Britain – Gauge

NZ History Sound

“This is Without Doubt the Very Greatest Moment of My Life” – Jean Batten’s Record-Breaking Flight

October 16, 2016November 9, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1930s, 1YA, acetate discs, Auckland, Auckland Aero Club, Australia, Britain, Burma, Ellen Melville, Ernest Davis, Frederick Jones, Java, Jean Batten, Kaipara, Mokau, National Council of Women, New Plymouth, NZBS, radio, Sarah Johnston, Siam, South America, Sydney

– By Sarah Johnston (Client Services Coordinator – Radio, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) Eighty years ago today New Zealander

NZ History Sound

The New Zealanders – and Tanks – Make Their Debut on The Somme

September 12, 2016August 19, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1910s, Battle of the Somme, Britain, Egypt, Flers, France, Gallipoli, Hēnare Mokena Kōhere, Lindsay Merritt Inglis, Ngāti Porou, Paraire Tomoana, Peter Dawson, Phyllis Williams, Sarah Johnston, Sir Āpirana Ngata, tanks, Te Ope Tuatahi, Tikitiki, Timaru, waiata, Winston Churchill, World War I, World War One, WWI

By Sarah Johnston (Client Services Coordinator – Radio, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) September 15 marks the centenary of the

Film NZ History Sound

Audio Curios: Notes of Appreciation

August 10, 2016August 17, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1940s, 1960s, Andersen Tyrer, Antonín Dvořák, Audio Curios, BBC, Britain, Douglas Lilburn, Faust, Friedrich Kreisler, Gareth Watkins, George Butterworth, George Enescu, Heddle Nash, immigration, Isobel Baillie, Johannes Brahms, Moura Lympany, music, National Orchestra, New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, NZSO, radio, Richard Strauss, Richard Wagner, Sergei Rachmaninov, Thomas Beecham, Vince Aspey, Vincent Aspey, Wellington, Wolfgang Mozart

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

“Hello Children” – Broadcasts to the British Child Evacuees of World War II

December 9, 2014February 27, 2015 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 6 Comments 1940s, Britain, broadcast archiving, Children, historical broadcasting, immigration, Mobile Unit truck, New Zealand Broadcasting Service, radio, WWII

– By Sarah Johnston (Client Services Co-ordinator – Radio, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision’s Radio Collection