From 'Gasland Part II,' directed by Josh Fox Fracking

Martha Plimpton Hosts: Prop 8 Lawyer David Boies; Best Musicals; Lucy Wainwright Roche; Fracking

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jul 10, 2013

Martha Plimpton is back as guest host! She speaks with David Boies, co-lead counsel in the legal challenge to California’s Proposition 8. Then theater critic Peter Filichia tells the history of the American musical, from the classics to the shows that didn’t win a Tony. Singer songwriter Lucy Wainwright Roche talks about her latest album “Fairytale and Myth.” Josh Fox discusses hydraulic fracturing and “Gasland Part Two,” the follow-up to his Oscar-nominated documentary.

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