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Ronald Reagan

Lord Powell, Mrs Thatcher's foreign affairs adviser, chooses former US President Ronald Reagan. With Francine Stock. From 2005.

Lord Powell, formerly Margaret Thatcher's adviser on foreign affairs, nominates former American president, Ronald Reagan, for great life status.

He joins Francine Stock to discuss an astonishing and controversial life.

With Reagan's official biographer, Edmund Morris.

Producer: Miles Warde

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in May 2005.

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