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Six By Seven – in session for John Peel – Recorded April 7, 1998 – broadcast May 12, 1998 -BBC Radio 1 – Six By Seven in session for John Peel tonight, their first for him, recorded on April 7, 1998 and broadcast on May 12th. Regarded by many as...
Beatrice Uria-Monzon with Michel Plasson conducting Orchestre National de Lyon – In Concert from Paris – March 6, 2011 – Radio France Musique Over to Paris this week for a special concert featuring the Spanish-born Mezzo-soprano Beatrice Uria-Monzon and the Orchestre National de Lyon led by the legendary Michel Plasson....
President Franklin Roosevelt – Address to the White House Correspondents Dinner – Feb. 12, 1943 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 12 was Abraham Lincoln’s birthday – this address given by FDR on the occasion of Lincoln’s Birthday was also an assessment of the recently concluded Casablanca Conference. Here...
February 13, 1941 – Generalissimo Franco – Marshal Petain Summit – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 13, 1941 – With the war escalating in Europe, and the U.S. still reasonably out of it, reports of a meeting between Spanish dictator, Generalissimo Francisco Franco and Vichy French Premier Marshal Petain...
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