Alistair Cooke's Letters From America: The Elections

Five specially selected letters from American election years, based on the BBC Radio 4 series 'Cooke's Elections'.

Alistair Cooke was a radio legend, entertaining millions of listeners for over fifty years in his weekly 'Letter From America'. It was the longest-running one-man series in radio history, and every show was a virtuoso performance. Wise and witty, informed yet informal, Cooke was the doyen of foreign correspondents.