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Hurula – in session at Sveriges Radio P3 – October 20, 2020 – Sveriges Radio, Stockholm – Over to Sweden tonight for a session by Hurula, recorded live by Sveriges Radio in Stockolm. With a background in the punk scene, in Masshysteri, Robert Hurula has a rather long history in...
Historic concerts again this week with legends Karl Bohm, guest Conducting the New York Philharmonic and Maurizio Pollini, piano, in music of Beethoven, Mozart and Brahms during the 1978 special Pension Fund concert and the first broadcast of the 1978-1979 season of the New York Philharmonic. Beginning with the Leonore...
January 12, 1942 – Radio Tokyo English Service – News broadcasts – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 12, 1942 – News from Radio Tokyo. Chances are, if you were around and at home during the war years you may have missed hearing these broadcasts completely, unless you had a...
This day in 1978 saw President Jimmy Carter give his first Press Conference of 1978. And by the looks and sounds of it, the political year would have enough drama to go around. Taking center stage was the crisis in Africa between Somalia and Ethiopia, taking place around the Ogaden...
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