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BRITISH DRAMA

Call the Midwife Season 2


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Join 1950s East End London and follow Poplar’s community of exceptional midwives and nursing nuns for a new year of births, babies, and bicycling, as well as some blossoming romance.
MASTERPIECE

Page Eight


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An aging spy stumbles on an international scandal that could bring down the British government. But will it bring down his own career first?


MASTERPIECE

Downton Abbey: Season Finale


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The Crawleys head to a Scottish hunting lodge, while the downstairs staff stays behind at Downton Abbey. New romances flare up, and a crisis unfolds.

MASTERPIECE

Downton Abbey: Episode 6


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Change arrives in a big way for several key characters at Downton Abbey. A yearly cricket match with the village sees old scores settled and new plots hatched.

 
MASTERPIECE

Downton Abbey


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Mr. Bates is provoked by his cellmate, while in Downton Abbey, Cora, and Robert are estranged after tragedy strikes, and the servants shun Isobel for helping a prostitute.

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More from the English Channel


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Midsomer Murders covers crime in the rural English countryside, and DCI Banks is a headstrong detective from Peter Robinson’s novels.

Mondays on WGBH 44
DRAMA

Lark Rise To Candleford



Wednesday at 8 on WGBH 44


MASTERPIECE

Downton Abbey: Let the Word Games Begin


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Even before Lady Cora's mother arrived from New York, Lady Violet was dishing out American insults. But Mrs. Levinson seems to have brought plenty of sharp retorts in her luggage. Watch Season 3 of Downton Abbey.

Online and on Sundays at 9pm on WGBH 2
GREATER BOSTON

Two Leading Men Talk About Downton Abbey


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Masterpiece’s vaunted drama Downton Abbey returns Jan. 6 for its third season. While visiting Boston, cast members Rob James-Collier and  Hugh Bonneville talked with Jared Bowen about the show's success.
MASTERPIECE

Downton Abbey Season 3


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Recovering from the family's great loss, Lady Grantham finds joy her new role as a granny. When the Crawleys head to a Scottish hunting lodge, see what new crisis she and the family will have to face.

Sunday at 9pm on WGBH 2
MASTERPIECE

Watch it Again: Downton Abbey Season 2


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PREVIEW SEASON 3
The Crawleys host a hunt and everyone gathers at Downton Abbey for the holidays in the finale of Season 2.




MASTERPIECE

Downton Abbey Revisited


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Watch highlights of great moments from Season 1 and Season 2 of Downton Abbey plus interviews and behind-the-scenes peeks that might give you a clue what the Crawley's will face as they enter the Roaring Twenties.

Thursday at 9:30pm on WGBH 2
CNE Journal

Downton Abbey Wins Emmy for Original Score


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Hear from the composer of the winner of the 2012 Emmy Award for Original Score for a Series.

On-demand at Classical New England
Masterpiece Mystery

Case Histories Continues


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Jackson meets a crime novelist caught in a road rage incident while he searches for a drowning victim’s identity.

Sunday on WGBH2
Drama

From Masterpiece Mystery: Case Histories


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The first of three engrossing "Case Histories" adapted from the popular Kate Atkinson novels finds Edinburgh, Scotland, private investigator Jackson Brodie looking into a 30-year-old missing-persons case.

Sunday, 9pm on WGBH 2
MASTERPIECE MYSTERY

Inspector Lewis: The Indelible Stain


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Lewis and Hathaway investigate the murder of a visiting American academic who courted controversy with a theory that many critics construed as thinly veiled racism.

Sunday, 9pm on WGBH 2
CALLIE CROSSLEY SHOW

Kirsten Greenidge and "Luck of the Irish"


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Playwright Kirsten Greenidge's latest play, "The Luck of the Irish," is about an upwardly mobile African American family in the 1950s that moves from inner-city Boston to a white part of town.
Drama

Jared Bowen's Arts Ahead: Lows and Highs


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By Jared Bowen
Theater-goers won't want to miss this long-awaited performance of Eugene O'Neill's powerful examination of family, and families won't want to miss a night of delight under the Big Top.
PASSOVER RADIO DRAMA

The Witches of Lublin


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Listen to this radio drama about tragic love, violence and life as a Jewish woman in 18th century Poland. Tune in to WGBH 89.7 FM this Sunday, April 8th at 9 p.m.
Drama

Bullying And Gay Teen Experience: Reflections Of A Rock Lobster


By Jared Bowen
A true story is brought to the stage of a gay teenager who sued his high school in 1980 to bring his boyfriend to the prom.
Live Performances

Tell All, and Be Mortified


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A new storytelling project/performance invites people to read their embarrassing adolescent diaries, poems, and songs before complete strangers. Live this Sunday at Club Oberon.
Performing Arts

Jared Bowen's Arts Ahead: Keep it Real


By Jared Bowen
Ballet that reveals the pure essence of the dance, circus acrobats without the fanfare and a play about a painting and its inherent value.
Fine Art

Jared Bowen's Arts Ahead: Something for Everyone


By Jared Bowen
From contemporary sculpture to knitting bombers, ballet to Sondheim theater, or even an afternoon of Broadway love songs, Bostonians will find something appealing this weekend.
Drama

Watch The Latest 'Downton Abbey'


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The war winds down in Episode 5 of "Downton Abbey." While the family looks forward to having a private home again, cousin Isobel has other ideas for Downton. In other events, a wounded officer makes a startling claim. Watch the latest episode of "Downton" all week on WGBH.org. 
CNE Journal

The Music of Downton Abbey


VIDEO PREVIEW
INTERVIEW
By Brian McCreath
The drama, passion, and transformation of the Masterpiece Classic series is reflected in the film's soundtrack, written by John Lunn.
CNE Journal

Three Pianos: Regular Guys and Schubert


By Brian McCreath
Three friends channel the spirit of the Schubertiade at American Repertory Theater, partying with the piece of music you'd least expect.
Drama

Go Behind The Scenes With Downton Abbey


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Watch special clips and interviews with the cast from Downton Abbey, Season 2.
Theater

"Porgy and Bess" at A.R.T.: Transformed and Illuminating



By Kim McLarin
Kim McLarin takes in the new production of Porgy and Bess” at Cambridge’s American Repertory Theater with the question “Why now?” and finds a surprising answer in the company’s new version of the 75-year-old opera.
Mark Your Calendar

Candide at the Huntington: Tony-winner Mary Zimmerman takes on a flawed classic.



By Arthur Smith
Leonard Bernstein's problematic masterpiece bows at the Huntington.
Opera

Danielle de Niese In Handel's Semele


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The American soprano sings the title role in a performance with Les Talens Lyriques and conductor Christoph Rousset.
Sunday at 6:30pm on 99.5 All Classical
Arts & Entertainment

South Riding: Episode 2


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By Masterpiece
At risk of losing his estate to pay family medical bills, Robert (David Morrissey) travels to Manchester seeking work. There, he chances to meet Sarah (Anna Maxwell Martin), and they have a drink together. Penelope Wilton also stars.
Movies

I Am A Colored Girl


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By S. Pearl Sharp
Guest blogger S. Pearl Sharp reflects on the original For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf had on the black community when it debuted as a stage play over 30 years ago.
Arts

Center Stage


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Watch Center Stage with Jared Bowen, and see what other fans of the program are saying.

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