– Newsfront – The Future of Cable TV – Dec. 16, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Difficult to imagine now, but in 1968 there was talk about Cable TV coming into our lives – and we weren’t quite sure why. Cable TV had been around for a while;
– June 9, 1940 – WJR A Reporter Speaks: News With Jack King – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 9,1940 – news for this day in history was about the war in Europe and German advances into France, with reports of some 2 million troops massed along a 160
Shed Seven – In Session at BBC Radio 1 – 1994 – BBC Radio 1 – Shed Seven to drag us into the weekend. One of the criminally overlooked and underrated bands of the Post-Smiths/Britpop era, Shed Seven never got the mainstream attention peers like Oasis and Blur got, but
– CBS News – June 8, 1978 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – This day in 1978 was an interesting one if you lived in California. The Jarvis-Gann Initiative, or Prop 13 was passed by a landslide vote in the off-year elections. The tax initiative, which froze property taxes and
Martha Argerich Project – with Gautier Capuçon, cello, Gabrielle Balducci, piano, Akané Sakai, piano -Lily, Mischa, Sasha Maisky – Alexander Gurning, piano – Jura Margulis, piano – 2011 Lugano – broadcast live – June 22, 2011 – RSI/Radio France – This is a lovely concert. Pure music-making at its absolute
– June 7, 1950 – Report From Tokyo – Robert Martin, CBS News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 7, 1950 – Coming up on 5 years since American forces began occupying Japan. Five years since Gen. MacArthur took charge of the revamping and reconstruction of Japan – reshaped
– Forever Pavot – In Session for RFI, Paris – February 14, 2023 – Radio France = To Paris tonight for a session by Forever Pavot, recorded at RFI on February 14, 2023 for La Pop Fantasmagorique. For a little background, we consulted the Parisian Born Bad Records bio on
The Role Of The Press – BBC World Service: London Forum – November 20, 1950 – BBC Radio – The Press – bearers of tiding and information – purveyors of impartiality and witness. Well . . .that was the 1950s and earlier, much earlier for that matter. The press of
