May 30, 1942 – Australia Today – Radio Australia – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News of the South Pacific by way of Radio Australia and the latest reports on the defense of Port Moresby in this edition of Australia Today picked up via shortwave. The Japanese made their first
– NBC News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound collection – May 30, 1941. News for this Memorial day in 1941, and of relative quiet over England, going on 19 days for the 630th day of War. Fighting in the Mediterranean region heated up, forcing British and Greek troops
Self Esteem – in concert at BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend – May 27, 2023 – BBC Radio 1 – Festival season is just getting started – this past weekend it was BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend Festival in Dundee and it was, by all reports, a blow-out. One of
Northwestern Reviewing Stand: Can We Grow Old Gracefully? – July 22, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Growing old gracefully – a question that has plagued every generation that has ever occupied any part of the planet since humans got started. Although most likely Neanderthals didn’t spend much time
CBS World News Roundup – May 29, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Busy day in the world, this May 29th – Cautiously optimistic and warily holding breath at the same time. News on the swearing in of Bishop Abel Muzorewa as Rhodesia’s first Black Head of State –
– Senator John F. Kennedy – Address at VFW Convention, Cobo Hall, Detroit – Aug. 26, 1960 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – John F. Kennedy – giving a speech not only fitting for Memorial day but as a reminder of a world leader who would have turned 108 on
The Noise Who Runs – Takes A Long Cold Look And Then The Kitchen Sink from ‘Preteretrospective’ lp – TNWR Records – 2023 Continuing on the trail for new sounds, tonight it’s a track from the latest album by The Noise Who Runs, Preteretrospective which came out in April of
– Schumann: Genoveva Overture – Hans Pfitzner Conducts The Munich Radio Symphony – Broadcast 1942 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – One of the reasons for this Sunday feature is, not only to shed light on seldom performed pieces of music, but also to shed some light on those artists
Nicholas Johnson – Discussion on the current state of affairs in the Media – March 9, 1973 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Television; the great promise of wonderful things through communication in the late 1940s. By the mid-fifties, a promise largely ignored. By the 1960’s, FCC Chairman Newton Minow
Dexter Gordon – Live at Stiftshof, Ossiach Austria – July 3, 1969 – ORF-Radio 1 – Dexter Gordon this weekend – in concert in Ossiach, Austria on July 3, 1969 and recorded by Austrian Radio. From the early 60s to the mid 1970s, Dexter Gordon migrated to Europe, living mainly
