Main content

Reporting party conventions

The dramatic 1940 Republican Convention where outsider Wendell Wilkie beat the favourite, and the advantages to reporters of live television coverage of conventions.

Download

Available now

15 minutes

Last on

Fri 20 Jul 198421:00
BBC Radio 4

More episodes

Previous

Convention histories

Next

Ferrero nominated

See all episodes from Letter from America

Broadcast

  • Fri 20 Jul 198421:00
    BBC Radio 4

Featured in...