The Guardian takes note of a new documentary coming by filmmaker Melvyn Bragg.
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Novelist and broadcaster Melvyn Bragg is set to explore the work of the Nobel prize-winning American author John Steinbeck in a BBC documentary out later this year.
Bragg will travel to America for the BBC4 show, which will focus on Steinbeck's most famous novel, the Pulitzer prize-winning Grapes of Wrath, looking to establish it "within a modern context". Tracing the desperate pilgrimage of the destitute Joad family in Steinbeck's classic story of the American Depression, Bragg will journey from the Oklahoma dust bowl to the California coast, exploring the impact the novel had on America when it was first published in 1939.
Bragg will also look at the parallels that can be drawn with America today, "as it struggles with a new economic downturn and wrestles with the excesses of the banks", said the BBC.
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