Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Fukushima Anniversary, The Non-Rockefeller & Joe McGinniss
Today: looking back at the Fukushima disaster of 2011, the tale of a Rockefeller impostor, remembering journalist Joe McGinniss, and an update from SXSW.
By Madeleine Brand • • 51m ListenIt’s been three years since the earthquake and tsunami that killed over 15,000 people in Japan and crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant there. And for tens of thousands of Japanese, the nightmare that started on March 11, 2011, continues to this day. We also talk to Walter Kirn about his new memoir about his relationship with a fraudster and murderer who claimed to be a Rockefeller. We look back on the controversial career of journalist Joe McGinniss. And we check in with SXSW, where there’s now a special section for TV creators.
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