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Kingi Tahiwi talks from London

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Year
1942
Reference
31663
Media type
Audio

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Year
1942
Reference
31663
Media type
Audio

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Duration
00:29:12
Broadcast Date
06 Jul 1942
Credits
RNZ Collection
Tahiwi, Kingi Te Aho Aho Gillings, -1942 (d.1942), Speaker/Kaikōrero
Commercial Broadcasting Service. New Zealand (estab. 1936, closed 1962), Broadcaster
British Broadcasting Corporation, Broadcaster

BBC shortwave broadcasts to New Zealand by Pilot Officer Kingi Tahiwi who was an announcer with 2ZB before the World War II. These were broadcast as part of the BBC's "Calling New Zealand" programme.

He talks about the wartime mood of the British, describes the English and Scottish countryside and makes comparisons with New Zealand. He mentions London taxis, the tube, workers, wartime restrictions, hospitality shown towards New Zealanders, and the New Zealand war effort. (Broadcast 06 July, 1942).

The second talk largely concerns his impressions of English theatre, cinema and broadcasting. (Broadcast 7 Aug 1942) [incomplete]

[Kingi Tahiwi's aircraft was lost at sea while flying over the Meditteranean in September 1942]