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February 2021 February 2021
PRIMETIME PRIMETIME
Europe’s
New Wild
Wednesdays at 10pm
Photo courtesy of Susan Wright/Nat Geo
primetime
1 MONDAY 3 WEDNESDAY
7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour | OPB+ A Wider 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu 12am) |
World (Also Tue 4am) OPB+ Forgotten Slave Owners Pt 1. Britain
was built on the profits of slavery. (Also Thu
7:30 OPB+ Afro-Latino Travels With Kim Haas
4am)
San Jose (Also Tue 4:30am)
8:00 OPB Nature Pumas: Legends of the Ice © rtemegorov/Pond5
8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Vintage Tucson
Mountains. Travel to the mountains of Chile
2021, Hr 2 (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Secrets
of Royal Travel Secrets of the Royal Flight
to learn the secrets of the puma. (Also NOVA
Fri 1am) | OPB+ American Masters Lorraine
(Also Sun 6pm)
Hansberry. Follow the life and work of the Beyond the Elements
9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Searching for ‘A Raisin in the Sun’ playwright. (Also Fri In this three-part series, host David
York. Learn the story of York, an enslaved 12am)
Pogue sets out on a worldwide
man who journeyed with Lewis and Clark.
9:00 OPB NOVA Beyond the Elements: Reactions. quest to find the key molecules and
(Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ Ireland’s Wild Coast
See callout on this page. (Also Fri 2am) chemical reactions that paved the
Pt 1. Journey along Ireland’s rugged Atlantic
coast. (Also Sun 7pm) 10:00 OPB Europe’s New Wild The Missing Lynx. way for our world and everything in
Witness an astonishing resurgence of wildlife it. Along the way, he discovers an
9:30 OPB Oregon Experience Oregon’s Black
across Europe’s most breathtaking explosive chemical reaction that,
Pioneers. African Americans helped to shape
landscapes. (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ when reversed, enables us to feed
Oregon, even as white settlers tried to force
Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 5am)
them out. (Also Wed 2:30am) billions. Plus, molecules in deadly
11:00 OPB Food: Delicious Science Food on the snail venom that may provide clues
10:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Celebrating
Brain. Discover how food keeps our bodies fit to lifesaving medicines.
Black Americana (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+
and healthy. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ Inside the
Amanpour & Company (Also Tue 5am) Wednesday, February 3, 9pm
Foreign Office Keeping Power and Influence.
11:00 OPB Independent Lens 9-to-5: The Story Follow Britain’s civil servants at work. (Also OPB
of a Movement. The fight that inspired a hit Fri 2am)
and changed the American workplace.
(Also Wed 4am) | OPB+ Reel South First Lady
of the Revolution (Also Wed 2am) 4 THURSDAY
7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am) | 5 FRIDAY
OPB+ Genius by Stephen Hawking Where 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am) |
2 TUESDAY Did the Universe Come From? (Also Fri 4am) OPB+ The Legacy List With Matt Paxton
7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 12am) | (Also Sun 10am)
8:00 OPB Oregon
OPB+ Nature Animal Odd Couples (Also Wed
Art Beat Drawing 8:00 OPB Father Brown The Jackdaw’s Revenge.
4am)
From History. Brown’s old foe is unexpectedly released from
8:00 OPB Finding Your Roots No Irish Need Mark Hallett’s prison. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington
Apply. Featuring actor Jane Lynch and 40-year career Week (Also Sat 6am)
comedian Jim Gaffigan. (Also Fri 2/26 9pm drawing, painting
8:30 OPB+ The David Rubenstein Show:
OPB+) | OPB+ The Great Ride Two married and sculpting
dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals has Peer-to-Peer Conversations Lorne Michaels
military veterans bike from Washington, D.C.
taken him from Hollywood to India. (Also Sun 1pm)
to Pittsburgh. (Also Thu 12am)
(Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ Leonardo’s Dream 9:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 6, Ep 4.
9:00 OPB The Jazz Ambassadors Asked to
Machines Leading experts attempt to build An expectant mother buckles under the
travel as cultural ambassadors, Louis
da Vinci’s dream machines. (Also Sat 12am) strains of pregnancy. (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+
Armstrong, Dizzy Gillespie and Duke Ellington
8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Ship Report. Meet Finding Your Roots Coming to America (Also
faced a painful dilemma. (Also Thu 2am) |
the woman behind the ‘The Ship Report,’ an Sun 1:30pm)
OPB+ Kingdoms of the Sky The Rockies.
Meet the remarkable inhabitants of this entertaining daily radio report of all the ships 10:00 OPB Masterpiece Press: Two Worlds.
3,000-mile mountain range. (Also Thu 1am) that pass by Astoria. (Also Sun 6:30pm) Duncan buries himself in his work. (Also Mon
9:00 OPB London: 2000 Years of History Ep 1. 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also
10:00 OPB Frontline Plastic Wars. Did the
Learn how an uninhabitable swamp became Mon 5am)
plastic industry use recycling to sell more
plastic? (Also Fri 11pm OPB+) | OPB+ a world-famous city. (Also Sun 2am) 11:00 OPB Thou Shalt Not Kill Season 2, Ep 9.
Amanpour & Company (Also Wed 5am) The writing is on the wall when a math
10:00 OPB Modus Season 2, Ep 2. Inger’s past
catches up with her. (Also Sun 3am) | OPB+ professor is found dead. (Also Mon 4am) |
11:00 OPB African Americans: Many Rivers
Amanpour & Company (Also Fri 5am) OPB+ Frontline Plastic Wars (R-Also Mon 2am)
To Cross Making a Way Out of No Way
(1897–1940). Examine the confines of
11:00 OPB Masterpiece The Durrells in Corfu:
segregation during the Jim Crow era. (Also
Season 3, Ep 8. A circus comes to town. (Also 6 SATURDAY
Thu 4am) | OPB+ Dreams of Hope A church
Sun 4am) | OPB+ DW Global 3000 (Also Sat 5:00 OPB This Old House (Also Mon 6pm) |
concert honors the four African American
2am) OPB+ Marathon Between the Covers,
girls who were killed there. (Also Thu 2am)
11:30 OPB+ Articulate With Jim Cotter Mario continued (until 7pm)
Lanza at 100 (Also Sat 2:30am) 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend
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= Program premiere
= Watch online at watch.opb.org
Programs are subject to change weekdays
MONDAY – FRIDAY
6:00 OPB Start Up The Schvitz/Plum Health 11:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 3, Ep 5.
George reaches his breaking point. (Also Tue
7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe The Making Of/
4am) | OPB+ The Italian Americans La
Burgundy: Profound France (Also Sun 9am) |
Famiglia/Becoming Americans 6:30 OPB Kids Programs (until noon)
OPB+ Fat Boy: The Billy Stewart Story
Stewart is considered one of the most prolific
7am OPB+ NHK Newsline
and stylish R&B singers of the 1960s. 8 MONDAY
8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries Dealer’s 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour | OPB+ A Wider 7:30 OPB+ Sit & Be Fit (M/W/F);
Choice. Frankie gets accused of murder. (Also World (Also Tue 4am) Classical Stretch (Tu/Th)
Mon 12am) | OPB+ Jazz Swing: Pure Pleasure
7:30 OPB+ Afro-Latino Travels With Kim Haas
(1935–1937). Jazz gains popularity. (Also Sun 8am OPB+ Sewing & Knitting
Limon, Costa Rica (Also Tue 4:30am)
2am)
8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Vintage Orlando, 8:30 OPB+ Quilting
9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders The Dark Rider,
Hr 1 (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Lucy
Pts 1&2. A man falls to his death after seeing a
Worsley’s Royal Palace Secrets Take a tour 9am OPB+ Painting
headless horseman.
of London’s most extraordinary palaces.
9:30 OPB+ Kindred Spirits: Artists Hilda (Also Sun 6pm) 10am OPB+ Woodworking (M/W/Th);
Wilkinson Brown and Lilian Thomas This Old House (Tu/F)
9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Beatrice Morrow
Burwell An aunt and niece achieve success
Cannady. Cannady was a pioneer of civil
as artists in segregated Washington D.C. 10:30 OPB+ Food & Cooking
rights in Oregon. (Also Wed 2am) | OPB+
(Also Sun 3:30am)
Ireland’s Wild Coast Pt 2. The odyssey
10:00 OPB+ POV Softie. A daring activist runs continues through Clew Bay, Donegal and the 11am OPB+ Nature (M); NOVA (Tu);
for office in Kenya. (Also Sun 12am) northern coast. (Also Sun 7pm) Africa’s Great Civilizations (W);
American Experience (Th); Oregon
10:30 OPB The Forsyte Saga Ep 1. Penniless, 9:30 OPB Oregon Experience Jazz Town. Experience (F)
Irene Heron agrees to marry Soames Forsyte. Segregated from white-owned entertainment
venues after World War II, Black entrepreneurs 12pm OPB Painting | OPB+ Civil
11:30 OPB Between the Covers Angie Kim |
opened nightclubs and brought a wave of Discourse (M); Breaking Big/
OPB+ Film-Maker (Also Sun 1:30am)
music to Portland. (Also Wed 2:30am) Between the Covers (Tu); Make 48
10:00 OPB American Experience Goin’ Back (W); In the Americas (Th); Trust
7 SUNDAY to T-Town. Learn the history of Greenwood, Docs (F)
5:00 OPB Firing Line With Margaret Hoover | a Black community that flourished in
OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions Hong segregated Tulsa. (Also Sun 2/21 8pm OPB+) 12:30 OPB Food & Cooking | OPB+
Kong, Pt 1 | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Tue Growing Bolder (M); GZero
5am) World (Tu); Start Up (W); Chavis
5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Chronicles (Th); Seat at the Table
Rick Steves’ Europe Ethiopia: A Development 11:00 OPB Independent (F)
Story Lens Women in Blue.
Female officers try to
6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Drawing From 1pm OPB+ DW News
redefine what it means
History (R) | OPB+ Secrets of Royal Travel
to protect and serve.
Secrets of the Royal Flight (R) 1:30 OPB Travel | OPB+ DW: The Day
(Also Wed 4am) | OPB+
6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Ship Report (R) Reel South Seadrift
2pm OPB Kids Programs (until 6pm) |
(Also Wed 2am)
7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show OPB+ BBC Outside Source (M–
Masterclass 3 (Also Sun 2/14 12am) | OPB+ Th); BBC Today (F)
Ireland’s Wild Coast Pt 1 (R) 9 TUESDAY
2:30 OPB+ BBC World News America
8:00 OPB Masterpiece Miss Scarlet and the 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 12am) |
Duke: Memento Mori. A photographer receives OPB+ Nature Cold Warriors: Wolves and
3pm OPB+ News & Public Affairs
messages from beyond the grave. (Also Buffalo (Also Wed 4am)
Tue 1am) | OPB+ Asian Americans Breaking
8:00 OPB Finding Your Roots The Shirts on 3:30 OPB+ NHK Newsline
Through. At the turn of the millennium, Asian
Their Backs. Featuring actors Tony Shalhoub
Americans found rising influence. (Also Tue
and Christopher Meloni. (Also Thu 1am) | 4pm OPB+ PBS NewsHour
12am)
OPB+ To the Ends of the Earth The Natural
9:00 OPB Masterpiece All Creatures Great and World: Pushing Boundaries. Travel from the 5pm OPB+ Travel
Small, Ep 5. James experiences an ethical driest deserts in Africa to the mountainous
plight involving Helen’s bull. (Also Tue 2am) Himalayas. (Also Thu 12am) 5:30 OPB+ Food & Cooking (until 7pm)
| OPB+ Africa’s Great Civilizations Origins/
9:00 OPB Al Capone: Icon Discover the celebrity
The Cross and the Crescent. Uncover epic 6pm OPB Home Repair (M/Tu); Travel
gangster’s enduring impact on American
stories of African kingdoms and cultures. (W/Th/F)
culture. (Also Thu 2am) | OPB+ Kingdoms
(Also Tue 1am)
of the Sky The Himalaya. Visit the planet’s
10:00 OPB Masterpiece The Long Song, Ep 2. highest mountain range. (Also Thu 1am) 6:30 OPB BBC Outside Source
The handsome overseer Robert arrives, (M–Th); BBC Today (F)
sparking a bitter rivalry. (Also Tue 3am)
FEBRUARY 2021 3
primetime
10:00 OPB Frontline China’s COVID Secrets. OPB+ Ancient Invisible Cities Athens (Also 10:00 OPB+ POV The Infiltrators. Two
The untold story of the beginning of the Sat 1am) immigrants purposefully get arrested by
coronavirus pandemic and how China Border Patrol. (Also Sun 12am)
10:00 OPB Modus Season 2, Ep 3. Swedish
responded. (Also Fri 11pm OPB+) | OPB+ police clash with the FBI. (Also Sun 3am) | 10:30 OPB The Forsyte Saga Ep 2. Soames
Amanpour & Company (Also Wed 5am) OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Fri 5am) designs a retreat to save his marriage.
11:00 OPB+ Rise of the Nazis Politics. Follow 11:00 OPB Masterpiece The Durrells in Corfu: 11:30 OPB Between the Covers Olin Cogdill |
the chain of events that gave rise to Adolf Season 4, Ep 1. Louisa opens a boarding OPB+ Film-Maker (Also Sun 1:30am)
Hitler. (Also Thu 2am) house. (Also Sun 4am) | OPB+ DW Global
11:30 OPB African Americans: Many Rivers To 3000 (Also Sat 2am)
Cross Rise! (1940–1968). Trace the long road
14 SUNDAY
11:30 OPB+ Articulate With Jim Cotter Jets
to civil rights. (Also Thu 4am) 5:00 OPB Firing Line With Margaret Hoover |
vs. Sharks (Also Sat 2:30am)
OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions Hong
Kong, Pt 2
10 WEDNESDAY 12 FRIDAY 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+
7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu 12am) | 7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am) | Rick Steves’ Europe Why We Travel
OPB+ Forgotten Slave Owners Pt 2. Examine OPB+ The Legacy List With Matt Paxton
the propaganda war waged between Britain’s 6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat The Big Story (R) |
(Also Sun 10am)
pro-slavery lobby and abolitionists. (Also Thu OPB+ Lucy Worsley’s Royal Palace Secrets
4am) 8:00 OPB Father Brown The Kembleford Dragon. (R)
Brown must prevent a much-loved institution
8:00 OPB Nature Big Bend: The Wild Frontier of 6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Tribal Land
from going off the rails. (Also Mon 1am) |
Texas. Roam the Rio Grande’s frontier lands Transfer; Sea Jellies (R)
OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sat 6am)
alongside iconic animals of the Wild West. 7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show
(Also Fri 1am) | OPB+ POV American Promise. 8:30 OPB+ The David Rubenstein Show:
Masterclass 4 (Also Sun 2/21 12am) | OPB+
Two boys come of age, encountering issues Peer-to-Peer Conversations Charles Schwab
Ireland’s Wild Coast Pt 2 (R)
of race, class and opportunity. (Also Fri 12am) (Also Sun 1pm)
8:00 OPB Masterpiece Miss Scarlet and
9:00 OPB NOVA Beyond the Elements: 9:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 6, Ep 5.
the Duke: Cell 99. Eliza stumbles upon a
Indestructible. In the quest for durability, can Nonnatus House welcomes a new recruit.
criminal enterprise. (Also Tue 1am) |
some scientific advancements backfire? (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+ Finding Your Roots
(Also Fri 2am) To the Manor Born (Also Sun 1:30pm)
10:00 OPB Europe’s New Wild Return of the 10:00 OPB Masterpiece Press: Resonance.
Titans. Travel to the Carpathian Mountains, James reopens communication with a
where Europe’s wildlife is thriving. (Also Fri whistleblower. (Also Mon 3am) | OPB+
3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Amanpour & Company (Also Mon 5am)
Thu 5am) 11:00 OPB Thou Shalt Not Kill Season 2, Ep 10.
11:00 OPB Food: Delicious Science A Matter of Valeria returns to the scene of her father’s
Taste. Learn the science behind what makes murder. (Also Mon 4am) | OPB+ Frontline
food taste delicious. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ China’s COVID Secrets (R-Also Mon 2am)
Inside the Foreign Office Brave New World.
Diplomats prepare for the post-Brexit world.
(Also Fri 2am)
13 SATURDAY
5:00 OPB This Old House (Also Mon 6pm) |
OPB+ Marathon America’s Heartland,
11 THURSDAY continued (until 6:30pm) Oregon Field Guide
7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am) | 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend Tribal Land Transfer;
OPB+ Genius by Stephen Hawking What Are
We? (Also Sun 9am) 6:00 OPB Start Up Will Power Fitness Gym/Ash Sea Jellies
and Erie Native Americans on Oregon’s
8:00 OPB Oregon Art
Beat The Big Story. 6:30 OPB+ Some Kind of Spark Follow a music north coast were pushed out of
The Portland Street mentoring program at Juilliard. their ancestral home by white
Art Alliance brings a settlers more than a century ago.
7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe France’s Dordogne/
diverse group of artists
Barcelona and Catalunya (Also Sun 9am) But recently, the Clatsop-Nehalem
together to create a
new mural zone. 8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries Now You people were reunited with 18 acres
(Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ Impossible Builds See Her. When a magician’s assistant is killed, of their homeland in Seaside.
The Scorpion Tower Frankie goes undercover. (Also Mon 12am) | Then, join the Field Guide team
OPB+ Jazz Swing: The Velocity of Celebration
8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Tribal Land
(1937–1939). A new sound emerges. (Also Sun
behind the scenes at the Oregon
Transfer; Sea Jellies. See callout on this page. Coast Aquarium, where a ‘jelly
2am)
(Also Sun 6:30pm) mom’ offers an up-close look at the
9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders Murder of
9:00 OPB London: 2000 Years of History Ep 2.
Innocence, Pts 1&2. Suspicion falls on a
fascinating world of sea jellies.
Medieval London was devastated by disease
convicted murderer when a barrister is killed. Thursday, February 11, 8:30pm
and power-hungry kings. (Also Sun 2am) |
OPB
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OPB = Comcast 10 or 710; antenna XX.1
OPB+ = Comcast 310; antenna XX.2
KIDS = Comcast 311; antenna XX.3
Full channel list at opb.org/schedules
R = Repeat within a week
Repeats are on original channel unless noted
Full schedule and VOD at opb.org/schedules
= Program premiere
= Watch online at watch.opb.org
Programs are subject to change weekENDs
SATURDAYS
OPB+ American Experience Jubilee Singers: 9:00 OPB The Black Church: This Is Our Story,
Sacrifice and Glory. The Jubilee Singers This Is Our Song Ep 1. See callout on page 6.
introduced audiences to the religious (Also Thu 2am) | OPB+ Kingdoms of the 6-10am OPB Kids Programs | OPB+ News,
anthems of slavery. (Also Tue 12am) Sky The Andes. The world’s longest mountain Politics & Business
9:00 OPB Masterpiece range is home to astonishing natural life.
All Creatures Great and (Also Thu 1am) 8am OPB Member Drive Programs
Small, Ep 6. Tristan (2/27 until 12am)
10:00 OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Wed
coaxes James to try a 5am) 10am OPB Gardening | OPB+ Marathons
risky procedure. (Also (until 7pm) Between the Covers
Tue 2am) | OPB+ Africa’s 11:00 OPB African Americans: Many Rivers
(2/6); America’s Heartland (2/13);
Great Civilizations To Cross A More Perfect Union (1968–2013).
Growing a Greener World (2/20);
Empires of Gold/Cities. Uncover complex trade Examine class disparity in the modern Black
Member Drive Programs (2/27
networks and institutions that advanced community. (Also Thu 4am) | OPB+ Rise of
until 12am)
Africa’s great civilizations. (Also Tue 1am) the Nazis The First Six Months in Power. Hitler
dismantles the German state. (Also Thu 2am) 11:30 OPB Sewing & Quilting
10:00 OPB Masterpiece The Long Song, Ep 3.
Facing labor unrest and financial ruin for the 1pm OPB Cooking
plantation, Robert’s sanity starts to unravel. 17 WEDNESDAY
(Also Tue 3am) 3pm OPB Motorweek
7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Thu 12am) |
11:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 3, Ep 6. OPB+ Hollywood’s Architect: The Paul R. 3:30 OPB Woodworking
Rev. Aunt Agatha and George cross swords. Williams Story Williams’ clients included
4:30 OPB Home Repair
(Also Tue 4am) | OPB+ The Italian Frank Sinatra, Cary Grant and Lucille Ball.
Americans Becoming Americans (Also Thu 4am)
8:00 OPB Nature Equus: Story of the Horse,
SUNDAYS
15 MONDAY Origins. Explore the fascinating evolutionary
journey of the horse. (Also Fri 1am) | OPB+ 6-9am OPB Kids Programs | OPB+
7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Tue 12am) | American Masters How it Feels To Be Free. Lifestyles
OPB+ A Wider World (Also Tue 4am) Six iconic Black female artists challenge the
entertainment industry. (Also Fri 12am) 9am OPB Travel (2/7, 2/14, 2/21);
7:30 OPB+ Fly Brother With Ernest White II Member Drive Programs (2/28
Sao Paulo: Don’t Sleep (Also Tue 4:30am) 9:00 OPB NOVA Beyond the Elements: Life. until 12am) | OPB+ Genius by
8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Vintage Orlando, Discover surprising molecules that allowed Stephen Hawking (2/7, 2/14,
Hr 2 (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Confucius for the origination of life. (Also Fri 2am) 2/21); Member Drive Programs
Was a Foodie Origins of the Beginnings (Also (2/28 until 12am)
10:00 OPB Europe’s New Wild The Land of the
Sun 6pm) Snow and Ice. In Lapland, native Sami people 10am OPB Nature | OPB+ Legacy List
9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Vanport. Once and conservation groups work to save an With Matt Paxton
the second-largest city in Oregon, Vanport age-old reindeer migration. (Also Fri 3am) |
OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 5am) 11am OPB NOVA | OPB+ American
was destroyed by a catastrophic flood.
Masters Lorraine Hansberry (2/7);
(Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ Real Rail 11:00 OPB Food: Delicious Science We Are How it Feels To Be Free (2/21); POV
Adventures: Swiss Grand Tour (Also Sun What We Eat. Discover why our brains crave American Promise (2/14)
7pm) certain foods. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ Inside
10:00 OPB American Experience Voice of the Foreign Office Brits in Trouble. Diplomats Noon OPB Jazz (2/7, 2/14, 2/21)
Freedom. The life of singer Marian Anderson aid Brits who find themselves in trouble
1pm OPB+ The David Rubenstein
illuminates fundamental questions about overseas. (Also Fri 2am)
Show: Peer-to-Peer
talent, race, democracy and the American Conversations
soul. (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour 18 THURSDAY 1:30 OPB In Concert at the Hollywood
& Company (Also Tue 5am)
7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Fri 12am) | Bowl Gustavo and Friends (2/7) |
11:00 OPB+ Reel South You Gave Me a Song OPB+ Genius by Stephen Hawking Where OPB+ Finding Your Roots
(Also Wed 2am) Are We? (Also Fri 4am)
2pm OPB In Concert at the Hollywood
8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Sign of the Times. Bowl Fireworks! (2/14); Music
16 TUESDAY Nick Lee is the owner of Studio Signs Co., a Without Borders (2/21)
7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Wed 12am) | company responsible for creating some of
Oregon’s most popular and iconic billboards 2:30 OPB Between the Covers (2/7) |
OPB+ Nature A Squirrel’s Guide to Success
and signs. (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ OPB+ Seat at the Table
(Also Wed 4am)
Impossible Builds Europe in the Desert (Also
8:00 OPB Finding Your Roots Write My Name in 3pm OPB News & Public Affairs (until
Sat 12am)
the Book of Life. Featuring musician Pharrell 6pm) | OPB+ The Great Ride (2/7);
Williams and filmmaker Kasi Lemmons. 8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Mudbone Grown. To the Ends of the Earth The
(Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ To the Ends of Shantae Johnson and Arthur Shavers rewrite Natural World (2/14); Birds of East
the Earth Birds of East Africa. A wildlife what it means to be a Black farmer in Oregon. Africa (2/21)
photographer captures the hidden lives of (Also Sun 6:30pm)
4pm OPB+ Kingdoms of the Sky
East African birds. (Also Thu 12am) Rockies (2/7); Himalaya (2/14);
Andes (2/21)
FEBRUARY
APRIL 2021
2019 5
primetime
9:00 OPB London: 2000 Years of History Ep 3. Dedicated to Chaos (1940–1945). When
London experiences the Industrial Revolution. America enters World War II, jazz is part of
(Also Sun 2am) | OPB+ Ancient Invisible the arsenal. (Also Sun 2am)
Cities Cairo (Also Sat 1am)
9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders Written in the
10:00 OPB Modus Season 2, Ep 4. Ingvar and Stars, Pts 1&2. An amateur astronomer is
Inger’s private lives are put to the test. (Also killed with a meteorite.
Sun 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company
10:00 OPB+ Independent Lens Hale County This
(Also Fri 5am)
Morning, This Evening. An intimate meditation
11:00 OPB Masterpiece The Durrells in Corfu: on life in America’s Black Belt. (Also Sun 12am)
Season 4, Ep 2. Margo moves in with Theo.
10:30 OPB The Forsyte Saga Ep 3. Irene and
(Also Sun 4am) | OPB+ DW Global 3000
Bosinney fall in love.
(Also Sat 2am)
PBS
11:30 OPB Between the Covers Amy Jo Burns
11:30 OPB+ Articulate With Jim Cotter Written
| OPB+ Film-Maker (Also Sun 1:30am)
From Life, Itself (Also Sat 2:30am)
The Black Church:
19 FRIDAY 21 SUNDAY This Is Our Story,
7:00 OPB PBS NewsHour (Also Sat 12am) |
5:00 OPB Firing Line With Margaret Hoover | This Is Our Song
OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions
OPB+ The Legacy List With Matt Paxton Trace the 400-year-old story of the
Cruising the Rhine, Pt 1
(Also Sun 10am) Black church in America. This
5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ moving two-part series from host
8:00 OPB Father Brown The Angel of Mercy.
Rick Steves’ Europe England’s Bath & York
A villager dies in her sleep. (Also Mon 1am) | Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores
OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sat 6am) 6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Sign of the Times (R) how Black people have worshipped
| OPB+ Confucius Was A Foodie Origins of and, through their spiritual
8:30 OPB+ The David Rubenstein Show:
the Beginnings (R)
Peer-to-Peer Conversations Bill Gates (Also journeys, improvised ways to bring
Sun 1pm) 6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Mudbone Grown their faith traditions from Africa to
(R) the New World, translating them
9:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 6, Ep 6.
The Nonnatus family cares for Sister Mary 7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show into a form of Christianity that was
Cynthia. (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+ Finding Cake (Also Sun 2/28 12am) | OPB+ Real Rail not only truly their own, but a
Your Roots Against All Odds (Also Sun 1:30pm) Adventures: Swiss Grand Tour redemptive force for the nation.
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A Summer by the North Sea. This charming Scarlet and the Duke: The Case
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death. (Also Tue 1am) |
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When a family is killed, their son is later found
Goin’ Back to T-Town (R-Also Tue 12am) Tbilisi: The Whole Day Through (Also Tue
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8:00 OPB Finding Your Roots Country Roots. seabirds. (Also Sun 1:30am) Finding Your Roots No Irish Need Apply (R)
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NOVA Forgotten Genius (Also Thu 12am) World wars and the Spanish flu shape London Men’s Visit. The Count of Ditmar arrives at the
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Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am. An artful Around Us. Oregon Field Guide photographers
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career. (Also Fri 12am) never seen it before.
9:00 OPB NOVA Mars 2020. Follow along as 11:00 OPB & OPB+ Survival Guide for Pain-
NASA launches the Mars 2020 Mission, Free Living With Peggy Cappy Learn easy
perhaps the most ambitious hunt ever for stretches and other yoga moves to help
signs of life on Mars. (Also Fri 2am) relieve pain.
10:00 OPB Europe’s New Wild Europe’s
Amazon. The habitats of the Danube Delta 28 SUNDAY
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OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 5am) 5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+
APT Rick Steves’ Europe North Wales: Feisty and
11:00 OPB Himalaya Connection The Poetic
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inspired scientists to better understand Rick Steves 6:00 OPB & OPB+ Ken Burns: Country Music
earthquakes. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ Go behind the scenes on the making of the
Searching for Augusta: The Forgotten
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Angel of Bastogne The remarkable true story Join Rick on a tour of four of 8:00 OPB & OPB+ Ken Burns: Here & There
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surprising islands: Malta, Capri, legendary filmmaker’s life and career. (Also
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8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Willie Little. Portland traditional island living. 11:00 OPB Josh Groban: An Evening of
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Saturday, February 27, 6pm ‘Bring Him Home,’ ‘Over the Rainbow,’ and
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