retiring after 58 years on one programme

[muriel_volestrangler]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3525135.stm

Veteran Radio 4 broadcaster Alistair Cooke is retiring after 58 years at the helm of his show Letter From America.
The 95-year-old joined the BBC in 1934 as a film critic before starting up US current affairs and historical programme Letter From America in 1946.

The show is the world's longest-running speech radio programme.

I found listening to him, when he could talk about the First World War, American Depression, civil rights, and much more, as a first-hand witness, fascinating. A shame age has finally caught up with him.