– NPR – National Press Club – Senator Harold Hughes: The Nation’s Fight Against Alcoholism – January 26, 1973 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – This week we’ll be celebrating Thanksgiving – the first of the holiday season. To many people it’s a time of renewal, reacquaintance and celebration. To
– CBS World News Roundup – Late Edition – November 24, 1999 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 24th in 1999 was a Wednesday, and the day before Thanksgiving. And so news for this day had much to do with the crush of traffic on highways and to
– José Gonzalez – live at Liseberg, Sweden – September 26, 2015 – Sveriges Radio – Swedish singer-songwriter José Gonzalez was born in Gothenburg – two years after his family fled the military-junta in Argentina and relocated in 1976, José was born. His musical influences are wide-ranging and far-reaching. Aside
– ABC Radio – Pakistan: A Warning To The West – November 23, 1961 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – On this day in 1961, Pakistan was making the news. Not that a crisis had broken out. In fact Pakistani President General Ayub Kahn visited Washington earlier in the year
– BBC World Service – Newshour – November 23, 2000 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As America was knee-deep in Hanging Chads and the controversy surrounding the Presidential election and the vote count, news outlets throughout the rest of the world on this day were weighing in on it
– Claude Arrieu -Duo en quatre movements – Gabrielle Deschain – Leon Lacroix, flutes – 1963 – French Radio – Back over to the French Radio transcriptions this week for a work by Claude Arrieu – Duo en Quatre Movements from this 1963 broadcast recital by Gabrielle Deschain and Léon
– Nina Simone – live in Hamburg – May 6, 1988 – RBBBerlin – It would be limiting of the extraordinary talents of Nina Simone to call her a Jazz artist – just like it would be limiting to call Nina Simone a singer-songwriter. Nina Simone was a gifted and
– Congressman Maury Maverick on Neutrality in America -November 11, 1935 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Even as far back as 1935, with only the beginnings of what would become another World War, there was already resistance to our involvement in anything that didn’t deal with us directly. Taking
– CBS World News Roundup – November 20, 1991 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this day in 1991 had a lot to do with Thomas Sutherland, a professor at the American University in Beirut who had been held hostage somewhere in Beirut since 1985 was finally freed
– Meet The Press – Interview With Habib Bourguiba – May 19, 1968 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Many people, particularly those who aren’t aware of or remember the history or the extent of French influence in Africa and the Middle East, probably wonder why there is
