2 of 5: The West
Radio producers from around the world hijack The Essay with innovative miniature features. Laura Barton criss-crosses the States to gaze at the moon.
Five radio producers from around the world hijack The Essay to offer a series of Radio 3's innovative Between the Ears features in miniature, on the theme of 'borderlands'.
In this second episode, Laura Barton criss-crosses the States, with the help of Tennessee Williams, President Kennedy and the Apollo 11 mission to contemplate the imagined frontier of 'the West' and to gaze at the moon. .
Series producer, Alan Hall.
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