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Brian Edwards

Presenter

Brian Edwards began making his reputation in the late 1960s as one of the country's toughest television interviewers. In 1971 an Edwards interview on current affairs show Gallery famously helped end an ongoing post office dispute. He went on to present a host of interview-based shows, and played a big hand in the creation of longrunning consumer rights show Fair Go.

...the toughest and best was Brian Edwards. On Gallery he had a lean, hunched, withdrawn inscrutability about him. Veteran television interviewer Ian Johnstone on New Zealand's best interviewers, in his 1998 book Stand and Deliver, page 49

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Interview

Brian Edwards: TV current affairs legend...

Interview, 2011

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Interview

ScreenTalk Short: Brian Edwards

Interview, 2018

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Interview

RNZ Interview: Fair Go - Brian Edwards & Kevin Milne

Interview, 2022

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Helen Clark: The Road to Power

2013, Subject - Television

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50 Years of New Zealand Television: 1 - From One Channel to One Hundred

2010, Subject - Television

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Sam Hunt: Purple Balloon and other stories

2010, Subject - Film

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50 Years of New Zealand Television: 6 - A Sense of Identity

2010, Subject - Television

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From the Archives: Five Decades (1970s) - Brian Edwards

2010, Subject - Television

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Fair Go - 30 Years on Television

2007, Presenter - Television

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Neighbours at War

2005 - 2015, Mediator - Television

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Dawn Raids

2005, Subject - Television

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The Bay Boys

1998, Subject - Television

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Scorched Memories

1997, Presenter - Television

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Life Sentence - The Crewe Murders

1994, Presenter - Television

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Wahine - The Untold Story

1993, Presenter - Television

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Here is the News

1992, Subject - Television

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25 Years of Television - Part One

1985, Subject - Television

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Sons and Daughters

1979 - 1979, Presenter - Television

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Good Day – The Judith Fyfe Celebrity Pot Roast Show

1979, As: Judith's psychiatrist - Television

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Sons and Daughters: Brian Edwards Interviews John Kirk

1979, Presenter - Television

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Fair Go

1977 - 1985, Presenter, Producer, Creator - Television

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Telethon

1975 - 1993, Presenter - Television

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Richard John Seddon - Premier

1973, As: MP - Television

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Gallery - Ending the Post Office Go-Slow

1970, Presenter - Television

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Compass - The Islanders

1968, Reporter - Television

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Gallery

1969 - 1970, Presenter - Television

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On Camera

1971, Presenter - Television

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Town and Around

1965 - 1968, Reporter (Christchurch) - Television

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Compass

1968, Reporter - Television