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

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

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....

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.

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