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Sounds Historical for Sunday 20 April 2014

  • Sounds Historical Hour One - 20 April 2014

    8:05 PM.Sounds Historical with Jim Sullivan gives listeners the chance to learn about the colourful,dramatic, and often remarkable events and people of New Zealand's past. 8pm to 9pm. Audio

  • Sounds Historical Hour Two - 20 April 2014

    8:05 PM.Sounds Historical with Jim Sullivan gives listeners the chance to learn about the colourful,dramatic, and often remarkable events and people of New Zealand's past. 9pm to 10pm. Audio

8:07 Today in New Zealand History.

Auckland's first sales of city sections, 20 April 1841 4'22"

8:13 Artist: Billy Eckstine

Song: My Foolish Heart
Composer; Young
Album:British First Number Ones
Label: N/S 3'04"

8:16 Homework: From which Olympic event does this commentary come?

Which of these prime ministers did not serve overseas with the army - Robert Muldoon, Bill Rowling, Keith Holyoake?

8:18 Peter Downes recalls the radio serials of the 1950s and 1960s Part 3 13'32"

8:33 ANZAC A 1969 documentary by Laurie Swindell in which veterans share their recollections. 28'27"

Families with Hawke's Bay connections are being asked to try and help identify the voices of five unidentified Gallipoli veterans recorded in this 1969 radio documentary by the late Napier broadcaster Laurie Swindell. Sound Archives is seeking the names of the men featured in the programme.

8:59 Radio New Zealand Studio Orchestra

Song: Lucky Me
Composer; Black/Bourke
Album: Orchestral Gold
Label: Tartar TRL 005 2'56"

9:08 As I Remember

Fleet Weather by Jack Roper of Taumarunui. Read by Duncan Smith. 3'27"

9:13 Doris Day

Song: Bewitched
Composer; Rodgers/Heart
Album: British First Number Ones
Label: N/S 2'43"

9:16 Hec Clare of Roxburgh

Now 100 years old, Hec Clare of Roxburgh recalls joining up in 1939, the fighting in Crete, the trek over the mountains, capture and four years as a prisoner of war. Part One.

9:33 Homework: From which Olympic event does this commentary come?

Which of these prime ministers did not serve overseas with the army - Robert Muldoon, Bill Rowling, Keith Holyoake?
16'26"

9:35 Jo Stafford

Song: A-Round the Corner
Composer; Trad
Album: British First Number Ones
Label: N/S 2'35"

9:38 Mrs Whiteman, Hamilton, 1946

Song: Synove's Song
Composer: Kjernulf
Album: Sound Archives
Label: 2'49"

9:42 Book of the Week

Flying Kiwis - a history of OE by Jude Wilson.
Otago University Press ISBN 978 1877 578267 16'11"

9:58 Commercial - Kerridge Odeon

9:59 Radio New Zealand Studio Orchestra

Song: My Love
Composer; McCartney
Album: Orchestral Gold
Label: Tartar TRL 005 3'20"