"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
News for week ending July 8, 1979 – CBS The World This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for the week ending on this July 8th in 1979 had a lot to do with the Middle East (surprise).…
– BBC Radio 4/5 Live – July 5, 2005 – reports/bulletins – BBC Radio – Terror visited London, this July 7th in 2005. At first, sketchy reports and tentative explanations of “huge power surges”. But as news emerged by eyewitnesses…
– NBC News – June 29, 1970 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day in 1970 had a lot to do with the promised withdrawal from Cambodia, two months after invading and setting off a domestic firestorm…
– June 28, 1947 – World News Roundup With John Cameron Swayze – NBC Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for June 28, 1947 had a lot to do with the labor issue. The pending Taft-Hartley bill was…
– CBS Radio News Update on Korean Crisis – June 27, 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As the hours ticked by, after the initial reports of a “we’re not playing around” invasion of South Korea by North Korea,…
Part 1: Part 2: While the landmark Supreme Court decision was being handed down regarding same sex marriage this day in 2015, here’s a reminder of just how far we’ve come as a society from where we were 52 years…
The Adverts – In session for John Peel – August 23, 1977 – BBC Radio 1 – The Adverts in session for John Peel tonight. Together only 3 years, but were the first Punk band to enjoy chart success…
Report From The San Francisco Conference – June 16, 1945 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. With the San Francisco Conference just days away from closing, a charter was being drawn up for adoption, a new name was given and…
– Francoise Hardy – Radio Performance from l’Olympia – August 1, 1965 – ORTF, Paris – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The only problem with the British Invasion of the mid-1960s was that it overshadowed just about everything else that…
This day in 1942 was all about a world caught up in war. Fighting seemingly everywhere. News of a German offensive going on in the Libyan Desert near Tobruk. Hints of a major Western Front looming as U.S. troops landed…