Epic Battles

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Ridley Scott, director of "Gladiator," tells us about his latest epic "Kingdom of Heaven." Philip Caputo revisits the Kent State shootings. Then, filmmaker Gregg Araki and author Scott Heim discuss adapting the book "Mysterious Skin" into a new film. And on in our regular Please Explain feature, we take a look at cancer. We’ll find out how the disease works, and how treatments like chemotherapy can be used to combat it.

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