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From coast to coast, 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: 12/07/2010

12/07/2010

BBC World Service - Americana, 12/07/2010

An insider guide to the people and the stories shaping America today.

This week Americana looks at the politics of narrative and the narrative of politics. 

Presenter Matt Frei begins with a discussion of the week's top stories with political analyst David Gergen. 

American author Edmund White discusses the politics of human relationships. 

And it is the 50th anniversary of Harper Lee's, To Kill A Mockingbird. Americana visits Monroeville, Alabama. 50 years forward the novel continues to shape the identity of the town on which the setting was based.

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