The Story

Luca Turin moved to Nice, France when he was a young man. He was entranced by the region's beauty, and by the strange, dusty bottles of perfume he found at local flea markets. It was one perfume - the evocatively-named Nombre Noir - that initiated Luca into what would become his career. He spent the next 15 years studying the secret of smell. Also in this episode, Sy Montgomery traveled all over the world writing about nature, and thought she knew about animals.  Then she was given a sickly runt of a pig. She named him Christopher Hogwood and, as she tells Dick, remained infatuated with Christopher even after he became a 750-pound eating machine.

As you know, one story often leads to another on this program. Last week, Dick spoke with Nyagatare Valens and his mother, Anisie about what their family experienced during the Rwandan war. It turns out our interpreter for that interview, Josephine Mujawaamariya, has a story of her own.Also in this episode: the story of a riverkeeper.

Bill Shipley had a distinguished career as an officer in the Coast Guard. His son, Adam Shipley, was going to follow in his father's footsteps and join the Navy. When Adam told his father that he thought gays should not be in the military, his father revealed for the first time that he was gay. Bill wanted to protect his son from living his life in the closet. Not long after, Adam came out as gay, and gave up his plans to join the military and marry a woman.

Bill Scranton was on his way to a press conference when he got word about an incident at Three Mile Island. As Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, he was one of the people facing the cameras, responsible for making sense of conflicting statements and informing a panicked population. Looking at what's happening in Japan, he's thinking about what he learned from a nuclear crisis. Also in this episode, Joan Brill tells the story of her father's friendship with Albert Einstein.