Prime Afternoons: All your PBS favorites, in the daytime

Missed a show in the evening? Enjoy some of our highest-rated primetime evening shows earlier in the day during Prime Afternoons each weekday from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Start your month with some of your favorite shows throughout the week!

On Mondays, enjoy “Antiques Roadshow” at 1:30 p.m. and the beloved “Father Brown” at 2:30 p.m. To finish off the evening, check out “Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries” at 3:30 p.m. and “Outside: Beyond the Lens” at 4:30 p.m.

Tuesdays, check out “Antiques Roadshow” at 1:30 p.m., followed by “Midsomer Murders” at 2:30 p.m.

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Wednesdays are for American History. To start off the month, April 1 will feature back-to-back episodes of “Henry David Thoreau” starting at 12:30 p.m. On April 8, back-to-back episodes of “Lucy Worsley Investigates” will take over the 2:30 and 3:30 p.m. time slot with “Lafayette: The Lost Hero” at 3:30 p.m. on April 15. Enjoy two episodes of “The American Revolution” at 12:30 and 2:30 p.m. on April 22 and 28.

Thursdays, tune into “Nature” at 1:30 p.m. with “H20: The Molecule that Made Us” at 2:30 p.m. and “Energy Switch” at 3:30 p.m. At 4 p.m., don’t miss “Arizona Wildlife Views.” On April 9 and 16, check out “Life Unearthed” at 3 p.m. “Wilding” will fill in the 2:30 p.m. time slot on April 23 and “To the Ends of the Earth: Avian Chronicles” on April 29.

On Fridays, finish off the week with “NOVA” at 1:30 p.m. with “Our New World” at 2:30 p.m. and “Ancient Invisible Cities” at 3:30 p.m. “NOVA” will fill in the 3:30 p.m. time slot on April 10. April 17 will feature “NOVA” at 1:30 p.m. followed by “Secrets of the Dead” at 2:30 p.m. and “Down the Duck with John Guider” at 3:30 p.m. On April 24, enjoy an extra episode of “NOVA” at 2:30 p.m. and “Lithium Rising: The Race for Critical Minerals” at 3:30 p.m.

Then at 4:30 p.m., enjoy episodes of the beloved “Rick Steves’ Europe” all month long.

For more information about what’s on each week, view the full schedule here.

As Prime Afternoons wraps up at 5 p.m., it leads you right into our news block featuring Arizona HorizonBBC World News America and PBS News Hour, followed by our regular primetime programming.

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