April 30, 2010: “A Letter to the President of America … ” – The New eLetters from America follows in the footsteps of Alistair Cooke’s journey across the United States, between the post-war years to his passing in 2004. The established and polished style of Cooke’s delivery taken on under different guise by Gibbon’s, illuminates the extraordinary changes in American society. The reporting from studio and across America’s heart land is a program capturing the fundamental mindset and emotive state of people across the country through carefully planned recordings and film. New eLetter’s from America covers the sublime and trauma of a country coming to terms with frugality and severe change in a shifting economy and fading decadence that will change its face forever.

Posted by: davidwgibbons | April 24, 2010

March 31, 2010 – Launch Program

March 31, 2010 – The New eLetters from America follows in the footsteps of Alistair Cooke’s journey across the United States, between the post-war years to his passing in 2004. His original “Letter’s from America” began in 1946 and were enormously successful for the BBC. The series finally came to an end 58 years later, in March 2004. He left a legacy of American history during a period of change and volatility. As a boy and into adulthood Gibbons was enchanted by the regular Sunday morning radio program broadcast on BBC’s radio four. His father rarely missed the program’s that he had followed himself from their inception in 1946. The established and polished style of Cooke’s delivery taken on under different guise by Gibbons illuminates the extraordinary changes in American society. The program’s reporting from studio and across America’s heart land is a program capturing the fundamental mindset and emotive state of people across the country through carefully planned recordings and film. New Letter’s of America will cover the sublime and trauma of a country coming to terms with frugality and severe change in a shifting economy and fading decadence that will never be seen again.

April 16, 2010 – “An American Border’s Dilemma & The Movement of People” – The New eLetters from America follows in the footsteps of Alistair Cooke’s journey across the United States, between the post-war years to his passing in 2004. The established and polished style of Cooke’s delivery taken on under different guise by Gibbon’s, illuminates the extraordinary changes in American society. The reporting from studio and across America’s heart land is a program capturing the fundamental mindset and emotive state of people across the country through carefully planned recordings and film. New eLetter’s from America covers the sublime and trauma of a country coming to terms with frugality and severe change in a shifting economy and fading decadence that will change its face forever.

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