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Last broadcast on Sun, 11 Jan 2009, 17:00 on BBC Radio 4 (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
Prof Kwame Anthony Appiah investigates president-elect Obama's academic career before his election to the US Senate in 2004.
He examines the intellectual ideas which influenced him during his time as a student at Harvard and later as a law professor at the University of Chicago, and considers what effect they might have on his policy-making as president.
Broadcasts
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Tue 6 Jan 200920:00
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Sun 11 Jan 200917:00
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