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Theatre and Reducing Gun Violence, Caitlin Moran, Biographer of Steve Jobs 07/30/2012

Terry O'Reilly guest hosts! Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre education director Hallie Gordon discusses whether theatre can have a tangible effect on reducing gun violence. Bestselling British writer and feminist Caitlin Moran on her humourous new book, How to Be a Woman. Repeat: Walter Isaacson on his big biography of the late Steve Jobs.

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