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'Aunt Daisy' returns from North America, 1946

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Radio celebrity Maud Basham, better known as 'Aunt Daisy', talks to the public on her return from a visit to the United States and Canada in 1946. By this time she was New Zealand's best-known radio personality.

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Archives New Zealand – Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga

Reference: Weekly Review 268. National Film Unit, 1946

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Brian Pauling, Radio – The golden age of radio, 1936 to 1960, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/42805/aunt-daisy-returns-from-north-america-1946 (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Brian Pauling, published 24 September 2013.