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Person Place Thing with actor BD Wong

BD Wong and Randy Cohen
Susan Packard

His Broadway debut, in "M. Butterfly," won every award going except the Nobel Prize in Mathematics. Fair enough: there is no Nobel Prize in Mathematics. He renewed everyone’s admiration with "Law & Order: SVU," and that’s not the half of it, or even the quarter, but why be precise? It’s not like there’s a Nobel at stake. Produced with Materials for the Arts.

You can hear the full episode at personplacething.org.

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