[HCDX] 1ZM Auckland joins AFRS Mosquito Network - last chance to download audio file

[ragusa <ragusa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone

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1ZM Auckland joins Mosquito Network in 1944

A reminder that the audio download from www.rnzi.com for this 20 minute documentary will be taken down off the site in a couple of days. Anyone wanting to hear the first in the new radio heritage series on RNZI should do so now.

The program celebrates the 60th anniversary of handing over 1ZM to the Armed Forces Radio Service in April 1944. It includes actual recordings of the handing over, including station ID's, announcements from AFRS, the voices of the original DJ's, 'big band' music of the era recorded live by the 290th Army Band, and excerpts from GI Journal and Command Performance programs.

These recordings are the only ones known to have been made of any of the numerous Mosquito and Jungle Network stations around the Pacific from 1944-1945 and only survive because the New Zealand Sound Archives rescued the original recording made live in the studio at the time. First time heard in over 60 years.

Produced by the Radio Heritage Foundation in association with Radio New Zealand International. www.rnzi.com 

Warm regards
David Ricquish
Radio Heritage Foundation
PO Box 14339
Wellington, New Zealand

 
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