Q.S.R. NUD*IST Power version, revision 4.0. Licensee: History Department +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++ Searching document int.Barbara, Jack... JB: Uh . . . there was the odd --- there was the letters now and then. But uh . . . after a while there was nothing, you know. But mum and dad - they used to get up at, what was it? Three o'clock in the morning, and they'd put shortwave on and they had a Philips RADIO and they used to get the Lebanese talking and that from Lebanon.92 +++ Searching document int.Mrs OB, Ramsay, Z, int 2... OB: We thought we were Christmas when we got a RADIO.1099 +++ 1 text unit out of 3416, = 0.03% +++ Searching document int.Caird, Myrtle... *MEG: DID YOU LISTEN TO THE RADIO MUCH?752 MEG: WHAT KIND OF THINGS WOULD YOU BE HEARING ON THE RADIO?756 MEG: WELL THERE ARE THINGS YOU CAN'T DO WHEN THE TELEVISION'S ON THAT YOU CAN DO WHEN THE RADIO'S ON.760 +++ 3 text units out of 1197, = 0.25% +++ Searching document int.Colbert, Leslie... LC Oh yes. There was no television or RADIO, anything like that. We used to sit there on a cold winter night with our feet in the oven, the whole lot of us with our feet jammed in the oven. Mother would be reading to us.150 +++ 1 text unit out of 667, = 0.15% +++ Searching document int.Cummings/Manson part1... I: YEAH, I THINK SO. CAN YOU REMEMBER WHEN YOU FIRST RADIO WHILE WE ARE TALKING ABOUT THIS SORT OF THING?1500 JM: I'm just trying to think, ah, just give us a minute now would you. First RADIO I had I was in Lambeth Road, I reckon it might have been about 1922. That was about the first one I heard. I knew that they were in existence a long before that.1506 .. +++ Searching document int.Denford, Frank... FD: Yes, oh yes. One of my happiest recollections when I was just a child of five, we would have musical evenings. The, my father would play, he lived to play the concertina. My second eldest brother played the concertina, um, ah, my sister in law, my eldest brother's wife, she played the piano and she was a very good pianist and she used to play at the pictures in the old, silent picture place you see. Um, the picture theatres of course, didn't have wallisters[139], and they were silent movies and quite a number of pianists, including my sister in law, would play for the pictures. Well, in these other evenings we would have, my eldest sister's friend, fiance, as he was then, played the violin. Another chap played the flute and we would have our own entertainment and this was, of course, quite common because in those days there was no, no RADIO, radio didn't come in until 1922 and ah, which of course revolutioned, started to revolution the whole concept of ah, musical entertainment. The um, concerts that we would have at the Caversham church, or the Caversham church hall [LD: which church was this?] I beg your pardon?85 FD: Yes, yes, I can remember um, I can remember the news coming through. Of course in those days the news ah, there was no RADIO, we got it in the newspapers and ah that of course came by cable, and ah, as you probably know, the censorship at the fronts as they called them, was so ah, severe that we got very little of the truth of the time, if the truth and also it was often purely propaganda. The ah, factual news, or the news was quite different from even the news that we got of the Second World War. The BBC, in the Second World War, claimed to speak for truth, they often, of course, didn't give you the whole truth because that would have been against the security of the nation. But there was no, none of the terrible atrocities that you'll read about. You might even see it in the book there. You know the darstadly Germans, you know the villains, the huns and, ah, talk about blatant propaganda, was there to contrast that with what my brother told me. They, one time they went, they made an advance and they came across these two Germans. One of them a young chap, he was down, his ankle had been blown out, he was bleeding to death and my brother and his cobbers wanted to put a tourniquet on and he just shook his head. Now, was that hatred? No, there wasn't the hatred between the fighting men. They were living in terrible conditions. My brother, one time, went to go over top, pushing himself up the trench and his hands slipped on something that was slimy. He looked down and it was the rotting scalp of a dead man's scalp, as he was pushing himself up. Now, he has seen corpses with the cheeks eaten out with rats. Now, that's some of the conditions but this never got back to the people at home whose sons were going away to fight for the King and the country, doing their bit for the empire. You'll read about that [LD: in there] attitude in there. But I will say this, of the Second World War there was none of that jingoism. There was the feeling when the war broke out, it's a rotten job, a dirty job, an unpleasant job that's going to cost a lot of people their lives, but it's got to be done.220 +++ 2 text units out of 356, = 0.56% +++ Searching document int.Duncan, Dorothy... In fact my Grandma, I can remember when that bad Napier Hastings earthquake was on. My Grandma lived down in Hazel Avenue. She had a RADIO. Our Minister at that time had a married daughter living in Hastings where the earthquake was very bad as well as Napier. I remember they went to my Grandma's place to listen to the news about the earthquake on the radio. So I think that was about '39 or '40 or something. No no, '20. No I was born in '29 so it must have been '29 or '30 or '31. Just round about there that that bad earthquake was. Grandma was one of the few with a radio.542 +++ 1 text unit out of 645, = 0.16% +++ Searching document int.Fountain, Kathleen Vere... KF: And I think that's partly my upbringing, and when I listen to RADIO and television and the lies they can tell to one another.376 KF: I still listen to the 'Hymns for Sunday Morning' on the RADIO and I still listen to 'A matter of Religion' at 4 o'clock on a Sunday afternoon.1777 KF: Well, he - when the results came out after a general election, he would go into town and stand outside with the crowd opposite the Otago Daily Times building, where they'd put it up, the results. That's the only way he could hear - there was no RADIO in those days. 1914 +++ 3 text units out of 2264, = 0.13% +++ Searching document int.Miss DF. & Miss GB.... *MC: NOW, DID YOU DO MUCH LISTENING TO THE RADIO IN THOSE DAYS? 1881 GB: Oh, well, RADIO was just new in.1883 MC: OH, A HAND-RADIO, ONE OF THOSE ONES THAT YOU CAN TALK INTO? 1889 GB: No, you used to listen, but you, you couldn't talk into them, and he used to ask us across - crystal sets he used to have, and we thought they were marvellous, well then the other ones came in, and we got one of the first RADIOs for our kitchen. And we had a little budgie, and - oh, it could talk and talk. Didn't like the war news, it used to hate the war news, it would screech, and he learned the songs from that telly, didn't he?1891 MC: OFF THE RADIO? 1895 GB: Off the RADIO, yes.1897 +++ 6 text units out of 2747, = 0.22% +++ Searching document int.Fraser, Pat... MC: DID YOU LISTEN TO THE RADIO MUCH? 479 CF: Yes we did. We listened to the RADIO quite a lot.481 CF: I'm sure, yes. It was just in that era when people were spending more time say with RADIO and that made it possible. You know with having the washing machines and that sort of thing. 729 +++ 3 text units out of 1086, = 0.28% +++ Searching document int.Mrs MG... In later years she married and lived on a farm. I used to go down there for holidays. I think she sort of treated us as her children. She used to scold us too when mother was about. I don't remember the other ones except one Caroline. We had a windÐup RADIOgram and we had the record 'Carolina Moon Keeps Shining' and I used to play it to the death to tease her. It was silly because I was young you see.57 MC: DID YOU LISTEN TO THE RADIO MUCH? 296 MG: Well I can remember when a RADIO first came into the house. I was about five or six I think. It was a box with sound coming out of it and it didn't connect anywhere. I was quite little. I mightn't have been six. I know I was at school and this box arrived. It was only in the evenings that we turned it on. Oh yes, when I was at primary school we always had to come home as mother cooked the dinner. We had to rush home in one hour and come back to St Clair. It was a real scamper. 298 There was great community singing years ago in Dunedin. Old Devlin and whatÐnot in the Town Hall. Mother would always have that on at lunchÐtime if it was community singing day. I think it was once a week and I can remember hearing that. But usually the RADIO wasn't on at all except in the evening and we used to listen to Dad and Dave. That was a serial down on the farm and they used to talk funny. 299 479 +++ Searching document int.Grigg, Russell... TB CAN YOU REMEMBER WHEN YOU FIRST GOT A RADIO?660 TB SO YOU HAD YOUR RADIO FAIRLY EARLY, YOUR RECORD PLAYER AND YOU SAW A LOT OF YOUR NEIGHBOURS AND WENT TO THE MOVIES PERIODICALLY. THERE WAS PLENTY OF GOING ON TO KEEP YOU BUSY UNTIL YOUR CHILDREN CAME ALONG. WHAT ABOUT YOUR DAUGHTER? DID SHE GO INTO ANYTHING PARTICULAR? 672 +++ Searching document int.Isaac, Bill & Alice... MC: MMM. NOW, WHAT ABOUT LISTENING TO THE RADIO. WAS THAT SOMETHING PEOPLE DID A LOT OF?1003 AI: Oh yes, they did. Oh, the Easy Aces and Bert & Maggie. We used to listen to them and that chap that came on the T, on the RADIO, Radio One, what was it called (BI: (384) chappy who talked...) dad and Dave (...oh dad and Dave, oh yes) it was dad and Dave that was on and that sort of thing. We used to listen the programmes, we wouldn't miss them.1007 +++ Searching document int.Jones, Joyce... JJ: I do remember one time though my two eldest brothers were working. She said she would like a RADIO. The boys said they would give her so much from their pay towards a radio. The oldest one said to the younger one, 'isn't it time we had this thing paid off?' He said,' I don't know but I'm going to ask Mum.' It had been paid off and she'd bought a handbag and gloves. Just carried on.177 JJ: Yes, yes. But they didn't mind that either. They were just paying out every time and the RADIO was paid off.181 +++ 2 text units out of 1269, = 0.16% +++ Searching document int.Jory, Rita & Wellman, Louise... MC: TELL ME, WHEN YOU WERE YOUNG, APART FROM THE EVENINGS AT HOME AND THAT KIND OF THING DID YOU LISTEN TO THE RADIO MUCH? 715 RJ: We had the RADIO though. We used to buy records for it, didn't we. Well Myra and I did. You were younger. We had all these different records. 721 MC: AND YOU WERE GOING TO TELL ME ABOUT LISTENING TO THE RADIO.753 MC: DID THEY HAVE RADIO SHOWS THEN THAT PEOPLE WOULD SIT AROUND AND LISTEN TO? 759 MC: WHEN DO YOU THINK THAT YOU GOT THE RADIO AND THERE WERE THE SERIALS ON IT? WHEN DID THAT START? 769 +++ 5 text units out of 1261, = 0.40% +++ Searching document int.Miss CJ... MC: SO THEY MIGHT COMMENT ON HEARING, HAVING HEARD SOMEONE ON THE RADIO PERHAPS... 499 *CJ: Well RADIO was barely in at that time too.509 CJ: Yes, we did. Before that it was the old gramophone. Ah what stage would the RADIO come in? I can remember the, when we had gas and the electricity was put in. That would be when I was in Primary School and the radio wasn't in then. I can remember going up to um Ashworth's up the street and they had a crystal set, ooh it crackled, but I used to go there and listen to the radio. I'd forgotten about that.513 MC: WHAT KIND OF THINGS DID PEOPLE LISTEN TO THEN, WHEN RADIOS FIRST CAME IN?515 MC: RIGHT. NOW, DID THE FAMILY HAVE ITS RADIO BY THE TIME YOU GOT TO SECONDARY SCHOOL OR DURING THE TIME YOU WERE AT SECONDARY SCHOOL?531 MC: RIGHT, RIGHT. HAD THE RANGE OF WHAT WAS ON THE RADIO BROADENED OUT BY THEN, OR WAS IT STILL PRETTY NARROW?535 +++ Searching document int.Kenny, Frances... MC: OK. DID YOU LISTEN TO THE RADIO MUCH?1039 FK: No, I don't - I remember a man bringing a, a RADIO ... and this, oh it was a big one, you know, to try it out, time it was - we were in Wesley Street then, I remember that, and then he was going and come back and take it, take it away and we thought, oh, we'll pretend we're out. I don't think we went to the door, and so radio must have been, oh no -1041 FK: And then I think he came and took it away anyway, I don't think we got - I don't know when we got a RADIO.1049 +++ Searching document int.Maher, Hilda... HM: I can't remember but it would be early because we didn't have a RADIO and we didn't have television or anything like that so it would be early ... but exactly what time I wouldn't really know.183 +++ Searching document int.Mr LM... LM: Mornington and Caversham. I went into the Airforce as a RADIO Operator Air Gunner. 47 +++ 1 text unit out of 1842, = 0.05% +++ Searching document int.Maskell part 1... RM:He lived for his work. There have been hundreds like him. Dunedin could've been in a little bit of a cocoon you know ..you minded your own business, acquaintances and community and that type of thing. We were the only family to have a RADIO, Dad being electrical .. he can remember the first radio broadcasts and he can remember the first radio station. He helped with that. In 1920, 21 ...sufficient of a novelty for us to ... skiting a wee bit probably. I did invite my friends round. . .it was great big wooden boxes, Dad would build a set into it, great big wall speaker in some cases and I'd pull it out and poke around in it. Dad was interested in his job and side issues, don't think he was interested in local politics, he would vote and that. . 603 +++ Searching document int.McCracken, Ken and Velda... KM: I think we did a lot in those days before television and - or even RADIO just came in at the beginning of the war really.1640 +++ Searching document int.Paine, I.B.... IP Very much so. I suppose it stopped in about the 1920s, but until then we used to have the musical evenings. I come from a musical family. My father was in two orchestras and a regimental band. My mother played the piano and my sister played the piano. My brother was a good drummer. People would go to people's places and perform because they only had the gramophone. They didn't have the TV and RADIO was just coming in.95 +++ 1 text unit out of 404, = 0.25% +++ Searching document int.Sidey, Stuart... SS: Law. I didn't want to be a lawyer, but I stu - I, I was always interested in RADIO really, and I'd liked to have gone in for electrical engineering, but in those days you had to take French for some extraordinary reason for the Matric, that was the entrance exam in those - and I tried to do this wretched French, but I failed. I got a partial pass as you call it, so I had to take something else, so I took Latin which I had done before and fortunately I got through in Latin, so my father said, oh well, you have to have Latin for law in those days, so you be - better be a lawyer, it's good experience, so I became a lawyer because he was a lawyer.231 SS: Oh yes, I did, I went into partnership here and then, then the war turned up. And because I was interested in RADIO and that type became part of div - divisional signals. +++ Searching document int.Mrs ZO... They are doing it up a bit but not it's not a patch on what it used to be. see all the surfies, they just dress and undress in there in front of the place, it doesn't matter to them who's about and ah that has lowered the tone a lot. There was something on the air and my sister is an avid, I never have RADIOs on, I don't like, I like quiet, or my own kind of music you see and ah she rang up and answered it back and they had her talking for ages I believe 'cause she was very good. The two younger ones, I'll show you their photos, Verna and Norman, they were the first two to land on White Island with the surf clubs you see. my young brothers, my two brothers, Charles and Hugh. Hugh was in the airforce and he went home to England just before the war and he was in the royal airforce and he came down, he was last seen coming down over the Dutch coast, (MC: right) never found and so there were are. Now anything else, you tell me.161 When the RADIO came up to interview him at home at St Clair, when he something to do with hundred years or something, anyway, he um said to them, they were talking away to him, 'cause I was out there at the time, I used to go out every Saturday with the children, and he said to the man, he said now would you like to me to work out a synopsis to this he said no, he said, you're a very good speaker, he had a good speaking voice, and we weren't allowed to say, shut up or you know to each other or anything crude like that and he said no we've got it all here, we don't need, we've got that wee bit of film cause my daughter when she, she's going to work it in you see with the thing and so that's that. 217 Yes, I took them right from the time, because the Plunket nurse used to come up and the child was Mike of course, he was up in the front room, she used to say - look it's lovely coming into a place that's quiet. I never had music. I never had RADIOs going. I'm not fond of radio, can't stand talkback show things, not much, I suppose there is a lot I miss out on but I'm not fond of those things and she said it's lovely and peaceful, quiet and healthy for the child you see (MC: mmm) and then I joined the Plunket and I was on the executive in town for Karitane Hospital, couldn't buy a reel of cotton unless we said so.947 +++ Searching document int.Thorn, Patricia... I went into the Sinfonia or - or well, orchestral society whatever it was, and first of all, the first one I was in was a junior orchestra it was - which was started by Roy Stackman who was the music teacher at Otago Girls High and Boys High, I think as well, but I was still at primary school then, and - so I was in the orchestra and that was quite good, and then I developed in some way a bit of a singing voice, and I went to Meta Payne to learn singing and I was in her choir so - and then I did RADIO broadcasting with singing so it was those sort of activities that I was involved in.239 MC: WITH THE RADIO BROADCASTING, WAS THAT WITH THAT META PAYNE'S CHOIR?241 +++ Searching document int.White, J... MC: NOW, DID YOU LISTEN TO THE RADIO MUCH?781 JW: Not in our, we never had a RADIO when we were very young. 783 JW: I never had a, we had a RADIO when Mum lived in Fitzroy Street. They first come in and that was after I was married. We got our first radio not long after we were married. We were married in 1938. We had this little radio. I can still remember the day war was declared. We'd been out to Mum's for Sunday and everybody was told to listen to the radio at half past six. So we had to be home to hear this Mr Baldwin announce England was at war. I never forgot that day. Never forget it. It sort of gave you such a funny feeling you know to think the country was at war. It was a bad time. You see that came on right after the Depression. You see there was the Depression and then that Second World War.787 +++ Searching document int.Wilson, Helen... MC: MMM. MMM. OK. DID YOU LISTEN TO THE RADIO MUCH? 823 HW: Oh, we had an awful job to get a RADIO. Dad didn't think we needed one, and we had a box we put twopence in it until we could buy one, and then we got this radio, but he did give us a, a notestand gramophone with [indistinct], you know, went round on a disk, and we got some nice records, and we had that nice piano when we were at St. Clair, but it was a school teacher's and she asked dad if he'd buy it, so he bought that tablegram [indistinct] which we've still got, and she was a Mrs Macintyre that taught at St. Clair school, and she wanted to give it to a family, the children that she was teaching, so that's what we had. 825 MC: UHM, WHEN YOU GOT THE RADIO, WHAT DID YOU LISTEN TO? 835 +++ 3 text units out of 1143, = 0.26% ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ +++++++++++++++ +++ Results of text search for 'radio': ++ Total number of text units found = 68 ++ Finds in 29 documents out of 89 online documents, = 33%. ++ The online documents with finds have a total of 38462 text units, so text units found in these documents = 0.18%. ++ The selected online documents have a total of 95427 text units, so text units found in these documents = 0.07%. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++