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 ...

Returning to England, Mr. Cooke joined the BBC in 1934 as a film critic. He became the BBC commentator on American affairs in 1938. Mr. Cooke realized a new job was emerging: ” Writing for talking.

LONDON, March 30 -- Alistair Cooke, who died at midnight Tuesday in New York at age 95, was fond of citing George Bernard Shaw's dictum that the United States and Britain are "two nations divided ...

Cooke’s day job, as The Guardian’s American correspondent, gave him carte blanche to crisscross his favorite country and send back his impressions of it.

Alistair Cooke’s weekly talks on American life, history and politics, as broadcast on BBC Radio 4 from 1946 – 2004. Alistair Cooke considers how people become desensitised to the horrifying ...

LONDON -- 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 ...

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 ...

"He is a nuisance," Britain's Guardian wrote of its U.S. correspondent, Alistair Cooke. "He telephones his copy at the last moment. He says that he will be in Chicago and turns ...

Returning to England and, having changed his name to Alistair, Cooke joined the BBC in 1934 as a film critic. He has been the BBC commentator on American affairs since 1938.