June 12, 1981 – CBS World News Roundup + Newsbreak + Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 12, 1981 – America‘s Great National Pastime took a vacation this day. With talks between Players and Team Owners breaking down one last time, a strike was called and the
Warsaw – nerves in Poland before May Day. What it was looking like, this last day of April in 1983: From Poland – Police, in Gdansk, summoned three aides of Lech Walesa today, maintaining their pressure on the Solidarity leader on the eve of anti-government demonstrations planned for May Day
Mars Volta to get the Monday lunchroom up and happening. Recorded during the Open’Er Festival in Gdynia, Poland on July7, 2012 and broadcast by Polski Radio. Since putting Mars Volta on hiatus for almost 8 years, Mars Volta is up and running again. That said, we’re diving back to 2012
– CBS Radio Hourly News – December 17, 1981 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Forty-Four years ago on this day, the world was taking a wait-and-see with the goings-on in Poland. Fears of mass demonstrations on the anniversary of the Gdansk Food Riots in 1970 brought a swift preemptive crackdown
– BBC News – Overseas Service – Sept. 19,1939 – Seventeen days into the start of the War in Europe, news of the day was filled with reports of attacks, advances, retreats, threats, addresses, assertions, denials, and casualties. Since the German-Russian alliance, Poland was being assaulted on two fronts. Hitler
– June 16, 1983 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 16, 1983 – News for this day was all about the goings on in Poland. Pope John Paul II arrived in Warsaw to huge crowds and nervous politicians as the Pontif sought to heal
– Foreign Policy Association – December 17, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – In what was considered a strange move and unholy alliance, Germany and Russia signed a non-aggression Pact in 1939, shortly after Germany’s invasion of Poland. The Nazis teaming up with the Communists – an idea that
– September 5, 1981 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News from Gdansk today, as the Solidarity labor Movement held its first Congress in Gdansk, while the Soviet Union was staging military maneuvers nearby. It was a bold and defiant move on the parts of
Become a subscriber: Become a Patron! – CBS Radio – The World This Week – ending March 22, 1981 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 22, 1981 – Ending a week of turmoil and uncertainty. The situation in El Salvador, the drumbeat of war and the fear of another
Can we get a bit of love? Tiny bit? – Become a Patron! – January 12, 1982 – CBS Radio News on The Hour – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 12, 1982 – The situation in Poland was escalating into a war of words, with the Reagan administration threatening
