Hitting Hard

The Leonard Lopate Show | Apr 22, 2011

On today’s show: Senior New York Times financial writer Diana Henriques talks about Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi scheme and its lasting impact on our trust in the financial industry. Then we’ll take a look at the world of women’s boxing! Scandanavian writer Carsten Jensen discusses his latest novel We, the Drowned. And Andrew Kessler tells us what he learned in his three months working on the Phoenix Mars Mission.

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