Sounds Historical for Sunday 26 July 2009

8:12 Today in New Zealand History

26 July 1911 opening of the first radio telegraph station at Wellington.

8:20 Whispering Medley

The Swingalongs CD

8:27 From the Back Country

Jack Perkins talks to Betty Gleadow about a 1970s sea rescue.

8:39 South Medley

Trad Seven CD Wairarapa on CD 001

8:45 If You've Got The Money

Pat McMinn 78 Tanza Z 44

8:50 The Hamilton Renegades - a gang story from 1968.

John Ahu

9:00 News

9:09 As I Remember

The Limited Express by Adrienne Nightingale of New Plymouth.

Read by Sonia Yee.

9:15 Linden Lea (Williams)

Hutt Valley High School Junior Girls Choir 1962 LP PR 260

9:18 As I Remember

The Big Snow of 1939 by Frank Cartwright of Blenheim.

9:23 You'll Never Walk Alone

Les and Sonia Andrews CD

9:26 Frank van Brucken recalls emigrating to New Zealand in the 1950s

9:42 Now Is The Hour (Scott)

Geraldo and His Orchestra 78 Parlophone A 7669 RNZ CD

9:46 Book of the Week Women and their Words

Janet McCallum
Fraser Books
ISBN 978 0 9582988 3 4

Jim Sullivan talks to Charlotte Macdonald about pioneering women journalists.