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Years before Alistair Cooke began broadcasting his much-loved Letter from America, he travelled across the US with a cine camera. The films reveal a young Cooke fascinated by its landscape, its people and its culture, and eager to tell its stories to the world, says James Naughtie. When I first had a glimpse of Alistair Cooke's home movie treasure trove I felt as if I had been let into a precious secret. The films had been lying in boxes in corners of his apartment in New York, and down in the basement, and it seems as if they hadn't been touched for years. Only after he died in 2004 did they come to light, and watching the first flickering images from the 1930s was to take a trip into the past with the perfect guide. You're invited to be part of a personal... [read full story]
