World War Two – Gauge

Jazz at Shepheard’s Hotel, 1941

October 17, 2022October 19, 2022 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 1 Comment 1940s, Egypt, Mobile Unit, music, New Zealand Broadcasting Service, NZ history, Sarah Johnston, Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero, World War Two, WWII

By sound history researcher Sarah Johnston In both World Wars of the twentieth century, New Zealand forces found themselves fighting

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A wavy archival journey

September 7, 2021October 13, 2021 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1940s, Libya, Ronald Joseph Moore, U Series, World War Two

An interesting picture and intriguing recording sent David Klein on a journey of his own across the desert, time and

Senior Archivist Sound Sandy Ditchburn working on a U Series disc

Archiving precious World War Two recordings

August 1, 2019February 28, 2020 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments lacquer discs, Mobile Unit, Mobile Unit truck, sound archiving, sound preservation, U Series, Useries, World War Two

Ngā Taonga is delighted that the World War Two New Zealand Mobile Broadcasting Unit Recordings have been inscribed to the

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Celebrating Christmas in the Desert, 1942

December 22, 2016February 6, 2017 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 2 Comments 1940s, 28th Māori Battalion, Africa, Charles Bennett, Christmas, Jesse Mulligan, Māori Battalion, Mobile Unit, New Zealand Broadcasting Service, NZBS, Porirua, Radio New Zealand, Sarah Johnston, Silent Night, Tapu te Po, Wiki Katene, World War II, World War Two, WWII

– By Sarah Johnston (Client Services Coordinator – Radio, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) Silent Night – Tapu te Po (Christmas

“A Date that will Live in Infamy” – The 75th Anniversary of Pearl Harbor

December 7, 2016December 15, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1940s, Auckland, David Spencer Finlayson, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Hawaii, Kiribati, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Otago Daily Times, Pacific, Pearl Harbor, radio, Sarah Johnston, Thomas Matthews, United States, World War Two, WWII

– By Sarah Johnston (Client Services Coordinator – Radio, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) A “date that will live in

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Rowley Habib

April 5, 2016April 13, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Māori Battalion, poetry, radio, Rowley Habib, World War Two, writer, WWII

Kua mate a Rowley Habib o Ngāti Tūwharetoa. He kaituhi, he kaitito rotarota, kua hoki ki ngā mātua i te

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

March 22, 2016May 12, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 18 Comments 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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Audio Curios: The Last Post

March 16, 2016March 21, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 2010s, Audio Curios, Gareth Watkins, music, Radio New Zealand, Radio New Zealand National, RNZ Concert, World War II, World War Two, WW1, WWI, WWII

Bugler Trevor Bremner and producer Shelley Wilkinson discuss the various bugle calls that make up the “Last Post” (“Bugle Stories,” RNZ

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An Apple a Day….

February 10, 2016February 29, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 2 Comments 1940s, 1950s, agriculture, apples, Children, Ivan Perrin, Jesse Mulligan, radio, Radio New Zealand, Sarah Johnston, World War II, World War Two

By Sarah Johnston (Client Services Coordinator – Radio, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) The early months of the year are

Sounds of Lost Christchurch

September 24, 2015April 12, 2016 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1940s, 1950s, 1970s, 1980s, Christchurch, Christchurch earthquake, radio, royal visit, World War Two, WWII

Like many Christchurch inhabitants, our sound branch of Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision (then known as Sound Archives Ngā Taonga