Leonard Lopate Weekend: Carole Bayer Sager, Tim Wu, Richard Armitage with Amy Ryan and Zoe Kazan

The Leonard Lopate Show | Oct 21, 2016

Grammy and Academy Award-winning songwriter Carole Bayer Sager shares details and stories from her memoir, "They're Playing Our Song." Tim Wu, professor at Columbia Law School and chairman of the media reform organization Free Press, talks about his new book, "The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads." Leonard talks to actors Richard Armitage, Amy Ryan and Zoe Kazan about their off-Broadway play, "Love, Love, Love."  

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