3:10 pm today

Feature interview: New Zealand Christmas Songs

From Afternoons, 3:10 pm today

It's hard to dream about a white Christmas on this side of the equator.  75 years ago, New Zealand musicians started composing our own Christmas carols and making Christmas dreams come true for some of the singers tapped to record them. Marion Nelson Swainson was a 14 year old Gisborne schoolgirl when she sang about  Sticky Beak the Kiwi' in1962. Nearly twenty years later,  9 year old Roslyn Mahe  was chosen to record Telephone Mister Santa Claus. They join us to share memories about these Kiwi Christmas classics.

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