Program Information

#467 -- Valentine's Day Special: The Diamond Cartel (R)

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Weekly Program

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Contributor:

Kenneth Dowst Contact Contributor

Date Published:

Feb. 9, 2017, 10 a.m.

Summary: An ironic salute to Valentine's Day features an expose' of the worldwide diamond cartel (a.k.a. DeBeers). And how a U.S. advertising agency--hired by the cartel to increase sales--INVENTED and marketed the "tradition" of the diamond engagement ring. Plus a few ironic and/or kinky love songs by Tom Lehrer and The Kinks.

Credits: Originally broadcast in NWN #51, in February 2009.

Lyn Gerry, of "Unwelcome Guests," reads from Edward Jay Epsteins article, "Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?" in Atlantic Magazine, February 1982.

New World Notes is produced under the auspices (Latin for "radar") of WWUH-FM, a community service of that beacon of light in darkest Connecticut, the University of Hartford.

Notes: This installment is available--in MP3 and other formats--also on The Internet Archive (www.archive.org).

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