March 23, 2001 – Farewell Mir
March 23, 2001 – BBC News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 23, 2001 – The end of the Mir Space Station. Launched by the then-Soviet Union in 1986, Mir was the first modular Space Station, assembled between…
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Past Daily: A Sound Archive of News, History, Music
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
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March 23, 1985 – Enflamed Political Passion Of The Apartheid Kind
March 23, 1985 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 23, 1985 – a day where violence and passions ran high in South Africa over the killings of 18 Black Anti-Apartheid protestors. The trouble started…
Past Daily Spring Fundraiser 2016 – Communiqué 1
Past Daily 2016 Spring Fundraiser – Communiqué Number 1 We’re gearing up for our annual months worth of pitching, pleading and asking. We only do it because, a couple times a year, we need to raise enough money to keep…
Shop Assistants – In Session – 1986 – Past Daily Soundbooth
Shop Assistants – John Peel Session – December 8, 1986 – BBC Radio 1 – Shop Assistants tonight. A band sometimes described as “one hit wonders”, they actually had more than one hit. But it was after they signed to…
March 21, 1976 – Life Without Wilson
March 21, 1976 – The World This Week – CBS News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 21, 1976 – Ending a week of political uncertainty in Britain. Prime Minister Harold Wilson in a surprise announcement, offered his…
March 21, 1948 – Italy Gets Ready To Vote
March 21, 1948 – Italian Elections – Clifton Utley Commentaries – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 21, 1948 – News from Europe on this day. The elections in Italy were heating up and all eyes were on Rome to…
Raymond Trouard Plays Fauré – 1963 – Past Daily Weekend Gramophone
Raymond Trouard – Fauré – Theme And Variations – ORTF, Paris 1963 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Raymond Trouard, a name which may not ring many bells unless you are a serious piano student, and more specifically, a student…
Sonny Rollins Trio – Live In Zurich 1959 – Past Daily Downbeat
Sonny Rollins Trio – live in session, Zurich – March 5, 1959 – RTS, Switzerland – Sonny Rollins Trio this week. During one of his many European tours in the 1050s, Rollins is joined by Henry Grimes on bass and…
Radiohead – In Session 1995 – Past Daily Soundbooth
Radiohead – BBC Sessions – 1995 – BBC Radio 1 – Radiohead, and some BBC sessions recorded in 1995. As you probably know by now, Radiohead are embarking on their first worldwide tour in some four years. Not only is…
Spanish Civil War – 1937 – Past Daily Reference Room
Spanish Civil War – eyewitness Accounts – Society Of Newspaper Editors – April 17, 1937 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Spanish Civil War – the years 1936-1939 saw some of the worst devastation, division and bloodshed since the World…