Spectrum – Gauge

Power from the River

November 10, 2020November 5, 2020 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Clutha, Cromwell, dam, electricity, hydroelectric, Pacific Magazine, Roxburgh, Spectrum

Hydroelectric power has a long history in Aotearoa New Zealand, with the first projects commissioned in the early 20th century.

A Feeling for the Forest

June 6, 2020June 22, 2020 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments A Feeling for the Forest, Kahu Kutia, Ngāi Tūhoe, Spectrum

I te wā o te noho whakamohoao, i whakapau kaha ana ngā kaimahi o Ngā Taonga ki te whakarārangi i

Home schooling through the 1948 polio epidemic

April 14, 2020April 15, 2020 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 1 Comment epidemic, polio, Spectrum

Empty classrooms, parents struggling to home-school and teachers trying to work out ways to deliver feedback to students remotely… it

A hard life in the Gorge

August 5, 2019August 7, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Darcy Collier, Jack Perkins, Les Marriott, Otaki, Ōtaki Gorge, Spectrum

Life doesn’t get much harder than it was in the Ōtaki Gorge at the start of last century. The land

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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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Audio Curios: Arriving in Blackball

February 3, 2016February 9, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1970s, Audio Curios, Gareth Watkins, immigration, Radio New Zealand, Spectrum, West Coast

Tony and Anne Reed emigrated in the mid-1970s from the United Kingdom to Blackball on the West Coast. They talk

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Audio Curios: A Song for All Seasons

September 9, 2015November 12, 2015 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1980s, 2015, animals, Audio Curios, Gareth Watkins, Jack Perkins, Phar Lap, radio, Radio New Zealand, Radio New Zealand National, Spectrum

Elsa Davis chronicles events in songs. In 1982 she was recorded by Alwyn Owen for Spectrum singing her famous “Phar

Audio Curios: Chatting with Anjalee the Elephant

June 10, 2015November 12, 2015 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 2010s, animals, Auckland, Audio Curios, elephants, Gareth Watkins, Niue, Radio New Zealand, Spectrum, Sri Lanka

Auckland Zoo’s elephant team leader Andrew Coers talks to Justin Gregory about how he communicates with Anjalee, an eight-year-old female