Sarah Johnston

Sound 

Sarah Johnston’s Best of Jesse Mulligan

October 27, 2020October 27, 2020 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Jesse Mulligan, Radio New Zealand, RNZ, Sarah Johnston

Ngā Taonga has a regular spot on RNZ’s Afternoons with Jesse Mulligan where we share sound archive recordings. Always fascinating,

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NZ History Sound 

Te Karanga a te Huia | The Call of the Huia

September 29, 2020October 1, 2020 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 16 Comments 1910s, 1950s, 2010s, bird, Hēnare Hāmana, huia, Jesse Mulligan, mystery, nature, New Zealand Geographic, radio, Radio New Zealand, Radio New Zealand National, Robert Batley, Sarah Johnston

By Sarah Johnston (Client Services Co-ordinator, Radio – Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision) One of the most often requested items

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‘Paging Uncle Sam’ and finding Cy Cress

August 4, 2020August 4, 2020 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1ZB Radio Theatre, audio, Cy Cress, Dudley Wrathall, New Mexico, Paging Uncle Sam, Sarah Johnston, US Marines

After listening to Paging Uncle Sam – a variety show featuring American troops stationed in New Zealand during the Second

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The earliest ‘Blue Smoke’ recording

June 8, 2019June 11, 2019 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Blue Smoke, Chris Bourke, Jesse Mulligan, Otago University, Otago University Sextet, Pixie Williams, Ruru Karaitiana, Sarah Johnston, TANZA

Research in the Sound Archives at Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision during New Zealand Music Month has confirmed a recording

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NZ History Sound 

Recollections by first-time women voters of 1893

September 22, 2017August 5, 2020 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1893, politics, Sarah Johnston, suffrage, vote

Learn more in our exhibition Whakatū Wāhine: Voices of Women Voters of 1893 By Sarah Johnston (Senior Client Access Liaison

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NZ History Sound 

The last days of the ‘6 o’clock swill’

August 17, 2017August 18, 2017 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1960s, alcohol, culture, politics, Radio New Zealand, Referendum, Sarah Johnston

By Sarah Johnston (Senior Client Access Liaison – Takawaenga ā-Iwi Matua, Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision)   New Zealand’s infamous

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NZ History Television 

50 years of Decimal Currency

July 7, 2017October 26, 2017 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1960s, 1967, cents, decimal currency, dollars, new zealand, pence, pounds, Sarah Johnston, shillings, sterling

By Sarah Johnston (Senior Client Access Liaison – Takawaenga ā-Iwi Matua, Nga Taonga Sound & Vision) The New Zealand dollar

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NZ History Uncategorized 

Our oldest recorded sports broadcast – the All Blacks vs the British Lions, June 21, 1930

June 22, 2017June 22, 2017 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1930s, All Blacks, Audio Curios, broadcast, cantor, lions, nepia, radio, Radio New Zealand National, rugby, Sarah Johnston, Sound Archives Ngā Taonga Kōrero, Sports, tour

By Sarah Johnston (Senior Client Access Liaison – Takawaenga ā-Iwi Matua, Nga Taonga Sound & Vision) The first test between

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NZ History Sound 

Happy Birthday Plunket !

May 19, 2017September 22, 2017 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments Beryl Sutherland, Children, David Kohn, Dr Fredrich Truby King, health, Homer Tunnel, Karitane Hospital, Kate Challis Hooper, Milford Sound, Plunket, Sarah Johnston

By Sarah Johnston (Senior Client Access Liaison – Takawaenga ā-Iwi Matua, Nga Taonga Sound & Vision) The Plunket Society turned 110

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Happy St Patrick’s Day!

March 17, 2017 Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision 0 Comments 1990s, Auckland, Ireland, Jesse Mulligan, RNZ, Sarah Johnston, St Patrick's Day

To get in the spirit for Ireland’s national day you can listen to this “Spectrum” radio documentary from 1996, about

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