Sound
Discover stories of Aotearoa New Zealand, as told through precious sound recordings in the Archive.
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24 June 2016
Broadcaster and historian Peter Downes wrote to us in response to a recent blog entry about the history of popular music charts in New Zealand.
31 May 2016
The mention of a name in a sound recording leads to a personal family journey.
7 April 2016
In New Zealand, it began just over 50 years ago and recordings in the Sound Collection of Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision tell the story of the roots of talkback.
22 March 2016
Watch a presentation by Peter on the beginnings of radio recording and archiving in this country.
8 December 2015
The lives of fifty Māori women of Te Waipounamu (the South Island) are the focus of a new exhibition at the Otago Museum.
25 November 2015
100 years ago this week, the New Zealanders still grimly hanging onto the slopes of Gallipoli were dealt yet another blow.
9 November 2015
A project to digitise and describe the New Zealand Broadcasting Service Mobile Unit Collection.
2 November 2015
Audio conservator Sandy Ditchburn has found that local knowledge and a great phone technique can be handy tools when researching archival sound recordings.
30 October 2015
World War One commemorations have provided the impetus for a number of projects at Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision.
22 October 2015
Recollections from New Zealand nurses who survived the sinking of the Marquette 100 years ago
31 July 2015
The discovery of a World War I diary in archives in Wellington has become published - 'The Battle of Messines Road'
15 July 2015
On the 15th of July 1915, the transport ship Willochra brought back to Wellington the first group of men who had been wounded in the Gallipoli campaign.
24 February 2015
This ship to shore recording is possibly the first example of its kind to have been heard over the New Zealand radio waves, recorded on 31 August 1936.
3 February 2015
The first New Zealander to die in combat in World War I, 100 years ago this week, was Private William Arthur Ham of Ngatimoti.
22 December 2014
Perhaps you have heard the moving story of the famous “Christmas Truce” of World War I, which took place on the Western Front 100 years ago this week?
9 December 2014
Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision’s Radio Collection contains hundreds of recordings made during World War II.
2 December 2014
The New Zealand Oral History 1946-1948 collection is a unique assemblage of broadcast oral histories recorded by the Mobile Unit around New Zealand after World War II.
30 January 2014
A celebration of vintage recipe books and the discovery of a hidden gem: 'The Personality Cook Book'.
18 October 2013
Our team has come across this poetic ode to Wellington’s gusty weather, by a returned WWII soldier.
