In a recent blog I wrote about the problems faced by the New Zealand Broadcasting Unit in getting their reports cleared by military censors. But in March 1941, the problem was getting close enough to the action to report on it at all, as I have discovered by listening to recordings they made about theContinue reading “Hugh Sullivan’s escape: a soldier’s tale from Greece”
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Uncovering J Force speakers’ names
One aspect of my research into the work of New Zealand’s broadcasting units, is to verify the names of the voices heard in the surviving recordings. Documents listing the names of the speakers were sent back to New Zealand with the discs, but they have long since disappeared, with only the discs surviving in theContinue reading “Uncovering J Force speakers’ names”
“Five Māori…set out to do the impossible” – reporting the story of Takrouna
On April 23, a new film Sergeant Haane opens in cinemas, telling the story of a small group of Māori Battalion men fighting in North Africa. In this blog, I take a look at how the NZ Broadcasting Unit reported the extraordinary story. In April 1943 in the midst of World War II, the NewContinue reading ““Five Māori…set out to do the impossible” – reporting the story of Takrouna”