As the BBC’s THE UNITED STATES Editor, Jon Sopel has already established a pretty busy period of it lately. In the 18 months it’s used for a reality star to look from laughingstock to leader of the free world, Jon offers travelled the space and breadth of america, suffering from it from a perspective that most folks could only dream of: he offers flown aboard Surroundings Pressure One, interviewed President Obama and offers even been referred to as ‘a beauty’ by non-e other than Donald Trump.

Through music, film, literature, TV about If Only They Didn’t Speak English: Records From Trump’s America and even through the food we eat and the clothes that people wear we all have an extremely developed sense of what America is and through our distributed, tangled history we claim a particular relationship. But America today feels about as alien a nation as you could imagine. It really is fearful, upset and impatient for modification. Reflecting on his trip across the continent to hide one of the most turbulent competition in recent history, Jon Sopel lifts a lid in the seething resentments, serious anxieties and sheer rage that found its embodiment inside a brash, unpredictable and seemingly unstoppable figure.

With this fascinating, insightful family portrait of American life and politics, Jon sets out to answer our issues in regards to a country that once stood for the grandest of dreams but which is now mired in a storm of political extremism, racial division and increasingly perverse beliefs.