ADVANCE August 2023

AUGUST SCHEDULE

11:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Doctor Who: Tom Baker Movies: The Face of Evil TV-PG WORLD Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World: Culture Wars (See 8/5 at 7 p.m. on WORLD)

4:00 p.m. WORLD America ReFramed: Kid Candidate (See 8/3 at 7 p.m. on WORLD) 5:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Great Performances: Lea Salonga in Concert

TUNE IN:

Acclaimed singer Lea Salonga and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra perform at the Sydney Opera House.

SUNDAY 6

5:30 p.m. WORLD PBS News Weekend 6:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Grantchester on Masterpiece

6:00 a.m. Iowa PBS Sit and Be Fit: Release Tension Through Exercise WORLD Washington Week 6:30 a.m. Iowa PBS Garden Smart: Two Beautiful, Unique Florida Gardens WORLD The Open Mind: A Multiplicity of Generational Crises (R-8/6, 2 p.m., WORLD) 7:00 a.m. Iowa PBS 7–10:30 a.m. See page 5. WORLD DW Focus on Europe 7:30 a.m. WORLD DW Global Us (R-8/6, 3 p.m., WORLD) 8:00 a.m. WORLD America ReFramed: Kid Candidate (See 8/3 at 7 p.m. on WORLD) (R-8/6, 4 p.m., WORLD) 9:30 a.m. WORLD Butterfly Town, USA (See 8/3 at 8:30 p.m. on WORLD) 10:00 a.m. WORLD The Chavis Chronicles: Geoffrey Starks FCC Commissioner & Attorney 10:30 a.m. Iowa PBS America’s Heartland (See 8/4 at 6:30 p.m. on Iowa PBS) WORLD The Laura Flanders Show 11:00 a.m. Iowa PBS Firing Line With Margaret Hoover (R-8/6, 1:30 p.m., WORLD) WORLD Articulate With Jim Cotter: Long and Winding Road TV-PG 11:30 a.m. Iowa PBS PBS News Weekend WORLD Golden Eagles: Witnesses to a Changing West

Great Performances at the Met: Lohengrin Sunday, August 6 1 p.m. on Iowa PBS .1 Tenor Piotr Beczała leads the cast in the title role of the mysterious swan knight, with soprano Tamara Wilson as the virtuous Duchess Elsa falsely accused of murder, and soprano Christine Goerke as the cunning sorceress Ortrud.

Leonard is devastated when a halfway house resident is found dead. DVS/ TV-14

WORLD A Wild Idea: The Birth of the APA The history of New York’s Adirondack Park and the Adirondack Park Agency is chronicled. TV-PG 7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Ridley: The Numbered Days, Part 2 Discover a shocking connection between a case and the attack that killed Ridley’s family. DVS/TV-14 WORLD Animals With Cameras, A Nature Miniseries: Australia The lives of Australia’s iconic animals, such as koalas, fruit bats and kangaroos, are investigated. (R-8/6, 11 p.m., WORLD) 8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Grantchester on Masterpiece Geordie is placed on desk duty as Elliot contrives to force him to resign. (R-8/13, 5 p.m., Iowa PBS) DVS/TV-14 WORLD Finding Your Roots: Science Pioneers The family trees of scientists Francis

NOON Iowa PBS Iowa Press 12:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Market to Market WORLD Start Up: The Rounds:

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

Great Performances

at the Met: Lohengrin A production of Wagner’s Lohengrin returns to the Met after 17 years. TV-PG WORLD To the Contrary With Bonnie Erbe 1:30 p.m. WORLD Firing Line With Margaret Hoover 2:00 p.m. WORLD The Open Mind: A Multiplicity of Generational Crises 2:30 p.m. WORLD ICT Newscast With Aliyah Chavez 3:00 p.m. WORLD DW Global Us 3:30 p.m. WORLD On Story: A Conversation With Sarah Polley

Collins, Shirley Ann Jackson and Harold Varmus are traced. TV-PG

9:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

Grantchester on Masterpiece

Will has disappeared and Geordie must find him before it is too late. (R-8/13, 6 p.m., Iowa PBS) DVS/TV-14 Wounded Land—Part 1: Kingdom When Afghanistan opened to the world in the 1960s, the city of Kabul looked like a European capital. When communists seized power, a war began.

WORLD Doc World: Afghanistan: The

Filmmaker Sarah Polley discusses her film and her career as a storyteller. TV-PG

Eagle researchers in Wyoming strive to discover how eagles are adapting to their many challenges.

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