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Letter From America

Alistair Cooke's reports on topical issues
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A selection of Letter from America episodes.

Letter from America was a weekly fifteen-minute spoken word radio series broadcast on BBC Radio 4 and its predecessor, the Home Service, and around the world through the BBC World Service. From its first edition to its last, it was presented by Alistair Cooke, who would speak of a topical issue in the US, tying together different strands of observation and anecdote and often ending on a humorous or poignant note. The series ran from 24 March 1946 to 20 February 2004, making it the longest-running speech radio programme hosted by one individual

  1. LFA: A fragment from 1947 (2.1Mb)
  2. LFA: Television in America (7.4Mb)
  3. LFA: William Kapell (1922 -1953) (6.6Mb)
  4. LFA: 500th letter (7.8Mb)
  5. LFA: Big brains (6.4Mb)
  6. LFA: Assassination of J F Kennedy (6.5Mb)
  7. LFA: President Johnson's inauguration, 1965 (6.4Mb)
  8. LFA: Clay vs Liston Fight (6.4Mb)
  9. LFA: The LA Watts riots (6.5Mb)
  10. LFA: Honeymoon with the president (6.4Mb)
  11. LFA: Remembering FDR (6.7Mb)
  12. LFA: Encounters with Intelligence (6.2Mb)
  13. LFA: How WWI turned slimming into a fashion (6.6Mb)
  14. LFA: Alistair Cooke's Last Letter (6.1Mb)

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