Rin Tin Tin with Susan Orlean

Bullseye with Jesse Thorn

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Society & Culture

4.7 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2011

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Bestselling nonfiction author and The New Yorker staff writer Susan Orlean talks to us about the fascinating life of the dog and the character Rin Tin Tin, plus much more. Her new book is Rin Tin Tin: The Life and The Legend.

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0:00.0	Hey, I'm Dorothy from Redlands, California.
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0:17.4	I'm Jesse Thorne, live on tape from My House in Los Angeles.
0:20.6	It's the sound of young America from maximumfund.org
0:23.8	and PRI, public radio, international.
0:27.4	It's the sound of young America, I'm Jesse Thorne.
0:34.8	My guest, Susan Orleen, has written a number
0:37.5	of bestselling books.
0:39.6	Her most recent is called Rintin-Tinn,
0:41.8	the life and the legend.
0:43.5	It's the story of the dog, Rintin-Tinn,
0:47.3	who was an actual dog, a character, Rintin-Tinn,
0:50.9	who is still resonant after, gosh, very nearly 100 years.
0:57.1	As part of American popular culture.
0:59.7	Rintin-Tinn's trainer, Lee Duncan,
1:02.3	and the other human beings who surrounded that story.
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