Andy Lanset

Director of Archives, New York Public Radio

Andy Lanset appears in the following:

Records Make Music Lovers

Monday, October 21, 2013

"Recordings are not only representatives of music; they are also musical ambassadors."
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An Orchestral Conductor Looks at Radio

Monday, October 14, 2013

"WQXR allows me to not only hear performances by other men but to take quiet stock of my own."
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Commandments for Commentators

Monday, October 07, 2013

A biblical imperative for the newsy.
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Paderewski

Monday, September 30, 2013

"His every move in life personally, socially and economically was for the benefit and improvement of his fellow men."
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Latin Americans in Music

Monday, September 23, 2013

"It has been my experience that those who really love music have a consuming passion to become familiar with its every manifestation."
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Brains Have No Sex

Monday, September 16, 2013

"Women as a whole, make a smaller fuss about accepting responsibilities, of whatever nature, than men." --Lisa Sergio
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So You Think It's Easy!

Monday, September 09, 2013

"Still, there is always that fearful moment when a wide-eyed newsman rushes in with a bulletin about the fall of Dneproderzhinsk (40 miles from Dnepropetrovsk)."
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Earliest Known Recording of a New York City Mayor

Tuesday, September 03, 2013

Who knew a commercial recording of a New York City Mayor would ever sell?
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Raymond Asserson, Sr., The Man Who Built WNYC in 1924: Speaking Truth to Power

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

The man who built WNYC.
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The complete Vonnegut interviews, 1973-1983

Monday, June 24, 2013

Miller and Vonnegut were good friends.
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Radio Pioneer Tommy Cowan Announces a Parade of History

Friday, May 10, 2013

He was an announcer blessed with the gift of gab and an encyclopedic knowledge of New York.
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Holocaust Remembrance Day

Sunday, April 07, 2013

The war wouldn't be over for another year, but it was very clear what was happening to the Jews of Europe.
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Earliest Known Broadcast on Nazi Persecution of Jews

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

A rare recording surfaces!
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Ms. Bella Abzug

Monday, March 18, 2013

A March 1972 interview with the political dynamo on feminism and redistricting.
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Marcus Garvey: 20th Century Pan-Africanist

Friday, February 15, 2013

He had six million followers at one time
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Scottsboro: A Civil Rights Milestone

Friday, February 01, 2013

Scottsboro: A Civil Rights Milestone
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Previously Unreleased Interviews with The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

In 1961, radio reporter Eleanor Fischer spoke to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for CBC Project 62. As far as we know, these interviews have never been presented in their entirety until now.
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David Durk's Moving Testimony Before the Knapp Commission

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

His testimony before the Knapp Commission investigation into police corruption in 1971 made for some of the most moving public testimony ever broadcast. 
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The Marine Corps General Who Called War 'A Racket'

Sunday, November 11, 2012

"I was a racketeer for capitalism."
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