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1. Call Me Ishmael

A Point of View Naughtie on America
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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 鈥榬aucous expeditions into an underworld of鈥ichly wounded humanity鈥� 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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