"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
November 15, 1947 – An approaching Winter and a time of much discontent in the Postwar world. The slow rebuilding of Europe was complicated by mass flooding which wiped out crops and added a severe food shortage to the already…
– The Voices Of World War 1 – 1914-1918 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Originally known as Armistice Day, and in England it’s still known as Remembrance Day, Veteran’s Day (as it’s now known here) came about as the…
– NBC Radio – Story Behind The Headlines – Palestine – 1948 – With the current escalation of violence over Gaza, casualties rising by the minute and a ground war underway, here’s a reminder that the entire region has been…
– Dimitri Mitropoulos and The N.Y. Phil – Perpessa: Christus Symphony – Dec. 10, 1950 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Dimitri Mitropoulos leads the New York Philharmonic this week in the Radio premier of a new work by Greek…
– CBS Radio – Edward R. Murrow News With Don Hollenbeck – July 10, 1951 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – July 10, 1951 was an interesting day – not so much for what it represented in the present,…
NBC News Of The World – April 17, 1941 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News from London this day. Touted as a “reprisal attack” by Germany for Britain’s raid on Berlin and Potsdam a few days earlier, the Luftwaffe…
Eighty-two years ago today, President Franklin Roosevelt delivered the annual State Of The Union Address which has become known as The Four Freedoms Address. FDR: “In the future days, which we seek to make secure, we look forward to a…
November 9, 1941 – War News Roundup – NBC Blue Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – November 9, 1941 – Two years into the War in Europe, the boasts that Germany would see an end to fighting and be…
News from Berlin Radio, EIAR, Rome – Paris Radio -Commentary from Radio Berlin – August 30, 1939 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – As all hopes were pinned on a response to an eleventh hour appeal from Prime Minister Chamberlain…
News reports via Mutual Broadcasting System – December 7, 1941 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection Seventy-two years on, the event which triggered our involvement in World War 2 is getting further and further from the collective memory. Much the same…