Sounds Historical for Sunday 17 March 2013
8:10 Today in New Zealand History
First New Zealand Catholic Bishop - Francis Redwood 17 March 1874.
4'06"
8:18 Homework - choose your "Turning Point" in New Zealand history
8:19 Artist: Kokotahi Band
Song: Mountains of Mourne. My Wild Irish Rose, Sweet Rosie O'Grady
Comp: Not stated
Album: SLC 274
Label: Kiwi
Dur: 3'38"
8:26 Motoring with Robbie 7'22"
8:36 Artist: Kate Harcourt
Song: Five Little Bears
Comp: Not stated
Album: SREG 30007
Label: HMV
Dur: 2'29"
8:40 Artist: Ian Turbitt (vocal and guitar), Mouse Keelan (guitar) Colvin Steel (bass), Darryl Jones (drums).
Song: Train Bridge
Comp: Phil Tilbury
Album: Not stated
Label: Not stated
Dur: 3'27"
8:45 Alice Mackenzie recalls "seeing a moa" during 1883 when she was 8 years old at Jacksons Bay
And talks about her book Pioneers of Martins Bay. Recorded 1959.
12'06"
8:57 Artist: Paul Walden
Song: No Moa
Comp: Paul Walden
Album: Not stated
Label: EMI
Dur: 2'22" 2'22"
9:00 News
9:08 As I Remember
Sixpence To Spend by Patricia Ridding of Masterton.
3'54"
9:15 Artist: Carroll Gibbons and his Savoy Hotel Orpheans
Song: I'm Going To Get Lit Up
Comp: Not stated
Album: 743515
Label: Rajon
Dur: 2'32"
9:19 The beginning of the digital age in libraries
National Librarian Peter Scott discusses developments in this 1993 interview.
5'18"
9:25 Homework
9:26 Cartoonist Sid Scales with the story of his three years as a prisoner of war of the Japanese
Part Two, 9'16"
9:35 Artist: Ben McDonald (vocal and piano), Marian Burns (fiddle) Red McElvie, Trevor Wright and Doug Petrie.
Song: Phil the Fluter's Ball
Comp: French
Album: Not stated
Label: Not stated
Dur: 3'18" 3'18"
9:39 Bookshelf
Fading Fast. Images from New Zealand's South by David and Rita Teele and Val McMillan
Bunny Busters, 413 McDonnell Rd, Queenstown
ISBN 9780473206420
9:41 Recollections of Wairarapa pioneer, George Pain
A 1948 reading in of his recollections of the 1880s held at the Alexander Turnbull Library.
15'37"