"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
The Auteurs – in session at The BBC – January 1, 1993 – BBC Radio 1 – The Auteurs in session to end up the week. Long considered part of the vanguard of the Britpop movement, the band thought otherwise, and founder Luke Haines insisted they be considered more fringe...
Life And The World – Indonesia – Jan. 7, 1958 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Ever since Indonesia was declared independent on August 17, 1945, there had been a tenuous relationship between the new government and the holdovers from the Dutch Colonial days. The Dutch had wanted to re-colonize...
January 5, 1989 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 5, 1989 – The United Nations Security Council was slated to meet for urgent closed-door consultations on this day to discuss Libya’s protest of American shoot-down of Libyan MIG’s over the Mediterranean. No public meeting...
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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