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Encounters with Intelligence

Alistair Cooke remembers the time he was mistaken for a spy during World War II.

• 15 mins

How WWI turned slimming into a fashion

How slimming became fashionable during the food shortages of the First World War.

• 15 mins

Alistair Cooke's Last Letter

In his last letter, Alistair Cooke examines Iraq’s influence on the Presidential Election.

• 15 mins

Groucho Marx and Bing Crosby

Profiles of entertainers Groucho Marx (1898-1977) and Bing Crosby (1903-1977).

• 15 mins

How ice cream changed America

A profile of Reuben Mattus (1912-1994), the co-founder of Haagen-Dazs.

• 15 mins

Kennedy's rocking chair

The secret ailments of President John F Kennedy.

• 15 mins

Atlanta and Augusta

A history of the Augusta National Golf Club from its formation in 1777.

• 15 mins

Rudolph Valentino

The life of Rudolph Valentino (1895-1926).

• 15 mins

The atom bomb warning of 1939

How two refugees warned Roosevelt of the German nuclear threat.

• 15 mins

The 1970s

1970s USA rediscovered through lost recordings of Alistair Cooke's Letter From America.

• 120 mins