VIDEO ORAL HISTORY. IAN JOHNSTONE

Ian Johnstone is one of New Zealand’s best known faces and voices on television. In a career beginning in the early 1960s on radio he has worked as a reporter, presenter, interviewer and producer. This interview covers the length of his career, his views on broadcasting in New Zealand and his more recent projects.

Key Points, Themes and Subjects: NZBS, NZBC, Wahine, BBC, British Commonwealth News Agency, Politics, Election coverage, 1969 and 1972 elections, South Pacific TV, Feltex Awards, South Africa trip, current affairs TV, racism, TVNZ shift to Auckland, politics, power of television as a medium, homosexuality and conservatism of New Zealand society, Muldoon-Lange debate in 1984

Key People: Nigel Bingham, Alan Martin, Alam Morris, Waldo Maguire, Bob Chapman, Austin Mitchell, Reg Harrison, John Roberts, Keith Holyoake, Gilbert Stringer, George Andrews, Roger Douglas, Des Monaghan, Glen Fitzgerald, Ally Webber, Desmond Tutu, Bayers Naude, Alan Paton, Steve Biko, Hector Nokazi, Ian Cross, Bill Saunders, Ratu Mara, Norman Kirk, Brian Edwards, Robert Muldoon David Lange

Film Titles: Compass, Town ad Around, Panorama, Seven Days, Crimewatch.

Detailed abstract with time-code available at the Film Archive.