Time: 8pm GMT, Saturday 4th January 2020 Place: Cambridge 105fm Back for the new decade, that decade being the 1910s, audio historian James Errington returns for a deep dive into the sounds of 110 years ago. This time we’re joined by Cambridge 105’s own George Kirkman to listen to some ragtime frolics, eccentricities, proto-barbershop, proto-gospel …
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Georgia O’Keeffe – Blue and Green Music Edward Wadsworth — Dazzle-ships in Drydock at Liverpool Colin Gill – Heavy Artillery Paul Nash — The Menin Road Henry Lamb — Irish troops in the Judean hills surprised by a Turkish bombardment John Singer Sargent — Gassed Max Beckmann — The Night Stanley Spencer — Travoys with …
Madame DuBarry The Tantalizing Fly The Oyster Princess From Hand to Mouth Sunnyside Yankee Doodle in Berlin J’accuse False Faces The Grim Game The Hayseed Different From The Others A Day’s Pleasure Male and Female When the Clouds Roll By Captain Kidd’s Kids The Doll Feline Follies Back Stage True Heart Susie The Delicious …
It’s the first ever Centuries of Sound poll! Simply (1) listen to all the mixes from the 1910s, shouldn’t take more than a day or two, then (2) vote for the year you liked the best.
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January 1 – HMY Iolaire sinks off the coast of the Hebrides, 201 people, mostly servicemen returning home to Lewis and Harris, are killed. January 1 – The Czechoslovak Legions occupy the Pressburg (now Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia. January 3 — The Faisal—Weizmann Agreement is signed by Emir Faisal …
John Nash – Oppy Wood, 1917, Evening Georgia O’Keeffe – The Flag Anna Airy – Women Working in a Gas Retort House John Hodgson Lobley – Outside Charing Cross Station, July 1916 Joan Miró – La casa de la palmera Arkady Rylov – In High Azure Boris Kustodiev – The Merchant’s Wife Jean Metzinger – …
The Cook Father Sergius A Dog’s Life The Heart of Humanity Out West The Sinking of the Lusitania The Bond Are Crooks Dishonest? La dixième symphonie [The Tenth Symphony] Tarzan of the Apes The Bell Boy I Don’t Want To Be A Man Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley The Outlaw and His Wife The Blue Bird …
Over at BBC Radio 4’s Home Front website there is a fascinating article about the first Women’s international match, between England and Ireland in 1917 Mr Brennan has unearthed newspapers from the time which describe the match as “international” and report that it attracted 20,000 spectators. The Lord Mayor of Belfast kicked off the match …
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This isn’t a gif from a fiction movie – it’s actual footage from the first world war which has been cleaned up, extra frames added to bring it up to 26 per second, and then colorised. It’s the kind of thing which sets new standards for how we can use original sources to bring the …
