Month March 2021

Editors in concert

Editors – Live At Summer Sundae Festival 2005 – Past Daily Soundbooth: Festival Edition

Editors have so far released two platinum studio albums, and six in total, with several million combined sales. Their debut album The Back Room was released in 2005. It contained the hits “Munich” and “Blood” and the following year received…

Yehudi Menuhin

March 12, 1999 – Germany Gets A New Finance Minister – Russia Gets American Food – The World Loses Yehudi Menuhin.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”55100″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”March 12, 1999 – Newshour- BBC World Service – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] March 12, 1999 – BBC World Service – Newshour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 12, 1999 – A busy…

Aschluss - 1938

March 12, 1938 – Anschluss Realized – Doubts Pondered – History In Question.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”20148″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”March 12, 1938 – Radio Prague News – MBS John Steele – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] As the news regarding the annexation of Austria by Germany continued to unfold, doubts began to arise as…

The Middle-East Peace process

March 11, 1979 – Searching For The World’s Oldest Dream – A Middle-East Peace Settlement.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”13130″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”March 11, 1979- The World This Week – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] News for this week in 1979 had much to do with fits and starts of a Middle East Peace…

Congressional Hearings

March 11, 1950 – The Never-Ending Show; Congressional Investigation – Riots In Berlin – War Games And Diplomacy

With the Cold War in full-bloom, the war of nerves and the hysteria was reaching fever-pitch. From Capitol Hill came a contentious set of Congressional hearings over purported Communist influence in the State Department. In the witness chair was Senator…

Pietro Scarpini

Pietro Scarpini With Nino Sanzogno And The BBC Symphony In Music Of Mendelssohn, Petrassi And Mussorgsky – 1959 – Past Daily Mid-Week Concert

Another historic concert from the vault. This week it’s the BBC Symphony, in concert from Royal Festival Hall in May of 1959, guest conducted by Nino Sanzogno with the legendary Italian Pianist Pietro Scarpini in music of Mendelssohn, Petrassi and…

The Finnish Border -- March 1940

March 10, 1940 – Report From Stockholm – Observations On The Finnish Front.

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”55068″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”March 10, 1940 – Mutual – Report from Stockholm- Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] March 10, 1940 – Carl Mydans Report from Stockholm – Mutual Broadcasting – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 10, 1940.…

Jan Masaryk

March 10, 1948 – The Death Of Masaryk – Britain’s Economic Downturn – Butter Vs. Margarine.

News for this March 10th in 1948 had much to do with a flood of reports from Prague saying that non-Communist Foreign Minister Jan Masaryk had been found dead from an apparent suicide hours earlier. But even while reports were…