Best Of: Life in the Mojave Desert / Director of ‘The Uprising’
Summary
Terry Gross interviews author Claire V. Watkins about her novel "Yellow Pine," which explores the tension between renewable energy development and environmental justice in the Mojave Desert. The episode also features a review of the film "Filipiana," a Sundance winner that critiques class inequality through the eyes of a resort worker in Manila. Finally, director Paul Greengrass discusses his new film "The Uprising," which dramatizes the 1381 English Peasants' Revolt and draws parallels to modern social unrest.
Listen ad-free on Castria