Alistair Cooke

[sailorman]

Alistair Cooke has died today a great loss to all sailors & everybody else, on a sunday morning.
his retirement being only some 4 weeks ago

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[tico]

I shall miss 'lette from America' on my way down to the boat on a Friday night .
Usually meant there was only 1/2 hr left to drive

<hr width=100% size=1>Been there, done that, got the oily T shirt

 

[BrendanS]

Probably the only broadcaster I can honestly say I'll miss. The end of an era, and a representative of a time when things were somewhat different

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[Sybarite]

Incredible when you think that his first broadcast was in 1934, 70 years ago, (before "Letter from America") and to keep working until he was 95 !

John

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[Mirelle]

Much the best broadcaster.

When I started writing a newspaper column I read and listened to as many of his "Letters" as I could, I found it excellent training.

As his biographer said on R4 at lunchtime, it was the weekly "Letter" that kept him alive, and they were obviously hard work to write - anything that looks that easy is hard work.

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