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Letter From America
Last Updated: Monday, 9 August, 2004, 09:41 GMT 10:41 UK
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LETTER FROM AMERICA PROGRAMME ARCHIVE 1999

JANUARY 1999

FEBRUARY 1999

MARCH 1999

America, 1998
Striving for a more perfect Union
Illuminating events with unpredictable results
Trial of the century

Dot dot dash dash, over and out
Our long holiday from history is over
The moral pillar and the moral contortionist
It ain't over, till it's over

Played for a sucker
A natural gentleman
Wholesale flouting of the law
The pursuit of self-determination
Doves, hawks, owls and the people

APRIL 1999

MAY 1999

JUNE 1999

In the hot seat
The art and curse of television
Whatever it takes
What's your exit strategy?

No schadenfreude on Nato's birthday
These are my times and I must know them
Two attitudes about China
A course in manners

Laws doomed from the start
Witticisms and crazy one-liners
Testing times in the advancement of science
Freedom in America
Playing for time

JULY 1999

AUGUST 1999

SEPTEMBER 1999

The first golden paratrooper
Air conditioning and changes in society
Tyrants and curses live on
The brewing of racial storms

Going to pot or to Pluto
Loneliness, male companionship and the hunt
No word from Mount Olympus
Close, but no cigar

Re-writing history
Grave concerns
No exempt categories
Barkers at pleasure beach side shows
The arrival of the golf hooligan

OCTOBER 1999

NOVEMBER 1999

DECEMBER 1999

Greed, liquor, jingoism and bad taste
A plea to the Senate
Wishful thinking overload
That fateful night in Macbeth

At the centre of things
Democracy in action
Fortress America and beloved symbols of Britain
The most American of all American festivals

The last demo circus of the year
The ordeal of Hurricane Floyd
Renewed concern over secondhand smoke
Old sentiment and new honesty
Park Avenue's colourful Christmas


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