Tax exiles, July 1975

07/04/75 • 14 min

Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: Alistair Cooke's Letter from America Rediscovered

Noel Coward, Sean Connery, Tony Jacklin - why stars of stage, screen and sport have to become tax exiles. And how golfer Tom Watson avoided being struck by lightning. 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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