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Together We Heal

January 8th 2012 marks the one-year anniversary of the tragic shooting of nineteen people at a Congress on Your Corner event in Tucson. Arizona Public Media presents a one-hour special documentary, “Together We Heal,” a moving and thought-provoking program focused on emotional healing, both individual and community-wide over the past year. For many, grieving and healing have become on-going and consequential parts of their lives. The program features in-depth interviews with victims and their families, members of Congresswoman Giffords’ staff, and the doctors and nurses who treated them.

Learn more about Together We Heal.

Wavelengths

WaveLengths

New Science on Sleep

Human beings spend more than one third of their lives asleep, what really happens while we sleep? We know we need sleep but why is it so important? The latest episode of Wavelengths looks at fascinating studies on sleep.

Read more about Wavelengths: New Science on Sleep and watch a preview video

Phoenix Mars Mission

Phoenix Mars Mission: Onto the Ice

This sequel to Ashes to Ice follows the historic mission led by UA’s Peter Smith. The Phoenix Mars Mission blasted off to the Red Planet in August 2007, and AZPM chronicled its meticulous preparation through blastoff in Phoenix Mars Mission: Ashes to Ice. The sequel follows the spacecraft’s journey, risky landing and UA-led scientific research on Mars.

Visit Ashes to Ice to learn more.

Arizona Week

"Arizona Week is a review of that week's top news in Arizona - the big topics and stories that need in-depth conversations," says host Michael Chihak. "We plan to get the newsmakers on the air, interview them and then have a panel of three or four journalists from the Arizona Republic, Arizona Capitol Times and other news outlets ask the follow-up questions that our citizen viewers need to know. The mission of the program is to provide depth and understanding of the key issues that affect the state."

Chihak points out that the goal is "...to get beyond the 30-second sound bite. Good journalism engages and informs people, it keeps the parts of democracy moving. I want to see a community better educated about the issues that affect it so people are equipped to take civil action when they need to."

Arizona Week site

Unforgettable: The Korean War

"They don't call it the 'forgotten war' for nothing, nobody remembers Korea." Korean War Veteran Bill Williams, U.S.A.F.M

Take a journey with some Korean war veterans as they talk about their memories of the war and of the home front in the late 1940s and early 1950s as young men from all over the country were being shipped off to defend South Korea against the advancing Red Army.

The Desert Speaks – 19th Season

Host David Yetman takes viewers on another round of bold explorations when The Desert Speaks returns for a spectacular 19th season. Through intriguing storytelling and stunning photography, viewers find out about the people (past and present), plants, animals and archaeology of arid regions throughout the New World.

Watch The Gadsen Purchase Part 1 and find our more about season 19 at our Desert Speaks site.

Secrets of the Divine

Equal parts historical art, mystery and scientific exploration, Secrets of the Divine: The Altarpiece of Ciudad Rodrigo delves into the exhibition "Fernando Gallego & His Workshop: The Altarpiece from Ciudad Rodrigo."

The altarpiece, or retablo, is considered by scholars to be some of the most beautiful and iconographical ambitious paintings of the 15th century.

Secrets of the Divine is produced by the Emmy Award-winning Arizona Public Media production team led by Sooyeon Lee Johnston and narrated by NPR’s Special Correspondent Susan Stamberg.

Watch a preview and find out more at originals/azpm.org/secrets.

Barrios & Barriers: The Tucson Civil Rights Era

The Arizona Public Media documentary Barrios & Barriers: The Tucson Civil Rights Era, is a collection of personal experiences and triumphs about Tucson’s Civil Rights struggle during the mid-twentieth century.

The half-hour documentary tells stories of discrimination, segregation, racism, and in the end… of victories, drawn from the personal lives of some Tucson residents. The documentary airs Monday, May 9th at 9 p.m. on PBS-HD Channel 6.

Watch a preview and find out more about the documentary