"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Radio Moscow-CBS Radio – Broadcast from Moscow celebrating first Soviet Arctic Expedition to establish a drifting research station – March 23, 1938 – The crew of the first polar research station North Pole 1 consisted of four people: head of the expedition Ivan Papanin, hydrobiologist and oceanologist Pyotr Shirshov, astronomer...
The Deep River Boys – In Session for Lang-Worth Transcription Service -circa 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Something different to end the weekend; a series of radio recordings made by The Deep River Boys for the Lang-Worth Transcription Company, circa 1939. The Deep River Boys left a legacy...
Kent Kennan – Night Soliloquy – Howard Hanson and The Eastman-Rochester Symphony – RCA Victor Set – M-608 Music of Kent Kennan this weekend. As promised, a continuation of music from the RCA Victor set American Music For Orchestra (M-608) from 1938. This piece begins the set and is on...
George W. Chadwick – Jubilee – Howard Hanson, Eastman-Rochester Symphony – From Victor Set M-608 – 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – George W. Chadwick this weekend. Continuing with more selections from the landmark American Music For Orchestra set of 78 rpm discs (M-608) for RCA-Victor, featuring The Eastman-Rochester...
John Knowles Paine – Overture to Oedipus Tyrannus – Eastman-Rochester Symphony conducted by Howard Hanson – from the album American Music For Orchestra – RCA Victor -M-608 – Recorded circa 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Taking a small side-step from our usual broadcasts this Sunday, this one comes...
NBC Blue Network – The Magic Key – Grace Moore – Byron Janis and many others – Feb. 12, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another installment of The Magic Key this weekend. featuring the celebrated Soprano, Grace Moore as well as a 10 year old Piano Prodigy Byron...
Kirsten Flagstad, John McCormack, Frank Black and many more – RCA Magic Key Program – Dec, 27, 1936 – NBC Blue Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. More Magic Key this week. This one, a broadcast from December 27, 1936 features the usual all-star cast – primarily artists for RCA...
Nostalgia For The 1930s – Open Mind Program – January 31, 1962 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Feeling a sense of nostalgia for a decade other than the one you are currently in is a pretty common feeling. Usually the decade in question is often the one a person...
Mother Was A Blackshirt – BBC Radio 4 – January 4, 2010 – BBC Radio 4 – Mother Was A Blackshirt was a documentary produced by BBC Radio 4 in 2010. It tackled the almost totally overlooked role of Women in the British Fascist movement of the 1930s, but how...
The White House Coup Of 1934 – BBC Radio 4 Documentary – September 21, 2008 – BBC Radio 4 – The White House Coup of 1934, or The Business Plot as it’s been referred to over the years. The Business Plot was an alleged political conspiracy in 1933 in the...
