This land is your land, this land is my land...

Woody Guthrie, the nation's signature folk singer/song-writer, has had his music recorded by everyone from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir to the Irish rock band U2. Hailing from Pampa, Texas and blowing out of the Dust Bowl in 1930s Depression Era America, he blended vernacular, rural music and populism to give voice to millions of downtrodden citizens. AMERICAN MASTERS looks at his life and music, and how he influenced generations...7pm

FRONTLINE explores the shadow world of assisted suicide, where the lines between legality and criminality are blurred as never before. With intimate access to decisions near the end of life, FRONTLINE takes viewers inside one of the most polarizing social issues of our time -- told not only by the people choosing to die, but also by their "assisters"...8:30pm

This weekend, it's the "best awards show in the world"...

With the producer help of quirky cooking personality Anthony Bourdain, IN THE MIND OF A CHEF is a rethinking of a "travel/cooking show" -- it feeds the gut and the mind. It's a series that dares to make connections between food and nature, science, music, art, sports, history, and pretty much anything else renowned chef David Chang can stir up...Friday night at 8 - 10pm

AUSTIN CITY LIMITS travels to Nashville to showcase Bonnie Raitt with John Hiatt, Booker T. Jones, Alabama Shakes, The Mavericks, Richard Thompson, Guy Clark and many more...tune in and see why the AMERICANA MUSIC FESTIVAL has been called the "best awards show in the world"...Saturday at 10pm

Two bands, no percussion, mucho intensity...

The Civil Wars and the Punch Brothers perform new music tonight on AUSTIN CITY LIMITS...7pm 

The Pulitzer Prize- winning journalist and author of "The Worst Hard Time," a history of the Dust Bowl, is KACV-TV's studio guest. Tim Egan was interviewed by Ellen Robertson Green in front of a live audience, and offers intriguing insights into the writing process, and how he traveled the area interviewing folks who have a vivid memory of the rolling dust storms of Black Sunday.
A CONVERSATION WITH TIMOTHY EGAN...8pm

My dog's always thinking...about food!

Have you ever wondered what's going on inside an Animal's head? How do they see the world -- and us? Is your dog really feeling guilty when it gives you that famous "guilty look?" Do pigeon brains possess "superpowers" that allow them to find their way home across hundreds of unfamiliar miles? David Pogue meets -- and competes -- with a menagerie of smart critters that challenge preconceived notions about what makes "us" different from "them" expanding our understanding of how animals really think. NOVA SCIENCE NOW explains tonight at 9pm

You're wondering what's on tonight...really?

Finally...what seems like the longest campaign season ever will come to an end tonight with the YOU-KNOW-WHAT of the YOU-KNOW-WHO. Expect 4 solid hours of in-depth coverage by Gwen Ifill, Judy Woodruff, and the entire roster of PBS analysts...all beginning after the push-off by PBS NEWSHOUR at 6pm. Then tomorrow we can get started on the next one...

Of the worlds's 875 illiterate adults, two thirds are women...

Rafea is 30 years old with four children and a husband who is eager to take a third wife. She is a Bedouin woman living in a small Jordanian village close to the desert...and she has the desire to become more.Welcome to India's Barefoot College, founded to provide rural women living in poverty with an education that empowers them to make their communities self-reliant and sustainable. INDEPENDENT LENS takes us into their world and introduces us to women fighting unbelievable odds to learn, and in the process help their families and cultures...tonight 9pm

Politics and The Civil Wars...don't you just love it?

PBS is rerunning their excellent look at the candidates tonight...Mitt Romney and Barack Obama have spent hundreds of millions of dollars to tell their own stories, but in The Choice 2012, FRONTLINE goes far beyond the headlines on a journey deep into their worlds, among their friends and family, critics, and closest colleagues, to understand what drives these men.If you missed it before, be sure to catch it tonight...FRONTLINE: THE CHOICE 2012...9pm

ACL presents new American acoustic music with the Civil Wars and Punch Brothers. The Civil Wars play tunes from their Grammy-winning album Barton Hollow. Punch Brothers showcase their latest, Who's Feeling Young Now? AUSTIN CITY LIMITS...Saturday at 10pm

And of course, CALL THE MIDWIFE puts out it's season finale this weekend, along with the beginning of UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS SERIES 2...being across the pond is no longer an obstacle for first rate British drama...Sunday beginning at 7pm