Welcome back to the Fun and Games podcast series!

In this track we hear voices from interviews conducted in the early 1990s for a project Auckland in the 30's. The interviews talked with people about their lived memories of growing up in the early part of the 20th century.

First up we hear from Brian Stevenson, interviewed by Sarah Dalton. Brian was born in 1900 and grew up in the Parnell and Remuera areas. Lindsay Slater born in 1919 in the Newton area, interviewed by Megan Hutching, recalls a game played with all the neighborhood children. Born in 1913 in Te Aroha, Eunice Ball-Guymer tells interviewer Sarah Dalton about the kind of fun that rural kids had with home made slides and eeling. Elva Shepherd, born in 1909 recalls learning to sew and making her dolls clothes and lastly Edna Mortensen born in 1917 describes a commonly played school game called Fives .

Brian Stevenson: https://tinyurl.com/vyyezg5

Lindsay Slater: https://tinyurl.com/sevjkkz

Eunice Ball-Guymer: https://tinyurl.com/sadnugu

Elva Shepherd: https://tinyurl.com/tvk72ef

Edna Mortensen: https://tinyurl.com/uccmlky

Image: Elva Hobbs with her toys, Elva Shepherd Collection, photographer unknown, 783-A16118, Auckland Libraries Heritage Collection, https://tinyurl.com/tmlxcoa

Music: Happy Whistling Ukulele by Rafael Krux, https://freepd.com/upbeat.php

Kia ora welcome back to the Fun and Games podcast series.

In this track we talk with world pinball champs Dave and Danielle Peck about some key pinball facts and on being a pinball wizard. We also discuss the up coming Game On! event featuring on the Ground Floor of the Central City Library as part of the Fun and Games exhibition,

Game On! - Ground Floor Central City Library

Step into the golden age of arcade games and test your skills against the 80s best! You're free to play 6 of the best arcade games, plus Pinball!

Event: 1 February 2020, 1-2pm Central City Library Ground Floor

Come see Auckland’s own World #1 Ranked Woman’s Pinball Player Danielle Peck demonstrate her skills at this one off exclusive Auckland Libraries event!

Danni and three times NZ Pinball Champ David Peck will talk all things Pinball.

Thanks for tuning into this Fun and Games series produced by Ngā Pātaka Kōrero - Auckland Libraries for your listening pleasure.

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Image: Poster design by Marcus Joyce, Auckland Libraries 2019.

Music: Happy Whistling Ukulele by Rafael Krux, freepd.com/upbeat.php

Kia ora welcome to the first track in this Fun and Games podcast series.

In this track Sue Berman meets with Harriet Rogers in the gallery level 2 Tamaki Pataka Korero – the Central City Library for a walk and talk through the Fun and Games exhibition!

Harriet explains what we can expect to see and experience in the Fun and Games exhibition and tell us about some of her favourite items on display.

Image: Fun and Games exhibition poster, Auckland Libraries Heritage Collections.

Alison and Karen plan their holiday reading and recommend some great beach reads. At last, time to read!

Read more on the Auckland Libraries blog:

https://aucklandlibrariesblog.blogspot.com/2019/12/books-and-beyond-beached-as.html

Auckland Libraries' radio show Books and Beyond explores the world of books with guest authors, recommended reads, gems from the Central City Library basement and… beyond.

This episode originally aired on Planet FM 104.6 on 15 December 2019.

In this episode, Alison and Karen take a literary journey to Cornwall and discover why this rugged and mysterious place continues to provide inspiration for so many writers.

Read more on the Auckland Libraries blog: https://aucklandlibrariesblog.blogspot.com/2019/12/books-and-beyond-cornish-pastiche.html

Auckland Libraries' radio show Books and Beyond explores the world of books with guest authors, recommended reads, gems from the Central City Library basement and… beyond.

This episode originally aired on Planet FM 104.6 on 12 December 2019.

Welcome back to this Fun and Games series!

In this track we hear from Joanne Graves who has put together a series of exhibition cases on the Fun and Games theme. She shares her research and describes the selected items from Heritage and Research Collections.

This content is available for viewing on Level 2 Atrium all the hours that the Central City Library is open.

Mon - Fri 10am - 8pm and Sat - Sun 10am - 5pm.

Image: John Williamson Morris with his teddy bear, c1940, Frank Morris Collection, FMO-0729-00034-G

https://tinyurl.com/w8hvsu4

Music: Happy Whistling Ukulele by Rafael Krux, freepd.com/upbeat.php

In 1719 the journalist Daniel Defoe published an unusual survivor story that became a runaway best seller commonly known as Robinson Crusoe.

In this episode we talk with rare books specialist Georgia Prince about the book and the story behind the 300 year old publication - The life and strange surprizing adventures of Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.

https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1955844

Such was the book’s success that Defoe speedily published a sequel in the same year, The farther adventures of Robinson Crusoe.

https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1955843

The most likely model for Robinson Crusoe was the real-life adventure story of the Scottish seaman Alexander Selkirk. He spent over four years surviving on an island until he was rescued by the privateer Woodes Rogers. An account can be read in, A cruising voyage round the world.

https://discover.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1968736

Plate engravings digitised here:

https://kura.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/digital/collection/rarebooks/id/1242/rec/2

All three books are on display and can be viewed in the ‘Real Gold Case’ in the Heritage Collections reading room, Level 2 of Tāmaki Pātaka Kōrero | Central City Library.

Image: The first editions of Robinson Crusoe had no illustrations.

This image comes from the engravings contained in the sixteenth edition of 1784.

In this episode, librarians Alison and Karen discuss books by some celebrated Black authors who write about communities divided along racial lines.

Read more on the Auckland Libraries blog: https://aucklandlibrariesblog.blogspot.com/2019/12/books-and-beyond-young-gifted-and-black.html

Auckland Libraries' radio show Books and Beyond explores the world of books with guest authors, recommended reads, gems from the Central City Library basement and… beyond.

This episode originally aired on Planet FM 104.6 on 1 December 2019.

For people making the journey to a new life in New Zealand in the 19th century, it was often a perilous journey across the Pacific. For those who did make it here, the welcome was also far from warm.

NZ legislation was particularly severe on Chinese immigrants, as we heard in the previous talk with the introduction of a poll tax in various forms. The Immigration Restriction Act introduced in 1899 prohibited the entry of immigrants who were not of British or Irish parentage and who could not fill out an application form ‘in any European language’.

In today’s talk David Wong-Hop and Lisa Truttman illustrate what this journey would have been like. After David’s introduction Lisa looks at the broader Asian immigrant experience particularly Indian and Syrian including some well known Auckland names.

Haramai tētahi ahua!

Image credit: 'Sir George Grey Special Collections, Auckland Libraries, NZG-19090721-31-2

Caption reads: THE TIDE OF IMMIGRATION - Arrival of the Athenic at Wellington on Tuesday, with a further batch of immigrants on board. On being told that the state of the labour market in New Zealand was somewhat depressed, one of the immigrants cheerfully remarked it could not be worse than what they had left behind them (21 July 1909).

Recorded at Auckland Central Library on October 13 2019

In this episode, librarians Louisa and Karen talk about books that celebrate the human-animal bond.

Read more on the Auckland Libraries blog: https://aucklandlibrariesblog.blogspot.com/2019/11/books-and-beyond-for-love-of-animals.html

Auckland Libraries' radio show Books and Beyond explores the world of books with guest authors, recommended reads, gems from the Central City Library basement and… beyond.

This episode originally aired on Planet FM 104.6 on 24 November 2019.