Sounds Historical for Sunday 19 February 2012
8:08 The Girl I Left Behind Me (Langford)
Black Dyke Mills Band CD Chandos CHAN 6515 2’18”
8:11 Today in New Zealand History – 19 February 1870
The Last British Troops Leave 3’13”
8:17 As I Remember Stories by Noel Vickridge
Part 4 – The Pioneer 1920 -30 read by Phil Smith 2’51”
8:21 Letter about NZ pilots’ graves in Normandy
8:25 Look What You’ve Done (Cooper) NZ
Mike Harding and Marise McDonald CASS RNZ 9338 2’51”
8:31 Donald Monro recalls the early days of the New Zealand Opera Company in conversation with Adrienne Smith
Part 3. 9’40”
8:42 Gloria in Excelsis Deo by South Canterbury school children recorded during the centennial of the province in 1959
8:50 The Railway Days at Kingston remembered by Brian McKeown of Porirua
Part 1
8:58 Pedro – the singing dog – introduced by Bill Lethwick
9:07 As I Remember
A Trip to Purakanui in the Old Days by Russell Grigg of Blenheim, read Phil Smith.
9:16 Two songs by members of the wartime Pacific Concert Party
9:21 The Lonely Road sung by Rachel More
9:23 The centennial of the “Earnslaw”
A Spectrum documentary in which Jack Perkins goes on board for a 1976 trip to Mt Nicholas across Lake Wakatipu.
The “Earnslaw” Theme (Goodwin)
NZSO CD Naxos 8.557417 34’36”