Americana
From coast to coast, Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the stories shaping America today
Americana - 01/11/2009
Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the stories shaping America today.
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Americana - 02/01/2011
How fit is America? Jonny Dymond hooks up with New York's Health Commissioner on his daily jog through Central Park and is humilated at the hands of a 10-year-old chess master.
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Americana - 02/05/2010
Presented by Mark Mardell. Princeton professor and award-winning author Melissa Harris-Lacewell discusses the top stories buzzing across the United States this week.
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Americana - 02/08/2009
Jane Little asks why a growing number of Americans are convinced that their President is in the White House illegally. Plus, what do Hollywood's animal stars do when they retire?
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Americana - 03/01/2010
Host Kevin Connolly is joined by journalist Farai Chideya to discuss 2010, and talks with Tea-Party Conservatives, comedian Margaret Cho and sports writer Gene Wang.
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Americana - 03/10/2010
Recalls and recollections: Matt Frei talks to the mayor of North Pole, Alaska; and the photojournalist, Ruth Gruber, now 99 years old, looks back on her adventure-packed career.
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Americana - 04/04/2010
Matt Frei looks at how America treats its friends and enemies. His guests include the National Review's Jonah Goldberg and Iranian-American journalist Roxani Saberi.
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Americana - 04/07/2010
Americana: A 4th July Special presented by Matt Frei, featuring location reports, lively discussion and exclusive interviews.
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Americana - 04/10/2009
Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the stories shaping America today, including the impact on Chicago of hosting the 2016 Olympic Games.
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Americana - 05/07/2009
Matt Frei celebrates Independence Day, hears the story of an unexpected American patriot and is joined by a very important visitor.
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Americana - 05/09/2010
The conservative economist, Thomas Sowell, on his belief that political correctness is holding America back; classic American television offers a lesson in civic responsibility.
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Americana - 05/12/2010
Christian Lander, the blogger and self-styled White American Liberal, with a self-deprecating view of his kind. Plus actor Robert Duvall praises small town USA.
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Americana - 06/06/2010
Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the stories shaping America today. In an oil spill special, Americana takes some time to listen to Louisiana. Who is listening to them?
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Americana - 06/09/2009
Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the stories shaping America today.
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Americana - 06/12/2009
Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the stories shaping America. Matt talks to Bill Clinton's former press secretary Joe Lockhart and Neil Steinberg of the Chicago Sun-Times.
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Americana - 07/02/2010
Matt Frei is joined by conservative commentator Tucker Carlson to discuss the stories of the week, including renewed examination of the military's 'don't ask, don't tell' policy.
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Americana - 07/03/2010
Matt Frei hears Democratic political strategist Donna Brazile's view of the week's top news, and from FBI special agent Cynthia Deitle about her efforts to close the cold cases.
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Americana - 07/06/2009
Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the stories shaping America today.
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Americana - 07/11/2010
Americana examines the results of the midterm elections and as President Obama shifts his focus overseas Americana looks at the impact of India on American culture.
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Americana - 08/08/2010
Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and stories of America, featuring Washington rules and Looney Tunes.
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Americana - 08/11/2009
Americana heads to sun soaked Los Angeles, California. Guest host David Willis is joined by satirist, comedian and commentator Harry Shearer.
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Americana - 09/05/2010
Presented by David Willis from LA. Special guests include the King of Rock and Soul, Soloman Burke.
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Americana - 09/08/2009
Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the stories shaping America today.
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Americana - 10/01/2010
Matt Frei tackles the week's top news with the help of cultural commentator and blogger Jimi Izrael. They discuss the future of American security, civil liberties and pornography.
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Americana - 10/10/2010
Matt Frei talks to Harvard University professor Robert Putnam about his newest book, American Grace, and author Alice Walker explains her style of faith when facing hard times.
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Americana - 11/04/2010
David Willis asks how do you package American success? Guests include David Remnick from the New Yorker and Hollywood producer Jerry Weintraub.
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Americana - 11/07/2010
Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the stories shaping America today. The theme is politics and prose.
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Americana - 11/10/2009
Matt Frei hears about President Obama's Peace Prize, the current state of the US conservative movement, the American love of sex scandals and improving relations with Cuba.
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Americana - 12/07/2009
Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the stories shaping America today.
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Americana - 12/09/2010
Presenter Matt Frei examines the acerbic wisdom of journalist HL Mencken, the Sage of Baltimore, and speaks to film-maker John Waters.
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Americana - 12/12/2010
An insider guide to the people and the stories shaping America today, featuring location reports, lively discussion and exclusive interviews.
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Americana - 13/06/2010
Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the stories shaping America today, featuring America's tough guys and muscle cars.
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Americana - 13/09/2009
Matt Frei talks with historian Richard Norton Smith about growing incivility towards the President, and what American football teaches us about American politics.
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Americana - 13/12/2009
Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the stories shaping America today.
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Americana - 14/02/2010
Matt Frei hears from authors John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, lawyer Robert Shapiro and ex-astronaut Cpt Eugene A Cernan. Plus an audio portrait of two traditional boat builders.
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Americana - 14/03/2010
Matt Frei talks to conservative commentator SE Cupp about how and where politics and religion collide, and to Bill Wasik about the quirky and enlightening Harper's Index.
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Americana - 14/06/2009
Why the California Dream has turned into a nightmare, why Iowa is at the cutting edge of social debate and the enduring appeal of Nancy Drew.
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Americana - 14/11/2010
British author Jonathan Raban presents the programme from Seattle, looking at its logging and seafaring history, and at its technical and environmental revolution.
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Americana - 15/08/2010
Americana takes a trip to the beach..with the original beach boy himself, Brian Wilson.
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Americana - 15/11/2009
Matt Frei talks to newsman George Stephanopoulos and civil rights attorney and political commentator Arsalan Iftikhar about the news in the forefront of American minds.
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Americana - 16/01/2011
"Live free or die" says America's most libertarian state. What is American libertarianism? Also, Hollywood star Eli Wallach shares stories from a lifetime on the silver screen.
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Americana - 16/05/2010
Matt Frei talks to a cast of rebels, including Elizabeth Warren - the bane of Wall Street bankers - celebrated composer John Adams and film director Neil La Bute.
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Americana - 16/08/2009
Matt Frei presents an insider guide to America today. He asks why communists are still banned from entering the USA, and why Delaware is the only state without a national park.
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Americana - 17/01/2010
Kevin Connolly presents an insider guide to the people and the stories shaping America today.
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Americana - 17/10/2010
A look at the heroes, history and musical instruments of baseball, with a special performance by the National Symphony Orchestra baseball bat player, Glenn Donnellan.
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Americana - 18/04/2010
Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the stories shaping America today, featuring location reports, lively discussion and exclusive interviews.
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Americana - 18/10/2009
Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the stories shaping America today.
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Americana - 19/07/2009
Matt Frei talks to Jane Roe, who gave her name to the most famous legal decision in American history, Roe versus Wade. Plus, why has the rain stopped falling in Texas?
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Americana - 19/09/2010
Americana explores US styles of change with David Plouffe; members the Mormon Tabernacle Choir explains how it changed international diplomacy; and Matt Frei talks to Noam Chomsky.
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Americana - 19/12/2010
An insider guide to the people and the stories shaping America today, featuring location reports, lively discussion and exclusive interviews.
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Americana - 20/06/2010
Presented by Matt Frei from Washington DC. Email [email protected] and follow us on Twitter @bbcamericana.
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Americana - 20/09/2009
Matt Frei talks to Tom Friedman about President Obama's busy media schedule and Washington's policy promises, and demographer William Frey breaks down the truths about US migration.
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Americana - 20/12/2009
Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the stories shaping America today.
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Americana - 21/02/2010
Kevin Connolly talks to Pulitzer-winning author Garry Wills about his new book, Bomb Power, and takes a tour of Washington's most significant espionage locales with Eamon Javers.
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Americana - 21/03/2010
Matt Frei talks to journalist Carl Bernstein. Carl talks about the value of staking out the truth even if it means going forward alone.
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Americana - 21/06/2009
Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the stories shaping America today.
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Americana - 21/11/2010
Matt Frei talks to award-winning author Ron Chernow about the motivations of George Washington and about how the character and leadership of America's first president live on.
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Americana - 22/08/2010
Simon Winchester examines communication in the USA with a look at gun laws, the use of the printing press, eBooks and long-standing American lighthouses.
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Americana - 22/11/2009
Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the stories shaping America today.
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Americana - 23/01/2011
With no licence fee, US public broadcasting still makes it happen. How? As some in Congress are calling to end its federal funding, Americana asks what that money does and why.
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Americana - 23/05/2010
Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the stories shaping America today. The programme investigates a border dispute among the lush farmlands of northern Vermont.
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Americana - 23/08/2009
Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the stories shaping America today.
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Americana - 24/01/2010
Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the stories shaping America today, including how the state of Massachusetts went from blue to red.
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Americana - 24/10/2010
Michelle Malkin, one of America's most prolific right-wing blogger journalists talks about the conservative movement today; and fly fisherman Lefty Kreh gives Matt Frei a few tips.
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Americana - 25/04/2010
Presented by Matt Frei from Washington, DC. Republican legend Newt Gingrich talks about the calls for change coming from outside the current administration.
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Americana - 25/07/2010
Presented by James Reynolds from Washington, DC. A look at campaignin', readin' and huntin' in the South. Email [email protected], or Tweet @bbcamericana.
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Americana - 25/10/2009
Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the stories shaping America today.
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Americana - 26/07/2009
Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the stories shaping America today.
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Americana - 26/09/2010
As the Tea Party campaigns towards elections, political analyst Michelle Bernard and political columnist John Heilemann examine what changes may be coming to Washington D.C.
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Americana - 26/12/2010
25-year-old US Army Staff Sergeant Salvatore Guinta explains what it means to wear America's highest military honour, awarded for his actions in Afghanistan.
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Americana - 27/06/2010
Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the stories shaping America today. He investigates changing neighbourhoods: the good, the bad and the ugly.
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Americana - 27/09/2009
Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the stories shaping America today.
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Americana - 27/12/2009
Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the stories shaping America today.
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Americana - 28/02/2010
David Willis hears the views of people in Baltimore about the healthcare debate, and heads to the White House briefing room to hear from political analyst Marc Ambinder.
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Americana - 28/03/2010
Presented by Matt Frei. So what's next on America's political agenda? Matt is joined by NBC news anchor Brian Williams.
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Americana - 28/06/2009
Kevin Connolly talks to Tina Brown about her website The Daily Beast and the future of the news media. Armistead Maupin reflects on 40 years of Gay Power.
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Americana - 28/11/2010
It's the holiday season... and Matt Frei talks to the distinguished economist Jeffrey Sachs about the food choices and tough financial decisions Americans face.
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Americana - 29/08/2010
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.
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Americana - 29/11/2009
Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the stories shaping America today.
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Americana - 30/05/2010
Paul Adams presents the stories shaping America. He is joined by libertarian social scientist Charles Murray, and the programme meets Tony Award-winning actor Laurence Fishburne.
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Americana - 30/08/2009
Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the stories shaping America today.
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Americana - 31/01/2010
Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the stories shaping America today.
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Americana - 31/05/2009
Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the ideas shaping America today. Matt gauges the health of the nation in an interview with one of America's top agony aunts.
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Americana - 31/10/2010
Gerrymandering snakes through the political history of the USA, Matt Frei examines what efforts this election season may keep American politicians from redistricting corruptly.
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