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February 2021

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February 2021

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NOVA Beyond the ElementsIn this three-part series, host David Pogue sets out on a worldwide quest to find the key molecules and chemical reactions that paved the way for our world and everything in it. Along the way, he discovers an explosive chemical reaction that, when reversed, enables us to feed billions. Plus, molecules in deadly snail venom that may provide clues to lifesaving medicines.

Wednesday, February 3, 9pm OPB

1 MONDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour | OPB+ A Wider

World (Also Tue 4am)

7:30 OPB+ Afro-Latino Travels With Kim Haas San Jose (Also Tue 4:30am)

8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Vintage Tucson 2021, Hr 2 (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Secrets of Royal Travel Secrets of the Royal Flight (Also Sun 6pm)

9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Searching for York. Learn the story of York, an enslaved man who journeyed with Lewis and Clark. (Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ Ireland’s Wild Coast Pt 1. Journey along Ireland’s rugged Atlantic coast. (Also Sun 7pm)

9:30 OPB Oregon Experience Oregon’s Black Pioneers. African Americans helped to shape Oregon, even as white settlers tried to force them out. (Also Wed 2:30am)

10:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Celebrating Black Americana (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Tue 5am)

11:00 OPB Independent Lens 9-to-5: The Story of a Movement. The fight that inspired a hit and changed the American workplace. (Also Wed 4am) | OPB+ Reel South First Lady of the Revolution (Also Wed 2am)

2 TUESDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 12am) |

OPB+ Nature Animal Odd Couples (Also Wed 4am)

8:00 OPB Finding Your Roots No Irish Need Apply. Featuring actor Jane Lynch and comedian Jim Gaffigan. (Also Fri 2/26 9pm OPB+) | OPB+ The Great Ride Two married military veterans bike from Washington, D.C. to Pittsburgh. (Also Thu 12am)

9:00 OPB The Jazz Ambassadors Asked to travel as cultural ambassadors, Louis Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie and Duke Ellington faced a painful dilemma. (Also Thu 2am) | OPB+ Kingdoms of the Sky The Rockies. Meet the remarkable inhabitants of this 3,000-mile mountain range. (Also Thu 1am)

10:00 OPB Frontline Plastic Wars. Did the plastic industry use recycling to sell more plastic? (Also Fri 11pm OPB+) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Wed 5am)

11:00 OPB African Americans: Many Rivers To Cross Making a Way Out of No Way (1897–1940). Examine the confines of segregation during the Jim Crow era. (Also Thu 4am) | OPB+ Dreams of Hope A church concert honors the four African American girls who were killed there. (Also Thu 2am)

5 FRIDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am) |

OPB+ The Legacy List With Matt Paxton (Also Sun 10am)

8:00 OPB Father Brown The Jackdaw’s Revenge. Brown’s old foe is unexpectedly released from prison. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sat 6am)

8:30 OPB+ The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations Lorne Michaels (Also Sun 1pm)

9:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 6, Ep 4. An expectant mother buckles under the strains of pregnancy. (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+ Finding Your Roots Coming to America (Also Sun 1:30pm)

10:00 OPB Masterpiece Press: Two Worlds. Duncan buries himself in his work. (Also Mon 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Mon 5am)

11:00 OPB Thou Shalt Not Kill Season 2, Ep 9. The writing is on the wall when a math professor is found dead. (Also Mon 4am) | OPB+ Frontline Plastic Wars (R-Also Mon 2am)

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

OPB+ Marathon Between the Covers, continued (until 7pm)

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend

3 WEDNESDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu 12am) |

OPB+ Forgotten Slave Owners Pt 1. Britain was built on the profits of slavery. (Also Thu 4am)

8:00 OPB Nature Pumas: Legends of the Ice Mountains. Travel to the mountains of Chile to learn the secrets of the puma. (Also Fri 1am) | OPB+ American Masters Lorraine Hansberry. Follow the life and work of the ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ playwright. (Also Fri 12am)

9:00 OPB NOVA Beyond the Elements: Reactions. See callout on this page. (Also Fri 2am)

10:00 OPB Europe’s New Wild The Missing Lynx. Witness an astonishing resurgence of wildlife across Europe’s most breathtaking landscapes. (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 5am)

11:00 OPB Food: Delicious Science Food on the Brain. Discover how food keeps our bodies fit and healthy. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ Inside the Foreign Office Keeping Power and Influence. Follow Britain’s civil servants at work. (Also Fri 2am)

4 THURSDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am) |

OPB+ Genius by Stephen Hawking Where Did the Universe Come From? (Also Fri 4am)

8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Drawing From History. Mark Hallett’s 40-year career drawing, painting and sculpting

dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals has taken him from Hollywood to India. (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ Leonardo’s Dream Machines Leading experts attempt to build da Vinci’s dream machines. (Also Sat 12am)

8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Ship Report. Meet the woman behind the ‘The Ship Report,’ an entertaining daily radio report of all the ships that pass by Astoria. (Also Sun 6:30pm)

9:00 OPB London: 2000 Years of History Ep 1. Learn how an uninhabitable swamp became a world-famous city. (Also Sun 2am)

10:00 OPB Modus Season 2, Ep 2. Inger’s past catches up with her. (Also Sun 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Fri 5am)

11:00 OPB Masterpiece The Durrells in Corfu: Season 3, Ep 8. A circus comes to town. (Also Sun 4am) | OPB+ DW Global 3000 (Also Sat 2am)

11:30 OPB+ Articulate With Jim Cotter Mario Lanza at 100 (Also Sat 2:30am)

weekdaysMONDAY – FRIDAY

6:30 OPB Kids Programs (until noon)

7am OPB+ NHK Newsline

7:30 OPB+ Sit & Be Fit (M/W/F); Classical Stretch (Tu/Th)

8am OPB+ Sewing & Knitting

8:30 OPB+ Quilting

9am OPB+ Painting

10am OPB+ Woodworking (M/W/Th); This Old House (Tu/F)

10:30 OPB+ Food & Cooking

11am OPB+ Nature (M); NOVA (Tu); Africa’s Great Civilizations (W); American Experience (Th); Oregon Experience (F)

12pm OPB Painting | OPB+ Civil Discourse (M); Breaking Big/Between the Covers (Tu); Make 48 (W); In the Americas (Th); Trust Docs (F)

12:30 OPB Food & Cooking | OPB+ Growing Bolder (M); GZero World (Tu); Start Up (W); Chavis Chronicles (Th); Seat at the Table (F)

1pm OPB+ DW News

1:30 OPB Travel | OPB+ DW: The Day

2pm OPB Kids Programs (until 6pm) | OPB+ BBC Outside Source (M–Th); BBC Today (F)

2:30 OPB+ BBC World News America

3pm OPB+ News & Public Affairs

3:30 OPB+ NHK Newsline

4pm OPB+ PBS NewsHour

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

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

6:00 OPB Start Up The Schvitz/Plum Health

7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe The Making Of/Burgundy: Profound France (Also Sun 9am) | OPB+ Fat Boy: The Billy Stewart Story Stewart is considered one of the most prolific and stylish R&B singers of the 1960s.

8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries Dealer’s Choice. Frankie gets accused of murder. (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ Jazz Swing: Pure Pleasure (1935–1937). Jazz gains popularity. (Also Sun 2am)

9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders The Dark Rider, Pts 1&2. A man falls to his death after seeing a headless horseman.

9:30 OPB+ Kindred Spirits: Artists Hilda Wilkinson Brown and Lilian Thomas Burwell An aunt and niece achieve success as artists in segregated Washington D.C. (Also Sun 3:30am)

10:00 OPB+ POV Softie. A daring activist runs for office in Kenya. (Also Sun 12am)

10:30 OPB The Forsyte Saga Ep 1. Penniless, Irene Heron agrees to marry Soames Forsyte.

11:30 OPB Between the Covers Angie Kim | OPB+ Film-Maker (Also Sun 1:30am)

7 SUNDAY5:00 OPB Firing Line With Margaret Hoover |

OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions Hong Kong, Pt 1

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Rick Steves’ Europe Ethiopia: A Development Story

6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Drawing From History (R) | OPB+ Secrets of Royal Travel Secrets of the Royal Flight (R)

6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Ship Report (R)

7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Masterclass 3 (Also Sun 2/14 12am) | OPB+ Ireland’s Wild Coast Pt 1 (R)

8:00 OPB Masterpiece Miss Scarlet and the Duke: Memento Mori. A photographer receives messages from beyond the grave. (Also Tue 1am) | OPB+ Asian Americans Breaking Through. At the turn of the millennium, Asian Americans found rising influence. (Also Tue 12am)

9:00 OPB Masterpiece All Creatures Great and Small, Ep 5. James experiences an ethical plight involving Helen’s bull. (Also Tue 2am) | OPB+ Africa’s Great Civilizations Origins/The Cross and the Crescent. Uncover epic stories of African kingdoms and cultures. (Also Tue 1am)

10:00 OPB Masterpiece The Long Song, Ep 2. The handsome overseer Robert arrives, sparking a bitter rivalry. (Also Tue 3am)

11:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 3, Ep 5. George reaches his breaking point. (Also Tue 4am) | OPB+ The Italian Americans La Famiglia/Becoming Americans



7:30 OPB+ Afro-Latino Travels With Kim Haas Limon, Costa Rica (Also Tue 4:30am)

8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Vintage Orlando, Hr 1 (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Lucy Worsley’s Royal Palace Secrets Take a tour of London’s most extraordinary palaces. (Also Sun 6pm)

9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Beatrice Morrow Cannady. Cannady was a pioneer of civil rights in Oregon. (Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ Ireland’s Wild Coast Pt 2. The odyssey continues through Clew Bay, Donegal and the northern coast. (Also Sun 7pm)

9:30 OPB Oregon Experience Jazz Town. Segregated from white-owned entertainment venues after World War II, Black entrepreneurs opened nightclubs and brought a wave of music to Portland. (Also Wed 2:30am)

10:00 OPB American Experience Goin’ Back to T-Town. Learn the history of Greenwood, a Black community that flourished in segregated Tulsa. (Also Sun 2/21 8pm OPB+) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Tue 5am)

11:00 OPB Independent Lens Women in Blue. Female officers try to redefine what it means to protect and serve. (Also Wed 4am) | OPB+ Reel South Seadrift (Also Wed 2am)


OPB+ Nature Cold Warriors: Wolves and Buffalo (Also Wed 4am)

8:00 OPB Finding Your Roots The Shirts on Their Backs. Featuring actors Tony Shalhoub and Christopher Meloni. (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ To the Ends of the Earth The Natural World: Pushing Boundaries. Travel from the driest deserts in Africa to the mountainous Himalayas. (Also Thu 12am)

9:00 OPB Al Capone: Icon Discover the celebrity gangster’s enduring impact on American culture. (Also Thu 2am) | OPB+ Kingdoms of the Sky The Himalaya. Visit the planet’s highest mountain range. (Also Thu 1am)

primetime

Oregon Field Guide Tribal Land Transfer; Sea JelliesNative Americans on Oregon’s north coast were pushed out of their ancestral home by white settlers more than a century ago. But recently, the Clatsop-Nehalem people were reunited with 18 acres of their homeland in Seaside.

Then, join the Field Guide team behind the scenes at the Oregon Coast Aquarium, where a ‘jelly mom’ offers an up-close look at the fascinating world of sea jellies.

Thursday, February 11, 8:30pm OPB

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OPB+ Ancient Invisible Cities Athens (Also Sat 1am)

10:00 OPB Modus Season 2, Ep 3. Swedish police clash with the FBI. (Also Sun 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Fri 5am)

11:00 OPB Masterpiece The Durrells in Corfu: Season 4, Ep 1. Louisa opens a boarding house. (Also Sun 4am) | OPB+ DW Global 3000 (Also Sat 2am)

11:30 OPB+ Articulate With Jim Cotter Jets vs. Sharks (Also Sat 2:30am)



8:00 OPB Father Brown The Kembleford Dragon. Brown must prevent a much-loved institution from going off the rails. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sat 6am)

8:30 OPB+ The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations Charles Schwab (Also Sun 1pm)

9:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 6, Ep 5. Nonnatus House welcomes a new recruit. (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+ Finding Your Roots To the Manor Born (Also Sun 1:30pm)

10:00 OPB Masterpiece Press: Resonance. James reopens communication with a whistleblower. (Also Mon 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Mon 5am)

11:00 OPB Thou Shalt Not Kill Season 2, Ep 10. Valeria returns to the scene of her father’s murder. (Also Mon 4am) | OPB+ Frontline China’s COVID Secrets (R-Also Mon 2am)


OPB+ Marathon America’s Heartland, continued (until 6:30pm)


6:00 OPB Start Up Will Power Fitness Gym/Ash and Erie

6:30 OPB+ Some Kind of Spark Follow a music mentoring program at Juilliard.

7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe France’s Dordogne/ Barcelona and Catalunya (Also Sun 9am)

8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries Now You See Her. When a magician’s assistant is killed, Frankie goes undercover. (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ Jazz Swing: The Velocity of Celebration (1937–1939). A new sound emerges. (Also Sun 2am)

9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders Murder of Innocence, Pts 1&2. Suspicion falls on a convicted murderer when a barrister is killed.

10:00 OPB+ POV The Infiltrators. Two immigrants purposefully get arrested by Border Patrol. (Also Sun 12am)

10:30 OPB The Forsyte Saga Ep 2. Soames designs a retreat to save his marriage.

11:30 OPB Between the Covers Olin Cogdill | OPB+ Film-Maker (Also Sun 1:30am)


OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions Hong Kong, Pt 2

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Rick Steves’ Europe Why We Travel

6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat The Big Story (R) | OPB+ Lucy Worsley’s Royal Palace Secrets (R)

6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Tribal Land Transfer; Sea Jellies (R)

7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Masterclass 4 (Also Sun 2/21 12am) | OPB+ Ireland’s Wild Coast Pt 2 (R)

8:00 OPB Masterpiece Miss Scarlet and the Duke: Cell 99. Eliza stumbles upon a criminal enterprise. (Also Tue 1am) |

10:00 OPB Frontline China’s COVID Secrets. The untold story of the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic and how China responded. (Also Fri 11pm OPB+) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Wed 5am)

11:00 OPB+ Rise of the Nazis Politics. Follow the chain of events that gave rise to Adolf Hitler. (Also Thu 2am)

11:30 OPB African Americans: Many Rivers To Cross Rise! (1940–1968). Trace the long road to civil rights. (Also Thu 4am)


OPB+ Forgotten Slave Owners Pt 2. Examine the propaganda war waged between Britain’s pro-slavery lobby and abolitionists. (Also Thu 4am)

8:00 OPB Nature Big Bend: The Wild Frontier of Texas. Roam the Rio Grande’s frontier lands alongside iconic animals of the Wild West. (Also Fri 1am) | OPB+ POV American Promise. Two boys come of age, encountering issues of race, class and opportunity. (Also Fri 12am)

9:00 OPB NOVA Beyond the Elements: Indestructible. In the quest for durability, can some scientific advancements backfire? (Also Fri 2am)

10:00 OPB Europe’s New Wild Return of the Titans. Travel to the Carpathian Mountains, where Europe’s wildlife is thriving. (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 5am)

11:00 OPB Food: Delicious Science A Matter of Taste. Learn the science behind what makes food taste delicious. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ Inside the Foreign Office Brave New World. Diplomats prepare for the post-Brexit world.

(Also Fri 2am)


OPB+ Genius by Stephen Hawking What Are We? (Also Sun 9am)

8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat The Big Story. The Portland Street Art Alliance brings a diverse group of artists together to create a new mural zone.

(Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ Impossible Builds The Scorpion Tower

8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Tribal Land Transfer; Sea Jellies. See callout on this page.

(Also Sun 6:30pm)

9:00 OPB London: 2000 Years of History Ep 2. Medieval London was devastated by disease and power-hungry kings. (Also Sun 2am) |

weekENDs

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SATURDAYS 6-10am OPB Kids Programs | OPB+ News,

Politics & Business

8am OPB Member Drive Programs (2/27 until 12am)

10am OPB Gardening | OPB+ Marathons (until 7pm) Between the Covers (2/6); America’s Heartland (2/13); Growing a Greener World (2/20); Member Drive Programs (2/27 until 12am)

11:30 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 (2/7, 2/14, 2/21); Member Drive Programs (2/28 until 12am) | OPB+ Genius by Stephen Hawking (2/7, 2/14, 2/21); Member Drive Programs (2/28 until 12am)

10am OPB Nature | OPB+ Legacy List With Matt Paxton

11am OPB NOVA | OPB+ American Masters Lorraine Hansberry (2/7); How it Feels To Be Free (2/21); POV American Promise (2/14)

Noon OPB Jazz (2/7, 2/14, 2/21)

1pm OPB+ The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations

1:30 OPB In Concert at the Hollywood Bowl Gustavo and Friends (2/7) | OPB+ Finding Your Roots

2pm OPB In Concert at the Hollywood Bowl Fireworks! (2/14); Music Without Borders (2/21)

2:30 OPB Between the Covers (2/7) | OPB+ Seat at the Table

3pm OPB News & Public Affairs (until 6pm) | OPB+ The Great Ride (2/7); To the Ends of the Earth The Natural World (2/14); Birds of East Africa (2/21)

4pm OPB+ Kingdoms of the Sky Rockies (2/7); Himalaya (2/14); Andes (2/21)

9:00 OPB The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song Ep 1. See callout on page 6.

(Also Thu 2am) | OPB+ Kingdoms of the Sky The Andes. The world’s longest mountain range is home to astonishing natural life. (Also Thu 1am)

10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Wed 5am)

11:00 OPB African Americans: Many Rivers To Cross A More Perfect Union (1968–2013). Examine class disparity in the modern Black community. (Also Thu 4am) | OPB+ Rise of the Nazis The First Six Months in Power. Hitler dismantles the German state. (Also Thu 2am)


OPB+ Hollywood’s Architect: The Paul R. Williams Story Williams’ clients included Frank Sinatra, Cary Grant and Lucille Ball. (Also Thu 4am)

8:00 OPB Nature Equus: Story of the Horse, Origins. Explore the fascinating evolutionary journey of the horse. (Also Fri 1am) | OPB+ American Masters How it Feels To Be Free. Six iconic Black female artists challenge the entertainment industry. (Also Fri 12am)

9:00 OPB NOVA Beyond the Elements: Life. Discover surprising molecules that allowed for the origination of life. (Also Fri 2am)

10:00 OPB Europe’s New Wild The Land of the Snow and Ice. In Lapland, native Sami people and conservation groups work to save an age-old reindeer migration. (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 5am)

11:00 OPB Food: Delicious Science We Are What We Eat. Discover why our brains crave certain foods. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ Inside the Foreign Office Brits in Trouble. Diplomats aid Brits who find themselves in trouble overseas. (Also Fri 2am)


OPB+ Genius by Stephen Hawking Where Are We? (Also Fri 4am)

8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Sign of the Times. Nick Lee is the owner of Studio Signs Co., a company responsible for creating some of Oregon’s most popular and iconic billboards and signs. (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ Impossible Builds Europe in the Desert (Also Sat 12am)

8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Mudbone Grown. Shantae Johnson and Arthur Shavers rewrite what it means to be a Black farmer in Oregon.

(Also Sun 6:30pm)

OPB+ American Experience Jubilee Singers: Sacrifice and Glory. The Jubilee Singers introduced audiences to the religious anthems of slavery. (Also Tue 12am)

9:00 OPB Masterpiece All Creatures Great and Small, Ep 6. Tristan coaxes James to try a risky procedure. (Also Tue 2am) | OPB+ Africa’s Great Civilizations

Empires of Gold/Cities. Uncover complex trade networks and institutions that advanced Africa’s great civilizations. (Also Tue 1am)

10:00 OPB Masterpiece The Long Song, Ep 3. Facing labor unrest and financial ruin for the plantation, Robert’s sanity starts to unravel.

(Also Tue 3am)

11:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 3, Ep 6. Rev. Aunt Agatha and George cross swords. (Also Tue 4am) | OPB+ The Italian Americans Becoming Americans

15 MONDAY7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Tue 12am) |

OPB+ A Wider World (Also Tue 4am)

7:30 OPB+ Fly Brother With Ernest White II Sao Paulo: Don’t Sleep (Also Tue 4:30am)

8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Vintage Orlando, Hr 2 (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Confucius Was a Foodie Origins of the Beginnings (Also Sun 6pm)

9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Vanport. Once the second-largest city in Oregon, Vanport was destroyed by a catastrophic flood. (Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ Real Rail Adventures: Swiss Grand Tour (Also Sun 7pm)

10:00 OPB American Experience Voice of Freedom. The life of singer Marian Anderson illuminates fundamental questions about talent, race, democracy and the American soul. (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Tue 5am)

11:00 OPB+ Reel South You Gave Me a Song (Also Wed 2am)


OPB+ Nature A Squirrel’s Guide to Success (Also Wed 4am)

8:00 OPB Finding Your Roots Write My Name in the Book of Life. Featuring musician Pharrell Williams and filmmaker Kasi Lemmons.

(Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ To the Ends of the Earth Birds of East Africa. A wildlife photographer captures the hidden lives of East African birds. (Also Thu 12am)

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primetime

PBS

The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our SongTrace the 400-year-old story of the Black church in America. This moving two-part series from host Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores how Black people have worshipped and, through their spiritual journeys, improvised ways to bring their faith traditions from Africa to the New World, translating them into a form of Christianity that was not only truly their own, but a redemptive force for the nation.

February 16 & 23, 9pm OPB

7:30 OPB+ Fly Brother With Ernest White II Tbilisi: The Whole Day Through (Also Tue 4:30am)

8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Vintage Spokane, Hr 1 (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Confucius Was a Foodie Confucius and the Origin of Food Philosophy (Also Wed 12am)

9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Portland Civil Rights: Lift Ev’ry Voice. Experience the civil rights movement in Portland. (Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ Real Rail Adventures: Swiss Winter Magic (Also Wed 1am)

10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Tue 5am)

10:30 OPB Antiques Roadshow Harrisburg, Hr 3 (Also Wed 3:30am)

11:00 OPB+ Reel South Attaché (Also Wed 2am)

11:30 OPB Independent Lens Mr. Soul! In 1968, Ellis Haizlip created a public television variety show celebrating Black culture. (Also Wed 4:30am)

9:00 OPB London: 2000 Years of History Ep 3. London experiences the Industrial Revolution. (Also Sun 2am) | OPB+ Ancient Invisible Cities Cairo (Also Sat 1am)

10:00 OPB Modus Season 2, Ep 4. Ingvar and Inger’s private lives are put to the test. (Also Sun 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Fri 5am)

11:00 OPB Masterpiece The Durrells in Corfu: Season 4, Ep 2. Margo moves in with Theo. (Also Sun 4am) | OPB+ DW Global 3000 (Also Sat 2am)

11:30 OPB+ Articulate With Jim Cotter Written From Life, Itself (Also Sat 2:30am)



8:00 OPB Father Brown The Angel of Mercy. A villager dies in her sleep. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sat 6am)

8:30 OPB+ The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations Bill Gates (Also Sun 1pm)

9:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 6, Ep 6. The Nonnatus family cares for Sister Mary Cynthia. (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+ Finding Your Roots Against All Odds (Also Sun 1:30pm)

10:00 OPB Seaside Hotel on Walter Presents A Summer by the North Sea. This charming drama follows the lives of hotel visitors and staff in 1920s Denmark. (Also Mon 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Mon 5am)

11:00 OPB Thou Shalt Not Kill Season 2, Ep 11. When a family is killed, their son is later found alive in the trunk of a car. (Also Mon 4am) | OPB+ Frontline Myanmar’s Killing Fields. Secret footage shows the effort to kill and expel Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar. (Also Mon 2am)


OPB+ Marathon Growing a Greener World, continued (until 7pm)


6:00 OPB Start Up Cochrane House/Luminaid

7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Little Europe: San Marino, Monaco, Vatican City, Liechtenstein and Andorra/Great Swiss Cities: Luzern, Bern, Zurich and Lausanne (Also Sun 9am) | OPB+ Black Ballerina The personal stories of Black women who fell in love with ballet.

8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries No Friends Like Old Friends. Frankie works with Agatha Christie. (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ Jazz

Dedicated to Chaos (1940–1945). When America enters World War II, jazz is part of the arsenal. (Also Sun 2am)

9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders Written in the Stars, Pts 1&2. An amateur astronomer is killed with a meteorite.

10:00 OPB+ Independent Lens Hale County This Morning, This Evening. An intimate meditation on life in America’s Black Belt. (Also Sun 12am)

10:30 OPB The Forsyte Saga Ep 3. Irene and Bosinney fall in love.

11:30 OPB Between the Covers Amy Jo Burns | OPB+ Film-Maker (Also Sun 1:30am)


OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions Cruising the Rhine, Pt 1

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Rick Steves’ Europe England’s Bath & York

6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Sign of the Times (R) | OPB+ Confucius Was A Foodie Origins of the Beginnings (R)

6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Mudbone Grown (R)

7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Cake (Also Sun 2/28 12am) | OPB+ Real Rail Adventures: Swiss Grand Tour

8:00 OPB Masterpiece Miss Scarlet and the Duke: The Case of Henry Scarlet. Eliza’s forensic skills are strained as she gets to the bottom of her father’s death. (Also Tue 1am) | OPB+ American Experience

Goin’ Back to T-Town (R-Also Tue 12am)

9:00 OPB Masterpiece All Creatures Great and Small, Ep 7. Siegfried hosts a Christmas Eve party. (Also Tue 2am) | OPB+ Africa’s Great Civilizations The Atlantic Age/Commerce and the Clash of Civilizations. The Atlantic trading world gave rise to powerful new kingdoms and the transatlantic slave trade. (Also Tue 1am)

10:30 OPB Beyond the Canvas Taking the Stage. Featuring ‘Hamilton’ playwright Lin-Manuel Miranda and actor Bryan Cranston. (Also Tue 3:30am)

11:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 3, Ep 7. George triumphs as his relationship with Elizabeth deteriorates. (Also Tue 4am) | OPB+ The Italian Americans Loyal Americans/The American Dream







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Rick Steves Island Hopping EuropeJoin Rick on a tour of four of Europe’s most intriguing and surprising islands: Malta, Capri, Orkney and Skye. This untraditional island-hopping adventure skips the hot sun and tiki drinks to explore remote beaches, castles, pre-historic wonders and salty traditional island living.

Saturday, February 27, 6pm OPB & OPB+

1am) | OPB+ Impossible Builds The Floating House (Also Sat 12am)

8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Marbled Murrelets. Scientists struggle to understand a species of elusive, old growth-dependent seabirds. (Also Sun 1:30am)

9:00 OPB London: 2000 Years of History Ep 4. World wars and the Spanish flu shape London as we know it today. (Also Sun 2am) | OPB+ Ancient Invisible Cities Istanbul (Also Sat 1am)

10:00 OPB Modus Season 2, Ep 5. Swedish police search for a mole in their own ranks. (Also Sun 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Fri 5am)

11:00 OPB Masterpiece The Durrells in Corfu: Season 4, Ep 3. Louisa meets Spiros’ wife. (Also Sun 4am) | OPB+ DW Global 3000 (Also Sat 2am)

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


OPB+ The Legacy List With Matt Paxton

8:00 OPB Father Brown The Honourable Thief. Father Brown seeks help from an unlikely ally. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sat 6am)


OPB+ Nature Octopus: Making Contact (Also Wed 4am)

8:00 OPB Finding Your Roots Country Roots. Featuring country music greats Clint Black and Rosanne Cash. (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ NOVA Forgotten Genius (Also Thu 12am)

9:00 OPB The Black Church: This Is Our Story, This Is Our Song Ep 2. Discover how the Black church expanded to address social inequality. (Also Thu 2am)

10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Wed 5am)

11:00 OPB Lidia Celebrates America A Salute to First Responders. Chef Lidia Bastianich travels across the country to visit those serving on the front lines. (Also Thu 4am) | OPB+ Rise of the Nazis Night of the Long Knives. Nazis wreak havoc on German streets. (Also Thu 2am)


OPB+ Vernon Jordan: Make it Plain Meet one of the most influential African American thought leaders in the country. (Also Thu 4am)

8:00 OPB Nature Equus: Story of the Horse: Chasing the Wind. Trace the age-old relationship between humans and horses. (Also Fri 1am) | OPB+ American Masters Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am. An artful meditation on Morrison’s life and literary career. (Also Fri 12am)

9:00 OPB NOVA Mars 2020. Follow along as NASA launches the Mars 2020 Mission, perhaps the most ambitious hunt ever for signs of life on Mars. (Also Fri 2am)

10:00 OPB Europe’s New Wild Europe’s Amazon. The habitats of the Danube Delta depend on a healthy river. (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 5am)

11:00 OPB Himalaya Connection The devastating Nepal earthquake of 2015 has inspired scientists to better understand earthquakes. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ Searching for Augusta: The Forgotten Angel of Bastogne The remarkable true story of an unsung hero. (Also Fri 2am)


OPB+ The West Is Burning Examine how forest management and litigation have led to catastrophic fire seasons. (Also Fri 4am)

8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Willie Little. Portland assemblage artist and painter Willie Little creates work that tells stories of his family history in rural North Carolina. (Also Sun

8:30 OPB+ The David Rubenstein Show: Peer-to-Peer Conversations

9:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 6, Ep 7. Dr. Turner helps a family cope with the stresses of parenthood. (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+ Finding Your Roots No Irish Need Apply (R)

10:00 OPB Seaside Hotel on Walter Presents Men’s Visit. The Count of Ditmar arrives at the hotel, looking for a business partner. (Also Mon 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company

11:00 OPB Thou Shalt Not Kill Season 2, Ep 12. Valeria’s mother reveals a secret. (Also Mon 4am) | OPB+ Frontline The Abortion Divide. Step inside the fight over abortion through the stories of women.

27 SATURDAY5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+

Rick Steves’ Europe Burgundy: Profound France (R)

6:00 OPB & OPB+ Rick Steves Island Hopping Europe See callout on this page.

6:30 OPB & OPB+ Rick Steves European Festivals Rick celebrates the top 10 festivals in Europe.

8:00 OPB & OPB+ Oregon Revealed Willamette Valley Splendor. Take a breathtaking aerial journey across the valley’s scenic rivers, vineyards, campuses and more. (Also Sun 4pm)

9:30 OPB & OPB+ Oregon Revealed The Water Around Us. Oregon Field Guide photographers show you the water of Oregon like you’ve never seen it before.

11:00 OPB & OPB+ Survival Guide for Pain- Free Living With Peggy Cappy Learn easy stretches and other yoga moves to help relieve pain.

28 SUNDAY5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+

Rick Steves’ Europe North Wales: Feisty and Poetic

6:00 OPB & OPB+ Ken Burns: Country Music Go behind the scenes on the making of the epic documentary series.

8:00 OPB & OPB+ Ken Burns: Here & There Take a poetic and personal look at the legendary filmmaker’s life and career. (Also Tue 1am OPB)

9:30 OPB & OPB+ Masterpiece: 50 Fabulous Years! Celebrate the series that introduced generations of viewers to the delights of British drama. (Also Tue 2:30am OPB)

11:00 OPB Josh Groban: An Evening of Harmony Singer Josh Groban performs ‘Bring Him Home,’ ‘Over the Rainbow,’ and more. (Also Tue 4am)

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Pictured: Artist Willie Little works in his studio, airing February 25 at 8pm.

Coming in March Independent LensCoded BiasAfter making a startling discovery about facial recognition technology, an MIT Media Lab researcher pushes for legislation against racial and gender bias in the algorithms that impact us all.

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