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This summer, WTVP offers many ways to explore America from different perspectives and with different objectives, but always with the same sense of wonder, curiosity and collective memory. 

AMERICA OUTDOORS 
WITH BARATUNDE THURSTON 
DEATH VALLEY: LIFE BLOOMS
TUESDAY, JULY 5, 8 PM

It is the hottest place on Earth, but Death Valley is remarkably full of life. Baratunde Thurston seeks out the extremes of this national park and finds an outdoor mecca for those who embrace its heat, isolation and natural beauty. Meet an ultra-marathoner who runs in the brutal heat of summer, the mayor of a town of one, and an elder of the Timbisha Shoshone tribe, who helps us see that this is a place where life blooms.

 

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Tue, 07/05/2022 @ 8 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Wed, 07/06/2022 @ 12 AM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Wed, 07/06/2022 @ 4 AM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Thu, 07/07/2022 @ 2 AM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sat, 07/09/2022 @ 2 AM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Sat, 07/09/2022 @ 7 PM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Sat, 07/09/2022 @ 11 PM
Exploring Death Valley
Five Things You'll Learn From America Outdoors

AMERICA OUTDOORS 
WITH BARATUNDE THURSTON
IDAHO: TIED TO THE LAND
TUESDAY, JULY 12, 8 PM

Life on the American frontier is evolving. To find out how and what it means, Baratunde ventures into the wild of Idaho in search of its outdoor culture. He finds ranchers and backcountry pilots sharing the wilderness with newly resettled refugees and sees how climate change wreaks havoc on the age-old salmon fishery.

 

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Tue, 07/12/2022 @ 8 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Wed, 07/13/2022 @ 12 AM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Thu, 07/14/2022 @ 2 AM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sat, 07/16/2022 @ 2 AM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Sat, 07/16/2022 @ 7 PM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Sat, 07/16/2022 @ 11 PM

AMERICA OUTDOORS WITH
BARATUNDE THURSTON 
LA: IT'S A VIBE
TUESDAY, JULY 19, 8 PM

Baratunde explores his adopted hometown of Los Angeles to learn how Angelinos connect with the outdoors in their sprawling city. Meet kayakers saving a polluted river and Black surfers claiming their place on the waves.

 

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Tue, 07/19/2022 @ 8 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Wed, 07/20/2022 @ 12 AM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Thu, 07/21/2022 @ 2 AM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sat, 07/23/2022 @ 2 AM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Sat, 07/23/2022 @ 7 PM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Sat, 07/23/2022 @ 11 PM
Five Things You Should Know About Baratunde Thurston
Sneak Peek

AMERICA OUTDOORS WITH
BARATUNDE THURSTON 
APPALACHIA: A DIFFERENT WAY
TUESDAY, JULY 26, 8 PM

Baratunde meets the people of Appalachia who are driving a revolution in how we see and interact with nature. Meet a record-breaking hiker, former coal miners raising bees, and activists working to make the outdoors accessible to everyone.

 

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Tue, 07/26/2022 @ 8 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Wed, 07/27/2022 @ 12 AM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sat, 07/30/2022 @ 2 AM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Sat, 07/30/2022 @ 7 PM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Sat, 07/30/2022 @ 11 PM

THE GREAT MUSLIM AMERICAN ROAD TRIP
LIFE IS A HIGHWAY: CHICAGO TO JOPLIN 
TUESDAY, JULY 5, 9 PM

Join Mona Haydar and husband Sebastian Robins as they drive the first leg of Route 66 and discover America's Muslim roots, a history that goes back to the 1800s. Along the way, the young couple experience some tests in their relationship.

 

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Tue, 07/05/2022 @ 9 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Wed, 07/06/2022 @ 1 AM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Sat, 07/09/2022 @ 8 PM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Sun, 07/10/2022 @ 12 AM

THE GREAT MUSLIM AMERICAN ROAD TRIP
A BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS 
TUESDAY, JULY 12, 9 PM

Mona Haydar and Sebastian Robins learn why many African Americans converted to Islam, how Muslims excelled in modern jazz and why Catholics and Muslims revere the Virgin Mary. The couple celebrates their ninth anniversary on a mountaintop.

 

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Tue, 07/12/2022 @ 9 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Wed, 07/13/2022 @ 1 AM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Sat, 07/16/2022 @ 8 PM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Sun, 07/17/2022 @ 12 AM

IN THE WATER: BEHIND THE LENS
SUNDAY, JULY 17, 6 PM

In the Water: Behind the Lens is a film about surf photographers who shoot from the water and the dangers and challenges they face to get the shot published in surf magazines worldwide.

 

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sun, 07/17/2022 @ 6 PM

THE GREAT MUSLIM AMERICAN ROAD TRIP 
BACK ON THE ROAD AGAIN: ARIZONA 
TUESDAY, JULY 19, 9 PM

Mona Haydar and Sebastian Robins meet setbacks and surprises while driving the last leg of Route 66. They learn about a 16th-century Muslim explorer and a Syrian camel driver who surveyed Route 66 and found an unlikely Muslim village in Las Vegas.

 

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Tue, 07/19/2022 @ 9 PM
  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Wed, 07/20/2022 @ 1 AM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Sat, 07/23/2022 @ 8 PM
  • WTVP-WORLD 47.3 - Sun, 07/24/2022 @ 12 AM

LEISURAMA
SUNDAY, JULY 24, 6 PM

In 1963, All-State Properties, capitalizing on publicity from an international debate between Nixon and Khrushchev, built a development of vacation homes in Montauk, New York. They came fully furnished, down to the toothbrush.

 

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sun, 07/24/2022 @ 6 PM

A WILD IDEA: THE BIRTH OF THE APA
SUNDAY, JULY 31, 6 PM

New York's Adirondack Park is larger than Yellowstone, Yosemite, Glacier, Grand Canyon, and Great Smokies National Parks combined. It is one of Earth's largest unbroken deciduous forests, with a thousand miles of streams and rivers, hundreds of lakes, and lofty peaks. A Wild Idea: The Birth of the APA chronicles the history of the park and the founding of the Adirondack Park Agency 50 years ago.

 

  • WTVP-HD 47.1 - Sun, 07/31/2022 @ 6 PM