John Ward, Covid-19 lockdown and polio epidemics - Manawatu Conversations

Description: Broadcast on Manawatu People's Radio 4th August 2020. John Ward. Built a gramophone in 1946. Polio restrictions in 1947-8, no school, other restrictions with comparisons to Covid-19. Correspondence school, a few friends. Restrictions for 6 months. Father’s shop, converting radio to radiogram. Having a radio station. Use of Zoom in the Covid-19 lockdown (fake backgrounds, etc.). Shortages (toilet paper panic buying with Covid-19). Daughter arranged for friend to stay with John through lockdown. Lockdown and McDonalds. John’s 9 University of the Third Age groups.