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3 Mile Limit
Film (Trailer) – 2014
It’s 1965, all you play is music by dead people.– Richard (Matt Whelan) bemoans the broadcasting status quo.
You’re listening to Radio Hauraki, Top of the dial, and we’re broadcasting a test transmission on 1480.– The actual first transmission of Radio Hauraki on 1 December 1966.
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