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Wednesday, 22 February 2006
I am delighted to share a love story with you today. The story is about Richard & Reva Beard, husband and wife, separated for 18 months during World War II, united by a deep and daily correspondence.

Sixty years after Richard's service as a doctor in India, this box of letters arrived at his daughter's house. The communiques inside the box were so riveting they cost Elaine Pinkerton her job. She quit work to edit them into this volume: From Calcutta with Love.

Those who served in the China-Burma-India theater, their families and loved ones, will appreciate the detail and nuance these letters contain about life in Calcutta mid-century. What they'll also find are tender expressions of love along with the unvarnished horrors of war. Please join Richard & Reva's daughter, Elaine Pinkerton, as she introduces this long distance love affair in today's 2-minute clip.

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