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National Poetry Day

August 26, 2016August 12, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1930s, book, Dunedin, John A Lee, literature, London, National Poetry Day, poetry, radio, Robin Hyde, World War I, World War One, WW1, WWI

To mark National Poetry Day, here is a historic radio broadcast from 1939 by politician and novelist John A. Lee

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Rob Muldoon’s Pineapple Whip: The ‘Personality Cook Book’ – A 1971 Snapshot of New Zealand Broadcasting, Celebrity, Social and Culinary History

January 30, 2014June 11, 2020 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 10 Comments 1970s, advertising, Aunt Daisy, Barbara Basham, Barry Crump, Bert Sutcliffe, Bill Toft, Bishop Alan Pyatt, celebrity, Cherry Raymond, Colin Meads, cooking, Coronation Street, Doreen, food, George Nepia, Godfrey Bowen, Guy Ngan, Ian Cross, Ian Johnstone, Irvine Yardley, John A Lee, John Pascoe, Kate Harcourt, Liz Brook, Marama Martin, Maurice Smyth, Merv Smith, NZBC, Patricia Bartlett, Person to Person, Peter Brian, Peter Cape, Peter Snell, Petone, Petone Free Kindergarten, Philip Liner, Ralph Love, recipe books, Reg Chibnall, Robert Muldoon, Robin King, Sarah Davy, Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero, Stan Meads

– By Sarah Davy, Director, Collect [Division] Acquisition and Research, NZFA. Being a sucker for vintage recipe books, I recently

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