Oscar Brand sings folk songs (Program 112).
This episode is from the WNYC archives. It may contain language which is no longer politically or socially appropriate.Folk singer Oscar Brand returns "in civvies" to perform in the United States. He...
View ArticleMind Over Music, 1949-08-31
This episode is from the WNYC archives. It may contain language which is no longer politically or socially appropriate.Musical quiz show with the strangely sarcastic John Savage. August 31, 1949(?) The...
View ArticleSquirrel Nutkin
The exact date of this episode is unknown. We've filled in the date above with a placeholder. What we actually have on record is: 196u-uu-uu.This episode is from the WNYC archives. It may contain...
View ArticleDoc Watson Philadelphia Folk Festival circa 1970
Join the Archives department in celebrating the life of Doc Watson with this rare interview and performance at the Philadelphia Folk Festival. In the early 1970s, Folksong Festival host and iconic folk...
View ArticleIn Wartime '40s, America's First Taste of Rationing
During World War II, rationing became not only accepted, but a symbol of patriotism for most Americans. Listen to Oscar Brand in this never-broadcast documentary on how the government —and WNYC— helped...
View ArticleOscar Brand sings folk songs (Program 112).
This episode is from the WNYC archives. It may contain language which is no longer politically or socially appropriate.Folk singer Oscar Brand returns "in civvies" to perform in the United States. He...
View ArticleMind Over Music, 1949-08-31
This episode is from the WNYC archives. It may contain language which is no longer politically or socially appropriate.Musical quiz show with the strangely sarcastic John Savage. August 31, 1949(?) The...
View ArticleSquirrel Nutkin
The exact date of this episode is unknown. We've filled in the date above with a placeholder. What we actually have on record is: 196u-uu-uu.This episode is from the WNYC archives. It may contain...
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The day they dropped an A-bomb on the Bronx
We celebrate the end of the Cold War 25 years ago this year with Oscar Brand giving us a taste of 1950s civilian defense.This show, which never aired, was originally produced in the 2000s, using...
View ArticleThe Origins of the "Star Spangled Banner," in Six Minutes
The Star Spangled Bannerturns 200 this month. To commemorate, listen to the inimitable Oscar Brand explain in words and music its origins from a sheep-shearing song to the national anthem.This is a...
View ArticlePart 1 - Life Under a Hardhat: A Question of Skill
In this first part of New Yorkers at Work, various men and women discuss their experiences working in skilled trades that over time became increasingly mechanized, unskilled labor, concentrating in...
View ArticlePart 2 - Greenhorn Dreams Lost and Earned: Immigrants at Work
This second episode of New Yorkers at Work focuses in immigrants. Various men and women who came to the United States fleeing oppression, seeking opportunity, or both, describe their lives as workers...
View ArticlePart 3 - Hard Times and Picket Lines: The 30s and the CIO
The third episode of New Yorkers at Work delves into the formation of the Committee for Industrial Organizations (CIO) out of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) in the 1930s. Men and women who...
View ArticlePart 4 - Solidarity Asunder: Labor After the War.
The fourth episode of New Yorkers at Work focuses on the gradually diminishing influence of communism and the left-wing in the AFL-CIO during the beginnings of the cold war. Narrators Martha Greenhouse...
View ArticlePart 5 - Climbing that Ladder: Jobs and Opportunity
In this episode of New Yorkers at Work, minorities and women discuss the difficulties they have faced in finding jobs and receiving equal treatment and equal pay. The program begins with minorities...
View ArticlePart 6 - Bargaining, Bailout, Burnout: Public Employees and the Service Crisis
This episode of New Yorkers at Work focuses on the unusual position of public sector workers and their unions. Teachers, welfare case workers, dentists, public sector union officials, and others talk...
View ArticlePart 7 - Sixty Words per Minute: Clerical Workers Have Their Say
The seventh episode of New Yorkers at Work investigates the problems facing clerical workers, particularly female office workers. The women interviewed recount their experiences in jobs with little...
View ArticlePart 8 - Where Have All the Jobs Gone: The Eighties
Episode 8 explores the process of automation and examines the effects it has had on work in America. It focuses on two industries--shipping and printing--to illustrate how automation has changed the...
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