The Vault
with Deborah Nation
Audio
- The Vault for 3 December 2010 - Homebush
- Deborah Nation dusts off a series of recordings made with successive generations of a Canterbury lineage whose family homestead was one of the casualties of the earthquake on 4 September 2010 . (duration: 11′45″)
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- The Vault for 24 September 2010 - Beatlemania
- There was a week in the mid 1960's when"revolution"hit quiet, conservative old New Zealand. (duration: 11′12″)
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- The Vault for 17 September 2010 - Vaccination
- These days parents question the need to vaccinate, but 50-years ago when disease was much more prevalent, parents were less inclined to question. (duration: 11′34″)
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- The Vault for 6 August 2010 - Teeth
- The Vault delves back into our dental records. (duration: 9′40″)
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- The Vault for 28 May 2010 - The Big OE
- Kiwis are renowned travelers. How else do we connect with a world, which is largely so far away? The subject has preoccupied us over the years and on the Vault, Deborah Nation finds travel tips and observations from our Radio Sound Archives dating back to the late 60's. (duration: 11′26″)
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- The Vault for 21 May 2010 - Handwritten Letters
- Deb Nation explores some treasures from our Sound Archives relating to the hand written word. (duration: 13′24″)
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- The Vault for 16 April 2010 - 18 Years On
- Deb Nation meets Oliver, 18 years after his baby burblings featured in a programme called Parent Talk. Now aged 20, Oliver hears his mother describe postnatal depression, and recounts his teenage years, spent struggling with mental illness. (duration: 10′57″)
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- The Vault for 9 April 2010: Whale Hunters
- Deb Nation uncovers some classic audio, from the Radio Sound Archives, on the last of our whale hunters. (duration: 13′25″)
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3 December 2010 - Quake Requiem
A twisted brick ruin - Homebush, the 6th generation property belonging to Jim and Louise Deans, became an emblematic image worldwide, for the massive New Zealand earthquake centred near Darfield, North West of Christchurch, this September.
Deborah Nation dusts off historic interviews with the celebrated Canterbury family, made on location, over the last 60 years.
29 October 2010 - Porridge and Scrunch
Health Camps began in New Zealand in the late 1920’s as an “experiment” conducted by Dr Elizabeth Gunn on gifted farmland just out of Bulls.
The Vault finds recordings of children and staff at Roxburgh Health Camp- in which the plate de jour was a form of hard bread called Scrunch, eaten daily for breakfast and dinner.
24 September 2010 - Beatlemania
Everyone remembers when the Beatles came to New Zealand in June 1964. Police were totally unprepared and the crowds went wild… Or did they?
According to rarely heard archival material held in the Radio Sound Archives, the Beatles thought our crowds were rather tame, in comparison to the much louder Australian variety.
The four boys from Liverpool were nearing the end of their far eastern tour and during their 6 days in New Zealand interviews held in hotels and on planes often deteriorate into playful banter.
17 September 2010 - Polio- the plague on children past
These days parents often question the need to vaccinate children…but 50 years ago, a vaccine administered as a pink drink in a little white cup, was hailed as a wonder drug…rescuing our children from the epidemic which had plagued the Nation….Deborah Nation reminds us of that time.
13 August 2010 - A touch of the exotic
New Zealanders once relied on the wireless for a touch of the exotic, and it often came in stories relayed back home by our soldiers overseas.
Lieutenant Brittenden of Christchurch shared, via the airwaves, the colourful experience of attending an Arab feast, complete with galloping horses, bands playing and dancing soldiers.
Joe Casey and Allan Reid went along to a traditional Japanese Tea house with microphone in hand, and a detailed description of the process was recorded.
Meanwhile Nina Golding offers beautifully dictated Viennese recipes, to round out this selection of the exotic.
Right: Arab Feast, Drawing by Pat Johnston. Abqaiq Woman's Group Favorite Recipes, Abqaiq, Saudi Arabia, 1953.
6 August 2010 - Filing the sharp edges-Teeth
Deborah Nation sees what she can pull out of the Radio Sound Archives on the subject of teeth.
Among her findings are a J Force Wartime recording by Major Fred Aikle about the nature of Japanese teeth, in which it is revealed that they do not suffer from tooth decay as much as we do, due to their simple diet and the different mineral content of their soil and water.
Searching the on line data base she rediscovers an interview with horse dentist Paddy Byrne, which involves putting hands into the horses mouth and noisy filing of teeth to round off the sharp edges.
28 May 2010 - The Big O.E.
Kiwis are renowned travellers. How else do we connect with a world which is largely so far away?
21 May 2010 - Hand-written Letters
Ironically the written word takes centre stage as we delve into the Sound Archives, Nga Taonga Korero. Letters, read for radio, from hand written wartime correspondence, to a Valentine note placed on a pillow with a rose from the garden, get a fresh airing and hearing.
16 April 2010
Oliver
9 April 2010
The grizzly process of whale hunting is captured in live recordings held in the New Zealand Sound Archives Nga Taonga Korero, along with the stories of father and son whalers Charlie and Joe Heberley.
Deborah Nation explores the transition from an industry based on killing whales to one which celebrates the magnificent mammal alive and well.
(Photo supplied by On Track/New Zealand Railways.)
26 February 2010
Bodgies and widgies of the 50's and lost souls of the 70's, Deb Nation delves into Our Radio Sound Archives, and discovers parents and teens are forever trying to work each other out.
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Deb Nation compiles The Vault in Christchurch, home of our Radio Sound Archives, Nga Taonga Korero.