Weekend: Art Garfunkel, The 'Prince of Broadway,' Tech vs Poverty

The Leonard Lopate Show | Sep 29, 2017

Grammy Award-winning singer, musician and songwriter Art Garfunkel joins us to discuss his memoir What Is It All But Luminous: Notes from an Underground Man. Hal Prince is a Broadway legend whose career spans 70 years, and now he is taking on a new act in his career as the director of a musical revue that celebrates his work titled "Prince of Broadway." Samasource CEO and founder Leila Janah joins us to discuss her new book, Give Work: Reversing Poverty One Job at a Time. 

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