Category Social Commentary

Working Week

Working Week – Live At Glastonbury 1985 – Past Daily Soundbooth

– Working Week – live at Glastonbury 1985 – BBC Radio 1- Working Week tonight. From their concert at Glastonbury in 1985, recorded by the ever-present-always-amazing BBC Radio 1. Working Week were one of the first British Jazz/Pop/Funk/New Wave conglomerations…

Vietnam

Vietnam War – School Busing – “. . . And Somewhere A Tribe Of Gentle People”- April 11, 1972

– News – April 11, 1972 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this April 11th in 1972 was, by admission of the newscaster on this broadcast; busy. First was news regarding the ongoing war in Vietnam. The North…

Investigating Three Mile Island: Faulty Gauges – Faulty Logic – April 10, 1979

– CBS World News Roundup – April 10, 1979 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Another interesting news day, this April 10th in 1979. Starting with an investigation of Nuclear Power Plants, based on the recent disaster at Three Mile…

Yugoslavia And Greece: Next On The List – April 6, 1941

Blue Network – Our Foreign Policy – April 6, 1941 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With the sudden turn of events in the Balkans, Germany had now opened an Eastern Front. While this broadcast was on the air, Germany…

March 29, 1953

Cold War Muckraking – Korea – The Kremlin And Frank Costello – March 29, 1953

March 29, 1953 – ABC Radio – Drew Pearson News and Commentary – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 29, 1953 – An otherwise typical Cold War day in March – news regarding surprise moves from the Kremlin regarding the…

3-Mile Island: “Everything’s Fine – Nothing To See – Just Keep Moving” – March 28, 1979

The true seriousness of the day wasn’t really known for almost 24 hours after the initial event occurred. The Nuclear Power Plant accident at 3-Mile Island on March 28, 1979 began at 4:00 in the morning and almost instantly there…

‘Hungary Calling’ – Land Grabs And Storm Clouds – March 21, 1939

– English News From Radio Budapest, Hungary – March 21, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. – As the storm clouds rapidly gathered in Europe, the situation in the East was quickly developing into a hotspot. The question of Hungary…

March 17, 1942

Yanks In Oz – Bombs On Rhodes – Worries About Tires – Enter: The Draft – March 17, 1942 –

– March 17, 1942 – News Of The World – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – March 17, 1942 – War in the Pacific is ramping up. U.S. troops arrive on Australian soil, amid fears an invasion by Japan is imminent.…