Ali Shapiro, NPR on Journalism and Cabaret

In his new memoir, The Best Strangers in the World, NPR’s All Things Considered co-host Ali Shapiro explores how storytelling works as a journalist and singer of the band Pink Martini. It explains how it will be deployed. Correspondent Rita Braver talks about Shapiro and his life and career. Her NPR legal correspondent Nina Totenberg, who “discovered” Shapiro. Actor Alan Cumming plays a nightclub act called “Och & Oy” alongside Shapiro.