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America: 4: Making a Revolution

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

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

Travelling from Fort Ticonderoga on Lake Champlain to Boston and Williamsburg, Virginia, Alistair Cooke unravels the tangled events that led the American colonists into open conflict with their parent country, Britain. Against all odds they succeeded in defeating one of the crack armies of Europe. How?
Cooke examines the frontiers-man's secret weapon, the Pennsylvania Rifle, and analyses the character of George Washington at his home in Mount Vernon.

(Repeated: Monday 10.15 pm, and currently printed in "The Listener")
(Colour)

Contributors

Writer/Narrator/Presenter:
Alistair Cooke
Film Editor:
Allan Tyrer
Producer/Director:
Michael Gill
Source: Radio Times

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