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Set in the breathtakingly beautiful Italian seaside town of Portofino during the “Roaring 20s,” season 2 begins in the summer of 1927 as Bella Ainsworth is still devoting all her energy to making Hotel Portofino a success. Catch up on season 1 and binge all of season 2 beginning Sunday night with GPB Passport.

Telling the story of World War Two through the eyes of ordinary people, following intrepid young heroes fighting for freedom, season 2 will take viewers from the war-torn streets of Britain deep into Nazi Germany, the resistance within occupied France and the brutal sands of the North African desert where troops struggle to adapt to a very different kind of combat. Stream season 1 now and season 2 beginning Sunday night on GPB Passport.

Annika (Nicola Walker, Unforgotten) and the team return to solve more murders that wash up from Scotland’s waters. She shares her wry insights on the crimes while raising her teen daughter, Morgan. Stream every episode of the new season beginning Sunday night with GPB Passport. 

This new two-part, four-hour series takes viewers on a journey through more than 10,000 years of North American history and across some of the continent’s most iconic landscapes, tracing the animal’s evolution, significance to the Great Plains, near demise and relationship to the Indigenous People of North America.

Salamanders are extraordinary creatures, able to regrow skin, cartilage, spinal cords and entire limbs when attacked by predators. Georgia Outdoors host Sharon Collins talks to a biologist at the University of Kentucky working to find out why we can’t in this all-new episode.

Witness the story of Pete Walsh, a Tasmanian man who befriends a platypus he names Zoom. With the help of experts, Pete learns more about the platypus’s secret world in a mission to protect them from the dangers of urban development.

Stream these programs and more:

● Hotel Portofino
Set in the breathtaking Italian seaside town of Portofino, Season 2 begins in the summer of 1927 as Bella Ainsworth must decide whether to accept her no-good husband back into her life while working to make the hotel a success.

● World on Fire
This gripping WWII drama follows intrepid young heroes from streets of Britain deep into Nazi Germany, the resistance within occupied France and the sands of the North African desert.

● Annika
DI Annika and her Marine Homicide Unit return to solve puzzling murders that wash up from Scotland’s waters.

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Wiley From Atlanta's sound is as unique as his story. In this episode, we'll find out why this rapper from Clarkston, GA credits Montessori school, ballet and theatre camp for his confidence on stage.

Peach Jam podcast features stories and songs recorded live in our GPB studios from a variety of incredibly talented and diverse bands and artists who call the Peach State home. Listen and subscribe.

It’s the summer of 1964 and three innocent men are brutally murdered for trying to help Black Mississippians secure the right to vote. Against this backdrop, twenty-one-year-old Violet Richards finds herself in more trouble than she’s ever been. Narrative Edge hosts Peter Biello and Orlando Montoya dive into Anywhere You Run in this episode and talk with Atlanta-based author Wanda Morris. 

Fresh-from-the-garden vegetables, a wide variety of oysters and expertly crafted cocktails all in one of the 10 best-designed bars in America. In this episode, you'll learn how one restauranteur's passion for the aquaculture of the South has made Decatur, Georgia a prime destination for oyster lovers everywhere. Plus, which is better: oysters from a farm or oysters harvested in the wild? Listen and subscribe.

One of the most famous painters the state of Georgia ever produced never took an art class. Instead, he was a small-town preacher. He believed God called him to paint what he called “sacred art.” Salvation South editor Chuck Reece remembers a day he spent with Howard Finster forty years ago.

The Okefenokee Swamp Park is getting nearly a half million dollars in federal funding for a research project that will tell the story of a group of young Black Americans who developed the park during the Great Depression. That story and more this week on the Georgia Today podcast. Listen and subscribe.

This week, the Football Fridays in Georgia podcast is joined by Valdosta head coach Shelton Felton to discuss the importance of South Georgia football and Make That Kid an Offer spotlights East Paulding's Gill Nkrumah, Cedar Grove's Keith Bass Jr. and other Georgia high school football players who are having great seasons but who may need a little help getting noticed by recruiters.