20 Jan 2016

Summer sounds

From Afternoons, 1:37 pm on 20 January 2016

What are the sounds of a Kiwi summer? Cicadas? Crashing surf? The jingle of the Mr Whippy ice-cream van?

Sarah Johnston at Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision shares recordings from RNZ's commercial past the sound archives which evoke memories of summers past.

Cathedral Cove, 1980

Cathedral Cove, 1980 Photo: Archives New Zealand / CC BY-SA 2.0