Category: World War 2
May 7, 1945 – VE Day And Mixed Signals
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April 5, 1941 – War In Europe: Good News From Cairo – Bad News From Yugoslavia
April 5, 1941 – NBC News Of The World -Special Report on Yugoslavia – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 5, 1941 – News of the war in Europe was making the headlines – with both good news and ominous news in equal measure. In a dispatch from Cairo which
April 3, 1947 – Moscow Calling – The World As Viewed From Red Square
April 3, 1947 – Radio Moscow – News and Commentary – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – April 3, 1947 – And while we were hearing about Mine safety and disasters from John L. Lewis, if we had Shortwave radios, we were hearing the daily news and commentary from Radio Moscow.
March 15, 1939 – About Ruthenia – Parcelling Off Czechoslovakia
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Music Of Maurice Blackburn – Canadian Composers In Wartime – 1944 – Past Daily Weekend Gramophone
Maurice Blackburn: Charpente: Canadian Forest – 1944 – CBC Symphony – Jean-Maurice Beaudet, cond. – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The music of Canadian composer Maurice Blackburn in this premier performance of his Charpente: Canadian Forest, written in 1944 and featuring the CBC Symphony of Montreal, conducted by Jean-Maurice Beaudet.
January 1940 – The Matter Of Leslie Hore-Belisha – Past Daily Reference Room
January 1940 – BBC Home Service – Hore-Belisha resignation – Chamberlain reaction – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – The name Leslie Hore-Belisha may not ring many bells in reference to the history of World War 2, aside from being associated with traffic lights at British Pedestrian crossings (the Belisha Beacon),