Letters From America: Seasonal Letters

Written by:
Alistair Cooke
Narrated by:
Alistair Cooke

Unabridged Audiobook

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Book
Narrator
Release Date
May 2021
Duration
1 hour 46 minutes
Summary
This selection contains eight of Alistair Cooke's Christmas and New Year Letters from America, broadcast in December and January over the five decades of his career and covering a range of festive topics from the light-hearted to the sombre.

Starting with his December 2001 Letter - broadcast in the wake of 9/11 - he remembers introducing Leonard Bernstein to Handel's 'Messiah', muses on the creation of A Christmas Carol and shares his memories of two friends who died in 1977, Groucho Marx and Bing Crosby.

Here, too, are Cooke's reflections on Christmas in Vermont, the early days of television in the USA, cigarette advertising and sport, the Millennium Bug and the Nixon family's first days in the White House. The Letters are introduced and linked by the BBC's Justin Webb, who sets them in their historical context and adds his own observations.

'Cooke's debonaire, transatlantic tones are unmistakable...' - FT Magazine.
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