Broadcasting - Hilda Vincent. 1993.

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Year
1993
Reference
13919
Media type
Audio
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Rights Information
Year
1993
Reference
13919
Media type
Audio
Item unavailable online
Categories
Nonfiction radio programs
Radio interviews
Radio programs
Sound recordings
Duration
00:15:15
Broadcast Date
10 Oct 1993
Credits
RNZ Collection
Sullivan, Jim, 1946-
VINCENT, Hilda
3YA (Radio station : Christchurch, N.Z.)
2ZK (Radio station : Wanganui, N.Z.)

Jim Sullivan speaks with Hilda Vincent - a radio pioneer and one, if not the first woman radio announcer. She began her career with station 2ZK in the Wanganui area.(early 1930's) Mentions Grace Green and her work at Christchurch's 3YA. Recalls her arrival in New Zealand, the Depression, the radio station ordering and selling gramaphone records to the public etc.
Interview recorded August 1993.
First Broadcast on Sunday Evenings with Jim Sullivan 10/10/93.
Duration 15'15". Tape one of two tapes (second tape not in our possession, but in Jim Sullivan's).