Program Eight: Bridges

An early engineering triumph and a metaphor for connection.

Filmed in part on location in San Francisco.

San Francisco’s Bay Bridge is 65 years old, and is literally being taken apart and put together again in anticipation of “the big one” while traffic continues to flow across it.

The people behind the transformation are profiled in Peter Nicks’s film “Heavy Lifting.”

Michel Martin rides across “A Bridge Too Far,” accompanying a state trooper who drives “bridge phobics” over the Chesapeake Bridge.

Music from a guest to be announced. Michel Martin hosts.