More time travel to the earliest days of recorded sound with James Errington, this time joined by Cambridge 105’s own Dave Hammond. This time we go back to 1909 to hear novelty songs about moon-orbiting aeroplanes and juvenile smoking, wildly unpredictable vaudeville routines, “authentic” black music from the deep south played by a former plantation …
Time: 8pm GMT, Saturday 7th December 2019 Place: Cambridge 105fm More time travel to the earliest days of recorded sound with James Errington, this time joined by Cambridge 105’s own Dave Hammond. This time we go back to 1909 to hear novelty songs about moon-orbiting aeroplanes and juvenile smoking, wildly unpredictable vaudeville routines, “authentic” black …
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Zinaida Serebriakova — At the Dressing-Table: Self-portrait Ambrose McEvoy — Euphemia Anna Archer – The Artist’s Mother Ane Hedvig Brøndum in the Blue Room Henri Matisse — The Conversation Giacomo Balla — Street Light George Bellows – Blue Morning Pablo Picasso – Brick Factory at Tortosa Henri Rousseau – The Banks of the Bièvre near …
Princess Nicotine; or, The Smoke Fairy Les Joyeux microbes A Trap For Santa Le Locataire diabolique The Sealed Room The Cowboy Millionaire Teddy Roosevelt in Africa Fools of Fate La Papillon Fantastique Mr Flip The Red Man’s View The Airship Destroyer The Hessian Renegades Oliver Twist The Doctor’s Secret The Golden Louis A Midsummer Night’s …
The true pioneering heroes of the Edwardian Era were not The Wright Brothers, Thomas Edison or Henry Ford. This supposedly tranquil time was in truth the most turbulent age of social activism between the Civil War and the 1960s, and naturally the real drivers of this new “Progressive” age were less likely to be old, …
You may already have heard the inception myth of the teddy bear. Teddy Roosevelt, the definitive POTUS and all round man’s man, out on one of his regular hunting trips, refuses to kill a female bear as it has a young cub. A political cartoonist uses the story to illustrate Roosevelt’s humanity and sense of …
January 6 – The Great White Fleet, consisting of 16 U.S. Navy battleships sailing the globe in a display of American naval power, successfully completed its passage through the Suez Canal, passing from the Indian Ocean into the Mediterranean Sea January 9 — The British Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole, led by Ernest Shackleton, …
MP3 direct download | Itunes | Mixcloud | Feedburner (RSS) | MP3 pack Many people have observed that as we get older, time seems to pass more quickly – and it seems natural to apply this to civilization in general. But while it’s true that technology has had some disorientating lurches forward over the last …
