Sounds Historical for Sunday 3 October 2010

8:11 Today in New Zealand History

The establishment of Wellington as the capital of New Zealand during 1864.

8:15 The Wellington Trams (Rogers)

Pat Rogers 45 HMV 7EGM 6064

8:21 Anniversary - 1 October 1962

Sir Guy Powles sworn in as the first Ombudsman.

8:24 A 1958 visit to St Margaret's College, Christchurch. Part Five.

Margaret Stokes talks about hostel life; and Miss Edwards talks about St Margaret's College Old Girls. The school choir sings Prayer for Peace; and Miss Crosher the headmistress gives her final thoughts.

8:40 Fings Ain't What They Used to Be (Bart)

Max Bygraves 45 Decca Dec 213

8:45 Donald Bell recalls his life as a deerstalker in the 1930s in a 1968 interview

Part Two.

8:54 Bookshelf

Battlefields of the New Zealand Wars by David Green
Penguin
ISBN 978 0 14320 418 3

8:56 Commercial - Let's Go Hoteling

8:57 Blue Smoke (Karaitiana)

Pixie Williams CD BMG 39283

9:06 As I Remember

The Mighty Midnight Express by Bruce Bertram. Read by David Knowles.

9:11 Bookshelf

Ribbons in my Hair by Rosalie Sneyd

9:17 Wun'erful, Wun'erful (Freberg)

Stan Freberg CD Capitol

9:23 Bookshelf

Switching on the King Country by Helen Reilly
Steele Roberts
ISBN 9781877448997

9:27 Battle of the Waikato (Bilby/Merito)

Howard Morrison Quartet CD BMG 74321 329542

9:30 Ken Douglas interviewed bySharon Crosbie, July 1983

9:40 Book of the Week

Man for All Seasons - the life and times of Ken Douglas by David Grant
Random House
ISBN 978 1 86979 389 0

9:56 Anniversary - 1981 2 October

Alusuisse pull out of planned aluminium smelter at Aramoana, Dunedin

9:58 God Defend New Zealand

Berlin Staatskapelle Orchestra conducted by Siegfried Kurz at the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington, on March 20, 1986.