Author:Alistair Cooke,Alistair Cooke
Alistair Cooke looks back on a rich and varied life, one which has taken him across the ocean but never far away from the BBC.
Drawing on archive recordings, this selection includes interviews from radio and television, Cooke's Letter From America, and a speech made to the Royal Television Society at New York's Cosmopolitan Club.
It charts the journalist's career from his first trip to America as a young Cambridge graduate to the establishment of the enormously successful Letter From America, originally scheduled for 13 weeks but still running today.
Alistair Cooke's biographer, Nick Clarke, introduces this in-depth retrospective which examines the heroes, hobbies, and experiences of one of the greatest names in broadcasting.
Incendiary
—— ArenaCompelling ... As gripping as it is harrowing
—— Sunday TimesMonstrously entertaining ... you turn the pages faster and faster, with guilty admiration
—— Evening StandardI laughed like a hyena reading Hollywood Animal ... I couldn't put it down
—— Christopher Bray , Literary ReviewEszterhas is a wonderful storyteller, and Hollywood Animal is irresistibly entertaining. The gods look down, and we look up, dazzled by the light
—— Guardian