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Clark Boyd is a reporter for The World. From advances in technology to the ups and downs of the markets, he has reported from many different countries for the show. He is now based out of the Boston newsroom.

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Alistair Cooke’s ‘Letters from America’ Go Online

November 6, 2012 ⋅ Post a comment
Alistair Cooke

Alistair Cooke being interviewed in 1974 (Marion S. Trikosko/Library of Congress)

Most Americans remember Alistair Cooke as the long-time host of PBS’s Masterpiece Theater, which introduced many a British drama to an American audience.

But from the mid-1940s until his death in 2004, Cooke also sent audio letters back to the BBC.

His “Letters from America” introduced Britons to life in the United States.

And one of the themes that Cooke most liked to discuss was the Presidency.

Many of his letters deal with the office of the President and the race for the White House.

Now, the BBC has made all 920 of Cooke’s surviving letters available online.

The World’s Clark Boyd finds a lot to chew on in the letters on this Election Day.


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One comment for “Alistair Cooke’s ‘Letters from America’ Go Online”

  • AliMcJ

    Zounds delish!