"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
Paul Badura-Skoda – in recital – March 19, 2011 – BNR – Radio Belgium – The legendary Paul Badura-Skoda in recital tonight. Recorded at Theatre Hall de Ruse on March 19, 2011 by Belgian National Radio and broadcast by Radio Nacional España short after. Here are the notes from Radio...
March 31, 1979 – Continuous news reports – CBS Radio News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 31, 1979 – All eyes on an otherwise obscure community near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania where the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant facility was in danger of melting down, potentially turning disaster into...
News for this last day of March in 1990 had much to do with the rapidly-becoming-former Soviet Union. March 1990 was Lithuania’s turn – a move was underway to break with the Soviet Union and become an independent nation no longer under the influence of Moscow. Despite repeated warnings from...
March 30, 1942 – Roundup Of War News – NBC Blue Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 30, 1942. In sharp contrast to news broadcasts via Shortwave from Japanese and German sources, the news coming from America was considerably more upbeat and aimed at maintaining high morale in...
A busy and “interesting” news day, this March 30th in 1948. Starting with news on the upcoming elections in Italy, which were awash in violence and fears of a Communist sweep. Riots claimed 6 persons in the last two days and it was enough to call together the parties and...
March 30, 1981 – Starting off normal, unremarkable in so many ways – but by mid-morning East Coast time, pandemonium had broken out. President Reagan, on his way out of the Washington Hilton, where he had just finished delivering an address to a group of trade unionists at the AFofL/CIO...
Chumbawamba – live at Glastonbury 1994 – Recorded June 26, 1994 – BBC Radio 1 – Chumbawamba to start off the week. A little musical anarchy to get things rolling. If you’re scratching your head, wondering who Chumbawamba are (or were, they broke up in 2012) – here’s a rundown...
March 29, 1997 – CBS Radio News On the Hour – KCBS-AM San Francisco – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 29, 1997 – Three days after the discovery of some 39 bodies, neatly laid out in the bedrooms of a 9,000 square foot mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, California,...
Sadly, Supersister was not a very well known band outside of Europe in the 1970s. Aside from a hardcore group of Progressive Rock fans in the U.S., they were virtually unknown on this side of the Atlantic. There could have been a number of reasons for the lack of Stateside...
Another dose of Americana tonight, by way of the venerable Eastman-Rochester Symphony, conducted by none other than Howard Hanson. A recreation of a portion of the first concert given spotlighting new American composers which the Eastman-Rochester Symphony took part in on May 19, 1925. Howard Hanson was an American composer,...
