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  • Cooke, Alistair
    Alistair Cooke

    His weekly 15-minute program, Letter from America, broadcast from 1946 to 2004, was one of the longest-running series on radio. The texts of many broadcasts were collected in One Man’s America (1952) and Talk About America (1968). From 1956 to 1961 Cooke hosted and narrated the weekly television ā€œmagazineā€ā€¦

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    His weekly 15-minute program, Letter from America, broadcast from 1946 to 2004, was one of the longest-running series on radio. The texts of many broadcasts were collected in One Man’s America (1952) and Talk About America (1968). From 1956 to 1961 Cooke hosted and narrated the weekly television ā€œmagazineā€ā€¦

    Read More