Scraping the Surface

The Leonard Lopate Show | Sep 10, 2010

Guest host Miles O’Brien fills in for Leonard Lopate. On today’s show: Vanity Fair writer Michael Joseph Gross takes us inside Sarah Palin’s increasingly secretive world. Then, filmmaker Ole Schell and model Sara Ziff, talk about their raw and personal video diary, “Picture Me.” Lionel Rogosin and Rob Hollander, co-founder of the Lower East Side History Project, talk about their documentary, “On the Bowery.” Plus, Please Explain is all about soda!

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