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The Why Factor: Letters

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22/11/2014

BBC World Service - The Why Factor, Letters

The disappearing art of the hand-written letter and three stories of love

Why do letters have such power to move us? We explore three stories of love from the vanishing art of hand-written correspondence.

The disappearing world of the handwritten letter – a letter of advice on love from a father to a son, letters to a man who spent decades on death row in America, and letters between lovers. How will we understand our family history now that there is no box of fading letters in the attic? How will we remember old loves and times gone by?

(Photo: ‘The Letters’ (detail) by Simone Sandelson used with her permission. Credit: Mike Williams)

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