CALL THE MIDWIFE

SUNDAY, APRIL 17 @ 9:00PM EPISODE 3 Summertime in the East End brings with it new challenges, when an outbreak of a rare disease erupts on a Poplar street. While Patsy and Dr Turner try to track down the source of the outbreak, suspicion over who the carrier could be threatens to break apart a closely knit family. Sister Winifred is forced to reconsider her prejudices when dealing with a...

WASHINGTON WEEK

WITH GWEN IFILL FRIDAY, APRIL 15 @ 9:00PM This Week on Washington Week | New York state of mind: Clinton, Sanders debate in Brooklyn; Trump decries GOP’s “rigged” system. FIND OUT MORE...

JAZZ

SWING: PURE PLEASURE (1935-1937) EPISODE 5 THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4 @ 7:00PM & 11:30PM As the Great Depression drags on, jazz comes as close as it has ever come to being America’s popular music . Big band jazz – swing – becomes the most popular music in America. Some fans, disturbed by its popularity, start a movement to embrace “traditional” jazz. In the western...

NOVA

CAN ALZHEIMER’S BE STOPPED? SATURDAY, APRIL 16 @ 11:00PM Alzheimer’s disease strikes at the core of what makes us human: our capacity to think, to love, and to remember. The disease ravages the minds of over 40 million victims worldwide, and it is one of the greatest medical mysteries of our time. Join investigators as they gather clues and attempt to reconstruct the molecular chain of...

NATURE

INDIA’S WANDERING LIONS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13 @ 6:00PM & 11:00PM As India’s population booms, her legendary wildlife has been squeezed almost out of existence. But the commitment of the Indian people to preserve their wildlife is surprising – leading even to bringing back what has been lost. Against a backdrop of teak forest, farmland and villages, this film explores the...