Alistair Cooke Letters from America Audio

Highlights from lost recordings from the 1970 and 80s.

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.

Here is a selection of Alistair Cooke's finest radio Letters from America, in chronological order from his earliest 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 is the microphone's great observer, the doyen of foreign correspondents and the world's most famous letter writer....

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

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

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....

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.....