New York Times reporter David Rohde, left, and his wife, Kristen Mulvihill, speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival on July 2, 2011 in Aspen, Colorado. At right is moderator Jeffrey Goldberg. (MPR Photo/Nikki Tundel)
The 2011 Ideas Festival, sponsored by the Aspen Institute and Atlantic Magazine, gathered scientists, artists, politicians, historians, educators, activists, and other great thinkers for a week in late June and early July. MPR's Midday broadcast several of the presentations.
Reporter kidnapped by the Taliban tells his story
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New York Times foreign correspondent David Rohde and his wife, Kristin Mulvihill, speak at the Aspen Ideas Festival about their new book, "A Rope and A Prayer: A Kidnapping From Two Sides." The book is their shared account of Rohde's kidnapping and imprisonment by the Taliban for seven months, and Mulvihill's efforts to free him.
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