Alistair Cooke - Media

Media

  • America: A Personal History of the United States has been released on DVD, with an additional feature where Cooke talks about his life.
  • An Evening With Alistair Cooke at the Piano, an LP record first released in 1955, later rereleased in 1973 by Columbia Special Products (catalogue number B00110SXCK).

The album features Cooke playing jazz standards on piano with accompanying whistle, and talking about his life in America.

Preceded by
none
Host of Masterpiece Theatre
1971–1992
Succeeded by
Russell Baker

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