Andy Lanset

Director of Archives, New York Public Radio

Andy Lanset appears in the following:

Pioneering Language Classes Over WNYC

Friday, September 14, 2012

French, Spanish, Italian and German lessons were all available on the air.
Read More

Comment

Macklin Marrow and the WNYC Concert Orchestra

Friday, August 03, 2012

When WNYC had a concert orchestra, this man lead the way.
Read More

Comment

Morris S. Novik: Public Radio Pioneer

Friday, July 13, 2012

He claimed the phrase 'public broadcasting' and made the station a role model.
Read More

Comment

Ralph Berton: The Man Behind Radio's First Serious Jazz Music Program

Friday, June 01, 2012

The show was dedicated to "the finest in recorded hot jazz."
Read More

Comments [6]

The Reader's Almanac with Walter James Miller

Friday, May 04, 2012

He conducted early interviews with writers such as Nadine Gordimer, Erica Jong, Kurt Vonnegut, Dorothy Gallagher and Jerzy Kosinski.
Read More

Comments [1]

Al Arkus: The Music Maestro

Friday, February 24, 2012

The Pied Piper of children's programming on WNYC.
Read More

Comments [1]

WNYC Director Seymour N. Siegel: Public Radio Visionary

Friday, February 10, 2012

Mayor La Guardia sent him in to close the place down. He ended up saving it.
Read More

Comments [2]

WNYC's Resident Man of Words, 1926-1929

Friday, January 20, 2012

"Once there was a wizard who boasted that he knew his book from A to Izzard. He was a mere novice compared with Frank H. Vizetelly."
Read More

Comments [2]

WNYC and the Land of Mu

Friday, January 13, 2012

A cult classic airs on WNYC.
Read More

Comments [1]

On the eve of New Year's Eve 1924 with the Marx Bros

Friday, December 30, 2011

A broadcast party like no other.
Read More

Comment

WNYC Promotes Health and Wellness with Olympian Joe Ruddy

Friday, December 23, 2011

Keeping Fit was a regular series of  health and exercise talks by Joe Ruddy on WNYC in 1926.
Read More

Comment

Cartoonist and Sports Writer Thornton Fisher, WNYC Sports Commentator 1924-1925

Friday, December 16, 2011

 "He is one of the keenest sports writers and cartoonists in the world of journalism."
Read More

Comment

The Five Locust Sisters Perform on WNYC

Friday, December 09, 2011

On December 9, 1926, the Locust Sisters sang popular tunes in the WNYC studio.
Read More

Comment

First Jewish Daily Forward Radio Program is on WNYC

Friday, November 04, 2011

WNYC
Believe it or not, it happened on WNYC, not WEVD!
Read More

Comments [1]

Frankfurt School Theorist on WNYC in 1940

Friday, October 28, 2011

Mayor La Guardia puts an end to critical theorist's music show.
Read More

Comments [3]

A look at WNYC’s First QSL Cards

Friday, September 30, 2011

Are you a DXer?
Read More

Comments [3]

WNYC 9/11/2001

Friday, September 09, 2011

A transcript from our September, 11, 2001 airchecks.
Read More

Comments [1]

WNYC's New AM Transmitter, 1937

Friday, September 02, 2011

Halloween, 1937: WNYC new WPA-built transmitter comes on line. It has a micro-ray system, the only one in use outside of the Vatican."
Read More

Comment

Berlin 1961

Friday, September 02, 2011

When life was tense in Berlin.
Read More

Comment

Lead Belly and Lomax Together at the American Music Festival

Friday, August 19, 2011

A long lost recording is found!
Read More

Comments [4]