All times Eastern

APRIL, VARIOUS DATES

The Face: Jesus in Art PBS; check local listings for day and time

The Catholic Communication Campaign helped fund this visually stunning film, which takes viewers around the world and through the ages to examine artistic representations of Christ. The program traces how, from the Church's earliest days, artists have strived to reveal Jesus’ divinity, inspire devotion to him and spread his teachings.

SUNDAY, APRIL 15

Easter Sunday in St. Peter's Square EWTN, 4:30 a.m. live

Pope John Paul II celebrates Easter Mass in St. Peter's Square. Then, around 6 a.m., he gives his Easter message and multi-lingual blessing “urbi et orbi” (to the city of Rome and the world). To be rebroadcast at 7 p.m.

SUNDAY, APRIL 15

Easter 2001: A Celebration with Dave Brubeck ABC; check local listings for time

Jazz composer and pianist Dave Brubeck performs selections from “To Hope,” a composition for Mass that he wrote in 1979. (Two cantors will sing more sections.) This hour-long special airs from St. Joseph's Cathedral in San Jose, Calif. It was produced by Oblate Media for the U.S. Bishops’ Catholic Communication Campaign.

SUNDAY, APRIL 15

The Apostle Paul: The Man Who Turned the World Upside Down History Channel, 10 a.m.

Co-produced by Paulist Productions and Weller/Grossman Productions, this 90-minute “Time Machine” special examines how God led St. Paul to become an Apostle of Christ and a martyr for Him. A preview video was not available by press time, but it's heartening that the secular network's press release acknowledges that St. Paul's missionary zeal “changed the world forever.”

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18

Yellowstone to Yukon: The Wild Heart of North America Discovery, 6 p.m.

Tour the spectacular wilderness vistas of the American and Canadian West.

THURSDAY, APRIL 19

Shroud of Turin: Imprint of Mercy EWTN, 2 p.m.

The late Fr. Harold Cohen hosts this third installment of a 4-part series. His guest is John Lannoe, author of Mystery of the Shroud of Turin: New Scientific Evidence. To be rebroadcast Friday, Apr. 20, at 4 a.m. and 11 p.m.

FRIDAY, APRIL 20

Last Stand of the Tallgrass Prairie PBS, 9 p.m.

The Flint Hills in Kansas shelter the last of the tallgrass prairie that once covered a third of North America. Almost all of the rich soil and lush grass on which the buffalo roamed and the deer and the antelope played is now crop-land for wheat and corn, cousins of the tallgrass, which feed America and hundreds of millions of people the world over. Environmentalists blast cattle ranchers, but scientists say grazing is the ideal use of the prairie and helps preserve it. Country-western singer Lyle Lovett narrates; he also performs songs that evoke the pioneer era and the cowboy ethos.

Dan Engler writes from Santa Barbara, California.