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From Our Own Correspondent: The American Dream in Trouble

28/05/2015

The American Dream in Trouble

BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent, The American Dream in Trouble

Wider and wider: the gap between the rich and the poor in New York City. With Kate Adie.

Correspondents tell stories from the United States, Somalia, Ghana, Morocco and the Faroe Islands. Presented by Kate Adie.

Talking points from around the globe. In this edition, the gulf between rich and poor in New York just goes on growing -- working hard doesn't seem enough any more, the next rung on the ladder increasingly appears to be out of reach; more shootings in the Somali capital Mogadishu - rebuilding may be proceeding there after two decades of civil war, but the security situation remains precarious; sixty thousand churches in Ghana, but some ministers seem more interested in making money than saving souls; thousands turn out for a free festival in Morocco where the aim of the musicians was to show that music and Islam can live together in harmony; and our correspondent spends the night in one of the oldest houses in the Faroe Islands. It was, she tells us, quite literally a door into the islands' past.

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