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Radio 4,08 Aug 2017,28 mins

America Redux

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Jan Morris records her thoughts on the United States of America. Illustrated with her very personal choice of American music, the ninety-year-old author looks back over a lifetime of writing about, visiting and living in the USA and shares with us what she believes was good and great about the Republic. It’s an affectionate, tender and sometimes, she admits, sentimental tribute to a country and people she admires. Tinged with nostalgia, this also sounds like Jan Morris’s ‘letter to America’. She hopes, indeed believes, that the qualities and values that made America great, in her view, should and will endure, despite its current period of upheaval and uncertainty. Producer: Gareth Jones for Âé¶¹Éç Wales

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Tracklist

  1. Track
    Artist
  2. 1.
    Shenandoah (The Wide Missouri)
    Shenandoah (The Wide Missouri)
    USA traditional
  3. 2.
    Symphony no. 4 in A major Op.90 (Italian)
    Symphony no. 4 in A major Op.90 (Italian)
    Felix Mendelssohn
  4. 3.
    New York New York
    New York New York
    John Kander & Fred Ebb