Life's Work
The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Sir Alec Jeffreys is being honored with a Lasker Award for his discovery of DNA fingerprinting in 1984. He’ll tell us how he did it, and how it’s changed the way we think about identification. Then, we’ll talk to Ricky Gervais, the star of the hit BBC comedy "The Office." Finally, on today's Underreported feature, Sarah Chayes calls in live from Kandahar. Sunday's elections in Afghanistan went fairly smoothly, but the country remains very troubled.
