Alistair Cooke, a broadcasting legend on both shores of the Atlantic, died of heart failure yesterday in New York City. Cooke reported his radio program "Letter from America" each week for 58 years on ...

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, ” ...

Just five weeks after filing his last Letter from America for the BBC, Alistair Cooke died March 30 [2004] at his home in Manhattan. He was 95 and had heart disease. George Hall, an American ...

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 ...

LONDON -- 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 died, the ...

NEW YORK - The bones of the late British broadcaster Alistair Cooke were stolen by a crime ring that snatched body parts to sell for transplant procedures, according to reports in two New York ...

Alistair Cooke was known to millions as the graceful, amazingly well-read host of Masterpiece Theatre for 22 years. But this very public side of a very outgoing man was just the tip of the iceberg to ...

Alistair Cooke asks how we can police the world in a time of modern terrorist conflict. Alistair Cooke reflects on how the desert town of Las Vegas became a big tourist trap.

He must have been the happiest or the luckiest man alive. As a boy he felt trapped in working-class Blackpool, the Coney Island of England, and so won a scholarship to Cambridge. He loved jazz and ...

LONDON — Legendary British broadcaster Alistair Cooke, best known for his long-running radio series “Letter From America,” has died at the age of 95. A spokesman for the BBC said Tuesday that Cooke ...