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Tangiwai remembered.

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Year
1993
Reference
12847
Media type
Audio

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Rights Information
Year
1993
Reference
12847
Media type
Audio

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Categories
Historical radio programs
Radio programs
Sound recordings
Duration
00:30:11
Broadcast Date
26 Dec 1993
Credits
RNZ Collection
Sullivan, Jim, 1946-, Presenter
Lloyd Davies, Alison, Producer
Holland, S. G. (Sidney George), 1893-1961, Speaker/Kaikōrero
THORNE, Ted, Speaker/Kaikōrero
HOLMAN, Delia, Speaker/Kaikōrero
Elizabeth II, Queen of Great Britain, 1926-, Speaker/Kaikōrero
Philip, Prince, consort of Elizabeth II, Speaker/Kaikōrero

A programme produced for the 40th anniversary of New Zealand's worst rail disaster which occurred at Tangiwai on December 24, 1953.
Includes radio actuality and interviews after the fact. Voices heard in the programme are those of survivors, rescuers, Prime Minister Sidney Holland, Rear Admiral Ted Thorne, Mrs Delia Holman, H. M. Queen Elizabeth II, and a message marking the anniversary from H. R. H. the Duke of Edinburgh.