In Alistair Cooke's Footsteps

BBC Radio 4

Alvin Hall travels the USA revisiting the insights and observations of Alistair Cooke's Letter from America, on subjects as diverse as jazz, immigration and the American Dream

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In Alistair Cooke's Footsteps

Episodes (4)

Nov 27, 2012 Washington DC to New York
Nov 20, 2012 New Orleans
Nov 13, 2012 From Pittsburgh to Chicago

In Alistair Cooke's Footsteps

Nov 27, 2012
15¾ minutes
13 MB

Alvin Hall concludes his trip through the USA revisiting Alistair Cooke's Letter from America. This week he travels to Washington DC to reflect on a letter about the war in Vietnam. Letter from America was Alistair Cooke's weekly radio broadcast that ran continuously for 58 years on the BBC, from 1946 to 2004. The BBC will be making available the entire archive - over 900 programmes - on the Radio 4 website, from November 1st. Cooke had set himself a challenge that seemed deceptively simple: to explain the United States to Britain and the world. His Letters achieved that and more. He...

In Alistair Cooke's Footsteps

Washington DC to New York

BBC Radio 4

00:00 -13:58