In this episode of From the Vault, Pacifica Radio Archives focuses on the Sound of Soul preservation project by featuring excerpts of Sounds That Change the World, a special national broadcast from November 2007. Hosted by Allee Willis and Brian DeShazor, with special guest Georgia Wise, we’ll listen to freshly preserved recordings that were adopted by Pacifica Radio Archives’ supporters at the February 2007 Sound of Soul Party, recordings that were in danger of being lost forever to tape disintegration. Featured this week are the voices of Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Carmen McRae, Angela Davis, and James Baldwin, among others.

From the Vault is presented as part of the Pacifica Radio Archives Preservation and Access Project.

Archival recordings used in this week’s episode, Sound of Soul:

BB3128 Poor People’s Campaign / produced by Arthur Alexander MORE INFO

BB4745 We Want to Be Free / produced by Lee Whiting MORE INFO

AZ0146 Carmen McRae / interviewed by Angela Davis MORE INFO

BB0158 Reading and Life History / Langston Hughes MORE INFO

BB0882 Symposium on Richard Wright MORE INFO

BB3550 Chicago Voice Project / produced by Donald Harper and Ken Dewey MORE INFO

BB1331 Coretta King MORE INFO

BB5187 An Interview with Melvin van Peebles / interviewed by Claire Clouzot MORE INFO

BB3125 The LeRoi Jones Trial MORE INFO

BB4425.01-12 This Little Light MORE INFO

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HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!

This holiday season, here at From the Vault, we’ve been diggin around for some truly exciting and eclectic seasonal programming from Pacifica’s history.

For the week of December 24, we’re going to hear a very special program produced in December 1963 by the Drama & Literature Department at Los Angeles’ KPFK. Ruth Mintz, Malke Haife Tussman, Jack Hirschman, and David Ossman read selected poems about the Jewish holiday Chanukah.

Then you’ll be treated to a Christmas special from 1942, as part of the Command Performance Radio, which produced programming for the American Troops serving “over there” during World War II. Bob Hope, young and energetic, hosts the program, with performances by icons like the Andrews Sisters and Bing Crosby. The program is funny, whimsical, and yet oddly serious at times, if only between the lines. Although this program did not originate on Pacifica Radio, it- like many other programs inside the Pacifica Radio Archives vault- was acquired through donation.

Have a safe and peaceful holiday, whatever it might be!

Archival recordings used in (and related to) this week’s episode, Holiday Season Special, Part 2:

KZ2016 Kwanzaa: A New African Holiday MORE INFO

KZ0671 Bing Crosby Christmas Special 1946 MORE INFO

BB4693 Black Christmas in Milwaukee MORE INFO

KZ0262 Command Performance with Bob Hope and Red Skelton MORE INFO

BB1367.10 FDR Speaks MORE INFO

KZ0673 The Jack Benny Christmas Show MORE INFO

PZ0262.02 T’is the Season MORE INFO

BB4979 The Poetry of Chanukah MORE INFO

BC0554 Christmas with Daniel Ellsberg MORE INFO

PZ0343.052 Holiday Rituals I MORE INFO

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In this episode of From the Vault, Pacifica Radio Archives focuses on the Feminist Movement by featuring excerpts of Sounds That Change the World, a special national broadcast from November 2007. With Free Speech Radio News’ Aura Bogado hosting, you’ll be treated to the voices of everyday women, the driving forces behind the Feminist Movement: Betty Freidan, Germaine Greer, Gloria Steinem, and bell hooks among others. Pacifica Radio Archives is the proud curator of many recordings that paint a rich history of the Feminist Movement — we continue to preserve and digitize recordings that every day tell us a little bit more about the mothers that came before us.

From the Vault is presented as part of the Pacifica Radio Archives Preservation and Access Project.

Archival recordings used in this week’s episode, Feminist Journey:

PZ0721.01-10 Feminist Anthology 10 Hour MP3 CD MORE INFO

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In November 2007, Pacifica Radio Archives brought together in studio some of the original participants of the 1979 No Nukes Rally, including Jackson Browne, Graham Nash, Bonnie Raitt, Harvey Wasserman, Dr. Helen Caldicott, and Dr. Michio Kaku. Not missing a beat from where they left off 30 years ago, this group of distinguish guests discussed the historical importance of the original No Nukes Rally series, and explored what’s in store for the future of the No Nukes Movement. This commanding conversation is cut with audio excerpts of the original 1979 No Nukes Rally, Survival Sunday, recently restored and digitized under the Pacifica Radio Archives Preservation and Access Project.

From the Vault is presented as part of the Pacifica Radio Archives Preservation and Access Project.

Archival recordings used in this week’s episode, No Nukes Rally Reunion:

KZ0682.01-06 Survival Sunday, 1979 MORE INFO

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