In their ancient Dorset cottage back in the 1950s my grandparents took great pride in their almost equally ancient radio set, an apparatus as big as a suitcase, polished walnut on the outside and ...

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, ” ...

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 ...

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 ...

JAMES THURBER settles to his daily work at his colonial farmhouse in Cornwall,Connecticut, sitting at a card table jotting down the words he cannot see. I asked him how a blind writer goes about ...

To most Americans, ALISTAIR COOKE was the baronial M.C. of Masterpiece Theatre–a genial gent so famous that he was gently parodied as Alistair Cookie on Sesame Street and Alistair Beagle in Peanuts.