Alistair Cooke, a broadcasting legend on both shores of the Atlantic, died of heart failure yesterday in New York City. Cooke reported his radio program "Letter from America" each week for 58 ...

LONDON — Legendary British broadcaster Alistair Cooke, best known for his long-running radio series “Letter From America,” has died at the age of 95. A spokesman for the BBC said Tuesday ...

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 ...

Alistair Cooke, 95, the ultra-civilized, silver-haired British broadcaster best known to American audiences as the host of "Masterpiece Theatre," died March 30 at his home in New York.

Cooke, the long time host of the U.S. public television show Masterpiece Theatre, and known for his Letter from America broadcasts for the BBC, died in New York in March 2004 from lung cancer.