ADVANCE August 2023

NOON Iowa PBS Iowa Press 12:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Market to Market WORLD Start Up: Essex Squeeze: Lower East Side, Manhattan NYC 1:00 p.m. Iowa PBS State Fair Talent Championship 2023 (See 8/20 at 8 p.m. on Iowa PBS) 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 2:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Iowa: An American Portrait (See 8/16 at 8 p.m. on Iowa PBS) WORLD ICT Newscast With Aliyah Chavez 3:00 p.m. WORLD DW Global Us 3:30 p.m. Iowa PBS In the Footsteps Of: In Dickens’ Footsteps With Gyles Brandreth Meet experts who give insight into Dickens’ life and his influences, and discover how London made him one of Britain’s greatest storytellers. WORLD On Story: On Writing Ghosts With Joe Wiseman

4:20 p.m. Iowa PBS In the Footsteps Of: In Jane Austen’s

6:30 a.m. Iowa PBS Garden Smart: Plan Ahead to Extend Color in Your Garden WORLD The Open Mind (R-8/27, 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-8/27, 3 p.m., WORLD) 8:00 a.m. WORLD America ReFramed: Deej (See 8/24 at 7 p.m. on WORLD) (R-8/27, 4 p.m., WORLD) 9:00 a.m. WORLD How Saba Kept Singing (See 8/24 at 8 p.m. on WORLD) 10:00 a.m. WORLD The Chavis Chronicles: Patrick Dicks, D. Sc. Professor & Expert on Automation TV-PG 10:30 a.m. Iowa PBS America’s Heartland (See 8/25 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-8/27, 1:30 p.m., WORLD) WORLD Articulate With Jim Cotter: Crossing Cultures TV-PG 11:30 a.m. Iowa PBS PBS News Weekend WORLD The Wild Ponies of Chincoteague

Footsteps With Gyles Brandreth Explore the life and locations that inspired one of our greatest ever novelists—Jane Austen—and hear from Austen experts as well as celebrity fans.

5:00 p.m. WORLD Films BYkids: Faith’s World

A teen girl who is visually impaired and has cerebral palsy is determined to realize her dreams. DVS 5:10 p.m. Iowa PBS In the Footsteps Of: In the Brontë Sisters Footsteps With Gyles Brandreth The West Yorkshire moors landscape is synonymous with the stories of Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë, who spent almost their entire lives in an area that shaped them, and they shaped in turn. 5:30 p.m. WORLD PBS News Weekend 6:00 p.m. Iowa PBS In the Footsteps Of: In Thomas Hardy’s Footsteps With Gyles Brandreth

Explore the landscape that influenced the author and poet Thomas Hardy, who lived most of his life in the Southwest of England, where his most famous novels are set. Researchers reveal how humans tamed fearsome canines over tens of thousands of years.

Joe Wiseman takes a deep dive into the art of adaptation and finding the perfect cast. TV-PG

WORLD NOVA: Dog Tales

4:00 p.m. WORLD America ReFramed: Deej

(See 8/24 at 7 p.m. on WORLD)

Follow a teenager’s journey to buy her first foal at the Chincoteague wild pony swim and auction.

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