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Rugby Football in America

Date released

28 Oct 1916

Series name

Topical Budget

Issue no

270-2

NoS ID

125859

Story no

4 / 5

[SUBTITLE]: "Enormous crowds watch a keenly contested rugby match, played at New York." Various high level shots of match in progress, watched by large crowd in stadium. Two male cheerleaders leading the...

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Alistair Cooke’s ‘Letter from America’ Vol 2 (1995 Audio)

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, 2 audiocassettes. 180 min., 2000 sale: £9.99 (inclusive)

A selection of 12 ‘Letter from America’ broadcasts since 1969 chosen by Cooke himself. Topics include the eight-year-old girl who started the American civil rights movement, reflections on 1960s’...

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Silent campaign for Central America (1989)

Genre

Interview; News report; Speech

Report on the launch of the Silent campaign for Central America by charity War on Want at Brides Church, Fleet Street (bells heard tolling). Spokesman Daryl Upsall explains the campaign to get the voices of...

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Alistair Cooke's 'Letter from America' archive now online

Date

31 Oct 2012, 16:37

Author

Sergio Angelini

Post Type

Post

Alistair Cooke's first Letter from America - initially called American Letter - was broadcast in March, 1946. It was to be the first of 2,869 such broadcasts, spanning 58 years, making it by far the...

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Alistair Cooke at the BBC (1999 Audio)

aka: Alistair Cooke’s ‘Letter from America’ Vol 3

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, 2 audiocassettes. 160 min., 2001 sale: £9.99 (inclusive)

A specially compiled collection including interviews and ‘Letter from America’ broadcasts, charting the career of journalist Alistair Cooke. Introduced by Nick Clarke, Cooke’s biographer.

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Carter’s letter to Sakharov (1977)

Genre

News report

Chris Catlin(?) reports from Moscow on US President Jimmy Carter’s letter to Andrei Sakharov, renegade Soviet nuclear physicist who was recently warned he may be arrested (dated 05/02/77). America has been...

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Oil Crisis Mounts in Teheran [Sic]

Date released

19 Jul 1951

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1154A

NoS ID

017257

Story no

5 / 5

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Oil Crisis Mounts in Teheran. DESCRIPTION: In Teheran a wild mob demonstrated against the Hague Court’s decision on the oil dispute. The Shah is welcomed by the Premier, Dr Mossadeq...

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America’s Youth

Date released

Aug 1940

Series name

The March of Time 6th Year

Issue no

3

NoS ID

352019

Story no

1 / 1

Documentary News Letter synopsis: This issue of the March of Time states some of the problems confronting the twenty-one million young men and women comprising America’s youth. Swiftly and in the...

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Mr and Mrs America

Date released

Feb 1943

Series name

The March of Time 8th Year

Issue no

8

NoS ID

352037

Story no

1 / 1

The March of Time synopsis: America has suffered less than the countries of Europe and the Pacific, but she too is being gradually transformed by war. What these changes are, and how they are being brought...

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Alistair Cooke: The Essential Letters from America: 2000 - 2004 (2010)

Subject

History; Politics & government

Distribution

Sale, Audio (CD, 300 minutes), £18.35

This last selection of Cooke’s letters focuses on the turbulent times in the US in the first years of the new millennium, covering the famously controversial 2000 election, in which George W. Bush narrowly...

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