Radio Titans at War

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In the 1930s, a fight for America's soul was being waged in the still-young mass medium of radio. The protagonists were populist radio priest Father Charles Coughlin and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The country was enduring the Great Depression, authoritarian populists were threatening American democracy. Presenter James Traub tells the story of how the two men used each other to further their goals and ultimately fell out as their contrasting visions of what American can and should be diverged. A Certain Height production for BBC Radio 4