"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
"Because ignorance of your culture is considered uncool"
– Elsa Barraine – Symphony Nr. 2 – Paris Conservatory Orch. -Cluytens – circa 1953 – ORTF-Paris Radio – Gordon Skene Sound Collection. – Elsa Barraine is a name not heard very much lately. But in the 1930s, all the…
– NBC-Blue Network – News Of The World – NBC Newsroom Of The Air – January 31, 1941 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – News for this January 31st in 1941 was about the War in Europe. Still “the war…
– January 30, 1973 – NBC Nightly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 30, 1973 – a day which would see the last two figures in the Watergate break-in plot were convicted and waiting on sentencing. G. Gordon…
-January 20, 1945 – NBC Radio: War Telescope – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – January 20, 1945. News of sweeping gains by the Russians in the East. Word that the Red Army was some 200 miles outside of Berlin. Advances…
King Michael abdicates – The Story Behind The Headlines – January 4, 1948 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – King Michael I of Romania abdicated his throne on December 30, 1947, and was quickly taken over by a Communist-led regime…
Reconstruction In Postwar Europe – The Story Behind The Headlines – December 28, 1947 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – With the end of World War 2 going on some two years, the job of reconstruction; of building, repairing and…
– News Of The World – November 28, 1942 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – Dramatic news this day in 1942. Word came from Paris via London that the entire French Naval fleet was destroyed in one exploding catastrophe at…
– BBC Empire Service/NBC Shortwave – As I See It – talk by H.G. Wells – Dec. 21, 1937 – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – We know the name H.G. Wells today as the writer of such classics as The…
– News of The World for November 13, 1942 – NBC Blue Network – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – On this day in November of 1942, things were looking up for the Allies. Since the invasion of North Africa on…
October 20, 1957 – NBC Radio News: Algeria Aflame – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – October 20,1957 – The latest in a struggle for independence which began in 1954. The French colonial nation in Africa, part of that growing number…