History often focuses on what happens to countries after the fall of a dictatorship, but what happens to the dictators? Riccardo Orizio shares his encounters with some of the world’s fallen dictators, Talk of the Devil: Encounters With Seven Dictators. New York Times reporter Gina Kolata examines our impulse to exercise, Ultimate Fitness: The Quest for Truth about Exercise and Health.
Then, Sian Phillips on her life in theater and sometimes tumultuous marriage to Peter O’Toole, and beyond Public Places. Charles Guggenheim’s final documentary Berga focuses on the experience of American GIs who were sent to slave labor camps during WWII. His daughter Grace Guggenheim joins labor camp survivor, Mordecai Hauer to discuss the film.
Riccardo Orizio
History often focuses on what happens to countries after the fall of a dictatorship, but what happens to the dictators? Riccardo Orizio shares his encounters with some of the world’s fallen dictators, Talk of the Devil: Encounters With Seven Dictators.
Gina Kolata
New York Times reporter Gina Kolata examines our impulse to exercise, Ultimate Fitness: The Quest for Truth about Exercise and Health.
Sian Phillips
Then, Sian Phillips on her life in theater and sometimes tumultuous marriage to Peter O’Toole, and beyond Public Places.
Grace Guggenheim
Charles Guggenheim’s final documentary Berga focuses on the experience of American GIs who were sent to slave labor camps during WWII. His daughter Grace Guggenheim joins labor camp survivor, Mordecai Hauer to discuss the film.
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