Category: Society
A Question Of Amnesty – A Subject Of Conscience – 1974 – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room
Coffee works too: Become a Patron! – ABC News Inquiry – Amnesty: Can you go home again? – April 24, 1974 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The only thing more contentious about our involvement in the Vietnam War was the subject of those who refused to get involved in
Bob Dylan – Live In Manchester 1965 – Past Daily Saturday Soundbooth
Coffee works wonders: – Bob Dylan – Live At Free Trade Hall, Manchester – May 7, 1965 – Soundboard Recording – Pivotal year, 1965. After the initial wave of bands from Britain had flooded the U.S., and as America jolted itself out of the musical doldrums, the next phase; the
Congo In Crisis – UN Security Council – February 15, 1961
It works, it really does: Become a Patron! – February 15, 1961 – UN Security Council Emergency Session – Situation in The Congo – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – February 15, 1961. It was becoming a familiar sight – the Independence movement taking place all across Africa in the 1960s
Economy In Downturn – Leaving Phnom Penh – Crisis In Cyprus – February 14, 1975
Works wonders: Become a Patron! – News for February 14, 1975 – News for this Valentine’s Day in 1975 was anything but heart-warming. It was all about the Recession. It was about unemployment and it was about bleak economic figures. And those figures were just not getting any better. And
Lush – Reading Festival 1994 – Past Daily Morning Soundbooth
– Lush – Live at Reading Festival – August 26, 1994 – BBC Radio 1 This morning, one of those bands without whom the 90s would have been just another stretch of ten years, broken up by periods of sleeping and waiting. Lush were a perennial favorite of mine ever
New Technology 1973 – Communications And People – Past Daily After Hours Reference Room
You know you want to: Become a Patron! – CBC Radio: Toward A New Humanism – Episode 13: New Technology; a look ahead – 1973 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – 51 years ago. Talk about computers and a new form of communication – of exchanging ideas and data between
February 12, 2002 – A Heightened State Of Alert – An Enron State Of Mind
News for this day in history – click on the link at the Past Daily site and be reminded that nothing changes if nothing changes.
Norman Mailer Has A Word Or Two About Conventions In 1968 – Past Daily Weekend Gallimaufry
Subscribe so we can breathe and flourish (or something like that): Become a Patron! – Norman Mailer – interview on Book Beat – January 15, 1969 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Norman Mailer was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film-maker, actor, and political activist. His novel The Naked
Split Enz – Pinkpop Festival – 1980 – Past Daily Weekend Soundbooth
Coffee would be nice: One of my favorite, and arguably most underrated bands of the 70’s and early 80’s. Split Enz were amazing to see live.I remember their first tour of the U.S., promoting the release of “Mental Notes” (which was called “Second Thoughts” in New Zealand and Australia). They