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Radio 4,29 Aug 2010,30 mins

29/08/2010

Americana

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In this week's 'back to school' edition, former Secretary of State Rod Paige talks about the crisis in American education, the author Martin Cruz Smith recalls a childhood in Pennsylvania and New Mexico - and Pulitzer-prize-winning Louisiana poet Yusef Komunyakaa returns to New Orleans five years after Hurricane Katrina struck.

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