"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
BBC News – August 31, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Despite opinion in some circles that war could be avoided, preparations were put in high gear for what was the inevitable. Here is the 5:30 pm newscast from…
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”4344″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”August 23, 1951 – Edward R. Murrow News With Don Hollenbeck- CBS – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] While Truce talks were stalling Korea, sabers were rattling in Iran, this August 23rd in 1951. With…
[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”4036″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”August 1, 1965 – NBC – Meet The Press – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Sen. John Stennis – Meet The Press – Aug. 1, 1965 With our involvement in Vietnam amping up by the…
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President Eisenhower Korean War Armistice announcement – July 26, 1953 After three years of fighting and two years of attempts at a peace settlement, an Armistice had finally been reached ending the War in Korea. Announced by President Eisenhower, the…
Duke Ellington Live at Basin Street – 1956 Another installment of our weekly Past Daily Downbeat series – this time its over to Basin Street in New York for this CBS Radio broadcast of Duke Ellington and His Famous Orchestra…
All Star Parade of Bands – George Shearing – 1953 Over to The Blue Note club in Chicago for this installment of the weekend Downbeat. George Shearing and his Quintet, recorded and broadcast by NBC Radio on July 11, 1953.…
Newsfront – Cesar Chavez – May 17 1968 – As a reminder today of just who Cesar Chavez was and what he stood for, here is an interview with Chavez from May 17, 1968, at the height of the Grape…
As a reminder of the protests, the struggle and the message on this International Women’s Day, Here is an excerpt of the Women’s March in New York City, as relayed by WBAI and its day-long live broadcast on August 26,…
To the heavy, cumbersome, oversized and thoroughly enjoyable BBC Transcriptions this week for a concert by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra led by the legendary and amiable Sir Thomas Beecham in an all-Mozart program, recorded on April 28, 1947. Starting off…