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The Promised Land

on BBC Radio 2

Andy Kershaw presents a musical travelogue as he takes a trip across America, retracing the route of Chuck Berry's song Promised Land. Tonight he finds 6,000 Confederates in South Carolina rallying to keep their flag flying over the state's capital building, as it has since 1962; Congressman John Lewis talks about the region's violent, racist history; plus a search for the grave of Blind Willie McTell.

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Presenter:
Andy Kershaw
Interviewee:
John Lewis

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