The online presentation I gave in May as part of Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage’s Public History series, is now available for viewing – or listening, if you prefer. The podcast version is on Spotify and Apple (Thanks to MCH for recording and uploading)
It focuses on the home-front radio listener response to the recordings of ‘messages home’ from the men of the New Zealand Division – and how that response influenced the on-going work of the Mobile Broadcasting Units.
The sound quality is a bit lag-gy in places (the joys of Zoom) but the 80- year old recordings sound pretty good!
Here are the links I mentioned in the presentation:
Miranda Harcourt’s film ‘Voiceover’ on NZ On Screen
28th Māori Battalion audio recordings: https://28maoribattalion.org.nz/audio…
Mobile Unit recordings currently available to listen to online on Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision’s online catalogue: https://tinyurl.com/mrsvtdz4
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