Month November 2014

Mark Twain 100th Birthday Dinner – 1935 – Past Daily Weekend Gallimaufry

. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – Mark Twain 100th Birthday Dinner – November 19, 1935 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection In case you forgot, November 30th will be Mark Twain’s 179th birthday. In…

Music For Mr. Hulot – Film Music of Jacques Tati – Past Daily Weekend Soundbooth

. . .or Click on the link Here for Audio Player – Film Music of Jacques Tati – French Philips Unless you’re a fan of World Cinema going back a long-long ways, the name of Mr. Hulot or of Jacques…

The Neglect Of Reading – 1957 – Past Daily Weekend Reference Room

  . . .or click on the link here for Audio Player – Chicago University Roundtable – The Neglect of Reading – 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Even in 1957 Americans were reading less. Not the rest of the…

Spoon – Live At London Calling-2 – Nights At The Roundtable: Winter Festival Edition

. . .or click on the link here for Audio Player – Spoon – Live At London Calling-2 – November 1, 2014 – VPRO/3VOOR12 Flying into the Fall/Winter Festival season tonight with a set by American Indie meisters Spoon, recorded…

The Great Polarizer In American Politics – An Address By Spiro Agnew – 1969 – Past Daily Reference Room

. . .or click on the link here for Audio Player – Vice-President Spiro Agnew – Address in Montgomery Alabama – Nov. 10, 1969 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection The name Spiro Agnew may have faded into the deeper recesses…

Week Of Wonders – November 14, 1965

. . .or click on the link here for Audio Player – ABC Radio: Voices In The Headlines – week ending November 14, 1965 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection A harbinger of things to come? Maybe. But at the time,…

That Was The Week That Was – November 13, 1999

. . . or click on the link here for Audio Player – CBS Weekend Roundup – November 13, 1999 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Fifteen years ago this week, the world continued its confusing and often frustrating spin in…