Sound clips

Sound: Parliament buildings in the 19th century

Parliamentary poem: 'The alarm'

Sound: the lobby at Parliament

Sound: working in the House of Representatives

Sound: the 1907 fire at Parliament Buildings

Sound: New Zealand's first Parliament

Sound: te reo in the House of Representatives

Sound: Aunt Daisy's beetroot chutney recipe

Sound clip: fast lunches

Radio broadcast from scene of Wahine disaster

Sound clip: police at Erebus disaster

Sound clip: radio report from Erebus

Sound: Aunt Daisy's cornflour blancmange

Sound clip: Peloha - Radiant Living

Sound clip: origins of Radiant Living

Sound clip: the eliminating diet

Sound clip: Ruth France tribute

Sound clip: New Settlers Association gathering

Sound clip: an immigrant describes NZ

Sound clip: teenagers and state housing

Sound: Bob Jones discusses sex in the 1950s

Sir Bernard Freyberg speaking on Empire Day

Sound: the Queen's reception at Tirau, 1953

Sound: the royals progress up Queen Street, 1953

Queen's speech in Auckland, 1953

Sound: Jim Blundell remembers VJ Day

Sound: Mayor of Dunedin's VE Day speech

Sound: VE Day parade in Dunedin

Sound clip: Japanese surrender, 1945

Sound: fun and games at the VJ Day parade

Sound: the Queen opens Parliament, 1954

Sound: Nelson girl giving the Queen flowers, 1954

Sound: the Queen's welcome in Christchurch, 1954

Sound clip: suffrage and prohibition - NZ women and the vote

Sound: women voting for the first time

Sound clip: holidays in the UK and NZ

Sound clip: evacuation from Gallipoli

Sound: Prime Minister Sidney Holland at the Tangiwai disaster

Song: 'The Boers Have Got My Daddy'

Lawrence Wright describes playing rugby in North Africa

Jim Barclay describes going to the pictures at Maadi Camp

George Mackay describes the Cairo nightlife

Watt McEwan talks about brothels in Cairo

Sound: life at sea in the Merchant Navy

Sound: merchant seafarer describes shipping out

Sound: seafarer recalls German air attack on his convoy

Sound: a Merchant Navy seafarer looks back

Sound: the sinking of the Limerick, 1943

Sound: Normandy from the air on D-Day

Description of carnage on Omaha Beach, D-Day

Sound: Able Seaman remembers the Italian campaign

Sound: A veteran remembers Cassino

Sound: remembering Faenza, Italian campaign

Sound: remembering Trieste, Italian campaign

Sound: Orsogna and the Italian Campaign

Sound clip: Yvette Williams at the 1952 Olympics

Sound: Winston McCarthy commentating

Archie Barrington discusses conscientious objection

1951 waterfront dispute radio documentary

Sound: Parliament's opening prayer