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Programming Highlights | April 2024

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t's a beautiful month for enlightening and thought-provoking programs on WTVP.

ELTON JOHN AND BERNIE TAUPIN: THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS GERSHWIN PRIZE FOR POPULAR SONG
MONDAY, APRIL 8, 7 PM
 

The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song salutes Elton John and Bernie Taupin. A once-in-a-lifetime meeting between John, a young piano player, and lyricist Taupin together in 1967, they have forged a songwriting partnership that continues after more than 50 years. John and Taupin will receive the Gershwin Prize at an all-star concert in Washington, D.C., on March 20.
 

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Mon, 04/08/2024 @ 7:00 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Wed, 04/10/2024 @ 3:00 AM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sun, 04/14/2024 @ 2:00 AM
Gershwin Prize

Elton John and Bernie Taupin: Gershwin Prize| Preview

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Enjoy an all-star tribute to 2024 Gershwin Prize winners Elton John and Bernie Taupin

Independent Lens

Trailer | Matter of Mind: My Parkinson’s

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Facing Parkinson's disease, three Americans navigate their lives with determination.

INDEPENDENT LENS
MATTER OF MIND: MY PARKINSON’S
MONDAY, APRIL 8, 9 PM
 

In Matter of Mind: My Parkinson's, three people navigate their lives with resourcefulness and determination in the face of a degenerative illness, Parkinson’s disease. An optician pursues deep brain stimulation surgery; a mother raising a pre-teen daughter becomes a boxing coach and an advocate for exercise; and a cartoonist contemplates how he will continue to draw as his motor control declines.
 

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Mon, 04/08/2024 @ 9:00 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Tue, 04/09/2024 @ 1:00 AM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Wed, 04/10/2024 @ 2:00 AM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Wed, 04/10/2024 @ 7:00 PM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Thu, 04/11/2024 @ 12:00 AM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Thu, 04/11/2024 @ 8:00 AM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Sat, 04/13/2024 @ 11:00 AM

BRIDGING THE DIVIDE:
TOM BRADLEY AND THE POLITICS OF RACE
MONDAY, APRIL 15, 10:30 PM
 

Learn how Los Angeles mayor Tom Bradley, the first Black mayor elected in a major U.S. city with a white majority, united a divided city through a unique multi-racial coalition, ushered in police reform and transformed American politics.
 

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Mon, 04/15/2024 @ 10:30 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Tue, 04/16/2024 @ 2:30 AM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sun, 04/21/2024 @ 3:30 AM
Hoosick Street Bridge Uniting Line Mural.
Photo by Allison Valiquette.
Surrounded by media, Lois Gibbs waits outside the Love Canal Homeowners Association for a phone call from the White House. May 1980.
Mickey H. Osterreicher

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE
POISONED GROUND: THE TRAGEDY AT LOVE CANAL
MONDAY, APRIL 22, 8 PM

This film tells the story of the 1970s Love Canal disaster, one of the largest, most notorious environmental public health disasters in U.S. history, and the battle for justice, led chiefly by women, created the basis for the landmark federal Superfund program.
 

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Mon, 04/22/2024 @ 8:00 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Tue, 04/23/2024 @ 12:00 AM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Wed, 04/24/2024 @ 3:00 AM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Sat, 04/27/2024 @ 12:00 AM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Sat, 04/27/2024 @ 8:00 AM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Sat, 04/27/2024 @ 2:00 PM

EXPRESS WAY WITH DULE HILL
TUESDAY, APRIL 23 and 30, 8 PM 

The Express Way with Dulé Hill documentary series explores the power of the arts. Led by renowned actor, dancer, and singer Dulé Hill, the series captures diverse artists’ stories from across America, celebrating community, humanity, and the transformative potential of creative expression.
 

Episode #101 | CALIFORNIA

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Tue, 04/23/2024 @ 8:00 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Wed, 04/24/2024 @ 12:30 AM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Thu, 04/25/2024 @ 3:00 AM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Fri, 04/26/2024 @ 6:00 PM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Fri, 04/26/2024 @ 11:00 PM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Sat, 04/27/2024 @ 7:00 AM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Sat, 04/27/2024 @ 1:00 PM


Episode #102 | APPALACHIA

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Tue, 04/30/2024 @ 8:00 PM
The Express Way with Dulé Hill

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Tour America through the lens of creative expression and the transformative power of art.

Independent Lens

Trailer | One With the Whale

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An Alaska Native family faces backlash from environmentalists due to whale hunting.

INDEPENDENT LENS
ONE WITH THE WHALE
TUESDAY, APRIL 23, 9 PM

Hunting whales is a matter of life or death for the residents of St. Lawrence. When a shy Alaska Native teen becomes the youngest person ever to harpoon a whale for his village, his family is blindsided by thousands of keyboard activists brutally attacking him online—without full perspective on the importance of the hunt to his community’s well-being.
 

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Tue, 04/23/2024 @ 9:00 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Wed, 04/24/2024 @ 1:30 AM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Wed, 04/24/2024 @ 7:30 PM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Thu, 04/25/2024 @ 12:30 AM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Thu, 04/25/2024 @ 8:30 AM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Sat, 04/27/2024 @ 11:00 AM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sun, 04/28/2024 @ 2:00 AM

DR. EDDIE HENDERSON:
UNCOMMON GENIUS
FRIDAY, APRIL 26, 10 PM 

Dr. Eddie Henderson: Uncommon Genius tells the remarkable life story of renowned African American jazz trumpeter and flugelhorn player Eddie Henderson. Eddie’s curiosity and need for exploration led him down many career paths, including figure skating, medicine and music.
 

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Fri, 04/26/2024 @ 10:00 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sun, 04/28/2024 @ 12:31 AM
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AMERICAN STORIES:
PULLMAN AND THE RAILROAD REBELLIONS
MONDAY, APRIL 29, 9 PM

In 1864, the powerful industrialist and engineer George Pullman brought luxury to train travel with his revolutionary sleeping cars, where passengers were served by an army of formerly enslaved people who became known as pullman porters and maids. Pullman established a company town for employees, giving him complete authority over every aspect of their lives.
 

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Mon, 04/29/2024 @ 9:00 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Tue, 04/30/2024 @ 1:00 AM