ADVANCE January 2025

9:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Iconic America: Our Symbols and Stories With David Rubenstein: The Statue of Liberty Reveal the evolving meaning the Statue of Liberty has for a “nation of immigrants.” DVS/ESP/TV-PG WORLD PBS News Hour 10:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Secrets of the Dead: Ben Franklin’s Bones

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TUNE IN:

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Bones found in Benjamin Franklin’s British residence were used in an illegal anatomy school. DVS/TV-14

NOVA: Extreme Airport Engineering Wednesday, January 29 8 p.m. on Iowa PBS .1 In New York City, a team of elite engineers and construction workers are on a mission to build the ultimate airport. Follow their ups and downs as they race to build a new, world-class LaGuardia on the site of one of America’s busiest aviation hubs.

WORLD BBC News 10:30 p.m. WORLD Amanpour and Company 11:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Midsomer Murders:

The Blacktrees Prophecy, Part 1 (See 1/23 at 9 p.m. on Iowa PBS)

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11:30 p.m. WORLD DW The Day

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WEDNESDAY 29

6:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Iowa Life

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

8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

Explore ecosystem restoration with bison, Dubuque’s Vintage Torque Fest and raising hogs outside. (R-1/30, 11:30 p.m., Iowa PBS)

NOVA: Extreme Airport

Engineering Follow the race to build a world-class airport on the site of one of America’s busiest flying hubs. DVS/TV-PG

7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

(R-1/29, 9 p.m., WORLD)

Finding Your Roots:

WORLD NHK Newsline 6:00 p.m. WORLD Independent Lens: Owned: A Tale of Two Americas

Dreamers One and All Henry Louis Gates Jr. traces the ancestry of actor Sharon Stone and model Chrissy Teigen. TV-PG

9:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Secrets of the Dead: Bombing Auschwitz

Historians, survivors and experts consider one of the great moral dilemmas of the 20th century— should the Allies have bombed Auschwitz?

WORLD Secrets of the Dead: World War Speed

Mid-century housing policy and the ramifications of the 2008 housing market collapse are examined. TV-PG

(See 1/22 at 9 p.m. on Iowa PBS)

8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

6:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Road Trip Iowa:

WORLD PBS News Hour 10:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Europe’s New Wild: Europe’s Amazon

Great Migrations: A People

on the Move: Exodus Explore the first wave of the Great Migration, when more than a million Black Americans fled the Jim Crow South for the promised lands of the North. TV-PG WORLD When Disaster Strikes: Paradise Lost: Bahamas

Western Skies Scenic Byway

7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

Discover how the habitats of the Danube Delta depend on a healthy river to continue growing. DVS/TV-PG

Nature: Big Cats, Small

World: Outlanders The change of seasons brings turmoil and tough choices to the three big cat families. DVS/TV-PG

WORLD BBC News 10:30 p.m. WORLD Amanpour and Company

7:30 p.m. WORLD Resistance: They Fought Back (See 1/27 at 9 p.m. on Iowa PBS)

Hear an epic tale of survival as one of the Caribbean’s strongest hurricanes strikes the Bahamas. TV-PG

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