A look at where the future was born: Silicon Valley on PBS 6

February 1 - February 7, 2013

American Experience presents

"The Titans: Silicon Valley"

This film looks at pioneering scientists and engineers who transformed rural Santa Clara County into the hub of technological ingenuity.

Tuesday at 9 p.m. on PBS 6.

Friday, February 1st

Arizona Spotlight

8:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. (Repeats at 5 p.m. Saturday)

Features:

A Unique Writing Program - Author and UA professor Erec Toso mentors a group of inmates who want to become better writers.

Tucson Botanical Gardens - Follow the garden's staff through their daily ritual of watching the weather and staying ready to react.
UA Mineral Museum - Visit a place dedicated to preserving and sharing unique geologic specimens.

The Portland Cello Project - Learn about cello players and a gospel choir performing the music of pop composer Beck.

More stories from Arizona Spotlight

Saturday, February 2nd

This American Life "Kid Logic"

Noon

(Repeats at 7 p.m. on Sunday)

Stories of kids using perfectly logical arguments, and arriving at perfectly wrong conclusions.

Visit This American Life website

Sunday, February 3rd

A Prairie Home Companion

10 a.m.

(Airs at 4 p.m. Saturdays on Classical 90.5 FM)

A Prairie Home Companion kicks off a five-week stint at home in Saint Paul, Minnesota with a live broadcast from The Fitzgerald Theatre, with special guests, vocalist Topsy Chapman and Butch Thompson and His New Orleans Orphans.

More PHC info here.

Maya Angelou's Black History Month Special

3 p.m.

Maya Angelou offers a unique, poetic and historical context of African Americans telling their own stories of success, community and ascent into the larger world society.

More about this radio special

NPR 89.1 FM/1550AM schedule

James Reel Cue Sheet
Classical Coughing

Last weekend, I had such a bad coughing fit at the beginning of a Chamber Music Plus performance that I had to go home and take some Mucinex before I was fit for the second half...

Saturday, February 2nd

Le Comte Ory by Gioachino Rossini

11 a.m. (runs three hours and five minutes)

Rossini's first opera in French, Le Comte Ory borrowed four numbers from his earlier work Il Viaggio a Reims, written in Italian three years previously for Paris audiences. Le Comte Ory proved popular, thanks to audiences' particular enjoyment of its arias and choruses and its vocally dazzling comedy.

More information here

Sunday, February 3rd

From the Top with Christopher O'Riley

Noon

This week's From the Top features an 11-year-old violinist who loves to contemplate the cosmos, and a young pianist who sleeps with her eyes open.

Learn about performers and repertoire here

Save the Date! From the Top will tape live in Tucson on February 17th, 2013 at Centennial Hall! Visit UApresents for ticket information.

Community Concerts

3 p.m. (Repeats 9 p.m. on Thursday)

Hosted by Ted Prichard, this program features live performances of classical music recorded at venues throughout southern Arizona.

More program information here.

Weeknights

Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin

"Triple Play"

7 p.m.

Bill steps up to the plate to explore trios of all sorts, from the finale of Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier to the Beethoven Triple Concerto and more.

Visit Exploring Music here

Classical 90.5 FM schedule

Friday, February 1st

Arizona Week

8:30 p.m.

Host: Michael Chihak

Topic: Prospects for the winter tourism season in Arizona.

Visit AZ Week here

Moyers & Company "Are Drones Destroying our Democracy? "

9 p.m.

Bill Moyers explores the moral and legal implications of using drones to target our enemies, both foreign and American.

Moyers & Company

Saturday, February 2nd
Hollywood at Home "The Spirit of St. Louis"

9 p.m.

James Stewart stars as Charles Lindbergh in a story about the aviator's attempt to make the first solo flight across the Atlantic.

Learn more about this week's feature

Sunday, February 3rd

Born and Bred "Lost Souls "

7 p.m.

Len and Linda find a seven-year-old girl on the steps of the hospital and soon discover she is deaf. Tom sets out to find the child's mother.

Downton Abbey "Season III, Episode V"

8 p.m.

Things are badly amiss at Downton Abbey. Robert and Cora are not speaking. The servants are shunning Matthew's mother, Isobel. And Matthew and Robert have fallen out. Bates takes a gamble.

Visit program site on PBS

Monday, February 4th

Black in Latin America "Haiti & The Dominican Republic: An Island Divided"

10 p.m.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. explores how race has been socially constructed in a society whose people reflect centuries of inter-marriage, and how the country's troubled history with Haiti informs notions about racial classification

Visit Black in Latin America website

Tuesday, February 5th

American Experience
"The Titans: Silicon Valley"

9 p.m.

This film spotlights the creativity of the young men who founded Fairchild Semiconductor, in particular the brilliant, charismatic young physicist Robert Noyce.

American Experience

Wednesday, February 6th

Nature "Attenborough's Life Stories: Our Fragile Planet"

8 p.m.

British broadcaster and naturalist Sir David Attenborough reflects on the dramatic impact human beings have had on the natural world.

Nature

Thursday, February 7th

Death in Paradise

8 p.m.

Richard is struck down by a tropical disease and Camille is in Paris, so it is left to Dwayne and Fidel to solve the murder of a local diver.

Doc Martin

9 p.m.

Back to back episodes!

PBS 6 schedule

New Voices. New Stories. New Focus.
The New AZ Illustrated
Premieres, Monday, February 4th at 6:30 p.m.

The new AZ Illustrated (pronounced A-Z-Illustrated) debuts in its regular weeknight time slot at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, February 4, 2013. The new AZ Illustrated features different hosts and topics each night - Metro, Science, Nature, Arts and Politics - offering insight and discussion relevant to Southern Arizona audiences. Tapping into the wealth of talent and experience of AZPM's award-winning producers, reporters, and production team, while introducing new specialists from the community, the series will feature new voices, new stories and a new focus.

Learn more about the New AZ Illustrated