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Sounds Historical for Sunday 20 March 2011

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8:12 Today in New Zealand History

20 March 1911, "first flight" (actual first had been in February) in New Zealand- the Walsh brothers.

8:18 Bookshelf; Tom Hungerford by William Baldwin

University of Otago English Department

8:19 Bright Fine Gold (Anon/Moroney)

Pioneer Pog 'n' Scroggin Bush Band CD

8:23 As I Remember

The Woman in Red by Nancy Norton, read by Rebecca Blundell.

8:28 Unchained Melody (North)

Les Baxter and his Orchestra CD

8:32 Address by Lord Louis Mountbatten at a Civic Luncheon, Wellington, in 1956

8:42 The Diggers (Wright)

Donny MacLean of Indulgence CD

8:46 Sullivan's Century

1911 headlines read by Sharon Crosbie

We Parted On the Shore (Lauder)

Harry Lauder CD Acrobat ACRCD 170

8:54 Puha and Pakeha (Derrett)

Rod Derrett 45 HMV 7EGM 6093

9:08 As I Remember

First Day at Secondary School by Russell Grigg of Blenhein, read by Ryan Smith

9:14 St Patricks Day in 1911

I'll Take You Home Again Kathleen

Leo McCaffrey 45 RCA RPX 1134

9:20 Bookshelf

Otaki Historical Society Historical Journal Volume 32
P.O.Box 50
Otaki 5512
ISSN 0110-5647

9:21 Speech by Lady Mounbatten when opening the YWCA building in Wellington in 1948

9:30 Zambesi (De Wall)

Lou Busch CD

9:33 Death by Steam Tram

This day in 1884 Oliver Wakefield, under secretary for mines and nephew of Edward Gibbon Wakefield was killed when he fell under a tram in Dunedin. Extracts from contemporary reports.

9:36 Wanganui

Part one of a 1940s compilation by the NZBS Mobile Unit of music and memories from Wanganui.