THE CLIBURN

SATURDAY, AUGUST 1 @ 6:00PM

Virtuosity – The Cliburn searches for the musical souls of the most gifted young pianists on the planet as they try to make a name for themselves at the 2013 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. The pressure is overwhelming because the stakes are so high: prize money, concert bookings, a recording contract, a career.

At the heart of this story is the courage it takes for a 20-year-old to go onstage alone before 2,000 people, and hundreds of thousands more online, and play a unique interpretation of one of the most difficult pieces ever written for the piano.

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INSPECTOR LEWIS, SEASON 7

BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL

SUNDAY, JULY 31 @ 7:00PM & 11:30AM

BEYOND GOOD AND EVIL: Thirteen years after Lewis’ first successful arrest as a Detective Inspector, the forensics have been called into question and the case reopened for appeal. Lewis fears the worst, but nothing can prepare him for the resumption of the original murders with the original weapon. Did he arrest an innocent man? With Lewis’ reputation in jeopardy, Hathaway and Maddox race to catch the killer.

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NUCLEAR MELTDOWN DISASTER

WEDNESDAY, JULY 29 @ 10:00PM

NOVA reveals the minute-by-minute story of the Fukushima nuclear crisis—the one you know about, and the one you likely don’t: the perilously close call at the other Fukushima nuclear power plant a few miles away from the meltdowns. With unprecedented access inside both Fukushima nuclear power plants, NOVA speaks with workers who were there during the harrowing days—a crisis that began as a natural a disaster but was made worse by human beings.

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TWISTING THE DRAGON’S TAIL

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3 @ 11:00PM

Uranium is created violently in the collapse of a star long ago. A massive explosion; a supernova that is the birth our solar system. Uranium is woven throughout the fabric of our Earth, and uranium still crackles, with the heat and violence of that creation. Uranium spits energy unlike any other rock. Its energy transforms DNA, and shapes the very nature of what it means to be human. You are who you are, because of uranium.

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THE BOMB

TUESDAY, AUGUST 15 @ 6:00PM & 11:00PM

It began innocently enough. In 1938, two German chemists accidentally discovered how to split the nucleus of the uranium atom: nuclear fission. Einstein’s E=mc2 equation predicted that the amount of energy released from just one atom would be enormous.

Physicists all over the world immediately realized that fission might make a bomb of extraordinary power — and that Nazi Germany might be capable of creating one. The fear of Adolph Hitler getting a nuclear weapon led to a race to deter him by developing such a bomb first. Thus began a chain of events that would lead inexorably to Hiroshima, the nuclear arms race, the hydrogen bomb, the Cuban Missile Crisis and some of the greatest fear and tension ever in world history.

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TEA TIME

MONDAY, JULY 27 @ 8:00PM

Ritual is often associated with powerful and impersonal institutions, but for five Chilean women, ritual centers on a monthly gathering that has sustained them through 60 years of personal and societal change. Tea Time is a charming and poignant look at how a seemingly mundane routine of tea and pastries has helped the well-heeled participants commemorate life’s joys and cope with infidelity, illness and death. A celebration of the small things that help us endure, Tea Time, filmed over five years, illuminates a beautiful paradox: As familiar worlds slip away, friendships grow ever stronger and more profound.

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SUNDAY, JULY 26 @ 10:00PM

EPISODE 6

Ross’s success and thirst for justice makes him enemies in the community.

When a friend turns gravely ill in jail, Ross launches a desperate mission to save him. Demelza is excited to attend a grand ball held by George Warleggan, who is determined to ruin Wheal Leisure. When Ross changes the game and emerges the victor, he unknowingly exposes powerful people in high places.

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SUNDAY, JULY 26 @ 8:00PM & 12:00M

EPISODE 6

Joan is hauled up on a charge of aiding the enemy and faces a possible lifetime in prison, and her actions send ripples through the hospital.

Kitty’s wracked with guilt that she knew about Joan but didn’t stop her. She’s desperate for someone to trust, but will she turn to Thomas or Miles?

Elsewhere, Flora discovers Peter’s brother, Jimmy, on one of the wards and happily reunites the siblings, but when it becomes clear that Jimmy is scared of war, Peter has a difficult decision to make. Rosalie, too, is feeling conflicted, unsure how to deal with her discovery of Kitty’s divorce.

As night falls some rules will be broken, others upheld and as the war machine grinds on faith, hope and love are put to the test.

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WITH GWEN IFILL

FRIDAY, JULY 24 @ 9:00PM

Tonight on Washington Week: The Crowded Presidential Field, Donald Trump’s Surging Popularity and Bill Clinton & George Bush’s Unusual Alliance

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DUDAMEL CONDUCTS A JOHN WILLIAMS CELEBRATION

FRIDAY, MARCH 31 @ 6:00PM @ 11:30PM

Natalie Portman hosts the gala opening night concert and Itzhak Perlman is the special guest in a tribute to John Williams, the prolific film composer. Gustavo Dudamel, the Los Angeles Philharmonic Music and Artistic Director conducts.

By any standard, John Williams is one of the greatest film composers of all time; his 49 Academy Award nominations are second only to Walt Disney himself. And Williams and Walt Disney Concert Hall have gone hand in hand since Williams opened the Hall’s inaugural gala in 2003 with the world premiere of his concert work “Soundings.”

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