Friday, February 14th
Arizona Spotlight
8:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. (Repeats at 5 p.m. Saturday)
Arizona Spotlight visits artist Susan Gamble, founder of the Santa Theresa Tile Works, who built a business out of her passion for art while braving changes in Arizona's economy.
Saturday, February 15th
This American Life: "Except For That One Thing"
Noon (Repeats at 7 p.m. on Sunday)
 This week on This American Life, Mike Anderson was 36 years old, married, a suburban father of four. He volunteered at church on the weekends and coaches his son's football team. All pretty normal, right? Except for one thing ... which surfaced one day last summer.
5:30 p.m.
Elvis Mitchell talks to
director Morgan Neville about his Oscar-nominated documentary, 20 Feet from Stardom, a look at the lives of some of the best singers living today - that nobody knows about.
The Treatment
Sunday, February 16th
Radiolab
1 p.m.
The man who discovered sperm thought he was seeing the smallest incarnation of a human soul. If that was the case, why so many wasted souls? Radiolab turns to the animal kingdom to answer that question.
Radiolab
NPR 89.1 schedule
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Die Frau ohne Schatten by Richard Strauss
11 a.m. (runs approximately four hours)
 Die Frau ohne Schatten is the fairy-tale story of a half-spirit Empress, married to a human, who needs to obtain a shadow to become fully human and to prevent her father, the ruler of the spirit world, from losing his power and herself from being recalled to the spiritual plane her father inhabits.
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A Prairie Home Companion
4 p.m. (airs Sundays at 10 a.m. on NPR 89.1)
This week on A Prairie Home Companion, a rebroadcast originally presented in April 2013 at the Bass Concert Hall in Austin. The show includes performances by Asleep at the Wheel, Kat Edmonson, and the Texas Tornados.
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Sunday, February 16th
Community Concerts
3 p.m. (Repeats Thursday at 9 p.m.)
Flutist Alexander Lipay and keyboardist Alexander Tentser comprise Duo Alexander, presented by the St. Andrews Bach Society. The concert features a wide variety of Bach's works, including the "Partita in a minor for Solo Flute," the "Trio Sonata in G for Flute and Piano," and "Partita No. 1 in B-flat."
Weeknights
Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin
7 p.m.
 This week Exploring Music continues its look at the life and times of Dimitri Shostakovich.
Classical 90.5 schedule
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Friday, February 14th
AZ Illustrated Politics
6:30 p.m.
Join Arizona Illustrated Politics for an in-depth debate and analysis of the week's local, state and national political news.
8:30 p.m. (Repeats Sunday at 10:30 a.m.)
Arizona Week focuses on efforts to repopulate bighorn sheep in the Santa Catalina mountain range and the controversy surrounding the translocation project.
Saturday, February 15th
Hollywood at Home Double Feature
Beginning at 9 p.m.
 Start the evening with the 1962 musical Gypsy starring Rosalind Russell, Natalie Wood and Karl Malden. This is followed by Easter Parade, featuring the music of Irving Berlin and starring Fred Astaire and Judy Garland.
Sunday, February 16th
Masterpiece Classic: "Downton Abbey, Season Four, Part 7"
8 p.m.
 Watch as Edith prepares to go abroad, suitors flock to Mary, and Rose makes her move.
Murder on the Home Front
9:30 p.m
 See how a pathologist uses groundbreaking forensics to solve murders during the London Blitz.
Tuesday, February 18th
American Experience: "The Rise and Fall of Penn Station"
9 p.m.
 A look at the brief life of New York's Penn Station, whose destruction spurred the formation of the Landmarks Preservation Commission.
Wednesday, February 19th
Nature: "Honey Badgers: Masters of Mayhem"
 Specialists in South Africa follow the badger, renowned for its ability to confront grown lions and shrug off the toxic defenses of stinging bees, scorpions and snakes.
Doc Martin: "The Tameness of a Wolf"
8 p.m.
 Ruth is invited on Radio Portwenn and attracts an unwanted mystery admirer. Doc and Louisa find a replacement nanny.
SPECIAL PROGRAMMING
Arizona Public Media presents special programming during February in observance of Black History Month.
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