The Leonard Lopate Show
Media Memoirs: From TV to the Printing Press
Monday, January 27, 2003
CBS reporter and moderator of Face of the Nation, Bob Schieffer shares his memoir, This Just In. Then, Washington Post correspondent Lynne Duke discusses her work in Africa, from the postcolonial wars in South Africa to Sierra Leone and the battle zones of Congo-Zaire, Mandela, Mobutu and Me. Plus, poet and essayist Judy Blunt shares her memoir about growing up in the wilds of Montana, Breaking Clean. And Sam Crane on his life with a profoundly disabled son, Aidan’s Way.
Bob Schieffer
CBS reporter and moderator of Face of the Nation, Bob Schieffer shares his memoir, This Just In: What I Couldn’t Tell You on TV.
Music: Talk Radio soundtrack music by Stewart Copeland
Lynne Duke
Washington Post correspondent Lynne Duke discusses her work in Africa, from the postcolonial wars in South Africa to Sierra Leone and the battle zones of Congo-Zaire, Mandela, Mobutu and Me: A Newswoman’s African Journey. Read an excerpt of Duke's book in the Reading Room.
Music: Kronos Quartet "Pieces of Africa"
Judy Blunt
Poet and essayist Judy Blunt shares her memoir about growing up in the wilds of Montana, Breaking Clean. Read an excerpt of Blunt's book in the Reading Room.
Music: Brother's Keeper soundtrack composer Jay Ungar and Molly Mason
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