The Dissidents Who Risk Their Lives Daily in Burma

The Leonard Lopate Show | Jul 17, 2015

When Burma was still sealed to foreign journalists, Delphine Schrank spent four years underground reporting among dissidents as they struggled to free their country. From prison cells and safe houses, The Rebel of Rangoon: A Tale of Defiance and Deliverance in Burma follows the stories of those dissidents. 

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