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Jim Sullivan
Host of Sounds Historical
Jim Sullivan is one of this country’s foremost oral historians and has published many books on various aspects of New Zealand history.
As a broadcaster of many years standing, his career has spanned five decades which started with him spinning the discs in Timaru before moving to current affairs, news reading and then to presenting National Radio’s Morning Report.
Based in Dunedin, his ‘soul’ territory, Jim combines his passion for broadcasting alongside his passion for history with Sounds Historical every Sunday from 8pm to 10pm on Radio New Zealand National.
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Sounds Historical
Sounds Historical with Jim Sullivan is the programme that gives listeners their chance to learn about the colourful, dramatic, and often remarkable events and people of New Zealand's past.
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Search results for Jim Sullivan
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Exactly 100 years after the birth of radio in NZ, Sarah Johnston looks back at its early decades
19 Nov 2021Sound historian Sarah Johnston explores 100 years of radio in a talk at the National Library, focusing on the early decades and the innovative World War II radio Mobile Unit recordings. Audio
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Is a Birkin bag out of your budget? You can now invest in one
16 Aug 2020The idea of being part-owner of a $61,500 handbag may seem strange, but it's a growing trend. Online trading platform Rally Rd allows users to purchase shares in luxury items. Author Paul Sullivan… Audio
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Ngā Taonga Sound Archives: The Abbotsford Disaster
Forty years ago this week, a nightmare was unfolding for residents of a south Dunedin suburb, as nearly 70 homes slid off a hillside in a massive landslip. In today's visit to the Sound Archives we… Audio
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Captain Kevin Sullivan: Dealing with the trauma of infamous flight QF72
2 Jun 2019Captain Kevin 'Sully' Sullivan was in at the controls of flight QF72 when it suddenly, twice, nosedived sharply towards the Indian Ocean. He explains to Jim how those dreadful events led to the end of… Audio
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Best of 2018: RNZ presenters and staff pick their favourite tracks
17 Dec 2018The team at RNZ - both on air and off - pick their favourite songs of 2018 and tell us what they're up to over summer! Video
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US man learns father was priest after 70 years
7 Sep 2018A US man forcibly separated by the Catholic Church from his parents as a toddler has, seven decades later, finally learned the truth about his father - by exhuming his body. Jim Graham of Seneca… Audio
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Legendary Moeraki restaurant burgled
28 Aug 2018Tens-of-thousands of dollars' worth of food was stolen from freezers outside the famed Moeraki restaurant, Fleur's Place, earlier this month. The owner, Fleur Sullivan, joins us on the line. Audio
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Pat McMinn: NZ's Voice of the 1950's
In 1994, the popular singer of the 1950's Pat McMinn talks to Jim Sullivan about her musical career and especially her recordings with TANZA, the record label started "To Assist New Zealand Artists'.
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Lorde, LCD Soundsystem, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen among Grammy nominees
29 Nov 2017American rappers Jay-Z and Kendrick Lamar have received the most nominations with a total of eight and seven respectively. Pop singer Bruno Mars received six and Khalid actor Donald Glovers' alter ego…
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Video: Dad’s Army review
The new version of the beloved British TV series fails to reach the heights of the original but everyone involved seems to be having fun, reports Dan Slevin. Video, Audio
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Sounds Historical Hour Two - 27 December 2015
27 Dec 2015Jim Sullivan continues his selection of favourite audio items about New Zealand and New Zealanders the way we were Audio
