ADVANCE April 2025

APRIL SCHEDULE

7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Washington Week With The Atlantic (R-4/5, 6:30 a.m., WORLD) WORLD Pacific Heartbeat: Hawaii’s Precious Resources

6:30 a.m. Iowa PBS 6:30–8 a.m. See page 5. WORLD Washington Week With The Atlantic (R-4/5, 4:30 p.m., WORLD) 7:00 a.m. WORLD Pacific Heartbeat: High Tide, Don’t Hide (See 4/4 at 6 p.m. on WORLD) (R-4/5, 1 p.m., WORLD) 8:00 a.m. Iowa PBS Ireland With Michael: On Yer Bike WORLD Market to Market (R-4/6, 12:30 p.m., Iowa PBS) 8:30 a.m. Iowa PBS Rick Steves’ Europe: London: Historic and Dynamic WORLD Iowa Press (R-4/6, noon, Iowa PBS) 9:00 a.m. Iowa PBS Road Trip Iowa: Delaware Crossing Scenic Byway WORLD Independent Lens: A Thousand Pines (See 4/4 at 8 p.m. on WORLD) (R-4/5, 3 p.m., WORLD) 9:30 a.m. Iowa PBS Samantha Brown’s Places to Love: Traverse City, Michigan

TUNE IN:

Three short films highlight Hawaii’s delicate ecosystem. (R-4/5, 2 p.m., WORLD) TV-PG

7:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Iowa Press

(R-4/5, 8:30 a.m., WORLD)

8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Market to Market

Austin City Limits Celebrates 50 Years Friday, April 4 9:30 p.m. on Iowa PBS .1 The brightest stars in the show’s history return to the ACL stage for a celebration a half-century in the making, including Chris Stapleton, Gary Clark Jr., Lyle Lovett, Billy Strings, Rufus Wainwright, Indigo Girls, and The Mavericks.

(R-4/5, 8 a.m., WORLD) WORLD Independent Lens: A Thousand Pines

A crew of 12 Mexican tree planters travel the United States regrowing America’s forests. (R-4/5, 9 a.m., WORLD) TV-14

8:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Studio 3 LIVE: Wesli

Haitian Canadian musician Wesli brings his globally infused music to the stage.

9:00 p.m. WORLD PBS News Hour 9:30 p.m. Iowa PBS

11:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Iowa Life

(See 4/1 at 6:30 p.m. on Iowa PBS) (R-4/6, 10:30 a.m., Iowa PBS)

Austin City Limits Celebrates

50 Years Music luminaries and some of the brightest stars in the program’s five decade history return to the fabled ACL stage to celebrate the show’s 50th anniversary. TV-PG

FRIDAY 4

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

TUNE IN:

10:00 p.m. WORLD Bloomberg Wall Street Week (R-4/6, 1 p.m., WORLD) 11:00 p.m. WORLD Amanpour and Company 11:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Songs at the Center: Ava Preston, Delyn Christian, JD Eicher, Part 1

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

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

Determined to provoke real action, New Zealand teenagers join the global School Strike for Climate. (R 4/5, 7 a.m., WORLD)

Louisiana Coastal Cooking Saturday, April 5 10 a.m. on Iowa PBS .1

SATURDAY 5

6:30 p.m. Iowa PBS History With David Rubenstein: Selwyn Vickers

6:00 a.m. Iowa PBS The Best of the Joy of Painting: Secluded Forest WORLD To the Contrary With Bonnie Erbe (R-4/5, 4 p.m., WORLD)

This new series explores the foodways of the Louisiana Gulf Coast through a 13-part road trip to small communities and remote places to showcase the regional cuisine of the state’s bayous and waterways. Each episode celebrates the bounty of Southeast Louisiana and raises awareness about coastal restoration through the lens of food.

Selwyn Vickers discusses how challenges to justice, citizenship and equality persist. (R-4/13, 6 p.m., WORLD) TV-PG

14 ADVANCE | APRIL 2025