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Sounds Historical for Sunday 29 June 2014

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8:09 Today in New in New Zealand History 4’28”

29 June 1862, wreck of the White Swan

8:17 Song: The Old Windwhistle Pub 2’10”

Artist: Phil Garland
Composer: Charles/Garland
Album: Billycan Ballads
Label: Kiwi SLC 060 

8:20 Homework – questions for June

1. Name the female singer
2. Which New Zealand Prime Minister captained the Canterbury rugby team?

8:24 Rivers of Rum. Part One 13’26”

Laurie Swindell talks to three old sea captains in Hawkes Bay about their sailing ship experiences. Recorded in 1968.            

8:40 Song: The Homing Waltz

Artist: Vera Lynn
Composer: Connor
Album: Britain’s First Number Ones
Label: N/S n0 9 in 1952

8:45 Peter Fry 13’24”

Broadcaster Peter Fry retires next week after 46 years on the air. Here he talks to Mike Lee about the role of the newsreader and we hear an example of an early motoring show he produced for commercial radio.                

9:06 As I Remember 4’19”

The Domini by Glenis Henry of Whangarei, read by Billie Pryde.

9:13 Song: Trumpet Tune 2’51”

Artist: Ken Smith (trumpet) Stanley Jackson (organ)
Composer: John Stanley
Album: Trumpet Voluntary
Label: Kiwi EC 24

9:16 Homework – questions for June

1. Name the female singer
2. Which New Zealand Prime Minister captained the Canterbury rugby team?

9:18 The Polio Epidemics - Part 1 16”59”

A 1993 Spectrum documentary produced by Jerome Cvitanovich. In 1916 over 1,000 cases of polio were reported in New Zealand – with 123 deaths. Over the next five decades fear of polio took hold with a series of epidemics. (Repeated in error from last week) Part Two next week.

9:37 Song: My Task 3’05”

Artist: Uncle Tom’s Friendly Road Children’s Choir
Composer: Ray
Album: Thanks Be To God
Label: Kiwi EA 71                             

9:41 Bookshelf

A History of Crime by Dinah Holman, Ravensbourne Books  ISBN 978 0473 272791
Treble Cone by Matt Conway, Clean Green Press ISBN 978 0473 233136

9:44 Song: My Home on the Hill 2’06"

Artist: Pat Rogers
Composer: Rogers
Album: Pat Rogers Sings
Label:HMV 7EGM 6064    

9:47 Re-creating Christchurch 10’38”

Historian Geoff Rice, who is working on a history of Victoria Square, talks about that part of Christchurch of which little remains after the earthquakes.