Alistair Cooke Letters from America Audio

Highlights from lost recordings from the 1970 and 80s.

The BBC radio program "Letter from America" remains the longest running personal commentary on British radio. This release focuses on the turbulent times of the 1960s; the history of the decade is explored through Alistair Cooke's unique broadcasts.

This is the final volume of the definitive decade-by-decade collection of Alistair Cooke's Letters from America - the seminal and longest running personal commentary on the radio....

Alistair Cooke was a radio legend, entertaining millions of listeners for over 50 years in his weekly Letter from America....

Here is a selection of Alistair Cooke's finest radio Letters from America, in chronological order from his earliest broadcasts.

For years legendary broadcaster Alistair Cooke brought America to the rest of the world with incomparable wit and wisdom....

These letters include Cooke's reports on momentous events, such as the Watergate scandal, the ceasefire in Vietnam and the assassination attempt on Gerald Ford....

Five specially selected letters from American election years, based on the BBC Radio 4 series 'Cooke's Elections'.

Alistair Cooke was the greatest of all twentieth century reporters of life in America to the rest of the world....

In this collection of Letters, Cooke reports on the attempt to rescue the American hostages in Iran, President Reagan's inauguration, the Challenger space shuttle explosion and Black Monday.....