Untested Medical Devices, Joseph Conrad's Global View, The World's Most Corrupt Bank

The Leonard Lopate Show | Dec 18, 2017

Award-winning journalist Jeanne Lenzer discusses her new book The Danger Within Us: America's Untested, Unregulated Medical Device Industry and One Man's Battle to Survive It. Maya Jassanoff talks about her new book The Dawn Watch: Joseph Conrad in a Global World. Icelandic businessman and author Olaf Olafsson discusses his new novel One Station Away. Alex Campbell, Deputy Investigations Editor for Buzzfeed U.K., discusses his recent article, co-written with Tom Warren, “Revealed: The Secrets Of One Of The World's Dirtiest Banks And Its Powerful Western Protectors.”

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