Pages tagged with: radio broadcasts

Hear an excerpt from a radio documentary about the North Island main trunk line.

Hear an excerpt from a radio documentary about the North Island main trunk line.

Hear a radio commentary of the Queen's progress up Queen Street during the 1953/4 royal tour

Hear the broadcast from the VE Day parade in Dunedin.

Radio  broadcast of Aunt Daisy

Hear extract from 'Fast Lunches' a Radio Digest magazine programme broadcast on the YA network in October 1956. Fast food in the 1950s was not quite what we understand by the term today, but the trend in food marketing was clearly recognisable even at this early stage.

John Blumsky reports from Mt Erebus after the disaster.

Radio interviews about juvenile delinquency and the Mazengarb Report

Radio documentary about the evacuation of Gallipoli

This clip narrates the contentious establishment of a prayer for the House in the first days of 1854.

Mr W.J. Anderson, a survivor, describes his experience of the Tangiwai disaster.

Piripi Walker (right) and Tama Te Huki in the studio of the Wellington Maori language radio station, Te Upoko o Te Ika, on its first day of broadcast in 1987.

Labour’s John A. Lee was among the first politicians to exploit the huge potential of radio broadcasting as an electioneering medium.

Prime Minister Sidney Holland declares a state of emergency during the 1951 waterfront dispute.

Hear an interview with George Harrison and Ringo Starr.

Hear an interview with Paul McCartney and John Lennon.

A media scrum awaited The Beatles shortly after their arrival in Wellington on 21 June 1964.

A Wahine crew member describes the terrible scene and the sounds of lifeboats during the disaster.

A crew member describes his experiences aboard the Wahine after the abandon ship order.

Hear the recollections of a female passenger who was aboard the Wahine when it sank.

Hear an excerpt from a radio documentary about the North Island main trunk line.

Charles Wheeler, long-standing press gallery reporter from the turn of the 20th century and parliamentary commentator, is at the microphone for the first broadcast of Parliament, 25 March 1936.

Hear a radio broadcast of the sinking of the inter-island ferry Wahine.

Sir Bernard Freyberg used Empire Day to deliver some of his more significant speeches

Hear Winston McCarthy, sports commentator from the 1950s

Hear an extract from a story by Anthony Scott Veitch, which was recorded by Amalgamated Wireless, Sydney.

Hear Today in New Zealand history, April 25: the spirit of ANZAC, which was recorded in 1950.

The Queen delivers her Christmas message from Government House, Auckland, 25 December 1953