Leonard Lopate Weekend

Leonard Lopate Weekend: Alan Cumming, Dying Better & MAD Magazine!

The Leonard Lopate Show | Oct 9, 2014

Each week The Leonard Lopate Show will bring you our three favorite segments from the last week, in case you missed them. 

This week: Actor Alan Cumming discusses his complicated relationship with his father and unearthing family secrets (first). Dr. Atul Gawande explores how medicine can improve not only life, but the process of dying (17:27). Drew Friedman & Al Jaffee revisit the glory day of comic books and the early days of MAD Magazine (50:05).  

 

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