The number of Kiwi shearers attempting to break records has set a new record in itself. Mark Leishman talks to the secretary of The World Sheep Shearing Records Society, Hugh McCarroll
May 2018
Peter Hoar, “The World’s Din: Listening to Records, Radio and Films in New Zealand 1880–1940” (Otago University Press, 2018)
In his new book, The World’s Din: Listening to Records, Radio and Films in New Zealand 1880–1940 (Otago University Press, 2018), Peter Hoar, a senior lecturer in radio and media history at Auckland University of Technology, explores how new technology shaped how New Zealanders ex ... Show More
17m 52s
Sep 2024
An odyssey across Australia — how 11,000 sheep were walked from Victoria into the outback
In 1882, thousands of sheep set off from a property in Western Victoria. Their destination was a huge station in the Northern Territory, land which a sheep had never set foot on. To get there, these animals and their drover battled drought, flood, famine and doubt.Tom Guthrie is ... Show More
49 m