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From the Mayflower to the Moon (and Back Again)

Ten journeys that built the United States between the landing of the Mayflower in 1620 and the men who went to the Moon.

Radio 4,12 episodes

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De la Salle has left the room
A 400-year journey into the creation of the United States with the writer Joe Queenan.
14 mins31 Aug 2020
Vitus Bering and the Bering Strait
How to cross the gap between the world's two greatest landmasses.
14 mins01 Sep 2020
Paul Revere's Midnight Ride
"Listen my children and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere"
14 mins02 Sep 2020
The Trail of Tears
The forced relocation of Native Americans in the 1830s
14 mins03 Sep 2020
Interstate Delight
A trip from coast to coast eating only at Hooters restaurants.
14 mins04 Sep 2020
Lewis and Clark's expedition out west
Joe Queenan's alternative history of the United States
14 mins07 Sep 2020
The Dust Bowl
Joe Queenan enters the Dust Bowl of the 1930s
14 mins08 Sep 2020
The Blues
A journey up the Mississippi with Muddy Waters and Howlin' Wolf.
14 mins09 Sep 2020
From New York to LA
An alternative history of the United States.
14 mins10 Sep 2020
What have we learnt
The end of the journey from the Mayflower to the Moon.
14 mins11 Sep 2020
Omnibus 1
A 400-year journey into the creation of the United States with the writer Joe Queenan
57 mins04 Sep 2020
Omnibus 2
A 400-year journey into the creation of the United States with the writer Joe Queenan
57 mins11 Sep 2020