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Radio 4,29 Jan 1982,15 mins

Franklin D Roosevelt and the New Deal

Letter from America by Alistair Cooke

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The 100th anniversary of the birth of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the origin of the New Deal, and FDR's political turnaround on the size of the welfare state.

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