A scene from DINOSAUR 13.

Digging Into Education, Film, and a Tyrannosaurus Rex

The Leonard Lopate Show | Dec 10, 2014

Joel Klein, former Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, discusses fixing our school system. Director Chuck Workman discusses his new film Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles. Award-winning filmmaker Todd Miller and paleontologist Peter Larson on the most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex skeleton ever found. Glenn Close, John Lithgow, and Lindsay Duncan star in the new production of Edward Albee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, A Delicate Balance. 

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