Investigators scrambled today to determine if pilot error was to blame for the fiery crash of a Soviet-era airliner that killed Polish President Lech Kaczynski and 96 others. The presidential party was en route to a memorial service for Poles massacred by Soviet troops in the Second World War when
From North Africa: The Allies in Tunisia have made further progress after furious fighting among the strongly-defended Axis hill positions. Latest Allied communique reports gains on all sectors in favor of the Allies but the enemy is strongly resisting every inch of ground. The communique reports the battle east of
Ending the week in 1972 with a BBC Radio In Concert featuring Peter Frampton and Frampton’s Camel from November 18, 1972. This concert comes roughly six months before Peter Frampton’s 2nd Camel album and four years before his groundbreaking Frampton Comes Alive! release which put him seriously in the household
Avalanche Party – in session for John Kennedy at Radio X, recorded live on April 5, 2025. Avalanche Party are a garage punk band from North Yorkshire moors. The band consists of Jordan Bell vocals and guitar, Jared Thorpe vocals, guitar and sax, Kane Waterfield Drums, Joe Bell bass guitar
Busy day in 1969. As it has been the past several months, Vietnam Peace Talks are taking center stage. The United States and South Vietnam called on the Communists today to begin serious discussions of a mutual troop withdrawal from South Vietnam. They got a flat rejection and a new
Another haywire day, this April 10th, in 1980. With news that the expelled Iranian diplomats were given a hero’s welcome on their return to Tehran was just one more element in the ongoing hostage drama as it hit Day 159. Along with chants of “Death To America” was a new
Sticking around the 70s this week with a concert from Deep Purple – recorded on January 26, 1976 at the Springfield Civic Center in Springfield Massachusetts. For fans of Deep Purple, you know all this – but for those who don’t: This concert was recorded during what would be the
In 1949, as The Red Scare was grabbing the minds and nerves of the American people, a concerted effort was taking place to give explanation as to what Soviet Russia was all about and how formidable an enemy the Russian people actually were. Among all the people who sought to
Over to the 2012 Salzburg Festival for a concert featuring the Vienna Philharmonic, led by Valery Gergiev with tenor Sergei Semishkur in Moussorgsky’s Chant ed danses de la mort (Songs and Dances Of Death). Beginning the concert with Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms with the Vienna State Opera Chorus – followed
Three major parties tonight were running a close race for membership of Japan’s 468-seat House of Representatives trailing far behind. Nine women appeared certain of election. Scattered nation-wide results from the first postwar election gave the Social Democratic Party in Japan, 25 seats, the Progressives 24 and the Liberals 23.
