The Leonard Lopate Show
Out of Office
Thursday, May 08, 2008
Find out what Bill Clinton has been doing since he left the White House...besides campaigning like mad for his wife! Also: actress Jennifer Ehle on her role in the new film “Before the Rains.” We hear about ten historic science experiments. And on Underreported: how eco-tourism may be interfering with ancestral land rights throughout Africa.
Bill Clinton in Exile
Find out what Bill Clinton has been up to since he left the White House. Carol Felsenthal’s new book, Clinton in Exile: A President Out of the White House, is based on more than 150 interviews with the former president's friends, associates, and enemies.
1930s Southern India
Actress Jennifer Ehle co-stars in the new film “Before the Rains,” set in the 1930s on a spice plantation in Kerala, India, in the midst of a growing nationalist movement. It opens in New York on May 9 at the Landmark Sunshine Cinemas and the Paris Theater.
Ten Beautiful Science Experiments
Multimillion-dollar science experiments often lead to important findings – but so have simple ones by the likes of Galileo and Isaac Newton, involving strings, balls, and prisms. Science writer George Johnson tells about some of the most historic simple science experiments. His new book is The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments.
Underreported: Ecotourism vs. Land Rights in Kenya
We look into how ecotourism may be interfering with ancestral land rights in Kenya. In 1974, the Endorois community were evicted from their land by the Kenyan government to make way for a game reserve and tourist resort. They’ve been fighting for repatriation and reparations since then, and now have taken their claim to the highest regional human rights body, the African Commission on Human and People’s Rights. Korir Singoei of Kenyan NGO Centre for Minority Rights Development (CEMIRIDE) and WITNESS have co-produced a new film about the Endorois, “Rightful Place.”
Underreported: Justice for Darfur
Last year, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for two people for their alleged role in war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. But Sudanese authorities have not only refused to arrest and hand over the two suspects, they have given one of them increasingly prominent public positions and released the other from prison. Richard Dicker of Human Rights Watch and the “Justice for Darfur” campaign talks about why it’s been so difficult to achieve justice for Darfur war crimes.
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