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Alistair Cooke

16/11/2012

Radio: Traditional and contemporary

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Rajan Datar talks to Alvin Hall about Alistair Cooke's Letters From America.

Rajan Datar talks to Alvin Hall about Alistair Cooke's Letters From America. He also interviews the Chief Executive of the Prison Radio Association in the UK, Phil MaGuire.

This week we explore two different types of radio. The traditional, in the form of Alistair Cooke's Letter From America, as Rajan interviews Alvin Hall, presenter of a series about the Letters archive.

And then a more contemporary take on radio, from Phil MaGuire, who is the Chief Executive of the Prison Radio Association in the UK, and the  presenter of a documentary about a prison radio project in Trinidad and Tobago.

(Image: Alistair Cooke)

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