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Radio Podcast #6 — 1896 to 1897

MP3 download | Apple | Spotify | Castbox | Stitcher | Radiopublic | RSS James and Sean use their audio archeology skills to take you on another time travel adventure with original recordings from the distant past. This time we visit 1896 and 1897, hear the birth pangs of something not yet called ragtime, find …

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Centuries of Sound on Cambridge 105 Radio — Episode 6 (1896-1897)

James and Sean use their audio archeology skills to take you on another time travel adventure with original recordings from the distant past. This time we visit 1896 and 1897, hear the birth pangs of something not yet called ragtime, find out the true origins of ‘The Laughing Policeman’ and hear some jokes so rude …

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1896 in Film

Aside from The Kiss, this year we have some genuinely amazing work from Georges Méliès – real one-minute horror and fantasy films, a huge leap forward for the artform. The Haunted Castle (Le Manoir du diable) The Kiss Le Cauchemar (A Nightmare) Snowball Fight McKinley at Home, Canton, Ohio   Blackfriars Bridge Lion, London Zoological …

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1896 in Art

Lovis Corinth — Self-portrait with Skeleton Edvard Munch – The Sick Child Viktor Vasnetsov – Birds of Joy and Sorrow Jean-Léon Gérôme – Truth Coming Out of Her Well, Armed with Her Martinet to Chastise Mankind Paul Gauguin – Self-portrait ‘près du Golgotha’ Arturo Michelena — Miranda en la Carraca Hugo Simberg — The Garden …

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A. E. Housman – A Shropshire Lad

Into my heart an air that kills From yon far country blows: What are those blue remembered hills, What spires, what farms are those? That is the land of lost content, I see it shining plain, The happy highways where I went And cannot come again. Raised in Worcestershire and finding myself eventually settled in …

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H. G. Wells — The Island of Doctor Moreau

Probably the least well-remembered of Wells’s three groundbreaking science fiction works of the late 1890s, The Island of Doctor Moreau has suffered even more then The Time Machine from a series of poor quality adaptations, and an odd sort of uncertainty of what the point of the story is. Whether you view the book as …

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Elsewhere in 1896

Firsts The first modern Olympic Games takes place, Blackpool Pleasure Beach opens, X-rays are discovered, La bohème premiers, Henry Ford builds The Ford Quadricycle, his first vehicle, there is the world’s first motoring fatality, the first speeding fine and the first study of the sensitivity of global climate to atmospheric carbon dioxide. American Politics William …

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