Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 27th May 2025. Part 1 of 2. Vicki Marie Buchanan, Mike Lawrence, Ann Weir, Dianne McConnell, Stuart Birks. Anne’s grandfather was an Australasian welter weight boxing champion. She has his boxin...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: May 27, 2025
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 3rd June 2025. Part 2 of 2. Vicki Marie Buchanan, Mike Lawrence, Ann Weir, Dianne McConnell, Stuart Birks. A general discussion about: Footwear – high heels, stilettos. Wearing bare ...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: June 3, 2025
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 19th August 2025. Part 3 of 3. Emma Vandenberg became well-known in Palmerston North through “Emma’s Place,” a restaurant that evolved from her home while raising her two grandchildren. Initially, she and h...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 19, 2025
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 12th August 2025. Part 2 of 3. Moved from Holland to New Zealand. She lived in Feilding for 18 months then moved to Masterton to be with her sister and brother in law. Worked at a hotel as a rec...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 12, 2025
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 5th August 2025. Part 1 of 3. Emma came to New Zealand as a registered alien from Holland in February 1960 at age 19. Her sister had been in New Zealand since 1952 and married a Dutchman who cam...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 5, 2025
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 29th July 2025. Part 4 of 4. Ruth’s husband, John, was a professor of agronomy but specialized in grasslands. They travelled to China and South America countries Most of their travelling was through t...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 29, 2025
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 22nd July 2025. Part 3 of 4. Ruth lived in England as a young child during World War II. She lived in Grimsby, a fishing port. Grimsby was bombed a lot because it was on a direct line with Sheff...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 22, 2025
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 15th July 2025. Part 2 of 4. Ruth regularly travelled to South America and China with her husband. They visited rural areas of China in connection with grasslands research. Were treated as honoured gu...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 15, 2025
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 8th July 2025. Part 1 of 4. Came to Palmerston North from Scotland in 1986. Her husband, John, became professor of agronomy at Massey University. John’s mother was one of the first women in England to...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 8, 2025
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 1st July 2025. Part 4 of 4. Was at Irirangi, the shore based ship to shore radio station at Waiouru and applied for a petty officer telegraphist course. Endured a bad storm at Waiouru as he and the fa...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 1, 2025
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 24th June 2025. Part 3 of 4. While in the NZ Navy, before Waitangi Day, he was on a small ship in the Bay of Islands which hosted the governor general, Lord Cobham, and his family on fishing trips the...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: June 24, 2025
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 17th June 2025. Part 2 of 4. Was in NZ Navy ship The Royalist during the Suez crisis but was pulled out before the end. Many of the crew were married with family in New Zealand. Travelled through t...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: June 17, 2025
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 10th June 2025. Part 1 of 4. Sailed on NZ Navy ship The Royalist which went with Royal Navy ships to the Mediterranean. Went to Naples in 1956. Language difficulties between New Zealand...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: June 10, 2025
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 26th August 2025. Part 1 of 3. Steve Tolley recalls his earliest musical memories in Bradford, UK, with little music at home.
After moving to New Zealand, he was captivated by pop music, especially The...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 26, 2025
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 2nd September 2025. Part 2 of 3. Steve Tolley and his wife Robyn bonded over books and music, later moving to rural Pohangina. Steve left teaching due to disinterest in planning, despite loving classroom in...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: September 2, 2025
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 9th September 2025. Part 3 of 3. Steve Tolley and his partner ran the Bent Horseshoe Cafe in Tokomaru, hosting live music gigs that attracted international and local talent. The cafe became a renowned venue...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: September 9, 2025
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 16th September 2025. Part 1 of 2. Born in Sydney but lived in a small town about 250km from Sydney then lived in Parkes. Attended secondary school in Sydney. Her brother joined the Royal Australian Navy and...
Creator: Vicki-Marie Buchanan
Place: Palmerston North
Date: September 16, 2025
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 23rd September 2025. Part 2 of 2. Husband Neil had established a veterinary practice in New Zealand. He was awarded a scholarship from the new veterinary faculty at Massey University. They went to Gla...
Creator: Vicki-Marie Buchanan
Place: Palmerston North
Date: September 23, 2025
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 30th September 2025. Mike Lawrence shares photos of Wellington from 1910–1915, showing Oriental Parade with trams, carts, and the tea kiosk.
He recalls living there in 1959 when the kiosk w...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: September 30, 2025
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 7th October 2025. Part 1 of 2. Dianne Broadley grew up in the Wairarapa in the 1940s–50s, surrounded by music from her family and community.
Her mother sang, played piano, and attended dances, wh...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: October 7, 2025
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio, 14th October 2025. Part 2 of 2. Dianne Broadley sang in a Wellington nightclub while at Teachers College.
She learned songs from jukeboxes and performed through Peter Sinclair’s contacts.
In Chris...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: October 14, 2025
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio 5th November 2019. Part 1 of 3. Born 1940, father away during the war. Early years in Rewa. Father severely wounded in Italy. Father’s war diary, parcels from home. Treatment after wounded, eventual return t...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: November 5, 2019
Broadcast on Manawatū People's Radio 30 July, 2019. Kevin Burrows and Rod Watt, Part 1 of 2.
Time at school together from 1948. Polio epidemic. Discipline, mischief. Palmerston North Technical College. Burning the teacher’s cane. Palmerston Nort...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 30, 2019
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio 6 August, 2019. Kevin Burrows and Rod Watt, part 2 of 2. School in the 1950s. The cane and notches in belts. Pranks they would do: making bombs, smells from wattle seeds, rubber band guns. Making skeletons in s...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: August 6, 2019
Broadcast on Manawatū People's Radio on 15th October 2019. Born in Foxton, on dairy farm, 1950s, 212 cows. Transformed from gorse and lupin. Aorangi Marae, Feilding. Māori roots. Holidays with grandparents. Mother worked in administration at Mass...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Foxton
Date: October 15, 2019
Broadcast on Manawatū People's Radio 23 July, 2019. Jim Esson, part 2 of 2.
Book on history of the Rotary Club of Terrace End, first 40 years. Catherine Hamlin World Understanding Award for the fistula hospital in Addis Ababa. Bringing buffaloes...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 23, 2019
Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio 16 July, 2019. Jim Esson, part 1 of 2.
Entomologist in the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), 1950s. Structure of DSIR, relationship with Massey Agricultural College. Nationality of staf...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: July 16, 2019
Broadcast on Manawatū People's Radio, 18 June, 2019.
Moved a bit when young, 10 schools. Remembers parents splitting when 4 years old. Effects of changing schools. Desire to finish school. Maori mother. Social background very mixed. Pregnant at ...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Palmerston North
Date: June 18, 2019
Broadcast on Manawatū People's Radio, 14 May, 2019. Bruce Markwell and Malcolm Busch on the history of the Rotary Club of Terrace End, Part 1 of 2. Early membership, age, occupation, criteria. Formal meetings. Sergeant’s sessions. Family involveme...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Terrace End, Palmerston North
Date: May 14, 2019
Broadcast on Manawatū People's Radio, 21 May, 2019. Bruce Markwell and Malcolm Busch on the history of the Rotary Club of Terrace End, part 2 of 2. Rotary Club of Terrace End Memorial Educational Trust. Mike Hansen taking a team to Namibia. Intern...
Creator: Stuart Birks
Place: Terrace End, Palmerston North
Date: May 21, 2019