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Apollinaires In Session – 1982 – Past Daily Soundbooth
Apollinaires – in session for John Peel – rec. July 7, 1982 – broadcast, August 25, 1982 – BBC Radio 1 – Apollinaires to end the week. From their first (and only) session for John Peel, recorded on July 7, 1982 and broadcast August 25 and rebroadcast on September 21,

Why Do People Vote The Way They Do? – 1948 – Past Daily Reference Room
Chicago University Roundtable – Why Do People Vote The Way They Do? – October 10, 1948 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The American voter – probably the largest slice of humanity that is the most unpredictable on earth. Despite every effort at perfecting the poll, every technological advance, every

January 4, 1995 – First Day Of A GOP Congress – The Growing Anti-Yeltsin Movement – Another Shooting in The Name Of “Right To Life”.
January 4, 1995 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 4, 1995 – Big day on Capitol Hill. First day of a new Congress – this time it was the GOP in charge, the first time in 40 years. Newly minted House Speaker Newt Gingrich

Blonde Redhead In Session – 2000 -Past Daily Soundbooth
Blonde Redhead In Session – John Peel – July 18, 2000 – BBC Radio 1 – Blonde Redhead in session for John Peel at BBC Radio 1 tonight. Recorded on June 7, 2000 and broadcast on July 18 of that year. Blonde Redhead is an alternative rock band composed of

January 3, 2006 – A Disaster Called Sago – A Lobbyist Called Abramoff – An Unwelcome Mat Called Egypt
January 3, 2006 – NPR Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 3, 2006 – The Sago Mine disaster was a coal mine explosion on January 2, 2006, at the Sago Mine in Sago, West Virginia, near the Upshur County seat of Buckhannon. The blast and collapse trapped

José Miguel Rodilla And Orquesta Sinfónica de la Región de Murcia Play Music Of Turina And Moreno-Buendia -2009- Past Daily Mid-Week Concert
Miguel José Rodilla and The Orquesta Sinfonica de la Region Murcia – In Concert – Dec. 4, 2009 – Radio Nacional España – Into the realm of the reasonably unfamiliar (at least to some of us) this week. A concert broadcast by Radio Nacional de España on December 4, 2009

New Years Day 2019 – Past Daily State Of The Website – An Occasional Progress Report.
Past Daily: State Of The Website – New Years Day 2019 A new year and the end to a frustrating and exhausting old one. Past Daily heads into our 7th trip around the sun, with no conceivable end in sight and with a lot of plans on the horizon. It’s

January 1, 1979 – An Embassy Opens In Peking – Peking Becomes Beijing – The Rose Parade Celebrates 90 –
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December 31, 1991 – New Years Eve: 1991 – Looking At The Old Year – Cringing At The New One.
December 31, 1991 – NPR: All Things Considered – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 31, 1991 – New Years Eve on a year that saw change, upheaval and unrest. And tucked in there was a modicum of optimism, but if you blinked, you might have missed it. The big