Jim Sullivan, of Dunedin, QSM, for services to broadcasting
Jim Sullivan is a radio broadcaster and historian. He began his broadcasting career more than 50 years ago in Timaru and has worked on the air in Christchurch, Palmerston North, Dunedin and in Holland. He fronted Radio New Zealand’s Morning Report programme in the late 1970s and has been Radio New Zealand chief archivist and manager of the Oral History Centre at the Alexander Turnbull Library. He is the compiler and presenter of the Dunedin-based programme ‘Sounds Historical’ on Radio New Zealand National. Mr Sullivan is the author of more than 30 books on aspects of New Zealand history.