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We’ll get an update on human trafficking and slavery taking place right here in the United States. Then, Susan Sellers on the relationship between sisters Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. And Turner Classic Movies host Robert Osborne on why 1939 was such a great year for films. Also, the latest on the Iranian political crisis and its effect on its troubled neighbor, Iraq. Plus, Underreported examines why the Brazilian government is building walls around Rio de Janeiro’s shantytowns.
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The Slave Next Door
Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter expose the disturbing phenomenon of human trafficking and slavery currently going on in the United States, and look at how it can be stopped. The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today weaves together accounts from slaves, slaveholders, and traffickers, as well as from experts, counselors, law enforcement officers, and rescue and support groups.
Vanessa and Virginia
Susan Sellers on her first novel, Vanessa and Virginia. Written from the perspective of Vanessa Bell to her sister Virginia Woolf, this novel plumbs the relationships between the women, their family, and their bohemian Bloomsbury set.
Hollywood's Greatest Year
Robert Osborne, author of 80 Years of the Oscar and on-air host of Turner Classic Movies, provides insight into what made 1939 such an incredible year for film. He's hosting the Academy’s summer screening series "Hollywood's Greatest Year: The Best Picture Nominees of 1939." The 10-film event, which includes Monday night screenings and Saturday afternoon double features, kicks off Saturday, June 20th with "Gone with the Wind," at 12:30 pm
All screenings will be held at the Academy Theater located at Lighthouse International, at 111 East 59th Street.
Tickets $5 for the general public; $3 for Academy members and students
More information about the screening schedule and tickets here.
Update on Iran
Kevin Sullivan, foreign editor of the Washington Post, gives us an update on what’s going on Iran, including today’s protest in support of opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi.
Underreported: Middle Eastern Reaction to Iranian Turmoil
Iraq, like Iran, is one of the few the countries in the world with a Shi'ite Muslim majority. And though the two countries were long rivals, many of today's Iraqi leaders — especially Shi'ites — spent the Saddam Hussein years as guests of the mullahs in Tehran. On today’s first Underreported we’ll look at how the controversy over Iran’s elections is playing in Iraq with Time magazine senior editor Bobby Ghosh and New York Times UN Bureau Chief
Neil MacFarquhar.
You can read Bobby Ghosh's article on the subject here.
And you can read Neil MacFarquhar's latest article here.
Neil MacFarquhar was on the Leonard Lopate Show May 13, 2009, to discuss his book The Media Relations Department of Hizbollah Wishes You a Happy Birthday. You can listen to that interview here.
Underreported: Eco-Barriers in Brazil
Walls are going up around the slums of Rio de Janeiro. The Brazilian government is calling them "eco-barriers," designed to prevent Rio’s shantytowns from spilling into the city’s heavily forested hillsides, but opponents of the walls see them as a form of "geographic discrimination" that imprisons the residents. On today’s second Underreported we’ll talk to Antonio Regalado,The Wall Street Journal’s correspondent in Brazil about the walls and the controversy surrounding them.
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Tributes: Jeanne-Claude
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Jeanne-Claude created environmental works of art with her husband and fellow-conspirator/collaborator Christo. Together, they wrapped the Reichstag in Berlin, the Pont-Neuf in Paris, and created The Gates, with billowy orange drapes, in Central Park. Jeanne-Claude just died at the age of 74. You can hear Leonard Lopate’s last interview with them both, from July 19, 1999.
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FDA to Regulate Tobacco?
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