Cassini Reaches Saturn; Orange County Journalist "Roundtable"; The Amber Room; Ray Bradbury
Cassini Reaches Saturn
After a seven year journey, the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft has reached Saturn's orbit, after flying between two of it's rings last night. The craft will orbit the planet for 4-years, transmitting pictures and data on its rings, moons and atmosphere, and magnetosphere back to earth. AirTalk guest host Patt Morrison talks with NASA's Dennis Bogan about what scientists hope to learn from this historic mission.
Orange County Journalist "Roundtable"
Larry Mantle talks with Orange County journalists about the latest news events and developments in Orange County. Guests include Chris Reed, Orange County Register op-ed column editor, Jean Pasco, Los Angeles Times staff writer, and Gustavo Arellano, staff reporter for the Orange County Weekly.
The Amber Room
Husband-and-wife journalistic team Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark have solved the mystery of what happened to the amber room, the famed art treasure thought to have been looted by the Nazis during the Second World War. Carved out of almost 1,000 pounds of amber, the room symbolizes Russian loss during WWII. Ironically, the amber room was a gift from the Prussians to Peter the Great in 1716. Sleuths have spent fifty years trying to find the room, before Levy and Scott-Clark found out what happened to it. They join guest Host Patt Morrison to talk about their book, The Amber Room: The Untold Story of the Greatest Hoax of the Twentieth Century.
Ray Bradbury
The author of Fahrenheit 451, The Martian Chronicles and The Illustrated Man, Ray Bradbury joins Patt Morrison to talk about his new book, The Cat's Pajamas, a stellar collection of touching short stories described as sad, funny and tinged with nostalgia. Bradbury is one of America's most celebrated fiction writers and is the recipient of the 2000 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American letters.