Memory of a True Great

Letter from America by Alistair Cooke

Alistair Cooke explores the difficult and exceptional life of champion American golfer, lawyer, scholar and engineer Robert Tyre Jones.

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Fri 15 Mar 200221:00
BBC Radio 4

The Bush Jr Years (2001- 2004)—Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
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