Friday, June 20th
Arizona Spotlight
8:30 a.m. and 6 p.m. (Repeats at 5 p.m. Saturday)
"The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue..." said poet Dorothy Parker, who was best remembered for her outspoken wit rather than her unconventional life story. Arizona Spotlight talks with actress Lesley Abrams about writing and starring in a new one-woman show, Dorothy Parker's Last Call.
This American Life: The Radio Drama Episode
Noon (Repeats at 7 p.m. on Sunday)
 Host Ira Glass pulls together a massive team of theater pros at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Opera House. The result? Journalism turned into a Broadway musical, into opera, into plays.
The Treatment
Julie Louis-Dreyfus who talks about playing the "political animal" that is Selina Meyer on HBO's Veep, plus, shares the scene that stuck with her from one of her favorite movies of all time: Hoosiers.
The Treatment
Radiolab: Musical Language
1 p.m.
 Radiolab examines the line between language and music. What is music? Why does it move us? How does the brain process sound, and why are some people better at it than others?
Radiolab
NPR 89.1 schedule
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The Barber of Seville by Gioachino Rossini
Noon
(Runs approximately three hours and fifteen minutes)
 A resourceful barber, Figaro, comes to the aid of his former master, Count Almaviva. The handsome Count is in love with the ravishing young Rosina, a ward of old Dr. Bartolo who is determined to marry her himself. Rossini's razor-sharp wit glints through every scene in this riotous yet musically elegant comedy.
A Prairie Home Companion
4 p.m. (airs Sundays at 10 a.m. on NPR 89.1)
The program comes to you live from Highland Park, Illinois. With special guests, Ivy League country singer Robbie Fulks, mezzo-soprano Jennifer Rivera, public radio's only in-house blues singer, Hilary Thavis, and vocalist Lynn Peterson.
Weeknights
Exploring Music with Bill McGlaughlin: Artists in Exile, Part 2
7 p.m.
Hear the stories of the appreciation of new places but also the terrible lonliness that comes from being in exile, forced from one's home by internal strife and placed thousands of miles away in a new world.
Visit Exploring Music
Classical 90.5 schedule
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Friday, June 20th NEW PROGRAMMING
Friday News & Public Affairs Block
8 p.m. Washington Week
8:30 p.m. Metro Week
9 p.m. Arizona Week
9:30 p.m. Charlie Rose: The Week
Hollywood at Home: Rocky II
 Underdog Philadelphia fighter Rocky Balboa gets another shot at heavyweight champ Apollo Creed.
Hollywood at Home
 Celia and Alan's relationship falters over Celia's behavior toward Caroline's partner. Furious, Caroline chastises her mother, who apologizes.
Masterpiece Mystery! The Escape Artist Part 28 p.m.
 With the tables turned, Will battles for justice by fair means or foul. But can a brilliant attorney save his own skin? Masterpiece Mystery!
Tuesday, June 24th
American Experience: Freedom Summer
9 p.m.
 Relive 1964's Freedom Summer and the dramatic struggle for equality in Mississippi. American Experience
Wednesday, June 25th
Surviving the Tsunami: A Nova Special Presentation
10 p.m.
 Watch amateur and professional video of the tsunami that struck Japan in March 2011. Nova
Thursday, June 26th
Midsomer Murders: Written in Blood Part 1
10 p.m.
The peace of the seemingly idyllic village of Badger's Drift is shattered by the inexplicable murder of an old woman, found dead in her cottage after witnessing something unsettling in the woods.
PBS 6 schedule
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