Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: Alistair Cooke's Letter from America Rediscovered   /     Soviets need soap, December 1989

Description

Give the Communist masses what they really want - a delivery of consumerism. 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.

Subtitle
Shortage of consumer basics threatens stability of the Soviet economy.
Duration
861
Publishing date
1989-12-08 00:00
Link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0441zf0
Contributors
  BBC Radio 4
author  
Enclosures
http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p02q9l39.mp3
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