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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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Todd Niall continues the story of the Trekka, New Zealand's only homegrown designed and produced motor vehicle, in Sounds Historical
Whale Pot Bay by Des Hunt continues, in The Reading
Bryan Crump talks with ABC sports journalist Paul Kennedy, feminist blogger Deborah Russell and historian Dr Sascha Auerbach, in Nights
Valleys of Neptune chronicles Jimi Hendrix's studio experiments in 1969 and 1970
In The Sampler, Sam Wicks reviews new albums from Snoop Lion, Beady Eye and James Blake
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Sounds Historical
The colourful, dramatic, and often remarkable events and people of New Zealand's past.
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