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New Zealand representative rugby union team, New Zealand vs Britain, 1930

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Our oldest recorded sports broadcast – the All Blacks vs the British Lions, June 21, 1930

June 22, 2017June 22, 2017 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 1930s, All Blacks, Audio Curios, broadcast, cantor, lions, nepia, radio, Radio New Zealand National, rugby, Sarah Johnston, Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero, Sports, tour

By Sarah Johnston (Senior Client Access Liaison – Takawaenga ā-Iwi Matua, Nga Taonga Sound & Vision) The first test between

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Peter Downes: Early Radio Recordings and Archiving in Aotearoa New Zealand

March 22, 2016May 12, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 28th Māori Battalion, 2YA, Arch Curry, Asquith Thompson, Aunt Daisy, Aunt Gwen (Gwen Shepherd), Billy Hart, Bungin’ 'Em In, Chester Wilmot, Cicely Debenham, Edmund Hillary, Hello My Dearie, Jim Hartstonge, Jim Sullivan, L.G. Lukey, Lionel Sceats, Lord Bledisloe, Monte Cassino, National Film Unit, NZBC, On Parade, One Man's Family, Peter Downes, Professor Robert Jack, Queen Elizabeth II, Queen's Tour 1953, radio, Radio New Zealand, Rosemary Collier, Royal tour, Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero, sound preservation, sound technology, Tangiwai railway disaster, Television New Zealand, Uncle Bruce (Bruce Stennett), Wally Marshall, World War II, World War Two, WWII

Peter Downes has had a long and distinguished association with broadcasting and sound archiving in Aotearoa. In this presentation he

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Was the “real” Anzac biscuit … a gingernut?

May 22, 2014March 29, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision baking, Camilla Wheeler, gingernuts, Helena Marion Barnard, Red Cross, Sarah Johnston, Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero, WWI

– By Camilla Wheeler and Sarah Johnston of Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero A 1965 radio interview held in

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Mrs Barnard’s Gingernuts Recipe (and Sound Archives updated version)

May 22, 2014March 29, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision baking, Camilla Wheeler, cooking, food, gingernuts, Helena Marion Barnard, Red Cross, Sarah Johnston, Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero, WWI

*Read the story about Mrs Barnard’s Anzac gingernuts here. Ingredients Mrs Barnard’s original recipe Halved (Metric) Halved (by volume) Plain

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Vincent Ward, As He Was in 1990

May 8, 2014March 29, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision Alex Porter, Edge of The Earth, Morning Report, Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero, Vincent Ward

Alex Porter (SANTK Preservation Archivist) was lucky enough to meet Vincent Ward when he received his Honorary Doctorate at The

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