Sounds Historical for Sunday 16 August 2009

8:11 Under Paris Skies (Giraud)

Linn Lorkin and Herschel CD RRCD 1001

8:16 Today in New Zealand History

French Immigrants at Akaroa 16 August, 1840.

8:22 From the Back Country

Joan Butland, Ivor Wordsworth, Molly Wintell and Nancy Herbert recall their time in the Women's Land Service during World War Two.

8:34 Bookshelf

In Defence of Our Land: New Zealand's Historic Harbour Forts
By Russell Glackin
Penguin ISBN 978 014301186 6

8:37 Back From the Hills (Curtis)

Martin Curtis CD GRCD 023

8:45 Dorothy Butler recalls her 1930s Auckland childhood

8:57 The 1950s - poem read by Bill Manhire

9:09 As I Remember

Holiday Camping by Jim Wilkinson, read by Phil Smith

9:17 I Love Paris (Cole Porter)

Howard Morrison Quartet 45 Festival GSP 051

9:22 Recordings from the first days of the Auckland Harbour Bridge

9:32 A Rational Approach/Gumboots March (Clarke)

John Clarke and Lower Hutt Civic Band 45 EMI FEP 1 CS

9:38 Book of the Week

The New Oxford History of New Zealand
Edited by Giselle Byrnes
Oxford ISBN 9780195584714

Jim Sullivan talks to editor Giselle Byrnes