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The Leonard Lopate Show | Oct 28, 2011

One of America’s greatest actors, Frank Langella, tells us about his latest role on Broadway, in Terrence Rattigan’s “Man and Boy,” about how much a man will sacrifice for success. Pulitzer Prize-winner Stacy Schiff joins us for our latest Leonard Lopate Show Book Club—we’re talking about her best-selling biography of Cleopatra! James Wolcott revisits getting down and semi-dirty in 1970s New York. Plus, science writer Lone Frank tells mapping her own DNA to investigate the consequences of this new field of science.

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