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January 2021 • wosu.org
QED with Dr. B
NEW SERIES from WOSU and COSI:
Premieres Wednesday, January 27 at 7:30pm details on pages 2 - 3
All programs are subject to change.
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General Manager Tom Rieland
Membership Rob Walker It’s absolutely remarkable that, despite the pandemic, the creative teams at WOSU
Amy Tillinghast, and COSI have come together to produce a brand-new weekly science series on
Senior Director
Marketing & Communications
Victoria Jenkins, WOSU TV! QED with Dr. B – starring COSI CEO Dr. Frederic Bertley (a.k.a. “Dr. B”) –
Coordinator
explores and explains the latest in scientific breakthroughs with stories captured
Friends of WOSU Board right here in Central Ohio.
President Kyle Anderson
The partnership history of these two Columbus nonprofits dates to 2006 when
Vice President Mac Joseph
WOSU opened television studios at COSI and the organizations developed the
Secretary/Treasurer Betsy Pandora
WOSU@COSI kids’ space. The kids’ space on the second floor of COSI is still
Board Members popular with hands-on digital media activities and exhibits.
Kyle Anderson* Trip Lazarus Now, we are thrilled to have built a production partnership with COSI to tap
William Ballenger Kurt Lykins the expertise of Dr. Frederic Bertley, a science educator and immunologist who
Jason Beehler Kathy McGinnis
is brilliant at distilling complex scientific principles into concepts even I can
Courtnee Carrigan Melissa McHenry
Ann DiMarco Christine Mortine understand. Dr. B has a joyful enthusiasm that makes working with him a blast!
Erik Farley Betsy Pandora*
Jeri Grier Stacy Rastauskas
Jon Hsu Tom Rieland*
Watch every Wednesday night at 7:30pm starting January 27
Mac Joseph* Bill Schiffman
Julie Keckstein Erin Davis Shedd to improve your science literacy as Dr. B breaks down advances in
Ray LaVoie medicine, technology, the study of climate change and more.
WOSU Mission: To engage, inform and inspire
our diverse community.
Thank you to COSI and Dr. B for overcoming so much during the past year to work
WOSU Vision: Curiosity ignited. Community
connected. with our talented producers and videographers in creating this television series.
QED with Dr. B joins WOSU’s other weekly series Columbus Neighborhoods,
Questions? Comments? Broad & High, Columbus On The Record and In The Know.
Call 614-292-9678
There is no other time in recent history when it was more important to
understand scientific advances and processes. Tune in to QED with Dr. B
or watch online and let us know what you think!
Tom Rieland
General Manager
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QED with Dr. B | Wednesdays at 7:30pm | Starting January 27
QED with Dr. B is a new weekly half-hour TV series that explores how scientific discoveries impact our daily lives. Hosted by Dr.
Frederic Bertley (“Dr. B”), president and CEO of COSI, QED with Dr. B talks one-on-one with the scientists, engineers and innovators
who are redefining how we interact with our world. Here, it’s Dr. B’s turn to answer some questions and introduce you to this
exciting new series coming to WOSU TV this month.
Q&A with Dr. B Q: What do you hope our viewers will learn about scientists
from QED with Dr. B?
Q: What does QED mean? Why is it the title of the new show?
A: Scientists are just like everyone else. They had the same
A: For centuries since the Renaissance, mathematicians, wonky childhood. They have multiple interests and hobbies.
physicists and philosophers would pen Q.E.D. at the end of They eat and drink the same foods as everyone else. And
their proofs. Q.E.D. is Latin for Quod Erat Demonstrandum, yes, they are very approachable. The only differentiator is
which roughly translates into “Quite Easily Demonstrated.” that scientists have this insatiable passion to peer deep into
QED fits perfectly then as part of our show title because a subject and try to best understand a truth about nature
our primary goal is to have the audience easily and and our elegant universe. And no doubt about it, we all are
effectively understand cutting-edge science. In short, we better off because of it!
want to “quite easily demonstrate” to the viewers that
science is accessible, enlightening and also really cool. Q: Tell us something you’ve learned about making a
brand-new television show?
Q: Why is science literacy so important to you?
A: Three things: One, it’s a lot of hard work coupled with a
A: Science – and its offspring, technology – are all around prescribed and calculated process. Two, it’s a fantastic fusion
us, they impact our lives substantially. The more we know of creative energy and disciplined research. And three, that
about science and technology, the better decisions we can the WOSU team REALLY knows what they are doing!
make. For example, the more scientifically literate we are
about the science of climate change, the better decisions Watch the new series QED with Dr. B Wednesdays
we can make to lessen our impact on the planet. at 7:30pm starting January 27 on WOSU TV.
QED with Dr. B is made possible through the generous support of:
Frederic Bertley, Ph.D.
President and CEO, Center of Science and Industry (COSI)
Dr. Frederic Bertley is a scientist, scholar and evangelist for innovative thinking.
After graduating from McGill University where he studied Physiology, Mathematics,
the History of Science, and earned a Ph.D. in Immunology, Dr. B worked internationally
in preventative medicine and basic vaccines in Haiti, The Sudan and the Canadian Arctic.
He continued this focus by joining a vaccine research group at Harvard Medical School
focusing on the development of DNA vaccines for HIV/AIDS. Dr. B’s background also includes
collaboration on educational and science projects in Egypt, Paraguay, Senegal and the Caribbean.
Prior to COSI, he was the SVP of Science and Education at the Franklin Institute.
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Primetime and Weekend Schedule for WOSU TV
Friday, January 1, 2021 3:00 pm Rick Steves' Europe 3:00 pm Those on the Front Lines of Cancer
7:30 pm GZERO World with Ian Bremmer 3:30 pm Joseph Rosendo's Travelscope 5:30 pm PBS NewsHour Weekend
8:00 pm Washington Week 4:00 pm Samantha Brown's Places to Love 6:00 pm Durrells in Corfu on Masterpiece
8:30 pm Columbus on the Record Season 2 • Vasilia makes the least-romantic proposal
4:30 pm Spy in the Wild, A Nature in history and Spiro and Hugh organize a cricket match.
Miniseries
9:00 pm Great Performances
5:30 pm PBS NewsHour Weekend 7:00 pm Poldark on Masterpiece
Season 2, Episode 6 • A fugitive points the way to
6:00 pm The Great British Baking Show riches. Ross and the free traders sail into a trap.
7:00 pm Antiques Roadshow 8:00 pm Prince Albert: A Victorian
Orlando, Hour Three • A Chinese gold-splashed Hero Revealed
bronze vase and 1946 Einstein-signed photo and Discover the little-known yet profound role Prince
prints are appraised. Albert played in shaping Victorian Britain.
8:00 pm Keeping Up Appearances - 9:00 pm Elizabeth Is Missing
The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket on Masterpiece
Violet's Country Cottage • Hyacinth borrows A woman desperately tries to solve two mysteries
a cottage in the country for the weekend and as she declines ever deeper into dementia.
meticulously plans a barbecue.
From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration
2021 • Riccardo Muti and the Vienna 8:30 pm Hold the Sunset Monday, January 4, 2021
Philharmonic perform a festive selection
of Strauss Family waltzes.
Doing a Bunk • Phil entertains Edith with the 7:00 pm In The Know
arguments Wendy and Sandra are having about Bexley vs. St. Charles
the wedding cake.
10:30 pm Craft in America 7:30 pm Columbus Neighborhoods
9:00 pm Father Brown
Democracy • Explore how craft is intertwined Preserving Family & Community History • Local
The Angel of Mercy • Mrs. McCarthy's friend, historian Doreen Uhas Sauer investigates the "Little
with our nation's defining principles.
Freda, dies in her sleep at a care home. Father Brown Oklahoma" neighborhood to uncover its history. A
suspects foul play when he smells an unusual odor. visit to the Columbus Metropolitan Library to see how
Saturday, January 2, 2021 10:00 pm Shakespeare & Hathaway -
they can help people research genealogy. A look at the
African American Digital Collection at the Columbus
6:00 am Motorweek Private Investigators Metropolitan Library that brings forgotten stories to life.
Beware the Ides of March • When a psychic
6:30 am Best of the Joy of Painting believes someone is trying to kill her, Frank and 8:00 pm Antiques Roadshow
7:00 am Fit 2 Stitch Lu discover a host of suspects. American Stories • Standout treasures such as
a Navajo belt and a World War I peach can label
7:30 am Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting letter are appraised.
Sunday, January 3, 2021
8:00 am Growing A Greener World 9:00 pm Antiques Roadshow
6:00 am Consuelo Mack WealthTrack
8:30 am Family Plot: Gardening in the Harrisburg, Hour 2 • Interesting finds including
Mid-South 6:30 am Firing Line with Margaret Hoover a Charles "Heinie" Wagner Red Sox archive and a
Carl Schweninger oil.
9:00 am Woodsmith Shop 7:00 am Scully The World Show
7:30 am The State of Ohio 10:00 pm Escape to the Chateau
9:30 am American Woodshop
Only 20 Rooms to Go • With 20 rooms at the
10:00 am This Old House 8:00 am Antiques Roadshow chateau still awaiting restoration Dick and Angel
need to get cracking.
10:30 am Ask This Old House 9:00 am In The Know
Bexley vs. St. Charles
11:00 am Kitchen Queens: New Orleans
9:30 am Broad & High Tuesday, January 5, 2021
11:30 am Steven Raichlen's Project Smoke
10:00 am Sara's Weeknight Meals 7:00 pm The Legacy List
12:00 pm Lidia's Kitchen
10:30 am 100 Days, Drinks, Dishes 8:00 pm Finding Your Roots
12:30 pm Ciao Italia and Destinations Breaking the Silences • Family secrets of
1:00 pm America's Test Kitchen journalist Gayle King, director Jordan Peele
11:00 am Moveable Feast with Relish and comedian Issa Rae are explored.
1:30 pm Kevin Belton's New Orleans Kitchen 11:30 am tasteMAKERS
9:00 pm PBS American Portrait
2:00 pm Cook's Country 12:00 pm NOVA I Dream • PBS invites America to participate in a
2:30 pm Christopher Kimball's Milk Street 1:00 pm History Detectives national conversation about what it really means
Television to be an American today.
2:00 pm Celiac Project
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Tuesday, January 5, 2021 (cont.) Friday, January 8, 2021 9:00 pm Father Brown
10:00 pm FRONTLINE 7:30 pm GZERO World with Ian Bremmer The Face of the Enemy • Lady Felicia and Sid
return to visit Kembleford. Felicia finds herself
American Voices: A Nation in Turmoil • The lives,
fears and hopes of Americans from the pandemic
8:00 pm Washington Week blackmailed by a MI5 agent, to exchange a roll of
film of one of her lovers, a known soviet agent.
to the polls. Americans confront the pandemic, racial 8:30 pm Columbus on the Record
tensions, the polarizing election and its aftermath.
10:00 pm Agatha Christie's: Poirot
9:00 pm FRONTLINE
The Adventure of the Clapham Cook • Featuring
A Thousand Cuts • From filmmaker Ramona Diaz,
Wednesday, January 6, 2021 the cautionary tale of Duterte's escalating war
the writer's famous detective Hercule Poirot and
his companion Captain Arthur Hastings.
7:30 pm Cycle Around Japan Highlights on the press, his pursuit of Maria Ressa and her
colleagues, and the threat to democracy.
8:00 pm Nature Sunday, January 10, 2021
A Squirrel's Guide to Success • Join some of the Saturday, January 9, 2021
world's top squirrel scientists who are making 6:00 am Consuelo Mack WealthTrack
groundbreaking discoveries. 6:00 am Motorweek 6:30 am Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
9:00 pm NOVA 6:30 am Best of the Joy of Painting 7:00 am Scully The World Show
Prediction by the Numbers • Discover how 7:00 am Fit 2 Stitch
predictions underpin many aspect of our lives
7:30 am The State of Ohio
and why some succeed while others fail. 7:30 am Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting 8:00 am Antiques Roadshow
10:00 pm When Disaster Strikes 8:00 am Growing A Greener World 9:00 am In The Know
A Perfect Storm: Mozambique • The extraordinary 8:30 am Family Plot: Gardening in the Dublin Scioto vs. Upper Arlington
story of bravery and hope after Cyclone Idai strikes Mid-South 9:30 am Broad & High
Mozambique is chronicled.
9:00 am Woodsmith Shop 10:00 am Sara's Weeknight Meals
Thursday, January 7, 2021 9:30 am American Woodshop 10:30 am 100 Days, Drinks, Dishes and
10:00 am This Old House Destinations
7:30 pm Ask This Old House
10:30 am Ask This Old House 11:00 am Moveable Feast with Relish
8:00 pm Broad & High
Needle Felter and American Signs • We ‘poke’ 11:00 am Kitchen Queens: New Orleans 11:30 am tasteMAKERS
around the studio of Columbus needle felter Holley
11:30 am How to Cook Well with Rory 12:00 pm NOVA
Morris and take a day trip to the American Sign
Museum in Cincinnati. O'Connell
1:00 pm History Detectives
12:00 pm Lidia's Kitchen
8:30 pm Columbus Neighborhoods 2:00 pm How Sherlock Changed the World
Columbus Writ Large • A visit to the Thurber House 12:30 pm Ciao Italia
3:00 pm How Sherlock Changed the World
and remembering the Columbus writer it honors. 1:00 pm America's Test Kitchen
WOSU’s Chris Purdy and book critic Kassie Rose pick 4:00 pm Sherlock Holmes Against
their favorite books. Also, Columbus’ Two Dollar 1:30 pm Kevin Belton's New Orleans Conan Doyle
Radio: a publisher that’s getting a lot of buzz. Kitchen
5:00 pm Columbus on the Record
9:00 pm Foyle's War 2:00 pm Cook's Country
5:30 pm PBS NewsHour Weekend
2:30 pm Christopher Kimball's Milk
Street Television 6:00 pm Durrells in Corfu on Masterpiece
Season 2 • Louisa, Leslie and Spiro rescue
3:00 pm Rick Steves' Europe Dr. Petrides as he deals with women in labor
3:30 pm Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope and a stabbing victim.
4:00 pm Two for the Road 7:00 pm Poldark on Masterpiece
4:30 pm Spy in the Wild, A Nature Season 2, Episode 7 • For once, Ross plays the
Miniseries game he despises. George is on the brink of success.
5:30 pm PBS NewsHour Weekend 8:00 pm Masterpiece: 50 Fabulous Years!
The series that introduced generations of viewers
6:00 pm The Great British Baking Show
to the delights of British drama is celebrated.
7:00 pm Antiques Roadshow
9:00 pm All Creatures Great and Small
The German Woman, Part 1 • Foyle finds a 8:00 pm Keeping Up Appearances - on Masterpiece
Sussex town harbors any number of suspects The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket James Herriot begins a job with a harried Yorkshire
when an Austrian woman is found murdered. How to Go on Holiday Without Really Trying • veterinarian. His first day is full of surprises.
Hyacinth declares that she cannot stand snobbery,
people trying to pretend they are superior. 10:00 pm The Unseen Alistair Cooke
on Masterpiece
10:00 pm Foyle's War 8:30 pm Mum
A revealing portrait of Alistair Cooke, one of the
The German Woman, Part 2 • Foyle finds a Monday • Cathy and her family arrive in most celebrated broadcasters of the 20th century.
Sussex town harbors any number of suspects the countryside to celebrate Derek's birthday.
when an Austrian woman is found murdered. Michael arrives too.
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Monday, January 11, 2021 8:00 pm Broad & High 2:00 pm Cook's Country
7:00 pm In The Know Stories featuring local arts and artists, including 2:30 pm Christopher Kimball's Milk
Dublin Scioto vs. Upper Arlington the Broad & High Presents local music series. Street Television
7:30 pm Columbus Neighborhoods 8:30 pm Columbus Neighborhoods 3:00 pm Rick Steves' Europe
Columbus Writ Large • A visit to the Thurber Linden: Past and Present • WOSU Public Media
producer and former Linden resident George Levert
3:30 pm Joseph Rosendo's Travelscope
House and remembering the Columbus writer it
honors. WOSU’s Chris Purdy and book critic Kassie and current resident and activist DeLena Scales 4:00 pm Two for the Road
Rose pick their favorite books. Also, Columbus’ Two discuss Linden’s history and its potential. Also: the
Dollar Radio: a publisher that’s getting a lot of buzz. history of St. Stephen’s Community House, now 4:30 pm Spy in the Wild, A Nature
entering its second century. Miniseries
8:00 pm Antiques Roadshow
9:00 pm Foyle's War 5:30 pm PBS NewsHour Weekend
Vintage Baltimore 2021, Hour 1 • Plains and
Prairie American Indian art and an 1885 Opening The White Feather, Part 1 • The arrest of a girl 6:00 pm The Great British Baking Show
Day baseball program are appraised. on a sabotage charge brings Foyle into contact
with English Nazi sympathizers. 7:00 pm Antiques Roadshow
9:00 pm American Experience:
The Codebreaker 10:00 pm Foyle's War 8:00 pm Keeping Up Appearances -
The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket
Cryptanalyst Elizebeth Smith Friedman helped The White Feather, Part 2 • The arrest of a girl
Richard's New Hobby • Hyacinth gives Richard a
bring down Al Capone and break up a Nazi spy ring. on a sabotage charge brings Foyle into contact
video camera and tells him to "be artistic," because
with English Nazi sympathizers.
he needs a hobby.
10:00 pm Escape to the Chateau
Spring • Dick plans to tame the walled garden 8:30 pm Mum
by buying a tractor. Friday, January 15, 2021
Tuesday • Cathy has a hangover. She and Michael try
7:30 pm GZERO World with Ian Bremmer to piece together what happened the night before.
Tuesday, January 12, 2021 8:00 pm Washington Week 9:00 pm Father Brown
7:00 pm The Legacy List 8:30 pm Columbus on the Record The Devil You Know • A deputy commander at
Scotland Yard, is garrotted at the Kembleford Bowls
8:00 pm Finding Your Roots 9:00 pm In Concert at the Hollywood Bowl club. Inspector Mallory is taken off the case and
Coming to America • Nancy Pelosi, Norah replaced by Inspector Ironside, who is after his job.
Musicals and the Movies • Listen to Kristin
O'Donnell and Zac Posen learn about the Chenoweth sing Over the Rainbow and Audra
journeys of their ancestors. McDonald perform Moon River.
10:00 pm Agatha Christie's: Poirot
Murder in the Mews • When a woman is found
9:00 pm PBS American Portrait 10:00 pm Great Performances shot in her flat after Bonfire Night, Poirot is
I Work • PBS invites America to participate in a The Magic of Callas • Explore the legacy of enlisted to decipher whether the victim died
national conversation about what it really means superstar Maria Callas in this documentary by her own hand, or by someone else's.
to be an American today. detailing her comeback in 1964.
10:00 pm FRONTLINE Sunday, January 17, 2021
Plastic Wars • Did the plastic industry use recycling Saturday, January 16, 2021 6:00 am Consuelo Mack WealthTrack
to sell more plastic? With the industry expanding
6:00 am Motorweek 6:30 am Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
like never before, FRONTLINE and NPR investigate
the fight over the future of plastics. 6:30 am Best of the Joy of Painting 7:00 am Scully The World Show
7:00 am Fit 2 Stitch 7:30 am The State of Ohio
Wednesday, January 13, 2021
7:30 am Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting 8:00 am Antiques Roadshow
7:30 pm Cycle Around Japan Highlights
8:00 am Growing A Greener World 9:00 am In The Know
8:00 pm Nature 8:30 am Family Plot: Gardening in the Bexley vs. Upper Arlington
The Alps: The High Life • Enjoy the Alps in spring Mid-South
and summertime as newborn animals grow up to
9:30 am Broad & High
face the coming brutal winter. 9:00 am Woodsmith Shop 10:00 am Sara's Weeknight Meals
9:00 pm NOVA 9:30 am American Woodshop 10:30 am 100 Days, Drinks, Dishes and
Secrets in Our DNA • Explore the power of DNA 10:00 am This Old House Destinations
and the consequences that can arise from sharing 11:00 am Moveable Feast with Relish
our data with rapidly growing online databases. 10:30 am Ask This Old House
11:00 am Kitchen Queens: New Orleans 11:30 am tasteMAKERS
10:00 pm When Disaster Strikes
11:30 am How to Cook Well with Rory 12:00 pm NOVA
The Silent Killer: Somalia • Humanitarians race
to meet the basic needs of the most vulnerable O'Connell 1:00 pm History Detectives
as a drought strikes Somalia.
12:00 pm Lidia's Kitchen 2:00 pm Lorraine Hansberry:
12:30 pm Ciao Italia American Masters
Thursday, January 14, 2021
1:00 pm America's Test Kitchen 4:00 pm American Masters: Charley Pride
7:30 pm Ask This Old House
1:30 pm Kevin Belton's New Orleans 5:00 pm Columbus on the Record
Kitchen
5:30 pm PBS NewsHour Weekend
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Sunday, January 17, 2021 (cont.) 8:00 pm Finding Your Roots 9:00 pm In Concert at the Hollywood Bowl
6:00 pm Durrells In Corfu on Masterpiece To the Manor Born • Glenn Close and John Waters Hecho En Mexico (Made in Mexico) • Performances
are introduced to ancestors who are as bold and by Natalia Lafourcade and more Mexican and
Season 3, Episode 1 • Louisa tries to persuade
independent as they are. Mexican American artists are showcased.
Leslie to get rid of two of his three girlfriends and
Margot to find a hobby.
9:00 pm PBS American Portrait 10:00 pm Great Performances
7:00 pm Poldark on Masterpiece I Keep • PBS invites America to participate in a The Magic of Horowitz • Legendary pianist
national conversation about what it really means Vladimir Horowitz performs favorites in a sold-out
Season 3, Episode 8 • George maneuvers Poldark
to be an American today. concert in Russia in 1986.
toward checkmate. The law hunts down free traders.
8:00 pm Miss Scarlet and the Duke 10:00 pm FRONTLINE
Saturday, January 23, 2021
on MASTERPIECE MYSTERY! President Biden • The story of how crisis and tragedy
prepared Joe Biden to become America’s next 6:00 am Motorweek
president. Those who know him best describe the
searing moments that shaped President-Elect Biden 6:30 am Best of the Joy of Painting
and what they reveal about how he will govern. 7:00 am Fit 2 Stitch
7:30 am Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting
Wednesday, January 20, 2021
8:00 am Growing A Greener World
7:30 pm Cycle Around Japan Highlights
8:30 am Family Plot: Gardening in
8:00 pm Nature the Mid-South
The Alps: Winter's Fortress • Experience the 9:00 am Woodsmith Shop
hostile and bitter cold ecosystems of the Alps,
shaped by blizzards and avalanches. 9:30 am American Woodshop
9:00 pm NOVA 10:00 am This Old House
Decoding Da Vinci • The impact of Leonardo da 10:30 am Ask This Old House
Inheritance • Thrown onto her own, Vinci's art on his science, and his science on his
Eliza goes to work as a private detective art are explored. 11:00 am Kitchen Queens: New Orleans
to get out of debt.
10:00 pm When Disaster Strikes 11:30 am How to Cook Well with Rory
O'Connell
Paradise Lost: Bahamas • Hear an epic tale
9:00 pm All Creatures Great and Small of survival as one of the Caribbean's strongest 12:00 pm Lidia's Kitchen
on Masterpiece hurricanes strikes The Bahamas.
12:30 pm Ciao Italia
Fresh from veterinary college, Siegfried's fun-
loving brother, Tristan, arrives to help out. 1:00 pm America's Test Kitchen
Thursday, January 21, 2021
10:00 pm Inside the Mind of Agatha Christie 1:30 pm Kevin Belton's New Orleans
7:30 pm Ask This Old House Kitchen
Interviews and archive material help create an
unprecedented portrait of the "complex" author. 8:00 pm Broad & High 2:00 pm Cook's Country
Stories featuring local arts and artists, including
the Broad & High Presents local music series. 2:30 pm Christopher Kimball's Milk
Monday, January 18, 2021 Street Television
7:00 pm In The Know 8:30 pm Columbus Neighborhoods 3:00 pm Rick Steves' Europe
Bexley vs. Upper Arlington Cemeteries • Archaeologists look for Irish Immigrants
who died of cholera while building the Ohio Canal; 3:30 pm Joseph Rosendo's Travelscope
7:30 pm Columbus Neighborhoods the care and tending of the oldest cemeteries in 4:00 pm Two for the Road
Linden: Past and Present • WOSU Public Media Columbus; Greenlawn Abbey preservation.
producer and former Linden resident George Levert 4:30 pm Nature
and current resident and activist DeLena Scales 9:00 pm Foyle's War
5:30 pm PBS NewsHour Weekend
discuss Linden’s history and its potential. Also: the A Lesson in Murder, Part 1 • A conscientious
history of St. Stephen’s Community House, now objector dies in police custody, setting in motion 6:00 pm The Great British Baking Show
entering its second century. a series of suspicious deaths.
7:00 pm Antiques Roadshow
8:00 pm Antiques Roadshow 10:00 pm Foyle's War
8:00 pm Keeping Up Appearances -
Vintage Baltimore 2021, Hour 2 • A Johnny Unitas A Lesson in Murder, Part 2 • A conscientious The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket
Baltimore Colts championship jacket and a Klondike objector dies in police custody, setting in motion
The Art Exhibition • Hyacinth and Richard attend
Gold Rush archive are revisited. a series of suspicious deaths.
a showing at an art gallery, but her father sneaks
into the exhibit.
9:00 pm American Masters: How It
Feels to Be Free 8:30 pm Mum
Friday, January 22, 2021
The lives and trailblazing careers of iconic Wednesday • Cathy and Michael get ready to go for
African American entertainers are explored. 7:30 pm GZERO World with Ian Bremmer a walk in the countryside, but Jason has concerns.
8:00 pm Washington Week 9:00 pm Father Brown
Tuesday, January 19, 2021 8:30 pm Columbus on the Record The Dance of Death • Father Brown, Mrs. McCarthy
7:00 pm The Legacy List and Bunty attend a ballroom competition and one
of the contestants, Lucy Dawes, is murdered.
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Saturday, January 23, 2021 (cont.) 7:30 pm Columbus Neighborhoods 8:00 pm Wild Shetland: Scotland's
10:00 pm Agatha Christie's: Poirot Cemeteries • Archaeologists look for Irish Immigrants Viking Frontier
The Adventure of Johnnie Waverly • Poirot tries who died of cholera while building the Ohio Canal; Ewan McGregor narrates a memorable wildlife
to prevent the kidnapping of a country squire's the care and tending of the oldest cemeteries in special that features otters, puffins, whales and more.
son. While his plan fails, all is not what it seems. Columbus; Greenlawn Abbey preservation.
9:00 pm NOVA
8:00 pm Antiques Roadshow Forgotten Genius • The vivid saga of Percy
Sunday, January 24, 2021 Vintage Tucson 2021, Hour 1 • Picasso Madoura Julian's dazzling scientific achievements and
pottery, an 1861 Charles Dickens letter and more often stormy personal life.
6:00 am Consuelo Mack WealthTrack great items are revisited.
6:30 am Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
9:00 pm Antiques Roadshow Recut Thursday, January 28, 2021
7:00 am Scully The World Show Newport, Part 5 • An Edward Bannister oil,
1979 Tage Frid stools and more interesting
7:30 pm Ask This Old House
7:30 am The State of Ohio items are appraised. 8:00 pm Broad & High
8:00 am Antiques Roadshow Stories featuring local arts and artists, including
9:30 pm Antiques Roadshow Recut
9:00 am In The Know the Broad & High Presents local music series.
Newport, Part 1 • A 1939 "The Gold Royal"
Bexley vs. St. Charles
typewriter, "New Republic Portfolio" prints and 8:30 pm Columbus Neighborhoods
9:30 am Broad & High more are showcased.
The Military • The Daughters of the American
10:00 am Sara's Weeknight Meals 10:00 pm Escape to the Chateau Revolution talk about preservation and pride. Also,
the Wounded Warrior Dogs project; remembering
10:30 am 100 Days, Drinks, Dishes and The Wedding Season • As the wedding season Eddie Rickenbacker; and the first woman to
Destinations comes to the chateau Dick and Angel's lives are command an Ohio Air National Guard wing.
about to get a whole lot busier.
11:00 am Moveable Feast with Relish
9:00 pm Foyle's War
11:30 am tasteMAKERS
Tuesday, January 26, 2021 Eagle Day, Part 1 • Foyle uncovers a plot to steal
12:00 pm NOVA art being moved from the local museum to Wales
7:00 pm The Legacy List for safekeeping.
1:00 pm History Detectives
8:00 pm Finding Your Roots 10:00 pm Foyle's War
2:00 pm Escape to the Chateau
Finding the Chateau Against All Odds • Media personality Andy Cohen Eagle Day, Part 2 • Foyle uncovers a plot to steal
and radio journalist Nina Totenberg learn about art being moved from the local museum to Wales
3:00 pm Escape to the Chateau interesting ancestors. for safekeeping.
Chickens, Heating and a Blank Canvas
9:00 pm PBS American Portrait
4:00 pm Escape to the Chateau Friday, January 29, 2021
Angel's Palace of Dreams I Rise • PBS invites America to participate in a
national conversation about what it really means
5:00 pm Columbus on the Record 7:30 pm GZERO World with Ian Bremmer
to be an American today.
5:30 pm PBS NewsHour Weekend 8:00 pm Washington Week
10:00 pm FRONTLINE
6:00 pm Durrells in Corfu on Masterpiece China’s COVID Secrets • The untold story of the 8:30 pm Columbus on the Record
Season 3, Episode 2 • When Aunt Hermione beginning of the coronavirus pandemic and how
China responded. Scientists and doctors, international 9:00 pm In Concert at the Hollywood Bowl
dies suddenly, Louisa has to accompany her
body back to England. disease experts and health officials reveal missed Jazz at the Hollywood Bowl • Performances by
opportunities to suppress the outbreak. Dianne Reeves, Ivan Lins, Herbie Hancock, Carlos
7:00 pm Poldark on Masterpiece Santana and more are featured.
Season 2, Episode 9 • An enraged mob threatens
George and Elizabeth. Ross and Demelza confront
Wednesday, January 27, 2021 10:00 pm Lidia Celebrates America
their demons. A Salute to First Responders • Join Chef Lidia
7:30 pm QED with Dr. B Bastianich on a trip across the country to visit
8:00 pm Miss Scarlet and the Duke those serving on the front lines.
on MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!
The Woman in Red • A man is caught with a NEW!
bloodied knife at a murder scene and Eliza is from WOSU Saturday, January 30, 2021
and COSI
hired to prove his innocence. 6:00 am Motorweek
9:00 pm All Creatures Great and Small 6:30 am Best of the Joy of Painting
on Masterpiece
7:00 am Fit 2 Stitch
James is put to the test with an ailing racehorse
and Tristan faces a familiar temptation. 7:30 am Fons & Porter’s Love of Quilting
10:00 pm Agatha Christie's England 8:00 am Growing A Greener World
Retrace the beloved author's footsteps to see the 8:30 am Family Plot: Gardening in
real places that inspired her literary universe. the Mid-South
Episode 1 • Antibiotic-resistant bacteria;
9:00 am Woodsmith Shop
nanotechnology in the treatment of sepsis;
Monday, January 25, 2021 mapping human antibodies to combat disease. 9:30 am American Woodshop
7:00 pm In The Know
Bexley vs. St. Charles
8 For detailed listings, visit wosu.org
Saturday, January 30, 2021 (cont.) 8:30 pm Mum 11:30 am tasteMAKERS
10:00 am This Old House Thursday • After a night out at a restaurant, 12:00 pm NOVA
Pauline has had too much to drink.
10:30 am Ask This Old House 1:00 pm History Detectives
9:00 pm Father Brown
11:00 am Kitchen Queens: New Orleans
The Cat of Mastigatus • When a St. Saviours 2:00 pm Escape to the Chateau
11:30 am How to Cook Well with Rory schoolgirl is found with a serious head injury at the Moat, Pineapple Chandeliers
O'Connell adjoining boys school, Father Brown uncovers and a Wedding
years of bullying at the school.
12:00 pm Lidia's Kitchen 3:00 pm Escape to the Chateau
10:00 pm Agatha Christie's: Poirot Pig Roaster and Versailles Loo
12:30 pm Ciao Italia
Four and Twenty Blackbirds • When a reclusive 4:00 pm Escape to the Chateau
1:00 pm America's Test Kitchen painter is found dead, Poirot finds the vital clue Fishing, Foraging and An Elevator
in the dead man's last meal.
1:30 pm Kevin Belton's New Orleans
Kitchen 5:00 pm Columbus on the Record
2:00 pm Cook's Country Sunday, January 31, 2021 5:30 pm PBS NewsHour Weekend
2:30 pm Christopher Kimball's Milk 6:00 am Consuelo Mack WealthTrack 6:00 pm Poldark on Masterpiece
Street Television Season 3, Episode 1 • Demelza's brothers, Sam
6:30 am Firing Line with Margaret Hoover and Drake, begin preaching. After Caroline and
3:00 pm Rick Steves' Europe Dwight elope, Dwight vanishes.
7:00 am Scully The World Show
3:30 pm Joseph Rosendo's Travelscope 8:00 pm Miss Scarlet and the Duke
7:30 am The State of Ohio on MASTERPIECE MYSTERY!
4:00 pm Two for the Road
8:00 am Antiques Roadshow Recut Deeds Not Words • The Duke hires Eliza to spy
4:30 pm Nature on suffragettes. Going beyond instructions, she
8:30 am Antiques Roadshow Recut gets involved in a plot.
5:30 pm PBS NewsHour Weekend
6:00 pm The Great British Baking Show 9:00 am In The Know 9:00 pm All Creatures Great and Small
Dublin Scioto vs. Upper Arlington on Masterpiece
7:00 pm Antiques Roadshow While Tristan gives Tricki-Woo the spa treatment,
9:30 am Broad & High
8:00 pm Keeping Up Appearances - James deals with Helen's champion bull.
The Memoirs of Hyacinth Bucket 10:00 am Sara's Weeknight Meals
10:00 pm Long Song on Masterpiece
What to Wear When Yachting • Hyacinth 10:30 am 100 Days, Drinks, Dishes and
purchases yachting gear and prepares a "nautical Episode 1 • A slave reflects on her life during the
Destinations final days of slavery in 19th century Jamaica.
light buffet" for her weekend cruise.
11:00 am Moveable Feast with Relish
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Primetime Schedule, 8pm - 11pm on WOSU TV
8:00 pm 8:30 pm 9:00 pm 9:30 pm 10:00 pm 10:30 pm
Great Performances
1 Friday Washington Week
From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2021
Craft in America
(1hr)
Shakespeare & Hathaway -
Keeping Up Hold the Sunset Father Brown
2 Saturday Appearances Doing a Bunk The Angel of Mercy
Private Investigators
Beware the Ides of March
Prince Albert: A Victorian
3 Sunday Hero Revealed
Elizabeth is Missing on Masterpiece
Antiques Roadshow Antiques Roadshow Escape to the Chateau
4 Monday American Stories Harrisburg, Hour 2 Only 20 Rooms to Go
Finding Your Roots PBS American Portrait FRONTLINE
5 Tuesday Breaking the Silences I Dream American Voices: A Nation in Turmoil
Nature NOVA When Disaster Strikes
6 Wednesday A Squirrel's Guide to Success Prediction by the Numbers A Perfect Storm: Mozambique
Elizabeth is Missing on Masterpiece Columbus Foyle's War Foyle's War
7 Thursday Broad & High
Neighborhoods The German Woman - Part 1 German Woman - Part 2
9pm • Sunday, January 3
Washington Columbus on FRONTLINE
A woman desperately tries to solve 8 Friday Week the Record A Thousand Cuts
two mysteries as she declines ever Keeping Up Mum Father Brown Agatha Christie's: Poirot
9 Saturday
deeper into dementia. Appearances Monday The Face of the Enemy The Adventure of the Clapham Cook
All Creatures Great and Small The Unseen Alistair Cooke
10 Sunday Masterpiece: 50 Fabulous Years!
on Masterpiece on Masterpiece
Antiques Roadshow American Experience Escape to the Chateau
11 Monday Vintage Baltimore 2021, Hour 1 The Codebreaker Spring
Finding Your Roots PBS American Portrait FRONTLINE
12 Tuesday Coming to America I Work Plastic Wars
13 Wednesday Nature
The Alps: The High Life
NOVA
Secrets in Our DNA
When Disaster Strikes
The Silent Killer: Somalia
Columbus Foyle's War Foyle's War
14 Thursday Broad & High
Neighborhoods The White Feather - Part 1 The White Feather - Part 2
Washington Columbus on In Concert at the Hollywood Bowl Great Performances
15 Friday Week the Record Musicals and the Movies The Magic of Callas
Keeping Up Mum Father Brown Agatha Christie's: Poirot
16 Saturday Appearances Tuesday The Devil You Know Murder in the Mews
Miss Scarlet and the Duke All Creatures Great and Small
17 Sunday on MASTERPIECE MYSTERY! on Masterpiece
Inside the Mind of Agatha Christie
Agatha Christie’s Poirot Antiques Roadshow American Masters
18 Monday Vintage Baltimore 2021, Hour 2 How It Feels to Be Free
Saturdays at 10pm beginning January 9
Finding Your Roots PBS American Portrait FRONTLINE
Featuring the writer's famous detective 19 Tuesday To the Manor Born I Keep President Biden
Hercule Poirot and his companion
Captain Arthur Hastings. 20 Wednesday Nature
The Alps: Winter's Fortress
NOVA
Decoding Da Vinci
When Disaster Strikes
Paradise Lost: Bahamas
Columbus Foyle's War Foyle's War
21 Thursday Broad & High
Neighborhoods A Lesson in Murder - Part 1 A Lesson in Murder - Part 2
Washington Columbus on In Concert at the Hollywood Bowl Great Performances
22 Friday Week the Record Hecho En Mexico (Made in Mexico) The Magic of Horowitz
Keeping Up Mum Father Brown Agatha Christie's: Poirot
23 Saturday Appearances Wednesday The Dance of Death The Adventure of Johnny Waverly
Miss Scarlet and the Duke All Creatures Great and Small
24 Sunday on MASTERPIECE MYSTERY! on Masterpiece
Agatha Christie's England
Antiques Antiques
Antiques Roadshow Escape to the Chateau
25 Monday Vintage Tucson 2021, Hour 1
Roadshow Recut Roadshow Recut
The Wedding Season
Newport, Part 5 Newport, Part 1
Finding Your Roots PBS American Portrait FRONTLINE
26 Tuesday Against All Odds I Rise China’s COVID Secrets (1.5 hrs)
27 Wednesday Wild Shetland: Scotland's
Viking Frontier
NOVA
Forgotten Genius
Columbus Foyle's War Foyle's War
28 Thursday Broad & High
Neighborhoods Eagle Day - Part 1 Eagle Day - Part 2
American Masters: How it
Washington Columbus on In Concert at the Hollywood Bowl Lidia Celebrates America
Feels to Be Free 29 Friday Week the Record Jazz at the Hollywood Bowl A Salute to First Responders
9pm • Monday, January 18 Keeping Up Mum Father Brown Agatha Christie's: Poirot
30 Saturday Appearances Thursday The Cat of Mastigatus Four and Twenty Blackbirds
The lives and trailblazing careers of
Miss Scarlet and the Duke All Creatures Great and Small Long Song on Masterpiece
iconic African American entertainers 31 Sunday on MASTERPIECE MYSTERY! on Masterpiece Episode 1
are explored.
10 For detailed listings, visit wosu.orgPrimetime Schedule, 8pm - 11pm on WOSU Plus
8:00 pm 8:30 pm 9:00 pm 9:30 pm 10:00 pm 10:30 pm
Thou Shalt Not Kill America's Test Ellie's Real Good
1 Friday Line of Separation
Episode 5 Kitchen Food
The Kate Austin City Limits
2 Saturday Desmond Child Sharon Van Etten/Lucy Dacus
Richard Bangs' Adventures
Great Performances Craft in America Journeys
3 Sunday From Vienna: The New Year's Celebration 2021 Democracy in Japan
Prince Albert: A Victorian
4 Monday Hero Revealed
Elizabeth is Missing on Masterpiece
Antiques Roadshow Antiques Roadshow Escape to the Chateau
5 Tuesday American Stories Harrisburg, Hour 2 Only 20 Rooms to Go
Finding Your Roots PBS American Portrait FRONTLINE
6 Wednesday Breaking the Silences I Dream American Voices: A Nation in Turmoil
Great Performances: Rodgers &
Nature NOVA When Disaster Strikes Hammerstein’s The King & I
7 Thursday A Squirrel's Guide to Success Prediction by the Numbers A Perfect Storm: Mozambique
Thou Shalt Not Kill Pati's Mexican Pati's Mexican
8pm • Sunday, January 10
8 Friday Line of Separation
Episode 6 Table Table
Kelli O’Hara and Ken Watanabe star
The Kate Austin City Limits Hall of Fame: in a Tony Award-winning revival of
9 Saturday Gina Chavez The First Six Years
Richard Bangs' Adventures
the beloved musical.
10 Sunday Great Performances: Rodgers & Hammerstein's The King and I
All Creatures Great and Small The Unseen Alistair Cooke
11 Monday Masterpiece: 50 Fabulous Years!
on Masterpiece on Masterpiece
Antiques Roadshow American Experience Escape to the Chateau
12 Tuesday Vintage Baltimore 2021, Hour 1 The Codebreaker Spring
13 Wednesday Finding Your Roots
Coming to America
PBS American Portrait
I Work
FRONTLINE
Plastic Wars
Nature NOVA When Disaster Strikes
14 Thursday The Alps: The High Life Secrets in Our DNA The Silent Killer: Somalia
Thou Shalt Not Kill
15 Friday Line of Separation
Episode 7
Cook's Country Cook's Country
The Kate Austin City Limits
16 Saturday JJ Grey & Mofro Foo Fighters Rock Austin City Limits
Richard Bangs' Adventures
In Concert at the Hollywood Bowl Great Performances
17 Sunday Musicals and the Movies The Magic of Callas
Richard Bangs' Adventures
Finding Your Roots - New Season
Miss Scarlet and the Duke All Creatures Great and Small
18 Monday on MASTERPIECE MYSTERY! on Masterpiece
Inside the Mind of Agatha Christie 8pm • Wednesday, January 20
19 Tuesday Antiques Roadshow American Masters Glenn Close and John Waters are
Vintage Baltimore 2021, Hour 2 How it Feels to Be Free
introduced to ancestors who are as
20 Wednesday Finding Your Roots
To the Manor Born
PBS American Portrait
I Keep
FRONTLINE
President Biden
bold and independent as they are.
Nature NOVA When Disaster Strikes
21 Thursday The Alps: Winter's Fortress Decoding Da Vinci Paradise Lost: Bahamas
Thou Shalt Not Kill My Greek Table My Greek Table
22 Friday Before We Die
Episode 8 with Diane Kochilas with Diane Kochilas
The Kate
Austin City Limits
23 Saturday Marty Stuart & His Fabulous
The War and Treaty/Ruthie Foster
Richard Bangs' Adventures
Superlatives
In Concert at the Hollywood Bowl Great Performances
24 Sunday Hecho En Mexico (Made in Mexico) The Magic of Horowitz
Richard Bangs' Adventures
Miss Scarlet and the Duke All Creatures Great and Small
25 Monday on MASTERPIECE MYSTERY! on Masterpiece
Agatha Christie's England
Antiques Antiques
Antiques Roadshow Escape to the Chateau
26 Tuesday Vintage Tucson 2021, Hour 1
Roadshow Recut Roadshow Recut
The Wedding Season
Newport, Part 5 Newport, Part 1
27 Wednesday Finding Your Roots
Against All Odds
PBS American Portrait
I Rise
FRONTLINE
China’s COVID Secrets (1.5 hrs)
Wild Shetland: NOVA
28 Thursday Scotland's Viking Frontier Forgotten Genius Before We Die
29 Friday Before We Die
Thou Shalt Not Kill
Rick Steves' Rome Fridays at 8pm beginning January 22
Episode 9
The Kate In this thriller, police detective
Austin City Limits
30 Saturday Delbert McClinton and the
Sarah Jarosz/Ray Wylie Hubbard
Richard Bangs' Adventures Hanna Svensson steps in to handle
Self-Made Men + Dana
a mysterious informant when her
In Concert at the Hollywood Bowl Lidia Celebrates America
31 Sunday Jazz at the Hollywood Bowl A Salute to First Responders
Richard Bangs' Adventures colleague goes missing.
All programs are subject to change. 11Daytime and Early Evening on WOSU TV
5:00 am BBC World News
a
WOSU Kids and WOSU TV Mon.: Sit and Be Fit
Tues: Allaire Back Fitness
5:30 am Wed: Classical Stretch
Thurs: Happy Yoga with Sarah Star
Fri: Sit and Be Fit
6:00 am Ready, Jet Go!
6:30 am Peg + Cat
7:00 am Molly of Denali
7:30 am Wild Kratts
8:00 am Hero Elementary
8:30 am Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum
9:00 am Curious George
9:30 am Sesame Street
A week of all new ODD SQUAD episodes! 10:00 am Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood
Five new episodes premiere beginning Tuesday, January 19
10:30 am Elinor Wonders Why
on WOSU TV (34.1) and Monday, January 18 on WOSU Kids (34.4)
Head “Down Under” with The Big O and the Mobile Unit as they join forces 11:00 am Dinosaur Train
with two Australian agents to stop “The Shadow” from causing worldwide 11:30 am Pinkalicious & Peterrific
oddness. In addition to the agents that viewers know and love, an all-new
character will make an exciting debut. 12:00 pm Let's Go Luna!
12:30 pm Arthur
1:00 pm Cat In The Hat
All New Episodes! 1:30 pm Elinor Wonders Why
2:00 pm Clifford the Big Red Dog
2:30 pm Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum
3:00 pm Molly of Denali
3:30 pm Wild Kratts
4:00 pm Odd Squad
4:30 pm Cyberchase
5:00 pm Wordgirl
BBC World News America
5:30 pm
Fri: In Good Shape - The Health Show
Clifford the Big Red Dog Hero Elementary
6:00 pm PBS NewsHour
January 4-8 January 4-7
The stories in Hero Elementary Mon: In The Know
This reimagined animated series offers
fresh and colorful new locations, along center around a diverse group of Tues: Great British Baking Show
super students, led by their quirky Masterclass
with a solid curriculum designed to
encourage imaginative play - teaching as and enthusiastic teacher, Mr. Sparks. 7:00 pm Wed: Born to Explore with Richard Wiese
it entertains with Clifford-sized humor.
Thurs: This Old House
Fri: The Chavis Chronicles
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is a seven-part series that explores Herriot’s humorous, yet compassionate,
adventures as a 1930’s Yorkshire veterinarian. This new series premieres
Sunday, January 10 on Passport.
Miss Scarlet and the Duke on MASTERPIECE MYSTERY! – January 17
After her father’s death, Eliza Scarlet has two choices for financial security:
marriage or her father’s private detective agency. But will she ever be taken
seriously in a trade deemed entirely inappropriate for a lady? Miss Scarlet
& The Duke premieres Sunday, January 17 on Passport.
Catch It Before It’s Gone
Sherlock from Masterpiece, Season 4
In this crime-solving mystery, consulting detective Sherlock Homes teams
up with his long-suffering, faithful friend, Dr. Watson to solve a dizzying array
of crimes and battle diabolical villains with his signature deductive reasoning
and his stunning lack of social grace. Don’t wait to watch, Season 4 of Sherlock
leaves Passport Thursday, January 14!
Only on Passport: Musical Superstars
Josh Groban: An Evening of Harmony
One of the most outstanding and instantly recognizable voices in music
returns to PBS with a new concert special that showcases timeless songs
and new music from his just-released album, Harmony.
Dolly Parton: I Will Always Love You
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All programs are subject to change. 13Things We’re Watching in 2021
Last January this column previewed 2020 by predicting, “The
new year promises to be an extraordinary one.” We promised
balanced coverage of the impeachment and campaign. Little did
we know those stories would become subplots to the COVID-19
pandemic, racial justice protests and incredible election drama.
Let’s hope 2021 is as extraordinary for progress we make in
overcoming COVID-19 and achieving racial justice. Here are
some of the big stories we’re watching:
COVID-19. With coronavirus cases and hospitalizations surging at
the end of 2020, health care professionals began administering
vaccines aimed at ending the pandemic. 89.7 will continue to
provide the latest news on COVID-19’s spread and the vaccine’s Legislative Redistricting. Following the 2020 census, Ohio
effectiveness. We’ll report on the impact the pandemic is having lawmakers will re-draw Ohio’s congressional and state legislative
on schools, businesses and life in general. You can count on districts. Ten years ago, Republicans drew some of the most
WOSU to put science and facts first. gerrymandered districts in the country which greatly helped GOP
The Biden Administration. America swears in a new president on candidates win and hold a super majority of seats. A new process
Wednesday, January 20. 89.7 and NPR will provide live coverage of is in place to encourage lawmakers to draw fairer districts. 89.7
the historic transition of power which promises to be outside the will report on just how fair the map-making is.
norm. In the weeks and months following the oath, 89.7 will deliver The Unexpected. No doubt, something else will happen in 2021
thoughtful coverage of how President Biden takes on the pandemic, that we cannot predict. When it does, you can count on 89.7 to
a struggling economy, and the many issues our nation faces. be your source for factual, balanced reporting.
89.7 NPR News Schedule
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
5am
BBC World Service
BBC World Service
6am
Columbus on the Record
7am
Morning Edition
The Arts Hour On Being
8am
9am
BBC Newshour Weekend Edition Weekend Edition
10am
All Sides with Ann Fisher
11am Wait Wait…Don’t Tell
Me! New Yorker Radio Hour
12pm Wait Wait…Don’t Tell
Ask Me Another Me!
On Point
1pm
This American Life It's Been a Minute
2pm Planet Money/How I
The Moth Radio Hour Built This
Here & Now
3pm
Snap Judgment Freakonomics Radio
4pm
Milk Street Radio Reveal
All Things Considered
5pm
All Things Considered All Things Considered
6pm Marketplace It's Been A Minute with
Sam Sanders Travel with Rick Steves
The Daily
7pm
Fresh Air The Moth Radio Hour
8pm Travel w/ Rick
Steves Bluegrass Ramble Snap Judgment
All Sides with Ann Fisher
9pm All Sides
Weekend This American Life
10pm + BBC World Service BBC World Service
89.7 FM NPR News can also be heard on our regional network stations on HD Radio as well as streaming online at wosu.org and on WOSU’s mobile App.
14 For detailed listings, visit wosu.orgJanuary Programming The Columbus Symphony broadcast season
with host Christopher Purdy also kicks
Highlights
off in January, with nine performances
slated for Sundays at 1pm. The series
As 2021 gets underway, live performances launches on January 3 with an irresistible
are still problematic. However, Classical 101 program of music by Mozart, Beethoven
and the Metropolitan Opera are taking that and the Chevalier de St. Georges, including
as an opportunity to revisit outstanding Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7. Rossen
performances we think you’ll enjoy. Milanov conducts.
The Metropolitan Opera has an amazing Milanov returns on January 10 with more
archive of historic performances by some Beethoven, and the Symphony No. 4 joins
of the world’s greatest artists. This month, Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture and
we’ll reach all the way back to 1961 for a Lena Frank’s Elegia Andin. On January 17,
performance of Verdi’s Il Trovatore with Leontyne Price as Leonora in Il Trovatore, 1961
Milanov is on the podium for Beethoven’s
Fausta Cleva conducting. The stellar cast Symphony No. 6 “Pastoral,” along with
airing January 16. And the Met month
includes a young Leontyne Price in her Met a Mozart wind serenade and George
wraps up on January 30 with a 2011
debut role as Leonora, with Franco Corelli as Walker’s elegant Lyric for Strings.
performance of Gounod’s Faust, led by
Manrico. That airs Saturday, January 23 at
Yannick Nézet-Séguin. American music is front and center on
1pm. It’s a must hear!
There are plans for a February “Listeners’ January 24 with selections from Gershwin’s
Met performances kick off with Satyagraha Porgy and Bess and a performance of Paul
by Philip Glass on January 2. January 9, Choice” broadcast, so tune in on February 6
Moravec’s celebrated Sanctuary Road.
it’s The Barber of Seville featuring Joyce to see what listeners chose. You can see the
DiDonato, Lawrence Brownlee and Samuel entire Toll Brothers—Metropolitan Opera It’s The Romantic Cello on January 30.
Ramey. From earlier this year, not long Saturday Matinee Broadcast Season at Pablo Fernandez joins Milanov and the
before the shutdown, there’s Verdi’s La metopera.org. All broadcasts this season CSO for Elgar’s Cello Concerto. Music by
Traviata with Aleksandra Kurzak as Violetta, on Classical 101 begin at 1pm. Torres and Brahms is also on the program.
Classical 101 schedule
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday
5am
Classical Music
6am
7am
Classical Music Sunday Baroque with
8am Suzanne Bona
9am
10am
11am Classical Music Saturday Cinema with
Lynne Warfel Classical Music
12pm
Classical Music
1pm
Columbus Symphony
2pm
Metropolitan Opera
3pm Matinee
4pm
Classical Music
5pm
Essential Classics
6pm
Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin The American Sound Symphony Showcase
7pm Essential The American Classical Guitar Symphony
Classics Sound Alive! Showcase Classical Guitar Alive! Classical Music
Front Row
8pm Center
Musica Sacra with
ClassicalWorks Concierto
9pm Kylie Harwell
ClassicalWorks
10pm + Classical Music
Classical 101 can also be heard in Columbus on HD Radio 89.7-2 and 101.1-2, as well as streaming at wosu.org and on WOSU’s mobile App.
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