Andy Lanset
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Past articles by Andy:
When Anti-Lynching Legislation was Discussed on WNYC in 1938.
WNYC is an early forum for anti-lynching legislation. → Read More
WNYC Keeps on Truck'n: Nearly a Century of 'Mobile Units'
WNYC's trucks and vans have been a traveling the streets of New York hauling equipment, engineers and producers to a multitude of parades, ceremonies, rallies and more since 1924. → Read More
The Night in 1924 When WNYC Became Real
An annotated version of WNYC's logbook for the first broadcast. → Read More
Listen to a 101-Year-Old Clarion Call for Women's Suffrage Preserved in Shellac
The head of the New York State Women's Suffrage Association makes the case for women voting on a Pathe' disc in 1915. → Read More
Shirley Zak Hayes: WNYC's First Woman Staff Announcer
She broke into the "Boy's Club" here in 1966, but she'd already distinguished herself as a community activist—thanks to her, there's no four-lane highway through Washington Square Park. → Read More
Shirley Zak Hayes: WNYC's First Woman Staff Announcer
She broke into the Boy's Club here in 1966, but she'd already distinguished herself as a community activist—thanks to her, there's no four-lane highway through Washington Square Park. → Read More
The Morning Brief
James Flexner's first appearance on WNYC in 1931 could have gone better. He tells the story of the announcer with the wandering hands. → Read More
Hear the Men Who Saw D-Day from Both Sides
Today marks the 70th anniversary of the largest amphibious invasion in history, where 156,000 Allied troops landed on five French beaches. But there’s a lot to learn from individual soldiers — American and German — who saw it happen. Their voices are preserved in this special from our Archives. → Read More
Listen to the First Detailed Account of the Tiananmen Square Massacre
Shen Tong was one of China's most famous dissident leaders. Six days after the bloody suppression of student protesters at Beijing's Tiananmen Square, he walked out of the country, came to America, and gave this press conference. → Read More
'Where More Than 7 Million People Live in Peace and Enjoy the Benefits of Democracy'
Between 1924 and 1938 announcers generally identified WNYC on the hour in a fairly typical way. This station ID is from November 25, 1936. → Read More
Enjoy WNYC's Tube Noise-Free Sound? You're Not Alone
Thomas Edison's 'right hand man' praises WNYC's static-free sound in this 1936 missive. → Read More
Russia Invented the Lightbulb
In the '60s, WNYC tried to bridge the cultural Cold War-divide by periodically airing some Radio Moscow programs. Among them is a celebration of Cosmonautics Day and Moscow Mailbag, a segment devoted to debunking common myths about Russia. → Read More
'A New Sense of Dignity': Martin Luther King Jr., Unedited
In 1961, a radio reporter named Eleanor Fischer spoke to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for a CBC called Project 62. As far as we know, these unedited interviews have never been presented in their entirety until now. → Read More
WNYC 9/11/2001
A transcript from our September, 11, 2001 airchecks. → Read More
Woody Guthrie and WNYC
He was a regular guest on Leadbelly's show and sang the station's praises. → Read More
The Earliest Identifiable WNYC Recording: Lindbergh at City Hall in June, 1927
The oldest piece of the WNYC audio ever found! → Read More