1. Call Me Ishmael
James Naughtie ponders the American spirit through its fiction, from the great American novels like Moby Dick to 'the dark narrators of the street'.
James Naughtie presents the first of four personal essays exploring America's 'wild search for meaning' in the run-up to November's presidential election.
From the freezing waters of Nantucket Sound in Moby Dick, via sunken levees of the Mississippi and the railroad blues of New Orleans, to the βraucous expeditions into an underworld ofβ¦richly wounded humanityβ in contemporary crime novels, James contemplates this moment in the United States through its fiction.
Producer: Adele Armstrong
Sound: Peter Bosher
Production coordinator: Gemma Ashman
Editor: Richard Fenton-Smith
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Naughtie on America - 1. Call Me Ishmael
Duration: 09:30
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- Fri 11 Oct 2024 20:50ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
- Sun 13 Oct 2024 08:48ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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