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Doug Laurenson talk on wartime music
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This features a talk by a member of the wartime Mobile Broadcasting Unit, Doug Laurenson. He gives a general overview of the unit's work in North Africa and makes special mention of the soldier who recorded a message home to his favourite dairy cow.
His talk is interspersed with wartime songs:
[excepts of]
- Wish Me Luck by Gracie Fields
- Māori Battalion
- Lili Marlene by Marlene Dietrich
- A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square by Vera Lynn
- We'll Meet Again by Vera Lynn
This recording appears to have been made to mark his retirement from broadcasting. [Exact date unknown 1964?]
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Reference number 30392
Media type AUDIO
Collection Sound Collection
Ngā Taonga Korero Collection
Credits
RNZ Collection
Laurenson, Doug
Fields, Gracie, 1898-1979
Dietrich, Marlene
Lynn, Vera
New Zealand Broadcasting Service. Mobile Recording Unit
Duration 00:08:53
Subject
War songs
World War, 1939-1945