14 Mar 2024

I Was There When: Shrek the sheep was discovered

From Nights, 9:30 pm on 14 March 2024

Every Thursday night we turn back the clock and speak to someone who was there when history was made in New Zealand.

Tonight, we're going back almost twenty years to April 2004 to talk to Central Otago farmer John Perriam about the global phenomenon known as Shrek the Sheep.

Making Shrek the sheep famous, 2004 Photo: Stephen Jaquiery/ODT