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Antiques Roadshow "Vintage First Finds, Hour 6"
Get your popcorn ready as ROADSHOW reveals high drama, dire straits, and scandals keeping us on the edge of our seats, including a U.S. Secret Service archive, ca. 1900, and a 1965 Noah Purifoy Watts riots sculpture.
Monday, November 2 at 8 p.m. on Ball State PBS
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Pati Jinich Explores PanAmericana "New Mexico & Colorado - Life Along the Rio"
Pati journeys from Denver's jazz-filled Five Points south into the New Mexico desert. Along the way, she picks up the Rio Grande near its source and follows it down. She finds music, farming, adobe building, and traditions that outlasted centuries.
Monday, November 2 at 9 p.m. on Ball State PBS
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Coming Home: From Shadowland to Spiritworld
After 170 years of displacement, a Kashia Pomo elder guides two young tribal members on journeys reclaiming ancestral land, renewing ceremony, confronting historical trauma, and searching in Russia for ancient connections to their women gone missing.
Monday, November 2 at 10 p.m. on Ball State PBS
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VOTE 2026: PBS News Election Special
Join co-anchors Amna Nawaz and Geoff Bennett and the PBS News team for real-time election results, expert analysis, and reporting from across the country as voters decide the direction of Congress and key races nationwide.
Tuesday, November 3 at 8 p.m. on Ball State PBS
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NOVA "Evolution: The Mating Game"
Discover how the rise of sexual reproduction - with each new generation a roll of the genetic dice - fuels staggering diversity, pushing life to specialize and shaping everything from tiny single-celled organisms to towering ostriches.
Wednesday, November 4 at 9 p.m. on Ball State PBS
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Secrets of the Dead "Saving Tangier Island"
Welcome to tiny Tangier Island in the Chesapeake Bay. Pivotal in the War of 1812, it's where Francis Scott Key was inspired to write "The Star-Spangled Banner" and where hundreds of self-emancipated men joined the British to take up arms against their former masters. Now, rising sea levels threaten the island, and the race is on to ensure Tangier will remain a witness to American history.
Wednesday, November 4 at 10 p.m. on Ball State PBS
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Pop of Culture
This week, we step out of the Pop studios to see what's happening in East Central Indiana this fall. (We even recorded the show outside!)
Our Assistant Producer Andrew Montavon visits Jacobs' Family Orchard to find out what goes on behind the scenes (and try some pumpkin donuts). We also stop by the Queer Chocolatier's new downtown Muncie location, where owner Morgan Roddy takes us through the chocolate-making process—and why she opened a new storefront now. And our cohost KeAnna Mills rounds up what some of the Pop Fest arts market artists are working on!
Catch up on all episodes here.
Fridays and Saturdays at noon on IPR
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Salute to Service 2026: A Veterans Day Celebration
A celebration of courage, commitment, and the men and women who serve our nation. Join host Jason Kelce and musical guest Jon Batiste for Salute to Service 2026: A Veterans Day Celebration, a moving tribute to America's veterans and active-duty service members.
Friday, November 6 at 9 p.m. on Ball State PBS
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The Facing Project
When Jealousy Strikes & The First Step: An in-depth discussion with filmmakers and producers Lance & Brandon Kramer
Jealousy is an emotion that everyone has experienced at one time or another, but if not controlled jealousy could lead to other feelings and actions such as embarrassment, depression, or even anger. But with jealousy being such an innate emotion, how does one turn it off or use it for good? Special guest: Dr. Bob Bringle, Chancellor’s professor emeritus of Psychology and Philanthropic Studies at IUPUI. Later, J.R. Jamison sits down with the producer and director of The First Step, a documentary that follows political commentator Van Jones as he attempts to bring people together across party lines to pass landmark criminal justice reform, while finding himself under fire from all sides.
Catch up on all episodes here.
Saturdays at 1 p.m. and Sundays at 7 p.m. on IPR
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A Sacred Thread
This documentary follows the Snowbird Cherokee of western North Carolina as they fight to preserve their language, customs and ancestral traditions before they disappear.
Saturday, November 7 at 8 p.m. on Ball State PBS
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Road to Rome: World War II
The Allies had to take Italy in World War II. Beginning in 1943, it would be a fight that involved mountains, mules, and mud. Phase one started in Salerno and moved slowly on to Rome. This documentary film, narrated by CBS Sports' Jim Nantz, mixes extensive, beautiful, and amazing contemporary footage with smaller amounts of archival video and photos to tell the story of the Road to Rome in WWII.
Saturday, November 7 at 9 p.m. on Ball State PBS
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The Songwriters "Kent Blazy"
Kent Blazy's songwriting partnership with Garth Brooks is the stuff of music history. Their 'If Tomorrow Never Comes' became Garth's first #1. They went on to co-write four more Top 5 singles, including 'Ain't Goin' Down 'Til the Sun Comes Up.'
Saturday, November 7 at 10:30 p.m. on Ball State PBS
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Professor T "Season 5 Episode 4: Ghostwriter"
When Jasper’s former mentor, Hamish Maclean, is murdered, a shaky arrest and twisting testimonies expose a deeper conspiracy. Drawn into a maze of old loyalties and buried deceit, Jasper uncovers a cunning plot that forces him to risk everything — including his own life — to unmask the killer. Meanwhile, Dan’s bond with Leonie falters under her father’s quiet sabotage.
Sunday, November 8 at 8 p.m. on Ball State PBS
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Maigret On Masterpiece "Episode 4 – Maigret's Revolver Part 2"
Following the arrest of Delteil's killer, Maigret and his team close in on Olga Borysenko's murderer. However, the investigation lands Maigret in more danger than anticipated, making a powerful enemy who has already outmaneuvered him once before.
Sunday, November 8 at 9 p.m. on Ball State PBS
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The Gold On Masterpiece "Episode 4"
British police join forces with the DEA to bring down the international money laundering operation. As pressure builds, back in Tenerife, John Palmer receives an unwelcome visit.
Sunday, November 8 at 10 p.m. on Ball State PBS
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