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Doug Laurenson talk on wartime music

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Duration
00:08:53
Credits
RNZ Collection
Laurenson, Doug
Fields, Gracie, 1898-1979
Dietrich, Marlene
Lynn, Vera
New Zealand Broadcasting Service. Mobile Recording Unit

This features a talk by a member of the wartime Mobile Broadcasting Unit, Doug Laurenson. He gives a general overview of the unit's work in North Africa and makes special mention of the soldier who recorded a message home to his favourite dairy cow.
His talk is interspersed with wartime songs:
[excepts of]
- Wish Me Luck by Gracie Fields
- Māori Battalion
- Lili Marlene by Marlene Dietrich
- A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square by Vera Lynn
- We'll Meet Again by Vera Lynn

This recording appears to have been made to mark his retirement from broadcasting. [Exact date unknown 1964?]