Pete Myers caught up with jazz great Lionel Hampton (1908-2002) while he was on tour in Europe in 1979. His performance on the Vredenburg stage in Utrecht was a celebration […]
Yearly Archives: 1979
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Afroscene, Radio Netherlands’ weekly programme for listeners in Africa, featured this interview with Augustus Kwamlah Quaye, better known as Cab Kaye, in 1979, shortly after he moved permanently to […]
This is few surviving recordings from the series “On and Off Stage”, a programme devoted to well-known personalities of the Dutch musical scene. Guus Geist meets Bernard Haitink, already a […]
In June 1979, South African Nobel Prize in Literature laureate Nadine Gordimer published “Burger’s Daughter”. The novel details a group of white Communists in South Africa attempting to overthrow the […]
An interview with the producer of “Zulu Dawn”. This epic cinema production about the Battle of Isandlwana is about the defeat of British forces by an overwhelming force of 25 […]