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					Episode 1, In Search of a Tradition The first episode, In Search of a Tradition, introduces many of the threads which are woven throughout the series, including images of Douglas's childhood from his unpublished Memories of Early Years - a selection of autobiographical sketches. Douglas's niece, Joyce Hamilton, and niece-in-law, Jeannie Lilburn, talk about the Lilburn family and Douglas's place in it. Philip Norman outlines the three phases of Douglas's music; Martin Lodge discusses the contradictions and complexity of Douglas; and John Murray reflects on Douglas's spiritual side. Meanwhile, Percy Grainger in 1935 announces a prize for a truly New Zealand composition; Ralph Vaughan Williams gives his views on composing and composers; and Douglas himself talks about his studies with Vaughan Williams in London and the New Zealand music scene upon his return in the 1940s. People who feature in Episode 1: Peter Vere-Jones, Jeannie Lilburn, Joyce Hamilton, Jack Body, Douglas Lilburn, Chris Bourke, Ashley Heenan, Percy Grainger, Ralph Vaughan Williams, John Hopkins, Jim Collins, Owen Jensen, Martin Lodge, Philip Norman, Sir William Southgate, John Murray, Jenny McLeod, and Dorothy McKegg. Broadcasts:     2pm, Sunday 6th June 2004 nationwide on Concert FM. Duration: 50'28 Reference (sometimes media) numbers are listed next to archival material that can be sourced from Sound Archives/Nga Taonga Korero [SA/NTK] or the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand/Te Puna Matauranga o Aotearoa [ATL]. 00:14 Music: Occasional Pieces for Piano (1942-73), performed by Margaret Nielsen (piano), recorded in 1981 [SA/NTK 14358]. 00:38 Peter Vere-Jones: "Light, warm sunlight" - reading from Douglas's unpublished Memories of Early Years - a selection of autobiographical sketches [ATL A-2001-172-004]. 01:08 Jeannie Lilburn: Douglas was Uncle Gordon. 02:18 Peter Vere-Jones: "My father" - reading from Douglas's unpublished Memories of Early Years - a selection of autobiographical sketches [ATL A-2001-172-004]. Underscored by Prelude for Piano (1951) performed by Margaret Nielsen (piano), recorded in 1981 [SA/NTK 14358]. 03:18 Joyce Hamilton: Lilburn family values. 04:28 Jack Body and Douglas: Waitaki Boys' High School ... I was going to be a musician. Archival interview recorded in 1975 [SA/NTK 14560]. Underscored by Sonatina (1948) for Clarinet and Piano, performed by Richard Foreman (clarinet) and Bruce Greenfield (piano), recorded in 1990 [SA/NTK 15417]. 05:55 Chris Bourke and Douglas: "If it had to be music". Archival interview recorded in 1985 for the Listener. A complete transcript of this interview is available. 09:10 Ashley Heenan: Christchurch scene setter. Archival talk recorded in 1985 [SA/NTK 14482]. 09:40 Percy Grainger: Offering a prize for a New Zealand composition. Archival talk recorded in November 1935 [SA/NTK 440]. 11:25 Jeannie Lilburn: Family history, first meeting with Douglas. Underscored by the third of Four Preludes (1948-60) performed by Georgina Zellan-Smith (piano), recorded in 1989 [SA/NTK 14483]. 14:26 Peter Vere-Jones: Reading a letter by Douglas in 1937 thanking Percy Grainger [Published in the ATL Record, October 1986]. Underscored by Hospital Sequence from the National Film Unit production of Journey For Three (1948), recorded in 1948 [SA/NTK TANZA CL3]. 16:03 Douglas Lilburn: New Zealand was pretty backward in those days. Archival interview recorded in 1987 [SA/NTK CDR-295]. 16:52 Ralph Vaughan Williams: On composers realizing their best works. Archival talk extracted from Tribute to Ralph Vaughan Williams recorded on his death in 1958 [SA/NTK T-161]. Underscored by Seventeen Pieces for Guitar (1969-70) performed by Milton Parker (guitar), recorded in 1977 [SA/NTK 14571]. 18:55 John Hopkins and Douglas: Vaughan Williams, Drysdale Overture. Archival interview recorded in 1987 [SA/NTK CDR-295]. 20:22 Joyce Hamilton: We felt him to be the odd-one-out. Underscored by Skiing on Mount Cook from the National Film Unit production of Journey For Three (1948), recorded in 1948 [SA/NTK TANZA CL2]. 23:30 Music: Sonata (1950) for Violin and Piano, performed by Natalie Tantrum (violin) and Stephen de Pledge (piano), recorded in 1992 [SA/NTK 17706]. 24:29 Jack Body: Working back on the farm after returning from England. 26:15 Music: Drysdale Overture (1937), performed by the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir William Southgate, recorded in 1995 [Radio New Zealand DAT 962307]. 26:58 Joyce Hamilton: Douglas's brother Euan. 28:50 Narrator, Jim Collins and Owen Jensen: State of orchestral playing in the 30's and 40's in New Zealand. Archival talk extracted from A Sympathy with Sound, marking the 21st year of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, recorded in 1967 [SA/NTK 23987]. 30:36 Douglas Lilburn: Composing was a strange occupation in the 40's. Archival interview recorded in 1975 [SA/NTK 14560]. 31:25 Martin Lodge: Composer contradictions, personal history. Underscored by Winterset (electronic, 1976) and Seventeen Pieces for Guitar (1969-70) performed by Milton Parker (guitar), recorded in 1977 [SA/NTK 14528 and 16287]. 36:33 Philip Norman: You can divide Douglas's music into three periods. Underscored by Welcome Stranger (electronic, 1974) [SA/NTK 14313]. 37:55 Sir William Southgate: He was not good with audiences, electronic music distanced him. 40:58 Music: Poem in Time of War (electronic with voice of Vietnamese student, 1967) [SA/NTK 14453]. 41:35 John Murray: His spirituality wasn't tied in with any one tradition. Underscored by Sonatina No. 2 (1962), performed by David Guerin (piano), recorded in 1991 [SA/NTK 18016]. 43:30 Jenny McLeod: He felt like he wasn't needed, people make their own music. 45:39 John Hopkins: New Zealand wasn't ready for a national composer. 46:27 Jeannie Lilburn: He was the ugly duckling. 46:59 Music: Sings Harry (1953), performed by Terence Finnegan (tenor) and Frederick Page (piano), recorded ca. 1959 [Radio New Zealand Tape 66]. 49:30 Dorothy McKegg: Production Credits.