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20/06/2010
Presented by Matt Frei.
27/06/2010
Matt Frei investigates changing neighbourhoods: the good, the bad and the ugly.
04/07/2010
A 4th July Special presented by Matt Frei.
11/07/2010
18/07/2010
Presented by Steve Evans from Washington, DC.
25/07/2010
Presented by James Reynolds.
01/08/2010
David Willis presents Americana from Washington DC.
08/08/2010
Presented by Matt Frei. Featuring Washington rules and Looney Tunes.
15/08/2010
Americana is off to the beach.
22/08/2010
Simon Winchester examines American communication: from guns, to the press, to lighthouses.
29/08/2010
Former Secretary of State Rod Paige talks about the crisis in American education.
05/09/2010
Conservative economist Thomas Sowell on how America's greatness is being dismantled.
12/09/2010
A look at the acerbic wisdom of the journalist HL Mencken, aka the Sage of Baltimore.
19/09/2010
This week, Americana explores US styles of change with David Plouffe and Noam Chomsky.
26/09/2010
Americana examines the enthusiasm, faith, myth and making of the Tea Party movement.
03/10/2010
The anatomy of a recall, US style. Matt Frei talks to the mayor of North Pole, Alaska.
10/10/2010
Matt Frei talks to author Alice Walker and Harvard's Robert Putnam on faith in the USA.
17/10/2010
A look at the heroes, history and music of that most American of sports, baseball.
24/10/2010
Matt Frei talks to Michelle Malkin, one of America's most prolific right-wing commentators
31/10/2010
Matt Frei explores the defining and redefining of the United States.
07/11/2010
As President Obama heads to India, Americana looks at the impact of India on U.S. culture.
14/11/2010
The British author Jonathan Raban presents the programme from Seattle.
21/11/2010
Americana examines the US effort to be accepted - among friends, neighbours and citizens.
28/11/2010
As the holiday season hits the USA, Americana examines food choices and money struggles.
05/12/2010
A portrait of the White American Liberal, plus actor Robert Duvall praises small town USA.
12/12/2010
Gore Vidal; the USA's history and current relationship with debt; and ducks too.
19/12/2010
Washington DC's 'Mayor For Life' Marion Barry on the real truths about the capital.
26/12/2010
A 25-year-old US Sergeant on what it means to wear America's highest military honour.
02/01/2011
How fit is America? A jog in Central Park and humiliation by a 10-year-old chess master.
16/01/2011
"Live free or die" says the US's most libertarian state. What is American libertarianism?
23/01/2011
With no licence fee, US public broadcasting still makes it happen. Americana asks: how?
