Special relationship especially warm

Letter from America by Alistair Cooke

US-UK special relationship especially warm this summer. UK tourism figures boom.

This archive edition of Letter from America was recorded by one of two listeners, who between them taped and labelled over 650 Letter From America programmes from 1973 to 1989. It was restored by the BBC in 2014.

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Sun 25 Jul 197609:15

BBC Radio 4

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Role	Contributor
Presenter	Alistair Cooke

Fri 23 Jul 197621:15
BBC Radio 4
Sun 25 Jul 197609:15
BBC Radio 4

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