CALL THE MIDWIFE

SEASON 3 EPISODE 5 SUNDAY, APRIL 27 @ 6:00PM & 10:00PM The midwives discover that a young Down Syndrome woman is six months pregnant, leading to difficult confessions and decisions. Dr. Turner suggests that Shelagh take over the running of Nonnatus House to allow an exhausted Sister Julienne to recuperate. This includes overseeing the arrangements for Sister Evangelina’s surprise jubilee...

GREAT PERFORMANCES

MATTHEW BOURNE’S SLEEPING BEAUTY SATURDAY, MARCH 12 @ 6:00PM Sleeping Beauty is the latest re-imagining of a ballet classic by choreographer Matthew Bourne. With Sleeping Beauty the British choreographer has returned to the music of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky to complete the trio of the Russian composer’s ballet masterworks. Bourne began in 1992 with Nutcracker! and, most famously, in...

WASHINGTON WEEK

WITH GWEN IFILL FRIDAY, APRIL 25 @ 9:00PM THIS WEEK: OBAMA IN ASIA, MIDEAST PEACE TALKS, SCOTUS ON AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND CLEMENCY CRITERIA The main focus of President Obama’s four-nation tour of Asia this week was to reassure allies that America remains committed to bolstering security and economic ties to the region. With the backdrop of recent tensions in Japan, South Korea, Malaysia and...

THE BLETCHLEY CIRCLE

UNEXPECTED GOODS – PART 2 THURSDAY, MAY 8 @ 7:00PM The Bletchley Circle returns for a second season in 2014. The first episode, Blood on Their Hands opens with former Bletchley Park girl Alice Merren in prison awaiting trial for murder. Jean stands behind her innocence and tries to reunite the circle in an attempt to help one of their own. Lucy is now getting on well in a clerical job at...

NATURE

SNOW MONKEYS SATURDAY, APRIL 26 @ 10:00PM In the frigid valleys of Japan’s Shiga Highlands, a troop of snow monkeys make their way and raise their families in a complex society of rank and privilege where each knows their place. Their leader is still new to the job and something of a solitary grouch. But one little monkey, innocently unaware of his own lowly social rank, reaches out to this...