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

Alistair Cooke examines the colonists who went out from 17th-century England. Merchant adventurers founded plantations in Virginia and the south; religious dissidents, the Pilgrims and Puritans, landed up in New England.

"The master of the spoken word that found an excellent cameraman." (Glasgow Evening Citizen)
"One programme I wouldn't willingly miss." (Peter Black, Daily Mail)
Fully illustrated book, Alistair Cooke's America, £5.00, from bookshops

Contributors

Writer/Narrator/Presenter:
Alistair Cooke
Film Cameraman:
Kenneth MacMillan
Film Editor:
David Thomas
Director/Associate Producer:
Ann Turner
Producer:
Michael Gill
Source: Radio Times

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