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Letter from America was a weekly radio series on BBC Radio 4, previously called the Home Service, which ran for 2,869 shows from March 24 1946 to February 20 2004, making it the longest-running speech radio programme in history.
It was presented by the late Alistair Cooke, who died on March 30 2003, just over a month after his last broadcast. Each week Alistair Cooke spoke of a topical issue in the USA, often tying together different strands of observation and anecdote.