ShirleyMaddock
- Producer
- Presenter
- Writer
Trailblazing broadcaster Shirley Maddock, ONZM, was making and presenting television in 1960, when the medium first began in New Zealand. After doing theatre in London and radio in New York, she went on to produce and present a series of documentaries in her homeland, and wrote a bestselling book to accompany 1964 series Islands of the Gulf. Maddock passed away on 10 October 2001. She was 72.
Screenography
Biography
Shirley Francis Whitley Maddock Easther was a writer, an actor and a trailblazing broadcaster. In what she later called "one of those little victories that I look back on with a certain amount of female satisfaction", she was the first woman in the nation to officially hold the title of Television Producer, a rank that state broadcasting had previously reserved for men. Maddock later recalled that by then she'd already been producing television for some time, under the ungainly credit ‘Devised, Written and Arranged by Shirley Maddock.’
Awards
1999 Officer of the Order of New Zealand Merit
For Services to Broadcasting
1964 New Zealand Television Awards
Best Documentary: The Distant Shore
“My own philosophy as a historian is ... there is no such thing as the past; it’s just the chronicles of somebody else’s very lively present.”