Laws Doomed from the Start

Letter from America by Alistair Cooke

Alistair Cooke explores how one man’s use of an electric golf buggy altered the meaning of a US disability law and remembers the UK’s struggle with daylight saving.

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Fri 4 Jun 199921:00
BBC Radio 4

The Clinton Years (1997-2000)—Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
Bill Clinton’s second term including the Monica Lewinsky scandal and the war in Kosovo.