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Radio 4,31 May 2009,30 mins

31/05/2009

Americana

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Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the ideas shaping the United States today. Matt gauges the health of the nation in an interview with one of America's top agony aunts, and reveals the city you'd least expect to be beating America's economic blues, by attracting some of the country's top entrepreneurial talent. And as politicians in Washington argue over who knew what about the use of torture, the programme asks what happens when the soldiers who carried out the abuse return home to civilian life.

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