Friday, April 25th
Arizona Spotlight
8:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. (Repeats at 5 p.m. Saturday)
 This is the time of year for harvesting cholla and Arizona Spotlight talks with an ethnobotanist from Native Seed Search about the proper way to pick and prepare this abundant desert food.
This American Life: Death and Taxes
Noon (Repeats at 7 p.m. on Sunday)
 It is a peculiar feeling to know with certainty that something big is about to happen to you. This week we watch people go right up to the edge of inevitable change.
This American Life
1 p.m.
The duo behind the documentary series, The Perennial Plate, takes us to South Africa for a look at biodynamic wines, and historian Frederick Opie takes us on a musical journey through the South's "chitlin trail."
Sunday, April 27th
Ted Radio Hour: How We Love
Noon
In this hour, TED speakers examine the mystery of connection and relationships.
TED Radio Hour
Radiolab: Placebo
1 p.m.
 Radiolab examines the chemical consequences of belief and imagination by taking stock of the pharmacy in our brains, considering the symbolic power of the doctor coat, and visiting the tent of a self-proclaimed faith healer.
NPR 89.1 schedule
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Cosė fan tutte by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
10 a.m. (runs approximately four hours and five minutes)
 Two young soldiers disguise their identities to test their lovers' fidelity in this Mozart masterpiece, a sublime and sometimes startling mix of hilarious farce and poignant drama.
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A Prairie Home Companion
4 p.m. (airs Sundays at 10 a.m. on NPR 89.1)
This week it's a live broadcast from the Northrop Auditorium on the University of Minnesota campus. Special guests include The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra - the only full-time professional chamber orchestra in the United States - conductor Philip Brunelle, and vocal powerhouses Jearlyn and Jevetta Steele.
Sunday, April 27th
From the Top
 Meet a guitarist who's an expert on roller coasters and a teenage cellist from New Orleans whose family is French-American but who loves all things Korean. Performances on this show range from a Chopin piano favorite to the wild ride of a trombone quartet.
From the Top
Weeknights
Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin:
Shhh -- It's a Secret: Musical Cryptograms
7 p.m.
This week we'll discover and decipher codes, messages and meanings that have been hidden within pieces of classical music over the centuries.
Classical 90.5 schedule
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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.)
The legislative session is winding down and Arizona Week looks at some of the major initiatives.
Hollywood at Home: Platoon
 In this 1986 Oscar winning drama, a young recruit gets lost in the horror of war along the 1967 Cambodian border.
Hollywood at Home
Call the Midwife, Season 3: Episode Five
7 p.m.
 The midwives discover that a young Down Syndrome woman is six months pregnant, leading to difficult confessions and decisions.
Call The Midwife
Masterpiece Classic: Mr Selfridge Season 2, Part Five
8 p.m.
 Leclair lands in deep trouble, Victor and Agnes make plans and Harry joins the war effort.
Masterpiece
The Bletchley Circle, Season 2: Uncustomed Goods, Part 1
9 p.m.
 Enter the underground world of contraband and trafficking as the women work to thwart a plot.
Tuesday, April 29th
Ruben Salazar: Man in the Middle
9 p.m.
 This documentary looks at Salazar's transformation from a mainstream Los Angeles Times reporter to a supporter and primary chronicler of the radical Chicano movement of the late 1960s. Ruben Salazar: Man in the Middle
Nova: Incredible Journey of the Butterflies
9 p.m.
 Travel with Monarch butterflies on their annual 2,000-mile flight across North America.
Nova
Thursday, May 1st
Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie 9 p.m.
In the second "prequel" to the series, the doctor needs some distance from the village of Port Issac. He falls in love with a middle-of-nowhere property, but a problem arises when a family from London also wants the property.
New Locally Produced Public Affairs Program Premiering in June on PBS 6
Arizona Public Media announces the debut of Metro Week a new locally produced, regionally focused, news and public affairs program, hosted and produced by AZPM's Andrea Kelly. The program will air Friday evenings.
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