Alistair Cooke was born Alfred Cooke in Salford, a suburb of Manchester, on Nov. 20, 1908. He legally added Alistair to his name as a college student, saying it had always been his nickname.

He quickly emerged as one of the masters of the medium.Cooke published 12 books, including “Alistair Cooke’s America” (1973), which sold more than 800,000 copies in hard cover.In addition to ...

The Unseen Alistair Cooke: A "Masterpiece Special" presentation. 9 p.m. Sunday on KQED. PBS can be forgiven for turning the last 10 minutes of its fascinating "Unseen Alistair Cooke" into a mini ...

Alistair Cooke is celebrated as a wonderful broadcaster, and so he was. He was also an elegant writer. Nine years ago, I had the opportunity to interview him about a collection of his writings ...

On Alistair Cooke’s retirement On Feb. 20, 2004, Alistair Cooke filed the last of his weekly Letter from America pieces for the BBC. He had been advised by his doctor to quit at the age of 95. George ...

Alistair Cooke, the broadcaster who epitomized highbrow television as host of "Masterpiece Theatre" and whose "Letter from America" was a radio fixture in Britain for 58 years, has died, the ...

In 1973, he was made an honorary Knight Commander, Order of the British Empire. He published 12 books, including "Alistair Cooke's America" (1972), which sold more than 800,000 copies in hardcover.

The daughter of the late British broadcaster Alistair Cooke Monday confronted one of the fiends responsible for carving and selling pieces of her famous father’s corpse. “Did anyone spe… ...

FOR as long as anyone can remember, Alistair Cooke was the perfect embodiment of the special relationship. British ambassadors sometimes take Washington by storm, but more usually blend in with ...

Alistair Cooke told me, as in my own personal Letter from New York, the great story of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux and the original planning of the Park, and the size of it and the ...

Alistair Cooke delivered his last Letter from America after 58 years on Friday 20 February (repeated, as ever, on Saturday and Sunday) and, having unusually missed the following week through ...

Broadcaster Alistair Cooke dies at 95 NEW YORK, March 30 (UPI) -- Alistair Cooke, the veteran BBC broadcaster who straddled two continents and cultures, has died in his New York home. He was 95.