Alistair Cooke

Alistair Cooke has died. I haven't listened to his Letter from America in years, but in graduate school while I was doing research at CERN outside of Geneva, Switzerland, my main source of news was the BBC World Service on the shortwave band. On occasional weekends, I happened to have the radio on when the Letter from America was played. I felt like it closed a circle for an American living in Europe to listen to a European talking about America. (I really wanted to link to a picture of Alistair Cookie, but google images doesn't turn up such an image and the sesame street website isn't easily searchable.)