Monday, August 4, 2008

China's Hopes for the Beijing Games

10 a.m. (ET)

The Beijing Summer Games begin Friday. Diane and a panel of experts discuss what the Chinese government hopes gain from hosting one of sports biggest spectacles.

Brunonia Barry: "The Lace Reader" (William Morrow)

11 a.m. (ET)

The author of a debut novel imagines women in modern-day Salem, Massachusetts, who can tell the future by ‘reading’ pieces of lace and explains how her self-published story became the subject of a multi-million dollar bidding war.

The Diane Rehm Show is produced by member-supported WAMU 88.5 in Washington DC.