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, ” ...

Former England Test captain Sir Alastair Cook has explained why he thinks Ollie Pope should be selected ahead of Jacob Bethell for the upcoming India series. Pope, the current England vice-captain, ...

Alistair Cooke was known to millions as the graceful, amazingly well-read host of Masterpiece Theatre for 22 years. But this very public side of a very outgoing man was just the tip of the iceberg to ...

LONDON, ENGLAND - JULY 29: Stuart Broad of England embraces Sir Alastair Cook after announcing his retirement from Test Match cricket after Day Three of the LV= Insurance Ashes 5th Test Match between ...

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 ...

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.

Can it really be the same Alistair Cooke whom we hear again in a new collation of half a century of Letters, this time focused on race relations? In The Custom of the Country, he acquiesces in the ...

NEW YORK - The bones of the late British broadcaster Alistair Cooke were stolen by a crime ring that snatched body parts to sell for transplant procedures, according to reports in two New York ...