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A Little Bit of Everything in January

Downton Abbey is not the only exciting programming happening this month on WETA Television. Not by a long shot!

Among other highlights, enjoy Himilaya with Michael Palin, a travelogue airing Sundays at 8:00pm, which follows the itinerant former member of the Monty Python Troupe as he tours the great mountain range. On Friday evenings at 9:00pm, look for The Life of Mammals with David Attenborough, a beautiful series by the acclaimed BBC wildlife filmmaker. And, on Saturdays at 8:00pm, catch up on Doc Martin as we rebroadcast the first four seasons in advance of the season 5 premiere in April.

January has a little something for everyone!

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Miss Marple IV: They Do It With Mirrors
January 19 at 9:00pm
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The Life of Mammals: Plant Predators
January 20 at 9:00pm
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Britain's Royal Weddings
January 23 at 9:00pm
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The WETA Movie: To Have and Have Not
January 28 at 9:30pm
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Downton Abbey Online Features

Love Downton Abbey? Don't miss our special online features about the series, including an interview with George Mason University history professor Dina Copelman about its historical accuracy.

And, just for fun, make sure to take our Downton Abbey personality quiz. Which character are you? Violet? Sybil? Robert? Matthew? Bates? Or maybe your match is Lady Edith and you just don't want to admit it. (With over 100,000 quiz submissions so far, we know there are a few Ediths out there!)

Make sure to watch new episodes on WETA Television, Sundays at 9:00pm through February 19. And don't miss episode recaps and discussion on our Telly Visions blog.

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Front Row Washington

Classical Highlight

Join Classical WETA on Monday, January 23 at 9:00pm as Front Row Washington welcomes the Ying Quartet for a recital presented by Candlelight Concert Society at the Horowitz Center for Performing Arts in Columbia, Maryland.

The program features Mozart’s Quartet in E-flat Major, K. 428. As quartet-in-residence at the prestigious music conservatory, The Eastman School of Music at the University of Rochester, the Ying Quartet commissions new works, including two featured in this concert: Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Paul Moravec’s Anniversary Dances, and John Novacek’s Three Rags for String Quartet. The Ying Quartet closes the recital with Bedˇrich Smetana’s much-beloved Quartet No. 1 in E minor, “From My Life.”

Front Row Washington airs Monday nights at 9:00pm on Classical WETA 90.9 FM.

A piece shrouded in mystery and controversy, the Requiem was unfinished at the time of Mozart's death in 1791. Though Franz Süssmayr completed the composition, his work has been widely criticized over the years and several later composers have written alternative orchestrations in an effort to make the piece more faithful to Mozart’s true intentions.

In an appropriate coda to Mozart Month on Classical WETA radio, our January 29 Choral Showcase broadcast will feature one of these alternate versions of the Requiem — by 20th-Century German musicologist Franz Beyer — with Leonard Bernstein conducting the Chorus and Orchestra of the Bavarian Radio.

Choral Showcase airs Sunday nights at 9:00pm on Classical WETA 90.9 FM.

The Old West

In case you missed it

This January, American Experience chronicles the lives of iconic figures of the old West. Headlined by a new two-hour film about General George Armstrong Custer, the series also explores the lives of Wyatt Earp, Geronimo, Annie Oakley, Jesse James and Billy the Kid.

Custer's Last Stand premieres TONIGHT at 8:00pm and explores the demise of Custer and his men on June 26, 1876, near the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory. There the Civil War hero battled Sitting Bull’s large army of Lakota and Cheyenne warriors, launching one of the greatest myths in American history.

American Experience airs Tuesday evenings at 8:00pm or 9:00pm in January on WETA Television. Check weta.org for detailed listings.

Did you miss a program when it aired on WETA Television? Never fear! Many are now available online, including:

• Billy the Kid: American Experience: A skinny orphan boy who transformed himself into the most feared man in the West.
  
  
• Masterpiece: Downton Abbey, Season 2, Episode 1: The long awaited second season sees Downton Abbey in turmoil as World War I rages.
  
  
• NOVA: Deadliest Volcanoes: How can we best prepare for the most lethal volcanic eruptions?

Visit the WETA video portal to watch these and many more full-length programs!

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