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Saving Private Ryan review

"One of the finest war sequences ever put on screen" – Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan

"One of the finest war sequences ever put on screen." A review of the director's visceral World War Two film which starts with American troops' attack on Omaha beach.

Also on the programme: the latest arts news, Puerto Rican poet Willie Perdomo performs a poem, the Cuban theatre company Teatro Buendía and their Shakespeare-inspired play Otra Tempestade and an interview with James Burrows, director of American TV show Cheers.

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28 minutes

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This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project