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Radio 4,03 Aug 1979,14 mins

The politics of plain speaking

Letter from America by Alistair Cooke

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President Carter talks to the people on US tour, and shows why, when times are tough, it pays to speak plainly. 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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