2 Cassettes.
Part of the BBC Radio Collection.
A specially compiled collection charting the career of veteran journalist Alistair Cooke.
Alistair Cooke looks back on a rich and varied life that has taken him across the ocean, but never far away from the BBC.
Drawing on archive recordings, this selection includes interviews from radio and television, Cooke's "Letter From America", and a speech made to the Royal Television Society at New York's Cosmopolitan Club.
It charts the journalist's career from his first trip to America as a young Cambridge graduate to the establishment of the enormously successful "Letter From America", originally scheduled for thirteen weeks but now in it fifty-fourth year.
Alistair Cooke's biographer, Nick Clarke, introduces this in-depth retrospective which examines the heroes, hobbies and experience of one of the greater names in broadcasting.
