A Breathtaking Global Tour and a Resignation

Letter from America by Alistair Cooke

Alistair Cook discusses the global televised countdown to the millennium; Russian president Boris Yeltsin's resignation, and the audacity of Mr Putin in praising the Soviet secret police.

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Fri 7 Jan 200021:00
BBC Radio 4

The Clinton Years (1997-2000)—Letter from America by Alistair Cooke
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