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By Kate Dobrovolny, Station Manager

“I can’t get your station!”

We know that reception problems—whether caused by a momentary loss of power or a limited coverage area—are frustrating to our listeners and viewers. Unfortunately, there isn’t always a quick fix. We are addressing these issues in several ways, which I’ll outline here. For more details, visit us online at will.illinois.edu. Most importantly, if you are having a problem receiving WILL, don’t hesitate to give us a call. Often, advice from our engineers can help you find a solution.

Storms can interrupt service on AM 580 for two reasons: lightning near the antenna, which causes the transmitter to shut down to protect itself, and power outages. This fall we are starting major repairs to the AM tower, and we will also be moving electrical lines from overhead to underground. These efforts will help solve, but not completely eliminate, storm-related problems.

Because of AM’s limited coverage area to the west of Champaign-Urbana and a requirement that it reduce power at night, many potential listeners can’t receive the AM signal. The costs involved with building a new translator or tower are prohibitive, which is one reason we elected to carry the signature NPR news programs on WILL-FM. AM 580 programs are also streamed and archived online.

Digital radio and television signals have caused reception problems for some. (A different type or different position of antenna can often help. Give us a call or visit us online for details.) Digital radio doesn’t penetrate metropolitan areas very well. The FCC has given us permission to increase the strength of our digital radio signal by 60 percent. We are waiting for software to be manufactured to accomplish this signal power increase, which we estimate will cost about $10,000.

We have applied to the FCC for a power increase for our digital TV signal, but another broadcaster has objected. The FCC will review our request and make a decision. Although the power increase is our first choice, another solution could be to build a UHF translator in Champaign-Urbana, which would also help people in Danville receive the signal. The translator would cost about $100,000.

Offering you a reliable service is a top priority, and we will continue to seek the best solutions for reception problems.

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90.9 FM: A mix of classical music and NPR information programs, including local news. (Also heard at 106.5 in Danville.) See pages 4-5.101.1 FM and 90.9 FM HD2: Locally produced music programs and classical music from C24. (101.1 is available in the Champaign-Urbana area.) See page 6. 580 AM: News and information, NPR, BBC, news, agriculture, talk shows. (Also heard on 90.9 FM HD3 with live streaming on will.illinois.edu.) See page 7.

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in key races and bring them to you in in-depth reports as well as on our special elec-tion website to debut at will.illinois.edu this month. Our goal is to concentrate less on the petty politics of campaign season and focus more on how those candidates would forge policy in Washington and Springfield.

As Patterns went to press, details were still being worked out for a possible guberna-torial debate at 8 pm Thursday, Oct. 14, and a possible U.S. Senate debate at 8 pm Thursday, Oct. 21. Both would take place at WSIU-TV Carbondale and air live on WILL-TV and WILL-AM.

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Media will bring you the views of the candi-dates running for statewide, Congressional and legislative offices. The state’s budget predicament forms the backdrop for the battle for the governor’s mansion as well as key state House and Senate seats in central Illinois, and the state’s voters will also help guide the future makeup of Congress with a heated battle for an open Senate seat.

WILL and Illinois Public Radio reporters will seek out the stances of the candidates

Researcher Cynthia Moss and her Maa-sai colleagues at the Amboseli Trust for Elephants in Kenya first began following an elephant they named Echo (for the resounding beeps from her radio transmit-ter collar) in 1973. By the time Sir David Attenborough filmed his first documentary about Echo in 1990, the gentle animal had become the matriarch of the E Herd.

In fact, much of what scientists now know about elephants was learned from Echo, who died of natural causes last fall at the age of 65. Through daily observations, Moss and her team documented Echo’s leadership in guiding her growing family through feast and famine.

Nature looks back at this amazing animal through film footage and interviews with

the researchers who cared for and studied Echo and her herd in Echo: An Elephant to Re-member at 7 pm Sunday, Oct. 17, on WILL-TV.

Then the following week, Nature: A Murder of Crows (7 pm Oct. 24) explores new research showing that crows—despite their bad reputations—are among the most intelligent animals in the world. Recent findings on crows include their ability to use tools as only elephants and chimpan-zees do, to recognize each other’s voices and 250 distinct calls, as well as to recog-nize individual humans and to select them from a crowd up to two years later.

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The story, narrated by former M*A*S*H TV series star David Ogden Stiers, is told through the first-person recollections of primary participants in the case, particular-ly McCollum herself, and her sons Jim and Dannel McCollum. Rosenstein conducted two separate in-depth interviews with her before she died in 2006 at age 93.

Rosenstein, a University of Illinois as-sociate professor of journalism, said he approached the story as more than a legal saga. “It’s a story of great courage, of one person standing up against popular beliefs and, despite many obstacles, achieving something of great importance,” he said.

McCollum filed suit in 1945 after her son Jim suffered abuse, including beatings, from his fifth grade classmates because he was the only student in his class not taking the school’s voluntary Protestant religion class, the same type of course being taken by more than 2 million students nation-wide at the time.

School officials refused to take action to prevent the abuse. Finally, when Jim came home crying because he had been forced to sit in a desk in the hallway alone while the religion class took place in his class-room, she decided to take action. “I made up my mind,” she remembered with anger 60 years later. “Never again would he be put in the hall.” She sued the school board. After she lost in lower court decisions, she won a resounding 8-1 decision in the U.S. Supreme Court, establishing the founda-tion for the separation of church and state in public schools.

The program will be repeated at 7:30 pm Friday, Oct. 15, followed by a discussion of the documentary hosted by WILL’s David Inge with guests Rosenstein and Dan Mc-

Vashti McCollum was called “that awful woman” by her neighbors and “that atheist mother” by newspapers across the country. Her friends stopped returning phone calls rather than risk speaking with her.

All because, in 1945, the young Champaign mother filed a historic lawsuit, which she eventually won, that forever changed the relationship between religion and public schools in America.

The Lord Is Not on Trial Here Today, a one-hour documentary by Champaign film-maker Jay Rosenstein, tells the personal story behind her case, one of the most important First Amendment cases in U.S. history, McCollum v. Board of Education. It premieres on television at 7 pm Tuesday, Oct. 12, on WILL-TV. The film recounts what McCollum later described as “three years of headlines, headaches and hatred.”

The story of one Champaign mother’s challenge to religious education in public schools

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Opera Gala is October 23In opera as in life, sometimes two people click and sometimes they don’t. Among opera singers, it’s not just the beauty of the voices, but also how the two personalities play off one another. During this year’s Opera Gala (1 pm Oct. 23) on WILL-FM 90.9, John Frayne and Roger Cooper look at some of the great duos of the past (Bjorling and Merrill) as well as some recent pairs (Anna Netrebko and Rolando Villazon) of singers who have attained that special accolade of creating an effect greater than its parts. Call in during Two’s Company: Your Favorite Opera Duo with your favorite pairs of singers and join the Gala fun. You may even win one of our special giveaways!

Collum. WILL-TV is the sponsoring station for the documentary, which will air on PBS stations around the country in March 2011.

The documentary has been nominated for three Emmy Awards from the Mid America Chapter of the National Academy of Televi-sion Arts and Sciences: historical docu-mentary, musical composition and writing. Major funding for the documentary was provided by the Independent Television Service, the U of I Urbana Office of the Chancellor, and the Illinois Humanities Council.

WILL-AM’s Focus at 11:06 Wednesday, Oct. 6, will look at the constitutional issue of separation of church and state with guest Steven Shiffrin of Cornell Law School.

in social reform movements from abolition to civil rights, examines the impact of reli-gious faith on conflicts from the American Revolution to the Cold War and tells how guarantees of religious freedom created a competitive American religious marketplace. It also explores the intersection of political struggle and spiritual experience in the lives of key American historical figures including Franciscan Friars, Pueblo leader Po’pay, Pu-ritan leader John Winthrop, dissident Anne Hutchinson, Catholic Bishop John Hughes, abolitionist Frederick Douglass, Presidents Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln, reform Rabbi Isaac Meyer Wise, Scopes trial combatants William Jennings Bryan and Clarence Darrow, evangelist Billy Graham, civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Moral Majority’s Jerry Falwell.

How has religious belief shaped American history? What role have religious ideas and spiritual experience played in shaping the social, political and cultural life of what has become the world’s most religiously diverse nation? God in America, a presentation of American Experience and Frontline, will explore the historical role of religion in the public life of the United States. The six-hour series, airing at 8 pm Monday-Wednesday, Oct. 11-13, interweaves docu-mentary footage, historical dramatization and interviews with religious historians.

God in America examines the complex interaction between religion and democ-racy, the origins of the American concept of religious liberty and the controversial evolu-tion of that ideal in the nation’s courts and political arena. The series considers the role religious ideas and institutions have played

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6 amNPR Morning Editionwith Renee Montagne, Steve Inskeep and Jim Meadows

9 amClassic Mornings with Vic Di GeronimoJoin Vic for music and companionship and make each morning a classic morning!

NoonLive and Local with Kevin KellyKevin’s get-together features music and a daily serv-ing of news about, and interviews with, area music-makers, plus a calendar of regional music events. 1 pmAfternoon ClassicsJulie Amacher, Lynn Warfel and Mindy Ratner keep you company throughout the afternoon. Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac is at 1:01. NPR News Headlines at 3:01.

5 pmNPR All Things Consideredwith Robert Siegel, Melissa Block and Michele Norris

7 pmThe Evening ConcertGreat orchestras from the great concert halls!Monday: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra10/4 ManfredHoneck,cond;YefimBronfman,

piano R.STRAUSS;MOZART;BEETHOVEN10/11 Andres Cardenes, cond & violin; Igor Kipnis,

harpsichord BACH:BrandenburgConcertos1–610/18 ManfredHoneck,cond;FrankPeter

Zimmermann,violin BEETHOVEN;MOZART;BEETHOVEN10/25 Manfred Honeck, cond; Mendelssohn Choir BEETHOVEN;MAHLER:2ndSymphony

Tuesday: 10/5 MAHLER150thANNIVERSARYNo.3

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WAGNER;10/19 TrevorPinnock,HarryBicket,cond;Paul

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Wednesday: Cleveland Orchestra10/6 BertranddeBilly,cond;JonathanBiss,piano BEETHOVEN;MOZART;DVORAK10/13 IvanFischer,cond;RichardGoode,piano WEBER;BEETHOVEN;RACHMANINOFF10/20 VladimirAshkenazy,cond;IngridFliter,piano GLAZUNOV,CHOPIN;PROKOFIEV10/27 MitsukoUchida,piano,andcond; Anall-MOZARTprogram

Thursday: Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival10/7 BACH;HAYDN;RAVEL; MENDELSSOHN;JANACEK;DVORAK10/14 HAYDN;MENDELSSOHN PIAZZOLLA;MARTINU;BRAHMS10/21 BACH;PACHELEBEL;VIVALDI BRITTEN;BRUCKNER;BRAUNFELS10/28 DEBUSSY;MENDELSSOHN WEBER;BARTOK

Friday: Prairie PerformancesThis month, we feature performances from the 2010 Allerton Music Barn event. See page 6 for details.

9 pmNight MusicGillian Martin, Bob Christiansen, Ward Jacobson, Scott Blankenship or John Zech keep you company through the night and into the morning. NPR News Headlines at 9:01.

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9 amClassics By RequestJohn Frayne plays requests for two hours at this time each Saturday. Submit requests at [email protected] or 217-265-5084. Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac at 9:01.

11 amClassics of the PhonographJohn Frayne’s weekly exploration of classical music from the pre-digital recording era. 10/2 TheSaintLouisSymphonyOrchestra10/9 ProkofievasFilmComposer10/16UndiscoveredCountries:Mozart’sSerenades10/23MajorProjects:TheCompleteStravinsky10/30ToRepeatorNottoRepeat…Thatisthe

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Noon Afternoon at the OperaThis month we present productions from the San Francisco Opera.10/2 THE DAUGHTER OF THE REGIMENT

(Donizetti).AndriyYurkevych,cond,withDiannaDamrauandJuanDiegoFlorez.

10/9 THE GIRL OF THE GOLDEN WEST (Puccini).NicolaLuisotti,cond,withDeborahVoigtandSalvatoreLicitra.

10/16SALOME(R.Strauss).NicolaLuisotti,cond,withNadjaMichaelandGreerGrimsley.

10/23OPERA GALA:Two’sCompany.Seepage3.10/30ARIODANTE(Handel).PatrickSummers,

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4 pmNPR All Things Considered

5 pmA Prairie Home CompanionGarrison Keillor and friends present music, skits, and the latest news from Lake Wobegon. [Also Sundays at 2 pm]

7 pmClassics All NightBob Christiansen and Scott Blankenship keep you company Saturday night and into Sunday morning. NPR News Headlines at 7:01 and 10:01.

7 amNPR Weekend Editionwith Liane Hansen

9 amSunday BaroqueSuzanne Bona provides relaxing early music by the likes of Bach, Handel and Vivaldi. Garrison Keillor’s The Writer’s Almanac at 9:01.

1 pmFrom the TopA live performance program featuring America’s best young classical musicians, hosted by pianist Christo-pher O’Riley.

2 pmA Prairie Home CompanionGarrison Keillor and friends present music, skits and the latest news from Lake Wobegon.

4 pmNPR All Things Considered

5 pmClassical MusicMindy Ratner and Valerie Kahler are your hosts. NPR News Headlines at 7:01.

10 pmHarmoniaAngela Mariani presents Baroque and early music. NPR News Headlines at 10:01.

11 pmThe Romantic HoursMusic, poetry and romance with Mona Golabek.

midnightClassical MusicScott Blankenship and John Zech are your hosts throughout the night and into the morning.

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9 am-noonClassic Mornings with Vic Di GeronimoJoin Vic for music and companionship and make each morning a classic morning!

Noon-1 pmLive and Local with Kevin KellyKevin’s get-together features music and a daily serv-ing of news about, and interviews with, area music-makers, plus a calendar of regional music events.

1 pm - overnightClassical Music/Friday: Prairie Performances 7-9 pm

7-9 amClassical Music

9-11 amClassics by RequestJohn Frayne plays requests at this time each Sat-urday. Submit requests at [email protected] or 217-265-5084.

11 am-NoonClassics of the PhonographJohn Frayne’s weekly exploration of classical music from the pre-digital recording era. See page 5 for listings.

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WILL-FM’s Prairie Performances (7 pm Fridays) during October features music from the 2010 Allerton Music Barn Festival, show-casing world-renowned guest artists and Grammy-winning faculty from the University of Illinois School of Music.

“These outstanding Allerton Music Barn Festival concerts are a great way to start our new Prairie Performances season,” host Roger Cooper said. “We’re happy that people who weren’t able to attend the festival can hear the music on WILL-FM.”

Oct. 1: Part I: Nathan and Julie Gunn performing selections from their most recent compact disc, “Just Before Sunrise,” including songs and lyrics from artists such as W.H. Auden, Billy Joel, Sting and Jimmy Van Heusen. Part II: Trumpeter Jon Faddis, the artistic director of the Chicago Jazz Ensemble, with members of the U of I jazz faculty.

Oct. 8: The Pacifica Quartet and a world premiere, Anima Liberata, for soprano, cello and piano, composed by U of I professor Reynold Tharp, the first work to be commissioned for the fes-tival. The Pacifica Quartet performing Shosta-kovich’s String Quartet No. 5, and Chausson’s Concert.

Oct. 15: The Allerton Bach Choir and soloists performing works of Bach with the Allerton Festival Orchestra conducted by U of I music professor Fred Stoltzfus. Performers include vocalists Ollie Watts Davis, Jerold Siena and Desiree Hassler. Violinist Stefan Milenkovich will perform Bach’s Sonata No. 1.

Oct. 22: Pianist Ian Hobson performing, for the first time, the complete Iberia, the masterwork by Spanish composer Isaac Albeniz.

Oct. 29: U of I faculty playing Mozart’s Grand Partita and Richard Strauss’ Symphony for Wind, with Robert Rumbelow conducting.


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Wed and Sun: Garden Smart/Garden Home (S); Ask This Old House; For Your Home; Katie Brown WorkshopArts and Crafts(5-6 am; 11-noon; 5-6 pm; 11-midnight)Sun and Wed: Knit and Crochet Today; Gary Spetz’s Watercolor QuestMon and Fri: Sewing with Nancy; One Stroke PaintingTue and Thu: Scheewe Art Workshop; Best of the Joy of PaintingSaturday Marathons in OctoberA six-hour block of themed programmingOct. 2: Fall into Foliage Creative input from painters, chefs, crafts people and master gardeners to inspire you!Oct. 9: A Day with Lidia Preparing classic meals with Lidia’s children and grandchildren.Oct. 16: Stayin’ Alive Learn how to take control of your health with good, healthy foods.Oct. 23: Time Travel Ancient architecture, cities, cultures and cuisines. Oct. 30: Trick or Treat Recipes for treats from Katie Brown and jack-o-lantern ideas from P. Allen Smith.

See the full Create and World schedules at will.illinois.edu

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Mondays 7:00 Wolves in Paradise (10/11); Journey of the Broad-Winged Hawk (10/25) 8:00 Nature 11:00 The Rise and Fall of Islamic Spain (10/4); Bear Island (10/11); Jerusalem: Center of the World (10/18); Rare Bird (10/25)Tuesdays 7:30 Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One (10/5); Death of the Old West (10/26) 8:00 Am. Masters (10/5); Three Faiths, One God (10/12); Wilder: An American First (10/19); Am. Experience: Buffalo Bill (10/26) 11:00 Am. Masters: A Letter to Elia (10/5); God in America: Part 1 (10/12); Hubert Humphrey: The Art of the Possible (10/19); Am. Experience: Kit Carson (10/26)Wednesdays 7:00 Independent Lens (10/20) 8:00 A Story of Schizophrenia (10/6); Three Faiths, One God (10/13); Frontline (10/20, 10/27) 11:00 POV: The Pentagon Papers (10/6); God in America: Part 2 (10/13); Music’s Gonna Get You Through (10/20); Washing Away: After the Storms (10/27) 11:30 Independent Lens: Art & Copy (10/27)Thursdays 7:00 Everyday Edisons (10/7, 10/21); NOVA (10/28) 7:30 Everyday Edisons (10/7, 10/21) 8:00 NOVA 11:00 Everyday Edisons (10/7, 10/21); God in America: Part 3 (10/14); NOVA (10/28) 11:30 Everyday Edisons (10/7, 10/21)

Fridays 7:00 How the Beatles Rocked the Kremlin (10/1); Synchronized Swimming (10/8); 7:30 Unconquered Seminoles (10/22); George Catlin and the Plains Indians (10/29) 8:00 Rock Prophecies (10/1); Lords of the Gourd (10/8); Adventists (10/15); Blackfeet Encounter (10/22); 1904 Ft. Shaw Indian Basketball (10/29) 11:00 Am. Masters: Marvin Gaye (10/1); Hairworld (10/8); Beyond Theology (10/15); Am. Experience: We Shall Remain (10/22, 10/29) 11:30 America’s Religious Environmental Movement (10/15)Saturdays 7:00 As We Forgive (10/2); POV (10/9); Global Voices (10/16); Everest: A Climb for Peace (10/23); American Muslim Learns to Fly (10/30) 8:00 POV (10/2); Global Voices (10/9, 10/23, 10/30); Gearing Up (10/16) 9:00 POV (10/9); World’s Toughest Math Contest (10/16) 9:30 POV (10/2, 10/30); Global Voices (10/23) 10:00 As We Forgive (10/9); Global Voices (10/16) 10:30 Hapa: One Step at a Time (10/23) 11:00 As We Forgive (10/2); POV (10/9); Global Voices (10/16); Everest: A Climb for Peace (10/23); American Muslim Learns to Fly (10/30)Sundays 7:00 Washington Week 7:30 McLaughlin Group 8:00 Need to Know 9:00 Global Voices 10:00 Global Voices 10:30 Hapa: One Step at a Time (10/10); Washing Away: After the Storms (10/31) 11:00 Washington Week 11:30 McLaughlin Group


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Art W: Wild Gardens Th: B Organic F: Beauty of Oil Painting

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(begins 10/11) Tu: Wai Lana Yoga W: Garden Smart Th: Katie Brown Workshop F: Woodwright’s Shop

Market to Market (M) Nightly Business Report (T-F) Body Electric (M, W, F) Sit and Be Fit (T, Th) Between the Lions Clifford Curious George The Cat in the Hat Super WHY! Dinosaur Train Sesame Street Sid the Science Kid WordWorld Super Why! Barney & Friends The Cat in the Hat A Place of Our Own Sewing Programs Painting and How To Programs How Tos Martha Speaks Arthur WordGirl Electric Company/ Sci Girls (F) Fetch!/Design Squad (F) BBC World News Nightly Business Report PBS NewsHour

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Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood Angelina Ballerina Curious George The Cat in the Hat Super WHY! Dinosaur Train Thomas & Friends Bob the Builder Sid the Science Kid A Place of Our Own Growing a Greener World Endless Feast Illinois Gardener Victory Garden America’s Test Kitchen Cook's Country Mexico: One Plate at a Time Rachel’s Favorite Food at Home/Avec Eric (begins 10/30) Primal Grill/Martin Yan’s Hidden China (begins 10/30) Lidia’s Italy Illinois Adventure Heartland Highways Hometime This Old House Hour Rick Steves’ Europe Lawrence Welk

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Nothing Victorian about this SherlockMasterpiece Mystery! unveils a contemporary version of the classic detective Sherlock Holmes, created by the Doctor Who duo of Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss. The new show co-stars Benedict Cumberbatch (Atonement, The Last Enemy) in the title role with Martin Freeman (The Office UK) as Dr. John Watson. Their adventures are full of details, places and plot elements with unique 21st century twists. The program debuts with A Study in Pink (8 pm Sunday, Oct. 24) as Holmes and Watson confront the work of a serial killer. In The Blind Banker (Oct. 31), the pair follow a murderer’s trail to London’s Chinatown.

A gifted and controversial directorHeralded for his impressive direction of movies, including On the Waterfront, East of Eden and A Streetcar Named Desire, Elia Kazan was also known for revealing names to the House Committee on Un-American Activities. Using interview footage, along with photos and film clips, filmmaker Martin Scorsese provides a poignant reflection on Kazan’s life in American Masters: A Letter to Elia (8 pm Oct. 4) while also revealing Kazan’s influence on his career.

Put out the welcome matThe new season of This Old House will transform a 1940s property along the Charles River in Auburndale, Mass., then tackle its first-ever (and yet to be selected) renovation projects in Los Angeles. Don’t miss the season premiere at 8 pm Thursday, Oct. 7.

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A new maestro for CSOGreat Performances captures the excitement of Riccardo Muti’s arrival as the 10th music director of the renowned Chicago Symphony Orchestra in the telecast of CSO’s Oct. 14 concert. Airing at 8 pm Wednesday, Oct. 27, the performance features Paul Hindemith’s Concert Music for String Orchestra and Brass, Cherubini’s Requiem in C Minor and the world premiere of Bernard Rands’ Danza Petrificada, a CSO commission inspired by the words of Mexican poet Octavio Paz.

Celebrating America’s composersMichael Feinstein’s American Songbook chronicles Feinstein’s ongoing quest to preserve, perpetuate and celebrate the uniquely American music created by some of the nation’s finest composers and lyricists: George and Ira Gershwin, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Richard Rodgers, Harold Arlen, Johnny Mercer and Harry Warren. The three-part series airs at 7 pm Wednesday, Oct. 6, 13 and 20.

A story of conscience and truthThe recent Wiki Leaks evoked memories of Daniel Ellsberg’s release of a secret Pentagon history on U.S. involvement in Vietnam to The New York Times in 1971. Now POV presents a comprehensive look at both Ellsberg and the resulting political firestorm that may have sealed Americans’ disenchantment with the Vietnam War while assuring the fate of the Nixon administration. The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, an Academy Award nominee for best documentary feature, airs at 8 pm Tuesday, Oct. 5.

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Friday Night Public Affairs 7:00 Washington Week 7:30 Need to Know 8:30 BBC Newsnight

BritCom Saturday Night 8:00 As Time Goes By 8:30 Keeping Up Appearances 9:00 Are You Being Served? 9:30 Chef!10:00 Red Green Show10:30 Doctor Who11:15 Doctor Who Confidential

1Friday 7:00 Public Affairs

See above. 9:00 Sherlock Holmes (TV-G)

The Solitary Cyclist. Violet Smith consults Sherlock Holmes about a mysterious cyclist who has been following her on a regular basis. Could he be trying to protect her from three men attempting to take her inheritance? Repeated 5 pm Sunday.

10:00 Last of the Summer Wine10:29 Are You Being Served?11:00 Charlie Rose

2Saturday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G)

Unique Antiques. Repeated from 7 pm Monday.

8:00 BritCom Saturday NightSee above.

11:30 Austin City Limits (TV-PG)Jimmy Cliff.

3Sunday 7:00 Nature (TV-PG) (DVS)

Black Mamba. A team of herpetologists gath-ers in the tiny country of Swaziland in southern Africa to study the natural behavior of the world’s most venomous and most misunder-stood snake. Repeated 4 am Tuesday.

8:00 Masterpiece Mystery! (TV-PG) (DVS)Wallander, Series II: Faceless Killers. Wal-lender (Kenneth Branagh) investigates the slaying of an elderly couple at an isolated farmhouse, with results that cause him to doubt his abilities as a police officer. Repeated midnight Monday; 2 am Tuesday; and 1:30 am Saturday.

9:30 Ever Decreasing Circles10:00 Globe Trekker (TV-G) (DVS)

Food Hour: Mexico.11:00 Woodsongs (TV-G)

Doyle Lawson and Quicksilver & Samantha Crain and The Midnight Shivers.

4Monday 7:00 Antiques Roadshow (TV-G)

Philadelphia, Pa. Part 2 of 3. Repeated 7 pm Saturday.

8:00 American Masters (TV-PG)A Letter to Elia. See article page 10. Repeated midnight Tuesday; 3 am Wednesday; and 3 am Thursday.

9:30 America’s Grasslands: A Threatened National Treasure (TV-G)Explore the uniqueness of the grasslands, the complicated reasons we’re losing this resource and the efforts of ranchers and conservation-ists to protect it.


5Tuesday 7:00 NOVA (TV-G) (DVS)

AstroSpies. Investigative author Jim Bamford probes the untold story of the elite corps of clandestine astronauts who were never told of the true purpose of their training program. Repeated 2 am Wednesday.

8:00 POV (TV-PG)The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers. See article page 11. Repeated midnight Wednesday; 2 am Friday; and 1 am Sunday.


6Wednesday 7:00 Michael Feinstein's American Songbook

(TV-G) Putting on the Tail Fins. Part 1 of 3. See article page 11. Repeated 4 am Friday; and 4 pm Sunday.

8:00 Great Performances (TV-14)Macbeth. Originating at England’s innova-tive Chichester Festival Theatre, director Rupert Goold re-interprets his stage produc-tion, complete with the bloody action, to the underground netherworld of a timeless and nameless country. Patrick Stewart and Kate Fleetwood star in their Tony-nominated leading roles. Repeated midnight Thursday; and 1:30 am Monday.

11:00 Charlie Rose

7Thursday 7:00 Illinois Gardener

Repeated 11 am Saturday. 7:30 Illinois Pioneers

Champaign Schools. Explore the history of the buildings, leaders and events that transformed education in Champaign.

8:00 This Old House Hour (TV-G)Season Premiere. See article page 10. Re-peated 4:30 pm Saturday.



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National Preserve (TV-G)The story of the massive, mysterious marsh-land that continues to inspire deep passions for and bitter debate about one of the last great wild places in the world.

9:30 Protecting Paradise: The Western Everglades (TV-G)A look at the grassroots conservation efforts surrounding the cypress-studded marshland on the western edge of the Everglades which launched an environmental battle that ended at the Supreme Court.



See left. 9:00 Sherlock Holmes (TV-G)

The Crooked Man. As Holmes and Watson investigate the death of Colonel James Bar-clay, a tragic love story exposes the identity of a horribly deformed man. Repeated 5 pm Sunday.



Philadelphia, Pa. Part 2 of 3. Repeated from 7 pm Monday.

8:00 BritCom Saturday NightSee left.

11:30 Austin City Limits (TV-PG)Spoon.

10Sunday 7:00 Nature (TV-PG)

The Wolf That Changed America. This retell-ing of Ernest Thompson Seton’s pursuit of a renegade wolf in 1893 captures the essence of the vanishing wilderness, which led to the establishment of the National Park Service and the Boy Scouts. Repeated 4 am Tuesday.

8:00 Masterpiece Mystery! (TV-PG) (DVS)Wallander, Series II: The Man Who Smiled. An old friend contacts Wallander with the belief that his father has been murdered, but sub-sequent events demonstrate there might be more to the case. Repeated midnight Monday; 2 am Tuesday; and 1:30 am Saturday.


Utah & Colorado.11:00 Woodsongs (TV-G)

Almira Fawn & The Dixie Bee-Liners.


Philadelphia, Pa. Part 3 of 3. Repeated 4 am Wednesday; and 3 am and 7 pm Saturday.

8:00 God In America (TV-PG)A New Adam/A New Eden. Part 1 of 3. See article page 3. Repeated midnight Tuesday; and 2 am Wednesday.


12Tuesday 7:00 The Lord Is Not On Trial Here Today

See article page 2. Repeated 7:30 pm Friday; and 3 pm Sunday.

8:00 God In America (TV-PG)Rebirth/A New Light from Above. Part 2 of 3. See article page 3. Repeated midnight Wednesday; and 2 am Thursday.



(TV-G) Best Band in the Land. Part 2 of 3. See article page 11. Repeated 4 am Friday; 4 pm Sunday; and 4 am Monday.

8:00 God In America (TV-PG)Soul of a Nation/Of God and Caesar. Part 3 of 3. See article page 3. Repeated midnight Thursday; 2 am Friday; 1 am Sunday; and 2 am Monday.




Vice & Bootlegging. Discover the days when Champaign had its share of illegal activities.

8:00 Election 2010 Debate (tentative)Illinois Gubernatorial Race. See article page 1.

9:00 This Old House Hour (TV-G)Repeated 4:30 pm Saturday.


15Friday 7:00 Washington Week 7:30 The Lord Is Not On Trial Here Today

Repeated from 7 pm Tuesday. 8:30 The Lord Is Not On Trial Here Today:

Follow-UpSee article page 2.


WILL-TV 9:30 Sherlock Holmes (TV-G)

The Speckled Band. Julia Stoner’s stepfather, her only housemate, intends to use his deadly snake as a murder tool; Holmes and Watson try to determine his motives. Repeated 5 pm Sunday.

10:30 Are You Being Served?11:00 Charlie Rose


Philadelphia, Pa. Part 3 of 3. Repeated from 7 pm Monday.

8:00 BritCom Saturday NightSee page 12.

11:30 Austin City Limits (TV-PG)Patty Griffin & Friends.

17Sunday 7:00 Nature (TV-PG)

Echo: An Elephant to Remember. See article page 1. Repeated 4 am Tuesday.

8:00 Masterpiece Mystery! (TV-PG) (DVS)Wallander, Series II: The Fifth Woman. Two seemingly unconnected cases lead Wallander to believe he is on the trail of a serial killer bent on revenge. Repeated midnight Monday; 2 am Tuesday; 1:30 am Saturday; and 2 am Sunday.


South Atlantic.11:00 Woodsongs (TV-G)

Beausoleil.


Tucson, Az. Part 2 of 3. Repeated 4 am Wednesday; and 7 pm Saturday.

8:00 American Experience (TV-PG) (DVS)We Shall Remain: After The Mayflower. Part 1 of 3. A look at how the actions of Indian leader Massasoit in negotiating with a ragged group of English colonists turned on the American natives a half century later. Repeated mid-night Tuesday; and 2 am Wednesday.

9:30 Constant Motion: The Job of the Railway Postal Clerks (TV-G)Through first-person accounts with 11 former Railway Postal Clerks, this WEIU-TV production explores the life and times of the men who worked the mail into hundreds of pouches and slots at 60-80 miles per hour.


19Tuesday 7:00 NOVA (TV-G) (DVS)

Building The Great Cathedrals. Join a team of experts as they investigate and reveal the architectural secrets that the Gothic cathedral builders used, along with hand tools

and stone, to erect their soaring, glass-filled walls. Repeated 1 am Wednesday; and 4 am Thursday.

8:00 FrontlineDeath by Fire. An examination of one of many controversial death penalty cases in Texas, the 2004 execution of Cameron Todd Willingham, convicted for the arson that killed his three young children.

9:00 Independent Lens (TV-PG)The Parking Lot Movie. A singular parking lot in Charlottesville, Va., is home to a uniquely varied group of attendants: undergraduate and graduate students, philosophers, intellectu-als, musicians and artists. Repeated 2 am Thursday.



(TV-G) A New Step Every Day. Part 3 of 3. See article page 11. Repeated 4 am Friday; 4 pm Sunday; and 4 am Monday.

8:00 In Performance at the White House (TV-G)A Broadway Celebration. Nathan Lane hosts a review of tunes from Broadway’s most beloved musicals, featuring performances by Tony Award nominees and winners. Repeated 9 pm tonight; midnight and 1 am Thursday; 2 am and 3 am Friday; 3 pm Sunday; and 2 am and 3 am Monday.

9:00 In Performance at the White House (TV-G)A Broadway Celebration. Repeated from 8 pm.

10:00 Last of the Summer Wine10:30 Are You Being Served? 11:00 Charlie Rose



Transportation. Discover the history of street cars and the Interurban in Champaign.

8:00 Election 2010 Debate (tentative)Illinois Senatorial Race. See article page 1.

9:00 This Old House Hour (TV-G)Repeated 4:30 pm Saturday.



See page 12. 9:00 Sherlock Holmes (TV-G)

The Blue Carbuncle. Holmes looks for the thief of a mysterious jewel that has been stolen from the Countess of Morcar and is found inside a Christmas goose. Repeated 5 pm Sunday.

10:00 Last of the Summer Wine


WILL-TV10:30 Are You Being Served?11:00 Charlie Rose


Tucson, Ariz. Part 2 of 3. Repeated from 7 pm Monday.


11:30 Austin City Limits (TV-PG)Alejandro Escovedo/Trombone Shorty.


A Murder of Crows. See article page 1. Repeated 4 am Tuesday.

8:00 Masterpiece Mystery! (TV-PG) (DVS)Sherlock: A Study In Pink. See article page 10. Repeated 2 am Tuesday.


Special: Slavery.11:00 Woodsongs (TV-G)

Rhonda Vincent and the Rage & Guy Davis.


Tucson, Ariz. Part 3 of 3. Repeated 4 am Wednesday; and 3 am and 7 pm Saturday.

8:00 American Experience (TV-PG) (DVS)We Shall Remain: Tecumseh’s Vision. Part 2 of 3. A look at the spiritual revival movement of Tecumseh’s younger brother that nearly created an Indian nation separate from the U.S. Repeated midnight Tuesday; and 2 am Wednesday.

9:30 Death of the Old West (TV-PG)A 1909 vigilante act in an Oklahoma com-

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munity perpetrated a miscarriage of justice that remains to this day, fascinating historians and stirring emotions among the community’s residents.


26Tuesday 7:00 NOVA (TV-PG) (DVS)

Crash of Flight 447. Using information from expert pilots and engineers, along with recon-structions and messages transmitted from the plane, NOVA reconstructs the events leading to last year’s disappearance of an AirFrance Airbus A330 over the Atlantic Ocean to reveal what really happened on the flight. Repeated 1 am Wednesday; and 4 am Thursday.

8:00 FrontlineThe Spill. An investigation into whether BP’s Deepwater Horizon disaster could have been avoided if federal regulators had addressed the company’s history of accidents and viola-tions.

9:00 Independent Lens (TV-PG)Art & Copy. A view inside the work and wis-dom of some of the most influential adver-tising creative minds of our time, including the “Just Do It,” and “Got Milk?” campaigns. Repeated 2 am Thursday.

10:30 Are You Being Served?11:00 Charlie Rose

27Wednesday 7:00 Secrets of the Dead (TV-PG)

Herculaneum Uncovered. Geo-archeologists are finding that the city of Herculaneum, just a few miles from Pompeii, was engulfed by blistering pyroclastic flows, rather than fall-ing ash, from the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius. Repeated 4 am Friday.


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8:00 Great Performances (TV-G)The Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Riccardo Muti Inaugural. See article page 11. Repeated midnight Thursday; and 2 am Friday.

9:30 Captive Audience: 21st Century Challenge of Zoo Medicine (TV-G)Don’t miss an exclusive interview with re-nowned primatologist Dr. Jane Goodall, then tag along as two veterinarians make house calls to the Sacramento Zoo.




U of I History. See article page 18. 8:00 This Old House Hour (TV-G)

Repeated 4:30 pm Saturday. 9:00 Hungry for Green: Feeding The World

Sustainably (TV-G)This is one of the first films to combine the issues of agricultural sustainability and world-wide hunger, showing what individuals can do to influence how food is produced around the world.

9:30 Nourish: Food + Community (TV-G)With beautiful visuals and inspiring stories, this program traces our relationship to food from a global perspective to personal action steps.



See page 12. 9:00 Sherlock Holmes (TV-G)

The Copper Beeches. In one of the most sinister puzzles of his career, Holmes advises Violet Hunter on whether she should accept a governess position. Repeated 5 pm Sunday.



Tucson, Ariz. Part 3 of 3. Repeated from 7 pm Monday.


11:30 Austin City Limits (TV-PG)Robert Earl Keen/Hayes Carll.


Invasion of the Giant Pythons. A look at the impact of tens of thousands of these snakes on Florida’s Everglades National Park, one of the last great wildlife refuges in the United States.

8:00 Masterpiece Mystery! (TV-PG) (DVS)Sherlock: The Blind Banker. See article page 10.


Pacific Islands: Fiji, Vanuatu & Solomon.11:00 Woodsongs (TV-G)

Brandi Carlile and Matt Morris.


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Illinois Gardener is online!Did you miss the latest episode of WILL’s weekly gardening program, Illinois Gardener? You can now watch a live stream [http://illinoisgardener.org] of the show on the Internet every Thursday at 7 pm. Just look for the link at that time on the Illinois Gardener home page: http://will.illinois.edu/ig.

Each episode, hosted by horticulturist Dianne Noland (above), will be available by the Friday after the show to watch on demand on the website.

Stay tuned in the coming weeks and months for new web-only features. Illinois Gardener, which premiered on May 21, 1992, offers tips on garden pests, what to plant, diseases attacking lawns and plants, as well as pruning and other basics of plant and tree care. You can watch it Thursdays at 7 pm and Saturdays at 11 am on WILL-TV, and hear it Saturdays at 6:30 am on WILL-AM.

Show your support for WILL radioOur fall radio pledge drive kicks off with Power Hour at 7 am Wednesday, Oct. 20, when we will once again try to raise a full day’s dollar amount in just one hour.

If you value the news, agriculture, talk shows, music and community information that you can only find on WILL-AM and WILL-FM, please help support these outstanding programs during our Oct. 20-25 pledge period. Or make your gift anytime at willpledge.org. Thanks!

Can we talk?At WILL, we’re building on our tradition of reporting stories and information to bring area community residents together in facilitated discussions around issues of concern—and then going beyond those meetings to partner with others in con-necting our content and a community’s resources.

It’s the concept at the core of a new community engagement initiative, which includes a series of 12 community conver-sations that began this past June and will continue through June 2011.

“We actually started the process a year ago by hosting community conversations in six communities in three counties,” said Kimberlie Kranich, Illinois Public Media’s director of community engagement. Those sessions showed that it was more helpful to become an agenda item at an existing or-ganization’s meeting rather than to host a separate discussion session. “People are al-ready talking about the issues that concern them when they attend a service club meet-ing or a book club discussion, so being part of those groups made sense. Our initial conversations confirmed how this model could work to help WILL have a greater understanding of the communities in our coverage area, reflect that understanding in our traditional role of reporting on the issues and connect people with resources through partnerships,” she added.

The approach involves content producers and news reporters at WILL, and Kranich is looking forward to adding comprehensive quarterly broadcasts, along with call-in pro-grams and an annual town hall meeting.

Another aspect of the initiative includes redesigning the WILL Connect website, which will serve as both a living archive of the issues identified in the community conversations, as well as a contact point for information, interaction and resources about those issues.

“We want the website to be much more functional and to reflect the human connections we’re making with this project,” Kimberlie said.


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Most of us think about history in terms of the events we have personally witnessed. “But history precedes us and then continues with the next generations,” says John Paul, host of the WILL-TV’s Illinois Pioneers. The next new episode, airing at 7:30 pm Thursday, Oct. 28, shows how the history of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is much richer than most of those who pass through the campus realize.

Paul interviews Professor Emeritus Winton Solberg, author of three books on the university’s past, as they discuss the for-mative years of the university, even before it made its home in Urbana-Champaign. Had it not been for the efforts of a particu-larly vigorous and vocal politician, Clark Griggs, the university might have ended up in Jacksonville, Bloomington-Normal or Lincoln. Paul says the agreement to found the university in Urbana “was Illinois politics as usual. Strings were pulled. Deals were made.”

The first campus building, located roughly where the Beckman Institute now stands, housed all classrooms, libraries, offices and laboratories, and was derisively nicknamed “The Elephant” by mid-19th century students. Also within those walls,

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university policy required all students to perform daily military drills, as well as attend daily chapel and religious instruction.

The Morrill Act, which provided federal funding and support for land grant universities not just in Illinois but nation-wide, was signed by President Lincoln in the middle of the Civil War when the Union government needed more educated officers. Illinois Pioneers touches on seminal university figures such as Jonathan Baldwin Turner, who expanded the university’s industrial and agricultural curriculum to include a greater variety of subjects and classes, and John Milton

Gregory, the university’s first regent, who requested that his final resting place be on campus.

The program also delves into the stories behind the names of prominent campus buildings, areas and streets, such as Mathews, Peabody and Morrow, remind-ing us how the university’s early legacy is still alive today—if we only take the time to learn about it.

Funding for Illinois Pioneers – Champaign @ 150 is made possible, in part, by the Noel Foundation, and by donors to the Cham-paign 150th Anniversary Celebration Fund. More information on the city’s 150th Anni-versary is at http://champaign150.com.

The stage is set for the third Youth Literature Festival from 10 am to 4 pm on Saturday, Oct. 9, at Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 500 S. Goodwin Ave., Urbana.

In addition to more than 20 authors, illustrators and storytellers, the event will feature The Cat in the Hat, now starring in the new PBS Kids program The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!, part of the WILL-TV daytime line-up (7:30 am weekdays; 6:30 am weekends).

Sponsored by the U of I College of Education, with support from Illinois Public Media, the festival offers music, puppet shows and puppet-making activities, bookmaking with the Soybean Press, storytelling and presentations by a variety of local and national authors.

The free event offers music by the Bodacious String Band, per-cussionist Rocky Maffit, the Mo’ Betta Music Jazz Band, singer Eduardo Herrera and percussionist Jason Finkelman.

Authors scheduled to attend include Jim Aylesworth, E. E. Charlton-Trujillo, Debbi Chocolate, Esme Raji-Codell, Janice Del Negro, Beth Finke, Judith Fradin, Dennis Fradin, Will Hobbs, Dan Keding, Alice McGinty, Jenny Meyerhoff and Patricia Hruby-Powell.

Find more information about the Youth Literature Festival, including author bios, at http://youthlitfest.education.illinois.edu

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As her day-care friends play motion games with a multi-colored “parachute,” 3-year-old Kennedy tries to crawl underneath. Her playmates “capture” her, but she’s the one in giggles on the floor.

The parachute is part of an activity kit provided by Illinois Public Media to Kennedy’s home child care provider in Hoopeston, Mary Perez. The kids pretend a ball in the parachute is popcorn, then that it’s a sausage frying in a pan. It does exactly what it was designed to do—get the kids moving and active.

“I had my best summer ever because of those kits,” Mary said. “The school-agers didn’t complain that they were bored.” The kits provided ideas she wouldn’t have thought of herself, and activities were adaptable to all the different ages in her day care, she said.

Illinois Public Media created the kits for child care providers statewide in partner-ship with the Illinois Network of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies with funding from the Illinois Department of Human Services.

The organizations provided funding for an initial 50 kits in the WILL-TV viewing area. They were so popular that they

decided to fund 130 more kits for use around the state.

The kits are available for child care providers to check out from Quality Counts resource vans operated by child care resource and referral agencies. Molly Delaney, Illinois Public Media director of educational outreach, put together the kits featuring ideas from A Place of Our Own, a program for anyone, including family members and neighbors, who cares for children. The show airs at 12:30 pm weekdays on WILL-TV.

The concept of the kits was not only to offer ideas, but also materials such as the disco ball and parachute that providers might not have readily available, she said.

In a kit on preventing childhood obesity, child care providers find a disco ball to encourage dancing, a parachute for active games, a food sorting game, a Twister game, children’s books, a DVD with video clips and materials with ideas for using the kit. Other kits feature activities for resolving conflict, storytelling, creating a print-rich environment and celebrating diversity.

Molly said parents can make use of the ideas, too. “All of the ideas and videos in the kits are available on the program’s Web site, aplaceofourown.org,” Molly said.

Kits help child care providers get kids moving

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