Alistair Cooke

Here comes everybody

newstatesman.com     Jul 24, 2008          

The internet ensures even "crackpot" theories are aired. Good, thinks Elaine Morgan"Enter demos." Alistair Cooke used this ringing phrase in America, his 1973 television series about the country and its history. Earlier...                

Letters: We come to bury Thatcherism

guardian.co.uk     Jul 21, 2008   1 related          

I was surprised by Simon Jenkins's paean to Margaret Thatcher, especially considering all his elegant and persuasive writing over the years about the emasculation of local government (Comment, July 18). As part of this...                

I Won't Be Making Another Appointment

redorbit.com     Jul 18, 2008   1 related          

But what sort? The series opened with our hero, Dr Robert Fielding (Paul Nicholls), bustling through a night shift in a London NHS hospital, striding briskly down the wards, demanding test results, flirting with stray nurses,...                

TV ratings - July 17: Harley Street plays second fiddle to fraud show

guardian.co.uk     Jul 18, 2008   14 related          

TV ratings: Harley Street plays second fiddle to fraud show Harley Street: stars Paul Nicholls and Suranne Jones. Photograph: ITV ITV1's new drama Harley Street could be heading for medical attention itself after it was soundly...                

Unhealthy start for ITV medical drama

digitalspy.co.uk     Jul 18, 2008   1 related          

By Dave West, Media Correspondent New Paul Nicholls drama Harley Street got off to a less-than-impressive start on ITV1 last night. The widely-advertised show, set in London's famous private medical district, drew a below-par...                

Portrait of a legend as a young man

scotsman.com     Jul 18, 2008          

Published Date: 18 July 2008 The Unseen Alistair Cooke, BBC4 Lab Rats, BBC2 IT'S easy to picture the legendary journalist Alistair Cooke composing another Letter From America. But did you know that Cooke, who died in 2004 aged...                

The unseen Alistair Cooke

bbc.co.uk     Jul 17, 2008   2 related          

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...                

Comprehensive prescription

spectator.co.uk     Jul 17, 2008          

IT would have been fun to be at the planning meeting for Harley Street (ITV, Thursday), the new medical drama series about a group of stunningly good-looking doctors in private practice. ‘Look, we get all the bloody bits, the...                

The week's radio choices

telegraph.co.uk     Jul 3, 2008          

By Gillian Reynolds WEDNESDAY 2 JULY Cabin Pressure (Radio 4) John Finnemore’s new situation comedy has the benefit of a superb cast. MONDAY 30 JUNE Book of the Week: Cooke's Elections (Radio 4FM) Five archive editons of...                

Ringleader of body parts scheme gets prisonN.J. resident cops a plea that could land him behind...

lawyers.com     Jun 28, 2008          

HEADLINE: Ringleader of body parts scheme gets prisonN.J. resident cops a plea that could land him behind bars from 18 to 54 years BODY: STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - Michael Mastromarino, 44, was sentenced yesterday in Brooklyn state...                

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