Alistair Cooke, the quintessentially urbane host of television ‘ s ” Omnibus ” and ” Masterpiece Theatre ” and interpreter of U.S. culture for decades on British radio ‘ s ” Letter from America, ” ...

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LONDON, March 30 -- Alistair Cooke, who died at midnight Tuesday in New York at age 95, was fond of citing George Bernard Shaw's dictum that the United States and Britain are "two nations divided by a ...

When I heard of Alistair Cooke's death this past Tuesday, I scoured the shelves for information about this British student of all things American. In the process I came upon the book "TV Themes: Past ...

LONDON (AP) _ Alistair Cooke, the broadcaster who epitomized highbrow television as host of ``Masterpiece Theatre'' and whose ``Letter from America'' was a radio fixture in Britain for 58 years, has ...

Alistair Cooke, the ultra-civilized, silver-haired British broadcaster best known to American audiences as the host of "Masterpiece Theatre," died Tuesday at his home in New York. He had heart disease ...