Grayson Perry's Big American Road Trip - Season 1

Grayson Perry's Big American Road Trip - Season 1

Season 1

Artist and social commentator Grayson Perry crosses the US, exploring its biggest fault lines, from race to class and identity, making art as he goes.
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Episodes3
DatesSep 23, 2020 - Sep 23, 2020

Episodes

Episode 1
Season 1Episode 160 min

Episode 1

Grayson begins in the American South, where he tackles race - arguably the oldest and most intractable division in the US. Travelling from Atlanta, Georgia, to Washington, DC, he explores older ideas of African American success with members of the so-called `black elite" and reflects on the issue of white privilege.

Sep 23, 2020
Episode 2
Season 1Episode 260 min

Episode 2

In the second episode, Grayson takes a bike trip down the relatively prosperous East Coast of the US, from the liberal holiday playground of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, to a 'woke" enclave of Brooklyn, he explores issues of social class, economic opportunity and access to education, and tries to understand how America's liberals now view their own country.

Sep 23, 2020
Episode 3
Season 1Episode 360 min

Episode 3

Grayson travels through the swing state of Wisconsin in the American Midwest - a predominantly white and predominantly rural location, and one of the states that gave President Trump his victory in 2016. He finds a state that is increasingly bitterly divided over identity politics and hot-button cultural issues like abortion and vaccination. Why are these `culture wars" happening, asks Grayson, and what might help to overcome the divisions? To conclude the series, Grayson makes a map of the American culture wars, one which has strong implications for our own cultural and political divisions in the UK.

Sep 23, 2020

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