All times Eastern

SUNDAY, MAY 27

Bookmark: The Grunt Padre

EWTN, 9:30 a.m.

Father Daniel Mode discusses The Grunt Padre, his inspiring biography of Catholic hero Father Vincent Capodanno, a Navy chaplain (b. 1929) who received the Medal of Honor posthumously. In South Vietnam on Sept. 4, 1967, he gave his life for his comrades when he braved communist machine gun fire to pray with wounded Marines. To be rebroadcast Monday, May 28, at 3 a.m.; Wednesday, May 30, at 4:30 p.m.; and Saturday, June 2, at 6:30 p.m.

SUNDAY, MAY 27

The National Memorial Day Concert PBS, 8 p.m.

In this 90-minute special, the National Symphony Orchestra, directed by Erich Kunzel, performs its annual concert of patriotic music with various artists on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. This year's event, 60 years after Pearl Harbor and 10 years after the Persian Gulf War, salutes the fallen and the veterans of those conflicts. It also pauses in remembrance of our POWsMIAs of the Korean and Vietnam Wars.

SUNDAY, MAY 27

Audrey's Life: Voice of a Silent Soul EWTN, 8 p.m.

This hour-long video by the Mercy Foundation tells about Audrey Marie Santo, who suffered brain damage when she nearly drowned at age 3 in 1987. Her mom Linda cares for her at home in Worcester, Mass. — and visitors have poured in because of unexplained occurrences, such as oils emanating from holy objects. The local diocese in 1999 urged caution and more study, asked people to pray for Audrey rather than to her, and said her family's loving care is the best evidence of God's presence in the household. To be rebroadcast Thursday, May 31, at 1 p.m. and Friday, June 1, at 3 a.m. and 10 p.m.

MONDAY, MAY 28

American Writers

C-Span, 9 a.m.

This episode, “Frederick Douglass & the Abolitionist Writers,” examines Douglass's autobiography and the works of his fellow leaders in the antislavery movement. To be rebroadcast Friday, June 1, at 8 p.m.

MONDAY, MAY 28

The Greatest Pharaoh and His Lost Children

History, 10 p.m.

This “Egypt: Beyond the Pyramids” segment takes us to a long-bypassed site that recently was found to hold the tombs of 60 sons of Pharaoh Ramses the Great (Ramses II, who ruled Egypt for 67 years in the13th century B.C.).

WEDNESDAY, MAY 30

The Met Celebrates Verdi

PBS; check local listings for time

This “Metropolitan Opera Presents” program marks the centennial of the death of Giuseppe Verdi by showing excerpts from historic telecasts of his famed operas “Aida,” “Falstaff” and “Otello,” along with less familiar works of his.

THURSDAY, MAY 31

Volcanologists

History, 11 p.m.

This “Suicide Missions” show reports on the raw courage of the scientists who risk their lives in close-up monitoring of active volcanoes.

Dan Engler writes from Santa Barbara, California.