Letter from the UK?

Alastair Cooke’s “Letter from America” was something of an institution all my life. My family not only enjoyed the insightful social and political commentary but also the mundane observations of American life; New York pavements, holiday celebrations, hurricane warnings. That the perceptive insights into the culture of the USA were made by an outsider, an Englishman who never left, largely contributed to the programme’s success and longevity.   American Brian Fortuna, TV presenter and linguist would be the ideal presenter to reprise and modernise the original “London Letters” idea (from which “Letter from America” developed), but with a 21st Century twist