Troubled Waters
The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Robert O'Harrow Jr. investigates the growing technology behind surveillance and data collection in No Place to Hide. Then, geophysicist and adventurer Pasquale Scaturro became the first explorer in history to run the length of the Nile—a 3,250-mile journey from Ethiopia to Alexandria—in April of 2004. He joins us with an account of the dangerous, 114-day long journey. Jennifer Haigh’s debut novel, Mrs. Kimble, won the PEN/Hemingway Award. She tells us about her second novel, Baker Towers—a story set in a post-WWII Pennsylvania mining town. And producer Martin Smith previews Frontline’s in-depth, two-hour history of the complicated alliance between the United States and Saudi Arabia. The new documentary, "House of Saud," looks at rare archival footage, new interviews, and previously untold stories to help unravel the troubled Saudi-US relations of the past 60 years.
