Sarah Johnston
soundsold.bsky.social
Sarah Johnston
@soundsold.bsky.social
Sound history. Researching WWII radio and listening in Aotearoa New Zealand. Blogs at worldwarvoices.wordpress.com. Toitū te Tiriti.
Kia ora - please add me. Thanks!
December 26, 2024 at 4:08 AM
Welcome! The weather has been great (finally) this week.
December 13, 2024 at 3:52 AM
Finally, the “unidentified female broadcaster” presenting to programme is actually expat NZer Noni Wright who worked at the BBC during WW2 - but her story is worthy of its own post sometime www.bbc.com/historyofthe...
December 6, 2024 at 8:47 PM
If anyone can suggest a good Scots genealogy forum for sharing the link, I’d be happy to post to try and reconnect these 80 year old voices @swwstudiesedin.bsky.social
December 6, 2024 at 8:47 PM
We were contacted by the son of one of the Fell brothers, whose parents are heard on the recording. His father had emigrated to NZ after the war. But the other three Edinburgh families on it have probably never heard the recording.
December 6, 2024 at 8:47 PM
I became a wee bit obsessed with “Hello Children” and wrote a blog for Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision which is still on their website www.ngataonga.org.nz/explore-stor...
“Hello Children” – Broadcasts to the British Child Evacuees of World War II
Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision’s Radio Collection contains hundreds of recordings made during World War II.
www.ngataonga.org.nz
December 6, 2024 at 8:47 PM
If there’s room for niche WW2 sound history, I post about NZ forces and broadcasting. Thanks!
December 6, 2024 at 7:23 PM
Ooh just saw @aucklandmuseum.bsky.social is on here, so 👋
December 6, 2024 at 2:30 AM
Kia ora - please add me. Not a historian, but history-adjacent plus archives
November 18, 2024 at 9:05 PM
If there’s another list, please add me. Forever waffling on about radio history: especially WWII, NZ, war correspondents, BBC etc.
November 18, 2024 at 5:21 AM