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Our oldest recorded sports broadcast – the All Blacks vs the British Lions, June 21, 1930

June 22, 2017June 22, 2017 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1930s, All Blacks, Audio Curios, broadcast, cantor, lions, nepia, radio, Radio New Zealand National, rugby, Sarah Johnston, Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero, Sports, tour

By Sarah Johnston (Senior Client Access Liaison – Takawaenga ā-Iwi Matua, Nga Taonga Sound & Vision) The first test between

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NZ History Sound 

Audio Curios: Children Will Listen

August 17, 2016September 1, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1990s, 2000s, 2ZD, ABC, Adriann Smith, Audio Curios, BBC, CBC, Children, drugs, fashion, Gareth Watkins, Gavin McGinley, graffiti, Insight, Lower Hutt, Lucy Smith, Masterton, Pictorial Parade, Radio New Zealand, Radio New Zealand National, Rongotai College, SABC, Spectrum, street art, Wellington, youth

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

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Te Karanga a te Huia | The Call of the Huia

May 12, 2016December 20, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 16 Comments 1910s, 1950s, 2010s, bird, Hēnare Hāmana, huia, Jesse Mulligan, mystery, nature, New Zealand Geographic, radio, Radio New Zealand, Radio New Zealand National, Robert Batley, Sarah Johnston

By Sarah Johnston (Client Services Co-ordinator, Radio – Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) If you have been to see Taika

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Audio Curios: We Used to Drink from Every River

May 4, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 2010s, Audio Curios, Country Life, Gareth Watkins, Radio New Zealand, Radio New Zealand National

“Country Life” is archived as part of Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision’s 24-hour capture of RNZ National. In this excerpt ( 22

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Audio Curios: The Last Post

March 16, 2016March 21, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 2010s, Audio Curios, Gareth Watkins, music, Radio New Zealand, Radio New Zealand National, RNZ Concert, World War II, World War Two, WW1, WWI, WWII

Bugler Trevor Bremner and producer Shelley Wilkinson discuss the various bugle calls that make up the “Last Post” (“Bugle Stories,” RNZ

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“Radio – as necessary for the mind, as water is for the body”: 2YA’s Tītahi Bay Transmitter Opens in 1937

February 18, 2016December 6, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1930s, 2010s, 2YA, Amalgamated Wireless, Ana Hato, concert, E Pari Rā, Māori Contingent, Michael Joseph Savage, New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation, NZBC, Paraire Tomoana, Pōkarekare ana, radio, Radio New Zealand, Radio New Zealand National, Rotorua Māori Choir, Sarah Johnston, Sir Āpirana Ngata, Tītahi Bay, waiata, Wellington, World War One, WWI

By Sarah Johnston (Client Services Coordinator – Radio, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) If you have driven into Wellington from

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Audio Curios: Aftermath of the Tsunami

January 13, 2016February 9, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 2010s, Audio Curios, Gareth Watkins, Radio New Zealand, Radio New Zealand National, Sri Lanka, tsunami

Ian McInnes, CEO of Tearfund NZ, recalls establishing the first mobile medical clinic for the Red Cross in Sri Lanka

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David Bowie

January 12, 2016January 28, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1980, 2010s, David Bowie, music, Porirua, Radio New Zealand, Radio New Zealand National, Takapūwāhia Marae

Like people the world over, we at Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision are today mourning the passing of David Bowie.

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Audio Curios: Dot’s Building a Castle

December 2, 2015 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 2010s, Architecture, Audio Curios, Dot Smith, Gareth Watkins, Kathryn Ryan, Nine to Noon, Oamaru, Otago, Radio New Zealand, Radio New Zealand National

Dot Smith talks to Kathryn Ryan about the castle she is building with her husband, Neil, just north of Oamaru

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Audio Curios: 11 Years of Bullying

November 26, 2015November 26, 2015 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Audio Curios, bullying, Children, Gareth Watkins, Jesse Greenslade, Radio New Zealand, Radio New Zealand National, Wallace Chapman

Jesse Greenslade, author of the anti-bullying children’s book First Week Blues, talks to Wallace Chapman about being continually bullied at school

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