Rise in drinking age

Published: July 6, 1984, 10:27 a.m.

Raising the drinking age to 21 across the states will help to cut drink-driving deaths, says President Reagan. 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.