Radio scripts
Inward and outward correspondence, script and other papers
Date: 1964, 1975-1977
From: Curnow, Thomas Allen Monro, 1911-2001 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-2402-12
Description: Inward and outward correspondence with family and friends; identified persons entered under Name below. Also includes letters from Dick, Hanover; Roy; Mrs Milton Starr [?], Zaro, Washington DC; letters to John, Citizens for Rowling Campaign; D & L; and correspondence between Curnow and Pauli, London; programme for confirmation of honorary degree (Dec 1975) at Canterbury University and script for NZBC series `Looking at ourselves' (1964). Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Owen, Alwyn T, fl 1960-1977 : Scripts for Arawata Bill broadcasts on NZBC
Date: [1970-1977]
By: Owen, Alwyn, 1926-
Reference: MS-Papers-9907
Description: Comprises series of scripts and transcripts of interviews for programme on Arawata Bill for Open Country and includes memories by Mrs Dalley and Mrs Forbes, Fergie and Mrs Heffernan, Jim Bourke interviewed by George Taylor, interviews with Miss Rosey Grant, Jack Cron interviewed by George Taylor, Mrs M, Mr Murray Gunn (Hollyford) and Gilbert Koch (Glenorchy), Mr Swale and Dolly, Bill Beattie, Roy Joseph Elliot of Bridge Hill, Messrs McEwan and Swale, Colin McEwan and W Clingin Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Mss and typescripts with corrections Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Donated by the NZBC, Wellington, per Mr A T Owen, Aug 1974
A touch of gunpowder; a portrait of Denis Glover
Date: 1912-1980, 1990
From: McNeish, James Henry Peter, 1931-2016: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-4327
Description: Script outlining the life of Denis Glover (1912-1980), concentrating on his war-time experiences and how these affected his work. It also covers his time with the Caxton Press, his health and his personal relationships. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (32 leaves). Physical Description: Typescript
Radio scripts
Date: [1949-1961]
From: Jensen, Arthur Owen, 1907-1997 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-5961-06
Description: Scripts for `Rebels of music', `Fingerprints of performance', `The Pleasures of music' and `Rarotonga revisited'. Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Jensen in the United Kingdom
Date: [1957-1959]
From: Jensen, Arthur Owen, 1907-1997 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-5961-24
Description: Correspondence, notes, programmes and other papers relating to time spent by Jensen in the United Kingdom; includes letters re work, official papers, correspondence with Associated-Rediffusion Ltd and the BBC re work possibilities, script by Joseph Cooper and scripts by Jensen. Also `TV times' (29 Aug 1958) Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Smith's cure; a portrait of a Scottish country doctor among Maori
Date: [ca 1970]
From: McNeish, James Henry Peter, 1931-2016: Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-9972
Description: Script by McNeish on the life of George McCall Smith, a doctor based at Rawene in the Hokianga. Anthony Groser took the part of Smith and others in the cast were Grant Tilly, Stuart Devenie, Michael Woolf, Dorothy Wenk, Peter Latham, Michael Haigh and Ray Henwood. McNeish wrote of Smith's life from the time he reached Hokianga until his death, bringing out many of the cases he was involved in, his philosophy and his idiosyncratic and successful medical practices. Quantity: 1 folder(s) (29 leaves). Physical Description: Typescript with holograph annotations (photocopy)
O'Brien, Clarence T, fl 1966 : Radio scripts
Date: [1930s], 1966-1967
By: O'Brien, Clarence T, active 1966
Reference: MS-Papers-1142
Description: Comprises radio scripts done for broadcasting on NZBC; stories about goldmining in the Buller district during the 1930s depression; a Roa coal mine; a Maori in the Mackenzie country; the Haast air service and Rimu Farm Settlement titled `The Haast Air Service', `The Amateur', `The Minstrel', `The Rimu Farm settlement', and `They gave me a gold mine' Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 folder(s) (5 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts
Leary, N E, fl 1931-1973 : Script submitted to Jim Henderson, Open Country
Date: 1973
By: Leary, N E, active 1931-1973
Reference: MS-Papers-1311
Description: Memories of Otairi and Otiwhiti Stations, Hunterville, owned by Sir Thomas Duncan Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (3 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)
Delany, David, fl 1968-1991 : Papers relating to broadcasting
Date: ca 1952-1960s
By: Delany, David, active 1968-1991
Reference: MS-Papers-11156
Description: Includes scripts (1950s-1960s), newspaper clippings and photographs. Many of the scripts relate to the Otago goldfields. Source of title - Supplied by Library Delany was Talks Officer for New Zealand Broadcasting Service Quantity: 3 folder(s). 0.03 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts, printed matter, photographs
Byrne, Stafford 1901-1976: Papers
Date: [ca 1935-1972]
By: Byrne, Percival Stafford, 1901-1976
Reference: MS-Papers-5227
Description: Drafts of novels, short stories, radio talks and plays, some of which were written for the British Broadcasting Corporation. Many of his literary works are set in Britain, but others draw on his childhood memories of the West Coast, particularly around Kumara, and have New Zealand settings. Also includes a draft autobiography, and contract, reports and correspondence from his time as artistic director of the New Zealand Players Theatre Trust and some private correspondence. Most of the drafts are undated. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 35 folder(s). 0.10 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs and typescripts
Bland, Frederick A, fl 1960 : The Naming of Murderers' Rock
Date: 1960
By: Bland, Frederick A, active 1960
Reference: MS-Papers-0686
Description: Script of a play about the trial of Burgess, Kelly and Levy for the Maungatapu murders, 1866, adapted for radio by Antony Groser Quantity: 1 folder(s) (52 leaves). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescript (photocopy)
Olsson, Arthur Leslie, 1923- : Early days at the Manawatu Gorge, Barney's Point
Date: 1952-1962
By: Olsson, Arthur Leslie, 1923-2019
Reference: MS-Papers-2115
Description: Scripts for talks on survey and construction of Manawatu Gorge road and railway; with details of bridges, tollgates, floods and fires, settlements (including `Barney's Point') and settlers, their names and activities. Includes map; list of residents at Upper Gorge settlement (1890-1900); and three memoranda on toll charges from Pahiatua County Council. Source of title - Supplied Quantity: 1 folder(s) (7 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Holographs (photocopies)
Margaret Jack - Scripts
Date: [1950-1960]
From: Jack family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-7028-38
Description: Scripts by Margaret Jack of her travels to Oslo, experience with the midnight sun, Stewart Island, the Kimberleys and Ayers Rock Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Margaret Jack - Scripts
Date: [1950-1960]
From: Jack family : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-7028-39
Description: Scripts by Margaret Jack of her travels to Australia including Darwin, Mt Isa, the Flying Doctor and Alice Springs; also script of a discussion between Henry Milo and Jack at the Flying Doctor Schoolroom of the Air, `A Look at Australia' Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Oh Captain Cook ; appendix to Cook's voyage / by Jean Giraudoux, adapted for radio by J...
Date: [1969?]
From: Farquhar, David Andross, 1928-2007 : Music scores, papers and sound recordings
By: Dunmore, John, 1923-2023; Farquhar, David Andross, 1928-2007; Giraudoux, Hippolyte Jean, 1882-1944
Reference: 81-029-207
Description: Quantity: 1 folder(s) [3], 46 leaves. Physical Description: Typescript annotated copy Finding Aids: Preliminary list available.
Composer of the week (scripts)
Date: 1989
From: Flury, Roger, 1948- : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-6388-04
Description: Corrected scripts for programme, `Composer of the week', and including Bellini, Tchaikovsky, Cherubini, Max Bruch, Rossini, Weber, Mozart, Chopin, Sibelius, Britten, Bizet, Samuel Barber, Boccherini, Rodrigo, Gounod, Rachmaninov, Massenet, Reginald Dixon and Khachaturian's `Sabre dance' Quantity: 1 folder(s).
Fighting Johnny French - Playscript
From: Gee, Maurice Gough, 1931- : Collection
Reference: MS-Papers-4678-150
Description: Fighting Johnny French is an unproduced play for radio Other Titles - Fighting Johnny French Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Typescripts
Family affairs or some crumbs from genealogical tables
Date: 1969
From: Stevens, Joan, 1908-1990: Editorial research material for publication of Edward Jerningham Wakefield's journal, 1845-1846
Reference: MS-Papers-2489
Description: Typescripts of 6 talks by Joan Stevens broadcast on `Feminine viewpoint' radio programme in January, February and March 1970. Also related correspondence between Joan Stevens and Graham Bagnall Quantity: 1 folder(s) (8 pieces). 0.01 Linear Metres. Physical Description: Typescripts (carbon copies)
Missionary talks (4)
Date: 1972
From: Thomson, John Mansfield, 1926-1999 : Papers
Reference: MS-Papers-5378-289
Description: Notes and drafts for radio scripts on Missionaries in the Pacific Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Holographs, typescripts (annotated), (some copies), printed matter
Radio New Zealand : National Programme radio talks / H B Turbott and Sharon Crosbie
Date: 1977-1984
By: Radio New Zealand
Reference: MS-Papers-4097
Description: Forty-three examples of health talks by Dr H B Turbott, broadcast between 1977-1981 and 1983, entitled Radio Doctor. Thirteen examples from the Opinion scripts fronted by Sharon Crosbie for the morning National Programme, 1982-1984. Source of title - Supplied title Quantity: 1 folder(s) (43, 13 items). Physical Description: Typescripts Provenance: Donor/Lender/Vendor - Radio New Zealand, Wellington, 1985