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An insider's guide to the stories and people shaping the USA today

From coast to coast, an insider's guide to the stories and people shaping the USA today

Americana: 06/06/2010

06/06/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Americana, 06/06/2010

Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the stories shaping America today.

Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the stories shaping America today. In an oil spill special, Americana takes some time to listen to Louisiana. Who is listening to them?

Americana: Presented by Matt Frei from Washington DC.

This week - An oil spill special. This week Americana takes some time to listen to Louisiana. Who is listening to them?

From the inside of T-Pops coffee and bait shop in Golden Meadow, Louisiana Matt Frei talks with shop regulars who have family ties to fishing and oil about how they are making sense of the spill.

Joan Walsh, Editor in Chief of Salon.com, joins us to discuss the political impact of the oil continuing to gush into the Gulf of Mexico and how the United States may pursue its energy policy and upcoming national election campaigns.

And Pulitzer Prize winning author and southerner Rick Bragg shares his eulogy to the shoreline, a look at the view from Mobile Bay, Alabama.

Rick Bragg, an American journalist known principally for his non-fiction, won the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing in 1996. He is Professor of Writing at the University of Alabama, and has a home in Mobile Bay, Alabama.

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