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Book of the Week: Another Day in the Death of America

Gary Younge

Jo Coombs

Hannah Marshall

Book of the Week: Another Day in the Death of America: Episode 4

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Another Day in the Death of America

Episode 4

BBC Radio 4 - Book of the Week, Another Day in the Death of America, Episode 4

No-one knows who shot Tyshon Anderson in the head on a stairway in South Chicago.

Around 11.05pm on 23 November 2013, on an echoey stairway in South Chicago, someone walked up to 18-year-old Tyshon Anderson, shot him in the head, and left.

On Saturday 23rd November 2013, ten children were shot dead in the US. The youngest was nine, the oldest was nineteen. They fell in suburbs, hamlets and ghettos. None made the national news. It was just another day in the death of America, where on average seven children and teens are killed by guns daily.

Gary Younge picked 23rd November at random, and set out to tell the stories of the lives lost during that single day.

At around 11.05pm, on the echoey, rank, first-floor stairway of a four-storey walk-up in South Chicago, just around the corner from his home, someone walked up to Tyshon Anderson, shot him in the head, and left. By 11.50pm he was dead. No one knows who killed him. 

Abridged by Jo Coombs
Produced by Hannah Marshall
A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4.

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Gary Younge tells the story of the children and teens shot dead on an average American day

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