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Happy Birthday NZ Commercial Radio!

October 28, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1930s, 1ZB, 2ZB, 3ZB, 4ZB, advertising, Airini Grenell, Auckland, Aunt Daisy, Christchurch, Dunedin, Kingi Tahiwi, Michael Joseph Savage, National Commercial Broadcasting Service, NewstalkZB, NZBS, NZSO, radio, Radio Network, Radio New Zealand, Reverend Colin Scrimgeour, Sarah Johnston, Te Ari Pitama, Uramo Paora, Wellington

– By Sarah Johnston (Client Services Coordinator – Radio, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) This Saturday is the 80th

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Peter Downes: Early Radio Recordings and Archiving in Aotearoa New Zealand

March 22, 2016May 12, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 18 Comments 28th Māori Battalion, 2YA, Arch Curry, Asquith Thompson, Aunt Daisy, Aunt Gwen (Gwen Shepherd), Billy Hart, Bungin’ 'Em In, Chester Wilmot, Cicely Debenham, Edmund Hillary, Hello My Dearie, Jim Hartstonge, Jim Sullivan, L.G. Lukey, Lionel Sceats, Lord Bledisloe, Monte Cassino, National Film Unit, NZBC, On Parade, One Man's Family, Peter Downes, Professor Robert Jack, Queen Elizabeth II, Queen's Tour 1953, radio, Radio New Zealand, Rosemary Collier, Royal tour, Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero, sound preservation, sound technology, Tangiwai railway disaster, Television New Zealand, Uncle Bruce (Bruce Stennett), Wally Marshall, World War II, World War Two, WWII

Peter Downes has had a long and distinguished association with broadcasting and sound archiving in Aotearoa. In this presentation he

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Ice Cream and the Great Kiwi Summer

January 20, 2015February 1, 2017 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1920s, 1930s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, advertising, Anchor, animals, Aunt Daisy, Ellen Pullar, farming, Gaytime, Greymouth, Hilda Inkster, icecream, Lawrie Inkster, pets, Roger Donaldson, Tip Top, Waikato

– By Ellen Pullar, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision Communications Advisor It has been a cracker of a summer so

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Rob Muldoon’s Pineapple Whip: The ‘Personality Cook Book’ – A 1971 Snapshot of New Zealand Broadcasting, Celebrity, Social and Culinary History

January 30, 2014January 18, 2021 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 10 Comments 1970s, advertising, Aunt Daisy, Barbara Basham, Barry Crump, Bert Sutcliffe, Bill Toft, Bishop Alan Pyatt, celebrity, Cherry Raymond, Colin Meads, cooking, Coronation Street, Doreen, food, George Nepia, Godfrey Bowen, Guy Ngan, Ian Cross, Ian Johnstone, Irvine Yardley, John A Lee, John Pascoe, Kate Harcourt, Liz Brook, Marama Martin, Maurice Smyth, Merv Smith, NZBC, Patricia Bartlett, Person to Person, Peter Brian, Peter Cape, Peter Snell, Petone, Petone Free Kindergarten, Philip Liner, Ralph Love, recipe books, Reg Chibnall, Robert Muldoon, Robin King, Sarah Davy, Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero, Stan Meads

– By Sarah Davy, Director, Collect [Division] Acquisition and Research, NZFA. Being a sucker for vintage recipe books, I recently

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