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Episode Synopsis
America's lead in the technological revolution has been lost during the past thirty years as Europe and the Far East steam ahead.This archive edition of Letter from America was recorded by one of two listeners, who between them taped and labelled over 650 Letter From America programmes from 1973 to 1989. It was restored by the BBC in 2014.
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