Sarah Johnston
Nga Taonga Sound Archives: Here come the Marines!
In June 1942, life in wartime New Zealand was changed by the arrival of some 40,000 young American troops who set up camp in Auckland and Kapiti. Audio, Gallery
Nga Taonga Sound Archives - Television arrives in Aotearoa
Just over 60 years ago, regular television broadcasts began in New Zealand, on the night of June 1st 1960. Audio, Gallery
Nga Taonga Sound Archives: the history of tourism at Aoraki Mt Cook
For over 130 years Aoraki Mt Cook has been a cornerstone of New Zealand tourism, since the first 'Hermitage' hotel was built at the base of the mountain in 1884. Audio, Gallery
Ngā Taonga Sound Archives: The start of NZ's café culture
From tomorrow, we will be able to re-enter our favourite cafes as New Zealand moves to Covid-19 alert level 2. To celebrate, Sarah Johnston from Nga Taonga Sound & Vision brings us recordings about… Audio, Gallery
Remembering 75 years since Victory in Europe
This Friday marks the 75th anniversary of V.E. Day - the official end of World War II in Europe. Audio, Gallery
Ngā Taonga Sound Archives: New Zealand takeaways
Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision's Sarah Johnston plays us recordings about our love affair with all things fried and salty. Audio, Gallery
Ngā Taonga Sound Archives: New Zealand's wartime medics.
We hear recordings about the medical personnel who have served in war zones, from Gallipoli to Vietnam. Audio, Gallery
Ngā Taonga Sound Archives: 1932 Queen Street riots
Listen to memories of when a protest march in Auckland's Queen St turned into a riot. Audio, Gallery
Home schooling and the 1940s polio epidemics
72 years ago a polio epidemic was keeping New Zealand children at home and indoors. Audio, Gallery
Ngā Taonga Sound Archives - The changing face of conservation
We listen to Ngā Taonga recordings which shine a light on the changing nature of conservation over the past 100 years. Audio
Ngā Taonga Sound Archives: Revisiting "A Strange Land"
In the early 1990s, RNZ produced a series of programmes called "A Strange Land" featuring half-hour interviews with migrants to New Zealand reflecting on their experiences as they made a new life in… Audio, Gallery
Ngā Taonga Sound Archives: Breakfast table battles
Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision, Sarah Johnston takes a look back at the battle of the breakfast brands on our airwaves over the years. Audio, Gallery
Nga Taonga Sound Archives - WWII sound recordings
New Zealand sound recordings made 80 years ago in the thick of World War II have been recognised as taonga of significant cultural value. Audio, Gallery
Ngā Taonga Sound Archives: Wellington’s forgotten shipwreck
The worst shipwreck in Wellington waters was not the sinking of the Wahine in April 1968 (a tragedy which cost 53 lives.) Today is the 111th anniversary of a shipwreck off the south coast which saw… Audio, Gallery
The Maori Battalion at Waitangi, 1940.
This morning the Prime Minister officially opened a new museum at Waitangi, one which commemorates Maori participation in New Zealand's armed forces. Sarah Johnston from Nga Taonga Sound & Vision… Audio, Gallery
Kiwi camping memories from the Ngā Taonga Sound Archives
In the sound archives of Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision, the memories of summers past linger on and Sarah Johnston is back for 2020 to relive some of them with us. Audio, Gallery
Ngā Taonga Sound Archives: Christmases Past
With a week to go until Christmas 2019, it's time now to take a listen to some Christmases past. Audio, Gallery
Ngā Taonga Sound Archives: Fighting HIV-AIDs in the 1980s
When HIV-AIDs arrived in New Zealand in 1984, homosexuality was still illegal, condoms were a bit of a dirty joke and you certainly didn't talk on the radio about sexually-transmitted diseases. Audio, Gallery
40 years on: How RNZ reported on the Erebus Disaster
Thursday marks the 40th anniversary of New Zealand's worst peace-time disaster - the crash of Air New Zealand Flight TE901 on Mt Erebus in Antarctica in 1979, with the loss of 257 lives Audio, Gallery
Ngā Taonga Sound Archives: Archival penguins
Hoiho's win in this year's "Bird of the Year" competition prompted Sarah Johnston from Nga Taonga Sound & Vision to take a dive into the sound archives. Audio, Gallery