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From the Archive: Sheep on the board

From the Archive: Sheep on the board

Update: 2025-11-07
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In this story for the long-running programme Spectrum, first broadcast in 1972, Jack Perkins joins a Wairarapa shearing gang, on a farm near Masterton. It starts at the beginning of a day's shearing, with sounds of sheep in the yards, dogs barking and shepherd's whistling.

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From the Archive: Sheep on the board

From the Archive: Sheep on the board

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