Alistair Cooke
Home from Home
[rtoc] Pilgrim Fathers blessed to arrive in America. Tower of London – may have looked imposing at the start of C17, but was sombre; civil war not far off, and religious persecution First English settlers didn’t start from hall of Middle Temple, but might not have made it without such institutions. “Think tank”, inter alia. …
The New Found Land
[rtoc] 00:00 Canyons shots “For hundreds of centuries, and long after men had settled in the land masses of Europe, Asia and Africa, this continent was unknown to any human being”. Also rivers. Alligators, snakes, strange birds of prey 03:00 15,000BC humans drifted from Asian and Aleutians; these civilisations now lost, ancient relic in cavern …
The First Impact
[rtoc] The New York skyline at epitomising America (01:00) His origins in the UK, at Cambridge, getting his scholarship to Yale in 1932 (01:30) As a boy in seaside town in the north of England in the First World War; American soldiers of the time, and the American Constitution on billeting in English houses. (02:11) His …