ADVANCE October 2025

8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

10:30 p.m. WORLD BBC News 11:00 p.m. WORLD Amanpour and Company

F.Y.I.

American Experience:

Kissinger: Part 2 Discover how Kissinger’s anti

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Communism would shape U.S. foreign policy, from Vietnam to the USSR. (R 10/31, 7:30 p.m., WORLD) DVS/TV-14 Plunderer: The Life and Times of a Nazi Art Thief, Part 2 The secret criminal network of those who profited off Nazi-looted art is finally revealed. Part 2. TV-PG

on iowapbs.org/watch, pbs.org/ livestream and on the PBS app.

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WORLD Secrets of the Dead:

5:00 p.m. WORLD France 24 5:30 p.m. Iowa PBS PBS News Hour

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9:00 p.m. WORLD PBS News Hour 9:30 p.m. Iowa PBS The American Revolution: An Inside Look

(R-10/28, 9 p.m., WORLD)

WORLD NHK Newsline 6:00 p.m. WORLD NOVA: Ancient Desert Death Trap (See 10/22 at 8 p.m. on Iowa PBS) 6:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Iowa Life The Iowa Gallivant, a choir for people with Parkinson’s, and Maquoketa artist Rose Frantzen. 7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS Finding Your Roots: Finding My Roots

(See 10/5 at 2:30 p.m. on Iowa PBS)

10:00 p.m. Iowa PBS The Congress

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(See 10/26 at 3 p.m. on Iowa PBS)

WORLD DW The Day 10:30 p.m. WORLD BBC News 11:00 p.m. WORLD Amanpour and Company 11:32 p.m. Iowa PBS Midsomer Murders: Garden of Death, Part 1

on all of your favorite platforms.

Laurence Fishburne and Henry Louis Gates Jr. use detective work to track a family mystery. TV-PG

7:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

WORLD Secrets of the Dead:

Nature: Willow: Diary of a Mountain Lion

Cracking the Queen’s Code (See 10/22 at 9 p.m. on Iowa PBS)

Discover the intricate relationships between mountain lions in Montana. DVS/TV-14

(See 10/23 at 9:30 p.m. on Iowa PBS)

TUNE IN:

7:30 p.m. WORLD POV: The Ride Ahead

WEDNESDAY 29

5:00 p.m. WORLD France 24 5:30 p.m. Iowa PBS PBS News Hour

A community of disability activists help Samuel Habib, 21, navigate the path to adulthood. TV-14

8:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

NOVA: Superfloods Explore superfloods and see why these floods are on the rise around the world. DVS/TV-14

(R-10/29, 9 p.m., WORLD)

WORLD NHK Newsline 6:00 p.m. WORLD POV: Eat Your Catfish

9:00 p.m. Iowa PBS

Velvet: The Night of the Pins Sunday, October 26 10 p.m. on Iowa PBS .1 As season 2 begins, Alberto returns from his honeymoon with Cristina. He is shocked to find that his brother-in-law, Enrique, is now in control of Velvet.

Secrets of the Dead:

Take an intimate look into a woman’s life living with ALS and a family pushed to its breaking point. TV-14

Chasing The Plague Scientists track down the earliest known bubonic plague victims. TV-PG

6:30 p.m. Iowa PBS Road Trip Iowa:

WORLD PBS News Hour

Lincoln Highway Heritage Byway Central

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