ADVANCE April 2023

APRIL SCHEDULE

10:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Frontline: Afghanistan Undercover Watch an undercover investigation into the Taliban’s crackdown on women in Afghanistan. WORLD BBC World News 10:30 p.m. WORLD Amanpour and Company 11:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Hamish Macbeth: No Man Is an Island Hamish takes off to a remote island

8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS NOVA: Arctic Sinkholes

7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Father Brown: The Island of Dreams The owner of a holiday camp is strangled with an apron and Father Brown must solve the crime. TV-PG This quiet but stirring portrait offers insight into the the rarely seen members of an Arctic tribe who try to continue to honor their way of life despite the government failing them. (R-4/8, 9 p.m., WORLD) TV-PG The Lochdubh Deluxe Hamish intervenes in a family feud and investigates the disappearance of a body from the local burial ground. (R-4/11, 11 p.m., Iowa PBS) The Pacific Island nation of Kiribati must confront imminent annihilation from sea-level rise. (R-4/8, 10 p.m., WORLD) TV-PG 8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Hamish Macbeth: WORLD Pacific Heartbeat: Anote’s Ark WORLD America ReFramed: Kivalina

Scientists examine evidence that melting soil in the Arctic is releasing vast amounts of methane. (R-4/11, 6 p.m., WORLD) DVS/TV-PG WORLD Frontline: America and the Taliban, Part 1 (See 4/4 at 9 p.m. on Iowa PBS) 9:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Beneath the Polar Sun

A research team sets out to measure the world’s largest and oldest sea ice floes. (R-4/18, 7 p.m., WORLD)

and ends up having to rescue an elderly woman who discovers the remains of an unexploded landmine.

WORLD PBS NewsHour 10:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Life From Above: Moving Planet

11:30 p.m. WORLD DW The Day

Cameras in space capture footage of the greatest and most powerful movements on our planet. TV-PG

WEDNESDAY 5

WORLD BBC World News 10:30 p.m. WORLD Amanpour and Company 11:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Traces

5:00 p.m. WORLD France 24 5:30 p.m. Iowa PBS PBS NewsHour WORLD NHK Newsline 6:00 p.m. WORLD POV Shorts:

9:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Midsomer Murders:

The Lions of Causton, Part 1 DCI Barnaby and DS Winter

(R-4/5, 9 p.m., WORLD)

(See 4/1 at 10 p.m. on Iowa PBS)

investigate a death at a sports club that is home to a rugby team. (R-4/10, 11 p.m., Iowa PBS) TV-PG

11:30 p.m. WORLD DW The Day

WORLD PBS NewsHour

There’s No Place Like Home This episode features portraits and stories from people who live life on the margins. (R-4/8, 12:30 p.m., WORLD) TV-PG

THURSDAY 6

5:00 p.m. WORLD France 24 5:30 p.m. Iowa PBS PBS NewsHour

TUNE IN:

6:30 p.m. Iowa PBS

Prairie Sportsman: Fishing Red Lake and Absorbing Road Salts (R-4/8, 9 a.m., Iowa PBS) TV-PG

(R-4/6, 9 p.m., WORLD)

WORLD NHK Newsline 6:00 p.m. WORLD Pacific Heartbeat: High Tide, Don’t Hide

WORLD Independent Lens: Children of Las Brisas

During Venezuela’s spiraling collapse, families find hope in El Sistema youth orchestra. (R-4/8, 11 a.m., WORLD) TV-14

Determined to provoke real action, New Zealand teenagers join the global School Strike for Climate.

Beneath the Polar Sun Wednesday, April 5 9 p.m. on Iowa PBS .1 Five hundred nautical miles from the North Pole, a scientific team is on a rare mission to measure the world’s oldest ice floes. Tiny specks in a vast ocean wilderness, they are alone. And, they’re in trouble. Jumbled slabs of sea ice are closing in from every corner. Hauling loaded kayaks, the team struggles to follow a route that was navigable only years earlier.

7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Nature: Remarkable Rabbits

6:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Iowa Ingredient: Honey

Despite their remarkable ability to reproduce, many wild rabbits are in danger of being eradicated. (R-4/9, 7 p.m., WORLD) DVS/TV-PG

(R-4/8, 11:30 a.m., Iowa PBS)

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