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The one-hour recording of National Radio on Waitangi Day 2006 begins with the 5pm news read by Chris Whitta.
This is followed by Becoming New Zealand. The programme is based on the proposition that in the 30 years between 1943 and 1973, New Zealand went from being a loyal member of the British Empire to being an independent South Pacific nation.
It looks at the development of New Zealand's foreign policy during the period.
Produced and presented by George Andrews, with extensive use of archival audio from Sound Archives Nga Taonga Kōrero material[SANTK] and United Nations radio [UN]
Speakers are:
Prime Minister Peter Fraser at the 1945 San Francisco conference which drafted the United Nations charter. [SANTK]
Malcolm Templeton - long-serving Foreign Affairs officer.
Prime Minister Norman Kirk speaking against the 1972 nuclear testing by France in the South Pacific [SANTK]
Gerald Hensley - long-serving Foreign Affairs officer and diplomat.
Sir Alister McIntosh - a former head of Foreign Affairs. [SANTK and UN]
Bruce Brown - former diplomat and historian.
Tom Larkin - Foreign Affairs.
Frank Corner - former head of Foreign Affairs.
Peter Fraser speaking in Wellington during victory celebrations at the end of World War II. [SANTK]
Western Samoa's Prime Minister in October 1960 [Mata'afa Mulinu'u II] calling for independence before the United Nations trusteeship committee (speaking in Samoan, translated into English) [SANTK]
New Zealand reporter interviews Omar Adeel, leader of the United Nations observer group which supervised the Cook Islands elections [SANTK]
Sir John Marshall, Prime Minister of New Zealand, on Britain joining the EU [SANTK]
Norman Kirk speaking at Waitangi in 1973 and also postponing the Springbok rugby tour [SANTK]
Lee Kuan Yew - Singapore prime minister gives his opinion on Norman Kirk (SANTK)
Music: Big Norm - Ebony