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Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: The Early Years (1940s, 1950s and 1960s)
The assassination of JFK through to Vietnam and America’s shame at the My Lai massacre. Alistair Cooke's fascinating social, cultural and political history of American life.
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Alan descibes where the original shed was in MexboroughDi Chris Brook
Going through the ranks at Mexborough loco in the 1940sDi Chris Brook
Alan recalls George's lapel flower.Di Chris Brook
Alan speaks about Arthur Speke who supported teh church throughout his life.Di Chris Brook
Alan speaks about Bob Turner whose commute was a walk from Wombwell to Mexborough - 6 miles each way!Di Chris Brook
Alan's experience of how strike breakers were treated.Di Chris Brook
Route learning Scarborough and Roger Hague's brother has an accident that stopped him from driving.Di Chris Brook
Mexborough loco drivers had to work some unusal special trains including circus trains, Carl Rosa opera company and racing pigeons.Di Chris Brook
Alan Brook speaks about his father, Percy Brook, who was a driver at Mexborough loco from 1914.Di Chris Brook
Walking home after missing the last trainDi Chris Brook
The different driving links at Mexborough loco in the 1950s.Di Chris Brook
The workings of the Masborough to Stratford service.Di Chris Brook
Was the world record speed by a steam train fair?Di Chris Brook
Families who moved from the port of Liverpool to the port of Hull (vice versa) had monthly direct services to visit relatives.Di Chris Brook
Sons often follwed their fathers into similar trades.Di Chris Brook
Alan discuss the merits of different drivers & even different coal in the performance of the steam locosDi Chris Brook
How a religious driver reacted when Alan swore.Di Chris Brook
fire dropper : drops live fire by removing loosely fitting slotted bars from fire box and rakes ashes and cinders from fire box into ash pit with long metal rake, on arrival of engine at shed after journey; in small sheds also does work of ash filler q.v.; on some railways work done by fireman and occasionally by engine cleaner…
Various Links at Mexborough LocoDi Chris Brook
Listing some of the collieries served by Mexborough loco.Di Chris Brook
Alan Brook describes an experience of working on a "Boswell".Di Chris Brook
Everyday use of Asbestos on the Railway (1940s)Di Chris Brook
Army leaders were often involved in crash investigations. Also after the war, they were drafted in to manage depots.Di Chris Brook
Progression through the ranks at Mexborough Loco Shed in the 1940sDi Chris Brook
Alan Brook descibes how the railway helped to deal with sewage in South Yorkshire (approx 1950s)Di Chris Brook
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Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: The Early Years (1940s, 1950s and 1960s)
An eyewitness account of the assassination of Bobby Kennedy on June 5, 1968 in Los Angeles, and the collective-guilt aftermath for America.Di BBC Radio 4
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Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: The Early Years (1940s, 1950s and 1960s)
The national mood begins to change over the Vietnam war - how America began to move from early indifference to the recognition of a nightmare.Di BBC Radio 4
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Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: The Early Years (1940s, 1950s and 1960s)
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Christmas 1967
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Senator Jacob Javits' parking fine, Mayor Lindsay and the water commissioner, and a President Truman Christmas story.Di BBC Radio 4
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Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: The Early Years (1940s, 1950s and 1960s)
Democracy demonstrated - how the President of the United States had to make way for Mr Meyer Sugarman's wedding night.Di BBC Radio 4
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Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: The Early Years (1940s, 1950s and 1960s)
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The LA Watts riots, 1965
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The Watts riots in Los Angeles - were they an uprising by black Americans angry at their treatment or simply criminally motivated looting and violence?Di BBC Radio 4
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Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: The Early Years (1940s, 1950s and 1960s)
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Clay vs Liston Fight
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How the debacle of the Cassius Clay–Sonny Liston boxing prize fight tarnished one of the elements of American culture - sportsmanshipDi BBC Radio 4
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Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: The Early Years (1940s, 1950s and 1960s)
President Lyndon B Johnson's inauguration for his own full first term, and some earlier notable inaugurations, including Washington and Jefferson's.Di BBC Radio 4
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Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: The Early Years (1940s, 1950s and 1960s)
The assassination of John F Kennedy, the first president of the television age, and the style, grace and fun he brought to the White House.Di BBC Radio 4
How New York construction was brought to a halt by the Electrician's Union strike, and why the computer or 'the big brain' will soon change how people work.Di BBC Radio 4
Alistair Cooke remembers Lindsay Wellington, the BBC head who came up with the idea of weekly letters to help people in the UK understand American life in 1946.Di BBC Radio 4
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Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: The Early Years (1940s, 1950s and 1960s)
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William Kapell (1922-1953)
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A tribute to American Pianist William Kappell, the best pianist of his generation, and what music means to Americans.Di BBC Radio 4
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Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: The Early Years (1940s, 1950s and 1960s)
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Television in America, 1951
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How a new daily diet of television in America is changing people's lives, as reported by Alistair Cooke.Di BBC Radio 4
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A fragment from 1947
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A fragment preserved from Cooke's talk, reflecting on the importance of democratic capitalism and a free economy to Americans.Di BBC Radio 4
