Gareth Watkins

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Audio Curios: Bring a Plate

June 8, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Africa, Audio Curios, Gareth Watkins, immigration, Kalyani Wijayawardana, Malawai, Regina Smedley

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”

June 1, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 2010s, Audio Curios, Christchurch earthquake, Community Access Radio, Gareth Watkins, James Norcliffe, Joanna Preston, literature, Morrin Rout, Plains FM, poetry

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

May 25, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 2010s, Ana Mulipola, Audio Curios, Christchurch, Community Access Radio, Gareth Watkins, Mahlon Moevao, Plains FM, Polyfest, Samoan

We are currently running a pilot project with a number of access community radio stations throughout the country.  The aim

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All the Hits and More

May 18, 2016September 1, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 6 Comments 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 1XH, 1ZB, 2ZC, Gareth Watkins, Listener, music, New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation, NZBC, Peter Sinclair, radio, Radio New Zealand

By Gareth Watkins (Radio Collection Developer, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision has recently acquired from

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“We Must Rely on Dramatic Speech and Sounds Entirely”

May 11, 2016May 18, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1920s, 1950s, 1970s, 1990s, 2YA, acting, Audio Curios, Broadcasting House, Danger, Davina Whitehouse, drama, Elsie Lloyd, Gareth Watkins, Peter Harcourt, radio, radio drama, Radio New Zealand, Richard Hughes, Wellington

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

May 4, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 2010s, Audio Curios, Country Life, Gareth Watkins, Radio New Zealand, Radio New Zealand National

“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

April 27, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 2010s, Arrow FM, Audio Curios, Gareth Watkins, Mark Davis, mental health, radio

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

April 20, 2016April 20, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1910s, Audio Curios, Gallipoli, Gareth Watkins, George Bissett, Radio New Zealand, RNZ Concert, WW1, WWI

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

April 13, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 2010s, Audio Curios, Gareth Watkins, John Cowan, medicine, Newstalk ZB, Rob Harley, writer

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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Audio Curios: “Dr Max”

April 6, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 2010s, Audio Curios, Children, education, Gareth Watkins, health, Live Wires, Masterton, Wairarapa

Students from St Patrick’s School, Masterton interview “Dr Max” about the importance of sleep. The interview is part of Live

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