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SUNDAY 22

8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Sister Boniface Mysteries: St. George’s Defence

11:30 a.m. Iowa PBS PBS News Weekend WORLD America’s Heartland

6:00 a.m. Iowa PBS Sit and Be Fit WORLD Washington Week With The Atlantic 6:30 a.m. Iowa PBS Garden Smart: Community Agriculture WORLD The Open Mind: State Constitutional Imperatives (R-12/22, 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-12/22, 3 p.m., WORLD) 8:00 a.m. WORLD Local, USA: With Peter Bradley (See 12/19 at 7 p.m. on WORLD) (R-12/22, 4 p.m., WORLD) 9:00 a.m. WORLD Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story (See 12/19 at 8 p.m. on WORLD) 10:00 a.m. WORLD The Chavis Chronicles: Charles “Shorty” Garris & Mark Gusakov TV-PG 10:30 a.m. Iowa PBS Iowa Life (See 12/17 at 6:30 p.m. on Iowa PBS) WORLD Laura Flanders & Friends TV-PG 11:00 a.m. Iowa PBS Firing Line With Margaret Hoover WORLD MN Original: Jovan Speller and Saymoukda Vongsay TV-PG

Sister Boniface brushes up on her chess skills to stop a threat. (R-12/26, 10:30 p.m., Iowa PBS) TV-PG This story of tragedy, family connections, community and the American Dream focuses on Sikh Americans living in Phoenix, Arizona, during the aftermath of 9/11. TV-PG

Summer peaches are the top crop and perfect for a peach and tomato panzanella salad.

WORLD Dream in Doubt

NOON Iowa PBS Iowa Press WORLD This American Land: Sage Grouse, Curlew Grassland, Tribute to Gary Strieker 12:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Market to Market WORLD Start Up: The Blok Climbing Co.—Fort Worth, Texas 1:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Christmas With Wartburg 2024 (See 12/21 at 7 p.m. on Iowa PBS) (R-12/24, 8 p.m., Iowa PBS) WORLD Bloomberg Wall Street Week 2:00 p.m. Iowa PBS The Savoy at Christmas (See 12/7 at 7 p.m. on Iowa PBS) (R-12/23, 9 p.m., Iowa PBS) WORLD The Open Mind: State Constitutional Imperatives 2:30 p.m. WORLD ICT Newscast 3:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Miss Scarlet and the Duke on Masterpiece: Bloodline

9:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries: Murder Most Scandalous Jack’s former father-in-law is WORLD Local, USA: With Peter Bradley (See 12/19 at 7 p.m. on WORLD) (R-12/22, 8 a.m., WORLD) 10:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Hope Street WORLD Spiritual Audacity: The Abraham Joshua Heschel Story (See 12/19 at 8 p.m. on WORLD) (R-12/22, 9 a.m., WORLD) 11:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Doctor Who: Tom Baker Movies: The Armageddon Factor, Part 2 of 2 TV-PG WORLD Southern Storytellers: Episode 3 (See 12/21 at 7 p.m. on WORLD) implicated in a prostitute’s murder, and Jack tries to clear his name. TV-14 Al gets exposed as a liar and a thief when the police investigate a robbery at a distillery. (R-12/23, 11 p.m., Iowa PBS) TV-PG

Eliza is hired by Detective Fitzroy to solve a case of police corruption. DVS/TV-PG

WORLD DW Global Us

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