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Biography: Toogood, Selwyn Featherston

The making of It’s in the bag

This 1959 National Film Unit documentary follows the development of an episode of the popular It’s in the bag radio show, from the drafting of questions through to the staging of the show in the Lower Hutt Town Hall. 

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Reference: Pictorial Parade 86. National Film Unit, 1959

Image: Alexander Turnbull Library, PAColl-7327-1-171. Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

Permission of Archives New Zealand Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga must be obtained before any re-use of this material.

How to cite this page

Tim Shoebridge. 'Toogood, Selwyn Featherston', Dictionary of New Zealand Biography, first published in 2019. Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/video/47284/the-making-of-its-in-the-bag (accessed 21 June 2026).