Friday, March 15th
Arizona Spotlight
8:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. (Repeats at 5 p.m. Saturday)
The Memphis Belle - Visit a piece of history from WWII that will be flying above Tucson this weekend.
Cine Mexico Film Festival - A preview of the upcoming festival.
Voices for the Cure - University of Arizona track & field star and Olympic silver medalist Brigetta Barrett shares the story of her mother's fight against breast cancer.
More stories from Arizona Spotlight
Saturday, March 16th
This American Life "Starting Over"
Noon (Repeats at 7 p.m. on Sunday)
Stories of people starting over, sometimes because they want to, other times because they have to.
This American Life
Sunday, March 17th
A Prairie Home Companion
10 a.m.
(Airs at 4 p.m. Saturdays on Classical 90.5 FM)
This week on A Prairie
Home Companion
with Garrison Keillor, the boys of Wilco play "One by One" and Patty Loveless sings "Busted."
NPR 89.1 FM/1550AM schedule
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James Reel Blog
Tweets as the Germs of Reviews?
Here is an interesting thought piece on the (so far limited) trend of encouraging audience members to tweet during performances. Author Tom Jacobs frames the basic question well: "Who, really, is more engaged? Is it the audience member holding a screen and responding to the action with his thumbs, or the one sitting silently in the dark with her eyes glued to the stage?"
Saturday, March 16th
Francesca da Rimini
10 a.m (runs four hours)
 This performance of Francesca da Rimini by Riccardo Zandonai, is set to a libretto by Tito Ricordi, after a play by Gabriele d'Annunzio. It premiered at the Teatro Regio in Turin on February 19th, 1914.
Sunday, March 17th
From the Top with Christopher O'Riley
Noon
This week From the Top is in Boston, Massachusetts, where you'll meet a young violinist who shared her music with her severely autistic brother and watched him use a song to be able to express his emotions for the very first time. Next, hear a soprano sing "The Lordly Hudson" by Ned Rorem, and a trio of teens play the final movement of the Brahms Second Piano Trio.
Weeknights
Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin
"Distant Neighbors "
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Friday, March 15th
Arizona Week
8:30 p.m.
Governor Jan Brewer's Medicaid expansion proposal and the political fight it is generating.
Visit Arizona Week
Moyers & Company
"Ending the Silence on Climate Change"
9:00 p.m.
Bringing climate change back into our national conversation is as much a communications challenge as it is a scientific one.
Saturday, March 16th
Joe Bonamassa: An Acoustic Evening at the Vienna Opera House
8:00 p.m.
 Enjoy blues rock guitarist and singer Joe Bonamassa performing an acoustic concert in the iconic Vienna Opera House and tune in for a chance to win an autographed Les Paul Special II electric guitar.
Sunday, March 17th
Blenko Glass: Behind the Scenes
9 p.m.
 Go into the heat and heart of the Blenko glassworks to
American Masters "Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind Little Women"
9 p.m.
A look at the celebrated author of Little Women who led a literary double life, undiscovered until the 1940s, as the writer of 19th-century potboilers.
Tuesday, March 19th
American Experience "The Amish"
With unprecedented access, built on patience and hard-won trust, this film is the first to deeply explore this attention-averse group. The Amish paints an intimate portrait of contemporary Amish faith and life. Visit American Experience Website
Wednesday, March 20th
Nature "The Loneliest Animals"
8 p.m.
 Nature takes viewers into high-security, high-tech labs where scientists attempt to breed new generations of nearly extinct species. Thursday, March 21st
8 p.m.
The owner of a former sugar plantation is found with a machete in his back leaving Poole and the team an impossible case to solve.
PBS 6 schedule
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