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Radio 4,19 Jun 1992,15 mins

United Nations' first reporters

Letter from America by Alistair Cooke

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A recollection of the first gathering of the UN, the celebrity journalists who covered the meeting; Joan Stitt McMenamin, the outgoing headmistress of Nightingale-Bamford School.

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