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10:00U.S. - Iran relations

Diane and her guests discuss the release of Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi. She had been sentenced in Iran to eight years in prison following her conviction last month on espionage charges.

Guests

Karim Sadjadpour, Associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Robin Wright, Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Her most recent book is "Dreams and Shadows: The Future of the Middle East."

Haleh Esfandiari, director of the Middle East Project at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; also author of Reconstructed Lives: Women and Iran's Islamic Revolution

Stephen Rademaker, former assistant secretary of state, 2002-06; he oversaw the Bureau of Arms Control, then the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, and directed nonproliferation policy toward Iran and North Korea

11:00Reif Larsen: "The Selected Works of T.S, Spivet"

The author of a new novel about a brainy twelve-year old with a passion for map-making explains why he decided to present it with words on the page and diagrams in the margins.

Guests

Reif Larsen, writer, filmmaker

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