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, ” ...

Renowned British broadcaster Alistair Cooke, the longtime host of PBS' Masterpiece Theatre, has died at his home in New York at the age of 95. No cause of death was given, but earlier this month, ...

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.

Alistair Cooke, the broadcaster who epitomized highbrow television as host of "Masterpiece Theatre" and whose "Letter from America" was a radio fixture in Britain for 58 years, has died, the British ...

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 ...

Those, unaware of Alistair Cooke’s accomplishments must be very young or have lived their lives as hermits during the past half century. Alfred Alistair Cooke was a British/American journalist, ...

He must have been the happiest or the luckiest man alive. As a boy he felt trapped in working-class Blackpool, the Coney Island of England, and so won a scholarship to Cambridge. He loved jazz and ...

NEW YORK, Dec. 10 -- After 37 years, PBS's "Masterpiece Theatre" is getting spruced up. The acclaimed anthology series will be split into three mini-seasons, each with its own theme and host -- one of ...

LONDON (AP) _ Alistair Cooke, the broadcaster who epitomized highbrow television as host of ``Masterpiece Theatre'' and whose ``Letter from America'' was a radio fixture in Britain for 58 years, has ...