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19/05/2013

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Image for Alistair Cooke reports on America in the run up to the Allied invasion of France - 21 April 1944

Alistair Cooke reports on America in the run up to the Allied invasion of France - 21 April 1944

Duration: 08:22

BBC Archive

Available since: Wed 31 Oct 2012

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Letter from America by Alistair Cooke A fragment from 1947

The 80th Congress meets, and maintaining capitalism's 'last stand'.

First broadcast: 12 Jan 1947

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