Letter from America by Alistair Cooke: The Early Years (1940s, 1950s and 1960s)
BBC Radio 4The assassinations of John F Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy through to Vietnam and America’s shame at the My Lai massacre. A fascinating social, cultural and political history of American life, through the words of British-American journalist and broadcaster, Alistair Cooke (1908 – 2004).
| Episodes | 13 | Founded | 13 years ago | Category | Society & Culture |
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Great podcast about the United States in the 1940s through the 1960s
Podchaser49 months agouofmtailgtrGood historical podcast on the times in the United States prior to 1970. Since I was born afterwards it was interesting what was going on in America prior to the Kennedy assassination in 1968.
Podchaser44 years agoDavid Lau- More so now than ever
I have just found this and it has hit me like a ton of bricks. Cooke was beyond compare when I first heard him oh so many years ago and this brings it all back. Never, ever, have I heard anyone describe so perfectly that strange and magical place on the other side of the Atlantic. This should be required listening for everyone. Er, wow.
Apple Podcasts5McBaldrick
United Kingdom5 years ago - Letter to the Present
I grew up listening to Alastair Cooke’s Letters because my father enjoyed them, and for me, the accuracy and political significance of his material, certainly decades later, is hardly the point.
The power for me lies in the way that unique voice, described so well by many reviewers, gentle, intelligent, dry, humorous, warm, conjures up a time now lost that I can just touch through the memory of my father, whether it is Christmas in Vermont, Golf at Augusta, Summers on Long Island, or scenes fro... more
Apple Podcasts5MarcrattueUnited Kingdom6 years ago - Excellent
Thank you BBC!
Apple Podcasts5Kent Parkstreet
Australia7 years ago - Insightful record of the lives of America
I grew up loving the voice of Alistair Cooke, I savour my revisits into this world.
Apple Podcasts5GreatifitworkedAustralia7 years ago - Letters
Here in 2017 the idea or task of writing letters may have fallen foul of technological highways. But people do still write. They call it blogging. Alistair Cooks letters are timeless. If only others did something similar.
Apple Podcasts5drtalbionAustralia8 years ago - Alistair.
Erudite, educated, light hearted, polite, intelligent, naive, well spoken, with a touch of over sentimentality, that he wouldn’t have used if reporting to his fellow Britians.
The type of Englishman who quietly disappeared during the twentieth century, replaced by a people who have forgotten who they are, or are punished for remembering. In some ways Alistair represents the best of us, but in another he’s a privileged establishment figure.
It would have been impossible for any president to hav... more
Apple Podcasts4DKP1973United Kingdom12 years ago
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