All Things Octopus and Neil Gaiman Takes Us to Neverwhere

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jul 7, 2015

Please Explain goes underwater with Sy Montgomery to look at the intelligence, capabilities, and even souls of octopuses. Documentarian Hubert Sauper unravels his latest film about Africa, specifically South Sudan's modern colonization. New York Times economic policy reporter Jonathan Weisman tried his hand at fiction and his new novel is about 1988 England. And famed fantasy-fiction writer Neil Gaiman takes a look back to Neverwhere.

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