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American Masters

Amy Tan: Unintended MemoirMay 3, 10pm

Pictured: ‘The Joy Luck Club’ author Amy Tan and her mother. Photo courtesy of Jim McHugh.

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Extra Life: A Short History of Living LongerDiscover the innovations in science and medicine that doubled the human lifespan in less than a century, and celebrate the unsung heroes of public health who believed change was possible and acted on it.

Wednesdays at 8pm starting May 11OPB

1 SATURDAY5:00 OPB This Old House A Project for Every

Floor (Also Mon 6pm) | OPB+ Marathon Civilizations, continued (until 7pm)

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend

6:00 OPB The Legacy List With Matt PaxtonTurn the Page/Washington, D.C.

7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Granada, Cordoba, and Spain’s Costa del Sol/Andalucia, Gibraltar and Tangier (Also Sun 9am) | OPB+ American Masters Ted Williams. Discover the baseball legend’s many sides.

8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries Ward of the Roses. Trudy helps an old friend. (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ Baseball A National Heirloom(Also Sun 2am)

9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders The Killings of Copenhagen, Pts 1&2. Barnaby and Nelson join forces with Danish detectives.

10:00 OPB+ Independent Lens Wrestle. High school wrestlers face challenges on and off the mat. (Also Sun 12am)

10:30 OPB The Forsyte Saga Ep 10. Fleur visits a farm where Jon is working.

11:30 OPB On Story On Writing Chernobyl |OPB+ Unadopted What happens when you’re ‘too old’ to get adopted?

2 SUNDAY5:00 OPB Firing Line With Margaret Hoover |

OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & TraditionsVolunteer Tourism, Pt 1

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Rick Steves’ Europe The Making Of

6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Then and Now (R) |OPB+ Confucius Was a Foodie

6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Coronavirus and Wildfi re (R)

7:00 OPB The Great British Baking ShowDesserts (Also Sun 5/09 12am) | OPB+ Coastal Railways With Julie Walters Wales to Liverpool

8:00 OPB Secrets of the Royal Jewels See the jewels of the royal collection. (Also Tue 1am) | OPB+ American Masters Oliver Sacks. Sacks helped redefi ne our understanding of the brain. (Also Tue 12am)

9:00 OPB Masterpiece Atlantic Crossing: Empty Promises. The president gets on dangerous ground. (Also Tue 2am)

10:00 OPB Masterpiece World on Fire, Ep 5. Harry’s unit reaches Dunkirk. (Also Tue 3am)| OPB+ Into the Night: Portraits of Life and Death To be human is to wrestle with the concept of death. (Also Tue 2am)

American Masters Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir (R-Also Fri 12am)

9:00 OPB NOVA Hindenburg: The New Evidence. Examine new fi lm footage of the Hindenburg disaster. (Also Fri 2am)

10:00 OPB Human: The World Within Pulse. Explore the human circulatory system. (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company(Also Thu 5am)

11:00 OPB Life From Above Moving Planet. Cameras in space reveal our planet’s incredible movements. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ Finding the Virgo Vietnamese refugees search for the ship crew that rescued them. (Also Fri 2am)

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

| OPB+ 10 Monuments That Changed America (Also Fri 4am)

8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Artists in Extraordinary Times. Artists responded in real time to the events of

2020, including lockdowns, protests and wildfi res (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ Sinking Cities London/Miami (Also Sat 12am)

8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Fish Trap. See how banned fi shed traps could help save endangered salmon. (Also Sun 6:30pm)

9:00 OPB Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators The Fairest Show Means the

11:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 4, Ep 7.Morwenna takes fate into her own hands. (Also Tue 4am)

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

OPB+ A Wider World (Also Tue 4am)

7:30 OPB+ Museum Access Federal Reserve of Chicago Money Museum: Chicago, IL (Also Tue 4:30am)

8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Great Yellowstone Thaw Ep 1.Witness one of the greatest seasonal changes on Earth. (Also Sun 6pm)

9:00 OPB Oregon Experience The Suffragists.Learn how Oregon women won the vote. (Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ Rick Steves Andalucia: Southern Spain (Also Sun 7pm)

9:30 OPB Oregon Experience Lola Baldwin. Baldwin was the country’s fi rst sworn policewoman. (Also Wed 2:30am)

10:00 OPB American Masters Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir. Explore the life of the groundbreaking author of ‘The Joy Luck Club.’

(Also Wed 8pm OPB+) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Tue 5am)

11:00 OPB+ AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange Mama Gloria (Also Wed 2am)

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

OPB+ Nature Equus: Story of the Horse: Origins (Also Wed 4am)

8:00 OPB Finding Your Roots Laughing on the Inside. Featuring comedians Lewis Black and Roy Wood, Jr. (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ Secret Life of Farm Animals (Also Thu 12am)

9:00 OPB Philly D.A. Ep 4. The team pursues probation reform. (Also Thu 2am) | OPB+ Supernature: Wild Flyers Defying Gravity(Also Thu 1am)

10:00 OPB Frontline Escaping Eritrea. An unprecedented undercover investigation into one of the world’s most repressive regimes.

(Also Thu 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Wed 5am)

11:00 OPB Pacifi c Heartbeat The Australian Dream. Follow the inspirational story of Indigenous AFL legend Adam Goodes. (Also Thu 4am)| OPB+ The Art Detectives (Also Thu 2am)

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

OPB+ Kitchenistas (Also Thu 4am)

8:00 OPB Greta Thunberg: A Year to Change the World Ep 2. Thunberg visits the World Economic Forum. (R-Also Fri 1am) | OPB+

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); The Great American Read (W); American Experience (Th); Oregon Experience (F)

12pm OPB Painting | OPB+ Portrayal and Perception (M); Between the Covers (Tu); Reconnecting Roots (W); In the Americas (Th); My World Too (F)

OPB Food & Cooking | OPB+ Growing Bolder (M); GZero World (Tu); David Rubenstein: Peer-to-Peer (W); Chavis Chronicles (Th); Asian American Life (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

Most Deceit. Frank’s long-lost relative tracks him down. (Also Sun 2am)

10:00 OPB Vera The Escape Turn. A tycoon is murdered during a home invasion. (Also Sun 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Fri 5am)

11:00 OPB+ DW Global 3000 (Also Sat 2am)

11:30 OPB On Story A Conversation With Kevin Willmott (Also Sun 4:30am) | OPB+ Beyond the Canvas World of Writers (Also Sat 2:30am)

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

OPB+ Greatest Bond Inmates, veterans and service dogs unite in a story of hope. (Also Sun 10am)

8:00 OPB Father Brown The Curse of the Aesthetic. Father Brown tracks an artist’s killer. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sat 6am)

8:30 OPB+ Beyond the Canvas Women of Wonder (Also Sun 1pm)

9:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 7, Ep 7. Barbara remains kept in isolation. (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+ Finding Your Roots Grandparents and Other Strangers (Also Sun 1:30pm)

10:00 OPB No Second Chance Ep 4. Alice escapes the police. (Also Mon 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Mon 5am)

11:00 OPB A Place To Call Home Fallout. Sarah tries to persuade Leah to return home. (Also Mon 4am) | OPB+ Frontline Escaping Eritrea (R-Also Mon 2am)

8 SATURDAY5:00 OPB This Old House Three of Everything

(Also Mon 6pm) | OPB+ Marathon Between the Covers, continued (until 7pm)


6:00 OPB The Legacy List With Matt Paxton Haul in the Family/Manheim, PA

7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Oslo/Norway’s West: Fjords, Mountains and Bergen (Also Sun 9am) | OPB+ Black in Blue The story of four African Americans who broke the color line in football.

8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries A History of Violins. A priceless violin is stolen. (Also Mon12am) | OPB+ Baseball Shadow Ball (Also Sun 2am)

9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders The Dagger Club, Pts 1&2. A festival is upended after a manuscript disappears.

10:05 OPB+ Independent Lens Women in Blue. Female officers try to redefine what it means to protect and serve.

10:30 OPB The Forsyte Saga Ep 11. Jon and Fleur meet at Robin Hill.

11:30 OPB On Story A Conversation With Lulu Wang | OPB+ Why This Moment Explore the emotions and events surrounding Black Lives Matter protests. (Also Sun 1:30am)


OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions Volunteer Tourism, Pt 2

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Rick Steves’ Europe Burgundy: Profound France

6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Artists in Extraordinary Times (R) | OPB+ Confucius Was a Foodie (R)

6:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Fish Trap (R)

7:00 OPB The Great British Baking Show Tudor Week (Also Sun 5/16 12am) | OPB+ Rick Steves Andalucia: Southern Spain (R)

8:00 OPB Secrets of the Royal Kitchens Tour the kitchens of the British royal family. (Also Tue 1am) | OPB+ Independent Lens 9 to 5: The Story of a Movement. Go inside the fight that changed the American workplace. (Also Tue 12am)

9:00 OPB Masterpiece Atlantic Crossing: The Giant Awakes. Missy grows suspicious. (Also Tue 2am)

9:30 OPB+ Independent Lens A Woman’s Work: The NFL’s Cheerleader Problem. Cheerleaders take a stand for better pay. (Also Tue 1:30am)

10:00 OPB Masterpiece World on Fire, Ep 6. Paris falls to the Nazis. (Also Tue 3am)

10:30 OPB+ Letters From Baghdad

11:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 4, Ep 8. Ross must reconcile with Demelza. (Also Tue 4am)

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

World (Also Tue 4am)

7:30 OPB+ Museum Access The Museum of International Folk Art: Santa Fe, NM (Also Tue 4:30am)

8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Great Yellowstone Thaw Ep 2. Bear cubs come out of hibernation. (Also Sun 6pm)

9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Art Makers. Discover the artists who paved the way for Oregon’s flourishing arts scene. (Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ Rick Steves Iran (Also Sun 7pm)

9:30 OPB Oregon Experience Capturing Oregon’s Frontier. Photographs illuminate Oregon frontier life. (Also Wed 2:30am)

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10:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Celebrating Asian-Pacifi c Heritage (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Tue 5am)

11:00 OPB POV Through the Night. The lives of working mothers and a childcare provider intersect. (Also Wed 4am) | OPB+ AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange Finding Sally (Also Wed 2am)


OPB+ Nature Equus: Story of the Horse: Chasing the Wind (Also Wed 4am)

8:00 OPB Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer Vaccines. See callout on page 2. (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ Secret Life of Farm Animals (Also Thu 12am)

9:00 OPB Philly D.A. Ep 5. A murder spike has fi ngers pointing at Krasner. (Also Thu 2am)| OPB+ Supernature: Wild Flyers Masters of the Sky (Also Thu 1am)

10:00 OPB Frontline Plastic Wars. Did the plastic industry use recycling to sell more plastic? (Also Thu 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Wed 5am)

11:00 OPB Pacifi c Heartbeat For My Father’s Kingdom. See how contemporary secular families deal with devout Christian tithing. (Also Thu 4am) | OPB+ The Art Detectives(Also Thu 2am)


OPB+ Independent Lens Out of State. Native Hawaiians discover indigenous traditions in prison. (Also Thu 4am)

8:00 OPB Greta Thunberg: A Year To Change the World Ep 3. Thunberg investigates potential solutions to limit climate change. (R-Also Fri 1am) | OPB+ American ExperienceMr. Tornado. Ted Fujita transformed our understanding of tornadoes. (Also Fri 12am)

9:00 OPB NOVA Great Electric Airplane Race. See an array of promising new electric planes on the horizon. (Also Fri 2am) | OPB+ The Registry See the hidden history of the U.S. Army’s Military Intelligence Service. (Also Fri 1am)

10:00 OPB Human: The World Within Fuel. Go deep inside the human gut. (Also Fri 3am) |OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 5am)

11:00 OPB Life From Above Colorful Planet. View Earth’s kaleidoscope of colors from space. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ Nothing Left

To Lose The story of Vietnamese refugees who lived in hiding for 25 years. (Also Fri 2am)

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

OPB+ Space Chase USA (Also Fri 4am)

8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat The Place Where You Persist. Artist and educator Lisa Jarrett shares her creative process. (Also Sun 6pm) |OPB+ Humanity From Space (Also Sat 12am)

8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Ship Report. In Astoria, a popular radio program discusses every ship that passes by the waterfront. (Also Sun 6:30pm)

9:00 OPB Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators The Chameleon’s Dish. A troubled teen suffers from premonitions. (Also Sun 2am)

10:00 OPB Inspector Morse The Dead of Jericho. Morse has a talent for solving murders. (Also Sun 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Fri 5am)


11:30 OPB+ Articulate With Jim Cotter (Also Sat 2:30am)


OPB+ Going to War A revealing look at soldiers in battle. (Also Sun 10am)

8:00 OPB Father Brown The Fall of the House of St. Gardner. A gossip columnist is murdered.(Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week(Also Sat 6am)

8:30 OPB+ Beyond the Canvas Taking the Stage(Also Sun 1pm)

9:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 7, Ep 8.Nonnatus house gets an influx of patients. (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+ Finding Your RootsNo Laughing Matter (Also Sun 1:30pm)

10:00 OPB No Second Chance Ep 5. New players in the kidnapping are revealed. (Also Mon 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Mon 5am)

11:00 OPB A Place To Call Home All That Glitters. Regina is released from the asylum. (Also Mon 4am) | OPB+ Frontline Plastic Wars(R-Also Mon 2am)

15 SATURDAY5:00 OPB This Old House Finish Work Begins

(Also Mon 6pm) | OPB+ Marathon George Hirsch Lifestyle, continued (until 7pm)


6:00 OPB The Legacy List With Matt PaxtonViva La Downsizing/Richmond, VA

7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Stockholm/Helsinki and Tallinn: Baltic Sisters (Also Sun 9am) | OPB+ Lidia Celebrates AmericaReturn of the Artisans

weekENDs

5 APRIL 2019 55 MAY 2021

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

Politics & Business

10am OPB Gardening | OPB+ Marathons (until 7pm) Civilizations (5/1);Between the Covers (5/8); George Hirsch Lifestyle (5/15); Moveable Feast (5/22); Monrovia Indiana/City Hall (5/29)

11:00 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 Rick Steves’ Europe | OPB+Good Works (5/2); 10 Monuments That Changed America (5/9);Space Chase (5/16); Across the Pacifi c (5/23, 5/30)

10am OPB Greta Thunberg (5/2, 5/9, 5/16); Life at the Waterhole (5/23, 5/30) | OPB+ Queen Elizabeth’s Secret Agents (5/2); Memorial Day Programming (5/9, 5/16, 5/23, 5/30)

11am OPB NOVA | OPB+ Independent Lens Coded Bias (5/2); The Donut King (5/30); American Masters Amy Tan (5/9); American Experience Mr. Tornado (5/16); Viral: Antisemitism (5/23)

Noon OPB International Jazz Day 2021(5/2); Great Performances Uncle Vanya (5/9); The Arts Interrupted(5/16); Inside the Met (5/23, 5/30) | OPB+ The Registry (5/16)

12:30 OPB+ Signing Black (5/2); Lost Art of Argument (5/23); Next Gen Asian Art (5/30)

1pm OPB We Are Family: Songs of Hope (5/16); One Voice: The Songs We Share (5/30) | OPB+Beyond the Canvas

1:30 OPB| OPB+ Finding Your Roots

2pm OPB We Knew What We Had (5/2); Great Performances Havana(5/16); Chicago Voices (5/23); John Leguizamo (5/30)

2:30 OPB On Story (5/9) | OPB+ Seat at the Table

3pm OPB News & Public Affairs (until 6pm) | OPB+ Nature & Wildlife



= Program premiere= Watch online at watch.opb.org


8:00 OPB Frankie Drake Mysteries A Sunshine State of Mind. A woman gets scammed. (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ Baseball The National Pastime (Also Sun 1:30am)

9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders Murder by Magic, Pts 1&2. Someone suffers a crushing fate.

10:30 OPB The Forsyte Saga Ep 12. Irene tries to thwart Jon and Fleur’s love affair. | OPB+ Independent Lens The Providers. In rural New Mexico, clinics offer care regardless of a patient’s ability to pay. (Also Sun 12am)

11:30 OPB On Story A Conversation With David Benioff and D.B. Weiss


OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions Do the Right Thing

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Rick Steves’ Europe France’s Dordogne

6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat The Place Where You Persist (R) | OPB+ Confucius Was a Foodie (R)

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

7:00 OPB The Great British Baking ShowPâtisserie (Also Sun 5/23 12am) | OPB+ Rick Steves Iran

8:00 OPB Secrets of the Royal Servants Experience Buckingham Palace through the eyes of the servants. (Also Tue 1am) |OPB+ American Masters Doc Severinsen.Explore the groundbreaking career of the master trumpeter. (Also Tue 12am)

9:00 OPB Masterpiece Atlantic Crossing: The Gift. A Nazi agent slips through the cracks. (Also Tue 2am)

9:30 OPB+ American Masters Twyla Moves. Follow the career and process of a modern dance pioneer. (Also Tue 1:30am)

10:00 OPB Masterpiece World on Fire, Ep 7. Harry has a second chance at saving Kasia. (Also Tue 3am)

11:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 5, Ep 1. The Poldarks look to a peaceful life. (Also Tue 4am) | OPB+ First Avenue: Closer to the Stars Go inside a legendary Minneapolis nightclub.


OPB+ A Wider World (Also Tue 4am)

7:30 OPB+ Museum Access National Law Enforcement Museum: Washington, DC (Also Tue 4:30am)

8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ Great Yellowstone Thaw Ep 3. Soaring temperatures bring wildfi res. (Also Sun 6pm)

9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Sagebrush Symphony. Discover the story of the oldest established youth orchestra in America. (Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ Rick Steves Egypt: Yesterday & Today (Also Sun 7pm)

9:30 OPB Oregon Experience Reub Long’s Oregon Desert. Explore the many scenic wonders of Oregon’s high desert. (Also Wed 2:30am)

10:00 OPB American Experience Billy Graham. Graham was one of the most influential Christian leaders of the 20th century. (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company(Also Tue 5am)

11:00 OPB+ AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange Professional Black Girl (Also Wed 2am)


OPB+ Nature Nature’s Biggest Beasts (Also Wed 4am)

8:00 OPB Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer Data. Data is used to improve public health. (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ Secret Life of Farm Animals (Also Thu 12am)

9:00 OPB Philly D.A. Ep 6. Philadelphia residents are fed up with the opioid crisis. (Also Thu 2am) | OPB+ Supernature: Wild Flyers Crowded Skies (Also Thu 1am)

10:00 OPB Frontline The Healthcare Divide. An investigation with NPR into growing inequities in American healthcare exposed by COVID-19.


11:00 OPB Pacifi c Heartbeat Stan. A young musician fi ghts cancer. (Also Thu 4am) |OPB+ The Art Detectives (Also Thu 2am)


OPB+ The Three Rabbis In 1960s Portland, three men led an old-world community through an era of change. (Also Thu 4am)

8:00 OPB Life at the Waterhole Ep 1. Meet the fi rst animal visitors to a manmade waterhole in Africa. (Also Fri 1am) |OPB+ Viral: Antisemitism in

Four Mutations Examine the infectiousness of hate and violence. (Also Fri 12am)

9:00 OPB NOVA High-Risk High-Rise. Are tall buildings as safe as they could be? (Also Fri 2am)

9:30 OPB+ The Lost Art of Argument An ensemble at the University of Oregon examine what a good argument can do. (Also Fri 1:30am)

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Independent LensThe Donut KingFollow the journey of Cambodian refugee Ted Ngoy, who arrived in California in the 1970s and, through a mixture of diligence and luck, built a multi-million dollar donut empire up and down the West Coast.

Monday, May 24, 11pmOPB

Logan Industry

6 MAY 2021

(Also Tue 4am) | OPB+ Artbound That Far Corner: Frank Lloyd Wright in Los Angeles

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

World (Also Tue 4am)

7:30 OPB+ Museum Access The AKC Museum of the Dog: New York, NY (Also Tue 4:30am)

8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow (Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ The Queen’s Garden Peek inside the garden at Buckingham Palace. (Also Sun 6pm)

9:00 OPB Oregon Experience Logger’s Daughter. An African American woman born and raised in eastern Oregon sets out to explore her family’s past. (Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ Rick Steves Luther and the Reformation (Also Sun 7pm)

9:30 OPB Oregon Experience Massacre at Hells Canyon. In the 1880s, as many as 34 Chinese miners were murdered at Hells Canyon. (Also Wed 2:30am)

10:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Ca’ d’Zan, Hr 1(Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Tue 5am)

11:00 OPB Independent Lens The Donut King. See callout on this page. (Also Wed 8pm OPB+) | OPB+ AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange Film Shorts (Also Wed 2am)


OPB+ Nature Bears (Also Wed 4am)

8:00 OPB Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer Medicine. Explore the invention of

Mon 4am) | OPB+ Frontline The Healthcare Divide (R-Also Mon 2am)

22 SATURDAY5:00 OPB This Old House Roof University

(Also Mon 6pm) | OPB+ Marathon Moveable Feast With Fine Cooking, continued (until 7pm)


6:00 OPB The Legacy List With Matt PaxtonYou Gotta Have Art/Coventry, CT

7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Galicia and the Camino de Santiago/Basque Country (Also Sun 9am) | OPB+ Lidia Celebrates AmericaA Salute to First Responders

8:00 OPB Masterpiece Mrs. Wilson, Ep 1. When a spy novelist dies, his widow fi nds a mystery. (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ Baseball The Capital of Baseball (Also Sun 1:30am)

9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders The Ballad of Midsomer County, Pts 1&2. A folk ballad may have inspired a murder.

10:30 OPB The Forsyte Saga Ep 13. Fleur decides who to marry. | OPB+ Independent Lens Charm City. Baltimore copes with the consequences of violence. (Also Sun 12am)

11:30 OPB On Story On Writing To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before


OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions Kansas City, Pt 2

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Rick Steves’ Europe Barcelona and Catalunya

6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Earth Archive (R) |OPB+ Confucius Was a Foodie (R)

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

7:00 OPB The Great British Baking ShowThe Final (Also Sun 5/30 12am) | OPB+ Rick Steves Egypt: Yesterday & Today (R)

8:00 OPB Queen at War Follow Queen Elizabeth’s experiences during World War II. (Also Tue 1am) | OPB+ American ExperienceAmerican Oz. Meet the man behind ‘The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.’ (Also Tue 12am)

9:00 OPB Masterpiece Atlantic Crossing: A Queen Returns. Olav tries to keep Norway out of the clutches of the Soviets. (Also Tue 2am)

10:00 OPB The Windermere Children: In Their Own Words In 1945, a group of young Jewish refugees began new lives in England’s Lake District. (Also Tue 3am) | OPB+ Inside the Met The Birthday Surprise (Also Tue 2am)

11:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 5, Ep 2. George pursues the fruits of a new alliance.

10:00 OPB Human: The World Within Defend. Wildly advanced biology keeps us alive. (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company(Also Thu 5am)

11:00 OPB Life From Above Patterned Planet. See the wonderful shapes that cover Earth’s surface. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story


OPB+ Across the Pacifi c Airborne (Also Fri 4am)

8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Earth Archive. Otis Kwame Kye Quaicoe wants his colorful, life-sized portraits to make you stop whatever you’re doing. (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ Frozen Obsession Witness the dramatically changing Arctic. (Also Sat 12am)

8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Tribal Land Transfer. A small parcel of ancestral land is returned to the Clatsop-Nehalem people. (Also Sun 6:30pm)

9:00 OPB Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators The Rascal Cook. Frank and Lu investigate culinary sabotage. (Also Sun 2am)| OPB+ Extinction: The Facts David Attenborough explores the extinction crisis. (Also Sat 1am)

10:00 OPB Inspector Morse The Silent World of Nicholas Quinn. Morse investigates a college offi cial’s death. (Also Sun 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Fri 5am)




OPB+ Soldier On: Life After Deployment(Also Sun 10am)

8:00 OPB Father Brown The Tower of Lost Souls. Father Brown uncovers a dark secret. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sat 6am)

8:30 OPB+ Beyond the Canvas Happiness (Also Sun 1pm)

9:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 8, Ep 1.Nonnatus welcomes two new nuns. (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+ Finding Your Roots Hard Times (Also Sun 1:30pm)

10:00 OPB No Second Chance Ep 6. Alice closes in on the truth. (Also Mon 3am) |OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Mon 5am)

11:00 OPB A Place To Call Home The Edge of Reason. Regina returns to her farm. (Also

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medicine. (Also Thu 1am) | OPB+ Gorilla Family and Me (Also Thu 12am)

9:00 OPB Philly D.A. Ep 7. Krasner decides whether to pursue murder charges against a cop. (Also Thu 2am)

10:00 OPB Frontline Race Matters: America After George Floyd: A PBS NewsHour Special. On the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s death, examine what has changed, and what hasn’t, since the outrage and protests of last summer.


11:00 OPB Pacifi c Heartbeat Tokyo Hula. Follow hula dancing in Japan. (Also Thu 4am) | OPB+ Speaking Grief Learn why grief can be so diffi cult to explain. (Also Thu 2am)


OPB+ Never Give Up! Minoru Yasui and the Fight for Justice The civil rights advocate, born in Hood River, fought against Japanese internment. (Also Thu 4am)

8:00 OPB Life at the Waterhole Nocturnal activity brings a new predator. (Also Fri 1am) | OPB+ Independent Lens The Donut King (R-Also Fri 12am)

9:00 OPB NOVA Ship That Changed the World. Underwater archaeologist explore a crucial shipwreck. (Also Fri 2am)

9:30 OPB+ Next Gen Asian American Art(Also Fri 1:30am)

10:00 OPB Human: The World Within Sense. Learn how our senses defi ne reality. (Also Fri 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company (Also Thu 5am)

11:00 OPB Life From Above Changing Planet. Cameras in space show melting glaciers and more. (Also Fri 4am) | OPB+ Silent Sacrifi ce: Stories of Japanese American Incarceration (Also Fri 2am)


OPB+ Across the Pacifi c Latin Laboratory(Also Fri 4am)

8:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Finding the Flow. Jim Fitzgerald builds his own cameras and creates carbon transfer photographs of nature. (Also Sun 6pm) | OPB+ American Experience The Swamp. Follow the story of Florida’s Everglades. (Also Sat 12am)

8:30 OPB Oregon Field Guide Mudbone Grown. Shantae Johnson and Arthur Shavers are rewriting what it means to be a Black farmer in Oregon. (Also Sun 6:30pm)

9:00 OPB Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators Ill Met By Moonlight. Frank and Lu search for a lost necklace. (Also Sun 2am)


OPB+ Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions Gone Fishing/Palm Beach, Pt 1

5:30 OPB PBS NewsHour Weekend | OPB+ Rick Steves’ Europe Little Europe: San Marino, Monaco, Vatican City, Liechtenstein, and Andorra

6:00 OPB Oregon Art Beat Finding the Flow (R) |OPB+ The Queen’s Garden (R)

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

7:00 OPB The Great British Baking ShowCakes (Also Sun midnight) | OPB+ Rick Steves Luther and the Reformation (R)

8:00 OPB National Memorial Day Concert The National Symphony Orchestra honors

American men and women in uniform. (Also Sun 9:30pm) | OPB+ Margaret: The Rebel Princess Pts 1&2. Princess Margaret’s life reflected a changing world.

9:30 OPB National Memorial Day Concert(R-Also Tue 2:30am)

10:00 OPB+ Inside the Met All Things to All People?

11:00 OPB Masterpiece Poldark: Season 5, Ep 3. George’s sanity deteriorates. (Also Tue 4am) |OPB+ Artbound Desert X


OPB+ A Wider World

7:30 OPB+ Museum Access The International Museum of Surgical Science: Chicago, IL

8:00 OPB Antiques Roadshow Ca’ d’Zan: Hr 2(Also Wed 1am) | OPB+ State of the Art

9:00 OPB Oregon Experience The Beach Bill. In 1967, Gov. McCall granted the public access to Oregon’s beaches. (Also Wed 2am) | OPB+ Rick Steves Cruising the Mediterranean

9:30 OPB Oregon Experience Road to Statehood. Learn how Oregon became the 33rd state. (Also Wed 2:30am)

10:00 OPB Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten A community comes to terms with its past, present and future. (Also Wed 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company

11:00 OPB+ AfroPop: The Ultimate Cultural Exchange Bakoso: Afrobeats of Cuba

10:00 OPB Inspector Morse Service of All the Dead. Morse investigates fi ve killings. (Also Sun 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company(Also Fri 5am)




OPB+ Remembering Vietnam: The Telling Project (Also Sun 10am)

8:00 OPB The Woman in White Ep 1. A young man encounters an asylum escapee. (Also Mon 1am) | OPB+ Washington Week (Also Sat 6am)

8:30 OPB+ Beyond the Canvas (Also Sun 1pm)

9:00 OPB Call the Midwife Season 8, Ep 2. The team helps a family with an undiagnosed illness. (Also Mon 2am) | OPB+ Finding Your Roots The Eye of the Beholder (Also Sun 1:30pm)

10:00 OPB Line of Separation Ep 1. A town divides after the fall of the Third Reich. (Also Mon 3am) | OPB+ Amanpour & Company(Also Mon 5am)

11:00 OPB A Place To Call Home Do Not Go Gently. George risks his political career. (Also Mon 4am) | OPB+ Frontline The Jihadist(R-Also Mon 2am)

29 SATURDAY5:00 OPB This Old House Almost Home

(Also Mon 6pm) | OPB+ Boss: The Black Experience in Business The untold story of African American entrepreneurship.


6:00 OPB The Legacy List With Matt PaxtonWe Are Family/Dorchester, MA

7:00 OPB Rick Steves’ Europe Rome: Ancient Glory/Rome: Baroque Brilliance (Also Sun 9am) | OPB+ Rising From the Rails: The Story of the Pullman Porter

8:00 OPB Masterpiece Mrs. Wilson, Ep 2. Alison fi nds herself at the center of a mystery. (Also Mon 12am) | OPB+ Baseball A Whole New Ball Game (Also Sun 2am)

9:00 OPB Midsomer Murders A Vintage Murder, Pts 1&2. People are poisoned at a winery.

10:00 OPB+ POV The Rescue List. Two children, rescued from enslavement, embark on a mission. (Also Sun 12am)

10:30 OPB Hillary Standing Tall. Follow the early life of climber Sir Edmund Hillary.

11:30 OPB On Story A Conversation With Catherine Reitman | OPB+ Freedom WallThe Freedom Wall depicts notable civil rights fi gures. (Also Sun 1:30am)

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UsIn a drama tinged with humor and heartbreak, a couple on the verge of divorce takes a European holiday with their rebellious teenage son.

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