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Americana: 29/08/2010

29/08/2010

BBC Radio 4 - Americana, 29/08/2010

Former Secretary of State Rod Paige talks about the crisis in American education.

Former Secretary of State Rod Paige talks about the crisis in American education and the author Martin Cruz Smith recalls a childhood in Pennsylvania and New Mexico.

In this week's 'back to school' edition, former Secretary of State Rod Paige talks about the crisis in American education, the author Martin Cruz Smith recalls a childhood in Pennsylvania and New Mexico - and Pulitzer-prize-winning Louisiana poet Yusef Komunyakaa returns to New Orleans five years after Hurricane Katrina struck.

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