ADVANCE May 2024

8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Antiques Roadshow: Charleston, Hour 3 WORLD Local, USA: Asian American Stories of Resilience, Part 1

7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Finding Your Roots: Far and Away Explore the roots of journalist Sunny

TUNE IN:

Hostin and actor Jesse Williams. (R-5/26, 8 p.m., WORLD) TV-PG

WORLD Secrets of the Dead: The End of the Romans

This episode features films focusing on resilience through the lens of family, rebuilding and mental health.

Follow an in-depth investigation into the real causes of the decline of the Roman Empire. Three deadly epidemics and climate change could have caused its collapse. TV-PG

8:30 p.m. WORLD

Stories From the Stage:

Youth Rising

9:00 p.m. Iowa PBS My Grandparents’ War: Kristin Scott Thomas

8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

American Experience: The Riot Report Tuesday, May 21 8 p.m. on Iowa PBS .1 In July 1967, a police raid of an illegal, after hours club in a predominantly Black section of Detroit sparked racial unrest the likes of which Americans had never seen. What happened? And what could be done to prevent it from happening again? President Johnson appointed the 11-member Kerner Commission to answer those questions.

American Experience:

The Riot Report Revisit 1967, when President Johnson created a commission to investigate why inner cities erupted in violence. (R-5/24, 7 p.m., WORLD) DVS/TV-14

Actress Kristin Scott Thomas explores a lost chapter of her family history during World War II. TV-PG

WORLD PBS NewsHour 10:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

WORLD Amazing Human Body: Survive Discover the miracles the human body goes through every day to stay alive and healthy. 9:00 p.m. WORLD PBS NewsHour 10:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Asian Americans: Good Americans (See 5/11 at 7 p.m. on WORLD) WORLD BBC News 10:30 p.m. WORLD Amanpour and Company 11:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Midsomer Murders: Tainted Fruit, Part 1 (See 5/16 at 9:30 p.m. on Iowa PBS) 11:30 p.m. WORLD DW The Day

Independent Lens:

The Tuba Thieves This unconventional documentary isn’t about theft; it’s about the nature of sound itself. (R-5/22, 7:30 p.m., WORLD) DVS/TV-14

WORLD BBC News 10:30 p.m. WORLD Amanpour and Company 11:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Absence/Presence

MONDAY 20

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

Dispel the negative stereotypes about foster care and celebrate the perseverance of the children. TV-PG

(R-5/20, 9 p.m., WORLD)

WORLD NHK Newsline 6:00 p.m. WORLD Unforgettable Augustus Post

WORLD DW The Day

TUESDAY 21

Thrill-seeking adventurer Augustus Post helped steer America through a revolution in transportation.

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

WEDNESDAY 22

6:30 p.m. Iowa PBS

British Antiques Roadshow: Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 3 (R-5/25, 4:30 p.m., Iowa PBS) Discover the art, life and enduring impact of the renowned Chinese American painter Tyrus Wong. TV-PG

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

(R-5/21, 9 p.m., WORLD)

WORLD American Masters: Tyrus Wong

WORLD NHK Newsline 6:00 p.m. WORLD NOVA: Secrets in Your Data

(R-5/22, 9 p.m., WORLD)

WORLD NHK Newsline 6:00 p.m. WORLD Independent Lens: Free Chol Soo Lee After 10 years of fighting for his freedom, Chol Soo Lee becomes an inspiring icon. TV-14

7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

(See 5/15 at 8 p.m. on Iowa PBS)

6:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Iowa Life

Antiques Roadshow:

Junk in the Trunk 13 (R-5/25, 5 p.m., Iowa PBS)

Explore a culinary competition, a luthier, equine-assisted therapy and piano restoration. (R-5/26, 10:30 a.m., Iowa PBS)

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