ADVANCE September 2024

6:00 p.m. WORLD We’ll Meet Again: Escape From Cuba Two men search for the people who helped them come to the U.S. when they fled Castro’s Cuba. (R-9/28, 7 a.m., WORLD) TV-PG 6:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Tell Me More With Kelly Corrigan: Many Possible Lives TV-PG 7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Washington Week With The Atlantic (R-9/28, 6:30 a.m., WORLD) WORLD Frontline: The Choice 2024 (See 9/24 at 8 p.m. on Iowa PBS) (R-9/28, 2 p.m., WORLD) 7:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Iowa Press (R-9/28, 8:30 a.m., WORLD) 8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Market to Market (R-9/28, 8 a.m., WORLD) 8:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Des Moines Metro Opera Presents American Apollo

7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Father Brown: The Serpent Within Sullivan’s dream of leaving Kembleford is scuppered when he is arrested for receiving stolen goods. TV-PG WORLD America ReFramed: La Manplesa: An Uprising Remembered

TUNE IN:

A chorus of neighbors retells the story of the 1991 uprisings in Washington, D.C., sparked by the police shooting of a Salvadoran man. (R-9/28, 9 p.m., WORLD)

LBJ: American Experience Sunday, September 29 2 & 4 p.m. on Iowa PBS .1

8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Death in Paradise

Neville must solve a mystery from the past that unlocks the truth of who murdered the concert pianist and why. The life and music of musician and charismatic social activist Ramon “Chunky” Sanchez is chronicled. (R-9/28, 10 p.m., WORLD) TV-PG

11:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Midsomer Murders: Happy Families, Part 2 After a manufacturer of exclusive board games is found poisoned, Barnaby and Banks investigate. TV-PG Lyndon Baines Johnson was one of the most astute, effective and perplexing politicians in modern American history. A larger-than life figure in his day, he is appreciated for his vast domestic accomplishments, but his presidency continues to be overshadowed by his failure to end the war in Vietnam.

WORLD Singing Our Way to Freedom

9:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Midsomer Murders: Scarecrow Murders, Parts 1 & 2

This opera explores the relationship between famous portraitist John Singer Sargent and his most significant model, Thomas Eugene McKeller, a Black hotel worker, in this exploration of love, erasure and art.

A scarecrow festival to raise church funds takes a grisly turn when dead bodies are found staged like the festival’s straw creations. TV-PG

WORLD PBS News Hour 10:00 p.m. WORLD BBC News 10:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Sister Boniface Mysteries: The Book of Shadows WORLD Amanpour and Company 11:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Iowa Life

9:00 p.m. WORLD PBS News Hour 10:00 p.m. WORLD BBC News 10:30 p.m. WORLD Amanpour and Company 11:30 p.m. Iowa PBS

11:30 p.m. WORLD DW The Day

THURSDAY 26

(See 9/21 at 8 p.m. on Iowa PBS)

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

Songs at the Center: Part One: Beth Nielsen Chapman, The Accidentals, Maia Sharp, Kim Richey TV-PG

(See 9/24 at 6:30 p.m. on Iowa PBS) (R-9/29, 10:30 a.m., Iowa PBS)

(R-9/26, 9 p.m., WORLD)

WORLD NHK Newsline 6:00 p.m. WORLD Crossroads: A Conversation With America (See 9/23 at 8 p.m. on Iowa PBS) 6:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Iowa Ingredient: Mushrooms (R-9/28, 11:30 a.m., Iowa PBS)

WORLD DW The Day

WORLD DW The Day

FRIDAY 27

SATURDAY 28

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

6:00 a.m. Iowa PBS The Best of the Joy of Painting WORLD To the Contrary With Bonnie Erbe (R-9/28, 4 p.m., WORLD) 6:30 a.m. Iowa PBS 6:30–8 a.m. See page 5. WORLD Washington Week With The Atlantic (R-9/28, 4:30 p.m., WORLD)

(R-9/27, 9 p.m., WORLD)

WORLD NHK Newsline

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