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

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