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Great War Stories 3 - Gallipoli tortoise
Television (Full Length Episode) – 2016
This edition of Great War Stories accompanies author Shona Riddell to Berhampore Primary School in Wellington, where she reads her story of a pet tortoise that she grew up with. It was taken from the trenches of Gallipoli by a soldier, gifted to hospital nurse Nora Hughes (Riddell’s great aunt), then transported to New Zealand, where the tortoise’s adventures didn’t end: he made local news on a walkabout to Mangatainoka Brewery. The series of short documentaries screened during TV3’s nightly news, as part of centennial commemorations of World War l.
Did you know that tortoises live to be really really old? They live to be over a hundred years old ...– Shona Riddell introduces her story to the children
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Made with funding from NZ On Air
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