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February 15 - February 21, 2013
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2013 MASTERPIECE Classic Sweepstakes!
Follow in the footsteps of great British drama
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.
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Friday, February 15th
Arizona Spotlight
8:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. (Repeats at 5 p.m. Saturday) Passionately Piazzola - A look at Ballet Tucson's production recreating the life of Astor Piazzola, who transformed the traditional tango into a new style. Navajo singer Radmilla Cody - Meet the former Miss Navajo, who received a Grammy nomination this year for her album of traditional native music.
More about Arizona Spotlight
Saturday, February 16th
This American Life "Harper High School,
Part One"
Noon
(Repeats at 7 p.m. on Sunday)
 We spent five months at Harper High School in Chicago, where last year 29 current and recent students were shot. We went to get a sense of what it means to live in the midst of gun violence, how teens and adults navigate a world of funerals and Homecoming dances.
Part Two airs next week.
This American Life
Sunday, February 17th
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, A Prairie Home Companion, with Garrison Keillor, welcomes the bluegrass band Run Boy Run, soprano Maria Jette, and the Midwinter Tuba Quintet.
More PHC info here
NPR 89.1 FM/1550AM schedule
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Saturday, February 16th
Verdi's Rigoletto 11 a.m (runs three hours and thirty minutes)
 Verdi's powerful tragedy explores the dark side within us all through one of his most compelling characters, the court jester, whose rage inspires coldblooded revenge...and one of the most chilling final scenes in all of opera.
Sunday, February 17th
From the Top with Christopher O'Riley
Noon
This week From the Top collaborates with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra. We'll hear a teenage cellist perform with the orchestra, meet a young violinist who is perhaps the Dallas Symphony's biggest fan and a teenage piano trio performs the music of a young Texan composer.
Learn about performers and repertoire here
From the Top will tape live in Tucson this Sunday at Centennial Hall! Visit UApresents for ticket information.
Weeknights
Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin
"Portraits in Black, Brown and Beige, Part I"
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Friday, February 15th
Arizona Week
8:30 p.m.
Topic:
State revenues and taxation, including discussion of tax credit proposals and the proposal to reform the transaction privilege tax, known popularly as the sales tax.
Visit Arizona Week here
Need to Know
This week the program travels to Tucson
10 p.m.
 This week Need to Know travels to Tucson, where a dispute over a Mexican-Studies program has tensions high. Supporters say it has helped re-engage at risk students and improved their test scores, while opponents contend it encourages subversive thinking.
Saturday, February 16th
Hollywood at Home "Hawaii"
 Julie Andrews stars in this epic adventure that traces the arrival of missionaries in 1820s Hawaii and the eventual devastation of a paradise lost.
Sunday, February 17th
Downton Abbey "Season III, Episode VII"
8 p.m.
 In the Season III finale, the Crawleys head to a Scottish hunting lodge, while the downstairs staff stays behind at Downton. New romances flare up and a crisis unfolds.
Tuesday, February 19th
After Newtown "Guns In America"
9 p.m.
 A look at the evolution of guns in America, their link to violence, and the clash of cultures that reflects competing visions of our national identity.
Wednesday, February 20th
Nova "Mind of a Rampage Killer"
 Nova investigates theories into what drives rampage killers. How much can science tell us about a brain at risk for violence?
Death in Paradise
8 p.m.
 Dwayne ends up embroiled in a murder investigation when a piece of incriminating evidence is found at the scene of the crime.
PBS 6 schedule
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Television
PBS 6 Ch 6.1 & 27.1
Cox 1006 & Comcast 220
Vme Ch 6.2 (en espaňol)
Cox 81 & Comcast 202
ReadyTV Ch 6.3
Cox 82 & Comcast 201
PBS Kids Ch 27.2
Cox 80 & Comcast 200
World Ch 27.3
Cox 83 & Comcast 203
UA Channel
Cox 116 & Comcast 76
Radio
NPR 89.1/AM 1550
Classical 90.5/89.7
BBC World Service KUAZ-HD2
Complete Schedules
NPR 89.1 (Radio)
Classical 90.5 (Radio)
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