‘Hostilities will cease…’ – Memories of the end of World War 1
Sarah Johnston has selected some recordings from the sound archive in which New Zealanders recall the end of World War One in November 1918.
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WWI
Remembering New Zealand’s “darkest day”
Commemorations will be held around New Zealand and at Ypres in France this week to mark the centenary of what has been called “our darkest day”, when 843 New Zealanders were killed in just a few hours on the morning of the 12th of October 1917, near Passchendaele during World War I.
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Bringing Lyttelton’s Past to Life
– By Sarah Johnston (Client Services Co-ordinator – Radio, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) Historic figures from Lyttelton’s past have
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The New Zealanders – and Tanks – Make Their Debut on The Somme
By Sarah Johnston (Client Services Coordinator – Radio, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) September 15 marks the centenary of the
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National Poetry Day
To mark National Poetry Day, here is a historic radio broadcast from 1939 by politician and novelist John A. Lee
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Audio Curios: It’s in the Boot!
– By Gareth Watkins (Radio Collection Developer, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) Earlier this week I stumbled across a number
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Audio Curios: The Horses Stayed Behind
– By Gareth Watkins (Radio Collection Developer, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) Recently Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision has
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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: The Last Post
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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“Radio – as necessary for the mind, as water is for the body”: 2YA’s Tītahi Bay Transmitter Opens in 1937
By Sarah Johnston (Client Services Coordinator – Radio, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) If you have driven into Wellington from
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