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April 11, 1996 – NPR News – All Things Considered – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 11, 1996. News from Jordan Montana where two wanted members of the anti-government group known as The Freemen gave themselves up at a farm to Federal Agents. 23-year old Ebert Stanton and his...
April 9, 2001 – The CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 9, 2001 – The Hainan incident and diplomacy in overdrive. Relations between the U.S. and China were strained to the breaking point over an incident which took place only days earlier. The Hainan Island...
Senator Peter H. Dominick – NBC Radio: Meet The Press – April 2, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 2, 1967 – The war in Vietnam was grinding on – almost three years since the infamous Gulf of Tonkin, but a year before the 1968 elections. Turning point...
John Grant – live at BBC 6 Music Festival, Liverpool – March 29, 2019 – BBC 6 Music – John Grant in concert from this past weekend in Liverpool to start the week. I know people say the first big festival of the year is supposed to be SXSW (although...
London Letter – Essay By John Connell – April 6, 1949 – BBC Radio North America Service – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The lure of the Travel Poster of the 20th century – for Americans it was sun-washed depictions of the Southwest; the sun-and-fun lifestyle so far removed from...
She Drew The Gun – live At 6 Music Festival, Liverpool – March 29, 2019 – BBC 6 Music – She Drew The Gun, kicking off the BBC 6 Music Festival in Liverpool just a few hours ago with a killer set and an amazing start to what is shaping...
Tim Hardin with The Spike Heatley Quinet – in Session for John Peel – July 15, 1968 – broadcast July 28, 1968 – BBC Radio 1 – Tim Hardin in session for John Peel, backed by The Spike Heatly Quintet, recorded for BBC Radio 1 on July 15, 1968 and...
Anastasio Somoza on Meet The Press – April 16, 1967 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Anastasio “Tachito” Somoza DeBayle; 5 December 1925 – 17 September 1980) was a Nicaraguan dictator and officially the President of Nicaragua from 1 May 1967 to 1 May 1972 and from 1 December 1974...
KFRC – Rick Shaw Show – Fall 1981 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The 70s are over and MTV is just getting started. Your radio is more lively than usual. Disco has drifted off into the Sunset and Springsteen is the must-listen-to artist now. You never really got into...
BBC World Service – London Letter – March 23, 1949 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 2, 1949 was a significant day if you were a Londoner. Difficult to imagine, but London had been under black-out/dim-out conditions since September 1939 – almost ten years, almost five since the war...
