"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
November 30, 1978 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 30, 1978 – The end of a long and painful week for the city of San Francisco. First came the mass suicide of People’s Temple members in Jonestown Guiana, many of whom were San Francisco...
November 29, 1999 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 29, 1999 – While Christmas Season officially got underway – and malls bulged at the seams with shoppers and retailers dreamed of cash piled up like snowdrifts, the scene in Seattle was painted in a...
Orquesta Nacionales de España, cond by Josep Pons – In Concert live – April 3, 2011 – RNE Madrid – Turning to performances of a more recent vintage this week (i.e. we’re taking a small detour out of the 70s and 80s for a couple weeks), a performance by Orquesta...
November 28, 1997 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 28, 1997 – It was a Friday, 21 years ago – and because it was the day after Thanksgiving in 1997, that meant it was the infamous Black Friday – a name which had its...
Mogwai In session – August 23, 1998 – John Peel – broadcast September 1, 1998 – BBC Radio 1 – Mogwai in session tonight – from 1998 and for BBC Radio 1, recorded on August 23, 1998. Mogwai are a Scottish post-rock band, formed in 1995 in Glasgow. The band...
KPFA Evening News – Special Report – November 27, 1978 – KPFA/KPFB – Pacifica Network – November 27, 1978 – 40 years ago today, an act of jealousy and hatred changed the face of a city. The Moscone–Milk assassinations were the killings of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and San...
November 27, 1994 – ABC World News This Week – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 27, 1994 – The end of a chaotic week in 1994. News from the never-ending crisis in the Balkans had NATO airstrikes hitting Bosnian Serb targets in retaliation for attacks on NATO forces in...
November 26, 2005 – CBS Weekend Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 26, 2005 – The Thanksgiving holiday weekend – but not much of a holiday, especially if you were a GM worker, as you most likely got the news that you and some 30,000 others were losing...
Maurice Jaubert – Jeanne d’Arc (1937) : symphonie concertante for soli, choir and orchestra – Jacqueline Brumaire, Soprano – French National Orchestra – Jean Martinon, conductor – 1952 Concert performance. Continuing our seemingly endless archeological dig through the vault and unearthing broadcasts of rarities – here’s another one which should...
Arthur Knight in conversation with René Clair – Recorded November 22, 1958 – WNYC-FM – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The history of Cinema is a long one – when you think about the technical advances, the changes in style, the milestones that paved the way for new voices and...
