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72 years ago a polio epidemic was keeping New Zealand children at home and indoors.  Audio, Gallery

We listen to Ngā Taonga recordings which shine a light on the changing nature of conservation over the past 100 years. Audio

In the early 1990s, RNZ produced a series of programmes called "A Strange Land" featuring half-hour interviews with migrants to New Zealand reflecting on their experiences as they made a new life in… Audio, Gallery

Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision, Sarah Johnston takes a look back at the battle of the breakfast brands on our airwaves over the years. Audio, Gallery

New Zealand sound recordings made 80 years ago in the thick of World War II have been recognised as taonga of significant cultural value. Audio, Gallery

The worst shipwreck in Wellington waters was not the sinking of the Wahine in April 1968 (a tragedy which cost 53 lives.) Today is the 111th anniversary of a shipwreck off the south coast which saw… Audio, Gallery

This morning the Prime Minister officially opened a new museum at Waitangi, one which commemorates Maori participation in New Zealand's armed forces. Sarah Johnston from Nga Taonga Sound & Vision… Audio, Gallery

In the sound archives of Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision, the memories of summers past linger on and Sarah Johnston is back for 2020 to relive some of them with us. Audio, Gallery

With a week to go until Christmas 2019, it's time now to take a listen to some Christmases past. Audio, Gallery

Last Saturday marked the 35th anniversary of one of New Zealand's worst riots. Audio, Gallery

When HIV-AIDs arrived in New Zealand in 1984, homosexuality was still illegal, condoms were a bit of a dirty joke and you certainly didn't talk on the radio about sexually-transmitted diseases. Audio, Gallery

Thursday marks the 40th anniversary of New Zealand's worst peace-time disaster - the crash of Air New Zealand Flight TE901 on Mt Erebus in Antarctica in 1979, with the loss of 257 lives Audio, Gallery

Hoiho's win in this year's "Bird of the Year" competition prompted Sarah Johnston from Nga Taonga Sound & Vision to take a dive into the sound archives. Audio, Gallery

Last weekend marked the 75th anniversary of the arrival in New Zealand of over 700 Polish child refugees during World War II. Commemorations were held at Pahīatua. Video, Audio, Gallery

In honour of Diwali, Sarah Johnston has been listening to how ties between New Zealand and India have been recorded on the airwaves - and saved in the archives of Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision. Audio, Gallery

Snippets of sound recalling life in South Canterbury in the 1950s, have been retrieved by Ngā Taonga Sound and Vision from rare and fragile paper recording tape. Sarah Johnston shares what she found.

Never-before seen film of the immediate aftermath of the 1931 Napier earthquake is now on show at the National Library building in Wellington. Audio, Gallery

In today's visit to the sound archives of Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision with Sarah Johnston we hear recordings about the history of the world's only mainland albatross colony. Audio, Gallery

It was a Kiwi cultural phenomenon from the late 1970s through until the mid-1990s, spawning countless cartoons In today's Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision, Sarah Johnston looks back at the audio legacy of… Audio, Gallery

In today's visit to the sound archives of Nga Taonga Sound & Vision with Sarah Johnston, we will hear some of their 'most-requested' historic rugby recordings. Audio, Gallery