Rainn Wilson, David Hare, and Isabel Allende

The Leonard Lopate Show | Dec 31, 2015

This is a rebroadcast of some of our favorite interviews over the past few months.

For nine seasons of 'The Office,' Rainn Wilson played Dwight Schrute, everyone's favorite work nemesis and beet farmer. He talks to us about his new memoir. David Hare, one of Britain’s best-known screenwriters and dramatists, discusses his memoir of becoming a writer amid the enormous flux of postwar England. Medal of Freedom recipient Isabel Allende talks about her latest novel, The Japanese Lover, about love in the shadow of World War II. Former stand-up comedian Kliph Nesteroff explores how comedians have reflected, shaped, and changed American culture over the past century. 

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