Personal histories recorded- StoryCorps

StoryCorps http://www.storycorps.net/ is a national [US] project to instruct and inspire people to record one another's stories in sound. StoryCorps is made possible with the generous support of the Rockefeller Foundation, the Corporation for Pubic Broadcasting and the Carnegie Corporation. WNYC Radio is the public radio sponsor of StoryCorps-Grand Central.” Examples of the recordings are:

• “When I was nine, I weighed 250 pounds.”Johnnie Tyson tells her niece Sandra Fleming about growing up obese.
• “She was determined to keep us together as a family.” Joyce Butler remembers her mother, who worked in a shipyard during World War II, in an interview with her daughter, Stephanie.
• “What’s your life like now, Dad?”Priya Morganstern and Bhavani Jaroff interview their father, Ken Morganstern, who has Alzheimer’s disease.
  
  I’ve tried to find a NZ equivalent and found something similar at Te Ara : The Encyclopedia of New Zealand http://www.teara.govt.nz/NewZealanders/en However most were written entries and not recordings. It would have been wonderful to hear the accents etc of the New Zealand settlers, which is the extra dimension you get with StoryCorps. Check out the copyright agreements to reproduce/copy/ etc from either of the sites.