Andy Borowitz fills in for Leonard Lopate. On today’s show: we’ll find out what happens to the children’s brains when they’re exposed to pesticides. Anna Chlumsky talks about her role on the HBO show, “Veep.” Isla Morley discusses her new novel, Above. And this week’s Please Explain is about dreams and nightmares.
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London-based composer and vocalist Donna McKevitt returns to the New Sounds studio for this edition of the program. When she was last on the show in the 1990's, it was with her settings of poetry of the late Derek Jarman, "Translucence." McKevitt performs her settings of poetry by Maya Angelou for us in a trio setting, with trumpeter Lew Soloff and double bassist Francois Mouton.
