"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– News from BBC World Service – Mutual Correspondent John Steele – Radio Paris English Service – September 4, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – No sooner had war been declared than news of the sinking of an unarmed passenger ship surfaced. The British Liner SS Athenia, bound for...
– CBS World News Roundup – September 4, 1995 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for September 4th, 20 years ago looked and sounded like this: Negotiations for the settlement in the Bosnia crisis were underway, but a dizzying amount of conditions being slapped on that settlement ahead of...
– Slowdive – Live At Paredes de Coura Festival, Portugal – August 19, 2015 – When Shoegaze legends Slowdive announced last year that they were reuniting it was cause for excitement and relief – mixed with a sense of apprehension that the band so influential during the 90s would recapture...
Gordon Skene, two-time Grammy Nominee and archivist runs The Gordon Skene Sound Archive and this website, which is dedicated to preserving and encouraging an interest in history and historic news, events, and cultural aspects of our society. Past Daily is the only place on the Internet where you can hear a Nixon speech, listen to an interview with John Cassavettes or play a broadcast of Charles Munch rehearsing the Boston Symphony in 1950, all in the same place. It's living history and it's timeless.
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