Calypso!
Calypso, February 1, 1941, 5:45 p.m.“Never Me In Matrimony”: several well-known calypsonians composed on the topic of marriage in the 1930s. Clearly meant for two singers, this debate sounds like one...
View ArticleAlec Waugh, Leonard W. Labaree, and Theodore Sorensen reading a speech by...
This episode is from the WNYC archives. It may contain language which is no longer politically or socially appropriate.Van Doren introduces Waugh, Evelyn's brother, who talks about his novel "Island in...
View Article[Visit to the West Indies]
This episode is from the WNYC archives. It may contain language which is no longer politically or socially appropriate.Seldes discusses his recent trip to the West Indies. He speaks of a "fire dance."...
View ArticleAlec Waugh's Martinique, and a Brotherly Deed to the World
In this amusing, time-capsule of a talk, given at a 1956 Books and Authors Luncheon to promote his best-selling novel Island In the Sun, Alec Waugh explains how he came to write about the West...
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Calypso on WNYC
Lots of people have heard Day-O!, which kicked off the Calypso Craze of 1957. Fewer know that calypso had been in vogue in the U.S. twice before: once in the late 1930s to early ‘40s, and again at the...
View Article[French Colonies, United Nations, Agriculture Report]
The date of this episode is unknown so we've filled it in with a placeholder.Elmer Davis reports on the "comparatively quiet" western war front, the eastern war front and northern Africa. He describes...
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