EPISODE · Nov 22, 2014 · 17 MIN
Letters
from The Why Factor · host BBC World Service
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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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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