Looking at the Past, Rethinking the Future

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
On today’s show: Jim Lehrer, host of the PBS news show, The Lehrer Report, discusses his latest novel. And, two architects discuss the ways we may have to "retrofit" and "rethink" the suburbs for the 21st century. Then, critic Michel Ciment on the French films featured in a new series at BAM. Plus, our latest Underreported segments look into the status of the Newtown Creek cleanup and at neodymium: the dirty little secret of clean energy.

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