East Meets West

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Julianna Margulies, Ali MacGraw, and Jeremy Sisto, the stars of the Broadway production of Festen, start off today’s show. Then, we’ll talk to the first North American to hold political office in Japan. Plus, Upamanyu Chatterjee on his best-selling novel, English, August, which is being published for the first time in America. And this week’s Please Explain is all about meditation.

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