Julie Andrews and her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton

Julie Andrews, Night Vale, And Surviving a Swim From Cuba to Florida

The Leonard Lopate Show | Oct 19, 2015

The legendary Julie Andrews talks about her many roles on stage and screen, and collaborating with her daughter, Emma Walton Hamilton, on The Very Fairy Princess. Joseph Fink and Jeffrey Cranor on adopting their popular podcast into a novel, Welcome to Night Vale. Diana Nyad on being the first person to swim 111 miles from Cuba to Florida without a shark cage.

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