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August 24, 1939 – BBC Radio Home Service – News Reports – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 24, 1939 – With War in Europe only days away from breaking out, events leading up to that ominous moment become clearer in retrospect. On this day, reactions over the signing of...
August 22, 2002 – BBC World Service – World Report – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 22, 2002 – another report of another hostage situation by another terrorist group and another announcement of a beheading. 2002 had no shortage of terrorist organizations around the world. This one, allegedly funded...
August 2-6, 1939 – News/commentary from Radio Berlin – BBC, London – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 2-6, 1939 – days when tensions between Germany and Poland were heating up over the city of Danzig (now Gdasnk). The issue was one where Germany claimed Danzig was theirs and Poland...
September 27-30,1938 – BBC Home Service – NBC Radio Blue Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The recent world developments have brought a plethora of speculation and comparisons. One that stands out is a series of events which took place in 1938, some 80 years ago, between then-Czechoslovakia, France,...
June 11, 1940 – News Of The World – NBC Blue Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 11, 1940 – A fast moving day in the war. With German armies some 40 miles outside of Paris, and attacking French ports up and down the coast, visions of 1914...
L7 – In Concert From Norwich Waterfront, UK – April 25, 1992 – BBC Radio 1 – In concert L7 to end up our week of Riot Grrrl and Riot Grrl/Grunge/Indie bands from the 90s that brought Women to center stage and who pioneered a new course in Pop music....
March 23, 1941 -News Of The World: Sunday Edition – NBC Blue Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 23, 1941 – An ominous day if you lived in the Balkans. Today was the day Demonstrations took over towns and cities all across Yugoslavia, protesting what was looking very...
March 15, 1939 – Washington Roundup with Theodore A. Huntley – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 15, 1939 – In a move that brought a European War inches closer, the Nazi government of Adolf Hitler announced it had taken over the Moravian and Bohemian zones of Czechoslovakia – and...
1940 Olympic Boycott question – H.W. van Loon – January 21, 1938 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As it came to pass, the 1940 Summer Olympic Games in Tokyo never materialized. In fact, the Olympic Winter and Summer games wouldn’t be held again until 1948, after World War 2...
Prime Minister Edouard Daladier – Address to France – December 1, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – December 1, 1939 – With the war in Europe four months old, and the threat of an invasion of France becoming more inevitable each day, French Prime Minister Edouard Daladier went before...
