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 ...

There won't be another "Letter from America" -- Alistair Cooke has retired after broadcasting his familiar letters segment for the last 58 years.

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Meanwhile, his work on "Letter From America" brought him the Peabody Award for international reporting in 1952. That led to his job hosting "Omnibus" from 1952 to 1961 on a series of major networks.

In Great Britain, however, he is better remembered for “Letter from America,” his weekly radio broadcast on the BBC, which ended in 2004 after fifty-eight years and nearly three thousand episodes.

The American Home Front: 1941-1942. Alistair Cooke. Atlantic Monthly Press. Illustrated. $24. 327 pp. Soon after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, Alistair Cooke, a reporter for the BBC, made a… ...

Object Details Author Cooke, Alistair 1908-2004 Notes Contains 50 talks from the author's radio program Letters from America. Date 1979 1969-1974 1974-1977 1977- 1971- Call number E855.C67X Type Books ...

Cooke joined the BBC in 1934 as a film critic, but European audiences know him best for his “Letter from America,” weekly commentaries broadcast on BBC radio starting in 1946 and continuing ...

Updates from your News topics will appear in My News and in a collection on the News homepage. Letter from America by Alistair Cooke. The Day of the GP is Over. Audio, 15 minutesLetter from ...

For 58 years, Cooke's Letter from America program was heard on the BBC's World Service and Britain's Radio 4. NPR's Bob Edwards has a remembrance.