ADVANCE October 2025

OCTOBER SCHEDULE

10:00 p.m. WORLD Bloomberg Wall Street Week (R-10/5, 1 p.m., WORLD) 10:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Woodsongs McLain Family Band 11:00 p.m. WORLD Amanpour and Company 11:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Songs at the Center: Tia Sillers, Gordie Sampson, Adam Hambrick TV-PG

1:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

TUNE IN:

America’s Test Kitchen:

Corn Cakes and Chowder

WORLD Reel South: Veritas

(See 10/3 at 6 p.m. on WORLD)

1:30 p.m. Iowa PBS 2:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

Woodsmith Shop:

Tools & Techniques

This Old House: Asheville |

Rising Out of the Muck DVS

Rick Steves’ Europe Saturday, October 4 8:30 a.m. on Iowa PBS .1 Season 13 of Rick Steves’ Europe features 11 all-new episodes. Stow away with Rick as he experiences the local culture, history, cuisine, and fun with two episodes each in Iceland, Poland, Istanbul and London. Additional episodes feature highlights of Paris and Italy, and an unforgettably tasty gourmet barge cruise in Burgundy.

WORLD Independent Lens: Children of Las Brisas

(See 10/3 at 7 p.m. on WORLD)

SATURDAY 4

2:30 p.m. Iowa PBS 3:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

Ask This Old House: Seashell Driveway, Radon System DVS

6:00 a.m. Iowa PBS The Best of the Joy of Painting: Tranquil Dawn WORLD To the Contrary With Bonnie Erbe (R-10/4, 4 p.m., WORLD) 6:30 a.m. Iowa PBS 6:30–8 a.m. See page 5. WORLD Washington Week With The Atlantic (R-10/4, 4:30 p.m., WORLD) 7:00 a.m. WORLD Reel South: Veritas (See 10/3 at 6 p.m. on WORLD) (R-10/4, 1 p.m., WORLD) 8:00 a.m. WORLD Market to Market (R-10/5, 12:30 p.m., Iowa PBS) 8:00 a.m. Iowa PBS Ireland With Michael: Westmeath—The Heartland 8:30 a.m. Iowa PBS Rick Steves’ Europe: Iceland’s Reykjavik and the Golden Circle WORLD Iowa Press (R-10/5, noon, Iowa PBS) 9:00 a.m. Iowa PBS Road Trip Iowa: Grant Wood Scenic Byway WORLD Road Trip Iowa: Great River Road National Scenic Byway—North 9:30 a.m. Iowa PBS Samantha Brown’s Places to Love: Auckland, New Zealand WORLD POV Shorts: Team Meryland (See 10/3 at 8:30 p.m. on WORLD) (R-10/4, 3:30 p.m., WORLD)

Fons & Porter’s Love of

Quilting: Triangle Trio

3:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Fit 2 Stitch: Space Suits, Mission Critical WORLD POV Shorts: Team Meryland

10:00 a.m. Iowa PBS Pati’s Mexican Table: Colors of Creativity WORLD Consuelo Mack WealthTrack 10:30 a.m.

(See 10/3 at 8:30 p.m. on WORLD)

4:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

Garden Smart: Transforming a Tired Garden Into a Vibrant English Cottage Garden WORLD To the Contrary With Bonnie Erbe 4:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Exploring Ireland With Michael: The hidden treasures and majestic beauty of the Emerald Isle. WORLD Washington Week With The Atlantic (R-10/5, 6 a.m., WORLD) 5:00 p.m. WORLD DW Focus on Europe (R-10/5, 7 a.m., WORLD) 5:29 p.m. Iowa PBS British Antiques Roadshow: Eden Project 2 5:30 p.m. WORLD Firing Line With Margaret Hoover (R-10/5, 11 a.m., Iowa PBS) 6:00 p.m. Iowa PBS The Lawrence Welk Show: Sights and Sounds of L.A. WORLD The Art of Music: Peter Frampton and Warren Haynes Peter Frampton reflects on his 60 year career with Warren Haynes of the Allman Brothers. TV-PG

Iowa PBS Lidia’s Kitchen: Think Seasonally WORLD The Whitney Reynolds Show Hope and Healing TV-PG 11:00 a.m. Iowa PBS Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Television: Hong Kong Classics WORLD POV: Porcelain War (See 10/1 at 7:30 p.m. on WORLD) 11:30 a.m. Iowa PBS Iowa Ingredient: Kohlrabi NOON Iowa PBS Steven Raichlen’s Planet Barbecue: From Caracas to Lima 12:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Cook’s Country: Italian-American Feast WORLD Stories From the Stage: Growing Up Latina

Being a young Latina means living within a vibrant and varied global culture. It also means navigating identity and intersectionality.

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