Letters from America, 1946-1951
1946-1951
[Cooke is] one of the most gifted and urbane essayists of the century, a supreme master. -The Spectator As the voice of the BBC's Letter from America for close to six decades, Alistair Cooke addressed several millions of listeners on five continents. They tuned in every Friday evening or Sunday morning to listen to his erudite and entertaining reports on life in the United States. According to Lord Hill of Luton, chairman of the BBC, Cooke had a virtuosity approaching genius in talking about America in human terms.Letters from America: 1946-1951 contains highlights from the first five years of Alistair Cooke's legendary BBC radio program, yea…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4976-9768-3
- EAN: 9781497697683
- Produktnummer: 19299252
- Verlag: Open Road Media
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 200 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'624 KB
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Alistair Cooke, KBE (1908–2004), was a legendary British American journalist, television host, and radio broadcaster. He was born in Lancashire, England, and after graduating from the University of Cambridge, was hired as a journalist for the BBC. He rose to prominence for his London Letter reports, broadcast on NBC Radio in America during the 1930s. Cooke immigrated to the United States in 1937. In 1946, he began a tradition that would last nearly six decades—his Letter from America radio appearances on the BBC. Cooke was also beloved as the host of PBS’s Masterpiece Theatre for twenty-one years. He wrote many books, both collections of his Letters from America and other projects. After his death, the Fulbright Alistair Cooke Award in Journalism was established to support students from the United Kingdom seeking to study in the United States, and vice versa.
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