– February 10, 1999 – BBC World Service Newshour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 10, 1999 – A day of International news. From Zimbabwe came news that the government of Robert Mugabe was overruled by the courts over the confiscation of many, but not all farms owned by
– Morrissey -in concert from Santiago Chile – November 4, 2004 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Morrissey to start the week. A concert from Santiago, Chile recorded on November 4, 2004. Widely credited as the seminal figure in the emergence of Brit-pop and the Indie movement of the 1980s,
Another historic rarity (which I am pretty sure has seen the light of day among collectors), featuring the French National Orchestra, recorded on September 22, 1957 during the September Music Festival in Montreux with composer/conductor Paul Hindemith and pianist Clara Haskil in a concert performance of The Four Temperaments. In
When Stereo came into being and every home in America had to have one, one of the most popular items for every budding hi-fi enthusiast to have in their collection for bragging rights was the Sound Effects Record – the one where either a freight train lumbered from your right
– Dexter Gordon Quartet – Live In Paris – Maison de la Radio – Studio 104 – February 9, 1973 – Radio France – Dexter Gordon this weekend. Some weeks ago I ran a concert featuring Wardell Gray, whose Tenor duels with Dexter Gordon in the early 1950s were legendary. This
Another installment of our occasional weekend series of landmark Plays because Theatre is a life-changing experience and good plays suspend time. Tonight it’s Three Sisters by Anton Chekov in a BBC Radio 3 production from March 3, 2016. The cast: Olga … Hattie Morahan Masha … Scarlett Alice Johnson Irina
Creepy, actually. You look at yourself in the mirror – average guy, nothing to write home about – blend into a crowd – B student – doesn’t make waves – homework every night – don’t smoke – don’t drink – gets to bed early. Otherwise, a Boy Scout. So what
Where would Saturday be without a heavy dose of Tame Impala to get the weekend moving? No place on the edge, that’s for sure. This weekend we’re diving back to 2015 to the Splendour In The Grass Festival at Byron Bay in Australia for their first gig back home after
– NBC Radio – Second Sunday: J.Edgar Hoover’s FBI – May, 1971 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Long before the days of Internet spying, domestic surveillance and government intrusion on privacy, we had J.Edgar Hoover. Hoover was the man behind the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and he made is his
On a day where crises were popping up seemingly everywhere, the focus on this February 7th in 1964 was the flare-up of bad relations with Cuba and threats by the Castro regime against our military base at Guantanamo. The flap began over the seizing of four Cuban fishing trawlers off
