'Amazing Grace' and the End of the Slave Trade [audio 30min]

Two hundred years ago, the passion and oratory of a man named William Wilberforce drove the British Parliament to abolish slavery. Michael Apted, director of Amazing Grace, talks about the film adaptation of the life of Wilberforce. Guests: Michael Apted, director, most recently, of the film Amazing Grace, which opens in the USA nationwide on Friday, February 23; and Eric Metaxas, whose most recent book is Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign to End Slavery; author of many children's books and of humor pieces published in Harper's magazine, and The New York Times.