Southern Road
Monday 4 September 2006 21:15-22:00 (Radio 3)
In August last year, writer and poet Anthony Walton set off on a car journey from Montgomery, Alabama - the birthplace of the Civil Rights movement - to Richmond, Virginia, the Confederate capital during the Civil War. Walton's aim was to explore and experience the multiplicity of Souths that go to make up what we often refer to as simply The South, and the role that history plays in defining the South today.
His journey takes him to the historic Tuskegee University in Alabama, founded by the pioneering African- American educationalist Booker T Washington, to a mega-church in suburban Atlanta; through the old South of Charleston, South Carolina and the liberal South of Raleigh-Durham in North Carolina. His odyssey ends in Richmond Virginia, on Monument Avenue - wandering along a parade of statues in memory of the Confederate past that strangely looks forward.
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