Alistair Cooke Letters from America Audio

Highlights from lost recordings from the 1970 and 80s.

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

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

In nearly three thousand BBC broadcasts over fifty-eight years, Alistair Cooke reported on America, revealing our countrys complexities and idiosyncrasies to a global audience.

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

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 is the microphone's great observer, the doyen of foreign correspondents and the world's most famous letter writer....

Alistair Cooke looks back on a rich and varied life, one which has taken him across the ocean but never far away from the BBC....

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

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.....