On today's show: Frontline correspondent Martin Smith discusses his investigation into the Bernard Madoff Ponzi scheme. Then, David Hare talks about his two controversial solo monologues called "Berlin/Wall."
And, holocaust survivor Clara Kramer on the 18 months she spent hiding in a bunker in Nazi-occupied Poland. Plus, foreign correspondent Gretchen Peters on how opium is bankrolling the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
"The Madoff Affair"
Frontline correspondent Martin Smith joins us to discuss "The Madoff Affair," his investigation into the story behind the global Ponzi scheme—a deception that lasted longer, reached wider, and cut deeper than any other business scandal in history. "The Madoff Affair" airs tonight, May 12th, ...
"Berlin/Wall"
David Hare talks about "Berlin/Wall," his two contrasting solo monologues. "Berlin" is a meditation about Germany’s restored capital—both what it represents in European history, and the peculiar part it has played in his own life—20 years after the wall fell. In his second monologue, "Wall," Hare offers a history of ...
Clara's War
For 18 months during World War Two, 17 year old Clara Kramer hid in a bunker dug under the home of their anti-Semitic neighbor while the Nazi's occupied her home town of Zolkiew, Poland. Unlike Anne Frank, Clara survived the War. She recounts her experience in her book Clara's ...
Opium Wars
Despite the United States best efforts in the "War on Drugs" and the "War on Terror", Islamic fundamentalist groups in Afghanistan still rake in half a billion dollars a year in the opium trade. Gretchen Peters has covered Pakistan and Afghanistan for over a decade. Her book is called
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