14 min

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

    • Society & Culture

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.

  • (C) BBC 2014

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.

14 min

  • (C) BBC 2014

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