Sounds Historical for Sunday 22 May 2011

8:13 Gabriel Read and his discovery of gold at Tuapeka 150 years ago on 20 May 1861

Extract from the novel "Tom Hungerford" written by his prospecting companion William Baldwin who gives a first-hand description of Read.. The story was published in 1872 and reprinted in 2011 by the English Department at Otago University. ISBN 9780473180775

8:15 Gold at Your Fingers (John/Lynch)

Mark Hadlow and Chorus CS CD Rush CD 001 2'46"

From the musical "Rush" - words by David John and music by Kevin Lynch. First performed Regent Theatre Dunedin 24 September 1998.

Set in Dunstan rush of 1862. Kevin Lynch died November 2008.

8:22 Homework:

What do Bell Block, Milson, Levels and Hilderthorpe have in common?

8:23 An Anzac letter from Arthur Redfern. a Quarter Master Sergeant with Auckland Mounted Rifles at Gallipoli

8:31 The Rose of No Man's Land

The Swingalongs CD

8:35 Kaye Lamberton of Auckland recalls his boyhood in Wellington in the 1930s.

Part Two.

8:43 A Letter from Crete

From Private George Allan of the West Coast who was killed by a German sniper shortly after the letter was written.

8:47 Old Comrades March (Teike)

Band of the New Zealand Army 1979 CS LP EMI HSD 1082

8:56 Tomorrow in New Zealand History

23 May 1820 Russian Ships on New Zealand Coast

9:07 As I Remember

The Seafarers' Birds by Gavin Dobie of Lower Hutt, read by Gavin McGinley

9:16 Stop Your Ticklin' Jock (Lauder) recorded 1907

Harry Lauder CD Acrobat ACRCD 170 4'07"

9:21 Homework

What do Bell Block, Milson, Levels and Hilderthorpe have in common?

9:22 The Battle of Crete 70 years ago

Sandy Thomas recalls the retreat from Greece and the fighting on Crete.

9:36 Shanties By The Way

Phil Garland CD Kiwi SLC 273

Originally Australian poem of 1865 which came to the West Coast gold fields.

9:40 Book of the Week

Making Sheep Country by Robert Peden
Auckland University Press
ISBN 9781869404857