Sounds Historical for Sunday 6 September 2009
Sunday 6 September 2009
8:08 Intro
8:10 Today in New Zealand History for 7 September
A story of a Maori warrior.
8:17 Bookshelf
Dear Alison
Edited by Simon Pollard
Penguin ISDN 978 0143304409
8:18 The Music/History Quiz
A 1940s radio feature introduced by Fred Barker. Singer Audrey MacNamara and pianist John Parkin.
8:27 Sullivan's Century Quiz (1952)
Read by David Knowles
High Noon (Washington)
Frankie Lane CD Old Gold OG 9082
8:34 From the As I Remember Archive
Nursing in the 1950s by Isobel Campbell, read by Cheryl Watts and first broadcast in 2002.
8:42 The Income Tax Inspector (Flanders and Swann)
Inia Te Wiata CD Kiwi Pacific SLC 248
Piano Maurice Till - recorded Wellington Town Hall 1962
8:50 From the Back Country
Harold Clarke remembers running the post office at Doubtful Sound in the 1960s.
9:06 As I Remember
The Rangiora Free Public Library by Roger Ridley Smith, read by Justin Gregory.
9:16 The Golden Shears (Bird)
The Corvettes Cassette Kiwi TC KML 6
9:17 Homework
9:21 Jeff Barker reports on new Fiat railcars on the Picton-Invercargill run in the mid-1950s
9:35 Book of the Week
Helen Clarke - A Political Life
by Denis Welch
Penguin ISBN 978 014320241 7
Jim Sullivan talks to author Denis Welch about his biography of Helen Clarke. Is it really too soon to be looking at Helen Clarke's life?