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Alistair Cooke's Letter from America archive released online

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    But he remains best known for his Letter from America, which pioneered the informal conversational style that now dominates speech radio. Cooke, who was absent from the show last week due to illness, will not record any new shows but Radio 4 will broadcast archive shows for several weeks.

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    Jenny Abramsky, director of BBC radio and music, said Cooke's letters were a "unique legacy" which had "stimulated and entertained millions". His description of the small pantry passageway in San Francisco brought home the horror of Kennedy's death in a personal human way that marked all his letters.

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    We are very sorry he has decided to retire but are grateful for all the years he has devoted to the BBC," she said. In an article to mark his 95th birthday last year, Cooke's biographer Nick Clarke revealed that the veteran broadcaster now rarely emerges from his 15th floor Manhattan apartment.

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    But despite his physical frailty Clarke said Cooke's enthusiasm for his work "has remained undiminished", adding, "he can still draw on that vast memory bank for the characters and stories that enliven his tasks". Since Letter from America began, Cooke has presented 2, shows, making up more than hours of broadcasting time. In an address to the Royal Television Society in , Cooke revealed that the idea for the show originated from a conversation with a BBC editor.

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    In the autumn of he turned down the offer to join John F Kennedy on a presidential outing in Texas, deciding instead to cover it from New York. Kennedy Speeches John F. Cooke was in the lobby of the Ambassador Hotel when Kennedy was shot and used scratch paper to scribble down his impressions of the chaos. The series ran from 24 March to 20 February , making it the longest-running speech radio programme hosted by one individual in history. Retrieved 1 November

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    A prototype, Mainly About Manhattan , was broadcast intermittently from October , but the idea was shelved with the outbreak of World War II in The first American Letter was broadcast on 24 March , initially confirmed for only 13 installments, after Cooke had given a one-off talk under that title in the series Sunday Newsletter on 25 November The change of title to Letter from America came on 30 September The series lasted for 2, broadcasts over nearly 58 years and gathered an enormous audience, being broadcast not only in Britain and in many other Commonwealth countries, but throughout the world by the BBC World Service.

    On 2 March , at the age of 95, following advice from his doctors, Cooke announced his retirement from Letter from America ; he died less than a month later, on 30 March , at his home in New York City. A compilation of the programme's transcripts was published in Scripts are available to the public via Boston University http: