"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
FCC Chairman Frank McNinch address – Nov. 12, 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. Bearing in mind that Radio was the modern technological advance in 1938, Television was only in experimental stages, and computers weren’t even considered, there was a…
News of The World – NBC – Nov. 12, 1941 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day in 1941 was enveloped in agitation and rejected diplomacy. Beginning with news the Finns had rejected (politely) a proposal by…
The Bug Club – in session for Janice Long – BBC Wales – November 11, 2021 – BBC Radio Wales – The Bug Club tonight, resurfacing after spending the better part of almost two years incubating, like so many other…
Suez Crisis – NBC Radio – The American Forum – November 11, 1956 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Crisis in the Suez Canal, November 11, 1956. No doubt looking at the date, you couldn’t help but wonder the message…
Become a Patron! November 11, 1918 – the day the “War To End All Wars” had ended – eleventh hour – eleventh day – eleventh month. Up to 1918, the most devastating war – millions killed, millions more maimed. And…
Idlewild – in concert at Celtic Connections – 2016 – January/February 2016 – BBC Radio Scotland – Scottish Indie/alternative/post-Britpop/post-punk band Idlewild, recorded in concert at the 2016 Celtic Connection in Glasgow and broadcast live by BBC Radio Scotland. Idlewild, named…
– Nelson Freire, Piano – In Recital – Philharmonic de Paris – February 8, 2018 – Private recording With the shocking and sad news earlier this month of the passing of the legendary Nelson Freire, at the age of 77,…
The fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 and 10 November 1989 was a pivotal event in world history which marked the falling of the Iron Curtain and the start of the fall of communism in Eastern and Central Europe.…
– News Of The World – November 10, 1941 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With the war raging in Europe this November 10th in 1941, the tell-tale signs that, even the German people were getting fed up with the…
Orange Juice – in session for John Peel – August 3, 1981 – BBC Radio 1 – Orange Juice in session tonight. Recorded for John Peel August 3, 1981 and broadcast August 10th. The leaders of the Scottish neo-pop uprising…