A Personal History of the United States in 13 parts written and narrated by Alistair Cooke

Two kinds of colonists went out to America from 17th-century England: merchant adventurers and planters in the south; religious dissidents in New England to the north. By the mid-18th century a thin strip of British colonies extended the length of the eastern seaboard: theirs was a 'morning innocence' and optimism in the future of America typified by the many talents and lively intelligence of Benjamin Franklin.

(Shown on Sunday. These programmes are currently printed in "The Listener")
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