A collection of sound recordings of radio broadcasts made by Te Reo Irirangi o Te Upoko o Te Ika, a Māori radio station based in Wellington.

Recordings comprise a variety of station programming including; news bulletins, guest studio interviews, talkback, panel discussions, and field items.

The collection includes recordings which are compilations of earlier broadcasts.

Includes programming broadcast both in English and in Te Reo Māori.

Quantity: 516 5" reel(s). 1102 7" reel(s). 484 10" reel(s). 1 folder(s) containing various loose sheets.

Physical Description: Open reel audiotapes of varying sizes; some notes and loose technical sheets

Search dates: 1983 - 1994

Processing information: This collection has been processed in stages. The inital work was to create descriptive records for the open reel 5, 7", and 10" audiotapes using information taken from box and open reel labels. Some stages of processing included digitisation of the recordings on these open reels. Further work to enhance descriptive records using information given by the donor and information gleaned during digitisation was done from 2017.

Processing of this collection is happening on an ongoing basis.

Where paper sheets were found in audiotape boxes these have been rehoused separately for conservation reasons, and described with a folder item record.

During digitisation, some open reels were found to be blank and their descriptive records were enhanced to indicate this fact. The recordings on these open reels had not been retained by the radio station. The records and the reels have been retained by the Library.

Most recordings in this collection can be accessed only as a digital surrogate available only in the Katherine Mansfield Reading Room. Selected recordings are available online through the National Library of New Zealand website by permission of the Trust and persons involved or representing persons in the recordings.