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Given that the bloke seems to have been broadcasting for the last 150 years, you can’t begrude Alastair Cooke his retirement. I can’t say I was ever anything other than a very occasional listener, but Letter From America seems to fall very definitely into the “comfort food” school of radio programming. It’s probably something to do with the fact that I only ever seemed to come across it late at night, but the slow and measured delivery was a bit like having a bedtime story read to you by an aged uncle. Perfect for parody, but there must have been something in it to keep it on the air for 150 years.