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Solving a Mystery: The Ahipara Women’s Fire Brigade

March 21, 2017May 6, 2021 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 2 Comments 1960s, Agnes Rakich, Ahipara, Api Kīngi, Doris Hales, firefighters, Grace Matiu, Harriet Pure, Hinemoa Te Paa, Jackie Saunders, Joyce Hunt, Keith Bracey, Lawrence Wharerau, Linda Curie, Mary Hanlon, Museum at Te Ahu Heritage, mystery, Northland, NZBC, on Women in Fire and Emergency New Zealand, Peggy Adams, Te Rūnanga o Te Rarawa, Town and Around, women

– By Lawrence Wharerau (Kaiwhakataki: Programme Coordinator, Māori, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) I have an affinity with Northland –

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Māori for Beginners

February 9, 2017August 21, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 6 Comments 1970s, 2010s, Alex Porter, Christchurch, New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation, NZBC, radio, Radio New Zealand, te reo Māori

– By Alexandra Porter (Audio Conservator, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision)  Tēnā koutou katoa Ko Alexandra Porter tōku ingoa Nō

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Historic Radio Reflections on Waitangi Day Through the Decades

February 6, 2017February 10, 2017 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1960s, 1970s, Apirana Ngata, New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation, Ngā Tamatoa, NZBC, radio, Royal tour, royal visit, Sarah Johnston, sound, Turi Carroll, Waitangi Day

To mark Waitangi Day we have uploaded some historic radio coverage of our national day to our online collections catalogue.

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Difficult Country – Kaikoura’s Tenuous Road and Rail Links

November 29, 2016December 22, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 2010s, Albert Creed, Bruce Petrie, Canterbury, car, Christchurch, earthquake, Hanmer, Kaikoura, Kekerengu, mail, Main Trunk Line, Ministry for Public Works, NZBC, Picton, Radio New Zealand, railway, Sarah Johnston, transport, Waiau

– By Sarah Johnston (Client Services Coordinator – Radio, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision)   The hilly territory between Canterbury

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US Presidents – The Kiwi Connection

November 9, 2016December 19, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1960s, 1990s, 2010s, Bill Clinton, Christchurch, election, Hillary Clinton, John F. Kennedy, Keith Holyoake, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Morning Report, NZBC, politics, president, Queenstown, radio, United States, Vietnam War, Wellington, World War II, WWII

With the results from the United States presidential election due to start coming in later today, we thought it a

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Happy Birthday Katherine Mansfield

October 14, 2016October 16, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 4 Comments 1920s, book, Days Bay, Katherine Mansfield, literature, NZBC, Wellington

Today marks the birthday of Katherine Mansfield, who was born on 14 October 1888. In celebration of the influential and

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Sound 

Audio Curios: The Man in The White Coat

June 21, 2016July 4, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 2YA, Audio Curios, Basil Clarke, BBC, Gareth Watkins, New Zealand Broadcasting Service, NZBC, NZBS, Peter Downes, Queen Mother, radio, Royal tour, royal visit, Shirley Maddock, WWII

You may have asked yourself, “who is that man in the white coat who sometimes appears at the top of

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Sound 

All the Hits and More

May 18, 2016September 1, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 6 Comments 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 1XH, 1ZB, 2ZC, Gareth Watkins, Listener, music, New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation, NZBC, Peter Sinclair, radio, Radio New Zealand

By Gareth Watkins (Radio Collection Developer, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision has recently acquired from

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The Birth of Talkback Radio in New Zealand

April 7, 2016April 7, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, domesticity, Doreen Kelso, femininity, Jessica Weddell, NZBC, Person to Person, radio, Sarah Johnston, talkback, Telephone Time, women, women's hour

– By Sarah Johnston (Client Services Co-ordinator, Radio – Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) Talkback radio has long been cornerstone

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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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