Alistair Cooke R.I.P. -- News from New York, USA
When you live abroad, often the only English-language radio you can get is often the BBC. I grew to enjoy this old guy's weekly "Letter from America" -- right up until last month. He was a legendary broadcaster.
Veteran Broadcaster Alistair Cooke Dies
By MICHAEL McDONOUGH, Associated Press Writer
LONDON - Alistair Cooke, the broadcaster who epitomized highbrow television as host of "Masterpiece Theater" and whose "Letter from America" was a radio fixture in Britain for 58 years, has died, the British Broadcasting Corp. said Tuesday. He was 95.
Cooke died at his home in New York at midnight, a spokeswoman at the BBC's press office said. No cause of death was given, but Cooke had retired earlier this month because of heart disease.
"I have had much enjoyment in doing these talks and hope that some of it has passed over to the listeners, to all of whom I now say thank you for your loyalty and goodbye," Cooke said when he stepped down on the advice of his doctor.
Veteran Broadcaster Alistair Cooke Dies
By MICHAEL McDONOUGH, Associated Press Writer
LONDON - Alistair Cooke, the broadcaster who epitomized highbrow television as host of "Masterpiece Theater" and whose "Letter from America" was a radio fixture in Britain for 58 years, has died, the British Broadcasting Corp. said Tuesday. He was 95.
Cooke died at his home in New York at midnight, a spokeswoman at the BBC's press office said. No cause of death was given, but Cooke had retired earlier this month because of heart disease.
"I have had much enjoyment in doing these talks and hope that some of it has passed over to the listeners, to all of whom I now say thank you for your loyalty and goodbye," Cooke said when he stepped down on the advice of his doctor.