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Alistair Cooke<\/a> has died. While I only ever heard a few of his famous “Letters from America,” he was the voice and face of Culture and Refinement as the long-time host of Masterpiece Theatre<\/i>, back when it was first getting famous. <\/p>\n

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Alistair Cooke has died. While I only ever heard a few of his famous “Letters from America,” he was the voice and face of Culture and Refinement as the long-time…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1315,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/01\/28\/going_down_with.html","url_meta":{"origin":5369,"position":0},"title":"Going down with the ship","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 28-Jan-02 2:17pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Some perspective on the Enron debacle from Alistair Cooke: The American public is as stunned as the British people would have been in 1912 to learn that the captain of...","rel":"","context":"In "Fourth Estate"","block_context":{"text":"Fourth Estate","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/media\/fourth-estate"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":137488,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/12\/23\/in-a-hole-in-the-ground-there-lived-a-hobbit-2.html","url_meta":{"origin":5369,"position":1},"title":""In a hole in the ground, there lived … a Hobbit."","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 23-Dec-18 10:28pm","format":false,"excerpt":"I love the Rankin\/Bass production of The Hobbit, and can still sing most of the songs from it. 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