VERMONT PUBLIC TELEVISION PROGRAM

HIGHLIGHTS FOR

APRIL 25 TO MAY 1

April 25: Sunday at 6 p.m., the nostalgic BBC series “Lark Rise to Candleford” begins its third season recalling 19th-century life in rural England. A journalist arrives with news that one of the residents may have a claim to a substantial amount of money.

At 8 p.m., “Nature” Fellowship of the Whales” chronicles the first year in a humpback whale’s life, as she learns from her mother.

April 26: Monday at 7:30 p.m. on Vermont Public Television’s “Profile,” Fran Stoddard talks with Tom Evslin of Stowe, a high tech entrepreneur who leads telecom initiatives for state government.

At 9 p.m., “My Lai: American Experience” recalls a dark chapter in the Vietnam War, the 1968 massacre of Vietnamese villagers by U.S. soldiers, its cover-up and the people who spoke out to halt the atrocities.

April 27: Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. on the new season of “VPT’s Outdoor Journal,” Lawrence Pyne joins ice-fishing legend David Genz on Lake Champlain. A search of Northeast Kingdom lakes finds burbot, a fresh water codfish popular in Maine and catching on with a handful of Vermonters. The program will repeat Saturday at 10 a.m.

At 8 p.m., “Nova: Mind Over Money” explores the emerging field of behavioral economics, which helps explain why people make irrational financial decisions, and examines why most economists failed to predict the crash of 2008.

At 10 p.m., “Frontline: The Vaccine War” examines how medical scientists and the public health establishment are battling a coalition of parents, celebrities, politicians and other activists over whether vaccines are a great achievement or a menace.

April 28: Wednesday from 8 to 11:30 p.m., “Great Performances” presents the Royal Shakespeare Company’s production of “Hamlet” with David Tennant in the title role. Sir Patrick Stewart plays Claudius. This adaptation for TV features innovative location shooting.

April 29: Thursday at 8 p.m. on “Call the Governor,” Vermont Gov. Jim Douglas will return to the Vermont Public Television studio for a live call-in program during which viewers can ask him questions on the issues of the day. Mark Johnson will host.

At 10 p.m., the five-part series “Wild Lives 2” begins. Cameras follow 24 perilous hours in the lives of two female big cats -- a cheetah and a leopard -- and their cubs, as half a million wildebeest sweep toward them on the Serengeti.

April 30: Friday at 8:30 p.m., the series “NOW on PBS” ends its run. At 9 p.m., the final episode of “Bill Moyers Journal” airs. Moyers, who is retiring, plans to produce occasional specials for PBS in the future. A new public affairs lineup begins next week.

At 10 p.m., “Independent Lens” presents “Garbage Dreams.” The documentary tells of three teenage boys born into the trash trade and growing up in the world’s largest garbage village, a ghetto on the outskirts of Cairo.

May 1: Saturday at 8:30 p.m., VPT brings back the BBC Britcom “The Thin Blue Line.” Rowan Atkinson stars as chief of the uniform branch of the police in the rural town of Gasforth.