Sounds Historical for Sunday 27 March 2011

8:11 As I Remember

Memories of a Painter and Paperhanger by Charlie Murdoch of Tauranga, read by Robb Webb.

8:20 Kiri Te Kanawa (farewell concert 5 February 1966 Wellington)

Show Me (Lerner/Loewe) from My Fair Lady

Mimi's Farewell (Puccini) from La Boheme

LP Kiwi LC 34

8:28 Ted Barringer talks about his working life with Cadbury's chocolate firm in Britain and in Dunedin.

Recorded in 2000 when he published his history of the firm Sweet Success. Ted Barringer died in September 2004.

8:51 Blue Smoke (Karaitiana)

Dick Colvin Band of Dunedin, recorded in the 1940s.

8:55 New Zealand Building - a history by Nigel Isaacs

Part 1: Early Forestry

9:06 As I Remember - First Day at Secondary School

1. by Ian Jesson, read by Ryan Smith

2. by Lyndsay Mark, read by Carol Davidson

9:11 The Lonely Road

Rachel More

9:15 Poem Stuttering Jim by William Satchell (1860-1942)

Read by Patrick Smythe and introduced by Archibald Currie. Produced by Peter Downes in 1953 for NZBS.

9:31 Rock Island Line

Lonnie Donegan CD CCSCD 223

9:34 Rock Island Line

Stan Freberg

9:38 Book of the Week: Reading on the Farm: Victorian Fiction and the Colonial by Lydia Wevers

Victoria University Press ISBN 9780864 736352

9:57 Bookshelf: Climbing the Pole - Edmund Hillary and the Trans-Antarctic Expedition 1955-58 by John Thomson

Published by The Erskine Press ISBN 978 185297 106 9