On Call the Midwife Episode #202 at 7 pm Sunday, the Nonnatus community is rocked when the Kelly family’s newborn son dies in unexplained circumstances. Cynthia, who had attended the birth, comes under intense scrutiny from the police and the pregnant women of Poplar.

Masterpiece presents Mr. Selfridge, part 2 at 8 pm Sunday. This mini-series is a dramatization of the real-life story of Harry Gordon Selfridge, the flamboyant and visionary American founder of the famous London department store that revolutionized the modern shopping experience. Harry skirts scandal by putting cosmetics at the front of the store. Meanwhile, his private life gets complicated as Ellen Love, Lady Mae and his wife, Rose, make waves.

Defiant Requiem: Voices of Resistance at 9 pm Sunday is a documentary about the concentration camp “Terezin” in the Czech Republic, where a large number of Jewish artists, musicians, poets and writers were incarcerated under the Nazis. In the face of horrific living conditions, starvation, and the threat of deportation to Auschwitz, the inmates of Terezin stood up to their Nazi oppressors and did the unthinkable: they fought back with art and music.

Antiques Roadshow at 7 pm Monday visits Cincinnati and discusses with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service how today’s endangered rhinos are affected by the antiques trade.

Market Warriors at 8 pm Monday go Antiquing In Chicago, Il and head to the Randolph Street Market in Chicago, Illinois, where the target assignment is to find something from the 1970s.

Independent Lens at 9 pm on Monday presents The House I Live In. For over 40 years, the War on Drugs has accounted for 45 million arrests, made America the world’s largest jailer, and damaged poor communities at home and abroad. Yet for all that, drugs are cheaper, purer and more available today than ever before. Filmed in more than 20 states, THE HOUSE I LIVE IN captures heart-wrenching stories at all levels of America’s drug war — from the dealer to the grieving mother; the narcotics officer to the senator; and the inmate to the federal judge.

American Masters presents Carol Burnett: A Woman Of Character at 7 pm Tuesday. America in the 1960s and 70s was in turmoil. The civil rights struggle, the war in Vietnam and the sexual revolution defined a nation in conflict. But at 10 o’clock every Saturday night, in dorms and dens, in living rooms and bedrooms across the country, Americans watched “The Carol Burnett Show.” For 11 years, the wacky performer yelled like Tarzan and won — and sometimes broke — our hearts with her edgy, always sympathetic, characters. She could fall down a flight of stairs or hold her own in a duet with Julie Andrews. Yet, as with so many brilliant comedians, hers was a difficult childhood. A glimpse of something deeper and darker began to emerge in the dramatic career that followed her TV variety show.

Erma Bombeck: Legacy of Laughter at 8:30 Tuesday examines examines the extraordinary life and career of beloved American humorist Erma Bombeck (1927-1996), whose honest tales of domestic life gave voice to millions of homemakers. Archival photographs, video clips and personal memorabilia trace Bombeck’s life, from her childhood during the Great Depression to her work as a women’s rights activist.The program is interspersed with uplifting and humorous interviews with Erma’s family, friends and colleagues, including a touching on-camera introduction and narration by her neighbor and friend, former talk-show host Phil Donahue.

Frontline presents Syria Behind The Lines at 9 pm Tuesday. In this documentary, award-winning filmmaker Olly Lambert lives on both sides of Syria’s sectarian frontline, witnessing the devastating effect of a religious feud that, regardless of the outcome of the war, is shaping Syria’s future. For generations, the many religions that live in Syria’s Orontes River Valley have lived together peacefully. But as the conflict spirals into a contagious and sectarian blood feud, friends and neighbors of different faiths are taking up arms against each other, as Syrian society begins to collapse. And as each side seeks more and more revenge, shells, mortars, and air attacks only escalate the hatred and violence on both sides.

On Story presents The Silence of the Lambs at 10 pm Tuedsday. Academy Award-winning screenwriter Ted Tally gives a provocative look at the adaptation and production of the Oscar-winning film THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. Tally covers it all: working with director Jonathan Demme, anticipating Jodie Foster’s Oscar win, the delicious changed ending for the world’s most famous cannibal, Hannibal Lecter, and more.

Arts In Context presents Metal And Rust at 10:30 pm Tuesday. One man’s trash can be an artist’s treasure, and the works featured are made up of found materials either discarded or assigned for only certain purposes.

Nature presents Clash: Encounters Of Bears And Wolves at 7 pm Wednesday. What happens when two great predators come face to face in Yellowstone? The grizzly and the wolf — they couldn’t be more different.  Their strategies have taken them to the very top of Yellowstone, and it’s no simple matter when they meet. In every encounter, the opposition must be measured, strengths must be tested, and risks must be carefully weighed. Each time, one of them will have a tactical advantage — but which one, and when? What emerges as each remarkable scene unfolds, is the keen awareness that runs through all of Yellowstone. Elk and eagle, coyote and raven, otter and owl, every creature must assess, decide, and act — to fight or to flee? It’s all in knowing your own strengths and limitations in the heat of the moment in Yellowstone.

NOVA presents Australia’s First 4 Billion Years: Awakening at 8 pm Wednesday. Of all the continents on Earth, none preserves a more spectacular story of its origins than Australia. NOVA’s mini-series takes viewers on a rollicking adventure from the birth of the Earth to the emergence of the world we know today. With help from high-energy host and scientist Richard Smith, we meet titanic dinosaurs and giant kangaroos, sea monsters and prehistoric crustaceans, disappearing mountains and deadly asteroids. This is the untold story of the Land Down Under, the one island continent that has got it all.

Truth About Exercise With Michael Mosley at 9 pm Wednesday Michael uses himself as a human guinea pig to discover the truth about exercise.

Arts In Context presents All My Friends Are Vampires at 7:30 pm Thursday, an all-access pass to Fantastic Fest, the largest genre film festival in the U.S., gives a glimpse at horror, fantasy, sci-fi, action and just plain fantastic movies from around the world. The festival is held each year in Austin, TX at the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema on South Lamar.

The Mind of a Chef presents Chef at 8 pm Thursday. David Chang prepares eggs with his chef pals -Wylie Dufresne, Daniel Patterson and Rene Redzepi – and makes his Ko egg.

Live from Lincoln Center presents Josh Groban: All That Echoes at 9 pm Friday. Josh Groban performs hits from his 12-year career, highlighted by exclusive selections from his new album, “All That Echoes.”

Michael Feinstein’s American Songbook presents On The Air at 10 pm Friday. Decades ago, the Golden Age of Radio fulfilled the idol-making role in the U.S. Feinstein traces the phenomenon with archival clips of Bing Crosby, Cab Calloway, Kate Smith and others. He conducts one of the last interviews with TV and stage star Rose Marie (“Sally Rodgers” on “The Dick Van Dyke Show”) and learns about her career as a child radio star. On his own radio program, Feinstein showcases virtuoso classical superstars, including violinist Joshua Bell and pianist Jeremy Denk. Finally, he discovers a lost radio program that featured Rosemary Clooney, and through digital magic performs a “new” duet with her.

Central Texas Gardener presents Tropical Edibles at 12 pm and 4 pm Saturday. Find out how to grow tropicals like avocados and allspice. On tour, a San Antonio gardener adds art to beds of flowers, food, and succulents.

Victory Garden presents Cool: Create A Garden That’s Cool at 4:30 pm Saturday. Explore a private garden in Beverly Hills with host Jamie Durie and see some fantastic pool-side landscaping. Grow a garden that incorporates cool colors into perennial borders. Pick the best plants for winter interest with gardening correspondent Paul Epsom’s favorites. Refresh your day with an appetizing recipe for a cool soup demonstrated by chef Michel Nischan.

Austin City Limits  features John Legend & The Roots at 7 pm Saturday. The innovative hip-hop collective backs the Grammy-winning soul singer on a set of 70s soul covers and originals.

Greatest Raid Of World War II at 9 pm Saturday. In this documentary, former member of the Special Boat Service turned politician Lord Ashdown uses his experience to shed light on the challenges faced by the ‘Cockleshell Heroes’, recreating their incredible journey up the Gironde estuary. He also looks at the how the battle inside Whitehall raged almost as hard as the war against Nazi Germany.

Call The Midwife
season 2
airs Sundays, March 31 through May 19,  at 7 pm on KLRU

This moving, intimate, funny and true-to-life series, based on the best-selling memoirs of the late Jennifer Worth, tells colorful stories of midwifery and families in London’s East End in the 1950s. Jenny Lee, a young woman raised in the wealthy English countryside, has chosen to become a nurse and now, as a newly qualified midwife, has gone to work in the poorest area of the city. Attached to an order of nursing nuns at Nonnatus House, Jenny is part of a team of women who minister to expectant mothers, many of whom give birth at home in appalling conditions. The drama follows Jenny as she meets her patients and learns to love the people who live in the East End.

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Arts In Context  at 1:30 pm Sunday follows 23 campers at Austin Lyric Opera’s Opera Odyssey summer camp as they go through the creative process of writing, producing and performing their original production, Quarantine.

Great Performances At The Met presents The Tempest at 2:30 Sunday. Composer Thomas Ades conducts the Metropolitan Opera with baritone Simon Keenlyside starring as Prospero.

Sean Bean returns as British soldier-hero Richard Sharpe on Masterpiece at 8 pm Sunday. Sharpe inadvertently stumble across a massive opium trafficking ring in Sharpe’s Peril.

Kristin Chenoweth performs her most celebrated work in every genre with her “American Songbook” concert for Live from Lincoln Center at 7 pm and 10 pm Sunday.

Antiques Roadshow at 7 pm Monday visits the Waccamaw River with host Mark L. Walberg and militaria appraiser Christopher Mitchell as they discuss an important 19th-century blockade rifle.

180 Days: A Year Inside An American High School takes viewers on a uniquely intimate journey through a year in the lives of students, teachers and school leaders in one Washington, DC public high school. Part 1 at 8 pm Monday focuses on five students whose stories whose stories illustrate the situation. Part 2 at 8 pm Tuesday  shows how students are both deeply impacted by and yet profoundly separate from the “Race to the Top.”

POV features Girl Model at 10 pm Monday, a film that strips away the facade of the modeling industry by following two people whose lives intersect because of it.

Tavis Smiley Reports presents Education Under Arrest at 7 pm Tuesday, in which the program looks at the efforts by those on the frontlines of juvenile justice reform and what programs are successful in breaking the school-to-prison pipeline

On Arts In Context at 10:30 pm Tuesday, meet a group of artists who define light in different and unique ways in Light.

Nature presents River of No Return at 7 pm on Wednesday, where young couple Isaac and Bjornen Babcock chose to spend their year-long honeymoon at Central Idaho’s Frank Church – River of No Return Wilderness, the largest contiguous wilderness area in the lower 48 States.

NOVA presents Hunting the Elements at 8 pm Wednesday, a two-hour special from the producers of “Making Stuff.”

Into Deepest Space at 9 pm Wednesday traces the engineering, construction, and scientific discoveries of the most powerful observatory on Earth.

On Overheard with Evan Smith at 7 pm Thursday, David Carr, New York Times Columnist and main character in the 2011 documentary “Page One” about the Times, stops by.

Arts In Context presents Schubertiad at 7:30 Thursday where the Austin, Texas based international performing professional classical quartet, The Miro Quartet, performs an all-Schubert program.

On The Mind of a Chef at 8 pm Thursday, David Chang’s protege Christina Tosi makes corn cookies three ways and her three-layered Arnold Palmer cake. Chef Burns also makes ice cream and Chang goes strawberry picking on Sweet Spot.

Chet heads to the “cowboy capital of the world”, visits Dublin Bottling Works on The Daytripper at 8:30 pm Thursday.

American Masters presents the film Philip Roth: Unmasked at 9 pm Friday which will bear out Roth’s promise to the director: “we’ll speak of everything: women, rabbis, politicians, psycho-analysis, literary critics and me.”

How do we handle drought without actually making things worse? New Mexico landscape architect David Cristiani explores the sensitive, ecological response on Central Texas Gardener at noon Saturday.

Austin City Limits features Georgian jam band Widespread Panic at 7 pm Saturday as they celebrate their 25th anniversary with songs from across their career.