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Radio Podcast #11 — 1903

MP3 download | Apple | Spotify | Castbox | Stitcher | Radiopublic | RSS Another journey back in time with original recordings from the year 1903. This episode features sounds from as far afield as Tanganyika, Moscow, Kyoto and New York, and songs about cars, ducks, and bread and marmalade. Introduced by James Errington.. Centuries …

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Centuries of Sound on Cambridge 105 Radio — Episode 11 (1903)

Time: 8pm BST, Saturday 22nd June 2019 Place: Cambridge 105fm Another journey back in time with original recordings from the year 1903. This episode features sounds from as far afield as Tanganyika, Moscow, Kyoto and New York, and songs about cars, ducks, and bread and marmalade. Introduced by James Errington. Listen to the show on …

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1903 in Film

…aside from The Great Train Robbery of course. Alice in Wonderland The Gay Show Clerk The Kingdom of the Fairies Life of an American Fireman Momijigari Diving Lucy The Sick Kitten Old London Street Scenes Runaway Match Electrocuting an Elephant The Infernal Cauldron Desperate Poaching Affray Mary Jane’s Mishap The Music Lover A Chess Dispute

First flight

1903 is a marquee year for aviation, mainly because “first flight” sounds much snappier than “first controlled, sustained flight of a powered, heavier-than-air aircraft” – and balloon pioneers are too far back in history to fit in with the age of innovation. All the same, the Wright brothers retain their fascination, their first flight at …

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Bertrand Russell – The Principles of Mathematics

A book in which Bertrand Russell proved, for the first time, that 1 + 1 = 2. …and he’ll still be going, and still be relevant (in quite a different way) in the 60s. Usual high standard for this episode of the BBC’s In Our Time podcast, in which a group of historians discuss his …

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The Iroquois Theater Fire

A bit of a grim story today, though it is perhaps illustrative of the golden age of Vaudeville. Just after Christmas 1903, comedian Eddie Foy was starring in a sold-out matinee performance of a musical comedy, “Mr. Bluebeard,” in Chicago’s prestigious Iroquois Theater. 2000 people, mostly children and their mothers, were crowded into the theatre. …

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Edwin S. Porter – The Great Train Robbery

The revolution in sound recording is obviously the main focus of this site – but as far as a standard history of popular culture is concerned, the 1900s are better-remembered for the beginnings of the film industry – not yet started in Hollywood, but already beginning to differentiate this century from the last. Up to …

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Elsewhere in 1903

Orville Wright flies an aircraft with a petrol engine at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, in the first documented, successful, controlled, powered, heavier-than-air flight The first Tour De France is won by Maurice Garin The first Teddy Bear is created, based on this drawing of Theodore Roosevelt sparing the life of a bear cub American socialite …

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1903

MP3 direct download | Itunes | Mixcloud | Feedburner (RSS) | MP3 pack   “Under it all there’s a sort of strong, dark pulsing, the dimly recorded echo of the thundering rhythm: trombones, sousaphones (named after your man, of course), drums. The dynamics build to a controlled climax, the sound getting heavier and heavier as …

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