"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
CBS Radio – We Take You Back – March 13, 1958 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Ending our month-long series of Radio Documentaries, offering the best, but by all means not all, those pivotal pieces of broadcast journalism which…
Truls Mørk, cello – North German Radio Symphony – Eivind Gullberg Jensen, cond. 2012 Bergen Festival – May 28, 2012 – An all-Tchaikovsky concert this week featuring the North German Radio Symphony, led by Eivind Gullberg Jensen during the 2012…
It was still early in the evening on the West Coast of the U.S.when news broke that “something had happened” to Princess Diana and her companion Dodi Fayed in a suburb of Paris. A speeding car they were in spun…
– WKBF-Indianapolis – Dedication ceremony – August 31, 1933 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – On its surface, this broadcast of a radio station dedication ceremony is quaint and strange and most likely hard to listen to for many people…
– August 31, 1939 – John Steele Commentary from London – BBC News 7:00 pm – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 31, 1939 – As the inevitability of war seemed persistent, negotiations were still taking place in an…
Secret Machines – in concert at Glastonbury 2006 Festival – BBC 6 Music – Texas based-New York relocated Indie/Space-Rock band Secret Machines – in concert at the 2006 Glastonbury Festival, preserved for posterity by the venerable BBC 6 Music. Critically…
– CBS Radio – Update- Nasser’s Egypt – Jan. 1957 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Continuing our series of memorable documentaries of the 50’s, 60s and 70’s; Nassar’s Egypt from CBS Radio – January 23, 1957. 1956 and 1957…
With the news today of the passing of former Prime Minister Mikhail Gorbachev, forever known as the Soviet Leader who brought Communism in Russia to an end, and the object of President Reagan’s admonition to “Tear down that wall” with…
August 30, 1951 – Edward R. Murrow And The News – CBS Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 30, 1951 – The war in Korea was dragging on – possibilities of the resumption of Armistice talks were remote…
News from Berlin Radio, EIAR, Rome – Paris Radio -Commentary from Radio Berlin – August 30, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As all hopes were pinned on a response to an eleventh hour appeal from Prime Minister Chamberlain…