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The Late Book: Operation Overflight

on BBC Radio 4 FM

Forty years ago Francis Gary Powers, the pilot of an American U2 spy plane, was shot down over the Soviet Union. His capture and trial became one of the most infamous events of the Cold War. William Hope reads five extracts from Powers's account of the incident. (R)

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Subject:
Francis Gary Powers
Reader:
William Hope
Producer:
David Olusoga

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