Triumph and Trials

The Leonard Lopate Show | Apr 8, 2011

On today’s show: Tina Fey talks about her memoir Bossypants, her hit TV show “30 Rock,” and why she was reluctant at first to play Sarah Palin on “Saturday Night Live” during the 2008 campaign. Slate’s former culture editor Meghan O’Rourke discusses coming to terms with the death of her mother. We’ll look at the legacy of the 1961 trial of Adolf Eichmann, one of the chief architects of the Holocaust who fled to Argentina after the war. Underreported is about the Chiquita Brand’s use of narco-trafficking Colombian guerrilla groups to guard its bananas.

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