Alistair Cooke: The Essential Letters from America: The 1970s

Alistair Cooke: The Essential Letters from America: The 1990s

• UNABRIDGED (4 hrs and 54 mins)
• By Alistair Cooke
• Narrated By Alistair Cooke

Alistair Cooke's finest radio reportage from 1991-1999

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.

Letter From America: The Early Years, 1946-1968

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 55 mins)
• By Alistair Cooke
• Narrated By Alistair Cooke

Alistair Cooke is the microphone's great observer, the doyen of foreign correspondents and the world's most famous letter writer. Since 1946 he has been explaining the Americans through his weekly Letter From America, the longest-running one-man series in broadcasting history. It has been, and still is, a virtuoso performance: informed, informal, shrewd, funny, and erudite.

Alistair Cooke's Letters From America: The Elections

• UNABRIDGED (1 hr and 17 mins)
• By Alistair Cooke

Starting with Truman's surprise victory in 1948 and concluding with another surprise win, that of George W. Bush in 2000 - he comments on opinion polls, democracy, the difference between Democrats and Republicans, Bill Clinton's fashion sense and what Clinton's symbolic rejection of 'the blue blazer' meant to the American political system. In each letter his unique style of expression and analysis shines through. Also includes an introduction by Justin Webb and links.

Alistair Cooke: The Essential Letters from America: The 1940s & 1950s

• ORIGINAL (2 hrs and 29 mins)
• By Alistair Cooke
• Narrated By Alistair Cooke, Matt Frei

A selection of Alistair Cooke's finest radio Letters in chronological order from his earliest broadcasts. In this selection of the very first Letters, Cooke reports on a memorable range of events, including the threat to the United States during World War II, the funeral of Franklin D. Roosevelt, the shocking occasion when a bomber hit the Empire State Building, and the presidential election of 1948.

Alistair Cooke: The Essential Letters from America: The 1960s

• UNABRIDGED (2 hrs and 35 mins)
• By Alistair Cooke
• Narrated By Alistair Cooke

Here is the second of six chronological releases following the dates of Alistair Cooke's Letters from America (rather than a patchwork based on the dates of actual historical events). This includes the original recordings of the "letters", providing the appeal of Cooke's ageing voice in authentic recordings from the past 50 years.