"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Honeybus – In session for John Peel – November 19, 1967 – BBC Radio 1 – Honeybus as a sort of quiet and non-confrontational alternative to our Classical offering tonight. Honeybus were one of those bands, like so many bands during the time; they were good, they were well-regarded by...
Georges Aperghis – Luna Park – World Premier performance – June 8, 2011 – Radio France Musique – Live Broadcast – Become a Patron! Since the entire purpose of Past Daily is to be reminded and to discover the new and the unfamiliar, I thought I would take the Mid-Week...
Overpopulation – it was a hot-button topic for discussion in the early 1970s. Hot on the heels of Climate change, ecology, birth control, the Women’s Movement and the issue of Abortion, Overpopulation became the springboard for everything that was rapidly going wrong with America and the world in general. What...
August 21, 1982 – News from Beirut, Paris and Lima, Peru this day. In Beirut, the fragile nature of a truce and the evacuation withdrawal of PLO troops was momentarily marred by the capture of an Israeli citizen by Palestinians. As the first 400 PLO fighters were boarding a ship...
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