Audio Curios: The Man in The White Coat
You may have asked yourself, “who is that man in the white coat who sometimes appears at the top of
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Gareth Watkins
Audio Curios: Future Indicative
Recently Ngā Taonga acquired from RNZ a set of two radio series that have, over the last four decades, explored
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Audio Curios: Bring a Plate
Every Friday Regina Smedley, who is originally from Malawi, presents Voices of Africa on Plains FM. In this excerpt she chats
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Audio Curios: “From one side of the fault line to the other”
The long-term experiences and effects of the Canterbury earthquakes are woven through the many and varied broadcasts on Plains FM
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Audio Curios: Hamo at Heart
We are currently running a pilot project with a number of access community radio stations throughout the country. The aim
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“We Must Rely on Dramatic Speech and Sounds Entirely”
By Gareth Watkins (Radio Collection Developer, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision recently acquired a wonderful set
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Audio Curios: We Used to Drink from Every River
“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 Power of By, For and About
The power of community radio is demonstrated in this excerpt from Arrow FM’s “The Road to Recovery and Freedom” 11
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Audio Curios: George Bissett’s Bugle
Producer Shelley Wilkinson visits the National Army Museum Te Mata Toa to learn about the shrapnel-torn bugle of twenty-year-old bugler
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Audio Curios: Where There’s Life There’s Hope
Veteran broadcaster, documentary maker and author Rob Harley talks to John Cowan about a near death experience in 2015 (“Real Life
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