BBC Radio 4 FM

BBC Radio 4 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced BBC Home Service.

BBC Radio 4

Radio 4

Radio 4 (FM)

Americana

Factual

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: 10/04/2011

10/04/2011

BBC Radio 4 - Americana, 10/04/2011

A look at how the political, social and racial tensions of the Civil War resonate today.

Americana examines how, 150 years after the US Civil War, political, social and racial tensions of the era still reverberate through American society.

Americana investigates the American Civil War. 

Civil War Today:
Yale's Professor David Blight joins Matt Frei to discuss the political, social and racial tensions of the Civil War era, still reverberating through America today.

American Voices of the Civil War:
The experiences of ordinary Americans at the Battle of Antietam - STILL the bloodiest single-day battle in American history. 

Dean Faulkner Wells:
Dean Faulkner Wells, niece of the double-Pulitzer-prize-winning writer, William Faulkner, recalls her own upbringing in America's Deep South.

Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Americana

10/04/2011

Genres

Brand

BBC Radio 4 FM

About BBC Radio 4