From CBC 1 this December 17, 2007. The program Dispatches taking a look as how the world was fairing on this December day. Starting with news from Cape Town South Africa where the DNC, ruling party for the previous 16 years was, despite outwards signs all was well was showing
Belly – One of the bands who helped put the 90s on the map. Belly for lunch this Wednesday – recorded for WGBH in Boston at The Fraser Performance Studio on October 2, 2018. Certainly, one of those bands who put the 90s squarely on the map for me –
– CBS Radio Hourly News – December 17, 1981 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Forty-Four years ago on this day, the world was taking a wait-and-see with the goings-on in Poland. Fears of mass demonstrations on the anniversary of the Gdansk Food Riots in 1970 brought a swift preemptive crackdown
Hatfield And The North – BBC Session – John Peel – March 19, 1974 – BBC Radio 1 Further evidence the 70s produced a wide array of music which is still being discovered 40 years later. Tonight it’s another band from the legendary Canterbury scene of the late 1960s/early 1970s.
CBS Radio – Time Of Reason – August 31, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Europe in the midst of reconstruction and rejuvenation. Two years after the end of World War 2, a devastated Europe struggled to get back on its feet. Food was scarce, the infrastructure was
Joe Ely (1947-2025) One of the leading figures in Roots Rock and Country Prog. Joe Ely in tribute today. He passed away yesterday from Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia at 78. Joe Ely was a leading light in the Texas Progressive Country movement and enjoyed a genre-crossing career, performing
December 16, 1992 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 16, 1992 – The view from Somalia. As US troops landed in the war-torn town of Baidoa, and together with UN Peacekeepers began the process of delivering food supplies to starving locals. Fears of resistance
Nixon And Watergate – Group W Broadcasting – January 1975 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Richard Nixon and the Watergate scandal. The scandal which led to an impeachment and the impeachment which led to a resignation. Beginning as a seemingly bungled attempt at breaking into the Democratic National Committee’s
The Clash – the only band that mattered. The Clash to get Monday rolling – recorded live at Shea Stadium on October 13, 1982 and broadcast on December 31st by NBC Radio’s The Source. Along with The Sex Pistols and The Damned, The Clash were some of the first examples
Leon Russell – Slipping Into Christmas – 1972 Leon Russell tonight. Okay – it’s that time of year again. And you are probably getting bombarded by Christmas music. Well . . .maybe not getting bombarded by the right kind of Christmas music. Like last year at my old site, I’ll
