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The Vault
Audio treasures from Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision
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The Vault - Heavens Helper
5 Jun 2009The journey of a man who turns to God and devotes his life to helping the disabled. It's the story of a man who seeks truth and meaning after his experience in the bombing of Nagasaki in 1945. Leonard… Read more Audio
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The Vault - When Time Stood Still
29 May 2009European settlement in rural New Zealand - the hardships and glory days from New Zealand's pioneering past. Audio
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The Vault -Tracing Katherine Mansfield
24 Apr 2009Writing wasn't always her forte, but her romantic ideals and vivid imagination inevitably make Katherine Mansfield one of our most celebrated writers. Sonia Yee looks at the journey of one of New… Read more Audio
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The Vault - Charlie Hovell
17 Apr 2009The trials and tribulations of Charlie Hovell - a man who spent his youth in Auckland during the 1860s. Cheeky Charlie Hovell's mischievous nature and thirst for adventure lead to more than just… Read more Audio
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The Vault - Here Comes Trouble
6 Mar 2009Youth subculture in the late 1950s - the world of the Bodgie and the arrival of the teenager. Audio
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The Vault - singing sheep and a sound effects library
19 Dec 2008Deb Nation traverses the vault and brings back such curiosities as singing sheep and a one-man sound effects library. Audio
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The Vault - Otira Tunnel
The story of the Otira Tunnel - an old dramatisation full of worthy stuff, in the classic style of the those 1950s mega productions for the hey day of the wireless. Audio
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The Vault - Ruth Slenzynska
3 Oct 2008Deb Nation meets another broadcaster, John Blumsky, at the Sound Archives, searching out a rare concert recording of child prodigy Ruth Slenzynska whose extraordinary biography he has just read. Audio
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The Vault - Frances Hodgkins
Conversations about one of New Zealand's most famous artists with the likes of Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore and others in extracts from the documentary 'Francis Hodgkins, the European years'. Read more Audio, Gallery
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The Vault - Llew Summers
8 Aug 2008Christchurch sculptor Llew Summers remembers what he heard on his wireless at the age of seven. Audio
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The Vault - a musical weather report and early radio listening
4 Jul 2008Deb Nation gets biblical about the weather, and recalls early radio listening with journalist Amanda Cropp. Audio
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The Vault - Philip King
18 Feb 2008Bookseller Philip King remembers what he listened to on his crystal set as a young boy growing up in 1950s New Zealand. Audio
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The Vault - Gertie's radio memories!
11 Feb 2008Deb Nation gets nostalgic with Jennie from Christchurch vintage clothing shop Gertie's about what she listened to on the radio, growing up in rural New Zealand in the 1960s and 70s. Audio
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The Vault - Archives people: John Kelcher
8 Oct 2007Deb Nation heads into the Radio New Zealand vaults and talk to preservation archivist John Kelcher, the back room boffin looking after our radio heritage at the Radio Sound archives, Nga Taonga Korero… Read more Audio
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The Vault - Archives people: Marie O'Connell
24 Sep 2007Deb Nation heads into the Radio New Zealand vaults and talks to preservation archivist Marie O'Connell, who's looking after our radio heritage at the Radio Sound archives, Nga Taonga Korero in… Read more Audio
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The Vault - The Movies
9 Dec 2005"It was in the year of 1899 that I first heard of moving pictures"... Deborah Nation explores the arrival of movies in New Zealand. Audio
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The Vault - The Fairlie Flyer
11 Nov 2005The historic sounds of the train the "Fairlie Flyer" which ran between Timaru and Fairlie from 1884 to 1968. Audio
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