Koppel Hosts Nobel Winner Discussion of World Problems On Discovery Times July 17

Ted Koppel‘s first Discovery documentary will air July 17 at 10pm on the Discovery Times Channel, the AP reports.

Titled “Petra — A Quest for Hope,” the one-hour special “is an outgrowth of Koppel’s participation in last month’s conference in Jordan that drew together Nobel laureates to talk about world problems.” He moderated a discussion between “the Dalai Lama, Irish peace activist Betty Williams, literature award winner Wole Solinka and Columbia University medical researcher Eric Kandel.”

> Also: Koppel’s first full-fledged Discovery special is about “post-Sept. 11 tensions between the need for security and the protection of civil rights.”