Aired: 05/20/2012
Oprah travels to Nashville for an intimate, in-depth interview with country music superstar Carrie Underwood at her picturesque cabin retreat. Carrie reflects on her rise to fame since winning American Idol in 2005, her two-year marriage to professional hockey player Mike Fisher, and how she maintains normalcy despite her high-profile life. Carrie is later joined by Mike for their first television interview together. They talk about how they balance their successful and fast-paced careers with their marriage, and how their belief in God helps navigate their lives. The couple also takes Oprah to their new plot of land, where they plan to build their dream home.
Aired: 04/29/2012
In Part 2 of Oprah's long-awaited first trip to India, she visits the country's crown jewel—the Taj Mahal. She also sits down with five women from diverse backgrounds to talk about marriage, careers and family. Then, Oprah visits the "city of widows," where 16,000 women have sought refuge after their husbands died. Finally, Oprah is sent off with a posh party in a magnificent palace, hosted by Indian royalty.
What Oprah learned from her journey Aired: 04/22/2012
Oprah visits India for the first time ever and meets a family of five living on $200 a month in the infamous slums of Mumbai. This couple and their three daughters live, eat, cook and sleep in one 10-foot-by-10-foot concrete room. Then, Oprah sits down for dinner with an upper-middle-class family. In their home, four generations live happily under one roof.
Finally, Oprah is the guest of honor at an event the Indian media called "the party of the year," which was hosted by a billionaire socialite and attended by Bollywood's biggest stars. On the way to the party, Oprah visits the home of Aishwarya Rai and Abhishek Bachchan—a couple known as the Brad and Angelina of Bollywood—to meet their daughter, the most famous baby in India. Aired: 04/15/2012
Oprah and legendary feminist/activist Gloria Steinem sit down with 60 outspoken students at Barnard College—the most selective women's college in the United States—for a dynamic, provocative and no-holds-barred conversation. Both Gloria and Oprah are asked what price they've paid for their success and if they believe it's possible to really have it all.
Then, Oprah visits Gloria at her bohemian New York City brownstone for an in-depth, one-on-one conversation. Gloria opens up about why she became her mother's caregiver at age 10, marrying at age 66 and the biggest regret of her life. Aired: 04/08/2012
Oprah travels to Dallas to meet one of the nation's most influential spiritual leaders, Bishop T.D. Jakes. This charismatic leader is the senior pastor of the Potter's House, a global humanitarian organization and 30,000-member church. Oprah's friends Gayle King and Tyler Perry come along for the experience.
Then, Oprah and Bishop Jakes sit down for a provocative conversation about faith, race, ego and love. In this revealing interview, Bishop Jakes opens up about the death of his parents and explains how he became a preacher in his teens. Bishop Jakes' wife, Serita, also talks frankly about the challenges of being married to one of America's most famous preachers. Plus, get a behind-the-scenes look at the 9,000-seat Potter's House and find out how Bishop Jakes' weekly Sunday service comes together. Aired: 04/01/2012
In an exclusive interview, Oprah goes behind bars at the Orangeburg-Calhoun Regional Detention Center in Orangeburg, South Carolina, to talk to Shaquan Duley, a mother who confessed to murdering her two young sons, 2-year-old Devean and 18-month-old Ja'Van, on August 16, 2010. Although she initially claimed her sons drowned in a car accident, she later confessed to smothering them and then driving them into a river to cover up what she'd done. On March 16, 2012, Shaquan pleaded guilty to two counts of murder and begged for forgiveness from her family, the community and the judge. On March 30, 2012, a judge ordered Shaquan to serve two 35-year sentences concurrently with no chance of parole. She received credit for time served already. Oprah also talks to Shaquan's mother, Helen; her sister, Adriane; and Shaquan's surviving daughter, 7-year-old Saniya.
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