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Letter from America: The Essential Letters 1936-2004
- With additional narration by BBC American correspondent Matt Frei
- Written by: Alistair Cooke, Matt Frei
- Narrated by: Alistair Cooke
- Length: 25 hrs and 28 mins
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All six volumes of The Essential Letters from America, brought together for the first time in this definitive chronological collection of Alistair Cooke's finest broadcasts. Alistair Cooke was the doyen of foreign correspondents and a radio legend, entertaining millions of listeners for over 50 years in his weekly Letter from America. It was the longest-running show in radio history, and every show was a virtuoso performance.
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Letter from America: The Essential Letters 1936-2004
- With additional narration by BBC American correspondent Matt Frei
- Narrated by: Alistair Cooke
- Length: 25 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 2015-12-03
- Language: English
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Alistair Cooke's America
- Written by: Alistair Cooke
- Narrated by: Peter Marinker
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
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For years legendary broadcaster Alistair Cooke brought America to the rest of the world with incomparable wit and wisdom. This is his classic ‘personal history’ of America, guiding us through centuries of changing life in the USA.
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Alistair Cooke's America
- Narrated by: Peter Marinker
- Length: 14 hrs and 1 min
- Release date: 2010-11-01
- Language: English
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Letter from America Collection
- Written by: Alistair Cooke
- Narrated by: Alistair Cooke
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
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For more than half a century, Alistair Cooke entertained millions of listeners across the globe with his weekly BBC radio programme Letter from America. An outstanding observer of the American scene, he became one of the world's best-loved broadcasters and had the distinction of presenting the longest running one-man show in radio history. Following the sad death of Alistair Cooke after 58 years in broadcasting, this impressive collection features all three volumes of Letters from America.
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Letter from America Collection
- Narrated by: Alistair Cooke
- Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 2021-12-02
- Language: English
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Letters from America: The Elections
- Written by: Alistair Cooke
- Narrated by: Alistair Cooke
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
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Alistair Cooke was a radio legend, entertaining millions of listeners for over 50 years in his weekly Letter from America. It was the longest-running one-man series in radio history, and every show was a virtuoso performance. Wise and witty, informed yet informal, Cooke was the doyen of foreign correspondents. Here are five letters about previous presidents and their elections over the past 60 years, in which Cooke - one of the world's most famous letter writers and radio's greatest observer - reflects on American life and politics.
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Letters from America: The Elections
- Narrated by: Alistair Cooke
- Length: 1 hr and 17 mins
- Release date: 2021-05-27
- Language: English
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Letters from America Seasonal Letters
- Written by: Alistair Cooke
- Narrated by: Alistair Cooke
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
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This selection contains eight of Alistair Cooke's Christmas and New Year Letters from America, broadcast in December and January over the five decades of his career and covering a range of festive topics from the light-hearted to the sombre. Starting with his December 2001 letter - broadcast in the wake of 9/11 - he remembers introducing Leonard Bernstein to Handel's 'Messiah', muses on the creation of A Christmas Carol and shares his memories of two friends who died in 1977, Groucho Marx and Bing Crosby.
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Letters from America Seasonal Letters
- Narrated by: Alistair Cooke
- Length: 1 hr and 46 mins
- Release date: 2021-05-27
- Language: English
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Alistair Cooke: Reporting America
- Written by: Alistair Cooke
- Narrated by: Peter Marinker
- Length: 18 hrs and 31 mins
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Alistair Cooke was the greatest of all twentieth century reporters of life in America to the rest of the world. This book presents the cream of his writings on the events that shaped modern American history, from the end of the Second World War through to the assassination of John Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy (Cooke was actually present), the moon landings and the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
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Alistair Cooke: Reporting America
- Narrated by: Peter Marinker
- Length: 18 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 2011-06-01
- Language: English
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Alistair Cooke at the BBC
- Written by: Alistair Cooke
- Narrated by: Alistair Cooke
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
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Alistair Cooke looks back on a rich and varied life, one which has taken him across the ocean but never far away from the BBC.
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Alistair Cooke at the BBC
- Narrated by: Alistair Cooke
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 2005-01-12
- Language: English
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