Stories by Daniel Hautzinger

It's Easter in Poplar, and spring brings a new beginning for Nancy as she begins work as a midwife. Changes uncover a horrible story from the past, and a couple hopes that their second baby will fare better than their first. 

Marin Alsop is currently the only woman who has ever led one of America's top 25 orchestras as music director. A new documentary on Great Performances follows her obstacle-filled rise. We talked to her about the obstacles women conductors continue to face.

Chicago cookbook author and food entrepreneur Anupy Singla shares a recipe for a refreshing drink to celebrate Holi, the Hindu festival of colors that takes place around the beginning of spring. "I like to have options of natural sodas and drinks that everyone can partake in," she says. 

Chicago's Masa Madre combine their co-owners' Mexican and Jewish cultures in their baked goods, including in this recipe for hamantashen with Mexican candy flavors for Purim. 

Annika is based on a BBC radio drama and features a lead character who breaks the fourth wall to confide in the audience. The title character, who leads a Marine Homicide Unit in Scotland, is played by a PBS stalwart, Nicola Walker.

This Women's History Month on WTTW, you can watch the stories of women fighting for change in male-dominated worlds in different realms, all in new documentaries, including one nominated for an Academy Award. 

The list of semifinalists for the James Beard Awards has been released, and fifteen Chicago people and places in the food industry are on it. Meet them here.

Vienna Blood has been renewed for a third season, so more turn-of-the-century Viennese mysteries are coming your way.

With the long-awaited return of Sanditon with its second season fast approaching, get a preview of what's to come in photos and video, and meet some of the new characters. 

Ridley Road follows as young Jewish woman as she goes undercover in a neo-Nazi group in London during the 1960s. Based on a novel of the same name by Jo Bloom, it's coming to Masterpiece in May. 

It's Christmas again in the dales, which means Tristan is home from school awaiting his exam results, James and Helen must figure out the holidays and decide their future, and Siegfried and Mrs. Hall are perhaps ready to progress in their respective relationships. 

Phileas Fogg's rush to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days is coming down to the wire. But his past looms large when he reaches New York. And that's not even the only obstacle that remains, in the season finale. 

The Pollard family contained the NFL's first Black head coach, the first Black licensend nurse in Illinois, a producer of silent films, the first Black woman graduate of Northwestern University, a Civil War veteran, and the winner of an Olympic medal.

Max continues to investigate the cloistered world of a monastery, especially after another person is killed and evidence piles up against a man he believes is innocent, in the season finale of Vienna Blood.

James' parents are coming to visit, and he's preparing to introduce them to Helen and give them disappointing news. But a sudden decision leads to more good news, even though it's first interrupted by a difficult veterinary situation.