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  January 3 - January 9, 2014            

Masterpiece Classic: "Downton Abbey"

Amidst dark secrets, budding romances and surprising revelations, the most-watched drama in PBS history returns with a gripping fourth season.

Sunday at 8 p.m. on PBS 6 
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Friday, January 3rd
Arizona Spotlight 
 
8:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. (Repeats at 5 p.m. Saturday) 

This week Arizona Spotlight interviews the

woman responsible for bringing Downton Abbey to America. Rebecca Eaton, the executive producer of Masterpiece, talks about some of the factors that she feels make the show unique, and reflects on the changes she's seen during her 40-year career in public television

Saturday, January 4th
This American Life: "Doppelgängers"
Noon
(Repeats at 7 p.m. on Sunday)  
This week on This American Life: doppelgängers, doubles, evil twins and not-so-evil twins. Fred Armisen co-hosts with Ira Glass.

    

 

 

 

The Treatment

5:30 p.m.

Host Elvis Mitchell talks with filmmaker David O. Russell about music, cliches, and Jennifer Lawrence in a neck brace.
The Treatment 

 

Sunday, January 5th 

Radiolab 
1 p.m. 
This hour of Radiolab, we try our hand at unlocking the mysteries of time.
Radiolab 

 



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Saturday, January 4th

The Magic Flute by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 

11 a.m. (runs approximately two hours)

A young couple's journey to adulthood, the search for universal truths, Masonic rituals and religious allegory,

The Magic Flute gives audiences much to ponder, and music that's a wondrous joy.

 

A Prairie Home Companion

4 p.m. (airs Sundays at 10 a.m. on NPR 89.1) 
This week A Prairie Home Companion comes to you from sunny San Diego. Special guests include folk trio The Wailin' Jennys and singer-songwriter-fiddler Sara Watkins.

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Sunday, January 5th 
Community Concerts
3 p.m. (Repeats at 9 p.m. on Thursday) 
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Community Concerts broadcasts feature performances from the Arizona Friends of Chamber Music's 2012-2013 season, with host James Reel.
This week:
Respighi - Il Tramonto 
Bodorová - Clarinet Quartet 
Fauré - Piano Quartet No. 2 In G, Op. 45

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Weeknights

Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin:

"Brahms, Part II"  
7 p.m.

McGlaughlin looks at the music and life of the great German master, including his formative years as a pianist, meeting the Schumanns, the symphonies and his late works for clarinet. 

 

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Friday, January 3rd 
Arizona Week 
8:30 p.m  
Arizona Week examines Arizona's 2014 state campaigns and elections including governor and state constitutional offices, and congressional seats, as well as budget and legislative issues. 

Arizona Week   

  

Moyers & Company: "State Conflict: North Carolina" 

9 p.m.
Moyers & Company reports about the state that votes both blue and red and sometimes purple (Romney carried it by a whisker in 2012, Obama by an eyelash in 2008).
Moyers & Company

Charlie Rose: "The Week
10 p.m.
The Week looks at the defining moments in -- and conversations about --  the news, the sciences, the arts and entertainment.

Charlie Rose: The Week 

 
Saturday, January 4th 
Hollywood at Home: "The Birdcage"  
9 p.m.
A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's right-wing moralistic parents. Starring Robin Williams and Nathan Lane.

Hollywood at Home 

 

Sunday, January 5th 

Masterpiece Classic: "Downton Abbey Season Four, Part 1"

8 p.m. 

See how family and servants are coping six months after Matthew's death.

Masterpiece Classic 

 

 

 

  

Tuesday, January 7th  
American Experience: "The Poisoner's Handbook" 

8 p.m.

Learn how forensic chemistry was used in the early 20th century to convict murderers.
American Experience 




Wednesday, January 8th

Nova: "Alien Planets Revealed"  

 9 p.m.  
Join a mind-bending exploration of strange worlds and the creatures that might exist there
 

 

 



Thursday, January 9th
Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries: "Cocaine Blues

 9 p.m.

Miss Phryne Fisher disembarks the Orient at Victoria Dock, returning to 1920s Melbourne after years abroad. Almost as soon as she checks into the Windsor Hotel, Phryne is embroiled in mystery: poisoned husbands, cocaine smuggling rings and illegal abortionists.

 

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Tuesday - Science looks at issues and advances in health care, scientific research and technology.

Wednesday - Metro looks at government, business, education news and public policies affecting your daily life. 

Thursday - Arts looks at the vibrant arts and culture community that is distinctly Southern Arizona.

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