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Americana: 21/03/2010

21/03/2010

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Matt Frei talks to journalist Carl Bernstein and writer Jonathan Raban.

Matt Frei talks to journalist Carl Bernstein. Carl talks about the value of staking out the truth even if it means going forward alone.

Americana: Presented by Matt Frei from Washington DC.

Matt Frei talks to Carl Bernstein, who along with Bob Woodward did for President Nixon. Carl talks about the value of staking out the truth even if it means going forward alone.

Author Jonathan Raban joins Matt Frei to talk about his most recent escapes and the challenges and benefits of being a lone wolf.

And Matt hears from historian and journalist Ellen Fitzpatrick about her new book Letters to Jackie. The collection of letters sent to Jackie Kennedy on the death of her husband John F. Kennedy highlight the emptiness that loss can bring and how the words of Americans from all over the nation served to abate that pain.

Our email address is americana@bbc.co.uk, follow us on Twitter @bbcamericana.

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