Alistair Cooke, the quintessentially urbane host of television’s “Masterpiece Theatre” and interpreter of U.S. culture for decades on British radio’s “Letter from America,” died ...

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

Alistair Cooke, the British-born journalist and commentator who brought a refinement and elegance to American television as the popular host of “Masterpiece Theatre,” has died. He was 95.

Cooke, a veteran broadcaster and Englishman who emigrated to New York in 1937, is best known in the United States as the former host of “Masterpiece Theatre.” ...

At the end of "The Unseen Alistair Cooke," we know something about the longtime host of PBS's "Masterpiece Theatre," but much more about the world around him (9-10 p.m. Sunday on PBS "Masterpiece ...

In fact, it was the setting of a black-tie gala honoring the 15th anniversary of ”Masterpiece Theatre,” the celebrated series of British productions that has appeared Sunday nights on the ...

As of this Sunday, "Masterpiece Theatre" will arrive in, as marketers like to say, a totally new package. Instead of the familiar journalists who hosted the dramas for 33 of the series' 37 years, ...

Alistair Cooke was known to millions as the graceful, amazingly well-read host of Masterpiece Theatre for 22 years. But this very public side of a very outgoing man was just the tip of the iceberg ...

Cooke’s voice may be silent, but the world is not without his legacy, a compilation of 58 years of his BBC broadcasts titled “Letter From America: 1946-2004” (Knopf, $35).

Alistair Cooke, host of ”Masterpiece Theater” since it began 21 years ago, said Tuesday he plans to leave the Public Broadcasting Service series in November. ”I`m coming up on 84,” said ...