BBC Radio 4 Extra takes to the open road for an audio adventure across the USA, travelling from the bright lights of New York City to the pacific breeze of California.
Using a mix of archive documentaries, stories and travelogues, the writer and broadcaster Laura Barton will be your guide on this ambitious road trip, heading west across the USA. Along the way the journey will include a free-wheeling buggy tour around New Orleans, a look at the Green Book travel guide and an encounter with the fearless rodeo cowgirls of the Deep South.
Writers including Joan Didion, Sam Shepard and Jonathan Raban also share some of their own perspectives about life on the American highway, while Joe Queenan explores the history of the roadside motel.
Laura Barton’s American Road Trip is a personal journey, a dreamlike exploration of life across the USA over the last 70 years, from blues singers on Beale Street to X-rated frogs in the French Quarter, and from LA hopefuls to the loneliest Opera House in Death Valley.
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