Sounds Historical for Sunday 21 September 2014
8:10 Today in New Zealand History 3’58”
Reeves’ First Factory Act became law on 21 September 1891.
8:16 Song: Lady of the Lake - The Earnslaw 4’47"
Artist: Phil Tilbury
Composer: Tilbury
Album: Back Blocks
Label: n/s
8:22 Homework
1. Which New Zealander is regarded as a “Queen of Crime”?
2. Mystery voice
3. Which Victorian novel is set on an island off New Zealand?
8:24 Clive Drummond, later one of radio’s best-known voices, in an interview with Barbara Basham 9’13”
Recalls his early career in the Post Office as a radio operator about the time of World War One.
8:36 In Touch with 'Home’ 2’28”
A 1969 example of the ties with Briatin which peristsed well into the late 1960s. Broadcaster Patricia Cummins sends a daily telephone report of her travels in the United Kingdom aimed at the ‘Women’s Hour” audience. In this sample she reports on the investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales on 1 July 1969. (Patricia Cummins died in 2003 at the age of 88).
8:40 Paul Holmes is heard on Radio Blue Danube, 1 December 1983 2’29”
Blue Danube Radio went live on 23 August 1979, created mainly for the United Nations community in Vienna. In this extract New Zealander Paul Holmes introduces the pop-music breakfast show and a news headlines bulletin is read by what sounds like an English-speaking Austrian. A few years later Holmes returned to New Zealand to resume his broadcasting career.
8:44 The Naseby Museum 2’34”
A 1962 interview about Chinese gold miners with 92-year-old Charles Dixon, the curator of the Naseby Museum in Central Otago.
8:47 Song: Larry Loves Barry 1’51”
Artist: Fred Dagg (John Clarke)
Composer: John Clarke
Album: 45
Label: EMI Fred’s One
Song: We Don’t Know How Lucky We Are 2’40”
Artist: Fred Dagg (John Clarke)
Composer: John Clarke
Album: 45
Label: EMI Fred’s One
(Number 17 on charts in 1976)
8:53 War Report Episode 8 6’18”
Clive Drummond tells of the wireless message from Australia which brought the New Zealand troopships back to await an escort. F M B Fisher recalls the reaction of Prime Minister Massey to the telegram and Alfred Mazengarb remembers as a soldier the to-ing and fro-ing as the new embarkation date came around.
Artist: Peter Dawson
Song: Boys of the Old Brigade
Composer: n/s
Album: Oh, It’s A Lovely War
Label: CD 41 486309
9:06 As I Remember 2’39”
Election Results on Television in Auckland in 1966 by Rod Melville of Auckland.
9:10 An extract from 1966 election political meeting in Auckland on 2 November 8’38”
Chaired by the mayor of Auckland Dr Roy McElroy (a lawyer, not a medical doctor) with speaker Vernon Cracknell who became the first Social Credit candidate to be elected to Parliament, defeating National’s Logan Sloane.
Social Credit won 14% of the votes which under MMP would have given quite a few seats in the present parliament. Cracknell was the first MP not aligned to Labour or National to be elected since 1943 but he did not make much impact in the House and in 1969 Logan Sloane regained Hobson for National by a substantial margin.
9:21 Song: Teenage Prayer 2’58”
Artist: Mary Feeney
Composer: n/s
Album: Kiwi Nostalgia
Label: Platinum 390366 CD
9:24 Homework
1. Which New Zealander is regarded as a “Queen of Crime”?
2. Mystery voice
3. Which Victorian novel is set on an island off New Zealand?
9:25 The United Kingdom is still united! 13’27”
And things Scottish are still part of New Zealand’s heritage. Jack Perkins attends the Hasting's Highland Games in 1973 – an extract from an early Spectrum documentary. The games are still held each year at Easter.
9:39 Song: Black and White Rag 2’50”
Artist: Nancy Harrie and Lloyd Sly
Composer: n/s
Album: Kiwi Nostalgia
Label: Platinum 390366 CD
9:41 Book of the Week 15’38”
A Blighted Fame: George S Evans 1802-1868, A Life by Helen Riddiford. Published by Victoria University Press, ISBN 978-0-864738-96-7
English barrister, editor and politician George Evans was one of the first lawyers to arrive in Wellington, on 7 March 1840. Described as “reckless and unpredictable”, he was one of the key promoters of the colonisation of New Zealand. Helen Riddiford’s biography looks at the life and times of a colourful personality. Author Helen Riddiford discusses the life of George Evans, an ancestor of her husband.