It’s A Big Fish, Your Net Is Full Of Holes

Recording of a news broadcast from Liberty, NY circa 1970 – This recording fascinates me. I don’t know much about it, it was given to me without much explanation on a disc full of radio airchecks. This recording was obviously made with a tape recorder in a room – you can hear the mic move around, noise in the room, some quiet talking here and there. I can’t figure out why they recorded this news broadcast. Perhaps they were waiting to record one of the news items – there are some announcements of funerals and social functions, that could be it. The most interesting parts of the broadcast include some very biased reports about hippies and their drug usage. I particularly like the part where they are announcing an invitation to “come out and see the real American youth – the clean-cut youngsters who make up the vast majority of our young people.”

Knowing Me, Knowing You – “Alan Does Not Fire Blanks” – Aha! This is the first episode of Knowing Me, Knowing You with Alan Partridge. If there is a positive response, I will offer each of the six episodes over the next few weeks. In this episode, Alan interviews a novelist and discusses Sherlock Holmes, and meets a feminist therapist who gives a demonstration of her therapy techique.