AlisonParr
- Journalist
- Presenter
Alison Parr has documented key moments in New Zealand’s cultural and social history during an award-winning career as a journalist, oral historian and broadcaster. Her credits include iconic programmes of the 1980s and 90s like Close Up and Kaleidoscope. In 2003 she joined the Ministry for Culture and Heritage, where she has spent more than a decade as an Oral Historian, recording the memories of war veterans.
Biography
According to Alison Parr she “completely fell into’” her rich and varied twenty-five year broadcasting and journalism career. A Dunedinite by birth, Parr left Otago University in 1974 with a Bachelor of Arts in Music, and no desire to become a music teacher.
Screenography
“I was extremely fortunate to have worked in the golden years of long form current affairs and arts programmes, because we gave real value to our viewers.”