WWIIBritain. (part 1)

19 MONDAY8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Phoenix, AZ

(hour 1) A circa 1905 advertisingdisplay for waterproof baby pants;a 1797 Chippendale marriage chest;a collection of original CharlesSchulz “Peanuts” artwork.

9:00 Earth Days: American Experience

20 TUESDAY8:00 NOVA: The Big Energy Gamble

California’s aggressive pursuit of asustainable energy future.

9:00 FRONTLINE: The Dancing Boys ofAfghanistanFRONTLINE investigates the illegalpractice in Afghanistan of tradingyoung boys for sexual favors.

10:00 Independent Lens: Dirt! The Movie

21 WEDNESDAY8:00 Through a Dog’s Eyes

The journey of recipients as theygo through the heartwarming andsometimes difficult process of re-ceiving and becoming acclimated toa dog.

9:00 P.O.V.: Food, Inc.A powerful, startling indictment ofindustrial food production.

22 THURSDAY8:00 Globe Trekker: Madrid City Guide9:00 Antiques Roadshow: Phoenix, AZ

(hour 1)10:00 MYSTERY! Miss Marple: A Pocketful

of Rye

23 FRIDAY8:00 See April 2 Lineup10:00 Shore Things

2244 SSAATTUURRDDAAYY8:00 See April 3 Lineup12:00 Austin City Limits: Willie Nelson /

Asleep at the Wheel

25 SUNDAY8:00 NATURE: Fellowship of the Whales9:00 Masterpiece CLASSIC: Small Island

(part 2 of 2)


(hour 2) A 1982 bronze maquette by renowned sculptor Henry Moore; an heirloom amethyst jewelry collection; and an early abstract painting by Chuck Close.

9:00 My Lai: American ExperienceExamines one of the darkest chapters of the Vietnam War: the 1968 My Lai massacre, its cover-up and the soldiers who broke rank to halt the atrocities.

10:00 A Necessary Journey

27 TUESDAY8:00 NOVA: Mind Over Money9:00 Frontline: The Vaccine War10:00 SS United States: Lady in Waiting

28 WEDNESDAY8:00 Great Performances: Hamlet from

the Royal Shakespeare CompanyClassical stage and screen actors Sir Patrick Stewart as Claudius and David Tennant as the titular Dane reprise their roles in this television adaptation.

29 THURSDAY8:00 Globe Trekker: Las Vegas City Guide9:00 Antiques Roadshow: Phoenix, AZ

(hour 2)10:00 MYSTERY! Miss Marple: Murder Is

Easy

30 FRIDAY8:00 See April 2 Lineup10:00 Sandwiches You Will Like

April

10:00 Masterpiece MYSTERY! Miss Marple: Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?

14 FRIDAY8:00 Washington Week 8:30 Need to Know - 102 (NEW)9:30 Monarchy: The Royal Family At

Work: Headquarters/Head of State

15 SATURDAY8:00 See May 1 Lineup12:00 Austin City Limits: Pearl Jam

16 SUNDAY8:00 NATURE: Crash: A Tale of Two

SpeciesA story of the interconnection of life:NATURE discovers how the plummet-ing number of horseshoe crabs af-fects the red knot, a tiny bird.

9:00 Masterpiece MYSTERY!: Foyle’s War, Series VI: The HideThe newly retired Foyle battles to save a young man from the execu-tioner’s noose.

17 MONDAY8:00 Antiques Roadshow: San Jose, CA

(hour 2) A painting by the German genre painter Carl Herpfer.

9:00 The Hurricane of ‘38: American ExperienceIn September of 1938, people in New England found themselves, virtually without warning, in the midst of the most devastating storm ever recorded in North America.

10:00 Apollo Wives

18 TUESDAY8:00 NOVA: Storm That Drowned A City9:00 Faces of America: Making America10:00 FRONTLINE: TBA

19 WEDNESDAY8:00 Secrets of the Dead: Deadliest

Battle Reveals the full impact of the horrific Battle of Stalingrad, which changed the course of WWII and es-tablished the Soviet Union as a su-perpower.

9:00 Ground War: Warrior WeaponsExplores the key technological ad-vances that have defined ground

warfare through the ages.10:00 Ground War: Battlefield Mobility

1 SATURDAY8:00 Keeping Up Appearances9:00 As Time Goes By10:00 Are You Being Served?11:00 Waiting For God12:00 Drive-By Truckers / Ryan Bingham

2 SUNDAY8:00 NATURE: Kilauea: Mountain of Fire

Kilauea, on Hawaii’s Big Island, is the world’s most active volcano.

9:00 Masterpiece MYSTERY! : Foyle’s War, Series VI: The Russian House

MASTERPIECE MYSTERY! kicks off its 2010 season with three new episodes of the popular World War II whodunit. In this first episode, Foyle stumbles upon an interna-tional cover-up that could reveal the darkest secrets of the War Office.

10:30 Great Romances


(hour 3)A violin made by the Gagliano family in Naples in the early 1800s and a violin bow made in France in the shop of Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume.

9:00 Roads to Memphis: AmericanExperienceThe wildly disparate yet fatefully

entwined stories of assassin James Earl Ray and his target, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

4 TUESDAY8:00 NOVA: Mt. St. Helens Back From

the Dead9:00 Faces of America: The Promise of

America10:00 FRONTLINE: TBA

5 WEDNESDAY8:00 Secrets of the Dead: Japanese

SuperSubRelates how close the Japanese came to using an advanced subma-rine for an attack on the U.S.

9:00 Colosseum: Rome’s Arena of Death10:00 Pompeii: The Last Day

6 THURSDAY8:00 Globe Trekker: Indonesia: Java and

Sumatra9:00 Antiques Roadshow: Phoenix, AZ

(hour 3)10:00 Masterpiece MYSTERY! Miss

Marple: They Do It With Mirrors

7 FRIDAY8:00 Washington Week 8:30 Need to Know (NEW)9:30 Monarchy: The Royal Family At Work

State Visit (part 1 & 2)

8 SATURDAY8:00 See May 1 Lineup12:00 Austin City Limits: Manu Chao

9 SUNDAY8:00 NATURE: Born Wild: The First

Days of Life9:00 Masterpiece MYSTERY!: Foyle’s

War, Series VI: Killing TimeTo solve the murder of a local girl, Foyle must go head-to-head with the U.S. Army.



(hour 1) A Tlingit bowl and ladle procured during an 1877 trip to Alaska.

9:00 Into the Deep: America, Whaling & The World: American ExperienceThe American whaling industry was the global marketplace of the 18th and 19th centuries.

11 TUESDAY8:00 NOVA: Hunt For The Super Twister9:00 Faces of America: Becoming American10:00 FRONTLINE: TBA

12 WEDNESDAY8:00 Secrets of the Dead: Churchill’s

Deadly DecisionThe story of Churchill’s decision to sink the French fleet.

9:00 American Masters: The Doors: When You’re Strange

13 THURSDAY8:00 Globe Trekker: Pacific Islands: Fiji,

Vanuatu & Solomon9:00 Antiques Roadshow: San Jose, CA

(hour 1)

MAY

May

May

20 THURSDAY8:00 Globe Trekker: Nepal9:00 Antiques Roadshow: San Jose, CA

(hour 2)10:00 Masterpiece CLASSIC: The 39 Steps

21 FRIDAY8:00 Washington Week 8:30 Need to Know - 103 (NEW)9:30 Monarchy: The Royal Family At

Work: The Queen and Us/Inside the Firm

22 SATURDAY8:00 See May 1 Lineup12:00 Austin City Limits: Dave Matthews

23 SUNDAY8:00 NATURE: Why We Love Cats and

Dogs9:00 Masterpiece MYSTERY!: Miss

Marple: Series V: The Mirror Cracked from SideTo SideSeveral people arefound poisoned soonafter a celebrated actress and her filmdirector husband set-tle in St. Mary Mead.Starring Julia McKen-zie as Miss Marple.



(hour 3) Three Great Basin baskets made in Nevada.

9:00 Riding the Rails: American ExperienceDuring the Depression-era in the 1930s, tens of thousands of teenagers hopped freight trains in search of a better life elsewhere.Through first-hand accounts, this program recalls the stories of teen drifters crisscrossing America dur-ing tough times.

10:00 A Ride Along the Lincoln Highway

25 TUESDAY8:00 NOVA: Mystery of the Megavolcano9:00 Faces of America: Record Within10:00 FRONTLINE: TBA

26 WEDNESDAY8:00 Secrets of the Dead: Airmen and

the Headhunters9:00 Ground War: Firepower10:00 Ground War: Command and Control

27 THURSDAY8:00 Globe Trekker: Mongolia9:00 Antiques Roadshow: San Jose, CA

(hour 3)10:00 Masterpiece Theatre: The Ruby In

the Smoke

28 FRIDAY8:00 Washington Week 8:30 Need to Know - 104 (NEW)9:30 Medal of Honor

29 SATURDAY8:00 See May 1 Lineup12:00 Austin City Limits: Foo Fighters

30 SUNDAY7:00 Flyboys: Western Pennsylvania’s

Tuskegee Airmen8:00 National Memorial Day Concert

(repeats at 9:30pm)

31 MONDAY8:00 Antiques Roadshow: Orlando, FL

(hour 1) A photo signed by the entire cast of the hit TV series “Bonanza”; a sterling silver Tiffany vase; and a collection of etchings and dry points by James McNeill Whistler.

9:00 Civilian Conservation Corps:American ExperienceProgram inter-weaves rich archival imagery with the personal accounts of CCC veterans to tell the story of one of the boldest and most pop-ular New Deal experiments.

National Memorial Day Concert 2010On Memorial Day weekend, PBS will unite the nation with an

evening that has become an American tradition. The multi

award-winning NATIONAL MEMORIAL DAY CONCERT, featuring

an all-star line-up in performance with the National Symphony

Orchestra, honors the service and sacrifice of the men and

women in uniform, their families at home and all those who

have given their lives for this country.

Offering viewers a time to remember, to heal and bring the

country together, the event has become the nation’s memorial

service. The top-rated show will be broadcast live in HD from

the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol before a concert audience of

hundreds of thousands, to millions more at home and, on the

American Forces Radio and Television Network, to troops serv-

ing around the world.

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