Foreign Language Hopscotch

The Brian Lehrer Show | Oct 18, 2013

An edited version of this conversation was included as part of a best-of show on December 24. The segment originally aired on October 18. That audio is posted here.

The Walls and Bridges Festival brings together different cultures and insights. We talk to the festival’s program director Cédric Duroux, Hoover Chung, New York Correspondent for "Night on Earth" for BFM 89.9 in Kuala Lumpur, and novelist Emmanuel Iduma about language and the bringing together of different cultures and insights at the Walls and Bridges Festival.

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