Alistair Cooke at the BBC
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 its fifty-forth year. Alistair Cooke's biographer Nick Clarke introduces this in-depth retrospective which examines the heroes hobbies and experiences of one of the greatest names in broadcasting.