What do Donald Trump’s tweets reveal about the man who, on 20 January, will be America’s next president? Will he continue to use what he has called his "beautiful Twitter” account to tell the world what he is thinking - and doing?

The President and the Press

Jan 16th, 2017 49m 53s

A history of how the White House and the press corps learned how to live with each other. In 1897, when President McKinley was sworn in, there was no working relationship between the office of the US President and the members of the press. McKi

Searching for Tobias

Nov 17th, 2016 26m 50s

A moving human story. If you listen to just one thing today, make it this one.In 2008 Chloe Hadjimatheou was covering Barack Obama's first election campaign when she met a 15-year-old black boy in a Mississippi trailer park. Back then the young

How to Win a US Election

Nov 16th, 2016 26m 50s

Katty Kay explores the key moments and turning points in the US election campaigns and hears why Trump supporters in the key swing states such as Pennsylvania were so motivated to vote for Trump.Weeks before, in the run up to the first Presi

Trump and the Evangelical Vote

Nov 13th, 2016 26m 49s

Donald Trump predicted that if he won the votes of America's evangelical Christians he would win the election, and he was right.A quarter of all voters count themselves as evangelical and 81% of them voted for Trump, despite the deep misgivings

Trump’s World

Nov 11th, 2016 50m 32s

What might American foreign policy look like under a Donald Trump presidency? Based on his rhetoric during the campaign, the scale of the departure from the status quo will be profound. He promises to upend long-standing relationships with both

What a Week

Nov 11th, 2016 23m 59s

People scoffed, the pollsters dismissed it, the media thought better, the world is shocked - Donald Trump is President elect of the United States. But as one Trump voter put it "He's done something amazing. He has turned the establishment on

Change in America

Nov 7th, 2016 49m 49s

How has the US changed since 2008? As the world chews its nails, waiting to see how the US election story ends, Lizzie O’Leary looks at data to figure out how America is different now, in November 2016, from the country which elected its first

Oklahoma City After the Bomb

Oct 31st, 2016 48m 50s

In April 1995 a devastating bomb ripped through the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City and 168 people died and many more were injured. Emma Barnett travels to Oklahoma City to find out what happened afterwards. She hears stories

Hamtramck: America's Muslim Town

Oct 26th, 2016 26m 57s

Hamtramck, Michigan, is the first Muslim majority city in the United States. Just over 50% of the residents are immigrants from Bangladesh, Yemen and Bosnia. Only a few decades ago, the city was dominated by Polish immigrants. Jennifer Chevalie

The Debates Dissected

Oct 24th, 2016 49m 51s

After three US presidential debates which have attracted some of the biggest viewing audiences in modern American political memory, what have we learned from these televised clashes? In one of the most bitter and polarised presidential campaign

Hispanic in Texas

Oct 20th, 2016 16m 51s

San Antonio is now a majority Hispanic city, and home to many entrepreneurial success stories. Joe Miller asks why Hispanic representation in big business has lagged.

America Revisited: The Discussion

Oct 12th, 2016 48m 35s

The final programme in the series brings together five of the speakers from the road trip

A Home for Black History

Oct 4th, 2016 49m 52s

In what is described as the fitting coda to his administration, President Obama cut the ribbon of the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture on 24 September. Journalists Jesse J Holland and Robin N Hamilton ar

Challenging America's Two Party System

Sep 30th, 2016 51m 19s

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are seen as the most unpopular candidates to have ever stood for the presidency of the United States. So why is it so difficult for a third party candidate to break through and make a real impact? Owen Bennett J

America Revisited: The East

Sep 25th, 2016 49m 51s

Michelle Fleury and Ben Crighton travel from Louisville in Kentucky to New York on the East Coast. Along the way they speak to miners, environmentalists, food bank volunteers, drug addicts and former school students about President Obama’s lega

America Revisited: The West

Sep 21st, 2016 49m 25s

Philippa Thomas and Charlotte Pritchard travel from Los Angeles and the glitz and glamour of Vegas to the edge of the country on the US-Mexican border in Texas. They talk to musicians, gun enthusiasts and cowboys about whether President Obama h

America Revisited: The South

Sep 21st, 2016 49m 28s

When President Obama stepped into the White House back in 2008, many hoped his mixed heritage would help unite the country, but eight years on America has never appeared more polarised. From Dallas to Nashville Chloe Hadjimatheou retraces a jou

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