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Radio 4,10 Jul 1998,15 mins

Roy Rogers and cinema cowboys

Letter from America by Alistair Cooke

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On the death of Roy Rogers (1911 -1998), the singing cowboy, Cooke considers the great film cowboys, Bruce Wayne, William S. Hart, Gary Cooper and the stuntman Yakima Canutt.

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