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Ngaio Marsh funeral address
Hear Reverend Simon Acland's address at the funeral service for Dame Ngaio Marsh on 24 February 1982.
Portrait of Ngaio Marsh
Standing portrait of dramatist and crime writer Ngaio Marsh taken c1935.
Ngaio Marsh
The magazine <i>Newsweek</i> described her novels as 'the best whodunits ever written'. Marsh was also an artist, playwright, actor and director.
Poetry and drama - New Zealand literature
The forties and fifties were favourable times for poets and poetry, and lively communities of poets sprang up in the main centres, particularly Wellington and Auckland. Debate about the nature of poetry led to some heated exchanges.
Bruce Mason
Bruce Mason reading aloud from one of his plays, 1940s.
Camp entertainment for prisoners of war
Photographs of some of the bizarre entertainments performed in POW camps.
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