58 Min Released Mar 30, 2017

The Kids Aren’t All Right

Guest host Robert Sean Leonard presents two stories in which children are at risk.  In Elizabeth Spencer’s eerie “On the Hill,” read by Leonard, a strange couple may have a secret.  Teju Cole talks about the power of rumor and prejudice at an exclusive Nigerian girls’ school in “Modern Girls.”  The reader is Zainab Jah.   

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Spellbinding short stories by established and emerging writers take on a new life when they are performed by stars of the stage and screen.

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