ADVANCE April 2025

APRIL SCHEDULE

7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Father Brown: The Scales of Justice Father Brown must race to save Bunty from the hangman’s noose when she is wrongly tried for murder. TV-PG WORLD America ReFramed: A Decent Home

6:00 p.m. WORLD

TUNE IN:

Water: The Sacred Gift Through striking cinematography and compelling interviews, this program inspires viewers to seek a more positive future. (R-4/19, 7 a.m., WORLD)

When housing on the lowest rung of the American dream is being devoured by the wealthiest of the wealthy, whose dream are we serving? (R-4/19, 9 p.m., WORLD)

6:30 p.m. Iowa PBS History With David Rubenstein: Stacy Schiff Award-winning author Stacy Schiff explores the often-overlooked revolutionary Samuel Adams. (R-4/20, 6 p.m., WORLD) TV-PG 7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Washington Week With The Atlantic (R-4/19, 6:30 a.m., WORLD) WORLD Upstream, Downriver: Uniting for Water Justice

8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

Brokenwood Mysteries Thursday, April 17 8 p.m. on Iowa PBS .1 When the wife of a local tourist trap business owner is discovered dead, the other local tourism operators are not particularly sad about her demise. Her cause of death is revealed to be from New Zealand’s only native venomous spider—the katipō. But how could one spider administer 10 times the lethal dose?

Brokenwood Mysteries:

The Black Widower When the wife of a local tourist trap business owner is discovered dead, the other local tourism operators are not particularly sad about her demise. TV-PG

8:30 p.m. WORLD POV Shorts: Boom and Bust

Better understand how community action can influence water policy and result in innovative solutions. (R-4/19, 2 p.m., WORLD) TV-PG

Two stories. Two states. Stories of politics, economy, families and preserving memories. (R-4/19, 10:30 p.m., WORLD) TV-14

7:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Iowa Press

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

(R-4/19, 8:30 a.m., WORLD)

11:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Midsomer Murders: Death and Dreams, Part 2 (See 4/10 at 9 p.m. on Iowa PBS) WORLD Amanpour and Company

Midsomer Murders: Painted in Blood, Parts 1 & 2

When Joyce Barnaby finds a dead woman, she unwittingly uncovers a nest of plots and double-dealings. (Part 1: R-4/22, 11 p.m., Iowa PBS) (Part 2: R-4/23, 11 p.m., Iowa PBS) TV-PG

THURSDAY 17

TUNE IN:

5:00 p.m. WORLD France 24 5:30 p.m. Iowa PBS PBS News Hour WORLD NHK Newsline 6:00 p.m. WORLD

10:00 p.m. WORLD DW The Day 10:30 p.m. WORLD BBC News 11:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Sister Boniface Mysteries: It’s Just Not Cricket (See 4/12 at 8 p.m. on Iowa PBS) WORLD Amanpour and Company

(R-4/17, 9 p.m., WORLD)

Reel South: How to Sue the

Klan/I’m Still Here This episode features two stories of justice, accountability and civil rights. TV-14

Rick Steves Poland Saturday, April 19 8 a.m. on Iowa PBS .1

FRIDAY 18

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

This one-hour special begins in Kraków, with a stunning square, historic castle. Nearby is an Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp memorial. Then we head to Warsaw for skyscrapers and Chopin, sample gingerbread in Torun, and ogle red-brick Malbork Castle. We finish in Gdansk with handsome Hanseatic townhouses and stirring Solidarity history.

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

(R-4/19, 11:30 a.m., Iowa PBS)

(R-4/18, 9 p.m., WORLD)

WORLD NHK Newsline

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