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George Balanchine is regarded as the foremost contemporary choreographer in the world of ballet. Arthur Mitchell, founder and artistic director of Dance Theatre of Harlem, Lourdes Lopez, executive director of the George Balanchine Foundation, and Robert Gottlieb remember George Balanchine. Then, Patrick K. O’Donnell talks about the unknown story of the men and women of WWII’s OSS(Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs). Former foreign correspondent Christopher Wren embraces retirement by setting out alone on foot for nearly four hundred miles. He discusses his book Walking to Vermont, on his homeward saunter from Times Square to the Green Mountains. And Jasper Fforde shares his novel, The Well of Lost Plots.