Laura Barton’s American Road Trip
主播大秀 Radio 4 Extra takes to the open road in a 1969 cherry-red Mustang for a coast-to-coast audio adventure across the United States.
Using a mix of archive documentaries, stories and travelogues, the writer and broadcaster Laura Barton will be your guide on this ambitious three-hour road trip, heading west from the bright lights of New York City to the pacific breeze of California’s Santa Monica beach. Along the way the journey includes a free-wheeling buggy tour around New Orleans, a history of the roadside motel by Joe Queenan 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. Laura Barton’s American Road Trip is a unique journey, an 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 dreamers to the loneliest Opera House in Death Valley.
- Producer: Luke Doran for 主播大秀 Radio 4 Extra
- Newly made for 主播大秀 Radio 4 Extra
Publicity contact: Radio 4 Publicity