The Brian Lehrer Show

Newsmakers meet New Yorkers as host Brian Lehrer and his guests take on the issues dominating conversation in New York and around the world. This daily program from WNYC Studios cuts through the usual talk radio punditry and brings a smart, humane approach to the day's events and what matters most in local and national politics, our own communities and our lives. WNYC Studios is a listener-supported producer of other leading podcasts including Radiolab, On the Media, Death, Sex & Money, Nancy, and many others.

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Corruption and Poverty in Rio Ahead of the 2016 Olympics


Juliana Barbassa, an award winning journalist, a former Rio de Janeiro Associated Press correspondent, a visiting researcher at the University of Zurich and author of Dancing with the Devil in the City of God: Rio de Janeiro and the Olympic Dream (Touchstone, 2015), talks about how Rio de Janeiro struggles with poverty and corruption on the brink of the 2016 Olympic Games.


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 July 15, 2016  16m