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Sound: Last Post at Anzac Day ceremony
Now is the hour, NZ's first million-selling song?
Sound: Anzac Day dawn service
'Sticky Beak the kiwi' song
Sound: Oxford Union debate on nuclear weapons
On board Achilles during Battle of the River Plate
One family's story - the 1918 influenza pandemic
Sound: Normandy from the air on D-Day
First radio broadcast of Parliament
Sound clip: USS Truxtun anti-nuclear protest
Song: 'The Boers Have Got My Daddy'
Sound: Aunt Daisy's beetroot chutney recipe
Sound: 'Today in New Zealand history', Anzac Day
Haddon Donald describes defending Maleme airfield, Crete
Sound: Bob Jones discusses sex in the 1950s
Sound clip: sinking of the Rainbow Warrior
Sound clip: executions at Mt Eden Prison
Sound: the end of the Legislative Council
Sound: Prime Minister Sidney Holland at the Tangiwai disaster
Sound: life at sea in the Merchant Navy
Sound: Orsogna and the Italian Campaign
Sound: A veteran remembers Cassino
Sound: the sinking of the Limerick, 1943
Sydney Stanfield remembers Passchendaele
Radio broadcast from scene of Wahine disaster
Description of POW camp cookers
Bert Stokes remembers Passchendaele
Description of carnage on Omaha Beach, D-Day
Sound: the Opposition whip
Inhalation chamber during the 1918 influenza pandemic
Sound: Aunt Daisy's cornflour blancmange
Sound: POW remembers Red Cross parcels
Sound clip: passenger on the Wahine
Black plague - the 1918 influenza pandemic
Watt McEwan talks about brothels in Cairo
Peter Snell and Murray Halberg win Olympic gold
Song: Boys of the Southern Cross
Sound: remembering Trieste, Italian campaign
Sound: 485 Squadron in action on D-Day
Sound: POW camp entertainment
Sound clip: travelling by train
Sound: seafarer recalls German air attack on his convoy
Sound clip: eyewitness report of Tangiwai disaster
Sir Bernard Freyberg speaking on Empire Day
Allan Robinson describes attack on hospital, Crete
Sound clip: 'Today's the day', Anzac Day
PM Holland declares state of emergency, 1951
Sound clip: railway refreshments
Jim Barclay describes going to the pictures at Maadi Camp
John Lennon interview in New Zealand, 1964
Sound: Winston McCarthy commentating
Bill Flint describes being captured in Greece
Sound: brothels in Wellington
Sound clip: a Tangiwai disaster survivor talks
Kids coping - the 1918 influenza pandemic
Sound: a veteran remembers Sangro River and the Italian campaign
Cures - the 1918 influenza pandemic
Sound: women voting for the first time
Hear Prime Minister Savage at the Centennial Exhibition
Sound clip: evacuation from Gallipoli

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