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Today in History - Nov 26

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Today in history.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Welcome to the twenty sixth day of November, our day
in history, twenty nine days till Christmas Day thirty five
to the end of the year.

Speaker 3 (00:19):
And opening was a sound of cream and it was today.
In nineteen sixty eight, they played a very special concert
of farewell concert the Royal Albert Hall in London, their
farewell Concert and was filmed by the BBC. And after
that members of the band reminisced about how they came about.

Speaker 4 (00:41):
Like Jack Bruce, they had great hawks on me as
a cellist, you know, and they kept telling me that
I couldn't write things.

Speaker 1 (00:49):
You know.

Speaker 4 (00:50):
This is one particular teacher that I had. I used
to write when I was fourteen. I wrote string Quartet.
Probably took it to her and she instantly sort of
brought all over it and meet pointed out of the mistakes.

Speaker 3 (01:03):
There we go. Jack Bruce reminiscing his beginnings as a
classical cellist. Believe it us Today in nineteen forty two
was actually Thanksgiving Day in the US. The Academy Award
winning motion picture Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogard and Ingrid Bergman,
had its world premiere at the Hollywood Theater in New York.

Speaker 5 (01:25):
Of all the gin joints, in all the towns in
all the world, she walks in the mine.

Speaker 1 (01:34):
I was actually played for just at.

Speaker 3 (01:38):
Some great lines, some great lians, the legendary Humphrey Bogard right,
famous people birthday and today, and topping the list is
the original bass player and still with the band of
Fleetwood Mac, John McVie. Happy birthday to John McVie, who
turned seventy nine today. He along with Peter Green and
Mcfleetwood formed the band part of the Curtain name combined

(02:00):
with that of drummer Mitt Fleetwood to form Fleetwood Mac.
There you go from the band the Brotherhood of Man.
We say happy birthday to Martin Lee. It's his seventy
eighth birthday today married Brotherhood of Man singer Sandra Stevens
as well and the pride of Linnfield College in Auckland,

(02:23):
which was born in England to New Zealand parents. Natasha
bending Field. Happy birthday to Natasha Benningfield forty three today.
And you're back and there we go just a few
things that happened on this day in history. Here on
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