At Risk

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Jeffrey Sachs details his plan to end extreme poverty throughout the world in 20 years. Then, as part of our Summer Reading Series, translator Gregory Rabassa (who translated Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s One Hundred Years of Solitude) looks at the work of the 19th Century Brazilian writer Machado de Assis. Next, Stella Rimington, the former head of Britain’s MI5 Security Service, tells us about writing her first novel, the spy thriller At Risk. Finally, Simon Singh explores the origin of the universe in his latest work: Big Bang.

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