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  February 8 - February 14, 2013         

Nova presents  
"Earth From Space" 

 A spectacular new space-based vision of Earth.

 Wednesday at 9 p.m. on PBS 6. 
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Friday, February 8th
The Five Cs: A Century Later
 8:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. (Repeats at 5 p.m. Saturday)
An Arizona Public Media Special Report 

Historically, Arizona's economy was built on "The Five Cs" of Cattle, Citrus, Climate, Copper and Cotton. But now, 101 years after statehood, are they still the state's top money-makers?

More about the Five C's  


Saturday, February 9th
This American Life  "What I Did For Love 2013 " 

Noon  

(Repeats at 7 p.m. on Sunday)    

Love makes us do crazy things. This week, for Valentine's Day, we have stories of people going to extremes as they fall in love, chase love down, and try to make sense of it. 

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Snap Judgment "A Love Supreme"

1 p.m.

Everyone thinks that their love story is special; that no one has gone through the joy or the agony the way they have. And you know what? Everyone is right. The burn of every love story flames a slightly different color. 
 
   

Sunday, February 10th

A Prairie Home Companion

10 a.m.

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

Coming to you this week from Saint Paul, Minnesota, Prairie Home Companion, with Garrison Keillor, welcomes special guests, Buddhist-inspired folk musician Ellis, and men's choir Cantu.
More PHC info here

 

 

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Saturday, February 9th  
Donizetti's L'Elisir d'Amore
11 a.m. (runs three hours )

One of opera's most beloved comedies also features one of the most frequently excerpted arias in opera: "Una furtiva lagrima."  

More information here    

 

Let Freedom Sing: The Music of the Abolitionists

3 p.m. 

Hosted by NPR's Noah Adam, Let Freedom Sing chronicles the idealistic artists, uncompromising personalities and powerful music of the era, and looks at how these forces combined to turn abolitionism from a scorned fringe movement into a nation-changing force.    


Sunday, February 10th

From the Top with Christopher O'Riley 

Noon 

This week's From the Top features a teenage pianist from Kalamazoo, a percussion duo from Chicago and a 14-year-old boy cellist who wears yellow clothes almost every single day.  

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. 

     

 

Weeknights

Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin

"Beethoven and that Danged Metronome"

7 p.m.
How do tempo and interpretation affect the emotional impact of a composition?
Visit Exploring Music here   

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Friday, February 8th  

Moyers & Company "America's Digital Divide"
9 p.m.
 
Bill Moyers looks at why America's internet access is slow, expensive... and unfair.

Saturday, February 9th   
Hollywood at Home "An Affair to Remember"
9 p.m. 
Nickie Ferrante (Cary Grant), a suave and dashing man with a passion for the arts, meets Terry McKay (Deborah Kerr) aboard an ocean liner traveling from Europe to New York.  

Sunday, February 10th
Downton Abbey "Season III, Episode VI"
8 p.m.
Change arrives in a big way for several key characters at Downton Abbey. A yearly cricket match with the village sees old scores settled and new plots hatched.

    

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Enter daily until April 30, 2013 for your chance to win a 5-day, 4-night trip for two from the US to Britain, including VIP tours of Highclere Castle (the setting for Downton Abbey), Kensington Palace, Selfridges & Co and more.
 
Tuesday, February 12th 
American Experience 
"The Titans: John D. Rockefeller"
9 p.m.
The world's first billionaire, Rockefeller held 90 percent of the world's oil refineries, 90 percent of the marketing of oil and a third of all the oil wells. Working methodically and secretly, he transformed an industry - and changed forever the way America did business.
   
 
Wednesday, February 13th
Nova "Earth from Space" 
9 p.m.
PBS' premier science series presents a groundbreaking special that reveals a new space-based vision of Earth.
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Thursday, February 14th  
Death in Paradise 
8 p.m.
Carnival comes to Saint-Marie, and Richard sees the dark side of show business when a comeback concert ends in the most public of murders.
 


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