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A compilation of seven audio cuts:
1. H. Raymond Ashworth plays the organ at Whitley Methodist Church in New Plymouth in 1959.
2. Dr H. B. Turbott [the 'Radio Doctor'] speaks after being elected President of the World Health Organisation's 13th assembly in Geneva in 1960. Dr Turbott thanks the retiring president for the honour given to New Zealand, and later speaks of the progress of medicine in the fight against malaria, smallpox and other diseases - mainly tropical. Recorded in 1960.
3. Bob Smith talks about British bombs on parachutes in Crete; and Paul Donahue describes a German parachute attack. Recorded in the 1960s.
4. The BBC's 1953-1954 Royal Tour commentator, Wynford Vaughan-Thomas, reports from the top of Mount Egmont/Taranaki. He tells of climbing the mountain, and writing "God save Her Majesty" in the snow.
5. H. J. Southam describes his adaptation to blindness and his book "Blind Safari".
6. Pei Te Hurinui Jones talks about early books on Māori chants and waiata.
7. A collection of opinions on ANZAC Day by three people: war widow, Dorothy Williams; ex-2NZEF solider and later radio archivist, A. M. Thomson; and war historian, Walter Murphy [compiled by Jim Henderson].