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Media coverage of looting

Suggestion that radio coverage during NY blackout fuelled outbreaks of looting.

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.

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Sun 7 Aug 197709:15
BBC Radio 4

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PresenterAlistair Cooke

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  • Fri 5 Aug 197721:15
    BBC Radio 4
  • Sun 7 Aug 197709:15
    BBC Radio 4

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