BrianEdwards
- 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.
Screenography
Biography
Asked once what makes a good interviewer, Brian Edwards replied "wide experience of life — its highest peaks and lowest troughs — and the human sympathy that goes with it. The great interviewers are rarely young."
Edwards has done time as a television interviewer, talkback radio host, media advisor and author. He first made his name on television in the late 60s thanks to a hard-hitting style of interrogating public figures, which polarised viewers and won him awards. His style contrasted with the orthodox interviewing manner of the time, which was reserved, non-confronting and enunciated in 'correct' BBC English.
Awards
1999 Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit (CNZM)
For services to broadcasting and journalism
1971 Feltex Television Awards (New Zealand)
Best Performance as Frontman: for Gallery: Post Office Go Slow
“...the toughest and best was Brian Edwards. On Gallery he had a lean, hunched, withdrawn inscrutability about him. ”
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