Alistair Cooke

For more than half a century, Alistair Cooke entertained millions of listeners across the globe with his weekly BBC radio programme Letter from America....

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. Drawing on archive recordings, this selection includes interviews from radio and television, Cooke's Letter From America, and a speech made to the Royal Television...

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

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